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GRAIN. 



Two small lots transplanted in other places, from ten 

 to twenty days earlier, produced at nearly the same rate 

 as the lot sown, from which all the plants for trans- 

 planting were obtained, and the turnips were of a 

 -superior quality. 



GRAIN. 



The Committee on grain w^ould report that eleven 

 fields of corn ^Yere duly entered, but on account of the 

 coldness of the season, and the crops not coming to 

 maturity, only four fields were finally presented as 

 entitled by the rules of the Society, to compete for the 

 premiums, and these four came so near in quantity and 

 quality, as will be seen by examining the annexed 

 statements from James P. Putnam, Edward Smith, 

 Joseph Smith, and Samuel Farwell, 2d, all of Fitchburg; 

 that your Committee were in doubts to decide in 

 awarding the premiums, and w^e have taken the whole 

 amount of cash set apart, and divided the same among 

 the above named gentlemen, giving each three dollars 

 seventy-fients, premium. 



The season lor English grain was of unusual promise, 

 and the quality of wheat, rye, oats and' barley, which 

 were presented fur competition, w^as exceedingly grati- 

 fying to your Committee ; all but one field of rj^e,'*' wdiich 



*The field of rye which did not coiue duly to the attention of the 

 Committee, was entered by Liberty Wellington, of Ashby. The return 

 from the officer appointed to examine it, by some mistake, did not arrive 

 until after the Conmiittee had closed their report. The rye is repre- 

 sented to have been of superior quality. — Sec, 



