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Brought forward, e ^ $42 00 



For use of land, 10 00 



Nett profit, $32 00 



From Mr. Thorn's statement, it appeared that he broke up old 

 sward ground in the fall, and harrowed in the spring and gave it a 

 good dressing of long manure; then cross plowed and harrowed again. 

 Ridged and planted three feet apart each way; planted the twelve 

 and sixteen rowed corn; harrowed it soon after it came up, and hoed 

 and plastered; plowed two furrows in a row each way, and hilled it 

 and plastered again. Cut up by the ground and stouted and husked 

 and yielded 84 i bushels of corn. 



The committee also award on rye crops, 



1st premium to Christopher L. Kiersted,for 36 bushels of rye from 

 one acre, $3. 



He states that he sowed one and a half bushels of clean rye to the 

 acre, and harrowed well and furrowed sufficient to drain the water; 

 cut with a scythe, put in dutch shocks and threshed and cleaned thir- 

 ty-six bushels clean rye from the acre. The ground was broken from 

 a sward in 1840 and planted to potatoes, and in the spring of 1841, 

 sowed with spring wheat; and after the wheat came off, plowed about 

 four inches deep, and sowed to rye as above, about the 12th of Sept. 



Also awarded on oat crop, 



First premium to C. L. Kiersted, for 87^^ bushels of oats per acre, 

 ^2. 



Statement. — The ground plowed deep and fine; 21st of April sow- 

 ed the common black and white oats, four bushels to the acre; har- 

 rowed fine and left. Cut and taken into the barn, threshed and 

 cleaned; and from an acre, got a yield of 87J bushels of oats; corn 

 and rye crops taken off the piece immediately before. 



Your committee also award, 



To Jonathan W. Thorn, for the best acre of buckwheatj 34 J bush- 

 els, $2. 



Statement of Mr. Thorn. — The ground, a clover sward, plowed 

 the latter part of June, then harrowed and sowed and harrowed about 

 the 8th of July; and put on about one bushel seed buckwheat to the 

 acre. Harvested in the ordinary way and kept no account of expen- 

 ses; one acre gathered and kept separate, yielded by actual measure- 

 ment, 34 i bushels. 



Your committee also award. 



To James Van Deusen, for the best lot of beets, $3. 



The land was a gravely loam. The condition of the land previous 

 to the present crop, for the last ten or twelve years, had been culti- 

 vated with potatoes, turneps, beets and carrots, and manured with 

 fifteen or twenty loads of coarse manure per acre yearly. In May 

 last, was a dressing of coarse barn-yard manure, spread on; then 

 plowed and harrowed; then another dressing of manure; again plow- 

 ed and harrowed; then ridged and planted on the ]7th May, about 

 two feet apart; nine inches apart in the rows; used about three- 

 fourths of a pound of seed; filled up by transplanting; weeds cut 



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