Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-11-13

being 23l bushels, making an average Of q
IL bushels per acre to DR.. John R. Fur.
gusson, the premium for the best acre o
Wheat, which yielded 35 bushels; and tc
DR.. SIouten w. Dent, the premium for the
best acre Of Oats, the yield of which was
70 bushels. The Committee would with
pleasure state, that had there been a premi,
um offered for the second best acre of Wheat
they would cheerfuly have awarded the
same to Dr. Robert FERGUSON. for his acre
which yielded 80 bushels. To the mode
Of preparing the land, time Of seeding, and
kinds Of Wheat, sc, they would respectful
ly refer TO the different certificates present.
ed. All Of which is respectfully submitted
ABsALoM TENNIsoN,
RICHARD PRICE.
['rhe following are the papers referred to in the
foregoing Report:
Certificate, and mode Of Cuuirating Wheat by Josias
II. HalckinS.
hereby certify. that measured lot containing
ten and quarter acres accurately it could be
done with rope, and that cut, thrashed cleaned
and carefully measured the product, and that it
yielded % bushels of Wheat making an average OF
% l2 bushels to the acre. The soil was of brit
tie character, mixed with clay, and was fallowed in
August ls49, at that time in clover. A poor knoll
OF about an acre only, was manured with farm-yard
manure commenced seeding it on the Goth day
Of September, ploughed in the seed with l-horse
plough, and then raked and rolled it in.
(Swom to by) JosIAs II. HAWKINS.
October %, 1850.
Certificate, and mode Of Culipating Wheat By Doct.
John r. Ferguson.
An acre OF land, or 10 yards by 10, in Wheat, was
laid off and cut during the last harvest in Dr. John
r. Fergusson's field /; the Wheat thrashed out the
first week in September.
The product of the was over 35 bushels red
Mediterranean Wheat of good quality
The land was measured with rope The Wheat
was measured by J. Ferguson Bruce and w.
Letrell.
The land had been in Corn 200 lbs. Guano
ploughed in, and the Wheat narrowed over-about
one and half bushels to the acre. Seeded Goth
September, lS49
Similar land ploughed and seeded in the same
manner, without Guano, did not average more than
Is bushels of Wheat to the acre.
The Guano, therefore, produces an increase of
20 bushels of Wheat TO the acre.
The land was laid'off and the Wheat measured
under my direc tions
This land was not sown Or prepared with view
to premium.
Certified to by1 D. JENIrER
oolooel 20, looo.
Certificate, and mode of Cultipating Wheat by Doct.
c,, ,'0Oe'. reg asS0". =, -.
Dr. Robert Feronssons Wheat nrn 1as
vest the Wheat thrashed out the middle Of Octo-
ber The product in white Eturian Wheat was 80
bushels good measure.
The land was clover faliow the Wheat har-
rowed in about the Goth October, IS49-one and a
halfbushels soWn to the acre.
The land was laid off with rope, and the Wheat
measured under my directions, by Henry FERGUSON
An aero Of land ,vas als" IL nf IN s;n',s ~ uu
ner-of corn-land Wheat. The product Of the acre
was 26 l-2 bushels This seeded at the rate of
one ana nan oushels OF Dlue-s'em wheat to the
~ Neither ortbese folds wcrc sovn Or rren,red with
a view to premium.
Certified to by) u. JENIFER.
OCTOBER 2o, looo.
Certificate, and mode Of CMHirating Oats by Doct s.
w. Dent.
Seventy yards square produced 20 bushels of
Oats this season, 1850 The lot was poor and stiff.
In the spring of lS49 | put AZ cart loads of
cow-yard manure upon it ploughed it in pre-
pared it, and planted Corn. The crop was by no
means large one The corn stalks were cut off
and left Oh the land, and this spring Oats were
seeded and ploughed in "a bad Oat year, being too
dry. The yield has been 20 bushels.
(Sworn to by) S. w. DENT.
HePoTt u lHe Co'amutee on CoTH, IUa!oeS
and IWnlps.
The Committee on Corn, Potatoes and
urnIps, respectfully report, that they award
the first premium oil IS, 10 MIR. William
3. Matthews, Tor the best acre OF Corn,
The yield beng II IL barrels; and your
COMMITTEE award to Mr. JosIas ii. Haw-
klns, the premium of so3, for the best yield
of Is OF an acre Of Irish Potatoes-num-
Der Of bushels 26. For the Turnip preml-
um, there was no exhibition.
JOSEPH You've,
NV. MILES,
EDWARD MILES.