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THE illijStois fa.rm:er. 



write, but is an active, intelligent farm- 

 er, having some fine stock, besides sever- 

 al other things on exhibition. If is not 

 probable that this apple will prove valu- 

 able for orchard culture; but for its re« 

 markable size should receive the atten- 

 tion of the amateur fruit grower. It is 

 possible, with the clue that^we have giv- 

 en, that more of the history of this 

 Brobdinag fruit may be unraveled. Can 

 some of our Decatur friends give us aid 

 in the premises ? 



Mr. S. W. Hampshire, oF Decatur, 

 has a harrow and roller combined. We 

 was assured that Dr. Johns and others 

 who had tried it, considered it valuable. 



C. K. Overman made fine display of 

 apples, fruit and ornamental trees, 

 among them a fine show of Evergreens. 

 There were several lots of plants, but as 

 the names were strenuously suppressed, 

 we have nothing further to say of them. 



It had been our intention to have 

 made a full report of this show, but we 

 were met on the very threshhold of our 

 labor with this want of names, and we 

 reluctantly put np our note book. We 

 have done with the attempt to report ar- 

 ticles on exhibition when we have to 

 spend time to look up the owners. If 

 the Society or owner does not think his 

 name of any value on his goods, we 

 shall not trouble ourself to advertise 

 them to the world. 



In the Fine Arts we observed several 

 fine paintings, among them the " Rail 

 Splitter," by Mrs. James Millikin, of 

 Decatur. 



An exhibition of juvenile speakers oc- 

 cupied some time, and performed very 

 credibly, but it is quite certain that the 

 proper place for this sort of intellectual 

 feast is the school house and not the fair 

 ground, which should be occupied with 

 the industrial, rather than the literary 



progress of the age. 



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[From the Ohio Farmer.] 



Frcminms for Crops Awarded by the Indiana 

 State Fair. 

 The following from the Cincinnati Cra- 

 zette shows the yield of corn obtained by 

 those who entered their crops for pre- 

 miums. The premiums are oflered on 

 one, five and ten acres : — On one acre, 

 Ellis R. Lake, Marion county, raised 

 263 bu; S. R. Woodfill, do., 115 bu; 

 Wm. M. Pritchard. Johnson county, 

 216| bu; and J. P. Dawson, Warren 

 county, 205^ bu. On five acres, Wm. 

 M. Pritchard, Johnson county, raised 

 194 1-7 bu; S. R. Woodfill, Marion 



county, 141 bu; B. R. Lake, Marion 

 county, 247 bu; and J. P. Dawson War- 

 ren county, 180i bu. On ten acres, E. 

 R. Lake, Marion county, raised 263 bu; 

 George Woodfill, Marion county, 147| 

 bu; D. G. Rabb, Ohio county, 132J bu; 

 Wm. M. Prichard, Johnson county, 172 

 bu; J. P. Dawson, Warren county 157 

 bu. 



These entries were made by six per- 

 sons, living in difi"erent parts of the 

 State. The soil is represented as being 

 a rich, sandy loam. Mr. Lake, whose 

 crop of ten acres and of one acre, gave 

 the enormous yield of 263 bushels per 

 acre, makes the following statement of 

 his crop of one acre. His soil, cultiva- 

 tion, etc., are stated thus : 



"Quality of soil, a sand and loam riv- 

 er bot:)om, based on clay. Broken up 

 about ten inches deep, about the first of 

 May, and planted from the 10th to the 

 15tn of the same month, in rows one 

 •way, three feet apart, and the plants 

 from five to six inchaa apart in the row. 

 Plowed with a shovel plow three times; 

 whole cost of cultivation and seed, 

 $4 85." 



His crop often acres was raised on the 

 same kind of soil, but with difierent cul- 

 tivation. Plowed six inches deep, about 

 middle of April; planted in rows, three 

 and a half feet each way, with four to 

 five grains in a hill; plowed four times 

 with a shovel plow, and hoed over after 

 the first plowing. 



His five acre yield of 247 bushels had 

 the eatne soil and cultivation, but the 

 plowing was only eight inches. This 

 corn was weighed, and it is probable that 

 the yield would be reduced somewhat 

 after becoming dry. 



