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• SUFFOLK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The following are selected from the statements furnished by Wra. 

 W. Mills, Esq. president of the Suffolk County Agricultural Society. 



INDIAN CORN. L. BRUSh's STATEMENT. 



This is to certify that one acre of Indian corn was planted about 

 the 25th of April; planted on strong soil; put 20 loads of barnyard 

 manure to the acre, and plowed it in; put about four loads of stable 

 manure in the hills; it w^as planted 4i feet apart each way, and plow- 

 ed out six times and hoed once, and I gathered 160 bushels of ears. 



My 3 acres of Indian corn were planted on a stiff sod about the 

 first of May, manured in the hill about the same as the other, and 

 same width. I gathered 100 bushels of ears to the acre. 



Lewis Brush. 



Huntington J Mov. 24:th, 1842. 



BUCKWHEAT. G. S. PHILLIPs' STATEMENT. 



Having received from the Suffolk County Agricultural Society a 

 premium of three dollars for the best crop of buckwheat, not less 

 than one-half acre, I certify that I plowed the ground in the latter 

 part of May last, it being a fallow; that I plowed it again early in 

 July, then spread upon it twelve bushels of ground or crushed horn 

 piths, which cost forty cents per bushel; then harrowed the ground 

 twice over; and on or about the fourteenth of July I sowed upon 

 said ground (containing by measurment about one acre and an half) 

 three pecks of buckwheat of the small grey kind, and again harrow- 

 ed it twice over; that the buckwheat was cut about the first of Oc- 

 tober, and threshed on the 8th of the same month; and that the 

 quantity produced therefrom was thirty-six bushels, large measure. 

 The expense of labor and manure was about fourteen dollars. The 

 soil was a sandy loam. 



Geo. S. Phillips. 



Dated October 26th, 1842. 



RYE. A. roe's statement. 



I do hereby certify, that the rye on which the Suffolk County 

 Agricultural Society awarded me a premium of five dollars, is the 

 fifth crop that I have raised on the same field, by sowing 4 quarts of 

 clover seed in the fall with the rye, and 8 quarts in the spring to the 

 acre, and plowing in the crop of clover in the fall in li<'u of other 

 manure for the succeeding crop of rye. Though the present is not 

 so good as former crops, the past season is known to have been un- 

 favorable. I can recommend the above system with conficUtice from 

 my own experience. 



Austin Roe. 



Dated 21ih Oct. 1842. 



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