FARMERS' REGISTER 



363 



hay, meals, and butter, and in the end our cotton 

 and corn crops would be more abundan'. It is 

 but IJiir that we receive from our New-England 

 brethren their cotton cloths in exchange lor our 

 raw material, and liieir flour lor our rice, but it is 

 rather a rclleciion on our industry and enterprise 

 when we look to them also lor our hay and butter. 



itIIODE ISLAND AGRICULTURE. 



From tlic New England Farmer. 



We have great pleasure in presenting the fol- 

 lowing account ot his year's operations from one 

 ofthe best jarmers not in Rhode Island only, but 

 in New England. Mr. Antony's farm does not 

 embrace a large extent or variety oC agricultural 

 operations ; but as lar as it extends, it may be 

 considered as pattern farming. Of his improve- 

 ments we have spoken repeatedly before. They 

 are skilful and beautiful, and do him the high- 

 est credit. We have only one wish in respect 

 to him and his farm ; and that is, that he was 

 on this side of the line, that he might come in 

 as a competitor lor some of our noble state pre- 

 miums. We know he has no low ambition ; but 

 an ambition to make any portion of this earth 

 which heaven puts under our custody, as produc- 

 tive and beautiful as labor or skill or art can ren- 

 der it, is an ambition wiih which a generous and 

 grateful mind may justly be satisfied. H. C. 



Jteport of the farm of Wm. Rotdi, Jr., North 

 Providence, Rhode Island, under the manage- 

 ment of yJdani j^ntony ; and considerably devo- 

 ted to the sale of milk in the city if Providence. 

 Tillage 30 acres. 



English mowing 18 ' 



Pasture 26 * 



Wood 30 ' 



Total 104 ' 



Soil generally dry and sandy ; some redeemed 

 peat meadow ; much ofthe land formerly covered 

 with pine. 



Live Stock. 



Horse 

 Oxen 



Cows 



1 



2 

 18 



Amount of sales in 1839 ^3294 85 



Value of produce used or on hand 308 50 

 Labor in improvements charged to 



the owner 125 00 



Incidental improvements on the farm, 



the law/ijl interest on which is 



added to the next year's rent 252 36 



Cost of labor on the farm, including 



board 696 02 



Incidental expenses 1394 04 



jimount of Produce in 1839. 



English hay, tons 50 — average yield 



per acre 2| tons. 



Millet, ' 41 « '21 



Indian corn, bush. 258 ' 

 Barley cut for fodder, tons 10 

 Potatoes, bush. 592 ' 



Turnips (French) bu. 500 



64^ bush. 

 l| ton. 

 236 bush. 

 650 ' 



Swedish turnips, bushels 800 

 Beeffat ted, 9500 lbs. 

 Pork, 556 " 



Corn fodder, tons 6 

 Manure made, cords 100 



" bought, ashes 1400 bushels. 



Notes by Mr. y^ntonij. 



Expenses of cultivating crops per acre- 

 Indian corn $47 

 Oats 24 

 Barley 24 

 Potatoes 44 

 Rut a baga 47 

 Beets 53 

 Carrots 59 

 Hay, including getting, &c. 24 

 Millet 24 

 Average yield of a cow per annum, in milk, 593 

 gallons. 



Beef animals fatted on hay, Indian meal, flax- 

 seed oil meal, and vegetables. 



Pork fatted on Indian meal and boiled potatoes. 

 Seven cords of manure were applied to an acre ; 

 and of ashes Irom 100 to 240 bushels. 



Lime and gypsum have not been found useful. — 

 Ashes are oi"great utility. 



Ground oyster shells are, perhaps, good for no- 

 thing. No difference has been perceived in the 

 etiecis of fresh or spent ashes. Potash, at the rate 

 of 150 lbs. to the acre, has been found beneficial, 

 and the same quantity of nitre. Have tried them, 

 however, but one year, and know nothing of the 

 permanency of either. 



The most profitable articles of cultivation are 

 considered millet and clover on light and sandy 

 soils. On such as are of a better quality and firm- 

 er texture, the root culture is perhaps the most 

 profiiable. 



Considerable hay and some vegetables are sold, 

 but much the greater part of the produce is con- 

 verted into beef and milk. 



ESSEX AGRICULTURE. 



From tlie New England Farmer. 

 The following account was received by us, but 

 unfortunately was mislaid. It has not suffered by 

 keeping; and will be read with much pleasure. It 

 is a fair sample of New England farming; and 

 shows a highly productive result. Very many are 

 those who fall far below this product, over those 

 who attain it, fi-om the same number of acres. — 

 Those whose imaginations and avarice are extend- 

 ed far beyond what is reasonable, see in such hum- 

 ble results as these, nothing to admire ; but look 

 with disdain upon such, in their opinion meager, 

 returns. Yet it is by such a process and under cir- 

 cumstances thus restricted, that vast numbers in 

 New England have found not only competence but 

 independence ; and have laid the foundation, in- 

 deed have carried up the superstructure of large 

 and ample estates. H. C. 



3fr. Colman — Sir — I have seen in one of the 

 N. E, Farmers that you should like to have a state- 

 ment of the produce of some of our farms. My 

 farm is in Newberry, about one mile south ofNevv- 

 buryport. I have about 20 acres of good tillage 



