No. 112.] 613 



Potatoes J 4"^. 

 The committee award as follows : 



On Potatoes. — 1st premium, E. S. Prindle, 385 busli. per acre, 

 Long Johns', valued at 20 cts. per bush. Net profit, §59.60. 

 2d premium to Samuel Wood, 205 bush. Carters, valued at 40 cts. 

 per bush. Net profit, §58.55. 3d premium to E. S. Prindle, 

 275 bush. Western reds, valued at 25 cts. per bush. Net profit, 



On Enorlish Turnips. — John L. Hunt, Cambridge, 1st premium, 

 649 bush, on an acre. Net profit, §50.74. 



Harvey Brown presented certificates of having raised 109 bush, 

 on one-quarter of an acre, at a net profit of §18.08 — but as no 

 samples were exhibited, the rules of the society exclude us from 

 awarding a premium. 



On Beans. — To Samuel Wood, a mel'itorious premium of §1 for 

 8 J bush, raised on half an acre. 



Julius Collins, of Eattenville, exhibited a sample of 400 bush, 

 of Western Timothy seed of a most choice quality, but not grown 

 in the county, and therefore not entered for premium. 



The committee on grain, seeds and root crops, would remark 

 that, as the growth of the potato crop has been superior to that of 

 former years, both in the quantity of bushels per acre, and the ex- 

 cellency of the vegetable for the table and other purposes, your 

 committee have availed themselves of the experience of others as 

 well as of tlieir own, in collecting information ; and as the result 

 of their investigation, ihey are happy in stating that farmers in the 

 county have jdanted about one-fourth more land to potatoes than 

 tlie last year. The yield has been more than double. The crop 

 has been of ihe choicest characttr, without injury by disease. Tho 

 size of some specimens are of mammoth growth, and also of good 

 quality. The quantity raised may be estimated at three million 

 bu>hel-', which far exceed the number of bushels of any one vari_ 

 ety of ^'rain raised in the county. The product has demanded fair 

 prices, varying at dilVercut periods of this season's crop from 20 

 cents to 50 cents per bushel. The principal sales have been for 



