8 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. [March, 



CLARKSBURG.— Claimant, 1. Acres sown, 3. Product, 40 bush. 

 Average per acre, 13| bush. 

 Largest yield, 5^0 bush, per acre. 

 Remarks. Seed, the Leghorn. Injury from hail. 



DALTON.— Claimants, 16. Acres sown, 231. Product, 382 bush. 



Average per acre, IS^ bush. 



Crop?, 23 bush, per acre ; 22 bush. ; two 19 bush. 

 Remarks. Crop of 22 bush, with 15 bush, ashes per acre. Of 19 bush, 

 with 1 cask of lime and 6 bush, ashes, and six loads long manure. Three 

 cases of lime, two bush, per acre ; without advantage. Seed, tea-wheat. 

 Two crops blasted; four cases of grain worm. 



EGREMONT.— Claimants, 27. Acres sown 52]. Product, 788^ bush. 



Average, 15 3-10 bush, per acre. 



Crops, 24 bush. ; 20 busji. ; 19^ bush.; two, 18 bush. 

 Remarks. Largest crop, with ten loads stable manure, on gravelly loam. 

 Plaster customarily applied ; 1^ bush, per acre. Three cases grain insect; 

 four of cut worm ; one smut-wheat rolled in lime, but not soaked in brine ; 

 one case rust, one mildew. The soil of Egremont peculiarly favorable for 

 grain. Five loads of coarse straw applied to an acre ; the yield, 10 bushels. 



FLORIDA. — Claimants, 2. Acres sown, 4^. Product, 73 bush. 



Average per acre, 17 1-6 bush. 

 Remarks. Crop of 20 bushels per acre, with 50 bushels leeched ashes^ 

 and 2 bushels lime per acre. 



GT. BARRINGTON.— Claimants, 54. Acres, 122 11-24 bs. Product, 1764 bs. 



Average, 14| bush, per acre. 



Crops 26^ bs. ; 25^ bs. ; three, 21 bs. ; 20 bs. pr. acre. 

 Remarks, Crop of 20 bushels per acre with 4 loads of light rotten ma- 

 nure spread on the grain. Twenty-eight crops with plaster ; 1 h bushels 

 per acre; twenty -nine cases of grain insect. ; one of worm at the root ; one 

 of grasshoppers. 



HANCOCK.— Claimants, 13. Acres sown, 17f. Product, 285;!. bush. 

 Average per acre, 16 bush. 

 Crops, 24 bush. ; 22; 21 ; 20 bush, per acre. 

 Remarks. Crop of 24 bushels, had 8 bushels of ashes per acre ; 21 bush- 

 els, 15 bushels ashes, per acre ; of 19 bushels with 3 bushels'gypsum and 2 of 

 ashes. With 8 bushels ashes, crop 15 bushels per acre. 



HINSDALE.— Claimants, 28. Acres sown, 44^. Product, 683| bushels. 

 Average, 15A bush, per acre. 



Crops, 28 bush. ; 25 bs. ; 24 bs. ; two, 22 ; 21 ; two, 20 ; 

 19 ; 18 bush, per acre. 



