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GRAIN. 



The Committee on Grain consisted of J. A. Marshall, 

 Joel Page, Ira Carlton, Lorriston Stockwell of Fitchburg, 

 and Joshua T. Everett, of Princeton. The Chairman of 

 the Committee in consequence of sickness and absence 

 from home has not been able to perform his share of the 

 arduous duty imposed on the Committee, but the work 

 has been attended to by the other members, I believe 

 faithfully, and I am instructed by them to make the 

 following report : 



There were four competitors for your premiums on 

 corn, three of whom returned the forms or statements 

 required in due season — in the main properly filled out 

 and certified, though there were some defects in most 

 of them, which I believe has generally been the case 

 heretofore. We think it would be well for the Secretary 

 each year to give such instructions to all who enter 

 crops for premiums, as will insure accurate returns. 

 The following were the competitors, all of whom have 

 good fields of corn, yielding more than 4320 lbs. to the 

 acre, viz: Benjamin Safford and Edward Smith of 

 Fitchburg, and Lewis A. Goodrich and Ephraim Graham 

 of Lunenburg. The season has been unusually dry 

 but we are not informed whether the crop of corn was 

 supposed to be materially diminished from that cause. 

 The ground, as appears from the statements, was plowed 

 from 4 to 7 inches deep, (all too shallow.) The time 

 and manner of planting, the kind of seed and subsequent 

 cultivation, appear in the statements of the competitors. 

 The corn of Mr. Safford wtis topped the last of Septem- 

 ber. Mr. Goodrich and Mr. Kilburn cut at the ground 

 and stooked until dry. The average rod from the differ- 

 ent fields was gathered by the Committee at different 



