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as eligible land for a corn crop. He, however, obtained, this 

 year, a large crop of unripened corn. Also a gratuity of ^4, 

 for the product of one acre, 92 bushels. 



To Willard Wood, of Bridgewater, for corn, 88 bush- 

 els on the acre, . . . . . $3 00 

 " Daniel Alden, of Middleborough, 85 bushels, . 2 GO 

 " George W. Wood, of Middleborough, for turnips, . 5 00 

 " Daniel Alden, of Middleborough, for beets, . 5 00 

 " Benjamin Hobart, of Abington, a gratuity for wheat, 



though no entry was made. . . . . 5 00 



Claims were entered to the premiums offered for the best crops 

 of wheat and barley. No applicant obtained the required quan- 

 tity, and, as statements were not forwarded seasonably, gratui- 

 ties are not recommended. The applicants on the article of In- 

 dian corn, were this year unusually numerous, and the success 

 of their experiments exceeds that of any past year. In the es- 

 timates of the expense of this crop, we perceive wide differences, 

 but the highest estimate will show, that it is among the most 

 profitable of crops. The person who obtained the greatest crop 

 has advanced one idea, which, we think, will be new to most 

 readers, and which, we hope, they will not adopt, without crit- 

 ical examination and repeated experiments He recommends 

 planting different kinds of corn in the same field ; remarks that 

 his seed corn was collected in four or five towns, and considers 

 it as important to mix the different kinds of corn, as itis to cross 

 the breeds of animals. Scarcely two kinds of corn can be found, 

 which will ripen precisely at the same time; and it is certainly 

 inconvenient, and, we suppose, to some extent, injurious, to have 

 a part of the corn in a field, mature, two or three weeks before 

 the residue. In a field where several kinds of corn had been 

 planted, we might select seed of the kind that would ripen the 

 earliest. And this is the only advantage we can imagine, that 

 would be derived from the practice. If we should wish to avail 

 ourselves of this advantage, there would be no occasion to plant 

 a mixture oftener than once in ten or twenty years. General 

 practice should be directed to the preservation of the different 

 kinds of corn, pure as possible. Undesigned and unavoidable 



