No. 12. 



Good Husbandry.— Beech, for IVater-pipcs, ^-c. 



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even on the same farm, if it consist of hill 

 and vale ; and if the nature of these elements, 

 and the vesfetable matter of which they are 

 compounded, are not understood by tlie 

 farmer, his hopes of fovourable crops will 

 often be disappointed. — Yankee Farmer. 



Beet Sugar in France. 



The manufacture of beet sugar in France 

 is still on the increase. The amount of 

 duties received into the treasury for beet 

 sugar, for the first quarter of 1S39, was one 

 million two hundred and sixty-two thousand 

 francs; amount received the corresponding 

 time of 1840, one million four hundred and 

 forty thousand ; increase in the quarter, one 

 hundred and seventy-eight thousand francs. 



Good Husbandry. 



The editor of the Maine Cultivator, (Mr. 

 Drew of Haliowell,) cultivates but a single 

 acre of land, but this he does in such a man- 

 ner as to obtain from it an astonishing amount 

 of produce. The following account of the 

 management of his garden will, no doubt, 

 interest many of our readers : 



One-third of an acre he devotes annually 

 to corn — the long-eared, large kernelled, 

 eight-rowed yellow corn, that is not very 

 early, and not very late. With him it has 

 ripened every ten years that he has cultivated 

 it. The soil he makes rich. He applies to 

 it, before ploughing, at the rate of eighteen 

 or twenty cords of long manure to the acre, 

 (or six to the third of an acre,) and turns it 

 under by the plough. He plants the hills 

 three feet and a half apart one way, and 

 three feet the other — exactly by measure- 

 ment with a line; in each hill he deposits 

 either a shovel full of old rotted hog manure, 

 or as much light manure as will not over- 

 stimulate the crop. From this third of an 

 acre he has realized, on the average for years, 

 over thirty bushels of sound corn for grind- 

 ing, besides a little gig corn for hogs in the 

 fall of the year. This is as much corn as 

 he needs in his family ; besides a sufficient 

 surplus for fattening one large or two small 

 iiogs. From the same land, he ordinarily 

 obtains some two or three hundred pump- 

 kins, which serve important purposes in the 

 family, besides being an excellent article for 

 boiling up with the hogs' potatoes, giving a 

 cow, &c. From the same land, too, he has 

 generally obtained all the dry white beans he 

 has needed in his family to go with his pork 

 — which he raises by the avails of his land, 

 without purchasing of others. The corn 

 fodder is carefully cut and cured, and helps 

 as a subsistence for the cow. So much for 

 one-third of an acre. 



A small portion of land is set apart for the 

 culture of onions. Ordinarily, he raises from 

 fifty to seventy bushels on a bed, say half a 

 dozen rods square. These he sells on the 

 average at one dollar per bushel — say for 

 sixty dollars per year. This purchases his 

 Hour and rye at common prices. So that 

 from the first, the third of an acre, and an 

 onion bed, he raises all his bread — brown 

 and white. 



On two other large beds, he grows gene- 

 rally about fifty bushels of mangel wurtzel 

 and carrots. These are for the co^w's winter 

 provender. They more than pay for them- 

 selves in the milk and butter, to say nothintr 

 of the saving of hay and other provender! 

 With a very little hay, together with the 

 corn fodder and roots, a good cow — and he 

 finds it economy always to keep the best — 

 may be kept through the winter. 



Potatoes for summer and autumn use are 

 planted on the margins, and wherever there 

 is a vacant chance for a hill ; and a depart- 

 ment is expressly devoted to tiiem, large 

 enough to raise all that are wanted for the 

 table — and enough to spare for the hogs, &c. 

 So far relates to bread, butter, pork — and 

 he might add, poultry. 



Then the rest of the land is devoted to — 

 too many things to mention here — beets, 

 parsnips, cabbages, turnips, green beans, 

 peas, green corn, cucumbers, melons, squash- 

 es, (summer and winter sorts,) &c. &c., be- 

 sides fruits and flowers of various kinds — 

 grapes, Antwerp raspberries, black do., cur- 

 rants, (white, red, black and yellow,) Eng- 

 lish and common gooseberries — and a few 

 choice apple, pear, plum, cherry, peach and 

 quince trees. All this is from a single acre, 

 which he cultivates most with his own hand. 



To the Editor of tlio Farmers' Cabinet. 



Beech, for Water-pipes, «!tc. 



Sir, — On a late visit to a friend in the 

 country, I found that his household establish- 

 ment, which is situated on a hill, is supplied 

 with the purest water from a spring, rising 

 in a meadow far below, by means of a forcing 

 pump of the simplest construction, and 

 which is put into operation by a small stream 

 of surface water, which, falling into a box 

 attached to a lever-beam, is brought down 

 with such force as to be sufiicient to displace 

 the bottom, working on a hinge, by which 

 the water escapes ; the lever-beam then 

 rises, being operated upon by a weight at- 

 tached to the opposite end, and the process 

 of filling the box commences afresh, with 

 the stream which is ever flowing. 1 could not 

 but admire the simplicity of the contrivance, 

 which, although by no means a modern in- 

 vention, mi"-ht be made subservient to many 



