GRAIN. 



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The Committee on Crops have made the following 

 awards of premiums : 



corn. „ 

 1st, to Lewis A. Goodrich, of Lunenburg, 



(5440 lbs. per acre,) $8,00 

 2d, to Benjamin Safford, of Fitchburg, 



(5640 lbs. per acre,) 6,00 



WHEAT. 



1st, to Ephraim Graham, of Lunenburg, * 



(1760 lbs. per acre, 8,00 

 2d, to Cyrus Kilburn, of Lunenburg, 



(1440 lbs. per acre, 5,00 



RYE. 



1st, to Alonzo P. Goodrich, of Fitchburg, 



(1600 lbs. per acre,) 3,00 



FIELD BEANS. 



1st, to Cyrus Kilburn, of Lunenburg, 



(320 lbs. 1-8 acre,) 2,00 



Respectfully submitted, 



JONAS A. MARSHALL, for the Committee. 



LEWIS'A. GOODEICH'S STATEMENT. 



CORN. 



The soil on which I raised my corn offered for 

 premium is a clayey loam, was in grass in 1863, was ma- 

 nured with eighteen loads of thirty bushels to a load 

 of barn yard manure, two hundred pounds of plaster, 

 and two hundred pounds of superphosphate ; plowed in 

 Nov. 1863, and in the spring for present crop, four to 

 six inches deep, and harrowed one way in May ; cost of 

 plowing and other preparation $8,00 ; the manure cost 



