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harrow the first time, after which it was ploughed with a shovel plough three times followed by the hoe each time.

October 15, 1847.

LEMUEL S. PAINE.

JEFFERSON COUNTY.

BY GEORGE M'CULLOUGH.

1. PRINCIPAL CROPS.-Wheat, Corn, Oats, Wool, Pork and Beef. 2. WHEAT.-Usual average from 12 to 15 bushels; the past season 22 bushels. Injured by rust and fly. No remedy. Improvement by drill and sub-soiling.

3. CORN.-Average yield 50 bushels. Character this year average; used by feeding to stock. Common price 35 cents.

4. OATS.-Average yield 40 bushels-past season average. Grasshoppers-no remedy.

5. RYE AND BARLEY.-Very little of either. Average price for Rye 40 cents; for Barley 60 cents.

6. GRASS AND HAY.-Timothy 2 tons, clover 1 tons per acre. The present season below average. Shortness by drouth. Bottoms or alluvial soil best. Usual price $6 per ton; present price average $9.

7. Roor CROPS.-Usual average 200 bushels potatoes. Good this year. Varieties various opinions. Disease-blue Neshanocks most liable. No particular mode of culture-no remedy for disease No other root crops for stock.

8. FRUIT. We challenge any county in the State for quality and quantity. We pride in improvements. It is an article of export in green and dry state; extent not known.

9. SEEDS. Some considerable amount of clover and timothy grown and exported-amount not known. Yield of clover 2 bushels, timothy 4 bushels per acre; yield this year of no importance. Value of clover $3,50; timothy $2,00 per bushel.

10. OTHER CROPS.-No hemp or flax grown. No other crops but broom corn; value $70 per ton; yield about one ton. Mode of culture, same as Indian corn.

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11. DAIRY PRODUCTS.-A considerable amount of butter exported; supposed from what data I have, to be at least 40,000 pounds; value 10 cents per pound. There has been a great improvement in quantity and quality; much attention is being paid to the manufacture of a superior article, and flatter ourselves that in this respect we are quite up to the spirit of the times. Native stock generally in use-average amount per cow not known.

12. SHEEP AND WOOL.-Aggregate amount produced 261,658 pounds; quality three-fourths full. Not much increase in amount of stock. Merino and Saxony generally preferred. Our county has with others, of similar topographical features, bordering on and adjacent to the Ohio river for 100 miles below Pittsburgh, a high reputation for a superior quality of wool; both for fineness of fibre, strength, elasticity, &c.

13. PORK.-Aggregate product of pork 19,000 head; value $95,000. Principally slaughtered at home. Quality not much improved, except in manner of feeding.

14. BEEF.-2,600 head, value $10 per head, generally slaughtered and driven away at 2 and 3 years old. Some improvement by the introduction of Durhams; no other variety has been in the county long enough to be fully tested. Ayrshire and Devonshire both intro

duced of late.

15. HORSES AND MULES.-Produce of horses 1,500; all exported; value $90 per head. There has been a marked improvement within say 10 years past, mostly by cross with English blood horses. Recently considerable attention has been given to a cross with northern stock of French description, in which we consider the introduction of Morgan stock an item.

16. IMPLEMENTS.-Wheat drills, sub-soil plows, rollers, harvesting and threshing machines. straw and stalk cutters, and corn and cob crushers are used, and many of them manufactured in our county, with evident economy in time and money.

17. OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.-Lime is being used to considerable extent and much evident advantage, especially upon clover. Very little land in our county requires drainage; our hills abound in inexhaustable beds of limestone and bituminous coal, enabling us to have quick-lime ready for use at a cost of 2 cents per bushel.

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18. MINERALS.-—A large amount of coal is annually produced and consumed in our county; also a considerable amount exported. No data by which to determine the exact amount. No iron and very little salt produced.

19. MILLS, &c.-We are well supplied with mills, the principal part of our wheat is manufactured at home. No increase worth notice We have a number of woolen factories and a cotton factory-no iron furnaces-a few salt wells, and a number of potteries that drive a good business to profit.

20. PUBLIC SHOWS.-The law has been enforced. Collected the present year $45 00.

REPORT OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

To the President of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture :

In regard to Jefferson County Agricultural Society, I can say that it is in a healthy condition. We have 135 members, who have paid into the Treasury $135; and we have received from the county the sum of $95. Forty members entered their names on the day of our exhibition, which rendered it impossible for us to draw that amount from the County Treasurer at this time. We paid $153 50 in premiums, and about $12 for printing and contingent expenses; leaving a balance in the Treasury of $64 50, which will enable us the coming year to award larger premiums. All of which is respectfully submitted.

GEORGE M'CULLOUGH, President,
Jefferson Co. Ag. Society.

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KNOX COUNTY.

BY WM. BONAR AND B. F. SMITH.

1. PRINCIPAL CROPS.-Wheat, Corn, Oats and Hay.

2. WHEAT.-Usual average 15 bushels per acre; average this season, 23 bushels. Estimate of the aggregate amount raised the present year, 342,000 bushels.

3. CORN.-Usual average 45 bushels per acre; the present crop will average 40 bushels. Estimate of the whole crop the present year, is 732,300 bushels. Common price 25 cents. Nearly all the surplus is distilled.

4. OATS.-Average yield 30 bushels; past season 25 bushels. The present crop is estimated at 249,700. Drouth or excessive wet seasons are about the only injuries this crop sustains.

5. RYE AND BARLEY.-Usual product about 15 bushels. Product the present year, about 8,000 bushels of each. Rye at 44 cts., and Barley 50 cents.

6. GRASS AND HAY.-Usual product 1 tons; present season one ton. The crop was injured on every variety of soil, this season. Usually sells for $4; this season $6.

7. ROOT CROPS.-Potato crop nearly all destroyed by the rot. The few left are of the long red Neshanock variety. But little or no attention given to other roots.

8. FRUIT. Character of fruit tolerably good, and a commendable effort to improve is observed. As yet but little exported.

9.SEEDS.-Almost an entire failure of clover, timothy, and flax seed the present season.

10. OTHER CROPS.-None, except a small quantity of tobacco.

11. DAIRY PRODUCTS.-There is but a small quantity exported. There are two or three dairies that are preparing to go into the busi

ness.

12. SHEEP AND WOOL.-Amount of last clip 267,500 lbs, from common to full blood Saxony. A considerable increase in number and quality of sheep. Those most experienced prefer the fine wool sheep 13. PORK. About 20,000 (2,000,000) lbs.? value $2,50 per cwt. all slaughtered within the county. The quality of the stock rather deteriorating.

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14. BEEF. But little more than is required for home consumption. Value about $15; a slight improvement in the breed. Short horn Durhams most approved.

15. HORSES AND MULES.-Increase in horses near 1,000 annually, and 400 exported. Improvements but little if any. Value $60. No males.

16. IMPLEMENTS.-Pennick, Palmer & Brown's wheat drills, have been introduced; and McCormick & Huzzie's reapers, b..t not suffi. ciently tested to determine their utility. Threshing machines are extensively manufactured and used. Stewart's Separator is preferred.

17. MILLS, &C.-Several saw-mills have been built, and one extensive foundry and machine factory, the present year, called the "Koosing Iron Works."

18. The amount collected from shows for agricultural purposes, is $40.

Report of the Knox County Agricultural Society.

The second annual Fair of the Knox County Agricultural Society, was held in Mount Vernon, on the first and second days of October, 1850, and was well attended. The interest manifested was encouraging, with nothing to discourage the friends of improvement.

106 00

Amount from last year unexpended, and in the treasury... $10 00
Amount received from members this year
Amount received from county this year

105 00

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