Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-02-28

FOR PIE FIRST wfNfEN MEETING or THE CEDAF
VALLEY AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL AS
| ISOLATION, TO BE HELD AT ovERNAN's HALL
ON THE path AND 25rn OF DECEMBER, 1862
PREMIUM LIST. ...-
80 10. ONE. r aaas.
Best arranged and best managed farm Of not less
than fifty within the counties Of Black
Hawk Bremen, Chickasaw, Floyd, Butler,
Franklin Hardin Grundy and Buchanan. DIP SO 90
TENDER Fair.
NO. TwO-rARM CROPS.
For the best crop Of winter wheat Of not less
than 30 bushels to the acre nor less than two
For is. best crop Of spring wheat, not less than
90 bushels to the nor less than DIP 90
For the best crop Of winter rye NOT less that
one-haf acre and not less than 80 bushels per
For the best crop Of spring rye, no. les, than "
one half acre, and not less than 80 bushel per
For the best crop Of barley, not les, than one
acre, and not less than IS bushels per DIP Cd
For the best crop Of corn two acres), not less
than one hundred bushel per acre DIP 90
For the best crop Of oats, not less than two acres
and not less than 50 bushel. per acre. DIr 90
than $50 pounds per acre.. DIP 90
For the best acre Of broom corn. DIP 90
For the best crop Of timothy, ons-half acre, not
less than three ton per acre ........ dip Cd
For the best crop Of potatoes, not less than one.
For the best crop ofs~eet potatoes not than
For the best crop Of carrots no. less than enc v
For the best crop Of onions not less than one.
For the best crop Of white beans, not less than '
For the bes. crop Of beet. Tor sugar not less W
than one half $50. .............. DIP Q 90
For the best crop Of peas, not less than
All to be managed in accordance with the rules adop
ted BY the State Board Of Agriculture.
!. The land shall be measured by some competent
person. who shall make affidavit Of the accuracy Of the
measurement, and the quantity Of ground.
g. The applicant shall make affidavit according to the
ground, entered on the Premium List, which affidavit
must accompany the application for premiums together
with sample Of the grain
profitable cultivation they do not propose TO offer pre-
ums for crops produced by extravagant expenditures
therefore detailed certified account Of the expenses Of
cultivation must be made. The expense Of labor and
nure should be particularly stated ssE7.s aa7@s ~
T. The kind and condition Of the soil the quantity
and kind Of seed used the time and mode Of putting
into the ground, should be particularly stated
s. The grain must either be weighed or measured III
legal half bushel Corn to be measured in the ear and
sheed cleaned and weighed. measured as above az
the 18th Of November and the number Of bushels thus
estimated stated In the affidavit. # -itssf
FORM OF AFFIDAVIT.
BLACK HAWK CousrY, IS.
A. b. being duly sworn. says he accurately measured
past season. and the quantity Of land acres and no
more. ST." = ~ A. Il.
Sworn to before me this - day of -, 1862.
BLACK HAWK COUNTY So.
c. d. being duly says that he raised crop OF
- the past season, upon the land measured by A.
b. and that the quantity Of grain thereon bush.
es and no less, weighed or measured In sealed half
bushe as the case may be and that the statements in
gard the Of cultivation &c. are correct ~ the
best Of his knowledge. ID.
Sworn to before me this day Of, 1862