Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-01-20
w ashington County Agricul-
tural Society.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEET
ING CONCLUDED.
The committee on Field Crops re
ported, and awarded premiums a
follows:
WHEAT
/. VIM. A. Bradford, Barre, S
2. Alfred Eddy, CALAIS,
CORN
/. ID. d. Wing, Barre,
POTATOES
1. c. w. II. Dwlnncll, Marshfeld,
OATS
i. Austin Tenney, Montpelier,
CARROTS
!. F. A. Blodgett, Middlesex,
We annex, in substance, the state
menls Of competitors for promium
on the above list.
MR.. BRADFoRD's STATEMENT.
On one acre the produce Of whea
was 30 bushels and SIX quarts. Sol
yellow loan. In the spring at 81
carried on twenty loads OF green ma
nure TO the acre, and plowed it an
der with a Michigan double pillow
eight inches deep; planted 10 corn,
manured in the hill, with Twelve
loads Of fine manure TO the acre, and
six bushels of ashes. The ground
was well plowed and narrowed IN
the fall, run over with the cultIyator
in the following spring, aud sowcd
with two bushels Of Black Sea wheat
10 the acre. The produce was 754
bushels from p acres.
mr.. EDDY's STATEMENT.
Sward turned over IN Oct. 1851,
twenty loads OF barnyard manure to
the acre plowed under. Planned the
following spring To polaloes-plowcd
in the TALL of ls52 very deep, turning
in eighteen loads window manure 60
the acre. Last spring powed again.
Slowed = bush. Of Black Sea wheat
to the ogre on the 3D. of May, aud
harvested on the 9th of Aug. lct
bushels per acre.
MR.. wING's STATEMENT.
In MAY 1853 hauled twenty-five
two-horse loads of yard and heap
manure on to'about l-3 acres Of
grass slubble land aud spread it. |
then plowed II seven inches deer,
narrowed II well lurrowed it in rows
four leet~apart, put a common shovel
full of rotten 'mauute in the hill.
which was drawn into a heap the fan
before composed of yard and hog
manure, muck and few ashes
Hills three feet apart. Planted II to
corn from the 18Th to the 20ih, siN
kernels in hill, hoed 1t twice aud
thinned it to four stocks in a hill, cul
il up ia Sept. Huskcd and cnhbcd
up from the same 297 bush. of SOUND
corn, besides some 10 or 20 bushel,
of poor corn.
MR.. DwiNNELL's STATEMENT.
In the spring of 1851 ! spread on
fifty loads of manure To the acre, on
grass land /; on the LIST of May lS5-
turred over aud planted to corn, put
ting twenty-five loads OF manure 1,
the acre IN the hill. In the sprng
OF 1853, May !, ploWed cross-way'
and planted % bushels of polaloe,
on 200 rods of the land SO prepared
hoed three times; hills II inches a
part; rows two feet apart. The
yield on 200 rods of lahd was 30
bushels of potatoes 35 assortc,
peachbIows, and 223 unas, orled.
MR.. TENNeY's STATEMENT.
Soil, sand loan, slightly iinIturec
with mari turned over from gras
in the TALL of lS50--sprIng of lS5I
ssowu 10 oats without manure-sprlu.
OF 1852, 80 or 40 loads of window
manure plowed in, narrowed, manur
ed la the hill with rotten or fine ma
nure, and planted TO corn. Spin.
of 1853 plowed, narrowed aud sow
10 oats. Seed sown, 60 bushels,
of which were large. plump, heay,
oats, obtained from Cambridge, La
noble county, and weighed ii lbs
TO the bushel. The other p CON
mon DO not know that the larry,
kind were the English Dat. The
were not so called al Cambridge
Product, So bushels-5l of tie larg'
weighing 40 lbs. to the bushel-2!
of the small, weighing 30 lbs pc
bushel. Harvested, by reaping, "A
bout the middle of August, threshe,
the latter part OF September, will
machine, and measured about ia,
middle of October. Said oats wcr
sown about the usual lime of sowini
in the spring.
MR.. BLoDGETT's STATEMENT,
The soil on which The carrots wen
raised was a light sandy loan. II
the spring OF 1852 1t was manure'
on The syard, and then broke up an'
planted 10 potatoes In tn, Spring
of 1853 IT was frs, plowed and lhel
masured with common barn var,
manure, at the rate Of thirty loads Il
the acre. II was then plowed IN
aud well narrowed. | sowed th'
carrots The l4lh of May-used l.
pound of white carrot seed, and IL
pound of orange carrot seed. The
crop was harvested The 20th of DC
tober. The amount Of white carrot
was l05 bushels, aud those of Orange