PREMIUMS. 89 



contents of one of said vessels taken, and the number of vessels or 

 . baskets full noted. The weight of its contents once, multiplied by the 

 number of times it is filled by the crop of ripened ears, shall be consid- 

 ered the gross weight of harvested corn in the ears. One of said ves- 

 sels full of ripened ears, of the average fjuality and condition of the 

 crop, shall be kept to Dec. 1st, and weighed in the ear, and also after 

 it is shelled, and the amount of merchantable shelled corn, as well as 

 the amount of shrinkage, thus ascertained. 



The certificate shall state the weight of all crops only in a merchaat- 

 able state. 



In measuring the land, any competent person may be employed, 

 "whether a sworn surveyor or not. 



In ascCl-taining the amount of a hay crop entered for premium, the 

 measurement of the hay in the barn may be employed. 



Committees on crops, either of themselves or by vote of the Society 

 to which they belong, are authorized to select such number of crops 

 from those entered, as may, in their judgment, be entitled to the pre- 

 miums offered, and apply the foregoing rules to these crops only ; — 

 but in all cases, as many crops shall be examined under these rules, 

 as there are premiums offered, if the number of entries comes up to 

 the number of premiums. 



IIULES OF 3IEASUrvE 



Practised and adopted hy the State Board of Agriculture. 



Wheat, Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Mangel Wurzel, 



Ruta Bagas, "White Beans and Peas, 

 Corn, Rye, 

 Oats, 



Barley, Buckwheat, 

 Cracked Corn, Corn and Rye and other meal, 



except Oat, and English Turnips, 

 Parsnips, 

 Carrots, 

 Onions, 



^^'These forms must be returned to the Secretary on or before 

 November 10th, with each question concerning the crop answered, and 

 the certificates properly signed. 



GRAIN. 



Committee. — Ephraim Graham, Chas. Kilburn, Lunenburg; Solon 

 Carter, Leominster ; Lyman H. Fairbanks, Fitchburg ; Charles Flagg, 

 Sterlino;. 



Samples must be exhibited at the Fair. 



