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Zenas Turner and II. J. Shields being duly sworn, says that they measured the land on which J. H. Shields raised a crop of oats, which he enters for the premium offered by the Mahoning County Agricultural Society for 1878, and that there were teu acres, and

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ZENAS TURNER.

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II. J. SHIElds.

I, Zenas Turner, further swear that I weighed the oats raised on the land measured by II. J. Shields and myself, and there were six hundred and forty-six bushels and ten ponnds, at thirty pounds to the bushel.

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Signed in my presence and sworn to before me, this 27th day of December, A.D. 1878. RALPH AGNEW, Justice of the Peace.

MORROW COUNTY.

WHEAT.

The first premium on a field of wheat was awarded to E. Y. Kingman. This was a piece of black land, well drained, containing 14 acres. Three crops of corn and one of oats were grown in succession upon the land. About September 1, 1877, the oats stubble was plowed six inches deep and about twenty two two-horse wagon loads of thirtysix bushels each of well rotted stable and sheep shed manure was evenly scattered over the plowed ground. Between September 10 and 15, 24 bushels of Fultz wheat was sown broad-cast and harrowed in; wheat cut with reaper 1st day of July; threshed 48 bushels, machine measure, and 50 bushels struck measure; weighed 65 lbs. per bushel, struck measure, or 43 bushels per acre.

The second premium on wheat was awarded to Lafayette Gates. As per statement, he plowed 1 1-16 acres sward, five years old, August 1, 1877. Soil, clay, mixed with sandstone; harrowed as soon as plowed, on 20.h of August; top dressed with twenty

loads barnyard manure, stirred up well with a double shovel plow, and September 13, sowed ninety pounds of Claws on wheat, broadcast, shoveled it in and then harrowed the ground. Harvested July 8, threshed August 25, and obtained 3-4 bushels, machine measure, or 36 4-17 bushels per acre.

STARK COUNTY.

WHEAT.

State of Ohio, County of Stark, 88.:

Before me, the undersigned authority, appeared Jesse Deuell and Charles W. Sherman, who make oath and say that on the 5th day of October, A.D. 1878, at the request of Alexander Hurford, they measured a certain piece of ground, the property of said Hurford, located in Canton township, in said county, the area thereof bein; seven and seventenths (7 7-10) acres. Affiants further say that on or about the 1st day of September, A.D. 1878, they helped to thresh the wheat grown upon said area of seven acres and seven-tenths, and measured the yield thereof, and found it to be 348 bushels, being 46 9-10 bushels to the acre; that subsequently they weighed the same, and found the yield to be 39 6-10 bushels, being 48 46-100 bushels per acre. Said wheat being what is termed "Fultz wheat."

J. L. DECELL,
CHARLES W. SHERMAN.

Sworn to by the said Jesse Deuell and Charles W. Sherman before me, and by them signed in my presence this day of October, A.D. 1878.

E. M. GRIMES, Justice of the Peace.

I herewith give you a statement of the culture of the crop of wheat which I this year entered in competition for the premium on wheat. I cleared the fie`d in the years 1867 and 1863, and in the fall of 1863 I gave it one plowing and sowed it with Mediterranean wheat, and harvested about 20 bushels to the acre in 1869. In the spring of 1e70 I planted it in corn, and had an excellent crop, and I again planted the same field in corn in 1871, and bad a very good crop. In the spring of 1872 I sowed the same in barley, and threshed about 40 bushels to the acre. I then gave the barley stubbles a very heavy coat of manure, and then sowed it down in wheat in the fall of 1572, and in the spring of 1873 sowed the same in clover and let it rest until the fall of 1876, thinking to take a crop of clover seed off of it, but finding it would make i: too late to wait on the clover seed, I put the plows into it, turned it under, and sowed it in wheat on the 8th of September, 1876, and the harvest of 1877 I had a very good crop, but would have been much better, but, unfortunately, just when the wheat was fairly coming into blossom, we had a very heavy rain and wind storm, and it blew the wheat down so flat that it could not fill, and as I had sown the field in clover the spring previous, and the wheat going down so bad that it smothered the clover, I thought I would try it again in wheat. There were a great many stumps in the field, and I went to work and took them all out, except the very largest, and then plowed it up and sowed in wheat again the 12th of September, 1877. The piece of land is 32 by 38 rods square, with a little marsh or pond in it, which is 110 by 110, leaving a net acreage of 7 25-1000 acres, yielding, as it came from the machine, 348 bushels, clean wheat, by measure, being an average of 464 bushels per acre by measure, or 48 46-60 bushels by weight. I would further state this crop

