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second hoeing in a portion of the lot which I judged to be poorer than 

 the rest, I apphed a second dressing. No other manure was used by 

 me upon this lot besides the poudrette this year and the year before. 

 I consider the crop this year to be as good, if not better than that 

 of last year. The quantity of poudrette used was 150 bushels on this 

 lot ; it cost me $37.50, besides the cartage nine miles to my farm. 

 I reside in the town of North Orange, Essex co., N. J. The yield of 

 corn upon the ten acres will not be less in my opinion than 90 bushels 

 of ears to the acre. This soil is a sandy loam. 



JACOB A. SHARP. 

 Otiongej JV. J.f JVovember, 1849. 



PREMIUM BUCK BONAPARTE. 



Bonaparte. The best fine wooled btcck exhibited at the Fair of tht 

 American Institute, Oct. 11, 1849; the property of Seely C. jRo<, 

 Esq. J Chester, Orange county, JV*. J. 



The annexed cut represents Mr. Roe's prize buck Bonaparte, which 

 received the first premium for fine wool ; a silver cup. It was bred 

 by S. W. Jew^ett, Esq., of Weybridge, Vt., from a pure bred merino 

 ewe, which has sheared in five annual fleeces thirty and a half pounds 

 of wool, well washed upon the back^ 



Bonaparte was got by Napoleon j the property of S. W. JeAvett 

 and A. L Bingham. Napoleon was bred by John A. Taintor of 

 Conn., from a ram and ewe imported by him from France in 1846. 

 Napoleon's first fleece, clipped in May, 1848, at fourteen and a half 

 months growth, was 22| pounds ; and his second fleece, cut in June, 

 1849, at thirteen months growth, was 23^ pounds. The aggregate 

 <rf his two fleeces weighed 45| pounds of unwashed wool. 



