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I On motion, Lotan Smith, Esq., was appointed a delegate by the 

 society, to attend the Agricultural Coi3vention, should the State 

 Society fix upon a time^ to be held at Syracuse, in order to press 

 the passage of a bill making the necessary provision for a State 

 Ag. School LOTAN SMITH, President. 



TIOOA 



To B f*. JoHwsoiif, Esq., Secretary , 4c« » 



The chief pioduct of this county is wheat ^ the inert ase this 

 year estimated at 4,200. The estimated number of acres devoted 

 to wheat is 10,600, and 122,867 bushels.* The yield would have 

 been much larger had it not been for the ravages of the insect, 

 which destroyed some crops wholly. The growth of straw was 

 larger, than I have seen before in a number of years, the crop a 

 little above an average, and a majority of grain beautiful. The 

 varieties raised are the Blue-stem, Hutchinson, Velvet-chaff'. Old 

 Red-chaff, and Soland. The Soland has not been tried but two 

 or three years, and bids fair to be a valuable variety, yielding 

 well, and a beautiful, plump white berry. The fourth of the wheat 

 of this Goui^ty is raised in the south half of the county; in th« 

 towns of Barton, Nichols, Owego and Tioga. 



The rye crop in this county is constantly on the increase. It 

 is used for horse-feed, with other grain, and makes strong feed. 

 It is also made into whiskey, and considerable sent to distant mar- 

 kets. The estimated quantity raised this year is 11,133 bushels. 

 From the fact of there being no insect among the ryt, the crop 

 will continue to increase. This crop appears to yield much better 

 than in former years. 



The crop of corn appears somewhat lighter than last year ; it is, 

 perhaps, some five or eight per cent, owing to the ravage of tlie worm 

 and the great thought. There was a large number of heavy, good 

 fields of corn. There a]»p('ars t > be a large decrease of this crop; 

 according to the census betweeu 1845 r.iid 1850, the estimated yield 



