550 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



12. Have you used limo, plaster, guano, salt, or 

 any subttHnce not in common use as manure ? In 

 what manner were they used, and with what results ! 



TILLAGE CROPS. 



1.3. How many acres of land do you till? and with 

 what crops arc they occupied, and how much for 

 each crop ? 



14. Whiit is the ainount of seed planted or sown 

 for each crop — the time of sowing— the mode of cul- 

 tivating, and of harvesting— and the product per 

 acre ? 



15. What kind and quantity of manure do you 

 prefer for each, and at what times, and in what man- 

 ner do you apply it ? 



16. How deep do you have manure covered in 

 the earth, for dilferent crop.s and different soils '; 



17. Have your potatoes been afi'ected with any 

 peculiar defect or disease, and have you been able 

 to discover any clearly proved cause for it, or found 

 any remedy 1 



GRASS LANDS, &C. 



18. What kind of grasses do you use ? How much 

 seed of clover, or the various kinds of grass, do you 

 sow to the acre ? At what season of the year do you 

 sow — and what is the manner of seediui;? 



19. How many acres do you mow for hay, and 

 what is the average product ? At what stage do you 

 cut grass, and what is your mode of making hay i 



20. Is any of your mowing land unsuitable for the 

 plow, and what is your mode of managing such land ? 



21. Have you practiced irrigating or watering 

 meadows or other lands, and with what cfl'ect ? 

 What is your particular mode of irrigation, and how 

 is it performed 1 



22. Have you reclaimed any low, bog or peat 

 lands 1 What was the mode pursued, the crops 

 raised, and what the success ? 



DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



23. How many oxen, cows, young cattle, and 

 horses do you keep, and of what breeds are they ? 



24. Have you made any experiments to show the 

 relative value of ditl'erent breeds of cattle or other 

 animals for particular purposes, and with what re- 

 sults? 



25. What do you consider the best and cheapest 

 manner of wintering your cattle — as to feed, water- 

 ing and shelter? 



26. How much butter and cheese do you make 

 annually— from what number of cows, and what is 

 your mode of manufacture ? 



27. How many sheep do you keep? Ofwhatbreed 

 or breeds are they? How much do they yield per 

 fleece, and what price does the wool bring ? How 

 many of your sheep usually produce lambs, and 

 what number of lambs are annually reared ? How 

 much will your sheep or lambs sell for per head to 

 the butcher ? 



28. What do you consider the best and cheapest 

 manner of wintering your sheep as to food, water- 

 ing and shelter? How many in proportion to your 

 flock (if any) do you lose durintr the winter? 



29. How many swine do you keep? Ofwhatbreed 

 are they ? Howdo you feed them ? At what age do 

 you kill them, and what do they weigh when 

 dressed ? 



30. What experiments have you made to show 

 the relative value of potatoes, turnips, and other 

 root crops, compared with Indian corn, or other 

 grain, for feeding animals, either for fattening or for 

 milk? 



FRUIT. 



31. What is the number of your apple trees? Are 

 they of natural or grafted fruit ? and chietly of what 

 varieties ? 



32. What number and kind of fruit trees, exclu- 

 sive of apples, have you ? and what are among the 

 best of each kind? 



33. What insects have attacked your trees, and 

 what method do you tise to prevent their attacks ? 



34. What is your general management of fruit 

 trees ? 



35. What other experiments or farm operations 

 have produced iulerestins or valuable results ? 



(1120) 



FENXEg, BUILDING?. iC. 



36. What is the number, size and general mode 

 of construction of your farm buildings, and their 

 uses? 



37 What kinds offences do you construct ? What 

 is the amount and length of each kind ? And their 

 cost and condition ? 



38. To what extent are your various farming op- 

 eration? guided by accurate weichini; and measur- 

 ing? And to what decree of minuteness are they 

 reaistered by daily accounts ? 



39. Do you keep reaular ftirin accounts ? Can you 

 state the annual expense in improvini; your farm, 

 and the income from it, with such precision that 

 you can at the end of the year strike an accurate 

 balance of the debt and credit? Would not this 

 practice conduce vei-\' much to close observation, 

 careful farminir, and in the end, much improve our 

 system, as well as better our fortune ?* 



It is expected that these questions will be an- 

 swered with preci.sion and minuteness, the ap- 

 plicant submittin;^ the information according to 

 bis best knowledge and bcliei'. of the correct- 

 ness of which an affidavit .shall be made. 



The statements must be sent, free of post- 

 asre, to B. P. Johnso.v, Secretary, A.^ricultural 

 Rooms, Albany, on or before the Jirst of De- 

 cember, 1847. 



EXPERIMENTS AND ESSAYS. 



Stall Feeding Cattle — Best experiment in 

 stall feeding cattle or sheep. A full and detailed 

 statement will be required, lat. Weight and age of 

 animal when feeding commences. The weight 

 weekly durins the process. 2d. The kind and ex- 

 act quantity of feed and its value. 3d. The weight 

 when slaughtered, and »he price at which sold, and 

 the account of profit or loss. 4th. Any other par- 

 ticulars that may be iinportant to a tiiU and com- 

 plete account of the whole process $20 



Draining. — Best experiment in draining. 1st. 

 Statement of the situation of the land previous to 

 the commencement of process— the kind and condi- 

 tion of soil. 2d. The method pursued, with a par- 

 ticular account of the expense. 3d. The result 

 and increased value of the land, if any $10 



Top Dressing Grass Land. — Best experiment. 

 1st. Situation of land and of soil. 2d. The kind, 

 quantity and value of manure used. The manner 

 of its application. 3d. The results— giving the in- 

 creased product, &c. To be answered in 1848.. $20 



Hoot Crops. — Best experiment on not less than 

 half an acre. 1st. State of land previous to crop, 

 and how manured. 2(1. The kind, quality and value 

 of manure applied, and in what manner. 3d. The 

 kind of soil, and the manner of cultivation, with a 

 detail of the expense. 4lh. The result $10 



Experiments in Fattening Animals on Indian 

 Corn, to lest its value for that jrurpose. 



1. Lot of 10 pi23 of about 100 lbs. weicht each, in 

 lots of 5 ; to be shut up between 20'h November and 

 20th December, and weiched separately when put 

 in — the weight to be registered, as well as the sex, 

 breed and aeneral characteristics of the pigs, and 

 arransie them in the pen by sex, age and size ; to be 

 ted on Indian corn alone. 



2. Weigh a quantity of Indian meal, and feed it at 

 regular hours — to be cooked and fed two weeks, 

 and the corn dry two weeks, alternating the feed 

 even,' two weeks. 



3. Have the pigs kept clean. 



4. At the end of two weeks weigh each pig, and 

 enter its weisjht, and make an account, to be entered, 

 of how much all have gained, imd upon how much 

 feed. 



* This question will be a poser to some who arc 

 esteemed among the best fanners in this State. 



[Ed. Farm. Lib. 



