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ed in fifty-six days, 69 pounds each; and three pigs fed 

 on scalded meal during the same time, gained on aver- 

 age 64 pounds each; also, two fed on scalded meal, 

 gained in forty days, 36^ pounds each; and three fed on 

 raw meal, during the same time, gained 41 pounds each. 



After weighing the pig that weighed 183 pounds, I 

 dressed it, and it then weighed 154 pounds. 



That there should be no mistake in regard to the 

 above experiments, I have fed them nearly all the time 

 myself, and weighed them myself. 



JOSEPH HOW. 



Methuen, Sept. 27th, 1842. 



ON THE CULTIVATION OF CROPS. 



The Committee on the Cultivation of Crops, Re- 

 port: 



That claims were entered by Allen Putnam, of Ham- 

 ilton, for corn. 



Enoch Bradley, of Haverhill, for corn. 



James Stevens, of Andover, for corn. 



Overseers of the Poor, of Danvers, for summer rye. 



John P. Webber, of Beverly, for wheat. 



Their statements have been considered by the com- 

 mittee. Claims were entered by other gentlemen, who 

 have not presented statements. 



Mr. Stevens harvested seventy-two bushels of corn, 

 from one acre, selected from four acres in the same 

 field. About twenty-seven bushels of rye to the acre, 

 were grown upon two acres, thirty-two poles of land — 

 a part of the town farm, in Danvers. Mr. Webber 

 states his crop of wheat to have been thirty-three bush- 

 els, on one acre sixty-five poles of land, about twenty- 

 four bushels to the acre. All these are very good 

 crops, and the statements give proof of judicious and" 

 successful cultivation; but they are not remarkably 

 large, and do not seem to have been the result of any 



