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The committee, to whom is intrusted the award of the 

 premiums on field crops, may award them according to their 

 judgment, but for the purpose of furnishing accurate statistics 

 for tlie benefit of agriculture, shall select certain of the crops, 

 and require the owners thereof to measure the land and weigh 

 the crops accurately, giving to the committee a certificate of 

 the same, and give all possible information thereon over their 

 own signatures, and return the same to the Secretary of the 

 Society, to be published in the annual transactions. 



In ascertaining the amount of crop, any vessel may be used 

 and the weight of its contents once, multiplied by the number 

 of times it is filled by the crop. 



In measuring the land or weighing crops, any competent 

 person may be employed, whether a sworn surveyor or not and 

 must give certificate. 



The certificate shall state the weight of all crops only in a 

 merchantable state. 



In ascertaining the amount of a hay crop entered for 

 premium, the measurement of the hay in the barn may be em- 

 ployed. 



Rules of Measure Practised and Adopted by the State 

 Board op Agriculture. 



Wheat, Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Ruta Bagas, 



Mangold Wurtzels, 

 White Beans and Peas, 

 Corn, Rye, 

 Oats, 



Barley, Buckwheat, 

 Cracked Corn, Corn and Rye, and other meal, 



except Oat, 

 Parsnips, Carrots, 

 Onions, 



1. For the best conducted experiments of Rye, not less 

 than twenty bushels to the acre, fifty-six lbs. to the bushel, on 

 not less than one acre, premiums, $7, 4 



2. For best conducted experiments of Wheat, not less than 

 thirty bushels to the acre, sixty lbs. to the bushel, on not less 

 than one acre, premiums, $7, 4 



3. For best conducted experiments of Oats, not less than 

 fifty bushels to the acre, thirty-two lbs. to the bushel, on -not 

 less than one acre, premiums, $7, 4 



4. For best conducted experiments of Barley, not less 

 than forty bushels to the acre, forty-eight lbs. to the bushel, 

 on not less than one acre, premiums, $7, 4 



