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of doni of the foregoing varieties, the yellow measuring, on the 

 first of January, eighty-five bushels, and the smutty white meas- 

 uring, at the same time, one hundred bushels, the aggregate 

 weight of the former, at the expiration of the short period of 

 four months, will be greater than that of the latter. Thus 

 giving, moreover, probability to the supposition that similar 

 diflerenccs may be found to exist, to a greater extent than is 

 generally imagined, among other varieties of corn between 

 which no comparison with reference to the particulars referred 

 to, has yet been instituted. 



" The greater lightness and tendency to shrink of the smutty 

 white, as above shown, may be, in some measure, or wholly, ac- 

 counted for, perhaps, from the fact of its being derived, in part, 

 from the Southern white, to which, I believe, it bears a resem- 

 blance in the principal features of its organic composition." 



ESSEX. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



The season having been so favorable for the growth and 

 maturing of the corn crop, it was with some surprise that the 

 committee found so few entries of this staple production. In- 

 deed, we do not remember to have heard so many farmers, as 

 we have this year, say that their corn crop never was better. 

 "We only wish that more of these crops had been entered for 

 premium, but the premium of six dollars offered by the society 

 is hardly large enough to induce farmers to go to all the 

 trouble of the exact measurement of their land and crop, 

 required by the rules. We would suggest that larger premi- 

 ums, and more of- them, be offered to excite a spirit of greater 

 competition in this direction. Considering the intrinsic value 

 of this crop, and the many uses to which it is applied, and es- 

 pecially considering that as large crops are seldom raised as 

 might easily be raised, the culture of Indian corn should receive 

 more encouraQ;ement. 



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Fbancis Dodge, Chairman, 



