LIST OF PREMIUMS 



AWAEDED BY THE MANAGERS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL 

 FAIR OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE, OCTOBER, 1855. 



AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Corn, Wheat, Sfc. 



Judges — J. G. Bergen, Nicholas Wyckoff, E. F. Reaney. 



E. Sherman, Searsville, N. Y., for the best collection of Indian 

 corn. Silver cup, $8. 



A. G. Hammond, Elatbush, L. I., for the best 20 ears of white 

 co:fn. Silver medal. 



Alfred Williamson, Jr., English Neighborhood, N. J., for the 

 second best 20 ears of white corn. Farmer's Encyclopaedia. 



E. C. Davis, Staten Island, for the best 20 ears of yellow corn. 

 Silver medal. 



C. M. Saxton, (Jacob Salter, farmer,) Orange, N. J., for the 

 second best 20 ears of yellow corn. Farmer's Encyclopsedia. 



Russell Sturges, Staten Island, N. Y., for the best 15 ears of 

 sweet corn. 2 vols. Horticulturist. 



John C. Thompson, Staten Island, N. Y., for the best Wyandot 

 corn, (6 stalks and 13 eai^s from a single grain,) a new variety, 

 worthy of attention. Farmer's Diet. 



E. Sherman, Searsville, N. Y., for the best and very superior 

 bushel of wheat. Silver cup, $8. 



E. Sherman, Searsville, N. Y., for the best bushel of rye. 

 Silver medal. 



S. D. Crispell, Hurley, Ulster county, N. Y., for the second 

 best bushel of rye. 2 vols. Working Farmer. 



S. D. Crispell, Hurley, Ulster county, N. Y.,for the best bushel 

 of oats. Silver medal. 



E. Sherman, Searsville, N. Y., for the second best bushel of 

 oats. Stephen's Book of the Farm 



