No. 5. 



Farm Accounts and Farm Profils. 



165 



an acre — nearly one thousand bushels to the 

 acre ; the same gentleman also raised ninety 

 bushels of ruta baga from the same quantity 

 of ground. 



We know not the name of this Society, 

 the territory it embraces, the history of its 

 organization, or its prospects. We wish it 

 great success, and should be glad to hear from 

 some of its officers. The Editor of the Dem- 

 ocrat strongly urges on the farmers of Hun- 

 terdon the organization of a county society. 

 The sterling farmers of " Old Hunterdon" 

 have within themselves and their territorial 

 limits the elements of a noble and highly use- 

 ful Agricultural Society, and all that is want- 

 ing is action. We hope the subject will be 

 discussed until the whole county shall see the 

 necessity of such an institution, if, indeed, it 

 is not already ripe for its organization. 



The Conclusion. — The present number 

 contains the last of the Dialogues between a 

 Father and Son, on the subject of Agri- 

 culture and Husbandry, and their kindred 

 branches. These papers have afforded us in- 

 struction as well as amusement, and judging 

 from the very extensive circulation they have 

 attained by being copied into very many of 

 the journals of the day, they have been highly 

 acceptable. Indeed, all we have lieard speak 

 on the subject have been pleased with them, 

 and we doubt not the announcement of the 

 last number will be received by our readers — 

 as it was by ourselves — with regret. We 

 believe that if revised by the Author, and 

 published in a proper form, that they would 

 be well received by the public — and in doing 

 so, much good may be accomplished. Being 

 replete with sound information, and related 

 in that pleasing manner, calculated to arrest 

 the attention particularly of youth, and make 

 a lasting impression upon the mind; the 

 wholesome truths they contain, and the funda- 

 mental principles of agriculture bo beautifully 

 set forth, must necessarily produce the most 

 beneficial effect. The author will please ac- 

 cept our thanks for his former communica- 

 tions ; and we hope, that altliough his " Dia- 

 logues" are brought to a close, that he may 



not lay aside his pen, but employ it as hereto- 

 fore for the good of iiis fellow men. There 

 are a great variety of subjects — What does our 

 friend say to a " New Series of the Dia- 

 loguesJ" 



THE PAST, OR EIGHTY-EIGHT TEARS AGO. 



We were forcibly struck the other evening 

 in looking over an old statistical work, with 

 the vast amount of exports from the port of 

 Philadelphia, in the year 1751 — eighty-eight 

 years since. At that period, the then Pro- 

 vince of Pennsylvania, contained but sixteen 

 thousand families, numbering probably less 

 than one hundred thousand souls* — a due pro- 

 portion, no doubt, engaged in mercantile and 

 mechanical pursuits. But it would appear from 

 the statement, that even at that early day — 

 thirty-six years preceding the first organiza- 

 tion of the Philadelphia Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Agriculture — that great attention 

 was paid to agriculture, otherwise there would 

 not have been so large a supply of bread stuffs 

 &c. to export. It is but fair however to pre- 

 sume that Western New Jersey, and Delaware 

 supplied their several proportions towards the 

 aggregate of the exports, which were as fol- 

 lows :— 129,960 barrels of flour ; 86,000 bush- 

 els of wheat : 90,743 bushels of com ; 599 

 hogsheads, 812 tierces, 28,338 barrels, 7,588 

 quarter casks of bread, besides 249 tons of the 

 same in bags and sacks ; 925 barrels of beef; 

 3,431 barrels of pork ; 9,865 hogsheads, 454 

 half hogsheads, 39 tierces, and 221 barrels of 

 flaxseed ; 4,812,943 staves ; 4,491 bars of iron ; 

 189 tons of bar iron ; 205 tons of pig iron ; 

 320 chests of furs; 112 barrels, 6 boxes, and 

 2 tierces of ginsing. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Farm Account Sj and Farm Profits* 



Mr. Editor — I was much pleased with 

 the communication in your last number from 

 A. E. T. of Philadelphia county, and I am 

 glad that an article so plain, interesting, and 

 calculated to place the profits of agriculture 

 in a fair light, is to be followed up, as I infer 

 from the heading of the piece, which is No. 1. 

 Now, I do hope, that this writer, who, it ap- 

 pears can hold the pen as well as the plough, 

 will continue his essays for the benefit of hia 



* According to Preud. 