was no heavier in the straw than last year, but it was very nicely filled before any of it fell, and I do think that if I had reaped the field instead of cutting it with the reaper, the yield would have went over 50 bushels per acre.

State of Ohio, County of Stark, 89.:

A. HURFORD.

John Gardner and J. P. Sunday, being duly sworn, say they accurately measured the land upon which Samuel Correll raised a crop of wheat the past season, and the quantity of land is 342 rods, or 2 acres and 22 rods, and no more.

JOHN CARDNER,
J. P. SUNDAY.

J. P. Sunday, being duly sworn, says that he measured and weighed the wheat raised on the above mentioned land, and that there was eighty-four and one-half (844) bushels, and no more or less.

State of Ohio, County of Stark, 88.:

J. P. SUNDAY,

Before me, the undersigned authority within and for said county, personally appeared John Gardner and J. P. Sunday, who, being duly sworn, say that the statement contained in the foregoing affidavits, to which they have subscribed their names, are true, as they verily believe.

Witness my hand and notarial seal this 30th day of September, 1878.

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GEO. E. BALDWIN,

Notary Public for Stark County, Ohio.

The soil on which the above described crop of wheat was raised is a gravelly loam, and was in clover sod two years old. Plowed nine inches deep the latter part of July, and left in the furrow until the latter part of August, when it was harrowed four times with a con mon harrow and worked once with a two-horse cultivator.

The seed was put in with a drill, on the 15th day of September, at the rate of one and a baif bushels to the acre, of the Fultz variety. There was no manure applied to the land. The wheat was harvested on the 3d day of July.

The expense of raising said crop can be readily estimated by any farmer from the above statement.

CORN.

SAMUEL CORRELL,

Personally appeared before me Peter Welker and Wm. W. Welker, who, being duly sworn, doposes and says that we surveyed a certain piece of land belonging to S E. Martin, in Perry township, Stark county, Ohio, which was planted with corn in 1878, and from our survey the said piece of land contains two acres, and no more.

PETER WELKER,
WM. W. WILKER.

Sworn to and subscribed in my presence, by the said Peter Welker and Wm. W. Welker, this the 12th day of November, 1878.

ISAAC II. BROWN, Justice of the Peace.

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MASSILLON, Oш1о, December 24, 1878. A. D. MILLER-Sir: I shall endeavor to give you the manner of cultivation of corn crop as nearly as I can: The ground upon which I planted was an old pasture, plowed about the middle of March, 1878, with one of L. M. Gibb's Champion plows, with spear cutter attached. General depth about five inches. The sod was harrowed twice with a sharp steel-toothed harrow; then it was shoveled with a double shovel plow; harrowed again, and marked both ways with sharp plow, width between rows about three feet eight inches; planted May 16th, from three to four grains in hill; corn was worked from first to last with double shovel plow, being four times in all twice to the row. After the third plowing it was hand-hoed, to free the hills from weeds. The last cultivation was executed the last week in June. It might be well enough to state, also, that after the corn came up I scattered corn (shelled) all over the field daily for about one week in order to keep crows, blackbirds, pigeons, etc., from uprooting my corn which I planted.

OATS.

E. S. MARTIN.

State of Ohio, Stark County, 88.:

J. P. Sunday and G. C. Pontins being duly sworn, say they have accurately measured the land upon which Samuel Correll raised a crop of oats the past season, and the quantity of land is three hundred and twenty-five and one-half rods and no more.

