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GRAIN CROPS. 



The chairman of your committee en Grain Cro;)s submits the 

 following report : — 



The 19th of July I received a notice from the Secretary of the 

 entry of a crop of rye for premium by Mr. Jos. Whitehead of 

 Saugus. The Committee were notified to visit Mr. Whitehead 

 the 23d, but none appeared except the chairman, who found a 

 \ery good piece of rye which I\Ir. Whitehead delayed cutting 

 somewhat to his disadvantage that the committee might see it 

 standing, but as nothing has been heard from in since there can 

 be no report made of it, or award given. 



October 29th, the chairman received a letter from Mr. Oliver 

 P. Killam of West Boxford saying that the first of the month he 

 had made application to the Secretary for premium on a crop of 

 corn, and requesting immediate attention. The chairman know- 

 ing the full committee could not be notified in time to meet till 

 the last of the following week took the responsibility of viewing 

 the field alone. He found Mr. K. had a field of four acres of 

 very fine corn, about two and one-half acres of which was already 

 harvested, an acre of the remainder in the stock he proposed for 

 premium, a statement of which, is herewith annexed as is also a 

 statement of the whole field, which was requested, as your chair- 

 man regards the whole crop a remarkable one for this County. 

 The corn was thoroughly ripened, and very handsome, being 

 long, eight rowed ears, with small cob and large kernel, and while 

 the cost of culture given may be a little small, as the labor was 

 probably premium labor, being performed chiefly by Mr. Killam, 

 the statement of the amount of the crop is proportionally small, 

 for while he allows eighty lbs. of ears for a bushel of corn, 

 probably most purchasers would be satisfied with seventy-two lbs. 

 giving one hundred bushels of shelled corn to one acre, and an 

 average of ninety bushels to the four acres. Mr. K.'s field is 



