560 



MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



ful experinienls on that everlasting point ? If ever we get leisure we will make 

 out a similar list for other stereotype premiums. 



No. of acres. 



136 



5 

 5 



1 



1 



1 



1 



5 



1 



1 



1 

 40 



1-12 

 22 



1 



1 

 40 



1 



1 



1 



1 



1 



a 

 1 



1 

 1 

 1 



7 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 



Pidduct pr acre. 



Whole product. 



Names and places of cultivators. 



R. H. Rose. Silver Lake, Pa... 

 John Stevens, Hoboken, N. .T. 

 J. & M. Prait, Madison, N. Y. . 



Samuel Chidsey, Cayuga, N. Y 



Earl Stimson, Saratoga, N. Y 



Wm. M'Clure, Allegany County, Pa 



Jo.seph Evans, Washington County. Pa. .. 

 B. Bartlett, Eaton, Madison County, N. Y. 

 T. & H. Little, Newburyport, Mass 



Mr. Wilmarlh, Taunton, Mass 



Charles Bugbee. Palmer, Mass 



Benj. Butler, Chenango, N. Y 



Henry Sprague, Worcester, Mass 



Old" Farmer," Rhode Island 



Asahcl Renick, Pickaway County, Ohio . 



S. Lathrop, W. Springfield, Mass 



P. Reybold, Newcastle, Delaware 



R. H. "Sheldon, Cayuga County. N. Y 



E. Humphreys, Caledonia, N. Y 



Clark County, Ky 



Montreal, Canada 



R. Lamprev, Moultonborough, N. H. ... 



Mr. Brown," Strafford, N. H 



P. P. Pillsbury. Tuttonborough, N. H 



J. F. Osborn, Cayuga County, N. Y 



J. Sherman, . . . . 



Mr. Ellsworth, Conn 



G. W. Williams, Bourbon County, Ky. 



W. Ingalls, Oswego County, N. Y 



J. Myers. Canton, Ohio 



W. Ingalls, Oswego County, N. Y 



B. Bradley. Bloonffield, N. Y 



Samuel Phelps, Cayuga. N. Y 



Wm. Ingell, Oswego, N. Y 



W. W ilcox, Saratoga, N. Y 



Vrs. 



1820 



1820 



1822 



1824 



1819 



1823 



1823 



1823 



1823 



1822 



1823 



1825 



1831 



1831 



1831 



1833 



1835 



1835 



1835 



1838 



1837 



1837 



1838 



1839 



1839 



1839 



1841 



1841 



1841 



1840 



1840 



1839 



1840 



1840 



1841 



1842 



1842 



1842 



The number of such crops, where the product exceeded 100 bushels per acre, might be ex- 

 tended to a great length from the list in our possession, but the above is sufficient. 



Instead, then, of wasting $20 of funds not too easily procured, even on him 

 who should happen to make one bushel more by the blessing of Providence and 

 the strength of a long purse, we would give it, and more, for a knowledge of 

 any discoverable but yet unknown facts in reference to the same plant. 



SEWAGE COMPOUNDS. — You must not limit your ideas of the compounds which enter 

 into the composition of town sewage to mere excretions, although it is admitted that the fcBces 

 and urine of the human subject — containing, as they do, the ashes of all the food that lias beeu 

 consumed — form, perhaps, the most fertilizing manure that it is possible to apply to the land. In 

 addition to these excretions, sewer water contains large portions of the alkalies potash and soda, 

 derived from house-drainage, viz., from the pearlash, soaji, and common salt, wiiich are so liber- 

 ally used for domestic purposes. These alkalies form important element.s of the food and struc- 

 ture of plants ; from the slaughterhouses, markets, and factories, large contributions are also made. 

 There are also the excretions from animals employed in towns, yvhicli directly or indirectly find 

 their way into the eewers. Soot, too, which is rich in ammonia and sulphuric acid, is brought 

 down by every shower of rain in large quantities, and poured direct into the sewers. Then there 

 are the debris of the roads, pulverized by con.stant traffic, and whidi furnish an abundant supply 

 of alumina, silica, and iron, (necessary ingredients in the food lor plants.) which, along with the 

 Boot, is washed direct into the sewers. The sewage compounds are abundantly supplied with 

 the elements of the food for plants. 



^^ The keeper of the serpents and other reptiles nt the Garden of Plants, Paris, baa just 

 brought to perfection an apparatus of great simplicity, for the artificial hatching of eggs. All 

 that is re(iuired for the purpose is to keep a lamp constantly lighted. 

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