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To E.. C. Roberts, of Salem, for the essay on the cause and euro of 

 (.he Potato Rot, $15 00. ' 



'Co N. Davidson Redpatb, of Fogo, Allegan County, for the essay on 

 the Oommon Potato, its culture, diseases and remedies, $15 00. 



.JOHN S. BAGG, 

 THOMAS POPE, 

 MORGAN L. FITCH, 

 ISAAC P. CHRISTIANC Y, 



Cowmitiec. 



COUNTIES. 



The Committee on Counties, report that the Committee to whom 

 vraa referred the premium list, in order to ascertain the amount of pre- 

 miums awarded to each County, and to award the premium offered to 

 the County obtaining the greatest amount for property exhibited, refer- 

 ence being had to the population, and the distance of the County from 

 the place of holding the Fair, after a careful examination of the same, 

 haTO awarded to the County of Macomb, twenty volumes of the Trans- 

 •cfcioaa of this Society, as being entitled to the same under the mles. 



A. Y. MOORE, 

 S, M. BARTLETT, 



Committee. 



CROPS OF CORN. 



S. M. BARTLETT S STATEMENT. 



The undersigned presents the following statement of a crop of Com, 

 ;-sM8ed by him the present season, in Lasalle, Monroe County, Michi- 



gan; 



The field contains about fifteen acres; the soil varying in texture from 

 dark sand (in the higher portions) to stiff clay in the lower, with every 

 fthade of mixture at different elevations. The entire field was well under- 

 drained two years ago ; h^ been under culture more than twenty years ; 

 no manure has been applied for the past three seasons. 



