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Statement oe Isaiah A. Ewell, of Marshfield. 



KYE. 



The acre of rye which I enter for premiura, ploughed in 

 sixteen horse loads of kelp and five of muck, sown about the 

 middle of October. I have threshed forty-two bushels and 

 twenty-one pounds ; the straw I estimate two tons. 



Isaiah A. Ewell. 



There were three entries of corn and one of rye for 1883. 

 George W. Whiting, Abiagton, greatest crop of corn on acre, 

 average yield one hundred and five one-seventh bushels, 

 award first premium $8.00. Enoch Soule, Duxbury, greatest 

 crop, half acre, average yield one hundred forty-eight and four- 

 sevenths bushels, award first premium, $5.00. George W. 

 Whiting, Abington, next greatest crop on one half acre, average 

 yield, sixty-nine and five-sevenths bushels ; award first pre- 

 mium, $3.00. Isaiah A. Ewell, Marshfield, greatest crop of 

 rye on acre, forty-two bushels and twenty-one pounds, award 

 first premium, $5.00. 



Your Committee do not feel justified in stating this to be the 

 correct weight of dry corn on an acre, as the corn was very 

 green when weighed. We were called to examine it the 28th 

 and 29th of September ; too early, we think, by at least two 

 weeks. We allowed seventy pounds to the bushel, but in the 

 state it was in when weighed, we think it would shrink more 

 than fourteen pounds to the bushel. 



FRANK FORD, ) 



OSCAR WESTON, V Committee. 



LUTHER P. HATCH, ) 



