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required the manure more than the remaining part. We 

 found in gathering by the wagon load, but little difference in 

 the yield; so I would be very safe in saying the iield aver- 

 aged 115 bushels per acre, which on the eight acres and 

 eighty-eight roods, would be 987 bushels of sound corn, 

 which at twenty-five cents per bushel, would be, $246 75 

 Cost of cultivation without the manure- $98 70 



Hauling manure and spreading 18 75 



Rent of land 40 00 



$157 45 

 The field is sown with rye ten bushels sowed on it for 

 pasture; two bushels of timothy seed sown at the same time 

 with the rye. 



Daniel Clark. 



James W. Fryar, plowed his ground about the first of 

 Aprd; first bottom, hard grass sod; plowed with three horses 

 abreast, six inches deep; harrowed the ground twice; fur- 

 rowed three feet one way, and drilled the other way about 

 twenty mches. apart; two and three stalks in a hill; planted 

 about the first of May. The corn was cultivated two differ- 

 ent tmies; plowed one time over. Seed corn consisted of 

 two or three different kinds, mixed together. The amount 

 raised on one acre, was one hundred and twenty-eight and 

 a-half bushels. j^^^, ^ ^^^^^ 



James Harris, of Green township, is entitled to the premi- 

 um of $5 for the best field of corn, containing five acres, 

 which averaged 119 bushels and 2 quarts. 



John Steffee— a certificate signed by S. S. Boyd, that 103 

 bushels was the yield per acre. 



DANIEL L. DOWNING, Chairman, 



