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one lot of spring wheat entered for premium. Mr. Alfred H. Jones 

 of China, made the following statement : — The ground on which 

 he raised his wheat measured 210 rods and raised, as per state- 

 ment, 46 bushels of good wheat, or rising 35 bushels per acre. 

 The ground on which it grew is high and gravelly, and was planted 

 to corn in 1868, plowed in the fall, with coat of manure spread on 

 in April; when the wheat was sown and harrowed in ; the grain 

 was harvested in August and threshed in September, and the 

 profits as estimated : 



46 bushels wheat at, $2.00 per bushel $92 00 



Use of ground, with manure $12 00 



Plowing, harrowing and sowing 10 00 



Seed wheat 5 00 



Threshing 8 00 



Harvesting 5 00 



40 00 



Balance in my favor 52 00 



Corn was considerably below an average, although usually one 

 of our surest crops. 



Potatoes was about an average and the quality good. In unfa- 

 vorable soils they have rotted badly, and many are rotting in the 

 cellars. 



A prominent feature in the Hall was the display of domestic and 

 fancy manufacture by the ladies in general, which added greatly 

 to the attraction of the Fair, An implement known as the Double 

 Revolving Cultivator, patented last spring and exhibited by Newell 

 & Estes of China, was on exhibition and trial most of the time, and 

 received considerable notice from the farmers present. It consists 

 of four circular harrows, each about two feet in diameter, and con- ■ 

 taining four teeth which are fastened to a circular frame ; the 

 smaller harrows revolving in different directions as it is being pro- 

 pelled. It was subjected to several pretty sevei'e trials, in order 

 to test its ability to free itself from obstructions, and in every in- 

 stance that came under our notice worked to the satisfaction of ' 

 all. It has been objected to all rotating harrows that it is impos- 

 sible to harrow with them upon a straight line, as meeting with 

 obstructions off they go to the opposite direction. With this 

 cultivator there is no such disadvantage. It goes in a straight 

 line however great the obstruction over which it may pass. Mr. 

 N. A. Cates of Thorndike, exhibited a Horse-Hoe and Cultivator 

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