74 ONGRAINCROPS. 



Amount brought over, $130 00 



3G do. oats, on which no application of manure 

 had been made, except a few ashes last year, 

 1500 wt. 9 00 



The 73 rods of land planted with chenango pota- 

 toes, was sowed with oats on the 5th and 7th 

 of August, and there is now, Sept. 4, by esti- 

 mation, 3000 wt. to the acre, 15 00 



154 00 

 Deduct 10 dollars for rotten potatoes, 10 00 



$144 00 



The potatoes were planted by perforating the sod after it 

 was turned, and the potatoes dropped in and then covered with 

 <^ slight poke with the stick one foot asunder each way, making 

 four rows on a ridge. 



DAVID GRAY. 



Andover, Oct. 1845. 



ON GRAIN CROPS. 



The Committee on Grain Crops, Report : 



That they have examined the claims presented to them : — • 

 One by Dr. Ingalls Kittredge, of Beverly, on a crop of Indian 

 corn. The quantity was only about sixty-four bushels per 

 acre, and as the premium oflered by the Society was for not 

 less than eighty bushels per acre, the Committee do not feel 

 authorized to award him the premium. 



The other two claims were for Rye. The Committee have 

 examined the statements, and find that of Mr. Alfred Newton's, 

 of Ipswich, to be a fraction short of the quantity required, 

 though a good crop. The statement of Mr. Thomas McMa- 

 hon, of Ipswich, so far as your Committee can judge, appears 

 correct, and as the quantity of his crop, being about thirty-five 



