597 



Jan. 2. By paid for premiums of 1852, $28 00 



3. ** '' 1853, 312 75 



" Wm. M. Thompson, expenses 



after books, 8 60 



By cash on hand, 21 31- 



Total, $624 05 



Mesolved, That the premium of three dollars, for the beat quarter of 

 an acre of ruta bagas, be, and the same is hereby awarded to Joseph 

 Coatea. 



The following is the statement upon which the abo^^e award was 

 made: 



STATEMBNT, 



B^lative to the cultivation and produce of half an acre of ruta ba- 

 gas, raised by Joseph Ooates, Pine Lake, and entered for the premium 

 at the Annual Fair of Oakland County Agricultural Society, for 1853: 



The land was a strong clay loam, and had been under a crop of In- 

 dian corn the preyious year — it "was well manured with rotten barn- 

 yard manure, in the month of May, was well worked with the drag and 

 cultivator, and sowed broadcast about the middle of June, the seed be- 

 ing covered with a light brush harrow. The seed came up well, and 

 the land was hoed twice. The severe drought of the summer stopped 

 the growth of the plants, and they made very little progress until the 

 fall rains, when they grew rapidly until the time the crop was taken. 



In the month of November half an acre was accurately set off by the 

 chain, and the bagas taken up — after cutting off the tops and top roots, 

 the produce of the half-acre was two hundred and nineteen bushek. 

 They weighed 65 Jbs to the bushel, consequently the produce per acre 

 would be four hundred and thirty-eight bushels by measure, or twenty - 

 eight thousand four hundred and seventy pounds — that is, fourteen ton.s 

 and nearly a quarter, per acre, by weight. 



I think that had the early part of the season been more favorable, 

 the produce would have been at least one-third more. . -■ 



I certify that the above is a true statement. 



JOSEPH COATEB. 



