228 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



In ascertaining the amount of a hay crop, entered for premium, the meas- 

 urement of the hay in the barn may be employed. 



The Committee with whom' crops are entered for premium, may, at their 

 option, select such entries as are in their judgment entitled to the application 

 of the above regulations. 



Rules of Measv/re, practised and adopted hy the State Board of Agriculture. 



Wheat, Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Mangel Wurzel, Ruta- 



Bagas, "White Beans, and Pease, . . . .60 lbs. to the bushel. 



Corn, Rye, 66 " " 



Oats, 32 " " 



Barley, Buckwheat, 48 " " 



Cracked Corn, Corn and Rye and other meal, except 



Oat, and English Turnips, 50 " " 



Parsnips, 45 " " 



Carrots, 55 •' " 



Onions, 52 



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Dr. Hartwell, of Southbridge, then presented a paper upon 

 ADiPOCERE, as follows : 



ADIPOCERE. 



A soft, unctuous substance, of a light brown color, into which 

 the muscular fibres of dead bodies are converted, by long 

 immersion in water or spirits, or, by being buried in moist 

 places under peculiar circumstances. 



This substance was first discovered by Fourcroy, in the bury- 

 ing-ground in the Church des Inouns, in Paris, in 1787, when 

 it was removed, among the masses of the bodies of the poor 

 there interred together. 



In this place, about fifteen hundred bodies were thrown 

 together into the same pit, and being decomposed, were con- 

 verted into this substance. When this substance is subjected 

 to chemical analysis, a true ammoniacal soap is first yielded, 

 composed of ammonia, or concrete oil and water. 



My attention was first called to this substance in the summer 

 of 1861. 



One of my farm laborers was scraping the ground in my 

 livery barn cellar, when he uncovered a white substance, 

 which, upon examination, I found to be adipocere. It was 

 the remains of a hog which had been buried there many years. 

 The present tenant had occupied the barn for over ten years, but 

 had no knowledge of the burial of the animal. It might have 

 been there thirty years. It must have been there over ten years. 



