No. 10. 



Pay as you go. — Coini Stalks. 



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rated upon by external pressure, the con- 

 traction would be greater, and the exhaustion 

 more complete, leaving no space by which 

 the external air can re-enter : the sap-vessels 

 being, as it were, crushed by the pressure, 

 the wood would thus be rendered impervious 

 either to air or moisture. 



3d. He would ask, whether there would 

 be any benefit, in submitting wood that had 

 already received air or water seasoning to 

 the action of the fire for that purpose ] tiie 

 sap having already been dissipated, and the 

 vessels become too dr)% hard, and rigid, to 

 be operated upon by such means. 



4th. Will it not appear to the advocates 

 of summer-cutting timber, that much of the 

 benefit derived arises from the influence of 

 the sun and air at that season when the heat 

 is greatest, and by which a more complete 

 exhaustion of the sap takes place, than can 

 be obtained in a cold winter atmosphere ; 

 this heat operating, in a measure, as does 

 the firing, causing internal evaporation and 

 external pressure, great, in proportion to the 

 heat of the atmosphere 1 the bark from such 

 timber being removed the instant it is cut, 

 exposing it more immediately to its influence. 



It would be easy to construct drying kilns 

 for fire seasoning; they might be built of 

 common masonry, deep, round or square, 

 with iron pipes instead of bars near the bot- 

 tom, on which for the boards, &c., to rest 

 on their butt ends : these pipes, projecting 

 through the sides of the kiln, and placed so 

 as to radiate to the internal centre, like the 

 spokes of a wheel, and open at both ends, 

 would create a rush of hot air, which, united 

 with the heat arising from the fire imme- 

 diately beneath, would cause an evaporation, 

 and consequent pressure, equal to an immense 

 force, and do the business most expeditiously 

 and effectually. 



Your Subscriber, 



John Jenks. 



Bucks County, 28th April, 1810. 



Would our intelligent friend, and valued 

 correspondent. Captain James Cooper, of 

 Haddonfield, oblige us with his opinion on 

 this important subject 1 — Ed. 



ways to make up for his advance, eiilier by 

 an advanced price, or an inferior article; 

 whilst tlie latter knows that your custom 

 can only be secured by fair dealing. On 

 this point, however, every one's experience 

 will convince him. 



Pay as you go. 



To deal for ready money only, in all the 

 departments of domestic arrangement, is the 

 truest economy. Ready money will always 

 command the best and cheapest of every 

 article of consumption, if expended with 

 judgment; and the dealer who means to act 

 fairly will always prefer it. 



Trust not him who seems more anxious to 

 give credit, than to receive cash. The for- 

 mer hopes to secure custom by having a hold 

 upon you in his books; and continues al- 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Corn Stalks. 



Sir, — I take up my pen to redeem my 

 promise. Since my former hHter, 1 have 

 travelled towards the South, and have been 

 struck with the dillerent modes of manage- 

 ment practised by the agriculturists of the 

 districts through which I have passed, and 

 upon whicli I propose to speak somewhat in 

 order, as occasion might olfer. In some in- 

 stances I have been highly gratified with 

 what I have seen, and have treasured up 

 knowledge that might be of great utility to 

 me on some future occasion, and have veri- 

 fied the observation, " There is something to 

 be learnt in every country," while at the 

 same time I must say, in others there may 

 be some amendment. And nothing has ap- 

 peared to me more deserving the general no- 

 tice of the farmers of this country, than the 

 universal custom of permitting the stalks of 

 the last year's crop of corn to remain upon 

 the land, to the great injury of the present 

 crop, and the inconvenience at the time of 

 the next harvest, when the mower will be 

 compelled to leave a large portion of the 

 straw of the crop in the shape of stubble, 

 behind him, by which the dunghill is robbed 

 the next winter, and so a double or treble 

 loss is sustained ; all of which might be 

 changed into a lasting benefit by the sim- 

 plest means imaginable. On my route, I fell 

 into conversation with a farmer, a P'riend — 

 who admitted the unsightly appearance on 

 an oat field which we were examining, where 

 thousands of these stalks were standing up 

 all around, which had been dragged up by 

 the heavy harrow, and on removing some of 

 these we found spaces of eight or ten inches 

 in diameter which had not a single blade of 

 oats trrowing upon them ; and many of these 

 roots were standing at least a foot in height, 

 with large masses of the soil attached to 

 them, showing that about a foot of the straw 

 must be left on those places at harvest in the 

 shape of stubble — a dead loss to the farmer, 

 as well as to the land. On inquiring of my 

 friend why they were not removed from ofT 

 the crop, he told me it was a labour that 

 would not pay the expense; " I have known 

 it done," said he, "and have myself put 

 them into large heaps, and given them time 

 to rot, and have carried abroad the decom- 

 posed mass, but never have I exi)erienced 

 the least benefit from such a dressing." 



