240 



five bushels per acre, and the field of near nine acres aver- 

 aging over 115 bushels per acre. 



We also append the following reports, handed us by the 

 respective competitors, and especially commend to the atten- 

 tion of our agricultural friends the statements made by Dan- 

 iel Clark. 



We deem it proper to state, in regard to the cost of raising 

 the corn by Daniel Clark, that the item of $18 75 for haul- 

 ing manure, &c., should not be charged up as an annual ex- 

 penditure, as at least a moiety of its value is still in the 

 ground. In regard to rent of $40, it is much higher than 

 common, because the field v^^as adjoining the town, and con- 

 sequently commanded a high rent. The average price for 

 the same quantity and quality of ground in the county 

 would not have been more than from $16 to $18. 



There was no person forwarded to us a statement of wheat, 

 barley, oats or flax, measured or accurately ascertained, what 

 the yield per acre was. Two of the committee visited and 

 requested several individuals to measure and give to the com- 

 mittee a statement of the yield per acre. John Clark's 

 barley was good for fifty bushels per acre; and Daniel Sha- 

 fer's, that or more; his flax was very good. So with 

 William Feasel's flax and oats. No wheat exhibited at the 

 Fair, except two small lots, by one of the committee — no 

 one competing for the premium. On grass, two small sam- 

 ples of timothy seed, and one of perennial Ray grass seed. 



On corn, there was six competitors : John Henley, James 

 Fryar, John Stuffee, Aaron Drellinger, James Harris and 

 Daniel Clark. 



The following is a description of the manner in which the 

 corn was cultivated, which I entered for the premium, at the 

 first exhibition of the Wayne Counly Fair: I plowed ray 

 ground the first of April. The land is first bottom, and the 



