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Q 11 A I N , 



At a meeting of the Trustees held Nov. 11th, the 

 foregoing report was accepted and adopted, and the 

 Secretary instructed to publish it as written. On the 

 verbal recommendations of the Chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on Grain, the Trustees then voted to award the 

 following premiums, viz : 



CORN. 



1st, to Joseph Goodrich, of Lunenburg, $10,00 



2d, to Benjamin Safford, of Fitchburg, 7,00 



BARLEY. 



1st, to Joseph Goodrich, of Lunenburg, 3,00 



I WHITE BEANS. 



1st, to Abel Marshall, of Fitchburg, 2,00 



CABBAGES. 



1st, to Abel Marshall, of Fitchburg, 2,00 



W. G. WYMAN, Secretary. 



JOSEPH GOODRICH'S STATEMENT.* 



CORN. 



The lot on which my corn grew contains 221 rods 

 and is a clayey loam. The crop of 1860 and 1861 

 was grass without manure. It was plowed in August, 

 1861, six to eight inches deep, and cross plowed in May 

 after the manure was spread ; harrowed and furrowed ; 

 manured with thirty loads, twenty of which was spread 

 and ten put in the hill ; planted May 10th in hills three 



*Tho statements concerning cultivated crops are made by the Secretary 

 from the returned forms sent to the several competitors. In all cases 

 ■where manure is estimated in loads, the loads are understood to contain 

 thirty bushels each. The quantity of produce in all cases is ascertained 

 by the actual weight of the whole merchantable crop, the weight being 

 certified to under oath. — Sec. 



