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mendation of the Cultivator, and in this situation we found one of its 

 editors. 



Thus, after a ride of three days, we made our way towards home, 

 well pleased with the performance of the duty assigned us. Although 

 the committee receive no daily fee, they feel well paid in the per- 

 sonal examination of improved implements, and the manner in which 

 different persons manage their farms and business, besides meeting 

 with a most hearty welcome among our brother farmers. The Com- 

 mittee award to 



Enoch Marks of Onondaga, the first prize of $10. 



E. D. Cobb of De Witt, the second prize of $8. 



Harvey Avery of La Fayette, the third prize of $6. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 



H. P. BOGARDUS, 



A. Eastwood, ^ Com. 

 S. M. Brown. 



Mr. Woodward'' s Corn Crop. 



I respectfully notify you, that I would ofTer the growth of one acre 

 of corn for premium. The most part of the land has laid to pasture 

 for two years, had a light dressing of manure, plowed once, made 

 mellow by harrowing. Planted the first week in May, in drills three 

 feet apart; thinned out at hoeing, so as to leave the stalks between 

 four and eight inches apart, excepting a small part of it which was 

 left thicker, and did not ear so well. Was plastered as soon as up, 

 ashed after the first hoeing, and hoed three times, without much hill- 

 ing. Corn husked in the lot, put in a wagon and drawn to the corn 

 house, measured in a basket; and in measuring, three baskets were 

 weighed, and the medium one shelled, and the amount by measure of 

 shelled corn is 96i| bushels, and by weight fell short two pounds on 

 a bushel. The above I believe to be correct. 



F. Woodward. 



Camillus, September 30, 1842. 



Mr. Box's Potatoe Crop. 



I,Eldert V. W. Dox, of the town of La Fayette, in the county of 

 Onondaga, in making claim to the premium for the best acre of potatoes 

 in said county, for the year 1842, in pursuance of a requirement by 

 the Agricultural Society in said county, do make the following state- 

 ment: 



Its treatment previous to 1841, I cannot state, as I came into pos- 

 session of the premises in the spring of that year. 



In 1841 it was well manured from the sheep and cattle yards, to 

 an average depth of one and one-half inches over the piece — four 

 acres; and one-half was then planted to potatoes, which yielded one 

 thousand four hundred bushels. The ground was not stirred again 

 until this spring, and not then until it had become perfectly dry. 



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