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Asylum Station, Mass., Aug. 28th, 1890. 



I measured the strawberry laud J. W. Barton offered 

 for premium. It measured twenty thousand seven hun- 

 dred and fifty (20,750) square feet. 



Ansel W. Putnam. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON GRAIN CROPS. 



To the Trustees of ihe Essex Agricultural Society. 



The Committee to whom was entrusted the duty to ex- 

 amine the grain crops entered for the Society's premium 

 have attended to the work assigned them, and report 

 only four entries. The success that has rewarded these 

 representative farmers of Essex County should stimulate 

 a more extended cultivation of grain in the East. 



The entries are as follows: 



Wheat crop by Oscar Go wen, West Newbury. 



Rye crop by Maurice H. Connor, West Newbury. 



Rye crop by Wm. Little, Newbury. 



Corn crop by Chas. W. Nelson, Georgetown. 



At this point your committee wish to emphasize that 

 rule of the Society, which calls for "all calculations and 

 figures given in report of and statements of crops, are to 

 be made on the basis of an acre, results in all cases to be 

 given at the rate per acre." 



?ou will see by the Committee's note that two of the 

 statements are remiss in this. The first to receive the at- 

 tention of the Committee was the wheat crop, which was 

 visited July 10. At that time it was still standing, with 

 its heavy heads drooping, as it waved in the breeze ; a rare 

 sight it was to view in this country such a crop, which 

 makes the " Staff of life." We see by Mr. Gowen's state- 

 ment that it was a large yield, exceeding even the crops of 

 Dr. Lawes on English soils where he experimented for a 

 series of years on heavily fertilized fields to see how large 

 crops could be grown. 



