Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1853-11-17
On Weat.

The undersigned, acting as committee on
The best five acre lol Of Wheat, beg leave to
report, that upon an examination of the GER
licates ii appears that Capt. Jas Fl. Neale
is entitled TO the first premium, his yield
being rs l-2 bushels; and for The second
lot we award the second premium to Mr..
John %, Maddox, his lot yielding l43 12
bushels.
The undersigned. acting as committee on
the best acre Of ., beg leave TO report,
kba. for the besJ they award the first
Vemium To D r. Wills, being 80
shells ans in Hsmil.on the Sc
y Acre, heine. 90 "a
90. gis respectfully sub
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The same, at the request of their neigh
Dor Capt. James II. Neale, LAID off by stretching
over the same rope seventy yards long, an area
of five acres of his growing Wheat of the present
year, and one of them, Mr.. Benjamin Welch, be-
ing present when the yield Of the said five acres
was measured by standard half-bushel, and
found to amount to 170 1-2 bushels. In witness
whereof, they have hereunto affixed their hands.
F. B. F. BURGEss,
BENJAMIN WEIGH.
This is to certify, that at my request Mr. Wash
ington Ware assisted me to measure lot of five
acres of Wheat with line, and that carefully
reaped, thrashed and measured from said lot one
hundred and forty-three bushels, two pecks and a
half of Wheat-variety, blue em,-raised on
tobacco land, of dark brown soil.
JOHN 0. MADDOX.
| hereby certify, that Mr.. John O. Maddox ap-
peared before me, the subscriber, Justice of the
Peace in and for Charles County, State of Mary
land, and made oath on the Holy Evangely of AL
mighty God, that the above statatement is correct
as it stands stated. As witness my hand this 9th
day of November, 1853
Sworn before, P. DAVIS.
Charles County, State Of Maryland to rit:
On this eighth day of November, personally ap-
peared John B. Wills and F. R. Wills before a
Justice of the Peace in and for the State and Coun
ty aforesaid, and made oath on the Holy Eyange-
ly of Almighty God, that they measured with a
rope one acre of land after the usual manner,
allowing seventy yards square to the acre. and fur
ther that from the same acre the SAID John B.
Wills measured thirty-tWo bushels white Wheat
therefrom. Sworn before p. DAVIS
F. r. Wills sworn before E. W. DAY.
.Uode Of CuLtiratio1, Src.-The variety of Wheat
grown was the Polish. The land upon which it
was grown fallowed up "a clover lay) in the
last part of August, the Wheat seeded in October,
then cultivated, and afterwards raked The soil
loan of clay bottom. The quantity of seed per
acre, about one bushel and peck. No manure
OF any kind was used either before or after seed
ing, except clover and plaster after the usual
manner.
We the undersigned as committee do certify,
that DR.. F. Il. Wills is entitled to the premium for
the best one acre of land for Wheat, as stated a.
bove. THOMAS II. KENT, of Jos.
Il. IL. SMooT.
This is to certify, that have measured one a
ere of land, allowing seventy yards square to the
acre, the product was thirty bushels and three
quarters of blue stem Wheat. This land had in
the fall of l049 dressing of ten bushels of bone
dust to the acre, raked in with the Wheat. 1t was
seeded in clover the following spring and remain
ed in clover until the fall of 1851, when it was
ploughed in, and planted in Tobacco IN 1852 with
out any additional manure. The crop of Tobacco
was light, having been planted late, and the sea-
son very dry. The Wheat was seeded late in Oc-
tober, and the above is the result. The soil
brittle clay. JOHN HAMILTON.
Sworn before F.. w. DAY.
On Oats and Corn.
The committee on Oats and Corn re-
sPectiully report, that after a careful examl-
nation Of the certificates and afii'lavIs sub
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