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Andover ; he having raised, on two hundred and twenty-seven 

 rods of land, thirty bushels of spring wheat, being a fraction 

 over twenty-one bushels to the acre. Mr. Poor has also raised, 

 on half an acre of ground, fifteen bushels of white flint winter 

 wheat. The committee are not aware, that the cultivation of 

 this kind of wheat has been much attended to in this county, 

 although, in many parts of our country, and especially in 

 Western New York, it is very generally cultivated. 



In the Transactions of the Society for 1833, will be founda 

 statement of the late Hector Coffin, of Newbury, in relation to 

 an experiment made by him, with the same kind of wheat, 

 which was received from Western New York, and which pro- 

 duced a much greater yield than that of Mr. Poor. Mr. Coffin 

 states, that, from eight and one-fourth quarts, he obtained, from 

 a piece of ground not exceeding one-quarter of an acre, twelve 

 bushels of clean, good grain, plump and beautifully white. 

 From these statements, the committee feel themselves author- 

 ized to recommend to the farmers of Essex, the cultivation of 

 this kind of wheat. 



Mr. Poor also raised, on one hundred and thirty-three rods 

 of ground, forty bushels of barley ; and Daniel Osborn, of 

 Danvers, on half an acre, nineteen bushels of winter rye ; but 

 neither claim coming within the rules of the society, (one acre,) 

 the committee do not feel authorized to award any premium. 



There Avere four claims for the premium on Indian corn. 

 Joshua Foss, of Byfield, raised, from an acre, two hundred and 

 five bushels of ears, equal to one hundred and two and a half 

 bushels of shelled corn. Henry Poor, of North Andover, raised 

 ninety-three bushels to the acre ; and Daniel Putnam, of Dan- 

 vers, eighty-four and thirteen-fifteenths bushels. The state- 

 ment of the other competitor, Moses Pettingell, of Topsfield, 

 has not been received. The ears of Mr. Poor's corn were much 

 larger than those of Mr. Foss's ; and the committee are fully 

 of opinion, that the medium sized corn is much more profitable 

 to the farmers of Essex, as a general rule, than that of the lar- 

 gest size. 



