88 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table of We.ight of Whole Acre, inclvding' the livo rods. 



" Calling 56 pounds of shelled corn a bushel, the greatest 

 amount was 102 bushels, by Robert Pcrkhis, of Bridgewater ; 

 the next was that of George W. Wood, of Middleborough, 

 81|| bushels ; the next James Howard, of West Bridgewater, 

 77|| bushels. 



" The other com^^etitors for this premium raised corn of 

 excellent quality, mostly yellow, and very heavy: weighing 58 

 pounds and upwards per bushel, as commonly measured. 

 ■ "Mr. F. W. Rowland, of South Hanson, had a very fine 

 field of corn, a part of which was white, and a part yellow. 

 The land was an old bushy pasture. It was cleared and planted, 

 and attended with much labor and care, and had he been per- 

 mitted to harvest it, he would doubtless have given us an 

 accurate and interesting statement of his proceedings and suc- 

 cess. But some of the corn having been stolen from the field 

 a short time before harvest, it was impossible for him to give 

 an accurate statement of the full amount of the crop. The 

 corn, however, that was saved, was shelled and weighed in 

 January. It weighed about GO pounds per bushel. 



" A few days in the month of October greatly varies the 

 weight of a field of corn. The shrinkage on the corn which I 

 took home from the 6th to the 9th of October, was found to be 

 from 20 to 25|^ per cent, when weighed in the first week of 

 January ; while the corn which remained in the field from five 

 to ten days later, shrank from 181 to 22| per cent, between the 

 time of harvest and January, making, on an average, about 

 three per cent, difference. 



