The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-03-05
Specifications presented by Applicants for
Premiums on Field Crops.

.fh'"eaA'Nifs
ecifcoiion Of a crop Of Winter What raised
Jg Z. Soi7co, B,idpot, 1919.
The field Of wheat contained 2l3 rods Of
and. 1t was piece of land that has been
,oughei every year for thirty years. Soil is
shnt VIC call slate lonm. In 1918 was planted
o corn. and manurcd with coarse barn-vard
cart-loads to the acre The
condition of TIC land was bad on account of
weeds after the crop Of corn was harvested
The land ploughcd once and the weeds turned
indcr Sowcd two bushels Of seed TO the u.
re, the first week Of September The yield, or
mount of wheat on the piece, was 80 2 bush
'ls-equal to Al bushels per acre, or nearly
hat
Labor performed on said piece Of wheat
day pcugling;
IL day dragging;
l2 days rcaping and binding
and boy.
c. sOLACE.
Dridport December 10, 1919.
On this crop the Committee awarded the
first premium.
SpcciG alton Of a CRAP Of Winter T'lcas raised
by Jcmcs Hmilioa I'd, BndIort ls4o.
The field contained two acres. In 1915, had |
corn on one acre, and peaac on the other On |
the two acres put tlirty.two loads of manure. |
works $500
To sowing and narrowing,
ID day, rs
half i
1919, Aug, "a. To grading and bind
ing, $500
TO getting it into the
barn, l2 days work, l,25
To lhrashing, with ma
1 = h. .oI, 1 al.
ing up.
Had Sc i.2 bushels on the two acres-that is,
2s Ia bushels 10 the acre, Soil loamy.
JAMES HAMILTON, I'd.
Bridport, Dec 81, 1919.
The above crop took the second premium
on Winter Wheat
Certificates ond Specification of Crop ef Spring
Wheat, roiselJy Allen Smith, Addison 1919.
ADDISON, Dec LIST, A. D. 1919.
To all concerned this witncsscth that !, James
ToTcy, Of Panion, thrashod for Allen Smith, OF
Addison, sixty.fvc shocks Of Black Sea Wheat
| that Allen Smith aud James Conner told me
grew on one acre Of land ten rods one way and
| sixteen rods the other way. said land being on
| Allen Smiths farm, in Addison, Said wheat
was on a sca1old in Allen Smiths barn, in said
| Addison. and that there was forty one bushels
of Wheat by measure, and lat | weighed one
bushel of the said Wheat. that weighed. on a
mir of scales. sixty three mounds. maxine by
! wejoht A 3.GO bushels Witness my hand
JAMES D. TORREY.
W.. ,,,,. o.r.;r, tho, I ror,os ,,,,,ro. liz,
,,;it va llIn Si' IN Io s,,r,,. ~ Ieio ',,'u
hired man, that helped said Smith measure
one acre Of land, on which the above sixty-fivC
shocks Of Wheat grew that was thrcshed by
James Towey, flat helped cut the Wheat and
helped said Smith pnt II in his barn, on Il scat
fold by itself hat lived with said Smith al
tue line said 'Iorrcv ihrashed the Wheat ant
that hclped thrash the same, and that There
was forty-onc bushels of Wheat by measure
The land was measured with n rope one ROD
long, and the piece Of land that we measured
was ten rods one way and sixteen rods the OH
or way, and this acre was the last Wheat drawn
out of the lot, and that hcre was sixty five
shocks Of Wheat on the sid acre which sale
} sixty five shocks Of Wheat was the same ha
} James Towey thrashcd for Allen Smith on Tho
first day OF December, 1919, as stated by said
James Torrcy / am still living with sale
Smith. Witness my hand,
JAMES CONNER.
r. ou ooroor,o1 die v,;,nosso,,, ,I,,, rois
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I'l ~ ID.or;lad H.. I,n,os o.. nnJ tbat
,ana as ursc,s9GI ny Jacs Jo hoin Iu t"ai
IT, ''.'' - s'I II ~ 49,
SANE III my unin 't'.u tIi"' iiSou NTH u,
same as ncSvi'peu %! 'n5o o,v! u 'u'''
pelIeYc ue st".e,.o'',s ''',o - .,'ed" ".o Sv
s'"ni'aly oof'DSN "i'u .,i"' NY mis ., ~.
one 9u',. o 81 co Ie"I ~ 'I, """ l,as
WSi9nCT ~ '-oo g T " wight 90 O's''''
| ,o,o AiLEN oNii H.
S ADDISON Dec ISL lo4''
A SrEcrrIcATioY.-Thc within and abov
C piece Of land that produced the W heat descn,
a ed in the ccrtihca'es' was IN one pleceGi6 rod
o one way ana ~ fo9s me other way Sa'd IAN
= had large crop OF corn on II IN 1873 Sai
s land was p'ouehcd once IN the lail OF ls4o, an