No. 105.] 239 



FIELD CROPS. 



The committee to whom was referred the examination of the state- 

 ments of the competitors for the premiums offered by the New-York 

 State Agricultural Society on the following field crops : Winter Wheat, 

 Spring Wheat, Barley, and Oats having attended to that duty, respect- 

 fully report : 



WINTER WHEAT. 



EDWARD RIVENBERG. 



The first premium of $15 is awarded to Edward Rivenberg of the 

 town of Vernon, Oneida. His statement is as follows: 



Soil in poor condition at the commencement of cultivation ; previous 

 crop peas from one plowing, and peas plowed in without manure. 

 For the crop of wheat summer fallowed with twenty-five loads of ma- 

 nure to the acre ; plowed three times near ten inches deep. Sown the 

 24th of August broadcast, with three bushels of Canada Flint to the 

 acre. Harvested about the middle of July, with the sickle and cradle, 

 and cleaned in the ordinary way with fanning mill. The amount of 

 crop by actual weight was one hundred and ten bushels and twenty 

 pounds from the two acres. 



Expense and -profit of crop. 



Rent of two acres of land $10 00 



Fifty loads manure 3s 18 75 



Four days plowing 12s 6 00 



Half day harrowing, 75 



Harvesting five days, 8s 5 00 



Carting one day, 16s 2 00 



Threshing at 8 cents 8 81 



Cleaning two hands one day, 6s 1 50 



$52 61 



Cr, 



By llOf « bushels at 8s. 6d 106 85 



By straw 5 00 



$121 65 

 52 81 



Showing a profit of 69 04 profit. 



Yield per acre 55^ J bushels. 



