GRAIN. 40 



RYE. 



To Luther Page of Lunenburg, 1st premium, 6 00 



To Joseph Goodrich of Lunenburg, 2d premium, 4 00 



BARLEY. 



To George R. Carter, (the only competitor,) 1st premium, 6 00 



OATS. 



To Joseph Goodrich of Lunenburg, Ist premium, G 00 



To Gardner Merriam of Leominster, 2d premium, 4 00 



WHITE BEANS. 



To Ephraim Graham of Lunenburg, 1st premium, 4 00 



To Cyrus Kilburn of Lunenburg, 2d premium, 2 00 



Having stated the premiums, we remark, by way of explanation, 

 that the Committee cut up a square rod of the corn of each of the com- 

 petitors on the 28th day of September, husked the same, and found 

 the weight as follows : Luther Page's, 51 lbs. ; George R. Carter's 

 50 lbs. ; Joseph Goodrich's, 50y% lbs., and Cyrus Kilburn's, 58;^ lbs. 

 Edwin D. Works withdrew his field of corn on account of smut. By 

 misapprehension of the time for awarding premiums on Corn, one of 

 the Committee shelled Joseph Goodrich's sample, and George R. 

 Carter's, on the 30th of October, and finding his mistake, put the 

 same in bags and kept it till this day, so that the shrinkage was not so 

 much as it would otherwise have been. Luther Page's corn weighed 

 this day, 31y^^ lbs.=89|f bushelstothe acre; shrinkage, 19y\lbs.= 

 38.35 per cent, to dry shelled corn. George R. Carter's corn weighed 

 this day SO^^g Ibs.^SGg^g- bushels to the acre ; shrinkage 39.68 per 

 cent. Joseph Goodrich's sample weighed 30/2lhs.==86^| bushels 

 to the acre ; shrinkage 39.93 per cent. Cyrus Kilburn's sample 

 weighed 29/^ lbs. =83f^ bushels to the acre ; shrinkage 50.16 per 

 cent. The last lot grew on low black land just above the meadow 

 level, and the cold weather of August, and the early frosts, somewhat 

 injured the crop. 



The variety of corn planted on the fields above named was an eight- 

 rowed yellow corn known as the Carter corn, and a variety similar to it. 

 The average shrinkage of the four lots is about 42 per cent, from 

 husking to dry shelled corn, thus requiring about 96 lbs. of ears at 

 husking to make one bushel of dry shelled corn. Let future experi- 

 ments be tried and this amount may be reduced a little. An experi. 

 ment was tried a few years ago by one of your committee, on the King 

 Philip corn, and the shrinkage was 34 per cent., from two years trial. 

 It has been said that the great corn crop, reported a few years ago in 

 Plymouth County, of 145 bushels to the acre, was calculated from 75 

 lbs. of ears for the bushel of the large smutty, white corn. It is also 



