82 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



■which have been brought against me, and I hope 

 that the large proprieiore will look upon the culture 

 of silk as Eirictly connected with the manulactur- 

 ing interests ; that ihey will devote lo it their 

 capital and attention, and uniting in their efloris 

 finally succeed in disengaging (iiia branch ofagri- 

 cullural industry Irom the swaddlingclotlis, in 

 which it has so long been invested, and placinsr ii 

 upon the same high footing recently attained by 

 the manufactnresi of soda, beet sugar, acids, and 

 many other article?, the production ol which che- 

 mistry has BO rapidly brought lo a degree of per- 

 fection, that, half a century ago, would have been 

 regarded as chimerical. 



JCXPENSES AND PROCKEDS OF CKOFS. 



I'rom the r'armers' Cabinet. 



In my former communication I gave a concise 

 account of the principal crops of the larm. I will 

 now proceed to do the pume with some of the 

 minor ones, or such as do not enter into the regu- 

 lar rotation : and commence with — 



Broomcorn. — 1 acre gravelly loam. Ploughed 

 May 10th, then rolled and well harrowed, struck 

 out the rows quite shallow, about lour feet apart — 

 put in four quarts seed with a drill, and ran over it 

 ■with a light harrow to cover it well : Dressed it 

 with the cultivator on the 14th, and acain on the 

 IGih June; finished tending it on the 30lh,by throw- 

 ing a light furrow to the corn, and passing the 

 cultivator alter the plough once in a row — bent it 

 several times during August, to prevent the heads 

 from spreading and becoming ill shaped. Cut 

 the whisks and secured them in the barn in October, 

 afterwards cut the stalks and hauled them into the 

 yard as litter; if the corn haii been cut earlier, per- 

 haps these might been worth preserving as lijdder. 



Broom Corn. 

 Dr. 



To plough half a day, 

 To harrowing three times. 

 To drilling and seed, - - - - 

 To tending, - ... - 



To gathering, - .... 



To making into brooms, ... 



n 



two or three times — the pickers getting all that ap- 

 pear at each going over ; if careful, but few will be 

 missed in this way, and it is much more expedi- 

 tious than diggifjg them with hand rakes, ji re- 

 quired six bushels large seed potatoes, cut into 

 pieces of one eye each, some time beli)re planting, 

 to allow them to dry. They should have been 

 housed earlier in the season. 



Potatoes. 

 Dr. 



To hauling manure one day, - - S3 00 



To twenty loads manure, at^l per load, 20 00 



To i)Ioughing and planting, - - 3 00 



'I'o six bushels seed, at 50 cts. a bushel, 3 00 



To tending, 1 00 



To jiathcring', 2 00 



$32 00 



Cr. 



Bv fifty bushels potatoes, at 80 cents per 

 'bushel, - - - - - - ^40 00 



Deduct expenses, - - - 32 00 



Balance, 



S 8 00 



$13 00 



Jiuta bagcis. — One acre clay loam, in corn the 

 year previous. Hauled on twenty ox cart loads 

 of barn yard manure, spread it evenly, ploughed 

 it under, and harrowed the ground well about the 

 middle of June. Let it lay until the middle of 

 July, then threw it into ridges two lijet and a half 

 apart; put ten loads of compost in the trenches 

 and covered it by splitlinir the ridges, and throw- 

 insx a furrow on to it on each side, then rolled it and 

 diilled in three quarters of a pound of seed. Owing 

 to the dry weather they did not make their appear- 

 ance for more than three weeks after the seed was 

 deposited in the gmund. The tending ol" this 

 crop was not kept account of regularlj'. 



Rata Bagas. 

 Db. 



To twenty loads manure, at $1 per load 

 To ten loads compost. 

 To ploughing and harrowing one day. 

 To haulinar and spreading manure, 

 To putting in and seed, ... 

 To tending and pulling, say 



i20 00 

 10 00 



2 00 



3 50 

 3 60 

 5 00 



Cu. 



J6y 16 dozen brooms, at 2*1,50 per dozen, $40 00 

 Deduct expenses, - - - 13 00 



Balance, 



27 00 



Potatoes. — Three-fourths of an acre, gravelly 

 loam, in corn the year previous. Hauled on 

 twenty ox cart loads stable manure, and spread it 

 evenly ; ploughed it in the 21st of May, dropping 

 the cuttings at a distance ol'nine inches apart, inio 

 every third furrow, then rolled the whole, har- 

 rowed them ten days after with the common har- 

 row ; ran the cultivator throush them on 16ih and 

 30th of June ; gave them the last dressing with liie 

 plough on the 7th July. Gathered them the 

 first week of November. The niethad practised 

 was, to run a furrow directly along the row with 

 a plough, followed by the pickers, then pass the 

 .cultivator over it, and lastly, the comnton harrow 



$44 00 



Cr. 



By 200 bushels Ruta Bagas, at 30 cts. 



per bushel, $60 00 



Deduct expenses, - - - 44 00 



$16 00 



Beets. — One-fourth of an acre sandy loam, in 

 corn the previous year. May the 18: h, hiuled 

 on four loads of barn yard manure, — spread it 

 eveidy and ploughed it under deeply and harrowed 

 the piece well; then threw it into twenty inch ridges 

 — put two loads of short well rotted manure in the 

 trenches, and ridged over it again, smoothed and 

 levelled the ridtres with a rake, and dibbled in the 

 seed by hand, five inrhes apart. Hoed them on 

 the 11th and 19ih of June ; on the 25th, immedi- 

 ately alter a rain, thinned them to ten inches apart, 

 fiihng up vacancies with plants taken from where 



