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What other preparation for the seeel V 



Cost of plowing and other preparation ? 



Amount of manure, in loads of 80 bushels, and how applied *? 



Value of manure upon the ground ? 



When, and how planted, and the amount, and kind of seed? 



Cost of seed and planting V 



How cultivated, and how many times? 



Cost of cultivating, including weeding and thinning. 



Time and manner of harvesting 'I 



Cost of harvesting, including the storing, and husking or threshing ? 



Amount of straw, stover, or other product? 



EEMAKKS. 



Signed, by 



Competitor. 

 From actual measurement. I hereby certify that the land which tho 

 above crop of covered, contained rods, and no more. 



Acting Surveyor. 



I hereby certify that appointed for that purpose by the Com- 



mittee on crop, appeared before me, and took oath that he has 



ascertained the weight of the above crop, according to the regulations 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, on the day of and that 



it was 



Justice of the Peace. 



la ascertaining the amount of crop, any vessel may be used, and the 

 weight of its contents once, multiplied by the number of times it is filled 

 by the crop. 



To ascertain the amount of a corn crop, any vessel containing not 

 less than a bushel of ripened ears may be used, and the weight of the 

 contents of one of said vessels taken > and the number. of vessels or 

 baskets full noted. The weight of its contents once, multiplied by the 

 number of times it is filled by the crop of ripened ears shall be consid- 

 ered the gross weight of harvested corn in the ears. One of said vessels 

 full of /ipened ears, of the average quality and condition of the crop, 

 shall be kept to Dec. 1st, and weighed in the ear, and also after it is 

 shelled, and the amount of merchantable shelled corn, as well as the 

 amount of shrinkage thus ascertained. '' 



The certificate shall state the weight of all crops only in a merchant- 

 able state. 



In measuring the land, any competent person may be employed, 

 whether a sworn surveyor or not. 



In ascertaining the amount of a hay crop entered for premium, the 

 measurement of the hay in the barn may be employed. 



Committees on crops, either of themselves or by vote of the Society 

 to which they belong, are authorized to select such number of crops 



