The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-04
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
SATURDAY MOANING. NOVEMBER I, 1854.
LIST OF PREMIUMS

SATURDAY MOANING. NOVEMBER I. 1854.
LIST OF PREMIUMS
Aearded By the .Virginia State Agricultural
Society, at its annual exhibition for 1854.
BRANCH l.
Experiments Reported in Writing. :.
For the first nine premiums under this head
no awards have been made.)
10. Cost and effects of bone dust, or phoos'
phate of lime, as manure, on differen. s9ns'
and for different crops, sso, AWARDED " Jas
w. Graves of Orange
II BENEFITS and products of guano, COM
pared 20 costs: to be tested by not less than
ten different experiments. made under diner-
emit circumstances of soil, crop, season, &c,
Ss0 awarded to Thomas Jones OF Richmond
county.
70 az inclusive, under this head.
43. Best series of comparative experiments
in the cultivation Of corn, SOS, awarded to
Richard Irby of Nottoway county.
40, so, 81. For the best and most extensive
several series of experiments on the culture,
production and values of the southern field
pea, directed to determine some of the ques
fionable points to be stated below, apremium
of S50-for the second best series, $40-and
for the third best s30-viz:
Comparative products, on adjoining and
equal land, of any good vine or stalk bearing
variety, when sown broad cast, or when cul
tivated-in matured and well dried seed or
grain, and also in the whole plants above
ground, weighed as soon as the first pods are
ripe: Comparative products under like culture
and other circumstances, of any different va
rieties deemed among the most valuable tor
manuring crop, in the grain, and also of
the whole piants-as of any of the various
red or black peas, the buff or cow pea, the
speckled for 'Shinney' pea, lady pea, Chick
asaw Tor Oregon pea, or any other of the
many other kinds: Manuring value of pea
crop to the succeeding crop of wheat, com
pared with like adjoining land without peas
and this value under either of the differ
ent conditions of broad cast Tor fallow) crop
ofpeas having entire possession ofthe ground
or of being sowD, or planted, as a secondary
crop with corn: Whether the growth of peas
planted or sown broad cast as a secondary
crop with corn, operates to diminish the pro.
ductiOn of the cOrn-and if go, under what
conditions and to what extent: The. feeding
value of ripe peas compared with cOrn-anc
of the vines, whether green or cured for hay
compared with clover, corn-fOdder or Othel
grass or hay: To what extent the manurine
value of cover of broadcast peas is less
ened by the ripe seed-pods being gathered Oh
COUSuIleu Uy uOSS OF Ol1ltT i've StuCh
awarded to r. W. N holland of Albemarle
BRANCH III.
Essays and other rritten Communications
sc On improving and enriching poor lant
whether naturally poor or naturally rich
or good, and subsequently exhausted by Sc
we're cropping, so, VIM d Gresham.
81, g, no report.
SO On the accumulation, preparation anC
application of tock-yard, stable and vegeta
BILE manures, 40, Edmund Rufiin.
80 No report.
81 On the properties and value of the South
ern pea, Tor "cOrnfield pea" of any variety,
and the culture thereof; whether for saving
the ripened peas, or ploughing under the
growth, green or dry, for manure, and as pre-
paratiOn for wheat or other grain crops, so
Edmund Ruffin.
From % to 95 no report.
BRRNCH III.
Most profitable farming an Virginia.
The committee on the "most profitable
farming in Virginia." report. Viewing the
field which they would have to survey and
the limited number of which it is composed
the time in which it has to act having no
applications before it for premiums, deem
it inexpedient to express an opinion on the
good farming of individuals or neighbor-
hoods. Your committee deeming it their
duty to contribute what may be in their pow
er to advance the interest of the Society. beg
leave respectfully to suggest, that the Exec
utive Committee should annually appoint a
committee of three Ijudicious farmers for each
senatorial district, whose duty it shall be to
inspect and report upon all farms in said dis
trict which may be offered for premiums
that applicants for premiums shall give no.
ticetO the Chairman of said committee at
least two months before the annual Fair
that said Committees from the senatorial
districts shall report to the Executive Com
mittee one day before the annual meeting
These reports laid before the committe on
the "most profitable farming would consti
tute the materials upon which honorary pre-
miums could be discreetly awarded
Committee-Jeremiah Morton, Braxton
Davenport, P. B. Jones.
SO. For the best essay on any subject Of
Agricultural chemistry, or other science, con
str>ction applicable to practice, $50, Rich
mona A. Lewis
81 to l02 No report.
l03. Best essay on the cause, remedy anC
and prevention of the disease called "dis
temper in cattle, 80, DIR w s Morton
l04 to laa No report.
BRANCH ".
Best Entire Crops of Different Farms.
1913 No award.
l24 Best average product of wheat, so, Natha,
ielF Bowe of Henrico, averaging 80 1>3 bushels pc
acre.
125 Best average product of clover 30, Garlan
Hanes OF Heprico, tons per acre.
226 No award
ss27 No award
From l2s to l47 no awards.
BRANCH v.-LIvE STOCK.
H0rses-Th0r0uQhb
l4o For the best thoroughbred stallion witbor
regard to performance on the turf, $50 TO John
Bolts OF Henrico. for his sorrel horse .Financier
10 years old by Boston, ont OF the dam of Revenu,
149 For ID best thoroughbred stallion, wi,ho,
regard to performance on the turf 25 TO J T Ma
tiD, for his horse prince Albert"
$50 For the best thoroughbred mare, without r,
gard 10 performance on the turf 90. TO James Tall
OF Henrico, for his mare Martha Washington
15l For I'd best thorough mare, without reear
70 performance on the turf, 10, to Thomas w Dol
well Of Richmond, for his bay mare Nina
Log For the best year old colt or filly. Is. Il
Calvin Green, for his brown illy Augusta, by Ain
l53 For the best year old colt or filly. 10. to
!" haxall, Tor bay colt by Childe Harold.
~, i9f FOR the best year old colt or iy, s, 10 d
walker OF GoochIand,' grey colt by Chde Har
Quick Draught and Saddle Horses.
l35 For the best stallion for Quick drapoht sn
'Kossuth' A oay aorss
l56 For the Cd best stallion for ouc. dr.,u,.
Ok CharIea III Rodea FIR his