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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



pounds; sweet potatoes, first digging, 60 to 62 

 cents (or 62 pounds, which is the potato bushel. 

 This early in September — later, less price, but ne- 

 ver below 25 cents per 62 pounds. Water melons 

 usually commence at ^5 to ^6 per 100 ; apples, 

 the first, 50 cents per bushel, and never less than 

 20 cents. The black-eye pea is also a sale crop. 

 They usually sell at li-om ^1 to 1.25 per bushel. 

 Other varieties mostly consumed on the farm. 

 The farmers in this neighborhood are generally 

 able to get the highest northern market price for 

 all their grain, when it is in demand. 



IV. ''Implements?'''' We use mostly the Free- 

 born cast plough, for first ploughing. When the 

 land is well broken, then the trowel or fluke 

 hoe, and also a home-made culiivator, which does 

 beautiful work when the land is in order to re- 

 ceive it. 



V. "Fencing and enclosing?'''' The common 

 worm fence is almost entirely used. Several 

 farmers each have a cedar brush lence several 

 hundred yards long, which is thought well of, af- 

 ter the lollowing manner. First dig a ditch, 4 feet 

 wide, 2 to 3 feet deep, carefully throwing all the 

 dirt on one side, forming a ridge. Second, driving 

 small posts orstakes in the bank, about 2 feet apart, 

 leaving them 3 feet out of the ground. Third, 

 then putting in the large brush of cedar, or any 

 other lasting wood. Fourth, finish off with a 

 binding ; this 1 cannot describe well. The above 

 fence, done well, is handsome, strong and durable ; 

 there is no blowing down, or stock breaking in. 



VII. " Grass and grazing.'''' Answered in II. 

 A 'so water, answered in II. 



Sd. "Mowing and hay.'''' Very little done. 



4th. "Arlijicial grasses.'''' Red clover being ihe 

 only one that is cultivated. Very little cut — being 

 grazed oft'. 



VIII. " Live stock.'''' \st. " Teams or laboring 

 animals.'''' Horses are mostly used ; some mules 

 and oxen. 



2d. Animals raised for sale or farm use ?" Ox- 

 en and a few horses ; pork for home consumption, 

 with a little lor market. Also calves and lambs. 



3d. "Prevalent diseases, and their remedies?'^ 

 Inattention and starvation — remedies proposed, 

 food and care. 



IX. "Dairy management .?" Very little. 



'KX. " New or recent processes or improved prac- 

 tices in agriculture .?" Nothing to say, only a 

 little more industry and management, which of 

 late, 1 am confident, have taken root, and, I trust, 

 in good soil and not stony. 



XII. " Obstacles to improvement, ^-c?" No- 

 thing to say, only industry wanting. 



XIII. "Miscellaneous, Sfc? ' Keep out of 

 debt ; strike hands with no man ; stay at home ; 

 eat your own bread and meat, that which you 

 make on your own estate ; go not too often to 

 either the hotel or the banks ; be content with your 

 lot or situation, be it never so homely ; instruct 

 your representatives to let agriculture and domesiic 

 affairs alone, and to make fewer and shorter 

 speeches, and not talk so much about the " dear 

 people,''^ and their rights, at the same lime caring 

 nothing about them, after having received their 

 voles, &c. J. Bunch. 



STORING SMALL GRAIN. ^ 



From Ihe Albany Cultivator. 



You in the east, who have large barns and gra- 

 naries, and convenient saw mills and lumberyards, 

 cannot conceive the difficulty that you might en- 

 counter when settled on a new farm, in the west, 

 forty miles from a saw mill. How would you 

 store a lew hundred, or a few thousand bushels of 

 thrashed grain ? Easy enough, if you only knew 

 how — so could Careless have sealed his letter, if 

 he had only known how. I will tell you how, and 

 when you emigrate to the west, don't forget. 

 Take lence rails and lay down a floor, a little from 

 the ground, and build up the sides by notching 

 straight rails, so they will be steady, and then 

 take fine straw or hay, and tramp a layer smooth 

 upon the floor, and caulk the cracks between the 

 rails, and pour in the grain, and stack some straw 

 over the top to keep out the rain, and your grain 

 will keep better than in a close granary, and not 

 waste a bushel in a hundred. 



huckwheat may be thrashed upon just such a 

 rail pen, covered over with rails, much better than 

 upon the ground ; the grain falling through the 

 rails into the pen below. Solon Robinson. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANURES. 



From the Albany Cultivator. 



The following details of experiments made on the 

 lands of Knock, near Lares, in the spring and 

 summer of 1841, by iVlr. Wilson, were furnished 

 to the Philosophical Society of Glasgow. A 

 piece of three year old pasture, of uniform quality, 

 of about 200 falls, old Scotch measure, was di- 

 vided into ten equal lots, which, treated as fol- 

 lows, produced the undermentioned quantities of 

 well made hay : 



Produce Rale Increase 

 per lot, per acre, per acre, 

 Lot. lbs. lbs. lbs. 



1. Left untouched, 422 3360 



2. 2;V bble. of Irish 



qJick lime added, 602 4816 1456 



3. 20 cwt. lime Irom 



gas works, - 651 5208 1848 



4. 4| cwl. wood char- 

 coal powder - 665 5320 1960 



5. 2 bushels of bone 



dust, - - 593 5544 2184 



6. 18 lbs, of nitrate 



of potash, - 742 5936 2576 



7. 20 lbs. of nitrate of 



soda, - - 784 6272 2912 



8. 2i bolls of soot, 819 6552 3192 



9. 28 lbs. of sul. of 



ammonia, - 874 6776 3416 



10. 100 gallons of am- 



moniacal liquor, 



from gas works at 



5 degrees ofTwed- 



dle's hydrometer, 945 7560 4200 



Tne value ol the applications was 5s. for each 

 lot, or at the rate of £2 per acre. All the articles 

 were applied on the 15th of April, 1841, and the 

 grass cut and made into hay in the following 

 month of July. 



