136 

 GRAIN AND HAY CROPS. 



The Committee on Grain and Hay Crops would make the 

 following report : — 



There has been but one application for premium on grain 

 crops that comes within the rules of the Society. 



Benjamin P. "Ware of Marblehead, raised, as his statement 

 shows, a little over ninety bushels of corn on one acre of 

 ground, for which the Committee recommend that he receive 

 the premium of $10. 



It appears from Mr. "Ware's statement that on one fifth part 

 of the land there was no manure applied the present season, 

 consequently the crop on the whole lot was not so much as it 

 would have been, had it all been manured — it being a lot of 

 land on which he is trying an experiment for another purpose, 

 the result of which will probably be published in the Transac- 

 ions of the Society. 



Mr. "Ware also applied for a premium on his wheat crop, of 

 twenty-five and one-fifteenth bushels to the acre ; but as appli- 

 cation was not made previous to harvesting the crop, as the 

 rules of the Society require, he is not entitled to the premium. 



S. A. Merrill raised the present year, according to his 

 statement, the almost unprecedented crop of thirty and three- 

 eighths bushels of wheat on twenty-three thousand three hun- 

 dred and one feet of land, making about fifty-six and one-half 

 bushels to the acre ; but as the rules of the Society require a 

 crop on not less than one acre of land, and notice to be given 

 previous to harvesting the crop, as before stated, which was 

 not done, the Committee considered it not entitled to premium. 



Mr. Merrill also raised, according to his statement, an un- 

 usually large crop of rye — forty-nine bushels to the acre, 

 which would be entitled to the premium, were it not for un- 

 seasonable notice, as in the other case. 



It is hoped that hereafter all applicants for premium will 

 fully inform themselves as to the rules of the Society, and 

 comply with them, that they may severally receive their just 



