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At a meeting held, pursuant to notice given by the clerk of said 

 county, as required by the act aforesaid, an Agricultural Society 

 was formed, a constitution adopted and officers elected on the 28th 

 day of August, in the year 1841. 



On the 16th day of April, the executive committee met, and made 

 out a list of premiums to be awarded at the first cattle show and fair 

 of the Society, to be held at Cairo, Oct. 19th. The committee so- 

 licited the exhibition of additional articles, with the expectation of 

 awarding additional premiums. 



At the annual meeting of said society, held on the first Tuesday in 

 Sept., 1842, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, 

 Anthony Van Bergen, was elected President. 

 Gen. William Salisbury, 1st Vice-President. 

 George Griffin, 2d do 



Christopher L. Kiersted, 3d do 

 Elisha Blackman, 4th do 



Theodore Provost, 5th do 



James Van Deusen, Recording Secretary. 

 Richard Van Dyke, Corresponding Secretary. 

 Cornelius Rause, Treasurer, and James M. Sanford, Leonard 

 Bronk, Nathan Clark, James Hawley, George L. Rundle, Elias B. 

 Austin, Henry Kinsley, John Kiersted, Jr., Zadock Pratt, Isaac B. 

 Hinman and Mathew Sayre, with the above named officers, were 

 elected executive committee. 



The Committee on field crops, report that they have examined the 

 various statements of claimants for premiums on farm crops, and award 

 on corn crop: 



1st premium to Christopher L. Kiersted, $4. 

 2d " Jonathan W. Thorn, $2. 



The product of C. L. Kiersted's acre of corn was 97 bushels and 

 28 quarts, actual measurement. 



The product of J. W. Thorn's acre of corn was 84 J bushels. 

 From Mr. Kiersted's statement, it appears his ground was a gra- 

 vely loam with a stiff sward, plowed smooth in the spring, harrowed 

 well, marked it out very light about two feet nine inches each way. 

 Then he took sheep manure and put a small double handful in each 

 hill and covered the manure lightly, and then planted the eight row- 

 ed yellow corn on the 13th of May from six to eight kernels in a 

 hill, covered it with care; after the corn came up, plastered it. Plow- 

 ed and hoed, and then again plastered. Plowed and hoed the second 

 time and then left it; thinned it out the first time hoeing; cut up by 

 the ground, set it in stouts and husked in the field; and from one acre 

 he got a yield of ninety-seven bushels and twenty-eight quarts. He 

 estimates his expense of all the labor, manure, plaster, &c. and gath- 

 ering the corn, at $19 00 



97 bushels 28 quarts, at 50 cts. per bushel, $49 00 



6 loads of stalks, 12 00 



61 00 



Carried forward, $42 00 



