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extract from oneida county report. 



PLIMENT MATTOON. 



Soilj sandy loam ; previous crop, corn ; number of plowings two ; 

 depth of furrow, six inches ; time of sowing or planting, 18th June* 



One pound and a half seed, $0 28 



Plowing, 75 



Harrowing, quarter day, 38 



Planting, 25 



Hoeing, three days, 1 50 



Harvesting, 63 



Twelve loads hog and horse manure, thoroughly 

 mixed in March, and applied previous to last 



plowing, , , . 3 00 



Interest on land at 7 per cent, . . . . ^ 70 



Total, . ,-.-. $7 49 



Number of bushels grain, and value, 247 at2s, . . . $61 75 



7 49 



Profit, $54 26 



PEAS. 



To the President of the Mew-York State Agritulttiral Sodeiy^: 



Sir— The committee appointed to examitie the applications for pre^ 

 miums on peas, report : 



We award the first premium of $10 on Peas to Thomas Lane, of 

 Marcy, Oneida county, for his crop of fifty-five bushels per acre. 



The second premium of $5, to William French, of Canajoharie, 

 Montgomery county, for his crop of 47 |f per acre. 



J. M. SHERWOOD, 

 W. E. CORNWELL. 



Albany, January 26, 1846. 



THOMAS LANE. 



The land, prior to being taken in hand, upon which thfO Crop was 

 raised, was in quite a low condition. It had been injudicioiigly cropped 

 previous to its coming into my possession some six years since. Im- 



