NORTH FRANKLIN CO. AG. SOCIETY. 



Lite Stocs. 



Statement of Albert Pease. " The animal I present for pre* 

 mium is a three years old heifer, grade Durham. I prefer the 

 Durhams mainly as milkers; but think them superior only when 

 fed high. In June and July she usually gave a ten quart pail- 

 ful froth and all. Her feed the last part of the season was 

 short, and she gave much less." 



Bread. 



Statement of Mrs. C. Rohhins. " I present a loaf of wheat 

 bread for premium. It was made from flour, manui'actured by 

 my husband, from wheat that was purchased. In its manufac- 

 ture, I used, in addition to the flour, one pint of cream, one pint 

 of boiling water, one table-spoonful of white sugar, and one 

 tea-spoonful of salt. The dough was raised six hours, and then 

 baked in a stove oven." 



Crops. 



Statement of Hunter 4* Dodge. " We raised forty-seven 

 and one-half bushels of good shelled corn, beside ten or twelve 

 baskets full of soft ears. The above corn was raised on green- 

 sward, plowed the 15th day of May last, and planted the 18th 

 of the same month, on a damp, heavy soil. We carted on and 

 spread twenty loads of green manure, then plowed eight inches 

 deep, turning all under ; then harrowed thoroughly lengthwise j 

 then with a small plow furrowed it out, and then carted on and 

 dropped in the hill, fifteen large loads of hog manure, and the 



