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One row, three pieces in a hill, weight 19| produced 288 pounds, 

 equal to 14i from one. 



One row, four pieces in a hill, weight 23^ pounds, produced 327 

 pounds, equal to 14 from one. 



Planted several more rows promiscuously with large, small and 

 cut potatoes — they produced similar to the two last mentioned rows. 

 The seed was imported as above stated. 



Planted one bushel of large white potatoes of my own raising, 

 weight 63^ pounds, planted 206 hills, produced 13 bushels. 



One bushel of very small potatoes, weight 62^, planted 420 hills, 

 produced 26 bushels. 



The other part of the field was planted with seed taken from the 

 pile, without selection, the result was similar to that of the last 

 mentioned bushel. 



Planted eleven ounces of potatoes, produced from the seed of the 

 potatoe balls in 1828, on forty-three hundredths of one square rod 

 of land, when gathered weighed 75 pounds, equal to 91 budhels 

 from one bushel of seed, allowing G3 pounds to tha bushel. 



THOMAS PAYSON. 



Roicley, Sept. SO, 1829. 



VI. DAIRY. 



The Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society on the Dairy, 

 ask leave to Report :— 



Tliat four parcels of butter were presented for their examination ; 

 only two of which came within the notice of the Committee as sub- 

 jects for premium ; the others not being conformable to the condi- 

 tions prescribed by the Trustees, which require the whole produce 

 of at least four cows for the 20th of May to the 30th Sept. to be ex- 

 actly reported, and samples of at least twenty pounds to be exhibit- 

 ed at the Show. 



The Committee are unanimous in the opinion, that Jesse Curtis, 

 of Marblehead, is entitled to the Society's first premium of twenty 



