SOUTH KENNEBEC AGRICULTURAL SOCIEY. 



Amount awarded by Committee, 1856. 



Horses, . 



Bulls, Cows and Heifers, 



Working Oxen, . 



Fat Cattle, 



Town Teams, 



Plowing, 



Sheep, Swine and Poultrj^, 



Butter, Cheese and Honey, 



Crops, 



Ladies' Riding, . 



Fruits and Flowers, 



Household Manufactures, 



Implements, Vegetables and Sundries, 



$643 00 



RuTA Baga Turnips. 



Statement of Nathan Foster, of Gardiner. The premium 

 was offered for the best half acre of ruta baga turnips; my 

 crop grew on ninety-six square rods, or five-eighths of an acre, 

 and tiie produce was five hundred and twenty-eight bushels — 

 equal to eight hundred and eiglity bushels per acre. As an 

 acre was plowed and harrowed in the plot, a part of which was 

 appropriated to tlie turnip crop, I give the cost per acre in the 

 following account : 



