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PREMIUM CROPS. 
received 50 loads of half-rotted barnyard manure. In 1845, the same land yielded 67 bushels per acre, 
without an addition of manure. In another experiment, 60^ bushels per acre were obtained in 1844, 
without manure; in 1845, it yielded 65 bushels. In two other experiments, when the land was ma¬ 
nured in the furrow by 150 loads of unfermented manure to the acre, the products were 70 bushels in 
1844, and 7U in 1845. The yield was carried up to 80 bushels per acre, by giving a top dressing of 
25 loads of manure to the acre, in addition to that which it received in the furrow. 
The premium crop of maize, for Lewis county, in 1845, was 93 bushels and a fraction per acre. 
This county belongs to the Champlain division mainly. 
The premium crop for Oneida county, was 89 bushels and a fraction. It was grown in Kirkland. 
Charles W. Eells, of Oneida county, received the County Society premium for raising 89 bushels 
and 5 lbs. of maize per acre; and G. L. Sherwood, of Oswego county, raised 133 bushels per acre 
(the land, however, was not measured). 
Elias I. Ayers received the premium of the Tompkins County Society, for having raised 98 bushels 
and 24 quarts of maize per acre. 
Calvin Skinner, of Cambridge, Washington county, raised 13 Iff bushels of maize per acre. 
John M‘Naughton, of Salem, Washington county, raised 128 bushels and 18 quarts of maize per acre. 
It will be observed, from the foregoing statement, that maize is a crop which succeeds 
well in the Taconic district; and that its yield is, upon the whole, superior to that in the 
Wheat district. 
Premiums awarded by the state society for crops of oats, in 1841. 
The first premium was given to D. W. Week, of Watertown, Jefferson county, for raising 1134- 
bushels of oats per acre. 
The second premium was awarded to John S. Jones, of East-Bloomfield, Ontario county, for raising 
102i bushels of oats per acre. 
A premium was awarded to Amos A. Eggleston, of Washington county, for the peculiar excellence 
of his oats; a bushel weighing 42 lbs., and the crop also being large. This crop amounted to 48| 
bushels, as reported by the County Society. 
Mr. Gaylord, of Onondaga county, raised 200 bushels of oats on 5 acres. 
Mr. Woodward, of the same county, raised 360 bushels of oats upon 6 acres, averaging 60 bushels 
per acre. 
Premiums awarded by the state and county societies for crops of oats, in 1845. 
The State Society’s premium was awarded to Elias I. Ayers, of Tompkins county, for having raised 
183 bushels and 3 pecks of oats on 2 acres, equal to 91 bushels and 28 quarts per acre. 
The Cayuga County Society gave a premium on a crop of oats, averaging 64f bushels per acre; and 
another to Lewis county, equal to 90^- bushels per acre. 
Mr. Nicholas I. Bort, of Oswego county, raised 106f bushels of oats on one acre, measured when first 
cut or gathered The bushel weighed 33 pounds and 4 ounces. 
Mr. Helim Sutton, of Seneca county, raised 83g 3 3 bushels of oats per acre. 
Mr. A. Thompson, of Washington county, raised 86f bushels of oats upon 150 roods of land. 
The reports of the County Societies, respecting the premium crops, are far from being 
full. It would be advantageous to make the return perfect from all the counties. We 
