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In pursuauce of authority delegated to the Board of Agriculture 

 by Chap. 24, of Acts 18(52, Agricultural Societies receiving the 

 bounty of the State are required to make use of the following 

 form, and be governed by its conditions in the mode of ascertain- 

 ing the amount of crops entered for premium. 



Essex Agkicultural Society. — Statement concerning a crop 



of , raised by Mr. , in the town of , , 



1893. 



What was the crop of 1891? AN^hat manure was used and how 

 much. What was the crop of 1892V What manure was used and 

 how much? What is the nature of the soil? When, and how many 

 times ploughed, and how deep? AVhat other preparation for the 

 seed? Cost of ploughing and other preparation? Amount of 

 manure, in loads of thirty bushels, and how applied? 



Value of manure upon the ground? How used? (What amount 

 of Commercial Fertilizer used? How used? Value of same when 

 applied?) When and how planted? The amouut and kind of seed? 

 Cost of seed and planting? How cultivated and how many times? 

 Cost of cultivation, including weeding and thinning? Time and 

 manner of harvesting? Cost of harvesting, including the storing 

 and husking or threshing? Amount of crop, etc. Signed by 

 Competitor. 



The committee, to whom is entrusted the award of the premiums 

 on field crops, may award them according to their judk'ment, but 

 for the ))urpose of furnishing acrui'ate statistics for the benefit of 

 agriculture, shall select certain of the crops, and require the owners 

 thereof to measure the land and weigh the crops accurately, giv- 

 ing to the committee a certificate of the same, and sive all pos- 

 sible information thereon over their own signatures, and return the 

 same to the Secretary of the Society, to be published in the an- 

 nual transactions. 



In ascertaining the amount of crop, any vessel may be used and 

 the weight of its contents once, multiplied by the number of times 

 it is filled by the crop. 



In measuring the land or weighing crops, any competent person 

 may be- employed, whether a sworn surveyor or not, and must give 

 certificate. 



The certificate shall state the weight of all crops only in a mer- 

 chantable state. 



In ascertaining the amount of a hay crop entered for premium, 

 the measurement of the hay in the barn may be employed. 



Rules of Measure Practiced and Adopted by the State 

 Board of Agriculture. 



Wheat, Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Iluta Bagas, Mangold Wurtzels, 



60 lbs. to bush., 

 White Beans and Peas, 02 '• " 



Corn, Kye. 56 " " 



Oats, 32 " 



Barley, Buckwheat, 48 " " 



Cracked Corn. Corn and Rye, and other meal, 



except Oat, 50 " " 



Parsnips, Carrots, 55 " " 



Onions", 52 " " 



