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Brought forward, $306 48 



3 men 11|^ months, each at $12 per month, (each 



h month lost time,) 414 00 



One man in the house at $10 per month, 120 00 



Hired girl at 9s. per week, 58 50 



Blacksmith's bill past year, «... 51 00 



Plows, harrows and furnace bill, past year, 20 00 



Cost of sleighs, carts, wagons and harness, past 



year, 50 00 



Hoes, shovels, forks, rakes, scythes, cradles, &c. 



&c., per year, 10 00 



16 tons of plaster at 20^. per ton, 40 00 



Total amount of expenses for 1844, $1,069 98 



WILLIAM GARBUTT. 



Wheatland, JVov. 11, 1845. 



EXTRACT FROM MONROE COUNTY REPORT. 

 PREMIUM ON FARMS. 



The committee on farms have to regret that so little attention is 

 paid to the calls and designs of the society, and so little pride exhib- 

 ited in making application to the committee to examine their premi- 

 ses and review their manner of farming, and the process by which 

 they regulate their agricultural operations. The committee have in 

 various instances volunteered to call upon persons of established 

 reputations as farmers, much to the edification and satisfaction of its 

 members ; and the good feeling, friendship and hospitality exhibited, 

 rendered it a very pleasing ad desirable duty. 



The objects for the bounty of the society as defined in their in- 

 structions are, that premiums are to be granted to those farms only, 

 which by a general system of management and real profitable improve- 

 ments, with a sole view to a producing investment for farm purposes, 

 and not to those farms which by nature required not the improving 

 hand of industry and perseverance, nor to those who by expensive 

 outlay in buildings and fancy improvements, have rendered their 

 premises a gentleman's villa or citizen's summer residence. On 

 these grounds the committee have made their awards. 



To Martin Smith, of Wheatland, the individual who with only 20 

 acres of land, has sustained and brought up a family of thirteen chil- 

 dren — had money on hand to assist his poor neighbor who had 200 

 acres of land — and who by his indomitable industry, good manage- 

 ment and perseverance, has been enabled to hold on to his grain 

 crop three years, waiting for a market — a diploma framed and glazed. 



