Belle Lucrative-Is in full and complete condition-rich, juicy and deliciousfully up to its summer reputation-very juicy and buttery. One-not recognized-in good condition-insipid sweetness, naturally so, apparently, but free from b'emish. Also, the well known Buerre Bosc; enjoying in every particular all of its well known characteristics of excellence. We feel warranted in saying that all of the foregoing fruit attained their natural color at maturity, and seems to be entirely divested of any foreign odor or flavor, so common to fruit kept by any process out of their ordinary seasons. ROBERT REILLY, Chairman. SIXTH DEPARTMENT. PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, ETC. ... .Silver medal. ....Diploma. .Silver medal. Best life-size photograph, colored, Lewis Seebohn, Dayton........$10 and med. Best specimen marble sculpture, E. La Dow, Dayton... 66 ...Silver medal. ..Diploma. Best collection and greatest variety of Ohio birds, Thos. B. Whiley, .Silver medal. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Best grand or semi-grand piano, Soehner & Rex, Dayton.........Silver medal. Best violin, J. T. Kenney & Son, Dayton.. COUNTY SOCIETIE'S REPORTS ON FIELD CROPS. The only entry for premiums on field crops was for wheat. The premium was awarded to Mr. B. F. Reid, of Cedarville township, Greene county, who cultivated a field of seven acres on the farm of Mr. John Reid; a lot of "common secondrate land, sown to flax, then plowed, harrowed, and wheat-drilled in on the 16th of October, at the rate of one and one-half bushel to the acre." The product was 185 bushels, or 26 bushels to the acre. Mr. Reid itemizes the cost of the crop as follows: To this should have been added the cost of the seed, and, to show what was the real net profit of the crop, a fair per cent. upon the capital invested in the land. These two items added, would probably run the cost to about $:06 62. At this point we will leave the case for some farmer friend to make a showing of the profits. At the annual meeting of the Society, held on the 6th day of January, 1862, the following premiums were awarded on field crops, to wit: R. Baker, of Avon, first premium on one acre of wheat, 3317 bushels. R. Baker's Wheat-1861. One acre of Kentucky white wheat entered for competition for premium offered by the Lorain County Agricultural Society, 1861. The soil is a mixture of black loam and cly. The previous crops were, three years corn, and one crop of oats (in 1860). Commenced plowing August 15th, 6 inches deep, across the former plowing for oats, which was in lands one rod wide. Sowed broadcast, September 6th, 1 bush. Kentucky white wheat to the acre; thoroughly harrowed with a pair of Scotch harrows; rolled it with a heavy roller; sowed 1 peck of herd's grass to the acre; harrowed it again; plowed out the old furrows, to take off surface water, leaving the lands about one rod wide, as in the previous oat crop; cut July 18th; hauled into barn July 24th; threshed August 8th. The grass injured the wheat crop to some extent, it being a ful growth. R. BAKER. (Signed) This is to certify that I measured one acre of R. Baker's wheat, and assisted to weigh the same, and found 33 bushels 17 lbs., at 60 lbs. per bushel. State of Ohio, Putnam County. (Signed) G. S. PHELPS. H. V. Watts, being duly sworn, says that he raised a crop of wheat the past season on his farm in Ottawa township, upon the land measured by J. L. H. Long, and that the quantity of wheat raised thereon was three hundred and ten bushels, making twenty-seven and five-ninths bushels per acre. This wheat was raised on bottom land that had been tended in corn twenty years; the soil is a block loam. The seed was sown about the 7th and 8th days of September, plowed in with corn by a shovel plow. The Mediterranean seed was used. Expense of Seed, Culture, &c. Two and a half days' plowing with horse.... Thirteen bushels seed wheat 82.50 13 00 50 00 33 75 $99 25 Wheat estimated at one dollar per bushel, three hundred and ten bushels. $310 00 18 69 H. V. WATTS. Net profit per acre Nov. 17, 1861. We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that we measured a piece of ground tended in corn the present season by John and Kersey Raley, and found it to contain two acres and one rod; and that we helped husk and measured the corn that grew upon the same, and found it to be one hundred and fifty bushels and seventeen and two third pounds of shelled corn. SALATHIEL Morlan, J. C. GREEN. The