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eighth of an acre, and no manure used in 1868 ; planted the 

 same about the first of June, in rows two and one-half feet apart, 

 the hills one foot ; planted one peck small Pea Beans ; the cost 

 of seed and planting, two dollars fifty cents ; used horse and 

 hand hoe once, and pulled weeds by hand ; the cost of cultivation, 

 two dollars ; harvested early in September at a cost of one dol- 

 lar fifty cents : the vines for litter worth fifty cents. 



Statement of Cyrus Kilhurn. 



WHITE BEANS. 



The crop in 1866, was grass ; in 1867, corn, with twenty loads 

 manure to the acre ; the soil is a sandy loam ; plowed once in 

 June, and also harrowed once, the cost of plowing and other prep- 

 aration being five dollars ; applied twelve loads of compost to the 

 acre, put on, spread and plowed under, with about three hundred 

 lbs. Pacific Guano in the hill, the manure valued at twenty dollars ; 

 planted about the 10th of June, with Pea Beans, which cost for 

 seed and planting, five dollars, and hand hoed once ; the cost of 

 cultivating, five dollars ; harvested about the middle of Sept., 

 pulled and stacked ; the cost of harvesting, «fec., eight dollars ; 

 amount of vines about five hundred lbs. The season was very 

 unpropitious for harvesting the beans and for curing them, on 

 account of the frequent warm and copious showers. I measured 

 twenty-six and one-half bushels of White Beans well-dried, to the 

 acre. 



APPLES, PEACHES, PLUMS, AND QUINCES. 



The Committee on Apples, Peaches, Plums and Quinces have 

 attended to their duty and make the following awards, viz : 



APPLES. 



Best and largest exhibition of named varieties of three 

 specimens each : 

 1st premium to Ward M. Cotton, Leominster, |4 00 



Twelve varieties of five specimens each : 

 1st premium to C. C. Boyden, Leominster, Harris on Ins. 

 2d " A. Whitman, Fitchburg, 2 00 



3d " Cyrus Thurston, Fitchburg, 1 00 



Also, a gratuity to G. P. Hawkins, Fitchburg, 1 00 



