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given him. His crop of Oats, which he raised on only one 

 hundred and seven rods of land, although an extra crop, being 

 about sixty bushels to the acre, does not entitle him to a prem- 

 ium, as no premiums are offered for grain crops raised on any 

 less quantity of land than one acre. 



For the Committee, ANDREW DODGE. 



CHRISTOPHER HOW'S STATEMENT. 



I offer for premium, forty bushels of wheat, obtained from 

 one acre and eighty-three rods of land. It is the white flint 

 winter wheat. The land on which it was raised, is a gravelly 

 loam, and has been mowed four years. It was turned over in 

 September, 1851, and thirty loads to the acre of compost ma- 

 nure applied, about thirty-five bushels to the load. It was 

 sown in September, harrowed and rolled. 



Methuen, Nov. 8th, 1852. CHRISTOPHER HOW. 



This certifies that I surveyed a piece of land for Christopher 

 How, on which he raised wheat the present year, and it con- 

 tained one acre and eighty-three rods. 



JOSEPH S. HOW, Surveyor. 



Methuen, Nov. 6th, 1853. 



ADINO PAGE'S STATEMENT. 

 I offer for premium a crop of winter Rye, grown on the town 

 farm in Danvers. The field on which the rye grew, contains 

 four and one half acres. The soil is light and gravelly. On 

 two acres of this land, rye was grown last year. The other 

 was broke up in the spring of 1850, manured in the hill, and 

 planted with corn, yielding a good crop. In the spring of 1851 

 it was manured Avith three and one half cords of hog-yard ma- 

 nure to the acre, ploughed deep and planted with potatoes. 

 After this crop was taken off, it was ploughed deep, and har- 

 rowed well. On the 22d of September, it was sown with about 

 three pecks of rye to the acre, covered with the harrow, and 



