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entered, but they were withdrawn, except numbers 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 87 

 which were tested in a wet and rather tough green sward soil with 

 Chase's Dynamometer. 



If the ground had been in good condition, the plows could have 

 been operated with a less power. 



Your committee award the first premium, Silver Cup, to William 

 Bigelow, for the best plow. 



Second premium. Silver Medal to Corn's. Bergen, second best plow. 



EDWARD CLARK, C/iairTnan. 



REPORT ON THE FARM OF GEN. JEREMIAH JOHNSON. 



To the American Institute : 



Your Committee lately visited the farm of Gen. Jeremiah Johnson, 

 which is situated in the 7th ward of the city of Brooklyn. The 

 farm contains one hundred and forty-five acres, of which about sixty- 

 six are under cultivation. This is the only farm on Long Island re- 

 maining in original hands, and has been cultivated by its present 

 owner sixty years. He has long since given up the cultivation of 

 ordinary field crops, finding it more profitable, from its proximity to 

 a ready market, to raise garden vegetables ; and as there is more land 

 than he wishes to manage himself, he rents twenty-six acres, in vari- 

 ous lots, to gardeners. He has fourteen tenant houses, which are 

 small, neat dwellings, mostly occupied by those who hire garden 

 spots from him. His dwelling is an old fashioned double house, one 

 and a half stories high, with two wings, and is eligibly situated, 

 having an extensive view of the East River, and parts of the cities 

 of New-York and Brooklyn. The gardens, as they should be called, 

 rather than the farm, are under the superintendence of Mr. Barney 

 Johnson. He employs about twelve hands in the summer, and three 

 in the winter. His stock consists of six cows, six horses, — which 

 are kept in the best order, — and a suflScient number of hogs for fami- 

 ly use. His land is kept in the highest possible state of cultivation. 

 He informed me that they had not used less than one thousand loads 

 of manure this year. On his premises are cow stables, which he 

 rents to milkmen. He has the liquid manure from those stables, in 



