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Expense of culture. 



Two and a half days plowing, at 125., $3 75 



One half day sowing, 38 



Two and a half days harvesting, 85., 2 50 



Threshing, 5 00 



4 bushels seed, 4 00 



Expense of culture, $15 63 



The sample presented by Mr. Dayton, was some mixed with other 

 grains. 



Charles Lee, of Yates county, applied for a premium for spring 

 •wheat, 85 bushels on two acres. 



No certificate from the surrogate being furnished, the committee 

 could not award him a premium. 



CHARLES LEE. 



To the JVew- York State Agricultural Society : 



Gentlemen — 1 propose to compete for the premium offered by you 

 for the best two acres of spring wheat, and will first give you the 

 manner of culture. 



The soil is a deep sandy loam, with a slight elevation, inclining 

 both to the east and west. One acre was occupied the previous year 

 with corn and potatoes, having plowed in twenty-five loads of long 

 manure ; the other acre was occupied the previous year with beans and 

 corn, with about ten loads of long manure having been plowed in; 

 applying during the cultivation probably one-eighth of a ton of plaster 

 on the two acres, plowed "beam deep," about the 5th November; 

 harrowed once before and twice after sowing, which was done with 

 White Italian, Ih bushels per acre; on the 3d April, sowed | ton 

 plaster ; sowed grass seed, and rolled on the 1st May — and 15th 

 August, harvested, threshed and cleaned. 



From the two acres I obtained eighty-jive bushels of good, plump, 

 clean wheat — fifty-seven bushels from the corn and potato ground and 

 twenty-eight from the beans and corn ground ; and I have yet to see 

 the first kernel of oats in the entire crop, being 160 bushels from five 

 acres. 



The ground measured by Henry Beman, surveyor , with chain — the 

 grain by Richard Leach, with a sealed half bushel. 



Accompanying the above, I present you with a fair sample of the 

 whole crop, together with the expense of cultivation. 



