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of Linus Cone is entitled to the 1st premium, and that of Mr. Greene, 



the 2d, and would recommend the same accordingly. 



P. K. LEACH, 

 CHARLES DICKEY, 

 THOMAS CLARK, 



Committee. 



LINUS cone's statement. 



In reply to the questions proposed by the State Agi-icultural Society, 

 to competitors for premiums for the best cultirated farms, the following 

 answers are respectfully submitted : 



SOILS, iiC. 



1. *My farm contains 105 acres, of which 62 acres are improved; 

 10 acres of wet land, mostly cleared and in grass; 5 acres, with timber 

 mostly cut off, and the remainder in wood. There is now no waste land 

 on the part improved. 



2. The soil is a stiff clayey loam, with gravel intermixed. The sub- 

 soil is nearly the same composition, to the depth of several feet. About 

 one half of the farm is on a ridge running north and south. On this 

 part the soil is of a very hard and compact character, and dfiBcult to 

 work, but that on the less elevated part contains more vegetable mould, 

 and is more easily tilled. There is no lime-stone, but a considerable 

 portion of the gravel is lime, as it proves on being burned. 



3. The best method of improving this soil, I have found to consist in 

 deep plowing, thorough pulverization by the repeated use of roller, har- 

 row, and cultivator, together with ample manuring, care being taken to 

 have the soil thoroughly drained by under or surface drains. 



4. The usual depth of plowing is one foot, and is necessary to plow 

 even deeper than that on some of the low ground, in order to prevent 

 wheat from being injured by winter and rust. 



5. I have conducted no accurate experiments to ascertain the precise 

 difference between a crop on land deeply plowed, and on that plowed 

 the ordinary depth. But when land has been first plowed nearly twice 

 the ordinary depth early in the season, for wheat, or in the fall, for crops 



*The questions to which these answers are given, may be found on pages 30, 31, 32 and 33. 



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