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not remarkal3ly public spirited, and when the prizes are small 

 and will not pay the trouble of keeping debt and credit with 

 their farms and crops, they have neglected to do so, and there- 

 fore the extreme smallness of the competition." 



Obed Emery applied for premium on a field of corn, and ob- 

 tained the third. It was planted on a dark, red loam, which 

 was light and friable, with a hard and gravelly subsoil, and 

 abounds in small stones of divers kinds. Manured with three 

 cords of green manure harrowed in, and then one barn shovelful 

 of old manure applied in the hill. Plowed eight inches deep, 

 and harrowed twice. Planted in hills twenty-eight inches apart, 

 and three feet between the rows. Planted the 28th and 29th 

 of May. Cultivated and hoed twice. liarvested in Septem- 

 ber, by cutting up at the roots, when quite hard. Produce, 

 sixty-seven bushels. 



Plowing and harrowing;, 



$60 30 

 Calvin Taylor obtained the second premium on wheat crop. 

 It was grown on a slaty soil, very light, and about eleven inches 

 deep, with an open subsoil. It is of a dark color, and with a 

 few slate stones. In 1854 taken from grass and planted to 

 potatoes, and in 1855 planted to corn, and about six cords of 

 barn-yard manure was applied in the hill. Plowed about eight 

 inches deep ; sowed with East India wheat, April 30th, broad- 

 cast; harvested August 13th, when the grain was so hard as 

 not to be easily jammed. Produce, twenty bushels and thirteen 

 quarts, which weighed twelve hundred and four pounds. The 

 straw was estimated at one ton. 



