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This certifies that I measured the strawberry bed entered 

 for premium by J. Webb Barton and found it to contain 

 32,475 feet. 



Charles H. Prestok. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GRAIN CROPS. 



The Committee on Grain Crops respectfully report that 

 they have awarded premiums as follows, viz. : 

 $10. First premium, to C. K. Ordway & Son, West 



Newbury, for hay crop. 

 #10. First premium, to Henry M. Killam, West Boxford, 

 for corn crop. 

 $5. Second premium, to Charles A. Andrew, West 

 Boxford, for corn crop. 

 -ilO. First premium, to C. K. Ordway & Son, West New- 

 bury, for oat crop. 

 $10. First premium, to Maurice H. Connor, West New- 

 bury, for rye crop. 

 $5. Second premium, to Hartwell B. Abbott, Andover, 

 for rye crop. 

 The Committee was first called to visit the farm of Mr. 

 Abbott, early in July, where we saw several fields of rye 

 besides the one entered for premium. The field to which 

 our attention was called, was a splendid sight, as the grain 

 was then growing in the field, some of it at a height above 

 the reach of the Committee. We then felt quite confident 

 that Mr. Abbott would receive the first premium and it was 

 not until after considerable deliberation that we finally de. 

 cided to give him the second. 



Mr. Abbott takes two acres and ten rods of land, and 

 raises at the rate of twenty-eight bushels and a fraction per 

 acre, while Mr. Connor raises from one acre, 32| bushels. 

 Had Mr. Abbott staked off a single acre, we think his 

 yield would have come very close to Mr. Connor's. Both 

 •crops were remarkably good ones; twenty bushels of rye 

 per acre being the amount required for a premium crop. 



