No. 63.) 395 



2cl best crop of winter wheat, 19 bushels and 19 quarts, Aaron 



K. Owen, 2 00 



2d best crop of barley, 46 bushels per acre, John Selover,2d, 1 00 

 3d best crop of barley, 44 bushels per acre, Aaron K. Owen, 



diploma. 

 Best acre of millet, 31 i bushels seed, and 21 tons fodder, 



Geo. Jones, 2 00 



2d best crop of potatoes, 203 bushels on half an acre, Wright 



B. Reynolds, 1 00 



Best crop Rohan potatoes, 135^ bushels on a quarter of an acre, 



Wright B. Reynolds, 2 00 



Best crop of sugar beets, 431 bushels on a quarter of an acre, 



Wright B. Reynolds, 2 00 



2d best crop of sugar beets, 237 bushels on a quarter of an 



acre, Aaron K. Owen, 1 00 



Benjamin Wood, 



L. A. MoRRELL, y Committee. 



Geo. p. Frost, 



The following are true copies of statements presented to me by 

 the several gentlemen whose signatures they bear. The original 

 statements are on file in my office. Geo. P. Frost, 



Recording Secretary of Tompkins Co. Ag. Society. 



Ithaca^ December 31, 1842. 



MILLETT. MR. JONES' STATEMENT. 



Account of two acres of millet raised by George Jones, on his 

 land; the land was in wood in April, it was chopped, logged and 

 sown with twenty quarts of seed to the acre, on the eighth day of 

 June; and on the fifth day of September it was cut, and it was finish- 

 ed threshing on the twenty-eighth day of December, and was found 

 to be five and half tons of fodder, and sixty-three bushels of seed. 



Sowed on the land without plownng, as it w^as burnt; dragged it 

 in and hoed round the stumps; cut with a scythe. Expenses as 

 follows: 



Seed for the two acres, 40 quarts, $1 25 



Sowing 2 acres, 3^., and dragging do. 2 acres, 125, Hoeing 



round stumps, 8^., 2 88 



Mowing and harvesting, 20s. Threshing 63 bushels, $3.15, 5 65 



$9 78 



bh tons fodder worth $6.00 per ton, $33 00 



63 bushels seed worth 6^., 47 25 



|80 25 



Clear profit, $70 47 



JYewfield, Dec. 28, 1842. G. Jones. 