For premiums on wheat, we have the 

 following entries : — For one acre, S. 

 Hooker, W^arren county, 46 bushels per 

 acre. J. Lemaster, Howard county, 46| 

 bu; S. T. Jackson, Wabash county, 37 

 bu; George AVoodfill, Marion county, 

 46 bu; Wm. A. Jaekson, Wabash coun- 

 ty, 60J bu; Jas. Orr, Delaware county, 

 white 49 bu; red, 47 bu. For five acres, 

 A. Heron, Fayette county, 44 bu; N. 

 Piatt, Warrick county, 34^ bu; F. Whit- 

 ford, Marion county, 41 bu; and J. D. 

 Williams, Knox county, 28|. For ten 

 acres, J. Lemaster, Howard county, 45 

 bu; and James Hudelson, Ogden coun- 

 ty, Ind., 37 bu. 



It may be interesting to know what 

 was the manner of cultivation given for 

 the largest and for the smallest yield. — 

 Here it is : 



1. The largest yield is that of Mr. 

 Jackson, and his statement is, that the 

 soil was alluvial bottom, about two feet 

 deep, based on hard, compact clay; that 

 the ground had been cultivated quite a 

 number of years in corn in the usual 

 way; that there was no draining and no 

 ' manures used; that it was sown in Med- 



iterranean wheat the first week in Sep- 

 tember, among the standing corn, and 

 put in with a three-shovel plow. Cost 

 of seed and tillage $3 50 per acre. — 

 Here was indifferent cultivation ; no 

 freezing out, and doubtless very good 

 soil. 



2. The lowest yield was that of Mr. 

 Williams, one of our best and most ener- 

 getic farmers. His soil was White riv- 

 er bottom, plowed twice ; when plowed 

 and depth not stated; put in with a cul- 

 tivator about the 20th September ; the 

 amount and kind of seed not stated. — 

 The land had been ""cultivated about 22 

 years, and had always produced good 

 crops. Total cost, ^10 60 per acre. — 

 No statement is made about freezing 

 or any other casualty. 



BARLEY CROP. 



Two entries by I Shimp, of So th 

 Bend county. His crop was 37 J acres; 

 average yield 50 bushels and 20 pounds 

 per acre. The soil was prairie, based 

 on clay and gravel. He plowed eight 

 inches deep, used a sub-soil plow, sowed 

 1^ bushels of seed to the acre, with a 

 drill, in the last week in August. The 

 land had been in cultivation for about 

 25 years, every year except the two last 

 years, when it was in clover, and which 

 was broken up for this crop. 



Remarks — The Hoosiers have rubbed 

 Alladin's Lamp with their deep tillage 

 and thorough culture, and the most won- 

 derful results appear. Is it not possible 

 for us to do something; shall they be al- 

 lowed the palm of victory; shall the rich 

 rolling prairies of the Upper Mississippi 

 stand behind the timbered land of the 

 Wabash, and the White river. We 

 hope not. Deep tillage, manure and 

 thorough culture, can and should do 



something for us. Shall we try? — Ed. 



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Singular Fact. — On the 15th of 

 August, 1860, a heifer fed by Mr. J. 

 Charlton, at Little Bennington, near 

 Corbridge, was slaughtered by Mr. R. 

 Coxon, butcher, of Hill Top, Esh, near 

 Durham. The animal was rising three 

 years old, was in perfect health, lively 

 and playful, and when killed weighed 

 29 stone, or 406 pounds. When it was 

 cut up there were found in the part of 

 the intestines between the first and sec- 

 ond stomach, enveloped in a watery 

 fluid, and not mixed with food, the fol- 

 lowing substances : Nineteen small peb- 

 bles, a small piece of metal, half of the 

 iron heel of a boot, two shillings, (of 

 the coinage of George III. and George 

 IV.,) a penny piece. The coins were 

 discolored, and they, as well as the peb- 

 bles, were much rounded at the edges. 

 The whole weigh half of a pound. There 

 were present, when these substances 

 were taken from the animal, Mr. R. 



