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Mr. McCurdy obtained second premium on wheat, of -wliich he 

 gives the following statement, from Avhich it is difficult to determine 

 the character of the soil, or the produce per acre : 



I have entered for premium one bushel Java wheat; from two 

 bushels sowing, raised nineteen and one-half bushels on old run-out 

 ground, plowed and planted with corn last year, and manured in 

 the hill ; not any manure this year. 



H. G. McCuRDY of Washington. 



Luther M. Kennedy of Jefferson, applied for premium on a crop of 

 ruta baga turnips, grown on an old worn out piece of land ; plowed 

 ten inches deep, having spread upon the land four loads of 

 manure, and put in the hill about five loads more, of hog manure, 

 with a little guano ; planted the seed in hills one and a half feet 

 apart, and two and a half feet between the rows ; hoed once and 

 thinned ; harvested six hundred and forty bushels, weighing forty 

 thousand nine hundred and sixty pounds. 



In marked contrast with some statements received in which noth- 

 ing of any value can be found, and so are not mentioned, is the 

 following from Mr. Currier, which shows how "a little farm well 

 tilled" can be made to yield both pleasure and profit : 



Statement 7'elating to the soil on which the fruits and veg- 

 etables I enter for exhibition a?id preniium were raised, with the 

 mode of cultivation. 



My field and gardens contain about four and one-half acres, in- 

 cluding land covered by buildings, ko. The soil of about one-third 

 of the land is yellow, gravelly loam, underlaid by a ledge, and is 

 light and friable ; one-third or more, clayey loam, is fine and mel- 

 low when worked in a dry season, but hard and stiff after a wet 

 season. The remainder is intervale — soil dark, (colored with veg- 

 etable matter,) and retentive of moisture; yielding naturally poor 

 sorts of grass, but has been made to bear grass of excellent quality by 

 ridging with the plow, leaving water-courses between, and manuring 

 liberally. My practice has been to give the land a good coating of 

 coarse manure, and plow it under to the depth of ten or twelve 

 inches. Then a dressing of old manure is applied and worked in by 

 -cultivator, or a large shovel full placed in each hill. In this way 



