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Five acres Ensilage Corn 3 ; Planted Sweet Corn 10 ; Buckwheat 36 ; Potatoes 

 40 ; one acre Beans 3 ; one half acre Beans 3 ; one fourth acre Beans 10 ; Beets 

 5; Onions 3 ; Mangel Wurzels 5 ; Carrots 7 ; Turnips 15 ; Cabbage 11 ; Forty 

 acre farms 8 ; One hunch*ed acre farms 21. 



Your committee, after a careful inspection of the entries of crops 

 and farms, submit the following report : 



We found corn below the average as a rule, with many pieces 

 green and late; still we found many excellent pieces. Mr. J. H. 

 VanDeusen having as fine a five acre piece as we saw, having 81 j lbs. 

 of good sound corn per rod, one hill picked in centre of piece 

 weighing 4 1-8 lbs., corn yellow 12 rowed and 28 hills to the rod. It 

 is our opinion that 30 hills to the rod gives the best results and the 

 yellow twelve rowed yields the best. We were pleased to see so 

 many good crops of sowed corn. We were in favor of sweet corn 

 for sowing, the evergreen giving the best crop. This was the kind 

 used by Mr. George Kellogg, and received first premium, was plant- 

 ed early in rows three feet apart and in hills of three and four ker- 

 nels each about 14 inches apart. Hoed once and level culture it 

 had a clean piece with many ears on the stalks, stood up well and 

 had sunshine and air enough to sweeten and mature it. 



There were some heavy pieces of ensilage corn we did not 

 deem as valuable per acre for feeding outside of the silo as the 

 sweet corn and could not give them a premium, but trust the 

 day is not far distant when more premiums will be given on ensi- 

 lage corn and more silos will abound, heartily believing that the 

 silo wisely located and used a great factor to aid the farmer to im- 

 prove his farm by carrying more stock — more manure, more and 

 better crops the result. There were some fine pieces of ensilage 

 corn which would yield over 40 tons per acre, all of which stock 

 would eat after it had been through the silo. There was a fair crop 

 of buckwheat. It was badly thrown down by storms, but was quite 

 well filled. The yield and quality of potatoes was generally poor; 

 many pieces were decayed and some were small and of poor quality. 

 We found the Beauty of Hebron the best, both for quality and yield, 

 the harvest yield being 195 lbs to the rod. We think about 50 hills 

 to the rod gives the best results and care should be used not to 

 seed to heavy. The root crop was very good on many farms and 

 like all cultivated crops pays him best for the labor bestowed on it, 

 who gives it a rich meliow seed bed and clean culture. Mangel 

 Wurzel and sugar beets were fine and seem to be best adapted for 

 stock and easy to raise. Farmers are feeding more grain to their 

 stock than formerly and roots fed with grain aids digestion and pro- 

 motes health, and roots are more nuitritious than most of us are apt to 

 suppose. There were more than the usual number of farms entered for 

 premiums, owing in part to the increase in the number of premiums 

 and to the attention farmers are manifesting in improvements of all 

 kinds on the farm. We gave our careful attention to the examina- 

 tion of farms, feeling that among so many good farmers it would be 

 hard to do justice and that often the scales would be turned on 

 small points, which we were careful to watch. The different locals 



