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This certifies that I assisted in gathering and husking Mr. 

 Ncwhall's crop of corn, raised upoli the 38,484 square feet of 

 land, measured by Ebenezer Tolman, Esq. ; that said land pro- 

 duced eighty-eight baskets ; that I shelled one basket, filled as all 

 the others were, and it weighed 38| lbs. exclusive of cobs, I 

 further certify that I sold the cabbages and green corn raised 

 upon the same piece of land for one hundred and thirty dollars. 



Richard Howard. 



Dorchester^ Nov. 13, 1854. 



Cheever Newhall, Esq., Sir — Agreeably to your request, 

 I have measured the piece of land upon which you raised corn 

 and cabbages this season ; and it contains thirty-eight thousand 

 four hundred and eighty-four square feet, or three quarters of an 

 acre, twenty-one rods and ninety-seven square feet. 



Eben Tolman, Surveyor. 

 Dorchester, Nov. 9, 1854. 



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REPORT ON POULTRY. 



The Committee on Poultry report as follows : — 

 For the best pair Black Spanish, T. B. Calder, Dedham, $2.00 

 " " " " Black Shanghges, H. H. Martin, East 



Stoughton, .... 2.00 



" " " " White Shangh^es, T. H. Sullaway, Canton, 2.00 

 " " " " Marsh or Forbes' Shanghaes, Sebrina Smith, 



Dedham, ..... 2.00 



For the best pair Bantams, T. Shapleigh, Dedham, . 2.00 



" " White Guineas, James S. Drayton, Dedham, 2.00 



" " Live Fowls, Humphrey Smith, W. Roxbury, 4.00 



" 2d best live Fowls, Dr. W. T. G. Morton, W. Needham, 3.00 



" 3d " " " Lewis Simonds, Dedham, . . 2.00 



" the best Ducks, Dr. W. T. G. Morton, West Needham, 2.00 



" Geese, " " " " " • 3.00 



" Turkeys, Lemuel Kingsbury, Needham, 3.00 



" " 2d best Turkeys, Dr. W. T. G. Morton, W. Needham, 2.00 





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