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Manner of preparing ground for Onions. 



Carted on 15 loads of horse manure about 15th April; plowed the 

 ground immediately; spread 2 barrels bone manure, 10 bushels ashes; 

 sowed them immediately in drills 11 inches apart; hoed and weeded 

 them six times during the season; gathered them about the first Sept ; 

 and from 100 feet by 50 of ground, they yielded 120 bushels. 



Chas. Clapp. 



POTATOES. MR. SMITh's STATEMENT. 



I do hereby certify that I raised from one acre three hundred 

 and sixty-eight bushels of the black potatoe, and that the same were 

 inspected by one of the measurers appointed by the Society of the 

 county of Suffolk; and the course of tillage and preparation of the 

 ground was as follows: a portion of the ground was plowed the year 

 previous, and a portion was plowed from the sod some six weeks 

 previous to planting. The same were planted 3 feet by 2 feet; ma- 

 nured with sheep yard manure in the hill; plowed and hoed twice. 



Joel L. G. Smith. 



Smithtown^ January Sthy 1843. 



" TOMPKINS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I hereby certify that the within statements of grain and root crops, 

 and also of milch cows, together with the printed doings at the fair 

 of the Tompkins County Agricultural and Horticultural Society, held 

 in October last, are a true statement of the doings of the Society for 

 the year 1842, 



Benjamin Wood, President. 



Ithaca^ Jan. 3, 1843. 



The following premiums were awarded by the committee on milch 

 cows, viz: 



Best milch cow of any breed, Rev. William Wisner, $3 00 



2d best do do Geo. P. Frost, 2 00 



3d best do do John Selover 2d, 1 00 



4th best do do John Mitchel, diploma. 



The following premiums were awarded by the committee on grain 

 ad root crops, viz: 



Best acre of corn, 107 J bushels, to Ezra Cornell, $3 00 



2d do 75 do Jesse Heller, 2 00 



Best crop of winter wheat, 26| bushels per acre, John Se- 

 lover 2d, 3 00 



