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trifling occupation, yet, when it is considered that in the United 

 States more than twelve millions of dollars are invested in poultry 

 alone, the subject assumes an importance deserving the attention of 

 the whole agricultural community. 



For the Committee, 



JOHN PICKERING, Chairman. 



Remarks. Accompanying this report are several valuable communicalions, which our limits 

 ■will not admit of being- inserted. We hope, however, that most of them will appear before th e 

 public in some of the journals particularly interested in the subject. Tlie general views are so 

 well stated by the Committee, that it is hardly possible to say more without repeating what has 

 already been said. 



ON GRAIN CROPS. 

 The Committee on Grain crops have attended to the duty as- 

 signed them, and Report : 



That there was but one claim for a crop of Wheat which came 

 within the rules of the Society — that of Henry Poor, of North 

 Andover, he having raised on 227 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 bush- 

 els of White Flint Winter Wheat, equal to thirty bushels to the 

 ' acre. 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, 

 whence, we believe, the seed was brought to this county, it is very 

 generally cultivated. 



In the transactions of the Society for the year 1833, will be found 



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



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



received from AYestern New York, and which produced a much 



: greater yield than that of Mr. Poor. Mr. Coffin states that from 



eight and one quarter quarts of this kind of wheat, he obtained from 



[ a piece of ground not exceediug one quarter of an acre, twelve bush- 



I els of clean, good grain, plump, and beautifully white. 



From these statements, the Committee feel themselves authorized 

 to recommend to the farmers of Es^ex the cultivation of this kind 

 of Wheat. 



