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I certify that the ground on wliich the above crop of corn was 

 grown, had the previous year produced a crop of wheat; the soil a 

 sandy loam; applied to the crop of corn thirty loads of coarse barn- 

 yard manure; plowed once, previous to planting; crop hoed three 

 times; ground stirred before first hoeing by a cultivator, and the se- 

 cond and third hoeing by a common plow; whole number of days' 

 work unknown. Jesse Hellek. 



Lansings December 2, 1842. 



statements of MR. AARON K. OWEN. 



Nineteen acres of wheat of the Hutchinson kind, sixteen of which 

 were clover sod fallowed; the other three after barley, which was 

 manured previous to sowing barley, at the rate of thirty-five loads 

 per acre, mostly of a coarse, unreduced quality; plowed twice after 

 the barley was taken off, ami harrowed twice. The fallow ground 

 was plowed three times; harrowed but little previous to sowing; 

 no manure; the quantity of seed sown was about two bushels per 

 acre; after which it was harrowed twice. Both pieces included, 

 yielded on an average nineteen bushels and nineteen quarts per acre, 

 the quality above the medium for the past season, yet not as good as 

 is generally raised on my farm. 



Two acres of barley; the crop preceding consisted of peas, oats, 

 and potatoes, previous to which the ground was manured at the rate 

 of thirty-five loads per acre, mostly coarse manure from wheat straw. 

 In preparing the ground for the barley crop, it was part plowed in 

 the fall, when the ground was frozen up, and left till spring, when it 

 was finished, and then crossed, and the barley sowed and harrowed 

 once; the seed was a mixture of the double and single rowed. The 

 product was forty-four bushels per acre. Threshing with a machine, 

 was well cleaned, and of a superior quality. The quantity of seed 

 sown did not exceed two bushels per acre. 



Three quarters of an acre qf sugar beets, yielding six hundred and 

 seventy-six bushels; the best quarter produced two hundred and thir- 

 ty-seven bushels. Measured in a broad bushel and a half basket, 

 (well put on.) The ground received an ordinary dressing of manure, 

 say thirty-five loads per acre ; plowed in the fall, and again in the 

 spring; plowed and ridged up; planted in drills on the ridges, ikree 

 feet apart; went through twice with a horse and cultivator, and hoed 

 twice. Aaron K. Owen. 



WASHINGTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Gentlemen — A meeting of the executive committee of the Wash- 

 ington County Agricultural Society, was held in the village of Ar- 

 gyle, on the 29th day of June, at which a list of premiums was 

 agreed upon, viewing committees were appointed, and other arrange- 



