REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 19 



SACK RACK 

 Thomas McCoy, ist premium, $6 oo 



S, J. M. Weston, for the Committee, 



CROPS. 

 GRAIN. 



The Committee of the Worcester North Agricultural Socie- 

 ty, appointed to award premiums on grain, make the following 

 report : 



That no field crops were entered for premiums. Whether 

 the financial condition of the Society was the cause of this ne- 

 glect, your committee have not been able to report ; but would 

 here observe, that the grain crop sounds the key-note to our 

 prosperity, that and the grass crop furnish us with the Staff of 

 Life, and ought not to be ignored at our fairs. 



This neglect was partly atoned for in the grand display of 

 specimens of grain exhibited in the Hall, as follows : 



Two traces of the celebrated Carter corn by Chas. C. Boy- 

 den of Leominster, were on exhibition ; this prolific variety has 

 heretofore received a premium for more than one hundred bush- 

 els of dry shelled corn to the acre. 



Another trace of beautiful seed corn was exhibited by Still- 

 man Stone of Lunenburg ; the ears were large and long, and 

 said to be early ; two strings and a cluster of corn by Andrew 

 Russell of Fitchburg ; one trace of mixed corn by Thomas Oak- 

 man of Fitchburg ; one handsome trace of Brown or King 

 Phillip corn by Franklin Nourse of Sterling ; one trace of white 

 sweet corn by E. T. Miles ; one trace of field corn by D. S. 

 Eaton ; one trace of field corn by A. W. Damon, and one trace 

 of field corn by A. S. Jeffts. 



Your reporter exhibited half a bushel of Tappahannock 

 winter wheat, said to ripen a week or ten days earlier than any 

 other variety in the United States. Also half a bushel of white 

 Schooner oats, weighing 44 lbs. to the bushel. Also half a bush- 



