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how the bee-]]ouse may rival the poultry yard, or yield, at least, 

 a handsome compensation on a small capital. 



SAMUEL B. BABCOCK, Chairman. 



Grain Crops. 



Claims for premiums were entered by the following persons, 

 viz. : — Horatio Mason, of Medway, on wheat and barley ; H. W. 

 Jones, of Dover, on Indian corn, winter rye and oats ; H. Rob- 

 inson, of Needham, on spring rye ; William Pierce and G. 

 Revere, of Needham, on Indian corn. All the fields were 

 examined by one or more of your committee. It was our 

 desire to obtain accurate information ; we wished to ascertain 

 the essential facts in each case ; we wished to have our report 

 based on facts, and facts only, — for such basis is alone reliable 

 and useful. 



Mr. Mason raised 25 bushels of wheat on 180 rods, or at the 

 rate of between 22 and 23 bushels to the acre. This, though 

 not so large a crop as raised by Mr. Mason last year, is never- 

 theless much larger than the average crop to the acre, in the 

 great wheat-growing state of Ohio. This is an encouraging 

 fact for Norfolk county. The premium of ten dollars is award- 

 ed to Mr. Mason. Your committee would gladly have recom- 

 mended, that a premium be awarded for his crop of barley; 

 but the regulation of the society requires that the experiment 

 made on each of the " grain crops," excepting wheat, should 

 be on not less than one acre of land. 



Henry Robinson, of Needham, raised 18 bushels of spring 

 rye on one acre, and Hiram W. Jones, of Dover, 16 bushels of 

 winter rye. Mr. Jones's statement on this subject, as is also 

 his statement upon his crops of corn and oats, is full and satis- 

 factory. But as winter rye ordinarily yields considerably more 

 than spring, the committee are of opinion, that the society's 

 premium of six dollars should be awarded to Mr. Robinson. 



William Pierce, of Needham, raised 100 bushels of corn on 

 an acre, and Hiram W. Jones, of Dover, 70 bushels on an acre. 

 From the statements of these gentlemen, it will appear that 



