So ON GRAIN CROPS. 



Cooking Pears — Vicar of Winkfield, a fine large fruit of sec- 

 ond quality for eating, but still one of the most profitable pears 

 for market, — it is a good bearer upon the quince or pear stock, 

 the fruit is larger when grown upon a strong, rich and rather 

 moist soil ; Catillac ; Black Pear of Worcester. 



The Winter Nelis and Seckel fruit finely when grafted upon 

 the tops of large pear trees. The Dix and Harvard are a long 

 time in coming into a bearing state when budded upon young 

 stocks ; we should recomend these varieties to be placed upon 

 old and well established thrifty stocks. 



Not more than one-fifth of all the newly imported varieties 

 of pears are worthy of cultivation ; many of the new sorts sent 

 here from Europe as fruit of the first order, when brought into 

 bearing here have proved worthless, although many of them 

 were beautiful in appearance. 



For the Committee. JOHN M. IVES. 



ON GRAIN CROPS. 



There was but one application for the premium on Wheat, 

 that of Henry Poor, of North Andover, he having raised twen- 

 ty-five and a half bushels of white flint winter wheat upon one 

 acre of land. The committee award to him the premium of 

 eight dollars. 



The experience of Mr. Poor, and others in that part of the 

 county, for a few years past, in growing wheat, leads us to think 

 that winter wheat may again become an important crop for us 

 to raise. Why it is that wheat and rye do not blight so much 

 now as they did ten years ago, we cannot tell. We have 

 seen the lofty Buttonwood tree wither and die without any ap- 

 parent cause ; the potato, until within a few years one of our 

 surest crops, has now become uncertain, — and we know not 

 why. We can only say that in the blight and decay of our 

 crops we can see the effects produced, while the cause remains 

 as yet invisible to human eyes, and inscrutable to human sci- 

 ence. If, upon farther trial, it is found that wheat does not 



