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GBAIN. 



GRAIN. 



The Committee on grain, though deprived of the 

 services of their Chairman, (Col. Ivors Phillips), in closing 

 up their labors submit the following report : 



The duties of the Committee are somewhat onerous. 

 By the rules of the Society we are compelled to travel 

 to each of the fields entered for competition ; harvest, 

 and weigh or measure the produce of one rod of land 

 in each, and keep them entirely separate from each 

 other. To perform the duty in exact conformity with 

 the rules of the Society, involves a necessity for con- 

 siderable labor, and much trouble in preserving and 

 storing each parcel separate, so as fairly to protect 

 the rights of the competitors and furnish the desired 

 information to the public. The crops assigned to the 

 Committee for examination, extend from grass seed 

 through the cereals, and iijp or down to the Drumhead 

 Cabbage. Six applications have been made for the 

 Society's premium on Wheat, four on Rye, two on Bar- 

 ley, two on Oats, two on Beans, thirteen on Indian Corn, 

 (two for variety) and two on Cabbages. Several of the 

 applications were withdrawn. Some of the competitors 

 have made entries for more than one premium on the 

 same field, supposing that the language of the offer of 

 the Society to pay one premium for the best or most 

 profitable acre, and other premiums for the next best 

 &c., would entitle one man to all the premiums, providing 

 he can raise as many acres that are superior to those 

 raised by other competitors, as there are premiums, 

 although all his acres may be in one field. While the 

 Committee grant that the terms of the offer, may admit 



