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fourths bushels per acre. One acre is sown with Souks, one with 

 White Flint, and harvested the 23d of July, cut with cradle and thresh- 

 ed with machine. 



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Expense and profit of one acre. 



Produce : One acre of Souls wheat, 51 bush $51 14 



Expense : Four ploughings, $5 00 



Harrow^ing, 1 00 



Cultivating, 1 50 



1 f bushels seed, 1 75 



Harvesting, 3 00 



Threshing, Sets, per bushel, 4 00 



Interest on land at $30 per acre, ... 2 10 



18 35 



Profit on one acre, $32 79 



One acre of white flint produced 39^^. 



The two acres producing 90f^ at a cost of $36 86, giving a profit 

 of $53 55. 



The two acres were taken from a field of 17 acres ; 12 Soules, 5 

 white flint ; the Soules was very even ; the white flint not as even, 

 being sown near the woods. 



Nathaniel S. Wright, of Vernon, Oneida county, made application 

 for a premium on two acres of winter wheat, producing 79 bushels 

 and twenty-eight quarts, at a profit of $46.28. 



Daniel Gates, of Sullivan, Madison county, applied for a premium 

 on winter wheat, at 44 bushels per acre. 



R. L. Pell, of Pelham, forwarded a communication to the com- 

 mittee on the preparation of seed w^heat, a preparation for the top- 

 dressing of wheat ; and the weight of the wheat so produced, per bushel, 

 being sixty-five pounds, and a sample of flour from the same, which is 

 of very superior quality. The quantity of the several preparations, 

 and the amount thus produced, is not given. 



The committee have returned the paper, hoping the society may 

 receive a more definite statement of his experiments. 



Samuel Davison, of Green, Monroe country, has furnished the com- 

 mittee with a paper giving his experiments on six different pieces of 

 wheat which have proved an extra yield. The committee have awarded 

 him a discretionary premium of eight dollars. 



ROSWELL HARMON. 



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