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and planted with corn. It was sowed this season tlie 2d day 

 of May, 1^ bushel to the acre. 



Second premium to J. H. Chapin, of Sheffield, from whose 

 statement it appears that the soil was a clay loam, on which 

 the last year 25 or 30 loads of straw manure was spread and 

 , ploughed in from seven to eight inches in depth, and that the 

 crop was eighty bushels of corn. No manure was applied the 

 present season. It was sowed with two bushels to the acre 

 of Tea wheat, the 3d of May. 



Third premium to Gen. William Williams, of Stockbridge. 

 The soil a loam ; 75 bushels of corn per acre last year; 25 cart 

 loads of manure per acre last season. The 20th of April the 

 hills were split, then harrowed and ploughed clean. Two or 

 three days after, harrowed and sowed two bushels Black Sea 

 wheat to the acre. Seed sowed dry, without any fertili::er. 



Fourth premium to Nathaniel Cook, of Richmond. The 

 soil was a mixture of clay and gravel, mowed the year before 

 the last. It was ploughed last year once, eight inches deep. 

 Manured with 20 ox cart bodies full of new manure, harrowed 

 in, and ten loads put in the hills, and planted with corn. The 

 growth was large, but the corn not very sound. For the pres- 

 ent crop, no manure was used. The land was ploughed once. 

 Two bushels of Black Sea wheat, soaked in lime water and 

 brine, and rolled in plaster until dry, was sowed the 8th day 

 of May, and the ground harrowed three times thoroughly. 



The next premium to Reed Mills, of Williamstown. 



Reed Mills's Statement. 



I enclose a statement of the process of cultivation and ma- 

 nures and fertilizers used and applied to our wheat crop, which 

 was examined by you and the other gentleman of the commit- 

 tee the present month. 



In the spring of the year 1849 the ground was manured at 

 the rate of 15 two-horse wagon loads of barnyard manure per 

 acre, ploughed and planted to corn, and plastered two or three 

 times in the course of the summer. In the spring of the year 

 1850 the ground was ploughed well and sowed to oats; no 

 manure or fertilizer of any kind was used this year. The 

 above crops were rather more than middling for those years. 

 Seeded lightly to clover, in the spring of 1851. No manure of 



