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They have awarded the following premiums : — 

 For the best collection of flowers — 



1. Parker Barnes, of Dorchester, . . . ^3 00 



2. J. Nugent, of Roxbury, 2 00 



3. B. V. French, of Braintree, . . . . 2 00 



4. E. M. Richards, of Dedham, . . . 1 00 



5. Mrs. Ellis Bacon, South Walpole, bouquet, . 1 00 



6. Mrs. J. H. Blackman, of Sharon, « . 1 00 



7. Mrs. W. R. Sumner, of Dedham, for very fine 



asters, a gratuity of ..... 1 00 



F. Cunningham, Chairman. 



Grain Crops. 



There were entered for premium, two crops of wheat, by 

 gentlemen whose cultivation of this valuable grain has been 

 noticed in former reports of the society. Capt. Horatio Mason, 

 of East Medway, raised, on very little more than one acre of 

 ground, 33 bushels of wheat, at a cost of about 68 cents per 

 bushel, and a net profit of about 80 per cent. Mr Sewall, of 

 Medfield, raised on about nine-tenths of an acre, 19 bushels ; 

 at a cost, we are informed, of about 60 cents per bushel, and 

 yielding a profit of about 70 per cent. In both these instances, 

 the net profit given might fairly be increased 33 per cent, by a 

 reduction of the expense of harvesting the crop, which we con- 

 sider to be fully balanced by the value of the straw. Both are 

 examples of good husbandry attended by remunerating suc- 

 cess. We have awarded to Capt. Mason the first premium of 

 |6, and to Mr. Sewall, the second premium of $4. 



Another and larger crop was raised by Mr. S. Frothingham, 

 Jr., of Milton, which was not entered, however, for premium. 

 An account of this crop is appended to the remarks which 

 follow this report, on the culture of wheat in this county. In 

 accordance with the general purport of these remarks, we be- 

 lieve that much of the soil in this county is as well adapted 

 to the cultivation of this, as of any other cereal crop. The 

 statements annexed to this, and to previous reports of the 



