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any five acres of land in that State for the year 1869, the society announce the 
premiums, with the rules and regulations by which competitors are to be gov- 
erned, as follows: 
For the best five acres of white wheat sown in the fall of 1868, and harvested in 1869, of 
the crop of which not less than five bushels shall be exhibited at the State fair of 1869, $250; 
second best, do., $100; third best, do., $50. 
Competitors must be members of the State Agricultural Society, and all entries must be 
made with the secretary of the society by December 1, 1868. Each entry must give the 
name and post office address of the person making the entry, the size of the lot in which the 
wheat is situated, the name and quality of the soil, the time the field has been cleared and 
the crops grown in preceding three years, the tillage during the preparation for premium 
crop, the kind of seed sown, the quantity used upon the five acres, the method of sowing, 
by drill or broadcast, and the amount of plaster or other manure or top-dressing used. 
When the grain is placed on exhibition each sample must be accompanied by a bunch of 
the heads, with a statement showing how the crop was harvested, whether by hand or 
machinery, how threshed and cleaned and by what machinery, the number of bushels by 
weight of the five-acre crop and the number of bushels per acre. Competitors will be 
examined under oath if necessary. 
IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES. 
The Commissioner of Agriculture has completed arrangements for exchanges 
of cereals, rare seeds, and medicinal and other plants, with various institutions 
and several governments of different divisions of the globe. These arrange- 
ments include the governments of Austria, Prussia, China, Japan, Guatemala, 
and British Honduras; the botanical gardens of Melbourne, in Australia, ind 
of Kew, in England ; the India museum, in London; the Cape of Good Hope 
Agricultural Society > and the commissioner of patents of the Argentine Repub- 
lic. The hearty co-operation of scientific men representing these governments 
and institutions has been secured. 
These arrangements avill be carried out mainly through the active assistance 
of the following named officials : 
C. F. Loosey, consul general of Austria, New York. 
W. D. Poston, agent of the department, and S. De Champs, secretary of 
the Chinese commission. 
S. C. Golding, secretary of Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society, Cape 
Town. 
Superintendent of the botanical garden, Melbourne, Australia. 
Dr. Forbes Watson, secretary India Museum, London, England. 
Dr. Hooker, secretary Kew gardens, London, England. 
United States vice-consul at Hakodadi, Japan. 
Royal minister of agriculture, Berlin, Prussia. 
General Fitz-Henry Warren, Guatemala. 
William 8. Meckling, Belize, British Honduras. 
George Latimer, Saint John’s, Porto Rieo, West Indies. 
David Maxwell, commissioner of patents, Argentine Republic, Buenos Ayres. 
Dr. Joseph Cooper Reinhardt, Campinas, Brazil. 
SHEEP FARMING IN TURKEY. 
The British consul at Adrianople gives some interesting details of sheep and 
goat farming in that district. He gives the number of sheep at 4.512,000, and 
of goats at 778,000; the tax on which, at four piasters each, yielded £171,297 
