No. 9. 



Loss of Calves— Plant Trees— The Fly. 



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ble; while the expenses of cultivation would 

 be comparatively very small, as the only 

 threshing would be the wheat crop, and that, 

 the only part of the crops to be carried to 

 market. The necessary quantity of plou<^h- 

 ing would be singularly small, it being, lor 

 the- beets, four times; oats once, and that be- 

 fore Christmas; none for the clover, and once 

 only for the wheat— forty-eight acres only, 

 during the year. The only hoeing would be 

 on the beet crop, which mu.st not have a weed 

 growing on it, requiring the labour of the 

 ' horse as well as the hand hoe ; wliile the har- 

 vesting would be light and easily accom- 

 plished. 



Fz-fln/c— Well, the hours of attendance in 

 this " new-school" would be few. 



Fa^/jer.— True, but they would be fully 

 occupied still, althougii, I grant you, pleasant- 

 ly. And as soon as the tour fields of eight 

 acres each liave been made as rich as possi- 

 ble by culture and manure — instead of be- 

 coming exliausted — then will be the time to 

 take a portion — say one field of sixteen acres 

 — of the pasture land into cultivation; which, 

 having been dressed with lime and compost 

 and fed, will come under the plough in so 

 fresh and unexhausted a state, as to produce 

 enormous crops, the first being oats. 



By a plan such as the above, I calculate 

 that a man would be able to obtain, even from 

 one hundred acres of land, the means of liv- 

 ing, and I guess be ought to be happy, for his 

 labours would be very much lightened by the 

 eimplicity of the course pursued. 



J. P. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 liOssof Calves* 



During the past winter, numbers of cows 

 in Montgomery, Bucks, and Delaware coun- 

 ties, have lost their calves prematurely ; and 

 in several instances, a single farmer has lost 

 three or four. From the distance and re- 

 moteness of situation of those who have sus- 

 tained these losses, it would seem probable 

 that some general cause had operated to pro- 

 duce the effect ; and, as I have not heard of 

 any attempt being made to ascertain what 

 circumstances have given rise to this exten- 

 sive evil, I forward this for insertion in the 

 Farmers' Cabinet — that if any knowledge be 

 possessed by any of your numerous subscri- 

 bers, which will throw light on this subject, 

 it may be published in a future number, for 

 the benefit of the agricultural community 

 generally. 

 Chester county. •'• A. 



Many are philosophers in great misfortunes 

 — who lose their equanimity in trifles. Their 

 troubles resemble streams which ripple most 

 where water is shallowest. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Plant Trccn. 



Ifyoii want to Ihriv,-, plant trees: they are monev 

 ;U compound interest, which increases while 



sleep. 



you 



Tn the year 1758, ninety-two fir trees were 

 planted upon a piece of poor ground, about 

 three-quarters of an acre in extent. The 

 ground was waste, and poor: no extra ex- 

 pense was incurred, and no further attention 

 was paid to tiie young trees. In 181;i, they 

 were cut down and sold for three hundred 

 and sixty pounds, (about eighteen hundred 

 dollars,) which was equal to an annual rent 

 of thirty-two dollars, during the intervening 

 fifty-five years, or upwards of forty doUare 

 per acre. 



A gentleman in England, whose lands were 

 more extensive than fertile, planted fifteen 

 hundred trees, on the birth of every daughter, 

 upon his waste grounds— which were, on an 

 average, worth one pound sterling, on her 

 coming of age : thus enabling him to give a 

 handsome fortune to each of them on arrivin"- 

 at the age of twenty-one, without any extra- 

 ordinary economy on his part; the regular 

 thinning of the trees, at proper seasons, with 

 barking, &.C., paying off" all the current ex- 

 penses, besides' yielding him a small rent for 

 the land. 



In Scotland, a piece of waste land was 

 planted with sycamores — and at the end of 

 sixty years, sold for a sum which paid four- 

 teen pounds sterling (nearly seventy dollars) 

 the acre, per annum, during that long period. 



The planting of the basket toillow tree, in 

 wet, waste places, or along the margin of 

 streams, yields more profit, proportioned to 

 the outlay, than raising of wheat, or making 

 of butter ; and when once started, requires no 

 further trouble than annually to cut the twigs. 

 It is a shame to put it in print, and yet it is 

 true, that annually there are large quantities 

 of willows for baskets, imported into this coun- 

 try, from Holland. We also import annually, 

 thousands of dollars worth of baskets, ready 

 made to our hands, from France and other 

 countries ! ! Truly ours must be a rich coun- 

 try indeed, to enable us to perpetrate such an 

 amount of folly every year. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Rolling, a Protection from Fly. 



Tt is said, that the best protection to very 

 young plants against the fly, or insects that 

 destroy them as soon as they appear above 

 ground, is to roll the surface immediately 

 after sowing, so as to make it as smooth as 

 possible. The plants vegetate quicker and 

 belter, by having the earth brought in close 

 contact with the seed, and the insects are de- 

 prived of shelter, by having the clods broken 



