sanger continued farming various crops. at the whitesboro cattle show and fair held in october 1819, sanger's winter wheat was judged third-best behind benjamin northrop of deerfield (second place) and reuben gridley of paris (first place). his oats earned first place, having yielded 84 bushels per acre, for which he was awarded a premium of $15 by the county agricultural society under a program implemented by the state board of agriculture "for the promotion of agriculture and domestic manufactures" under an 1819 state law. in the domestic animals category, he was awarded best boar.