Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-06-17
Liberal Premium for Wheat-IntersstiHR q
z 10 Farmers-One Thousand Dollars Of


The Ohio Board of Agriculture have
voted to offer premiums amounting to
81 900 at the State Fair Tor the best
wheat, under the following conditions.
Ihe writer OF this takes the libeIty
of suggesting 10 those who may feel
disposed 10 compete for this prize as fol-
lows:
l. The seed wheat should be as nearly
as possible of one variety, and hot hail
a dozen varieties mixed together.
z. The seed wheat should be perfectly
clean and weigh fully SO pounds per
bushel. After the wheat has been rem
dered as clean as a tanning mill will
clean, the wheat should then lie placed
in weak ley, all the floating grains
skinned of, and these floating grains
used for some purpose other than seed;
but all the grains which sink in the ley
should be sown.
8. 1t is suggested by some of the most
successful wheat growers in the State,
that deep plowing Immediately before
seeding the wheat is detrimental rather
than propitieus of securing a large
yield. They claim that deep plowing
in the spring, and shallow plowing in
the fsll, Just previous to seeding, indu-
ces the largest crops.
The following is the offer of the Board,
together with an enumeration OF the
details and statements required by the
Board:
PREMIUM ON WHEAT, 81 600.
The following premiums will be paid
for the greatest number of bushels of
wheat grown during three successive
years upon the same tract of not less
than five acres of land; ne one of the
crops to yield less than forty (40) BUSH
els per acre:
Best five acres, not less than forty bushels
per acre, harvested in ISs0... ............- 500
Best five acres, not less than forty bushels
per acre, harvested in lS7l ............... 800
Best five acres, not less than forty bushels
per acre, harvested in 200
Best five acres, having yielded the greatest
average during the three years. 1870. ISL,
ana 4oo
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These premiums to be awarded upon
the following statements, from /. to
VII. inclusive), sworn to and subscrib-
ed before proper authority, and filed
in the Office of the Secretary of the Ohio
State Board of Agriculture, on or before
the first Wednesday of January, 1870;
and also the statements from and in
cluding Ill. to VII. inclusive, to be fl
ed with said Secretary annually on or
1 before the Sd of January, 1771 and 1872,
and statement No. VII. by January 3D.,
! 1873: if'i
! KAN accurate description of the soil
and subs"ii, general description of the
LAY" of the land, description of the
surroundings, forests, hills, etc.
| AT least five pounds of the soil, taken
so as to incline from the surface to the
depth of ten inches, together with five
| pounds of the subsoil, taken so as TO in
clude all from ten inches from the aur-
| face to twenty inches from the surface.
| The soil should he taken up before the
fall rains have set in, and each (the soil
and the subsolD put in separate pack
age and forwarded to the Office of the
Secretary of the State Board of Agricul-
ture by January l, 1901
| 2. A statement OF what crops were
grown on the tract during the years
1866, 1867, 1858, 1869, and whether the
crops were good, bad or indifferent; how
often and when manured during tiIese
years, the quantity and kind of manure
applied To each acre as accurately stated
as possible.
8. A statement of the kind, amount
and condition of the manure; when and
how applied in contemplation of the
premium crop.
4. A detailed account or statement of
the depth of plowing, kind of plow used,
number OF times the tract was piowed,
the precise time of the month it was
plowed; also a statement of any other
method of fcultivating the soil, if any,
previous to sowing with wheat.
5. Time and manner ofsowing, as well
as the depth ct which the seed was
sown.
8. The weight, quality and variety of
seed wheat, and the amount Of seed
sown per acre.
4 z. A detailed statement of the entire
cost fin meney, labor and materially in
1 producing the crop, as well as sworn
statement of the amount Of the crop
both grain and straw.
! JOHN H. KLIPPART.