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Lime — Culture of the Broom Corn. 



Vol. IV. 



cation. We hope he will excuse the long 

 delay. It suits well at the present time. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Sir, — Would it not be to the interest of 

 your valuable work, if its friends were to make 

 a depository at your office of remarkable spe- 

 cimens of the various articles relating to the 

 subjects to which it is devoted, either in the 

 way of memoranda, papers, book.^, drawings, 

 documents, maps, tools, implements of hus- 

 bandry and horticulture, and models of ma- 

 chinery; field and garden crops, fruits, flow- 

 ers, and ivccds, both in their green and dried 

 state, for the inspection and examination of 

 those, and the number would not be few, who 

 would resort thither for information and in- 

 struction. I am confident it would be the 

 means of introduction to many new subscrib- 

 ers, and add greatly to the popularity of your 

 much approved periodical; and as example 

 is better than precept, I beg to accompany 

 this with two or three articles as a coinmence- j 

 ment. I would respectfully suggest that each 

 article should have attached to it a descriptive | 

 notice; specimens of crops, where grown — 

 tools, &c., where made, and by whom, and 

 where in use ; maps, books &c., where pub- 

 lished, and how to be obtained if desired; and 

 if your friends enter warmly into the subject, 

 I shall expect soon to see a large and interest- 

 ing collection. I am, sir, respectfully, 



James Pedder. 

 Philadelphia, June 21, 1838. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Mr. Editor, — Believing as I do that the 

 only proper mode to make a proficiency in 

 agriculture or in any department of labor, is, 

 by a due regard to and proper use of the ex- 

 perience of others. I cannot but express my 

 earnest wish for the promotion and extension 

 of a paper which furnishes so admirable a 

 convenience for the promotion of the agricul- 

 tural interest. Tiiis principle, of a recurrence 

 to the experience of others, is of the highest 

 importance in every thing pertaining to agri- 

 culture, and most especially so, in regard to 

 the proper application and production of lime, 

 a subject which has been agitated of late years. 

 On reviewing several of the late numbers of 

 the Farmers' Cabinet, I have seen much lias 

 been said about lime, which is of untiring 

 interest to the farmers of the lime districts 

 of our country, and has been expatiated u|ion 

 ably by your contributors, stating its true 

 chemical properties, and its wondrous eflncts 

 as a manure upon land. But as its applica- 

 tion as a manure is of somewhat a recent 

 date, and many wjio have engaged in the ex- 



tensive and laborious business have not had 

 much experience as to the most proper modes 

 of burning lime, it would be a subject of deep 

 concern to them and to the agricultural in- 

 terest, if more was said, if convenient, about 

 the construction of lime kilns, the filling and 

 burning of them. People differ much on 

 these points^ but experience will teach them 

 which is the safest and best modes of proce- 

 dure. I. 

 June 15, 1839. 



[Our Correspondent " I" is most respect- 

 fully informed that we have the promise of 

 one of our most esteemed and enlightened 

 correspondents, a lime burner, as well as a 

 practical farmer — of a communication on this 

 subject, with suitable diagrams or cuts. The 

 use of lime in agriculture is of great import- 

 ance ; we know that by its application certain 

 effects are produced, but Jww produced has 

 not yet been determined. In the prosecution 

 of our work the subject of lime will receive 

 due attention. Gentlemen who have used it 

 on their grounds, or made it a matter of in- 

 vestigation are requested to communicate 

 such facts or opinions in regard to it, as they 

 may deem calculated to throw light on the 

 subject] 



Culture of tlie Broom Coru»SaIcm'« IV* J* 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



^Your letter of the 20th July was received 

 on the following day, asking information re- 

 specting the cultivation of broom corn, and 

 the quantity raised on my land per acre. In 

 answer thereto, I say that my land is a loamy 

 soil, and in good condition, producing gene- 

 rally about sixty bushels of Indian corn per 

 acre — of wheat from twenty to thirty — and 

 of barley from thirty to fifty. 



My usual method is to cart out all my ma- 

 nure from the bnru-yard through the winter 

 and early in the spring, so that the greater 

 part thereof is upon the fields by the time the 

 plough can be put into thn hind. The culti- 

 vation of the broom corn by Mr. Brown (the 

 pnper you say heretofore sent to you being 

 lost, giving an account thereof) and by him 

 attended to until the brooms manufactured 

 by him were sent to market, amounted, ac- 

 cording to his estimate furnished me, to 

 '3if)0r)(). While in conversation with him he 

 drew from his pocket a paper containing the 

 following words: — "Was raised on eight 

 acres of land, the property of Bouert G. 

 Johnson, bmoni corn tiiatmadc four lumdred 

 dozen of brooms, that weighed one and a 



