STATE AGRICTLTURAL SOCIETY. 561 



Tlie treasurer presents the following report of receipts and dis- 

 bursements during the year 1856 : 



By cash received for memberships, $213 00 



By cash from State,. _ 61 00 



Total received, $274 00 



Paid in premiums and incidentals, _ 271 62 



Balance remaining in treasury, $2 38 



LOUIS P. LEGG, President. 



THE CROPS OF TIOGA COUNTY AND ESPECIALLY THE TOWN OF 



NICHOLS, FOR 1856. 



1st. Winter wheat — Of tliis crop more was harvested than in a 

 number of years, and the crop was less injured by the wheat fly 

 or midge than before, since its appearance in the vicinity; of the 

 Soule species there was some fine fields; the Mediterranean and 

 Blue stem are considerably raised, the average yield I concluded 

 was between eight and ten bushels per acre; there was more 

 spring wheat raised than before in a number of years, and of a 

 better quality and less injured by the insects; the crop appearing 

 to ripen after the day of the insect; the yield was about fifteen 

 bushels per acre. 



2d. Rye. — Rye crops generally very fine; grain uncommon 

 plump and heavy, and a large amount raised; years ago there 

 w^as but little rye raised in this county, but for the last tliree 

 years a large amount has been raised, in consequence of the 

 destruction of wheat by the insect; the yield was about twenty 

 bushels per acre. We begin to conclude that we can raise rye 

 here as well as in some of the older counties of the State. 



3d. Barley. — Of this grain there was but little raised, as far as 

 I could ascertain; the kind of barley in this vicinity being two and 

 four rowed mixed together, and does not ripen even; good barley 

 can be raised here. 



4 til. Indian Com. — A large portion of the corn planted in tliis 

 vicinity did not come up the first time planting, and a num})cr 

 of fields were planted over tliree times; in consequence of the 

 corn vegetating so bad a number of rows were not filled out; and 

 by the middle of July the weathrr was so dry that the leaves or 

 blades of corn ])egan to roll by nine o'clock, and would continue 

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