2 8 GRAIN. 



CORN. 



First premium to Joseph Goodrich, $16 00 



Second premium to Edwin D. Works, 10 00 



The committee regret exceedingly that competitors for the 

 society's premiums should be so delinquent in complying 

 with the requisitions of the society, in relation to a statement 

 concerning their crops, and that there should be so few to 

 compete. There were three entries of Rye and but one 

 statement that reached the committee. Of Wheat there were 

 four entries, and no competitor complied with the rules fully. 

 Therefore, the premiums were not awarded. It was the 

 same with other crops. This is very unsatisfactory to the 

 committee as well as to the competitors. 



The committee venture to offer a few suggestions on the 

 cultivation of grain, not because they are new, but to stir up 

 the minds of agriculturists by way of remembrance. 



And the first thing to be done, to insure success, is to 

 thoroughly prepare the ground by plowing, harrowing and 

 removing stones, so that its surface, to the depth of six or 

 eight inches, may be made fine, that the roots of the young 

 plants may easily and readily find food from which to grow. 

 The next thing is to apply the manure in such a way that the 

 growing crop can appropriate it to its own increase. 



Distance of hills is another subject on which there is a 

 diversity of opinion and practice, and this, to a considerable 

 extent, must be regulated by the condition and location of the 

 land, the kind of seed planted, and such other considerations 

 as will occur to the mind of every practical farmer. A side 

 hill would require more distance than an even surface, and 

 one where there were stones and coarse sods more than 

 where the surface was well pulverized. From three and one- 

 half to four feet each way is a proper distance where the 

 land is capable of being cultivated both ways, if not, the rows 

 should be wider one way and closer the other, and should be 

 so close as to contain from twenty to twenty-five hills to the 

 square rod. 



