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bushels per acre, liaised on new land, a clay loam soil, burned late 

 the previous fall; plowed twice, and sowed 13th of Sept. Variety, 

 white chaff Crate Wheat. 



To E. C. Frost, Catharine, for second best ten acres of Wheat — 

 17 bushels per acre. Cultivated in the usual manner. The wheat 

 crop in this county was unusually light, owing to late frosts and 

 drouth. 



Premiums were awarded to Wm. Worden, Catharine, for 13 bush- 

 els clover seed from four acres, and to Jesse Carpenter, Elmira, for 

 the " best acre of potatoes — 806 bushels,* Merino variety." 



CLINTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Clinton County Agricultural Society was organized at Platts- 

 burgh, on the 7th August, 1841, a constitution adopted and officers 

 of the society elected. 



The first fair was held at Plattsburgh, on the twenty-fifth day of 

 October, 1842, at which time the Society numbered one hundred and 

 twenty-three members. The treasurer reported he had received from 

 private subscriptions ninety-nine dollars, and from the State eighty- 

 four dollars, making in all the sum of $183. At which time the 

 premiums were awarded and paid to the amount of $88,50, leaving 

 a balance on hand of $82.07, appropriated to pay premiums on farms 

 and farm crops of the present year, at our annual meeting on the se- 

 cond Tuesday of January next. 



Zeph. C. Platt, Pres't Clinton Co. Ag. Soc. 



Annexed are the reports of the several committees on farms, 

 crops, &c., made at the January meeting : 



REPORT OF THE PUBLISHING COMMITTEE, 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE FOR PERU. 



The committee to view farms and award premiums offered by the 

 Clinton County Agricultural Society for the town of Peru, report: 



That they have had the pleasure of viewing but three farms — no 

 others having been offered for premiums. 



We first visited the farm of Josiah T. Everest, which is situated 

 about three miles north and west of Peru Village. It contains about 

 sixty-five acres of improved land. In the management of his farm, 

 he has adopted the system of rotation of crops. His practice is to 

 break up in the fall, and sow in the spring a mixed crop of oats, 

 peas and ryej — the next year, manure and hoed crop; and the third 

 or fourth, seed down; then mow three, or at most, four years, and 

 plow again. 



* No vouchers are given for this crop, nor statement of the method of cultivation. If such a 

 crop has been grown, the manner in which it was done, ought certainly to be made public. 



