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To Oscar Gowen, West Newbury, crop of wheat, 



•1st premium, .... . $10 



To Maurice H. Connor, West Newbury, crop of rye, 



1st premium, ...... $10 



To Wm. Little, Newbury, crop of rye, 



2d premium, ...... $5 



To Charles W. Nelson, Georgetown, crop of corn, 



1st premium, ...... $10 



All of which we respectfully submit, 



B. F. Huntington, J 



D. D Adams, > Committee. 



H. C. Ware, ) 



STATEMENT OF WHEAT CROP. 



My wheat being in two pieces one of which in 1888 was 

 fruiting strawberries, and one set to strawberries, both 

 fruiting in 1889, one piece was manured with barnyard 

 manure at the rate of four cords to the acre, in the fall of 

 1889, the, other had an application of about three cords to 

 the acre, and sowed to white winter wheat and grass seed. 

 One piece of land is a heavy dark loam with a clay subsoil, 

 the other a light gravelly soil; the land was ploughed seven 

 inches deep. 



Cost of ploughing, $ 1 75 



Harrowing and seeding, 2 00 



Cost of seed, 2 00 



Manure, 16 00 



$21 75 

 Less one-half manure for land, 8 00 



$1J 75 

 The crop was at the rate of 35 bushels to the acre. 



West Newbury, Oct. 11, 1890. 



