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Committee not to be interesting to forward a particular detail of the 

 manner of cultivating the ground and crop. 



Jabez Bostwick, President. 



Delhi, December 26, 1842. 



George Sturgess, Treasurer, 



ERIE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The premium list of this Society amounted to nearly $500, and 

 over $400 was awarded in premiums at their second annual Fair, held 

 at Buffalo, on the 5th and 6th of October — " two glorious days for 

 the farmers of Erie county." The number of fine horses, beautiful 

 cattle, superior specimens of sheep and swine, and the great variety 

 of farm products, domestic manufactures, vegetables, fruits, &c.j 

 have rarely been exceeded in any part of the state. 



The committee on cheese remark that " the specimens offered were 

 of surpassing excellence. The premium for the best cheese is award- 

 ed to a lot of five cheeses taken from a wagon load, weighing about 

 100 lbs. each, from the dairy of H. Arnold & Son, Hamburgh, made 

 from the milkings of night and morning, brought to the temperature 

 of 85, thus standing 11 hours, then cut up and standing in whey 

 until the temperature is raised to 100, and in the same condition 

 cooled, after which the mass is wheyed, salted and sent to the press. 

 The richness and flavor of this cheese was fully equal to any ever 

 seen in this county." 



The second premium was awarded to two lots, made by Truman 

 Austin of Hamburgh, assorted by size, and nearly of the same flavor, 

 and made precisely in the same manner. First, milk of night and 

 morning raised to 92, set in rennet 40 minutes, scalded at 105, one 

 tea-cup of salt to 19 lbs. cheese, and pressed 24 hours. No. 9 con- 

 sisted of five enormous cheeses, weighing nearly 300 lbs. each. The 

 specimens differing in little else than size. 



The premium crops produced as follows per acre: — Indian Corn, 

 57 bushels; Oats, 67; Barley, 42; Carrots, 1124^; second best, 

 1040; Ruta Bagas, 1000; Beets, 1280. 



The oats were grown on sandy loam, in oats last year; the stubble 

 plowed under about the middle of May, and the seed, two bushels, 

 sown a few days after. 



The barley was from a gravelly soil, slightly mixed with loam, in 

 corn the previous year. It was plowed in the fall and again in the 

 spring. Ten loads of cow stable manure were spread on the acre. 

 The land was harrowed and rolled, and seed sown the 9th of May. 

 Mr. Carpenter, to whom the premium was awarded, says — " I have 

 always found great benefit in a thorough rolling of my lands for the 

 barley crop." 



Mr. Manning Case, to whom the first premium for carrots was 

 awardedj states that the soil on which his carrots were raised, was a 



