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with Soules' wheat the second week ia September, and harvested the 

 second week in July, and he vorily believes that were it not for the un- 

 toward season he would have had 40 bushels of wheat to the acre, and 

 that there were 16 acres of said wheat. 



Your committee having examined said wheat while in progress of 

 harvesting, concur in the statement as made by Mr. Loose, and recom- 

 mend that he receive the first premium for the best field of wheat. 

 There was application for a premium on a field of corn raised by Dan- 

 iel E. Whitington, the process of cultivation described by him as fol- 

 lows: 



Said land was plowed the first of May, by turning a furrow at the 

 distance of 7^ feet, and filling the same with manure, at the rate of a 

 load to forty rods, then turning another furrow on the manure, planted 

 the dent corn with a drill on the 20th of May. Cultivated and hoed 

 when cx)rn was up, plowed out the remaining part of the land when 

 com was six or eight inches high, leaving a dead furrow between the 

 rows to draw the surface water from the corn. The yield of said crop, 

 as by affidavit of Joseph W. Hall, is 160 bushels of ears per acre, and 

 your committee recommend that he receive the first premium for the 

 best crop of corn. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



W. H. MONTGOMERY, 

 A. J. KEENEY, 

 MILO TRACY, • 



Cojnmiltee. 



DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. 



The discretionary committee report, that owing to (he want of time 

 and the crowded state of the Hall, they were unable to be as precise 

 and particular as they would have desired. In their examination they 

 found a great variety of articles which added much to the display, that 

 were not manufactured in the county, and hence not entitled to pre- 

 miums. Among these were the two show cases of Messrs. Clark and 

 Boyd, and a rich display of fancy work and goods by Mrs. Kendal), a 

 handsome exhibition of hardware and cutleiy by Mr. Boyd, and two 

 domestic flannel counterpanes, understood to have been woven abroad. 



