1838] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



W 



20 Imsliels rtita l>aga, al 25 cents, 

 1 load pumpkins, 



Deduct expenses, 

 Nell profits, 



5 00 

 1 00 



SI 92 25 

 37 08 



8155 17 



H. IIOPKIKS. 



[ hereby ceriily, that I am personally arquaint- 

 ed wiih the ahove named Henry Hopkins, be- 

 lieve him to he a person of veracity, and that the 

 trnlh of his staiemerit may he depended on. 



A. jNIakk, Jus. Peace. 



From the Cultivator. 

 GREAT RTJTA 8AGA CROPS. 



Lenox, Madison co., Dec. 6th, 1837. 



Mr. Biiel, — Sir, — I saw in your March num- 

 ber of the Cultivator, a premium ofiered on seve- 

 ral artic!e.=! of aijriculture; I therefore send you a 

 Btatement of one acre of ruta baijas raised by me 

 this season, hoping, if it does not prove a succe.'ss- 

 ful competitor, the cause of agriculture may re- 

 ceive an addiiionai witness in iis behalf. The 

 soil is a rich mould of sand and ciaj'-, containrng 

 besides the veoretable decompositions, some lime, 

 and a small portion of the oxide of iron. It is 

 first-rate wheat land. The manure was drawn 

 in the fall and ploughed in, which I deem very 

 essential in raising this crop. About the 15ih of 

 June the seed was sown in drills about twenty 

 inches apart one way. and from eight to ten the 

 other. 1 raised from one and three-fourths acres 

 1,800 bushels; the three-lburlhs of an acre was 

 not as well prepared as the other. The product 

 ol the acre v/as as follows: 



Dr. To 30 loads manure, at 25 cents, $7 50 



" carting and spreading the same, 7 50 

 '• ploughing one and a half days, 3 00 



" rolling and harrowing, 1 00 



" seed, 50 



" sowing one-half day, 50 



" three hoeings four days each, at Ts. 



per day, 10 50 



" harvesting eleven days, at 6s. 8 25 



" interest on one acre, 75 dollars, 5 25 



Cr. By 1,120 bushels rutabaga. Is. 

 " tops for fodder, 



$44,00 



$•140 00 

 6 00 



^146 00 

 44 00 



Balance, 



iB102 00 

 WiLLAHD Cotton. 



State of New York, Madison county, ss: 



I, Stephen Chapman, a Justice of the Peace of 

 the town of Lenox, in said county, do certify that 

 I am well acquainted with Mr. Wiilard Cotton, 

 whose name appears to the above; and that he is 

 a man of truth and veracity and entitled to full 

 credit. 



S. ChapmaiVj Justice of the Peace. 

 December 15, 1837. 



From the Cultivator. 



J. Buel, E^q.—^ir, — I have cultivated during 

 the pasi season one and one-third acres of rula 

 haga turnips, on half ol' an acre, of which I mea- 

 sured and had five hundred and seventeen l)ushela 

 ol'roots. It was a clover sward, whicii had been 

 pastured one year; soil a sandy loam. Belbre 

 plough'iig I put on filty loads of barn-yj'rd ma- 

 nure; I ploughed it one week previous to planliiig, 

 I put in my seed in drills two loet and ahaR'ajfartj 

 tin.e of sowing was on the 22d June. 

 50 loads of manure, at 6s. per load, §37 50 



Spreading and carting, at Is. do. 6 25 



Plongiiing one and one-tourih days,. at 16s. 



per day, 2 50 



Harrowing one-half day, at I6s. |ier day, 1 00' 

 Sowing seed one-half day, al 8p. do. 50' 



Weeding three limes 30 days work, at 4s. 



per day, 15 00 



Goino- thronirh with cultivator three times, 



at ] 2s. per day, 2 25 



Pulling roots, ten days work, at 5s. per day, 6 25 



§73 25 

 On the one and one-third acres I had 1,303 

 bushels roots. 



1,303 bushels of roots, at 3?. per bushel, $488 63 

 Deduct expenses, 73 25 



$415 38 

 ■John J. Bullock. 



Bethlehem, Nov. I8th, 1837, 



From the Journal of tbe Franltlin Institutf?. 



SPECULATIONS RESPECTING ELECTRO-MAG- 

 NETIC PROPELLING ftlACHINERY. 



By the Edilnr. 



In our number for November last, vol. xx, p. 

 310, [see Farmers' Register, p. 603, vol. 5,] we 

 published the specification of Mr. Davenport's 

 patent for a machine intended to furnish a motive 

 power by the agency of electro-magnetism: to 

 which we appended some remarks upon the sub- 

 ject generally. We had hoped, ere now, to have 

 received more definitive information than has 

 transpired, respecting the progress of the experi- 

 ments which are being made in New York with 

 a view to its testing the utility, by applying it to 

 drive a Napier Press, requiring a two-horse power; 

 we have hitherto learnt nothing of the result of 

 this proposed experiment; and suppose, therefore, 

 that the trial has not yet been made. 



Since publishing the article above alluded to, it 

 has appeared to us that should a much less power 

 be attained by such a machine than that which is 

 now sought for, say the power of a man only, it 

 would still be equally valuable with the steam en- 

 gine, and would produce as great, if not a greater 

 change, in the econoniy of the useful arts, as has 

 been produced by that instrument; this, however, 

 is under the proviso that the cost of materials con- 

 sumed in performing the work of a day should be 

 less than that given for the labor of a man. Who 

 is there who would not, under such circumstances, 

 need such a machine"? If we hire a man by the 

 day, we must not allow him to be idle, as in that 

 case we tjive our monej' for nothing. The cur- 

 rent of his life flows on, and he must be fed and 

 clothed, or the stream will stop. But give us a 



