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PREMrnn*. — Below we give the award of pre- 

 miums for the present year. In adtlition to the 

 names here given, a great number of persons have 

 procured large lists of subscribers, to whom we 

 are, as formerly, much indebted. We feel great 

 pleasure in being able to scatter useful books on 

 agriculture over the land. As we observed, on 

 offering these premiums, they must increase the 

 knowledge, and consequently the power and the 

 we;iltli of those for whose especial benefit we 

 lal)or. We do this for the good they accomplish, 

 as well as a slight compensation to our friends — 

 the friends of rural impi-ovement — throughout 

 the country, who act as voluntary Agents, with- 

 the expectation of pecuniary reward. 



PBEMrcMS TO INDIVIDCTALS. 



1st. Wm. L. Badgley, Springville, Erie Co., K. 

 y., for tlie greatest number of subscribers sent by 

 one individual, {153,) Thirty Dollars in agricultu- 

 ral books. 



2d. CuARLEB p. Dibble, Mai-shall, Mich., Twenty 

 Dollars, for the next greatest number, (1'21.) 



3d. .biiiN Smith, Prattsburgh, N. Y., Ten Dol- 

 lars, for the third greatest number, (113.) 



COUNTY PREMIUMS. 



1st. CiiAUTAUQUE CouNTY, N. Y., Forty Dollars 

 in agricultural books, for the greatest number of 

 cofiies of the Genesee Farmer taken in any county, 

 being 490. This Library, according to the offer, 

 is " to be kept as a County Agricultural Library, 

 under tiie care of the Agricultural Society." 



2d. SxEi-nEX County, N. Y., Twenty-Fire Dol- 

 lars iu agricultural books, for the next greatest 

 number, (473,) on tlie same conditions as above. 



COUXTY PREMIUMS OUT OF NEW YOUK. 



1st. Erie County, Pa., an Agricultural Library 

 worth Forty Dollars, for the greatest number of 

 copies of the Farmer taken in any county out of 

 the State of New York, (333.) 



2d. Calhoun County, Mich., Twenty-Jive Dollars 

 as a!»ive, for the next greatest number taken in 

 any county out of the State of New York, (216.) 



SeUxiiiin.- <if books can be made by those enti- 

 tled til tlioui, or the choice left to us. Those 

 entitled to in'cuiiums will please order. 



Monroe County Plowing Match. — The Monroe 

 County Plowing Match took place at Brockj)ort 

 on the 17tli ult. There were sixteen competitors, 

 all of vvhiiin ilid their work in a very creditable 

 manner. The plowing was, on the whole, the 

 best we ever saw on any similar occasion, — and 

 we have attended many plowing matches both in 



Europe and America, — and made us feel proud 

 of Monroe county. There was a large concoui-se 

 of farmers and others interested in agricultural 

 matters present, say 1,500, who listened to an 

 interesting address from Horace J. Tiiom.a.s, of 

 Broekport. 



The method of plowing adopted was a much 

 better test of the plowman's skill than the one 

 generally practiced. Instead of throwing up a 

 double furrow in the center of the land to be 

 plowed, and then turning from you all the time 

 till the land is finished, each i>lowman threw up 

 a double furrow in the old dead furrow, as in tlie 

 other case, and then turned toward him, or 

 "hawed round," and came up the furrow of his 

 next neighbor. This showed the skill of the 

 plowman in raising a double furrow, and like- 

 wise, what is a much more searching test of a 

 plowman's capabilities, his skill in turning tlie 

 last two furrows and leaving a well fniihed dead 

 furrow. 



The judges were a long tiino in deciding on the 

 respective merits of the plowmen, so tJiat wlicn 

 they made their report, nearly all had left ; and 

 indeed such was the excellence of the plowing, 

 that it was by no means easy to decide whicli was 

 the best, and we anything but envied them tlie 

 task ; yet we must say that the decision accorded 

 with our own opinion, and so far as we know, 

 with most others who examined the lands care- 

 fully. 



The following is a list of the successful compet- 

 itors: 



First Premium, $8, to Coles Green, of Clark- 

 son. Henry Clark, Plowman. 



Second Premium, 1^6, to F. P. Root, of Sweden. 

 A, Ootoudt, Plowman. 



Third Premium, ."?4, to Geo. W. Goodhue, of 

 Wlieatland. George Ashman, Plowman. 



Foiirfit Premium, %2, to L. Gillisi'ie, of Sweden. 



Fiftli Premium, A^ol. Trans., to Geo. II. Good- 

 hue, of Wheatland, (under 18 years old.) 



Sixth Premium, Vol. Trans, of Am. Institute, 

 to Allen Slocum, of Clarksou. 



Among the implements exhibited on the ground, 

 and which struck us as being im])roveincnts on 

 the old ones generally in use, were — 



A Patent Wheel Cultivating Gang-Plow, in- 

 vented and manufactured by IIervey Kellam & 

 George Valleau, of Scottsville, N Y. It is so 

 arranged that the tongue can be placed to work 

 equally well with three or two horses, and it is 

 connected by iron rods with the axles of the 



