'ploughed it twice lightly so as not to stir up the sward. Soil, a rich black mould. EXPENSE OF CULTURE. Ploughing 2 days.. Eight loads of manure, hauling and spreading.. Dropping seed, harrowing and covering - Ploughing and hoeing.. 00 4.00 1 00 2.00 1.50 6 00 Gathering 5 00 $23 50 Nov. 8, 1830.-This day surveyed and measured a field on which Alexander Pow harvested a crop of oats, this season, and found the same to contain 8 acres and two-hundredths of an acre. Also at the same time surveyed and measured a field on which said A. Pow harvested a crop of Indian corn this season, and found the same to contain 1 acre and eighty-two-hundredths of an acre. JAMES L. COOK, Surveyor, Oat field... 8.02 1.82 Affirmed to and subscribed before me, this 9th day of November, 18.50. L. L. MOORE, J. P. This is to certify that we, the undersigned, measured the corn produced on one acre and eighty-two-hundredths of an acre, as stated above, and found it to be 3154 bushels of ears, making 861 bushels of shelled corn to the acre. YERKES HOWELL, Affirmed to and subscribed this 9th day of November, A. D. 1850. L. L. MOORE, J. P. This is to certify that we, the undersigned, measured the oats produced on the eight and two-hundredths of an acre, as stated above, and found it to be 320 bushels, being nearly 40 bushels to the acre. YERKES HOWELL, WILLIAM LEAVITT. Affirmed to and subscribed before me this 9th day of November, A. D. 1860. L. L. MOORE, J. P. The ground for the corn crop was a meadow, broken up in the spring, about ten inches deep-went through it twice with the cultivator, once with the hoe, and once with a small plough. That for the oats, was in corn the preceding year, ploughed in the spring ten or twelve inches deep, sowed two bushels and a half to the acre, and harrowed in. ALEX. POW. JAMES BRUCE'S CROP OF POTATOES. The soil that these potatoes were raised on was a black loam with a mixture of clay. It was a piece that had not been ploughed for some time. It was ploughed deep, and well harrowed before planting. The ground was marked out in squares of about three feet or three and a half feet wide, and then planted, one potato to the hill. When the potatoes were just up, the cultivator was passed through them, and after a few days they were ploughed out both ways and then hoed. I would just say we pick out our seed potatoes in the fall, when, we gathered them in. I would prefer a middling large smooth potato for planting; one good potato is enough in the hill. I would also say, that the best preventive I have found to keep potatoes from rotting, is to plant early and not dig till ripe. JAMES BRUCE. Personally appeared before me, Charles Ruggles, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Mahoning, Joseph Bruce and Matthew Jones, and being by me duly sworn, depose and say, that they measured the ground on which the potatoes were raised that James Bruce presented to the Agricultural Society of said county, and also the potatoes-that there was one-fourth of an acre, and that there were 60 bushels of potatoes. MATTHEW JONES, Sworn and subscribed before me on this the 6th of Oct., 1850. CHARLES RUGGLES, J. P. DAVID HAYNES' CROP OF WHEAT. My crop was raised on 2 acres of land. 69 Τσο The crop was 114 bushels, being 42 bushels to the acre. The most of the land was a heavy clay soil. I broke the ground, (which had laid in sward about four years) in the month of May, with three pair of oxen, with a Kincaid's patent plow-the ground was very wet. In the month of August, I harrowed the ground-on the first of September, I plowed it with a pair of horses, and then harrowed it again about the 15th of September, and sowed a bushel and a half of garden wheat (a new kind of bald wheat,) to the acre. I plowed the seed in with a one horse plow, and the lands were from eight to nine feet wide. It was not offered for premium, because the quantity of ground required to take the premium was three acres. DAVID HAYNES. The following premiums were ordered to be entered on the list of awards, it appearing to the Board that they were omitted by mistake in the reports of the committee, viz: Best pair of matched horses for saddle and carriage, Philo $2.00 Best filley for draught, 2 years old, John Fink, Canfield, Diploma and.. 2.00 28-AG. REP. A considerable amount of the premium list was paid, and a part of the diplomas delivered at the above meetings. The unpaid premiums will be paid on demand, by the Treasurer, at his residence in Poland. The diplomas may be obtained of the Secretary, at his residence in Canfield. Pursuant to a vote of the Society, Mr. Little's Address has been published in both papers of the county, and a number of extra copies struck off for gratuitous circulation. The Board wish to increase their premium list, both in the amount of premiums, and on the number of articles for competition, that the great object for which the Society was established, "Improvement in Agriculture," may be the better promoted. In order to do this, we need an additional number of members. We therefore earnestly request all those, who are friendly to the objects of the Society, who are willing to aid in promoting and advancing "Improvement," to become members, and to forward their names to any member of the Board before the first Wednesday of April next, at which time the premium list is made up. The fee for membership is $1 per year-which entitles the member and any of his family to compete for premiums, and to a copy of the Annual Report. Nov. 9, 1850. JOHN M. EDWARDS, Secretary. MARION COUNTY. BY J. 8. COPELAND. 1. PRINCIPAL CROPS.-Grass, Wheat, Corn and Oats. 2. WHEAT.-Usual average 18 bushels-this year about 23 bushels; aggregate quantity this year 170,000; white "blue stem" generally preferred. 3. CORN.-Usual average is 40 bushels; present crop about a fair average; probably the largest portion of it is fed to stock. Near 100 bushels per day is used by distilleries, and of late considerable is sent north, via Lake; price 20 to 25 in autumn, and 25 to 35 in summer. 4. OATS. Our usual average is 45 to 50 bushels-this year's crop suffered much from drouth; yield about 25 to 30 bushels. Injuries to which it is most liable, are late spring frosts, drouth and weeds. 5. RYE AND BARLEY.-None raised beyond our own consumption by distilleries and breweries. 6. GRASS AND HAY.-Our extensive plains abound in excellent grasses, affording natural pastures, unsurpassed in any part of our State. The usual average of hay is two tons per acre. From 5th May to 30th June, we had no rain. Clover and Timothy on clay soil this year, cut in July, averaged about one ton per acre; Timothy and Red Top on our plains, (meadows,) cut in August, averaged about 1 tons. Present prices $3 to $5 per ton, as per quality and location. 7. ROOT CROPS. - Potatoes were much better this year than for several previous years, and the loss by rot less than for some years past; they were abundant in town at 18 to 25 cents, but taken to railroad, (at Kenton,) sold at 25 to 35 cents, for exportation. New ground "sandy alluvial," without manure, we think best for this crop; dried a few hours in sun when dug, and put in an out-house, dry, cool and airy, is, we think, a partial preventive of rot-at least they have done far better than those immediately buried when dug. Turnips, for table and stock, are raised to some extent; know of no other roots raised for feeding stock, as corn is easier raised, and far cheaper. Artichokes. Some year's experimenting with this vegetable, at Zanesville, on a warm sandy, light soil, convinces me that it is a most valuable root for feeding to hogs, horses, cows and sheep; it is more jucy than the potato, and yields from 400 to 600 bushels per acre; frost does not injure them, and hogs feed themselves, when not too hard frozen, as they want. When mixed with potatoes, my stock would eat the former and leave the latter. With me they proved a sure crop, and did not cost over 3 to 4 cents a bushel for labor. |