soil on which my corn grew is a sand and loam, in parts mixed with gravel. It had been lying in grass for five or six years; was plowed about the first of April, from six to seven inches deep; was twice harrowed, and planted about the 15th of May with good seed, of a variety known as the "Kemble," or lit le "Gourd Seed" corn. A part of the ground had some manure from the horse-stable spread upon it before breaking it up. The corn was planted in hills about four feet each way, and was thinned so as to leave but three stalks in each hill; was tended three times with cultivator and once with plow; hoed once. R. Baker, first premium on one acre of corn, 11818 bushels. 32 William H. Chandler, to whom was awarded first premium on a crop of 124 bushels of Indian corn, raised on one acre of ground, says: "Soil, sandy loam; no manure used; corn stubble; time of planting, 13th of May; kind of seed, yellow gourd seed. The ground was plowed 10 inches deep, harrowed well, furrowed out both ways, about 3 feet apart. About 10 pounds of seed used; cultivated with a double shovel plow; plowed four times; hoed three times." Upson Bushnell, Esq., of Gustavus, Trumbull county, raised on one acre of his farm 109 bushels of shelled corn. It was cultivated as follows, viz: 40 twohorse loads of swamp muck applied in the fall of 1860, and 35 loads of stable manure in the spring of 1861; plaster applied after planting; compost of hen manure and muck, a handfull in a hill-all at a cost of $13, including extra labor of planting. Mr. A. C. Fuller, of Birtol, raised from two acres of his farm 12,012 pounds of corn in the ear. It was turf ground, without manure. This is to certify that I raised a crop of corn this year, and the amount of ground is ten acres. I manured the ground, and plowed and harrowed, and drilled the seed in, two and a half feet apart, and ruled the same. The ground is black, loamy soil. I would say that I cultivated all alike, and measured one acre out of ten, and husked and measured the corn. E. R. Shook certifies that he raised a crop of corn on the land measured by John Hileman, and that he raised one hundred and twenty bushels per acre, by measurement in sealed half bushel, and the manner of cultivation as set forth above is correct. E. R. SHOOK. Josiah Weikart's Corn Crop. Nov. 5, 1861.-This day surveyed and measured a field on which a crop of corn was husked and gathered this season by J. Weikart, and found the same to contain 2 acres of land. PETER ZIMMERMAN. (Signed) Affirmed and subscribed before me, this 5th day of November, 1861. (Signed) N. P. CALLAHAN, Justice of the Peace. This certifies that the undersigned measured the produce of the above field, and found the same to be 60 bushels and 26 lbs. of corn per acre, weighing 63 lbs. per bushel, making in the aggregate 120 bushels and 52 (Signed) lbs. A. J. HAIFLEY, JOHN HAIFLEY. Affirmed and subscribed before me, this 5th day of November, 1861. (Signed) N. P. CALLAHAN, Justice of the Peace. The field was clover and blue grass sod; plowed in the month of March; the corn was planted on the 24th day of May; the ground was marked out 34 feet each way, and from 3 to 4 grains planted in a hill; the corn was cultivated with a corn cultivator, once in a row each way, and plowed twice with a single shovel plow, one round in each row, and the last time plowing three times in each row. There has never been any manure put on the field, nor was the corn plastered. JOSIAH WEIKART. (Signed) One acre of corn entered for competition by R. Baker, for premium offered by Lorain County Agricultural Society, 1861. The soil is a mixture of black loam and clay; subsoil clay; two previous (and only) crops, corn. Plowed May 15th, 8 inches deep, 10 inches wide, in lands one rod wide; thoroughly harrowed; marked across the lands, 3 feet wide; planted with hoe, 4 rows on each land; "Hackberry" variety, average 5 kernels to a hill; cultivated both ways, with five-tooth cultivator, as soon as could see the rows; one week after, cultivated again both ways; June 25th to 29th, plowed with one-horse plow, and thoroughly hoed; after harvest, cut out all weeds. The wind caused the crop to lodge some, making it bad to harvest. Cut September 28th; husked November 1st; weighed November 4th. per bush. This is to certify that I measured one acre of R. Baker's corn, and assisted to weigh the corn from said acre, and found 118 bushels 40 lbs., at 70 lbs. (Signed) C. N. WILLIAMS. |
