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plowed and planted the first week in Maj ; planted in hills about 

 three feet apart, it was worked by passing through both ways with 

 a cultivator, as soon as the rows could be followed; and when the 

 tops were sufScieutly large it was cross-plowed and hoed, and the 

 crop was gathered in October. 



Expense of cultivation : 



Plowing land, $1 00 



Furrowing and planting, 2 25 



Cultivating and plowing, 1 50 



HoeiDg, 1 25 



Digging crop, 18 75 



$24 75 



To this to be added the interest on land, and a proportionate 

 expense of the manure applied to corn crop the previous year. 



The potatoes w^ere of the yam variety, and the land adjoining 



that planted with the yam, I planted three different varieties, the 



best of which did not yield more than at the rate of 300 bushels 



to the acre. 



P. CRISPELL, Jr. 



FRUIT. 



The committee on fruit report that there were on exhibition 

 from 



Messrs. Ellavanger & Barry, of Rochester, forty varieties of 

 winter pears, including among their number Winter Nelis, Easter 

 Beurre, Beurre D'Aremburgh, Glout Morceau, Doyenne D'Hiver 

 Nouveau, Vicar of Winkfield, and others of the standard as well 

 as of the newer varieties, all in very fine, and many in edible 

 condition, giving to the society and its committee a better oppor- 

 tunity of judging of the relative merits of the varieties than was 

 ever offered to them before. For this interesting as well as use- 

 ful display, they award to Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, a large 

 Silver Medal. 



Also from Messrs. Ellw^anger & Barry, thirty eight varieties 

 of Winter Apples, in very fine condition, to which is awarded a 

 Diploma, and a copy of Downing's Fruits. 



