244 [Senate 



EXTRACTS FROM LEWIS COUNTY REPORT. 

 RUFUS STEPHENS. 



Awarded first premium. 



The land was an old pasture, taken up the year previous and 

 planted to corn. Next season summer fallowed ; plowed three times; 

 no manure used ; seed, White Canada Flint ; 1% bushels per acre ; 

 sowed 3d September ; harrowed both ways and rolled ; cradled 6th 

 August, and put up in Dutch shocks, where it remained four days 

 when it was drawn in. 



Expense plowing, $4 00 



" harrowing, 1 00 



$5 00 



Product 43| bushels per acre. 

 Martinshurgh. 



EXTRACT FROM ONEIDA COUNTY REPOST. 

 D. SKINNER. 



In the spring of 1843, I broke up a little over an acre of green 

 sward previously in pasture, and in good heart. I put on a few loads 

 of barn-yard manure on a part of it only, and raised potatoes on the 

 whole. 



In the spring of 1844, I put a few (say four or five) loads of ma- 

 nure of the same kind, on that part of the piece which had received 

 none the previous year, and sowed jpeas on the piece. After harves- 

 ting the peas, I plowed the ground about eight inches deep, then 

 drew from Utica ten two horse wagon loads of leached ashes and 

 spread them evenly over the ground, harrowed it thoroughly, sowed 

 the w^heat and plowed it lis^htly in, on the last day of August, 1844, 

 and then harrowed it once lightly over. 



I used for seed tw^o bushels of white flint wheat, procured from 

 Monroe county. The merchant of whom I bought it in Utica thought 

 it was what some called the Hutchinson wheat. I soaked it in a 

 strong brine of salt and water, skimmed off all the light and foul 

 seeds, (though there was not much of either,) then rolled it in lime 

 and sowed it as above. 



It wintered well, and did well through the season, till about a 

 week before it was ripe enough to cut, I then discovered that the 

 rust had struck the whole of it with great violence, and I therefore 

 cut it several days before it was fully ripe, and the yield was by 

 weight, 41 bushels and 9i pounds, as stated in Mr. Northup's certi- 

 ficate accompanying this statement. Had not the rust struck it, I 

 believe there would have been some two or three bushels more to the 

 acre. The berry is quite plump, but would have been extraordina- 

 .n7i/ so, but for this cause. 



