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"If we add $1 00 for the use of the land, the total cost will be 

 810 50. The yield Avas about eighty bushels, which at twenty-five 

 cents per bushel, will amount to 820 00, leaving a profit on one-third 

 of an acre of $9 50, The ground was of ordinary quality, and was 

 plowed but once. The variety is what Ave call the Mallory potato. The 

 balance did not yield quite as much per acre, yet they were excellent as 

 to quality. We took a specimen of the Irish pink-eye variety to the 

 County Fair, which drew the first premium as to size, &c. 



" The usual rotation of crops practised on our farm, is as follows : 

 First crop, wheat on sod ; second, wheat on same land ; third, oats ; 

 fourth, corn ; fifth, spring Avheat ; sixth, oats ; seventh, corn ; then 

 spring wheat again, and so on in the same rotation again, until we seed 

 with grass. Timothy and clover both do excellently. I have a piece of 

 clover ley, which has been seeded two seasons, from which I have taken 

 four crops, two of hay and two of seed, and it shows no signs, that I can 

 perceive, of " running out," but seems to become gradually more and 

 more compact and thoroughly swarded. Of stock, we keep twenty-five 

 head of neat cattle, one hundred and thirty-six sheep, fifty hogs, and 

 flocks of poultry, turkeys, hens, and pea fowls, and milk only four cows. 

 We employ two hired men nearly the whole year. 



" I also make a practice of keeping observations of the weather, and 

 a general memoranda of events on my farm during the year ; from which, 

 if I had time, I would give some statistics." 



The ladies, the wives and the daughters of the citizens of our county, 

 with a priseworthy zeal, contributed freely of their handiwork, in domes- 

 tic manufactures, embroidery and Avorsted work, and the large variety 

 of beautiful articles in their department, evinced great taste on their 

 part, and contributed greatly to the success of the Exhibition. It would 

 afford us pleasure to name many who exhibited articles worthy of com- 

 mendation, but space will not admit. Their presence, and the interest 

 they manifested, was not only an honor to themselves, but gave assurance 

 that the Agricultural Society and Mechanics' Institute would prosper, 

 if its success depended upon their countenance and efi'orts. 



At two o'clock, P. M., of the second day of the fair, the President, 

 Hon. J. F. Willard, delivered his Annual Address to a very large and 

 attentive audience. The production was an elegant dissertation on Agri- 

 culture, its resources, its objects, and the proper course to be pursued by 

 the agriculturists, as viewed by a scientific and practical farmer. It con- 



