No. 7. 



Report, ^c. to the Agricultural Society. 



221 



Application for Prciniuin» 



To the President and Members of the Phila- 

 delphia Agricultural iSocicti/. 

 Gentlemen : 



Seeing in the Farmers' Cabinet a pre- 

 mium was offered for the best five acres of 

 corn, and another for the best half acre of 

 sugar beets, I have taken the liberty of pre- 

 senting to your Society certificates tor the 

 raising of both the above articles. Should 

 they meet your approbation, and prove the 

 most abundant, it will be gratifying to the 

 subscriber. 



Respectfully yours, &c., 

 John Kenworthy, 



No. 5 South Seventh St. 



CERTIFICATES. 



November 8th, 1839 — measured a patch 

 of sugar beet, on the farm of Mr. John Ken- 

 worthy, in the township of Oxford, Philadel- 

 phia County, and find the same to contain 

 one hundred and twenty perches, and seven- 

 teen hundredths of a perch of land. 



LsAAc Shallcross. 



I do hereby certify that I was present, and 

 did weigii three rows of the sugar beet raised 

 upon the above patch this season, and that 

 the average weight of the said three rows 

 was 886 pounds, which I believe to be the 

 average weight of sixty-one rows which the 

 patch contains, making .54,046 pounds on the 

 whole patch, and at the rate of 71,959 pounds 

 per acre. 



Thomas Walmsley. 



November 8th, 1839 — measured two pieces 

 of corn on the farm of Mr. John Kenworthy, 

 in Oxford Township, and find the same to 

 contain as follows : — One lot contains two 

 acres and one hundred and thirty-four perches, 

 and the other two acres thirty-five perches — 

 making five acres and nine perches. 



Isaac Shallcross. 



I do certify, that on the above two lots of 

 corn there was produced this season seven 

 hundred and sixty-two bushels of corn in the 

 ear. Robert J. Robison. 



Report of Committee on Premiums. 



Philada. Dec. 31, 1839. 



The undersigned, being part of the Com- 

 mittee appointed by this Society for the pur- 

 pose of examining crops, — do report. That, 

 according to notice from their Chairman, the 

 attention of this Committee was directed to 

 the examination of crops grown by Mr. John 

 Kenworthy, Oxford Township, Philadelphia 



County, and Mr. .Tamos Gowen, of Mount 

 Airy; and after an impartial and sullicient 

 examination of them, do report as follows, 

 viz : — 



To Peter Keijfer, farmer, for J. Gowen. 

 For Sugar Beet, - . . ]gt premium. 

 II Parsnop, - . l^t premium. 

 Carrots, - . l^i premium. 



To James Gowen. 

 Spring Wheat, - - . 1st premium. 



To John Kenworthy. 

 For Sugar Beets, - - . 2d premium. 



In communicating to the Society the above 

 premiums, they have been governed by a de- 

 sire to award merit where it has been de- 

 served ; this will be made apparent by the 

 examination of the statements of Messrs. 

 Kenworthy &. Gowen, which accompany this 

 report. The weight of crop at the time of 

 examination appeared to the Committee to 

 be in favour of Mr. Gowen, but which, by the 

 statement of Mr. Kenworthy, fell short of 

 his. The Committee, without intending in 

 the least to detract from the credit due to 

 this statement, believe that as the whole crop 

 was not weighed, (and that the whole crop 

 of Mr. Gowen's was passed through that or- 

 deal,) notwithstanding the difference in 

 weight in favour of Mr. Kenworthy, shown 

 only by averaging the crop by the weight of 

 three rows — that Mr. Gowen's crop was fair- 

 ly entitled, from its superior culture, to the 

 first premium. 



The crops of Sugar Parsneps and Carrots 

 are entitled to their highest admiration, both 

 from their weight, and use in feeding, as 

 well as from the excellent manner of cultiva- 

 tion. 



The spring wheat sown on the 6th April, 

 1839, and housed 24th July, prod.iiced on the 

 half acre fifteen and a-half bushels of wheat. 

 This was raised under the shade of several 

 trees, which increased the tendency to mil- 

 dew, so prevalent this season, and tended 

 greatly to lessen the crop. The experiment 

 we believe to be fully satisfactory to this 

 Committee that this wheat may be grown to 

 advantage. 



Mr. Kenworthy's crop of corn, although 

 very good, and entitled to their approbation, 

 cannot be admitted for premium, in conse- 

 quence of not growing on five continuous 

 acres, which the Committee deem important, 

 and entirely necessary to attain that distinc- 

 tion. 



David Comfort, 

 Geo. Uhler, 

 Isaac W. Roberts. 



