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planted to corn last year (1856). Was plowed about ten inches 

 deep and three cords of commpn stable manure, worth .^9, was ap- 

 plied to the land, in the fall of 1856, before sowing the seed. Was 

 never subsoiled — never underdrained. The seed sown was the Ban- 

 *• ner wheat. Sown last of September, 1856 — had no previous pre- 

 paration and was sown broadcast upon the furrow. The quantity 

 of seed used was in proportion of about five pecks per acre. Crop 

 was harvested last of July, and was pretty well ripened when cut. 

 On an acre of such wheat there Avould have been twenty-four and 

 one-third bushels, and fifteen hundred and eighty-two lbs. — (the 

 average weight of this wheat was sixty-five lbs. to the bushel) — 

 and there would have been fourteen to sixteen hundred lbs. of straw 

 to the acre. 



The following are items of expense of raising the above wheat : 



3 cords manure, . . . . . $9 00 



Hauling the manure — plowing and harrowing, . 3 00 



1 bushel wheat for seed, . . . . 2 25 



Harvesting and threshing, . . . . 6 00 



$20 25 



The value of the above. 18| bushels, at my residence, is 



$2,25 per bushel, amounting to . . . . $41 62 



I ask a premium for the best conducted experiment in raising the 

 largest crop of winter wheat at the least expense, on not less than 

 half an acre, on plowed land. 



Harrison, Sept. 26, 1857. 



Barley. 



Straw & Nourse of Orrington, obtained first premium on crop of 

 barley — forty-seven bushels of handsome and well cleaned grain. 

 The soil a rocky clay loam, and which was in corn the year pre- 

 vious. The details of treatment and condition of land previously, 

 are not given, as the applicant, Mr. Straw, took the farm in August. 



S. N. Watson of Fayette, obtained premium on twenty bushels 

 of six rowed barley, grown on half an acre of yellowish loam, which 



