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Second best sample of spring wlieat ; Ira Blood, Vernon. American 



Muck Book. 



*' This wheat is the variety usually called the ' Canada club.* It was 

 raised on burr-oak land, inclining a little to clay, which had been for the 

 past five years cropped with wheat and corn alternately. Forty loads 

 per acre of common barn yard manure had been applied. 



"The ground was plowed once in April last, and wheat sown on the 

 furrows, and then twice harrowed thoroughly, and afterwards rolled. It 

 was injured somewhat by the drought. The expense of cultivation and 

 threshing per acre, was ^5. 



" The yield per acre was fifteen bushels, weighing sixty-one pounds 

 PeJ- bushel. j^^ g^^^^ „ 



Best sample of barley ; James T. Walklin, Eagle. American Muck Book, 



and ^1. 



" I plow my land in the fall of the year, and sow my grain in the 

 spring, as soon as the frost is out of the ground. The soil is a deep, 

 black, sandy loam, with a clay sub-soil. I manure about ten acres every 

 year, using all the manure made by my stock ; the cost of the same 

 being about five dollars per acre, for labor. I also keep a flock of about 

 two hundred sheep, which I pen on my land every night with sheep 

 hurdles. The cultivation of barley costs about six dollars per acre. 

 The yield is twenty-five bushels per acre, weighing fifty pounds to the 

 bushel. The crop I have sold for sixty-two cents per bushel. 



James T. Walklin." 



Best sample of Indian corn ; Wm. E. McClure, Ottawa. American Muck 

 Book, and $1. 



" In the latter part of May last, I plowed a field of eight acres, 

 upon which my sheep had been pastured for a portion of the previous 

 summer, and the land being well covered with sheep manure — the season 

 being advanced — I thought of planting an early variety of corn, and on 

 this account procured the Ohio flint, or as it is commonly called, the 

 Ohio ten weeks' corn. The corn was planted on the 29fch of May, and 

 was harvested the twenty-fourth day of August. This corn is a yellow 

 flint, having from twelve to twenty-four rows in the ear, and growing to 

 a great length. I have in my possession one ear that has upwards of 

 nine hundred grains upon it. The stalks grow tall and thick, the ear 



