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Michael Hildreth applied for premium on oats, grown on a 

 fmc dark clayey loam ; planted to potatoes last year; this year 

 plowed eight inches, harrowed, no manure added ; sow^d three 

 and one-half bushels to acre, May 1st; harvested end of August, 

 as soon as it was yellow. 



Crop; 53 bushels of 33 pounds each, worth 45 cts., $23 85 

 2 tons straw, . . . . . 4 00 



$27 85 



Expense ; raising, harvesting and threshing, . $7 25 



Mr. G. Bliu applied for premium on crop of Java wheat, grown 

 on gravelly loam, resting on hard gravelly pan, light and easy 

 when dry, stiif when wet ; had been twelve years in grass ; broken 

 up in 1855 and planted to corn ; no manure applied the present 

 year; two bushels seed per acre sowed dry May 22d, 1856, 

 broadcast; harvested September 21st, the grain a little hard. 

 16 bushels by measure per acre; weight 60 lbs. per bushel. 



Dr. I Cr. 



Plowing, $3 50 28 bushels wheat, $3, $84 00 



Harrowing and sowing, 2 00J2 tons straw, 10 00 



Seed, 14 00 



Harvesting, 3 00 



Threshino- and winnowing, 8 40 



$30 90 



§94 00 



Scraps gathered from Statements. 



S. S. Ayer of Pittston, and B. W. Keene of Windsor, prefer 

 grade Durhams for beef and labor. 



Martin Metcalf regards Durhams as superior to others as 

 being tough and docile — good for working and for milk in an 

 eminent degree. 



D. Lancaster prefers grades to full bloods, as the latter re- 

 quire extra feed and care, and the natives are too small and 

 often ill-formed. 



