96 GRAIN CROPS. 



GRAIN CROPS. 



The Committee on Grain Crops respectfully Report, 



That there were but two entries, one by Charles Holt, superin- 

 tendent of the Town Farm in Haverhill, of a crop of Indian Corn, 

 to whom your Committee award the premium of $6,00 and one by 

 George Hays, of Beverly, of a crop of Wheat, to whom is recom- 

 mended the premium of $6,00. 



For the Committee, 



JEDEDIAH H. BARKER. 



CHARLES HOLT'S STATEMENT. 



I offer for premium one acre of Indian Corn, part of a field con- 

 taining three and a half acres, on the Town Farm in Haverhill. 

 The land is interval, of good quality, has been in grass ten or 

 twelve years, and in 1853 yielded from three-quarters to one ton 

 of hay. It was ploughed last Fall ten inches deep, and in the. 

 Spring seven and one-half cords of barn and hog manure were well 

 mixed with the soil, by drawing a large cultivator across the fur- 

 rows, without disturbing the sod. It was planted the 20th of May, 

 three feet ten inches apart each way, four or five kernels to a hill, 

 of large eight rowed Corn. The field was hoed three times, and a 

 cultivator run through it twice each way. Early in August the 

 suckers were cut out to feed cows, and it was harvested in the usual 

 manner on the od of October, yielding 157 baskets of sound Corn. 

 But the appearance of the ears indicated that the crop was some- 

 what injured by the drought. On the 6th of November two baskets 

 were found to contain 68 pounds of shelled Corn. 



Haverhill, Nov. 6th, 1854. 



" This day surveyed one acre of land, on which was standing Corn, for the town 

 of Haverhill ; said land being a part of the Town Farm. 



K. T. SLOCUMB, Surveyor. 

 Haverhill, October 2d, 1854." 



" I hereby certify that I measured the Corn, raised the present season on one 

 measured acre of land on the Town Farm in Haverhill, and fouud it to be 157 

 baskets. The two baskets shelled were measured in the same basket that was used, 



when it was husked. 



DAVID ALEXANDER. 

 Haverhill, November 7th, 1854 



