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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



Fioin the Albany Cultivator. 



FARM ACCOUNTS. 



Mr. Editor : I observed in your January number, a fomi for keci)mg farm accounts, pre- 

 sented by E. V. W. Dox. Allow me to present one which I have used tor the la.st two 

 years, and which I find very simple and convenient. My system in regard to naming the 

 lots is similar to that of Mr. Dox, only I prefer letters for this purpose, and use figures to 

 designate the subdivisions, for it is foimd very convenient to divide each lot into two, three, 

 or four smaller parts, in order that a separate account may be kept of each sort of grain. 

 The comi)lete account of these subdivisions may afterward be so aiTanged as to exhibit the 

 account of the lot which they comprise. On the first page of the book should be an accu- 

 i-ate map of the iiinn, with the title of each division and subdivision, and the number of acres 

 ia each. But, for the form : 



Mail's Work. 



d. plow B. 1 ; 1 (1. cart ma- 

 nure D. 3 ; i d. repair fence 

 d. plow B. 1 ; Id. cart ma- 

 nure 



d. cart manure, i A. spread 

 manure, | d. plow D. 3- . . 

 d. plow D. 3; i d. spread 

 manure ; 1 d. harrow D. 3. 



d. plant com D. 3 



d. plant corn ; 1 d. harrow 



B. 1 ; i d. sowB. 1 



d. plant corn 



Horse's Work. 



(1st) T d. plow 



(2d) 1 draw 12 I'ds ma. 



" 1 d draw 15 loads 



manure 



(1st) \ d. plow 



(2d) 1 d. cart 14 I'ds ma 



" 1 d. harrow 



(1st) 1 d. plow 



(2d) 1 d. harrow . 



Weather. 



Pleasant- 



wind. 



Fair — warm. 



Fair — warm . 



Remarks. 



Commence draw manure; 

 turned cows into past. A. 



B. 1 plowed, 3i days ; apple 

 blossoms appear. 



Com'nce plw D. 3; very dry; 



j man'rc'rtd, 41 I'da on 2 ac 



Cloudy and warm. D. 3 plowed IJ days. 



I " harrowed 1 day. 



Pleasant Commence plant com. 



Cloudy and cool.. Sowed B. 1— 8t bush. oats. 



Com planted, 5 J d ; i b. seed. 



Very warm | W. i ac. s'd steep'd in 8 Itptr 



This accomit should occupy two pages of a common quarto or folio book, and for con- 

 venience, these pages should be opposite one another, so that they may both be open to the 

 view at once. The weather colunm mid column of remarks will thus fall on the ri^ht hand 

 j.age. 



In the column of horses' work you see I designate my teams as 1st and 3d. The farmer 

 by pi-actice will find that he may use many abbrtjviations which will facilitate the making 

 of his daily entries. In this form are no names to be wTitten every day, as in Mr. Dox's 

 Ibrm, but merely an entry is to be made in the colunm of " Man's Work," of tlie time and 



There is no herd-book in England, we believe, except of the improved Short Horn cattle. The 

 wide extent of our country, and the carelessness of our breeders, will render it difficult, if not im- 

 practicable, to keep a reliable one in the United States — though a very promising conuuencement 

 has been made by Mr. L. F. Ai.i.en, of Buffalo, in his America.n' Herd-Book, which shall re- 

 ceive, as it deserves, a more particular notice. The undertaking could not have fallen into better 

 hands. 



As one instance of the difficulty of getting and keeping up a complete list, we have looked bat 

 for a single cow — an imported short-horn, that has given 38 quarts at a milking — Sophv, property 

 of George Law, Esq. of Baltimore. We do not find her on the list, though the search was a hasty 

 one. 



The owners of the descendants of this imported stock, at Boston, will have to trace them up to 

 the Ayrshire bull, ''Prince Albert," an<l to the Ayrshire cows. Flora McDonald, and Jean- 

 NiE Deans, and Mirley, and Charlotte. No name, that we can see, is given to the Devon 

 bull. He was got by -'CIitartly." The Devon cows and heifers are — "Cyprix." by Spencer, 

 dam by Denny, g. dam by Samp.son, and served by Derby, in .Tunuary, 1845; •' Honri/mooii," by 

 (Auartly, dam by Denny, g. dam by Sampson, served by Derby, April, 1845; •' S/e/lo.'' by Q,uart- 

 ly, dam by Denny, g. dam by Sentinel, put to the bull, Derby, in January, 1845 ; •'Jasper," by 

 Cluardy, dam by Denny, g. dam by Sentinel, put to the bull, Derby, iu Jauuarj-, 184:";. 



It will ihu.v be seen Uiat all were in calf by tbc same bull ; and that, if Uiey rely ou the import- 

 ed bull, hereafter, to breed from, he was got by die sire, and i.«, therefore, half brotber to Honey- 

 moon, Stella, and Jasper. If any one interested in Uiis stock, however, should express a wish to 

 have the fuller statement as to these animals, registered in this work, they shall be gratified. In 

 the mean time, the Society and the community may be congratulated that these fine cattle should 

 have been favored with the care and manngcment of one so widely known for enterprise, skill, 

 and con amorc attention lo such matter.^, us is E. Phinney. \F.d. Farm. Lib. 



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