and ladies present, let us separate with the kindliest feelings for each other's welfare, and at the next annual return of our meeting, may a still deeper interest be elicited in our industrial enterprise and progress connected with the soil, without any diminution of our numbers, and with increased zeal and knowledge for our future and enlarged operations. GUERNSEY COUNTY. BY THOMAS W. PEACOCK AND MOSES SARCHET 1. PRINCIPAL CROPS.-The principal crops are wheat, corn, oats, hay, tobacco, apples, peaches, &c. 2. WHEAT.-Average product this year, 23 bushels. This year's crop superior to any year past. Product of 40,000 acres, 1,000,000 bushels of wheat. Market price at the canal, from 60 to 65 cents. 3. CORN.-Average yield 50 bushels. This year is a medium crop. 30,000 acres of corn; average price 31 cents. Surplus consumed by droves. 4. OATS.-Average yield 60 bushels. This year's crop about one-half that. 20,000 acres of oats will be consumed within the county. A cold backward spring injured this crop. RYE AND BARLEY.-Barley is just coming into use; 40 bushels is a good average. Rye is an uncertain crop-not much raised. Broom corn and beans but little raised. 6. GRASS AND HAY.. Average one and a half tons of hay. Crops generally light, owing to backward seasons. Worth from $5 to $8 per ton. 15,000 acres of meadow, and about 50,000 acres of pasture land. 7. ROOT CROPS. - Potatoes yield about 150 bushels to the acre. Owing to the disease, not so many raised as formerly. Rich upland, without fresh manure, seems the surest way to secure sound healthy potatoes. TOBACCO is doing well; average yield 600 pounds. About 1,000,000 lbs. tobacco produced in Guernsey. 9. FRUIT.-Generally good. Apples and peaches plenty; 440,000 pounds for exportation in a dried state. 10. SEEDS of all kinds are scarce. 11. BUTTER.-Guernsey exports 250,000 pounds, at about 8 cents per pound. 12. WOOL.-Quantity and quality improving; about 200,000 lbs. produced annually. 13. PORK.-Product for exportation, 3,000,000 pounds; aggregate value $75,000; one-half slaughtered, the other driven to the Baltimore market. 14. The assessment of 1850, shows 9,299 horses, 23 mules, 15,029 cattle, 78,473 sheep, 23,386 hogs in Guernsey; assessed value $491, 718 00. 15. OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.-Our farmers houses, out-houses, barns, wagons, agricultural implements, show a gener spirit of improve. ment. 16. MINERALS-There are eleven salt furnaces in operation, and one more salt well being dug. Coal of the best quality abounds in Guernsey. The intelligence of the farmers of Guernsey will compare favorably with any part of the State; and all that is wanting is more internal improvements-cheap transportati of their produce-more money and commercial facilities, to give life and activity to trade and enterprise, to make one of the richest counties in Ohio. The sum of $19 has been collected for the State Agricultural Funds, by the law regulating public shows. No escheated lands. REPORT of the President and Secretary of the Guernsey County Agricultural Society. To the State Board of Agriculture: GENTLEMEN-In compliance with the requirements of the law of February 27th, 1846, "for the encouragement of agriculture," I re18-AG. REP. spectfully submit the following report, relative to the doings of the Guernsey County Agricultural Society, for the year 1850. The fourth annual fair of this Society, was held at Cambridge on the 3d and 4th days of October last, pursuant to notice published for thirty days in the two papers of this county. This notice and the list of the premiums awarded to the fair, are herewith transmitted for your inspection. The first day was set apart for the exhibition of animals, and the second to that of agricultural products, manufactures, &c. The show of animals and articles at the fair, was not so good as last year, owing, it is thought, to the time, being a little too early in the season, the farmers being yet busy with their fall work. The number of members this year, was ninety. The officers elected for the present year, are as follows: GORDON LOFLAND, Vice President. C. J. ALBRIGHT, Secretary. HUGH WILSON, A. MCCRACKEN, JAMES JOHNSON, Managers. The post-office address of these gentlemen is Cambridge, with the exception of the last named, which is Byesville, Guernsey County, Ohio. The financial condition of the Society, is as follows: Balance in treasury, over from 1849... $89 20 100 00 $189 20 Paid out for premiums, and expense for 1849_. 133 90 Balance over from 1849.. $55 30 Received from members in 1850.. 90 00 $145 30 The amouut expended this year in premiums, is about $130. About one-fourth of this amonnt was distributed in agricultural and mechani cal books and papers. By this course, almost every person to whom a premium is awarded, is furnished with a book or paper, and thus a great amount of valuable information is afforded to the people, that would not reach them without the agency of the society. C. J. ALBRIGHT, Secretary, Guernsey County Agricultural Society. CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, Nov. 29, 1850. GUERNSEY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, List of Premiums to be awarded at the Fourth Annual Fair, to be held at Cambridge, on Thursday and Friday, the 3d and 4th days of October, 1850. At a meeting of the Board of Managers, held on the 10th inst., the following list of premiums was ordered to be published: 2d " 66 64 2d" 2d " 2 00 and Hind's Farriery. 1 00 and Best Horse Colt from 2 to 3 years 2 00 and do do do do 1.00 and do do Best Horse Colt from 1 to 2 years 2 00 and Mason's Farriery. Committee on Horses-TurnerG. Brown, David Virtue and Ichabod 2.00 and do do do do Grummon. Best Heifer from 2 to 3 years... 1 00 and Cultivator. 2d" 66 66 do do do 1 00 and do do Committee on Cattle.-Cyrus Hall, William Linn, and Andrew Proudfit. ON SHEEP. Best Merino Buck (white top)--$2 00 and American Shepherd. 1.00 and Best Merino Buck (black top).- 2 00 and 2d" 2d " 66 Best 3 Merino Ewes (white top)- 2 00 and 2d" 100 and Committee, John Foster, John Craig and Henry McCartney. Committee-Robert Conner, John Martin and Jonathan Bye. |