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Mr. Selover's cow. The statement mislaid by committee; verbal 

 statement fiom hira: twenty-nine quarts milk best day, weighing 

 fifty-three pounds; and made one week, a few ounces over fourteen 

 pounds. No other test during the season; feed not recollected; ap- 

 pearance of cow rather rough. 

 . Ithaca. October 6, 1842. 



MR. Reynolds' statement. 



To the Secretary of the Agricultural Society of Tompkins County. 

 Sir — I have raised this year, on one quarter of an aire of ground, 

 four hundred and thirty-one bushels of sugar beets — the previous crop 

 potatoes:; had ten good wagon loads of stable manure; plowed the 

 last of April, and previous to plowing, five more good loads of stable 

 manure put upon the ground; ridged about eighteen inches apart, 

 and planted in drills on the top of the ridges; the seed dropped about 

 two inches apart; quantity, about fourteen ounces. Plowing, one 

 quarter of a day; planting, one and a half days; first hoeing, two 

 days; second do., one day; third do., one day; harvesting, four days. 

 Planted the 1st of May; the soil clay. 



Also, one quarter of an acre of Rohan potatoes — the previous crop, 

 manure and plowing the same as the beets. Planted the 6th of May, 

 in rows about two and a half feet apart, and one f( ot in the rows; 

 the quantity of seed one and one-quarter bushels, cut in pieces, one 

 and two eyes in a hill; planting and preparing seed, half a day; 

 once with horse and cultivator, one hour; do., do., with plow, one 

 hour; one hoeing, half a day; harvesting, two and a half days. The 

 quantity was 135 i bushels. 



Also, one-half an acre of round pink eye potatoes — the previous 

 crop, culture and manure the same as the Rohan, excepting they 

 were planted about eighteen inches apart in the rows. The quantity 

 of seed was five and one-quarter bushels; one potatoe put in a hill. 

 It took twice as much labor to raise them as the Rohans, and six days 

 labor to harvest them. The quantity was two hundred and three 

 bushels; the soil clay. 



Wright B. Reynolds. 



Ulysses, December 21, 184:2. 



I certify that in the month of November, 1842, I husked for Jesse 

 Heller, two hundred and thirty baskets of corn, grown <3n a piece of 

 ground purporting to be one acre, which yielded seventy-five bushels 

 and five quarts by measure. 



Andrew Case. 



I certify that I assisted in measuring the above piece of ground, 

 and there was one acre only. 



Stephen Hulbert. 



