^ GRAIN. 



GRAIN. 



Mr President: — Your Society has placed in the 

 hands of the Committee on Grain twenty premiums to 

 be disposed of according to the rules and regulations 

 of said Society. They, with the entries claiming said 

 premiums, are as follows : Premiums on Corn 4, entries 

 3 ; premiums on Wheat 4, entries 2 ; premiums on 

 Rye 2, entries none ; premiums on Barley 2, entries 1 ; 

 premiums on Oats 2, entries none ; premiums on Beans 

 2, entries 1 ; premiums on Grass Seed 4, entries 1. 

 Total, 20 premiums, entries 8. Other than these there 

 were 4 entries, but soon after were withdrawn, and 1 

 ruled out for not complying with the rules of the 

 Society. This shows a state of things which ought not 

 to be ; but whether the fault lies with the Committee, 

 the Society, or with the grain growers, it is not in our 

 province to determine. But of one thing we are sure, 

 we have seen many rich and beautiful fields of grain 

 in the locality of Worcester North, and some of them 

 at least might have taken premiums had they been 

 entered for the same, and added much to the interest 

 of the Society. We would suggest to our grain 

 raisers that the rather oppressive rule of causing the 

 whole acre to be weighed is dispensed with, and the 

 requirements of a single rod is sufficient. 



Grain is one of the most important articles that 

 comes under the notice of our Agricultural Societies? 

 especially in the New England States. In the broad 

 lands of New York, Pennsylvania, and the more 

 Western States, where manuring is unnecessary, and 

 the plowing, sowing, planting, hoeing, harvesting and 

 threshing, is all done by horse power, and yielding a 

 crop of eighty or ninety bushels per acre, experiments 



