71 



Value of the crop : — 



Two tons straw, $10,00 



Forty bushels rye, 40.00 



60.00 

 Deduct expenses, ..... 35.28 



Net profit, 14.72 



The above experiment was made upon the whole piece. About 

 half an acre of this piece of ground was not rye land. There was 

 about one acre which was very heavy, and about half an acre that 

 was not above an ordinary crop. One rod of the best I could 

 select, cut and cured by itself, gave eight quarts, weighing sixteen 

 pounds, or forty bushels per acre, and thirty- three pounds straw 

 or 5280 pounds per acre. 



East Medivay, November, 1857. 



Horatio Mason. 



REPORT ON FOREST AND ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



Premiums are offered by this Society for the largest number 

 and best growth of ornamental trees, planted in a public square 

 or on the roadside, by any individual or society ; and for these 

 premiums two entries were made ; — one by the Grantville Orna- 

 mental Tree Society, and the other by Mr. A. L. Smith of Dover. 



The Grantville Society have planted, since March last, three 

 hundred and twelve trees, — mostly elms, — along the roadside, in 

 a portion of their pleasant, thriving village. Mr. Smith, also, 

 exhibited a fine growth of ornamental trees, — maples and elms, — 

 planted by the roadside in front of his dwelling-house and along 

 the sides of the avenue to it. 



The object of the Grantville Society is one which commends 

 itself to the favor of all who would see the towns and villages of 

 the county, and the dwelling-houses of their fellow-citizens shaded 

 and ornamented with the appropriate element of beauty, and the 

 best protection from the scorching heats of summer and chilling 

 blasts of winter. The success of their enterprise, not merely in 

 the immediate result of their own endeavors, but in the spirit 

 awakened in others, who have gone and done likewise, is sufficient 

 to excite and reward a general effort to imitate their example, 

 and, if possible, to surpass them. 



Next to the proper cultivation of the soil, there is nothing more 

 worthy of the attention of farmers, than the planting of forest and 



