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Messrs Ordway & Son, usually give the Committee on 

 Grain Crops a pleasant entertainment every year. This 

 year we viewed the oat crop of sixty bushels per acre, and 

 also a good hay crop, both for quality and quantity ; at 

 the suggestion of the Committee, the entire crop of hay 

 from a field of five acres was weighed. Mr. Ordway 

 could have taken a single acre, within the field and shown 

 a greater yield per acre. 



The two premiums for crops of corn, were awarded to 

 Messrs Killam and Andrews of Boxford, and we believe 

 Boxford usually receives the first premium for corn crop, 

 therefore Boxford must be considered the banner town for 

 corn raising, but we would suggest to the other towns that 

 it will be for their credit to take Boxford down a peg, next 

 year. 



Daniel A. Carleton, Benj. P. Ware, Chas. B. Emerson, 

 Sidney F. Newman — Committee. 



STATEMENT OF H. M. KILLAM, CORN CROP. 



The crop of 1890 was hay, no manure used. The crop 

 of 1891 was also hay, no manure used. 



Soil varies from dark heavy loam at the foot of the hill, 

 to' shallow gravelly soil on top of the hill. 



Ploughed in May seven inches deep, harrowed with 

 "Nash sod crusher", and levelled with tooth harrow, fur- 

 rowed both ways, three and one half feet each way, cost 

 of plowing and other preparations $8.00 per acre ; 24 loads 

 of manure spread and plowed under •*48.00 ; six hundred 

 lbs. of phosphate applied in the hill $10.50. 



Planted May 19th, dropped and covered by hand, six 

 quarts of eight rowed yellow corn, cost of seed and plant- 

 ing f 4.50, cultivated twice each way and kept as level as 

 possible, cost of cultivating and hoeing $4.50, cut up and 

 stooked Sept. 23rd, husked Oct. 24, cost of husking and 

 harvesting $12.00 ; standing in stooks over a month both 



