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Best remedy for worms, &c., Hessian fly, pea bug, &c. 



Best way to plant wheat. 



Best food to make milk. 



Best way to raise the white thorn, &c., for hedges. 



Greatest quantity of ground well fenced with locust trees or 

 poles — of the sort used for posts and trunnels — and planted with 

 locust seed — producing not less than 1,500 trees on one acre. 

 Each of the foregoing a gold medal. For second best, silver medal, 



Tuesday, May 1st, 1787. Attend immediately to raising timber 

 trees, &c. 



Tuesday, June 5, 1787. Geo. Morgan's paper on the Hessian 

 fly. 



Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1788. A letter from P. Muhlenburg, of the 

 Supreme Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania, request- 

 ing information on the Hessian fly. " The King of England's 

 proclamation on 25th June last; no wheat from U. S. to be admit- 

 ted in Great Britain, on account of the Hessian fly." 



The society declared unanimously that the Hessian fly never 

 touched the grain, but the j)lant only. 



Premiums for 1789. 



For best course of crops, on not less than four acres, agreeably 

 to the English mode of farming. First premium, $200. Second, 

 $100. 



For hemp, Gold Medal. 



Cheese, not less than 500 lbs., Gold Medal, and will pay for it 

 ten per cent more than the wholesale price of the Cheshire. 



Tuesday, May 12,1789. The Gold Medal shall be of the value 

 often pounds, Pennsylvania currency. 



Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1790. The Hessian fly was not known here 



in 1782. 



Tuesday, March 9, 1790. Cheshire cheese is twelve pence a 

 pound. 



Tuesday, January 11, 1791. Balance in the treasury, near $800. 



Friday, Feb. 15, 1793. William Pearson, Burlington, New 

 Jersey, claim for premium on his 500 lbs. cheese, objected to for 

 want oi flavor only. He makes 3,000 to 4,000 lbs. annually. 



