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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No.l 



3 hoeings, 10 days, 6g 

 Harvestinjr, 6 days, 5g 

 Interest on land ai ^100 per acre 



7 50 

 3 75 

 5 50 



^27 37^ 



Cr. By 970 bushels ruta baoras, at Is. 



3d. - - - ^151 56 



Tops for fodder, - - - 5 00 



fds manure for succeeding crops, - 5 32 



Deduct charges, 



8161 88 

 27 37i 



8134 60 



Balance, - 



Profit 8134.50. or 8170.80 per acre. 



1 am trying an experiment in ("ceding them, 

 which if important, shall be communicated to you 

 and the public. Yours, &c. 



John C. Mather. 



CORN CROP. 



Volneij, Oswego co. Nov. 27, 1838. 

 Mr. Buel—Slr—l saw in your March number 

 of the Cultivator, a premium oH'ered on several ar- 

 ticles of agriculture ; I therefore send you a state- 

 ment of one acre of corn raised by me this season, 

 hoping that if I do not prove a successful compe- 

 titor, the cause of agriculture may receive an ad- 

 ditional witness in its behalf The soil is a warm 

 gravel ; the corn was the twelve-rowed yel- 

 low variety. About the 1st of May. I carried on 

 and spread, all over the ground, seventeen loads 

 of stable and barn-yard unfermented manure,- 

 ploughed before the manure dried; bushed and 

 harrowed the ground well, being careful not to 

 disturb the sod, which had lain to pasture four 

 years ; and on the 14th and 15th of May, planted 

 the same, three feet and three inches apart each 

 way. It was dressed with seven bushels of good 

 unleached house-ashes, mixed with one and a 

 half bushels of plaster, when it made its appear- 

 ance above ground. On the 10th June, went 

 through between the rows both ways with culti- 

 vator° 18th June, cultivator both ways, then 

 thinned to four stalks in each hill, and hoed out the 

 weeds. On the 3d July, cultivator both ways, 

 and commenced hoeing ; put no more earth about 

 the hills than we took from them, but carehilly 

 cleaned out all the weeds from the hills. The 

 seed was prepared by rolling in tar water and 

 plaster. The corn was cut up the 1st of Septem- 

 ber, at the ground, and shocked in small shocks, 

 and on the 25th it was husked and housed. 



The product is 110 bushels of first-rale corn, 

 and 6 bushels of second-rate, making in all 116 

 bushels of corn, and four loads of stalks per acre. 



Thrashing corn 3 days 



17 loads manure at 25 cents 



Carting and spreading 



Deduct f ds for succeeding crops 



Total charges 



Value of crop. 



110 bushels sound corn, at 6s. 6d. 

 6 do. soft corn, at 3s. 

 4 loads stalks, at 8s. 



Deduct charges 

 Net profit 



2 25 



84 25 

 4 25 



88 50 

 5 66 



Expense of crop. 



Ploughing 1 day and board 

 BushTng and harrowing 1 day 

 Planting 1-| days - - - 



Hoeing 4 days - - - 



Horse and hand with cultivator 2 days 

 Cutting and shocking 2 days 

 Husking and housing 8 days - 

 Ashes and plaster, - - - 



Intereet on land at 850 per acre 



82 00 



2 00 



1 13 



3 00 



2 00 

 1 50 

 6 00 

 1 25 



3 50 



2 84 



827 47 



889 37^ 

 2 25 

 4 00 



895 62h 

 27 47 



868 15^ 

 William Ingall. 

 I hereby certify that I am personally acquaint- 

 ed with the above named William Ingall, and be- 

 lieve him to be a person of veracity, and that the 

 truth of his statement may be depended on. 



Aaron G. Fish, Justice. 



For the Farmers' Register. 

 ESSAY ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY. 



By George D. Armstrong, Prof, of Nat. Philosophy 

 and Chemistry, in Washington College, Va. 



Chap. I. 



definition of vegetable physiology. 

 its importance to the farmer. types 

 and typical or normal forms. type 

 of vegetables. departures from ty- 

 pical form. 



Vegetable Physiology, is that department of 

 natural history, which treats of the structure, and 

 vital action of plants. Some botanists use the 

 term physiology in a more confined sense; as em- 

 bracing nothing more than a treatise on the vital 

 action of plants, or the laws of vegetable life; as- 

 signing an exposition of the structure of plants, to 

 aleparate department, viz., vegetable anatomy. 

 It must be confessed, that such a definition is in 

 more strict accordance with the proper meaning 

 of the word physiology, and also in more perfect 

 conformity to the principles of scientific arrange- 

 ment, than the one which I have adopted; yet, at 

 the same time, it is true, that it is advisable to de- 

 part from strict scientific arrangement, where the 

 benefits arising from such a departure more than 

 counterbalance the evils attendant on it. Such, 

 I think is the case, in the present instance. It is 

 impossible to impart information respecting the vi- 

 tal action of plants, without giving at the same 

 time, a more or less extensive exposition of their 

 structure; and it is equally impossible, to give a 

 full exposition of their structure, without sneaking, 

 occasionally at least, of their vital action. Be- 

 sides this, it is so much easier to understand, and 

 remember anv peculiarity in the structure of a 

 plant, when \ve know the end which is to be ac- 

 complished by it— or any thing respecting the vi- 

 tal action of a plant, when we know the peculiar 

 mechanism by which it is accomplished — than 

 when we are iell in ignorance respecting these 



