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Linie — Maple Sugar — Culture of the Beet. 



Vol. IV. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Xiiiue* 



Experience teaches wisdom. 



A farmer who lias been applying lime to 

 his land for the last seven years, informs that 

 he has just finished hauling out his stable 

 manure on to the field that he intends sow- 

 ing with wheat, and that he has a surplus 

 which he has applied to another field. He 

 stated that his stable manure had increased 

 to about double the quantity since he com- 

 menced using lime. He now grows much 

 more grass, can keep more stock, and conse- 

 quently enriches the soil more rapidly, and 

 raises an increased quantity of grain. This | 

 farmer years back found it hard scufl^ing to 

 get along with a large family, and make both 

 ends meet, and he then thought he could 

 hardly aiford to lime. But experience has 

 opened his eyes full wide, and he now thinks 

 he could not well afford to omit the applica- 

 tion of that grand panacea, lime, which has 

 been the grand agent of his prosperity. 



Those who liave not made an experiment 

 with lime would do well to try it this autumn 

 on their stubble fields, that are intended to 

 be mown next season, and if they do not find 

 their interest essentially promoted by it, the 

 result will differ from that of numerous farm- 

 ers who have often adopted this plan of ap- 

 plication with the greatest advantage. 



A. 



Maple Swgar iii tlic State of Maine. 



Few of our readers, says the Boston Ga- 

 zette, perhaps, are aware what a noble tree 

 the sugar maple is, to begin with, in the 

 ornamental way we mean. It has always 

 grieved us to see them cut down, and burnt 

 down, as they are, en masse, and without 

 mercy. We quite agree with Dr. Jackson, 

 (in his last Geological Report) that although 

 it is difficult to spare any forest trees, " in 

 clearing a farm by fire, groves in which they 

 abound nn'ght be spared from the unrelenting 

 axe of the woodman. Maple trees may also 

 be cultivated, and will become productive in 

 twenty or thirty years; and it would certain- 

 ly be one of our most beautiful pledges of re- 

 gard for posterity to plant groups of maples 

 in convenient situations ujion our lands, and 

 to line our road sides with them. I am sure 

 that such a plan, if carried into effect, would 

 please public taste, in more ways than one, 

 and we miglit be in part disfranchised from 

 dependence on the cane plantations of the 

 West Indies." 



But the economical view of the IMaple, af- 

 ter all, is the main thing, not the ornamental: 

 • — that is, with a good many people, — and we 

 can't say they are much to be blamed. Show I 

 the Yankees how money is to be made, and I 



they are " up a tree," any tree, in the twink- 

 ling of an eye. We appeal to his acquisitive- 

 ness, than "the badge of all our tribe." A 

 few items from the report above cited, will 

 serve as an example of the products of the 

 sugar maple, " and it^will also be noted that 

 the whole work of making maple sugar is 

 completed in three or four weeks fi:om the 

 commencement of operations." 



Pounds nf Svgar. 

 At the Forks of the Kennebec twelve persons 



made 



Oil No. 1, 2d Range, one man and boy made,. 

 Ill Fairmington, Mr. Titcombe " . 



In Moscow, thirty families " . 



In Bingham, twenty-five families " . 



Ill Concord, thirty families " . 



Pounds of Sugar, 3G,C03 



This, at 122 cents a pound, would be wortli 



#4,,'i81. 



[The hint to spare the maple when clear- 

 ing a tract of land, if possible, ought to be at- 

 tended to in Pennsylvania, where the de- 

 struction of those trees has been long eoing 

 on in the most wanton maimer.] 



Fly"=proof 'Wlieat aiitlculture of tlie 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Beet. 



I believe the failure of the wheat crop in 

 our middle states has generally been owins,- 

 to the ravages of the Hessian fly, and tJie se- 

 verity of the winters. If, therefore, any va- 

 riety of good wheat can be found, which the 

 fly cannot or will not interfere with, it must 

 be a desideratum to the husbandman, and 

 indeed to the whole country. 



f have raised this year a few acres of a 

 kind called "Mediterranean Wheat," which 

 I Vv'as induced to make trial of, from asnir- 

 ances that it had invariably succeeded durin;'- 

 tiie four previous years it had been grown in 

 this country. It has rather a short straw ar. I 

 strong, white chaff" bearded, grain ratJic r 

 dark, woiglis usually 65 lbs. per bushel, thi 

 year 06 lbs, and worth to the miller the sum 

 as tlie red chaff' bearded. 1 sowed five acres 

 with six and a half bushels of seed, viz : tWd 

 acres on the 6th of tlie ninth month, (Krjv 

 tcmber) alter Dutton corn had been removed 

 from tlie ground, and three acres on an opei; 

 liiUow on the 1.5th of the same month. Ev 

 the side of the first, on the same day and aii 

 other circiunstances alike, I sowed a hali' 

 bushel of the common red chaff' bearded, am! 

 again by the side of this on the 2(lth of sani; 

 month one and a half bushels more of the lat- 

 ter, ibr comparison. 'J'he result has beev, 

 that the last was much injured by the flv, 

 while the half bushel sowing was totally ru- 

 ined by the same cause. TlieMediterranea:. 

 was, however, found at harvest standing erec; . 



