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Second — The soil is sandy loam, was Summer fallowed, in good condi- 

 tion, and well broken up. It was sowed between the twentieth and 

 thirtieth of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and then culti- 

 vated in. There was sown seventy-one pounds of Club seed per acre. 



Third — It costs about three dollars to Summer fallow and sow the 

 same, and about five dollars per acre to harvest, and three dollars and 

 thirteen cents per acre to sack, and seventy-five cents per acre to haul 

 to market. Total cost to deliver to market, eleven dollars and eighty- 

 eight cents per acre. 



Fourth — A sample of the above was on exhibition at the last annual 

 meeting of the Society. 



The crop was raised on a parcel of land measuring twenty-two acres, 

 one hundred and forty-four rods, and six links, and is part of the north- 

 east quarter of Section One, Range One east, Township Nine, and situ- 

 ated about two and one half miles southwest from the Town of Wood- 

 land, County of Yolo. 



State of California, ") 

 Yolo County, j 



Adam Steiner, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he raised a 

 crop of wheat the last past season upon twenty-two acres, one hundred 

 and forty-four rods, and six links of land, surveyed and measured by 



Donnovan, a surveyor of the Town of Woodland, County of Yolo, 



and that the quantity of grain was (3,159) three thousand one hundred 

 and fifty-nine pounds per acre; and that the statement annexed, sub- 

 scribed by this deponent, as to the manner of cultivation, expenses, 

 etc., is in all respects true to the best of his knowledge and belief, and 

 that the sample of wheat sent is a fair sample of the whole crop for 

 which he claims premium. 



ADAM J. STEESTER. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, this sixth day of December, A. D. 

 1870. 



ELIAS PETERSON", 



Justice of the Peace. 



The premium of fifty dollars was awarded Mr. Steiner. 



