Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-01-28

following schedule, which be pleased to publish In
your valuable paper.
The Society, it is presumed, will be able to award
several hundred dollars in premiums, which will be
distributed amongst the selected articles according
to their relative Importance.
RA HAMILTON,
S. S. ROYSTER,
j. G. COOPER.
January Goth, 1854
Schedule of articles for which premiums will be
awarded (for the best of each)
Crops, &c.-For the largest yield on acre of the
following articles Corr, wheat tobacco, cotton, OATS
hay turnips; on half acre, sweet potatoes, on a
quarter Irish potatoes For the best barrel flour from
the smallest quantity of wheat. For the first, second
and third best samples of tobacco; samples of
corn and wheat.
bred bred stallion, thoroughbred brood mare three
year old colt three year old fly two year old colt
year old colt jack, pair mules, saddle horse or
mare, mare and colt, pair match horses, pair mule
colts
Cattle Bull, of improved breed bull of native
stock; cow bull and heifer calves, under two years
old pair working oxen lot of fat CATTLE grass fed
Hogs Boar, of improved stock SOW, of improved
stock; boar and sow, of common stock; parcel of
pigs, not less than six, and under six months old
heaviest hog not exceeding Is months of age.
Sheep. Ram and eve, each, of improved stock :;
ram and eve, each of common stock ; lot of mutton ;
not less than three lot of lambs not than three
agricultural Implements, d.: One horse, two
row, cultivator grain cradle dung fork, hay fork,
rake, chopping axe, broad axe hand axe, claw ham
pair of iron axlerees and boxes, elliptic springs
dtching spade, shovel, hung grindstone straw cut
ter, threshing machine, wheat fan, horse rake, OK
yoke, pruning hook. scythe snath axe handle.
PLoughing Match. For the best ploughing, with
two and three-horse ploughs each; for the best
, ploughman and horses.
Vehicles. Carriage, buggy, wagon, ox-cart one
horse cart.
Harness, dc. Set wagon carriage and buggy har-
ness, each; side upper, sole and harness leather,
EACH calf and kip skin pair boots and shoes; sad
die and bride.
Fruit and Fruit Trees Best and largest variety
ofpeaches and apples and collection of fruit trees
Dairy, Garden, de- Butter, cheese and honey,
each, not less than ten pounds best assortment of
the largest table vegetables; best and largest variety
of roses and flowers; best bacon hams.
Household Manufactures dc. Carpet rug bed
jeans piece nsey, table CLOTH piece wooden cloth for
negroes, pair WOODEN stockings piece striped cotton
dOmestics, ornamental needle work of the different
varieties, crotchett work oil, water and theorem
paintings each; pencil drawing best soap and can
dies, each ten pounds; best starch, three pounds
a I'd process of making each; best jar of EACH pick
les and preserves.
Fo,cls, dc. Best poultry, of ca CHI of the different
varieties
Premiums can be awarded only to articles which
are of the growth, manufacture product of the
county.
ed to accompany them with the prices for which they
can afford to furnish them.
TIE WAY TO WORK 1T. Mr. Drew, the Editor
of the Maine Cultirator published at Halowell, in
that State gives the following account of his |
husbandry. His Farm is not very extensive one, |
but his nett income from it is greater than that of
some OF our farmers, who almost Starve on their |
three or four hundred acres. No investment would |
yield more at this time than Market Farm conve-
nient to our Southern cities
The Editor actually cuLtiUdtes but single acre |
of land, but that he does culticate, and makes it
yield all that land yield. Nor small as the quau-
tity is is the amount of subsistence obtained from
it unimportant in the support of large family One
third of an acre he devOteS annually to corn-the |
long cared, large cevelled eight rowed yellow corn,
that is not very early and not very late. With him,
has rpened every for the last ten years that
he has cultivated il. The soil b makes rich. He |
applies to it, before ploughing at the rate of eighteen
or twenty cords of long manure to the Cor six
to the third of acre. and turns it under by the
plough. He plants the hills three feet and an half
apart one way, and three feet the othererdctty by
measurement with line. In each hill he deposites
either shovel full of old rotted hog manure, |
much night manure will not over stimulate the
crop. From this third of acre, he has raised on
the Average for years, thirty bushels of sound
corn for grinding, besides little pig for the
hogs in the fall of the year. This is much corn |
as he needs in his family, besides sufficient surp-
luS for fattenng one large or two small hogs From |
the same land, he ordinarily obtains some two or
three hundred pumpkins which serve important pur-
poses in the family, besides being excellent art-
Gle for boiling up with the hogs potatoes giving |
COW, &c. From the same land too, he has generally
obtained all the dry white beans he has needed in
his family to go with his pork-which he raises by
the avals of his land without pur chasing of others
The fodder is carefully cut nd cured and helps
a subsistence for the cow. So much for one third
of an acre.
A small portion of land is set apart for the cult
vation of onions. Ordinarily, he has raised from
fifty to seventy-fve bushels bed, say half do
zen rods square These he sells, on an average at
one dollar per bushel-say for $50 per year. This
purchases his flour and rye at common prices. So
that from the first third of acre. and in onion
oed he raises all his breakdown and white.
On two other large beds, he grows generally about
fifty bushels of Mangel Wartzel and carrots. These
ire for the cows winter provender. They more than
pay for themselves in the milk and butter-to say
nothing of the saving of hay and other provender:
With very little hay, together with the fodder and
,oots, good cow-and he finds it economy always
% keep the 6est--may be kept through the winter.
Potatoes for summer and autumn use are planted
IN the margins, and wherever there is a vacant
chance for hill, and department is expressly de-
,oted to them large enough to raise all that
ed for the table, and enough to spare for the hogs
&c.
So far, as relates to bread, butter, pork, and he
night add, poultry.
Then the rest of tn land is devoted to-too many
hings to mention ere-beets-parsnips-
-turnps-g beans-peas- corn-cucum-
rs-meons-squashes summer and winter Sorts
fruits and flowers of various kinds