No. 7. 



Dialos'ue between a Father and Son. 



209 



May Gth. Commenced mowing the crop of 

 Lucerne for soilincr, a remarkably heavy crop, 

 more than two feet in heioht. 



11th. The first crop mown for hay this day. 

 A space six feet square, taken as a fair ave- 

 rage of the field, yielded twenty-three pounds 

 in weight as soon as cut ; atler one day's ex- 

 posure it had lost eight pounds in weigiit, 

 siiowing that a gallon of water had evapora- 

 ted in twenty-four hours from this small quan- 

 tity of green food.* 



23f/. The hay carried in good condition — 

 not injured by five rainy days, the crop lying 

 light, by means of its large stalks, requiring 

 only careful turning now and then. 



26th June. A second crop mown for hay, 

 measuring two feet eight inches in height. 

 The weather has been remarkably hot and 

 dry, the result has been, a growth in the crop 

 of two inches in height every twenty-four 

 hours, the last four days. 



July 11th. The third crop of Lucerne 

 measures seventeen inches in height : the 

 weather is extremely hot and dry, all the 

 meadows are parched, and farmers are com- 

 pelled to feed their cattle on hay; the Lu- 

 cerne grows away as if it had a shower every 

 night. 



2'2iul. The crop on the gravelly side has 

 again failed ; a first and second crop come 

 earlier and grows more vigorously on this 

 part of the field than on any other ; but after 

 that, it suffers for want of a depth of soil, 

 affording a familiar illustration of the parable 

 of the sower, (JVIatth. xii. 5th and Gth verses.) 

 The seed which fell on stony ground imme- 

 diately sprang up, because it had not much 

 depth of earth, and consequently soon felt the 

 influence of the sun, but when the sun was 

 in full vigor, it was parched, and for want of 

 nourishment, withered away. 



Au^. 1th. The third crop of Lucerne mown 

 this day for hay; a very heavy crop, many of 

 the plants in blossom. From the first to the 

 second mowing, one month and fifteen days ; 

 from the second to the third cutting, one 

 month and eleven days ; after this the field 

 was rented to a tenant for JG30 sterling per 

 annum. 



FIELD NO. If. 



Sept. 5th. A piece of land was sown this 

 day witii Lucerne seed of this summer's 

 growth unaccompanied with any crop. 



March 2(\th. The Lucerne sown on the 

 5th of last September, with seed of that sum- 

 mer's growth, has stood the severity of the 

 winter, and the crop measures si.x inches in 

 height this day. 



May 4:th. Cut the first crop of Lucerne 

 this day, two feet in height. 



* Twelve tons, eight hundred and fifty pounds per 

 acre. 



June liilh. A second crop mown this diiy, 

 equal to the fir.<t. 



July l\th. Tlie third crop mown this day, 

 twenty-six inches in height. 



August 2-lth. The fourth crop mown this 

 day, equal to any of the preceding. 



Sept. nth. It was on this day last year that 

 ihis crop was sown with seed of that sum- 

 mer's production : the fiftli crop from which 

 measures a foot in height this day. 



FIELD NO. HI. 



Major T. sowed a field with Lucerne, in 

 May of last year, unaccompanied with any 

 crop ; three heavy cuttings were taken for 

 soiling during the summer, and on the fourth 

 of May of the present year, it was mown for 

 iiay, a very heavy crop : thus giving four 

 crops in the space of one year from the time 

 of sowing the seed. 



FIELD NO. IV. 



Colonel T. has a field of Lucerne, of four 

 acres, in full vigor ; the crop, atler cutting, 

 measured three feet, seven inches, in length. 

 He mowed a third crop for hay from this field 

 on the 21st of July. 



FIELD NO. V. 



M. A. Esq. In breaking up an old unpro- 

 ductive meadow, for the purpose of seeding it 

 with Lucerne, adopted the following mode. 

 In September, the land was ploughed to the 

 full depth of the soil, and sowed with winter 

 tares, or vetches : these were cut for hay in 

 May, and yielded three tons per acre. The 

 land was immediately ploughed and repeated- 

 ly harrowed, and the weeds were collected 

 and burnt : a plentiful crop of seed weeds 

 soon made their appearance, which were 

 ploughed down ; the land was again har- 

 rowed, and the weeds were again collected 

 and burnt: this was repeated, until the soil 

 was as clean as a garden, \v'hen it had a very 

 thick coat of well rotted stable dung, which 

 was very carefully turned in, and Lucerne 

 seed was sown in September, without any- 

 other crop ; and during the next summer, it 

 was cut five times, either for soiling or for 

 hay: the fifth crop, for soiling, was com- 

 menced cutting on the 25th September. 



So far the journal, which needs no com- 

 ment. 



Observations on tlie Manners and Cus- 

 toms of tlio Islanil. 



Frank.— 1 have heard that the Island is 

 very small, not more than forty miles in cir- 

 cumference, and about six miles across from 

 nortli to south— in fact not much larger in 

 proportion titan Captain Price's sloop's quar- 

 ter deck, of which he used to boast, being 

 three steps and overboard ! but if such crops 



