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SCHOHARIE COUNTY. 



This Society was organized in 1841, and held its first annual Fair 

 on the 15th and 16th days of October, 1844— $202. 50 were distributed 

 in premiums. The annual address was delivered by Jedediah Miller, 

 Esq. 



Officfks. — Jedediah Miller, President ; Daniel Larkin, Peter 

 Hynds, George Goodyear, Hezekiah Manning, Charles Grovener, 

 Collin Reed, Vice-Presidents; Ralph Brewster, Secretary ; William 

 Mann, Treasurer. 



SENECA COUNTY. 



This society has published its "proceedings in pamphlet form, ex- 

 hibiting its usual success and prosperity, and containing the annual 

 address by John Delafield, Esq., an Essay on Manures by Samuel 

 Williams of Waterloo, and the awards of premiums, and a brief sketch 

 of the agriculture of the county. Extracts from the Essay on Ma- 

 nures will be found under the head of Manures in this volume. 



Officers. — John Johnston, President; Joel W. Severns, R. P. 

 Hunt, Clement C. Jones, H. T. E. Foster, H. Sutton, G. V. Sackett, 

 Henry Ruder, Jason Smith, Israel Lish, Vice-Presidents ; Joel W. 

 Bacon, Recording Secretary; John Delafield, Corresponding Secreta- 

 ry ; John D. Coe, Treasurer. 



Extract from the report of John Delafield, Cor. Secretary of 

 this Society, to the State Society : 



" The Corresponding Secretary opened a correspondence with in- 

 telligent farmers of each town in the county, and collected a variety 

 of facts useful and interesting, and it is believed if the same system 

 could be methodically pursued, it would furnish to the State Society 

 a mass of facts annually, from which important results might flow to 

 every pains-taking farmer in this State. Amongst the facts thus ob- 

 tained by our secretary for the past year, it may be stated, that the 

 wheat crop of Seneca county is less abundant by nearly one-fourth, 

 than in 1843 ; the crop was more or less injured by the fly, and it was 

 observed that the early sown wheat was most subject to its ravages. 

 The description of wheat cultivated in this county is for the most 

 part the Hutchinson. The barley crop has proved to be good though 

 small in quantity ; the farmers generally have omitted its cultivation ; 

 the demand for barley during a short period this autumn, has render- 

 ed barley a profitable crop. 



The oat crop is abundant and good in quality ; the black oat is ex- 

 tensively sown, and preferred as the heaviest oat. 



Indian corn has never been as successfully cultivated in Seneca 

 county, as along the valley of the Mohawk, the soil of this county 

 being for the most part clay ; but an improved system of cultivation 

 would doubtless give to the farmer more abundant returns than have 

 yet been gathered. 



