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Wkeat. 



The wheat I exhibited at the Fifteenth Annual Fair of the Ame- 

 rican Institute, and for which a premium was awarded, was raised in 

 the manner following: 



After oats were cut in July, the ground was plowed very deep, 

 and left until the middle of August, when it was plowed a second 

 time, and well harrowed. On the first of September my wheat was 

 soaked in salt brine sufficiently strong to bear an egg, drained through 

 a seive, and thoroughly mixed with poudrette, fine salt, oyster shell 

 lime, and ashes. It was then sown damp, with the particles of the 

 above composition adhering to the kernels, at the rate of three and 

 a half bushels to the acre; harrowed twice, top dressed, with three 

 hundred bushels of shell lime to the acre, and rolled. 



ROBERT L. PELL. 



Pelham, Ulster Co. JV. Y. 



Egyptian Wheat. 



The Egyptian wheat exhibited by me at the Fifteenth Annual 

 Fair of the American Institute, was raised in North Bergen, N. J. 

 on a piece of ground 12 by 15 feet, slightly manured; yielded one 

 peck and one pint of seed, or 77 bushels to the acre; planted broad- 

 cast; and weighing 64 pounds to the bushel. 



JEREMIAH VAN WINKLE. 



Bergen, M. J. Oct. 1842. 



Button Corn. 



The specimen of yellow corn exhibited by me at the Fifteenth 

 Annual Fair of the American Institute, and for which a premium 

 was awarded, was planted about the 22d of May, in hills four feet 

 apart, on a piece of ground planted with corn the year previous; 

 manured in the hill lightly. It was plowed out both ways, and wed 

 and hilled in the common farmer's style. Produce, one hundred and 

 twenty bushels of ears to the acre. 



S. VAN VOLKENBURGH. 



Harlem, Oct. 1842. 



White Indian Com. 



The specimen of corn exhibited by me at the Fifteenth Annual 

 Fair of the American Institute, and for which a premium was awarded, 

 was planted about the 20th of May, in rows of about three feet apart, 

 and the corn dropped eight inches apart; on a piece of ground plant- 

 ed the year previous with potatoes. Manured with about twenty 

 loads of street manure to the acre, and once plowed in. Crop, about 

 one hundred and twenty bushels of ears to the acre. 



GEORGE CHESTERMAN. 



Harlem, October, 1842. 



