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Second premium, to J. S. Mclntjre, Bingham, for 257 bushels 

 per acre. 



Third do., to Stephen Merrill, Solon, for 212 bushels on an acre. 



Ruta Bagas. Jotham AYhipple, 21G bushels on one-fourth acre ; 

 and to the same, for 85 bushels of oats on one acre. 



Mr. Whipple says : 



"The soil upon -which they grew was alluvial, or interval. It 

 was an old mortgaged piece of land ; or in other words, a piece on 

 ■which the trees were cut off years gone by, and never cleared till 

 the past season, when I went to work and cut the bushes and piled 

 up the old logs, and burned them off, and ploughed the land. This 

 spring I sowed four bushels of oats, about the first of May, and har- 

 rowed them in. Tine ground was well pulverized. Harvested about 

 the 20th of August."' 



