400 [Assembly 



ERIE. 



IV/^eGt. — 52 bushels to the acre. 

 Erie County, ss. 



Truman PatteDglll, of the town of Wales, in said connty, on 

 the 25th day of September, A. D. 1852, personally appeared be- 

 fore me, the undersigned justice of the peace, and made oath that 

 he raised in the years 1851 and 1852, tifty-two bushels of wheat 

 on one acre of land, by weight, and measurement, of which the 

 withiii is a sample; and that he pnt on forty loads of cow and . 

 horse, manure on said acre, (principal part cow manure,) in the 

 month of May. 1851, and cultivated it into the ground; that he 

 then planted the same to corn, and raised a crop of corn on said 

 acre ; that he then sowed it to wheat, (after taking off the corn,) 

 on the 16th day of September, 1851 ; that the probable expense 

 of raising tlie crop of wheat was thirteen dollars and seventy-fire 

 cents ; that he put on said acre of land one sowing of plaster in 

 the month of June, 1852, and that he sowed two bushels and three 

 pecks of wheat on said acre . ' 



TRUMAN PATTENGILL. 



Sworn and subscribed the day '( 

 and year first above written, } ^ 



Stafford Viks.. J. P. 



Indian Com. 



To THE President of the Eris County Agpiculturai. Society : 



In compliance with the rules and regulations of your society, 

 I submit the following statement of the manner of raising a field 

 of three acres of corn, a sample of which is on exhibition at your 

 present annual meeting. The field on which this corn was raised 

 has been in grass for the last three years, and was prepared for 

 the erop of corn by - drawing on to it about twenty loads of 

 unfermented barnyard manure to tlie acre, which was plowed 

 early in May. The plowing was performed with three horses, 

 to the depth of eight or ten inches. The corn was planted 

 during the 17th and 18th days of May, in rows of three feet and 

 a half each way, and from six to eight kernels were dropped in 

 each hill. The corn was cultivated and hoed early in June, and 



