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up twice with a hoe; afterwards pulled up by hand, and yielded at 

 the rate of eight hundred and sixty-six busheJs to the acre. 



Your committee also award to Almeron Marks, a premiumon car- 

 rots, $3.00. The land had been cultivated for five or six years pre- 

 vious with corn, potatoes and roots; generally manured in the spring 

 of each year; plowed deep, and covered with hog-pen and barn-yard 

 manure, at the rate of forty one-horse wagon loads per acre, the pre- 

 sent season; seed used was the long orange carrot; used about one- 

 fourth of a pound on the piece; sowed by hand on the 6th and 7th 

 of May, in drills about eighteen inches apart; sowed thick generally; 

 some portions of the seed failed; weeded twice and hoed twice with a 

 garden hoe and thinned out by hand, except a small portion which was 

 left to grow thick; the actual expense I cannot ascertain, as a part 

 of the sowing, weeding and hoeing were done by myself and stu- 

 dents at odd spells, but as near as I can estimate the expense it is as 

 follows : 



5 Loads of manure at 18| cents, $0 94 



One day man and horse plowing, 1 00 



2 days sowing the seed, 1 50 



Expense of weeding and hoeing twice, 3 00 



Expense of gathering and securing, 5 00 



$11 44 

 Yielded 150 bushels from one-eighth of an acre, valued at 



18 cents per bushel, , 27 00 



|15 56 



Your committee also examined a fine specimen of a bushel of 

 timothy seed, produced by Nathan Clark; he gathered on his farm 

 from one field, eleven bushels, perfectly clean and free from all foul 

 seed. We think examples of such a nature ought to be encouraged 

 and followed, instead of the farmer's paying out his money for seed 

 of other regions of a foul description; we therefore award to Mr. 

 Clark a premium of $3. 



Description of Mr. Clark. — He says he collected from his meadow 

 eleven bushels of timothy seed, by cradling the heads off and then 

 mowing the grass; gathered, threshed and cleaned the seed in the 

 usual way, and that the expense of saving the seed would not exceed 

 fifty cents per bushel, and in his opinion it is a great economy for 

 every farmer who has a clean growth of timothy to save his seed, and 

 loses but little if any in the quality and quantity of the hay, as the 

 same can be pressed and fed out to stock. 



Report of Committee on Farms. 



Your Committee on Farms would respectfully report, that they, in 

 the discharge of the duties assigned them, have examined seven farms, 

 situated in six different towns in said county; and here permit us to 

 say, that owing to the distance your Committee reside from each oth- 



