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The third of $15, to Darwin Deane, of Mansfield. 



The committee have also viewed with great pleasure the 

 pine woods of Henry T. Gilmore, of Raynham, and James 

 Smith, of Norton, but as they are not strictly within the regu- 

 lations prescribed by this society for competitors for premiums, 

 your committee cannot award them a premium, but deem 

 them equitably entitled to a gratuity of $10 each. 



The present regulations require, that the number of trees 

 shall be not less than 1000 to the acre. At this rate, the trees 

 must stand not far from six feet apart. Believing that they 

 can be raised more profitably, if more thinly planted, your 

 committee recommend that the future premiums shall be offered 

 to the person setting out the greatest number of acres after this 

 date, to be not less than 300 to the acre. 



EDMUND H. BENNETT, Chairman. 



Grain Crops. 



But two claims have been made for the premiums on grain 

 crops. Both of these are for Indian corn. We recommend 

 that the first premium of $10 be awarded to Abiah Bliss, Jr., 

 of Rehoboth, he having raised 77 bushels on one acre. Mr. 

 Bliss has not strictly complied with the regulations of the 

 society, by measuring his corn between the 15th of November 

 and 1st of December, having measured the most of it subse- 

 quent to that period. Andrew H. Hall, of Taunton, raised 68^ 

 bushels on an acre, to whom a gratuity of $5 is recommended. 



O. AMES, Jr., Chairman. 



Abiah Bliss, /r's Statem,ent. 



The acre of land on which I raised 77 bushels and 3 quarts 

 of corn, is a gravelly soil, about one-third part full of fast 

 stones or rocks. It has been mowed ten years, and no manure 

 applied since 1846. 



Ploughed first time in October, 1849. Used nine cords of 

 manure, viz., three cords hog manure, three cords horse manure, 

 and three cords from the winter yard, composed chiefly of 



