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v * PREMIUMS 



RULES OF MEASURE 



Practiced and adopted by the State Board of Agriculture. 



Wheat, Potatoes, Sugar Beets, Mangel Wurzel, 



Euta Baga, White Beans, and Peas 60 lbs. to bushel. 



Corn, Eye, Onions, 56 " " 



Oats, 32 " " 



Barley, Buckwheat, 48 



Cracked Corn, Corn and Eye and other meal 



except Oat, and English Turnips, 50 



Parsnips, , 45 " 



Carrots, 55 -" 



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These forms must be returned to the Secretary on or be- 

 fore November 10th, with each question concerning the crop 

 answered, and the certificates properly signed. 



No person will be allowed to compete for more than one 

 Premitm, with a crop raised upon the same field, however 

 large, with the same treatment. 



Committees should not encourage the irregular entry of 

 accidental good crops. 



GRAIN. 

 Committee. — Solon Carter, Leominster ; Ira Carleton, Joseph Upton, 

 Fitchburg ; Sam'l H. Bailey, Lunenburg ; Jos. P. Reed, Princeton. 



Samples must be exhibited at the Fair. 



The Committee may award gratuities for valuable new 

 varieties of grain. 



For the largest crop of Herds Grass seed, not less than three 

 bushels, 1st premium, $5,00 



2d premium, 3.00 



Eed top, not less than six bushels, 1st premium, 5,00 



2d premium, 3,00 



For the most profitable crops of Corn, Wheat, Eye, Barley 

 and Oats, one acre each j of Cabbages, Beans and Flax, one- 

 eighth acre each; the product of Corn to be not less than 4320 

 lbs. on the cob; that of Wheat, Rye, Barley and Oats, not 

 tess than 1200 lbs. of --rain each. 



