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manure applietl ; plowed eight inches and harrowed ; sowed four 

 bushels seed broadcast per acre ; cut in September before fully ripe ; 

 cost of growing, $6 per acre, ^12 ; value, $79.50. 



"William Johnston oifered for premium a crop of clover seed grown 

 on tw© and three-fourths acres ; " yield five hundred and seventy- 

 seven pounds, which makes two hundred and nine pounds per acre ; 

 harvesting and hauling to mill, $13 ; value, at fifteen cents per 

 pound, $86.55." 



E. S. Fowler obtained premium on two hundred and ninety 

 bushels of Christie potatoes, grown on an acre of yellowish loam, 

 rrither gravelly, fifteen inches deep, which had lain in pasture for 

 four years ; plowed in October eight inches deep ; applied tw"elve 

 loads of barn-yard manure and one and one-half bushels of plaster ; 

 planted 20th May in hills three feet by two asunder, using nine 

 bushels of seed ; harvested in October. 



J. W. Haines obtained premium on crop of four hundred bushels 

 of purple-top rutabagas, grown on one acre of light loamy soil, 

 resting on limestone, being newly burnt land ; seed sown June 20th 

 broadcast, with no preparation and no after culture whatever be- 

 stowed upon the crop ; estimated value, twelve and a half cents 

 per bushel. 



E. W. Hoyt grew three hundred and seventy bushels of the game 

 on similar soil and with similar treatment; sown 10th June. 



