Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1854-11-07

III Il OF PREMIUMS
4mar,led by tie yvginia state Agr'csbT"l Soc"iE
at Rs annual exhibition J0r 1854.

AmarIcd By tic yygiaia State Agr'cshNyaI Society
at Ks annual exhibition for 1851.
BRANCH |.
Experiments R"porird IN Writing.
(FOr the first nine premiums under this hcnd no
awards have been madc.)
10. Cost and effects ot bone-dust or phosphate OF
lime as manure different soils, and Tor different
crops, s25, awarded to james w. Graves Of Orange
II. Benefits and products OF gunno, compared t"
costs 10 be tested BY not less than ten different cxpcr
iments made under different circumstances of SOIL
crop, season, &C., $50, awarded to Thos' Jones o
Richmond county.
CThe Committee male no awards from IL to IL in
elusive. under this hcadl
A. Best series Of comparative experiments in the
cultivation "f cnrr s2i, awarded to Richard lrby :"
Nottoway county.
AZ, 80, IL. For the best and most extensive several
series of experiments the culture, production and
values nf the southern field pea, directed To deter
mine some Of the questionable points To he stated be.
low, premium of S5our the second best series, si'
Aud for the third best S}O-viz:
Comparative products, on adjoining and equal land
Of any good vino or stalk bearing variety, when sown
bruad-cast, or when cutivatcd--ln matnrcd and well
dried seed or grnu and also in the whole plants above
ground, weighed as the first pods are ripe
Comparative products under like culture and other
circumstances OF any different varieties deemed
among the most valuable for msnurins crop, in the
grain and also ot the whole plants-as of any of the
various red or black pens, the buff or COW pea, the
speckled Tor "Sliinncy' pea, Indy pen, Chckasaw or
("Or.ron'') pca or any other of the many other
kinds Manuriig value OF pea crop TO the succeed
ng crop of wheat, compared with like adjoining land
without pcas-and this value under either of the diff
frent conditions Of broad cnst Tor fnnw) crop Of
peas having eutire possession OF tile ground, or OF be-
ing sown, planted, as secondary crop with corn
Whether the growth of pens planted or sowm brond-
cast az secondary crop with corn, operates 10 dnin-
sh the production of the corn-and If so, under whit
conditions and to what extent: The feeding value OF
ripe peas compared with corn-and of the vines,
whether green or cured for hay, compared with clo-
vcr rorn-fut,ler other grass or hay To what
tent the Ilannrn. value of cover of broadcast peas
il lcxscncd bv The ripe s,.c,l-pudS being gathered or
consumed by hogs rr other live stock 81 awarded 70
K. W. y. holland "f Alhcmnr!c.
BRANCH II.
EsmYs amt Othcr TrittcA Communications.
S6. On improving aud curichiug poor land-whc-
ther naturally poor or naturally rirh or good and
subsequently exhausted by severe "roppinE $50, VIM.
ID. Gresham.
81, So, no report.
~. On the accumulation, preparation and applica-
ton of stock yard, stable and vegetable anurcs $40
Edmund Rut1in.
~ No report.
81. On the properties and value Of the Southern
pea Tor "coruell pea' of any variety,l and the cu-
ture thereof wheter for saving the rpcnded peas or
pouehing under the growth green or dry for manure
and "A preparatiot fur wheat other grain crops,
$50, Edmund luifn
From 9l to 70 no report.
BRANCH III.
Most profitable farming IN ITgrntd.
The committee the "most profitable farming IN
Virginia" report. Viewing the field which they
would have to survey and the limited number OF
which it composcd the time in which it ha5 to aef