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The Good Work Advancing. 



Vol. IV 



exhibition. Col. N. Goldsborough exhibited 

 a machine for threshing and shelling corn, 

 which received the first premium. Mr. E. 

 N. Hambleton presented a set of machinery 

 for reeling silk from the cocoons and making 

 sewing silk, and also a corn planter. Several 

 samples of excellent native sewing silk. — 

 The display of Household Manufactures was 

 -Ifirge and of the first order, and spoke loudly 

 in favor of the good taste and industry of the 

 ladies. Success to them. The Butter sub- 

 mitted was very superior, and the judges were 

 not a little puzzled in deciding on the com- 

 parative merits of the different lots. The 

 ploughing match was well attended, and gave 

 great satisfaction. The committee on Crops 

 awarded the first and second premium on 

 wheat and corn to Col. N. Gold-sbokodgh ; 

 the third to Mr. Thomas C. Nichols, for the 

 best acre of Mangle Wurtzel. Samples of 

 wheat yielding thirty-three and a third busli- 

 els to the acre, were exhibited by Samuel H. 

 Benny. Governor Samuel Stevens, of Tal- 

 bot county, also exhibited samples of corn, pro- 

 ducing ninety-ttoo bushels to the acre. Other 

 samples of grains, roots, &.c. were exhibited, 

 and favorably spoken of by the committee. — 

 As the crops of grain and mangel wurtzel re- 

 ferred to are so much larger than those raised 

 for years back in the Peninsula, we give be- 

 low the different statements as to the mode 

 of culture adopted by the several growers. 



CROP OF CORN 



Raised by Gov. Stevens, of Talbot county. — 

 Having offered for premium the product of an 

 acre of corn, it devolves on me, in conformity 

 to the desire and request of the Trustees of 

 the Atrricultural Society, todefcribe the mode 

 of cultivating said acre, viz: — The ground 

 having been well ploughed, I run deep fur- 

 rows seven feet distance, which I filled with 

 good jjianure, which was covered up; then 

 one foot on each side of paid manure, I run 

 a light furrow, in which I dropped my corn at 

 distances, one foot, putting two stocks in a 

 hill, endeavoring as much as possible to break 

 joints. Thus my corn wa.s two feet apart, one 

 way, and longitudinally one frot, with iwo 

 stalks in a hill ; about one half of the ground 

 was additionally manured with about two 

 spoonfulls of ashes and plaster of Paris 

 (mixed in equal proportions,) on the hill To 



make it more plain, I beg leave to make a 

 draujjht of the mode of planting. 



Yours with respect, Saml. Stevens. 



Corn one foot between the hills. 



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Furrow wiih manure two feet wide. 



Corn one foot between the hills. 



Space five feet wide. 

 Corn one foot betwrren the hills. 



Furrow with manure two feet wide. 



Corn one foot between the hills. 



CERTIFICA.TES.— We, whose names are hereunto siib» 

 scribed do certify that we did as accurately as was in 

 our power, lay down one acre of land for Samuel Ste- 

 vens, on which ke had corn growing, to exhibit at the 

 rattle show in Easton— given under our hands this23(l 

 day of October, 1839. Saml. Connelly, 



Sol. Stevens. 



I do hereby certify that I had gathered carefully the 

 corn from the acre of pround, which was laid down 

 for Samuel Stevens, by Samuel Connelly and Solomon 

 Stevens, as described in their certificate, given from 

 under my liand this 23d day of October, 1839. 



John W^interbottom. 



We do hereby declare and certify that we have mea- 

 sured and seen measured, the corn which grew on the 

 acre of ground laid off by Samuel Connelly and Solomon 

 Stevens for Samuel Stevens — and do certify that there 

 were ninety-two bushels of good corn on said acre of 

 ground, from under our hands this 23d day of October, 

 1839. Solomon Stevens, 



J. WlNTERBOTTOM. 



The sample sent was not measured, half a peck. 



CROP OF CORN 



Raised by Col. N. Goldsborough, of Talbot 

 county. The subscriber regrets that it waa 

 wholly out of his power to procure a surveyor 

 to measure his ground. The ground was 

 measured in the first instance with a twenty 

 foot pole, and was two liundred and twenty 

 feet long and two hundred feet wide — making 

 forty-four thousand square feet; forty-three 

 thoii.sand five hundred square feet make an 

 acre. But it appears by the annexed certifi- 

 cate, that the ground actually covered by corn 

 was forty-two thousand nine hundred and 

 eighty-four square feet. The product one 

 hundred and twenty three bushels — clear of 

 the sample, an even half but^hel of ears, which 

 was reserved to show more particularly tho 

 variety, called Barnet's corn. 



Cultivation. — ft was covered with lonjf 

 manure, (a good dre.«sing) which was well 

 turned under with the plough — repeatedly 

 rolled and harrowed till fine — furrows opened 

 four and a half feet apart — and planted at 

 distance.^! of eight inches in the row, leaving 

 two stiilks in a hill — cultivated well with 

 Beach's cultivator — but perceiving ju.st be- 

 fore harvest, that the corn had not sufficient 

 hold on the ground, it was ploughed. Af- 

 ter harvest an old cultivator was passed over 

 very lightly, merely to break the crust formed 

 by the rains. Soil — deep black mould, in 

 clover tho preceding year. Another acre, 



