Show THE agriculturist AWARD SOME time since a press dispatch stated that henry F burton had been awarded the premium offered by the american agriculturist for the largest yield of wheat raised from one acre in the united states the telegram enunciated an error william L gibby of farmers ward is the taker of the prize bishop burtons bartons Bur tons name being merely associated with the matter as one of the witnesses who measured the land and the wheat the exact quantity of that cereal raised on the acre of land was eighty bushels and six pounds it was both weighed and measured the result from the entire tract of land on which the particular acre is situated has never during any season since it was owned by mr gibby been less than sixty bushels to the acre and last year the whole of it averaged eighty bushels |