fair profits and the stimulus of a commercial enterprise as well as 

 the financial benefits of an interchange of industrial products it is the 

 markets of our own people which possess the greatest advantages, 

 and lie at the foundation of our agricultural prosperity. We may 

 learn from this, if we will, the vast importance of developing our 

 domestic industries of every description, and of uniting them all in 

 a cluster of enterprises supported by American labor, and organized 

 on the laws of American state and society with their civil rights and 

 their social equity. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEHS. 



SUMMER CROPS. 



Whole number of entries 228. Winter Wheat, 2 ; Spring Wheat 9 ; Five 

 acres Rye, 17; Three acres Rye, 21; One acre rye, 26; Five acres oats, 28; 

 Three acres Oats, 44 : One acre Oats, 46 ; Barley, 7 ; Three acres Grass, 21 ; 

 Five acres Grass, 7. 



There were but two entries of Winter Wheat, neither of which 

 gave results entirely satisfactory to the competitors, and from the 

 experience of one of your committee in an attempt to raise winter 

 wheat, and our observations in regard to that crop, we would not 

 encourage farmers to raise it, as it is attended with risk and uncer- 

 tainty to a degree that renders it unprofitable. 



There were nine entries of spring wheat which gave far better 

 results, nearly all of which were worthy of premiums, but as we 

 were restricted to four premiums, a portion had to be left out. It 

 is a question with us whether it is profitable for the farmer to even 

 raise spring wheat, but of the two, winter or spring wheat, we should 

 encourage the latter. 



The rye crop made a good growth and except where injured by 

 the untimely frost of last spring, gave very satisfactory results. In 

 the examination of this crop we were particular in ascertaining the 

 mode of culture, and fertilizers used, if any, that we might better 

 establish the correctness of the opinion of ourselves that some kind of 

 commercial fertilizer was well adapted to promote the production 

 of this crop, and we found quite a number of the best pieces 

 were treated to a moderate application of Bradley's super-phos- 

 phate of lime — and here we would mention an experimental test 

 made by Mr. Orrin Curtiss, one of Sheffield's time-honored farmers 

 (since died) who made application of a moderate quantity of Brad- 

 ley's fertilizer on an acre of rye at the time of sowing, with the excep- 



