No. 6. 



Expenses and Proceeds of Crops. 



185 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Expenses and Proceeds of Crops* No. 2. 



In my former communication 1 gave a con- 

 cise account of the principal crops of the 

 form. I will now proceed to do the same with 

 Bome of the minor ones, or such as do not 

 enter into the regular rotation : and commence 

 with — 



Broom Corn. — 1 acre gravelly loam. — 

 Plouglied May 10th, then rolled and well 

 harrowed, struck out the rows quite shallow, 

 about four feet apart — put in four quarts seed 

 with a drill, and ran over it with a light har- 

 row to cover it well: Dressed it with the 

 cultivator on the 14th, and again on the 19th 

 June; finished tending it on the 30th, by 

 throwing a light furrow to the corn, and pass- 

 ing the cultivator after the plough once in 

 a row — bent it several times during August, 

 to prevent the heads fi-om spreading and be- 

 coming ill-shaped. Cut the wisks and se- 

 cured them in the barn in October, afterwards 

 cut the stalks and hauled them into the yard 

 as litter ; if the corn had been cut earlier, 

 perhaps these might have been worth pre- 

 servinar as fodder. 



BROOM CORN. 

 DR. 



To ploughing half a day, $1 



To iiarrowing three times, 



To drilling And seed, 



To tending, 2 



To gathering 3 



To making into brooms, 6 



Oil 



$13 00 



CR. 



By 16 dozen brooms, at $2,50 per dozen, j$40 TO 



Deduct expenses, 13 00 



Balance, 27 0(1 



Potatoes. — Three-fourths of an acre, gra- 

 velly loam, in corn the year previous. Hauled 

 on twenty ox cart loads stable manure, and 

 spread it evenly; ploughed it in the 21st of 

 May, dropping the cuttings at a distance of 

 nine inches apart, into every third furrow, 

 then rolled the whole, harrowed them ten 

 da3's after with the common harrow ; ran the 

 cultivator through them on the 16th and 30tli 

 of June ; gave tliem the last dressing with the 

 plough on the 7th July. Gathered them tiie 

 first week of November. The method prac- 

 tised was, to run a furrow directly along the 

 row with a plough, followed by the pickers, 

 then pass the cultivator over it, and lastly, 

 the common harrow two or three times — the 

 pickers gettincr all that appear at each going 

 over ; if careful, but few will be missed in this 

 way, and it is much more expeditious than 

 digging them with hand rakes. It required 

 six bushels large seed potatoes, < cut into 

 pieces of one eye each, some time before 

 planting, to allow them to dry. They should 

 have been housed earlier in the season. 



POTATOES. 

 DR. 



To hauling manure one day $3 00 



To twenty loads manure, at $1 per load, 20 00 



To ploughing and planting, 3 00 



To six bushels seed, at 50 els. a bushel, 3 Oi) 



To tending, 1 00 



To gathering 2 00 



$32 00 



CR. 



By fifty bushfls potatoes, at 80 cts. per bushel,.. $40 00 

 Deduct expenses,. — 32 (jO 



Balance $ 8 00 



RuTA Bagas. — One acre clay loam, in 

 corn the year previous. Hauled on twenty 

 ox cart loads of barn yard manure, spread it 

 evenly, ploughed it under and harrowed the 

 ground well about the middle of June. Let 

 it lay until the middle of July, then threw it 

 into ridges two feet and a half apart ; put ten 

 loads of compost m the trenches and covered it 

 by splitting the ridges, and throwing a fiar- 

 row on to it on each side, then rolled it and 

 drilled in three quarters of a pound of seed. 

 Owing to the dry weather they did not make 

 their appearance for more than three weeks 

 after the seed was deposited in the ground. 

 The tending of this crop was not kept ac- 

 count of regularly. 



RUTA BAGAS. 

 DR. 



To twenty loads manure, at $1 per load,.' $^0 00 



To ten loads compost, 1(1 00 



To ploughing and harrowing one day 2 00 



To hauling and spreading manure, 3 50 



To putting in and seed, 3 50 



To tending and pulling, say 5 00 



$44 00 



CR. 



By 200 bushels Ruta Bagas, at 30 cts. per bush. §60 00 

 Deduct expenses 44 CO 



$16 00 



Beets. — One-fourth of an acre sandy loam, 

 in corn the previous year. May the 18th, 

 hauled on four loads of barn yard manure, — 

 spread it evenly and plougheci it under deep- 

 ly and harrowed the piece well ; then threw 

 it into twenty inch ridges — put two loads of 

 short well rotted manure in tlie trenches, and 

 ridged over it again, smoothed and levelled 

 the ridges with a rake, and dibbled in the 

 seed by hand, five inches apart. Hoed tliem 

 on the 11th and 19th of June ; on the 2.5th, 

 immediately afler a rain, thinned them to ten 

 inches apart, filling up vacancies with plants ta- 

 ken from vi^here tiiey were too thick; hoed them 

 the last time on the 13th July. Pulled them 

 early in November. The rows were too con- 

 tiguous, attempted once to dress the patch 

 with the plough and cultivator, but gave it 

 up as poor business. Thirty inches between 

 the rows, would have allowed of their being 

 dressed by horse, instead of manual power, 