J. P. SUNDAY,

G. C. PONTUIs,

J. P. Sunday being duly sworn, says that he weighed the oats raised on the above mentioned land, and that there was one hundred and twenty-nine bushels and seven pounds of oats, and no less.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 1st day of October, A. D. 1878. [SEAL.]

J. P. SUNDAY.

A. PONTIUS, Notary Public.

The land on which I raised the above crop of oats is second bottom, loamy soil, with gravel subsoil; was a corn stubble, having been in corn two years in succession; manured at the rate of ten loads of stable manure per acre when put in corn first; was plowed for oats about the 15th of April; was harrowed twice with a common harrow. The seed was put in with a drill on the 23th day of April, at the rate of two bushels to the acre. The oats was harvested the 23th day of July.

SAMUEL CORRELL.

POTATOES.

State of Ohio, County of Stark, 88.:

Personally appeared Peter Geary and John P. Geary before me, S. Slanker, a Notary Public in and for Stark county, who made solemn oath that they raised on one-fourth of an acre of ground, on the Bondfield Farm, this season, forty-five bushels Victor potatoes. PETER GEARY, JOHN P. GEARY.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 12th day of October, A. D. 1878. [SEAL.]

S. SLANKER, Notary Public.

To the Stark County Agricultural Society:

GENTLEMEN: The two acres upon which I raised the crop of potatoes exhibited at the fair for 178 on sandy soil. The year 1877 the ground was pastured, and in the spring of the present year turned down early. After the plowing the ground was harrowed twice; then scored about three feet apart both ways. The potatoes were put in the ground from four to five inches, covered with hoe; planted about 20th of May. After plauting, the ground was rolled as soon as the tops appeared; it was harrowed twice, and soon after plowed and hoed the last time about June 20th. Four days were spent in picking the bugs off. From three to four eyes were put in a hill. The variety was the Victor.

To the Board of Agriculture of the Stark County Agricultural Society :

ANDREW PEARSON.

We, Lewis Bloomfield and Lorin C. Wise, say that we have measured the ground and yield of potatoes for A. M. Wise, and find there was one-fourth of an acre of land, and the yield therefrom is forty-two bushels, the product of 1878.

L. A. BLOOMFIELD,
LORIN C. WISE.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, a Notary Public, this 1st day of October, 1878. R. Z. WISE, Notary Public.

I raised the above crop of potatoes on new ground-ground that had not been farmed previously. Scored it out one way, and planted in hills about sixteen inches apart, two cut potatoes being put in a hill. Planted the latter part of May, and worked three times with shovel-plow, hoeing the last time. No manure used.

P. S.-Scored out three and one-half feet apart.

Yours truly,

A. M. WISE.

TRUMBULL COUNTY.

CORN.

II. C. Fuller makes the following statement of the cost of cultivating a crop of corn of two acres. This field has been planted two years in succession in corn.

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23. To 1 day's plowing, at $2.50 per day

May 13. To 1 day's rolling and harrowing, at $2.50 per day......
14. Today's marking out corn ground, at $2.00 per day.

15. To 14 quarts of seed corn, at $1 00 per bushel
15. To 4 men day each, at 90 cents per day...

30. To 1 day's cultivating, at $2.50 per day
30. To 1 day's hoeing, at 90 cents per day...

June 13. To 1 day's cultivating, at $2.50 per day

13. To 14 day's hoeing, at 30 cents per day

July 12. To 1 day's plowing out corn, at $2.50 per day...

13. To 14 day's hoeing, at 90 cents per day

Sept. 24. To 2 days' cutting up corn, at 90 cents per day......
Oct. 30. To 4 days' husking, at 75 cents per day...

Total

2 50

2.50

66

1 25

90

2.50

90

2.50

1 35

2.50

1 35

1 80

3 00

$41 21

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