PREMIUMS. 



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CHOPS. 



All entries for Premmms in this department must be made with the 

 Secretary, on or before June 1st, with tlie exception of English turnips, 

 which must be entered on or before August 1st. Immediately after 

 these dates the Secretary will transmit to all competitors a copy of the 

 blank form adopted by the Trustees, to correspond with the ref|uu'e- 

 ments of the following extracts from the Statute Laws of 1859, viz : 



Chap. 232, Sect. 2. "No incorporated Agricultural Society shall 

 award a premium for a field crop, without satisfactory evidence, under 

 oath, presented to its Committee or other officers, that the whole 

 merchantable crop so entered, has been weighed when harvested, if a 

 grass or root crop, and when threshed or husked, if a grain or corn crop." 



These forms must be returned to the Secretary on or before Nov. 10th, 

 with each question concerning the crop answered, and the certificates 

 properly signed. 



No person will be allowed to compete for more than one Premium, 

 with a crop raised upon the same field, however large, with the same 

 treatment. 



Committees should not encourage the irregular entry of accidental 



good crops. 



GRAIN. 

 Coinmittee.—''E. A. Blood, of Fitchburg ; Ohio Whitney, of Ash- 

 burnham ; S. M. Dole, of Fitchburg ; Wilkes Roper, of Princeton ; 

 Benson Bigelow, of Westminster ; Porter Piper, of Leommster ; Wm. 

 Baker of Lunenburg. 



The Committee may award gratuities for valuable new varieties of 

 grain. 



For the most profitable crops of Corn, Wheat, Rye, Barley and Oats, 

 one acre each ; of Cabbages and Beans one-eighth acre each ; the pro- 

 duct of Corn to be not less than 4320 lbs. on the cob ; that of Wheat, 

 Rye, Barley and Oats not less than 1200 lbs. of grain each. 

 Com, - - - - 1st premium, - $10,00 



2d premium, - 7,00 



3d premium, - 4,00 



4th premium, - 2,00 



Wheat, - - - - 1st premium, - 8,00 



2d premium, - 5,00 



3d premium, Harris on Insects 



4th premium, - 2,00 



