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And your Committee award to him the first premium of 

 three dollars. 



The specimen of oats exhibited was raised by Mr. Charles 

 Flagg, of Sterling, being 57 bushels per acre, and weighing 

 32 lbs. to the bushel. The whole expense of cultivation, 

 including seed, he estimates at $14,00; the 57 bushels of 

 oats at 55 cents per bushel would amount to $31,35 ; deduct 

 the $14,00 for cultivation, and you have left the sum of 

 ^17,35, not including the value of straw, which he did not 

 estimate, nor charging for manure applied the previous year. 

 And your Committee award to him the first premium of 

 three dollars. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



EDWIN UPTON, Chairman. 



Lewis G. Tuttle's Statement. 

 The ground on which I raised my best piece of corn was 

 broke up in the fall, cross-plowed in the spring, turning under 

 about twelve loads to the acre of green manure. Planted 

 about the 25th of May ; laid about two-thirds of a shovel-full 

 of compost in each hill. Thirty pounds of guano and eight 

 bushels of ashes were applied to the corn just after it came 

 up. The corn was hoed three times. I estimate the labor 

 of cultivating the crop at twenty-one days' work. 



Joseph Upton's Statement. 

 The ground on which the acre of corn grew which you 

 examined on my farm, was mowed last year, and plowed up 

 in the fall nine or ten inches deep. Last spring it was cross- 

 plowed about the same depth. Wishing to try an experiment 

 with guano in raising corn, I manured that acre as follows : 

 On two-thirds of it I spread twenty cart loads of manure from 

 my barn cellar, and plowed in lightly ; on the other one-third 

 I sowed 200 lbs. of guano, and harrowed it in. I then planted 



