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EXTRACTS FROM LEWIS COUNTY REPORT. 

 HIRAM MILLS. 



Awarded first premium. 



Land previously in pasture ; plowed, in October, six or seven inches 

 deep ; early in the spring applied about 20 loads cow stable manure ; 

 then a two horse cultivator once in a place, followed with fine har- 

 row ; then turned two furrows together to the depth of 2 or three 

 inches ; then rolled to make good planting ; planted the 15th and 16th 

 of May, with eight rowed yellow corn, in double rows ; main rows 3 

 feet and double rows one foot apart ; two stalks in a hill and 2 feet 

 apart in the rows in a zig-zag manner ; seed prepared by pouring on 

 warm water and a thin coat of warm tar ; then rolled in plaster ; hoed 

 three times ; after two first, applied 1 1 bushels of plaster and unleach- 

 ed ashes, mixed equal quantities on the acre ; corn topped after it was 

 mostly glazed, and husked on the hilL 



Expense and profit of crop. 



Product, 93|| bushels per acre at 5^., $58 58 



By three loads stalks, 8 00 



166 58 



Expense, plowing and preparing ground, $3 GO 



Seed, plaster and ashes, 1 00 



20 days planting, hoeing, harvesting, &c., 15 00 



Cultivator and horse one day, 1 00 



20 loads manure and spreading, 6 00 



Interest on land at $50 per acre, 3 50 



29 50 



Profit, , . 137 08 



Martinshurgh. 



EXTRACT FROM ONEIDA COUNTY REPORT. 

 CHARLES W. EELLS. 



Statement of the method of cultivation, &c. of one acre of corn 

 raised by Charles W, Eells, of Kirkland, and entered for the pre- 

 mium offered by the Oneida County Agricultural Society. 



Soil, a dark clay loam ; previous crop, grass in pasture • number 

 plowings one ; depth of furrow, seven inches. Time of sowing or 

 planting, 25th of May. 



