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for fineness of fleece, and the others as rearing* their young 

 well, and yielding fair fleeces and good mutton. 



He also showed swine, a cross of Berkshire, Newbury White, 

 and Suffolk breeds, which he comnjends as large, good, and 

 easily kept. 



Mrs. E. Hathorne with dairy of five cows obtains one hun- 

 dred and fifty-two pounds of cheese to each during the warm 

 season. 



Nicolas Smith harvested one hundred and eighty bushels 

 potatoes per acre on burnt land with no manure applied ; plowed 

 six or eight inches. 



E. G. Savage harvested one hundred and ninety bushels pota- 

 toes per acre on light, sandy loam, broken up the previous year; 

 plowed ten inches ; thirty loads manure applied asd top-dressed 

 with plaster and ashes; using fifteen bushels of cut potatoes 

 for seed. 



Nicolas Smith raised twenty-one bushels Scotch Fyfc wheat 

 per acre, sowing broadcast one and three-fourth bushels per 

 acre, soaked in strong pickle. May 27th, on light, yellow soil; 

 plowed ten inches deep; planted to potatoes last year and ma- 

 nured in hill; cut 1st September quite ripe; cost of cultivation 

 and value not given. 



E. G. Savage harvested one hundred and eighty bushels ears 

 of corn per acre, on light, sandy loam ; planted to corn the pre- 

 vions year, and manured in hill; plowed in the fodder six inches 

 deep; no manure this year, except top-dressing of lime and- 

 ashes before hoeing, cost $3 ; cultivated and hoed once ; rows 

 three and a half and hills one and a half feet apart ; cut up at 

 roots September 24th to October 1. 



John Dinsmore on a light, sandy loam, lying on sandy clay, 

 harvested one hundred and forty bushels ears of corn per acre ; 

 a mixture of North River and Canada eight rowed ; land plowed 

 six inches, and manured with twelve carts loads put in the hills ; 

 was in corn the year before ; rows three and a half, hills three 

 and a half feet asunder; cut up by the roots September 15th; no 

 items of cost or value given. 



J. S. Mclntire obtained a premium on garden vegetables 

 grown on sandy loam, worked ten inches deep, with twenty -five 

 loads new manure applied per acre ; usual culture, weeding, &c. 



