<?TATE AGRICULrURAL SOCIETY. 277 



Jefferson County^ ss: 



Hugh Brodie and William Bendlow, being duly sworn, sa> 



that they assisted John Brodie in harvesting and measuring his 



crop of carrots, referred to in the above affidavit, and that the 



quantity of carrots was 1,610 bushels, as stated in the affidavit 



of John Brodie. WILLIAM BENDLOW, 



JOHN BRODIE. 



Sworn to before me this 28th 

 day of January, 1857, 



DwiGHT CooLEY, JusHce of the Peace. 



TIMOTHY SEED. 



First Premium — nine and one-sixth bush, per acre. 



STATEMENT OF A CROP OF ONE ACRE OF TIMOTHY SEED RAISED BY 



E. S. HAY WARD, THE PAST SEASON. 



The soil is black muck; subsoil clay; previous crop spring 

 wheat; previous to wheat, oats; previous to the oats, ruta bagas 

 for two years; land manured a little for the ruta bagas on part of 

 it, and none on the other; no manure used after; timothy was 

 sown at the time of sowing the wheat, (18th of May,) 8 quarts 

 per acre. The wheat grew very rank during the fore part of the 

 season, and then the insects took the whole lot, and the wlieat 

 was a total failure. The season was very wet, and smart weed 

 and heart's ease grew most luxuriantly, and a better crop I never 

 saw. I mowed the piece and cured it like hay, and stacked and 

 fed it to horses and cattle in the winter, and used it for bedding. 

 After the land was cleared, I twice made up my mind to plow it 

 up again, and twice changed it; the timotliy could only be seen 

 in spots. I finally concluded to let it be, and harrowed it and 

 sowed again with timothy, about 8 quarts per acre; and in the 

 spring it looked bad, but it grew and spread so at haying time it 

 was the best timothy I ever saw. I concluded to save one acre 

 for seed, and did so. Tlie croj) was reaped and bound in bundles 

 the 29th, 3()th and 31st days of July, by women, and stood out 

 four days from the last cutting, and hauled in tlie barn, thrashed 

 with a flail, and after that with a thrashing machine; and 

 straw put in the bottom of my straw stack for future use. I 



