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“I commence picking the first of September. Last year I employed, 
on the five acres, sixteen girls for two weeks and three days. Their wages 
were from two to four shillings per day with board. I dry and press my 
hops in bales containing about two hundred pounds each. I use rope 
presses. I sold the yield of my five acres for fourteen hundred dollars. 
I consider the hop crop as sure as any I ever raised. It can be kept up 
for ten or twenty years with good management. 
“ The greatest growth I ever knew, was twenty eight hundred and 
eighty eight pounds raised from one acre by H. P. Potter, Madison 
County, N. Y., still manure being applied to the land. 
C. Avery.” 
VEGETABLES. — No. of Entries, 23. 
Judges — Tiiomas Hislop, Milwaukee ; J. C. Howard, Lake ; H. B. 
Hawley, Milford. 
Best six heads of cabbage ; Michael Pomerville, Watertown. Yol. Trans. 
Best peck of Bermuda potatoes ; William It. Smith, Mineral Point. Yol. 
Trans. 
Best twelve ears of seed corn; Edgerton & McCarter, Summit. Yol. 
Trans. 
Best sample of seed corn ; Mrs. Eliza Finch, Oak Grove. Yol. Trans. 
Best Sincia squash ; R. M. Meigs, Ottawa. 81. 
Best sample of imperial red potatoes ; D. M. Aspinwall, Farmington. 
Yol. Trans. 
Best sample of orange carrots ; Walter Pease, Jr., Watertown. 1st Yol. 
Trans. 
William R. Smith’s Statement: 
“ The potatoes exhibited by me, and upon which the premium was- 
awarded, are from some early potatoes raised this last spring in the island 
of Bermuda, W. I., and sold in the Philadelphia markets in the early 
part of May. 
“ They were brought to Wisconsin By myself, and planted on the 
eighth of June. 
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