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F A £1 M b] R S ' REGISTER 



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and good. The result of this crop was 743 bush- 

 els from (he twenty acres which were Hmed, ma- 

 nured, &c. and 80 bushels from the five acres hav- 

 ing no lime on, making in the whole 823 bushels 

 of corn. It is the conviction of many farmers, 

 that the corn. crops this season would have been 

 much larger, had not the drought taken place. 



Let us now contrast this last crop oi" corn with 

 the former one, and show the difference as to the 

 land which was limed, manured, &c., and the 

 land which was not, as the soil of this field was 

 alike in quality previous to the above improve- 

 ment. 



bU3. 



1835. Produce of twenty acres, 19 bushels per acre, 380 



1838. Do. Qf 20 do. 37 do. do. 743 



Or, produce of the whole 25 acres in 1835, 

 1838. Do. of 20 acres, and 16 buSiels per acre on 5 

 acres not limed, 80 bushels, 



363 

 475 



803 

 ^8 



Showing a difference between the former and the 

 last crop, from 20 acres, of three hundred and forty- 

 three bushels ; and a difference between the for- 

 mer crop from the whole field, and the last crop, 

 of three hundred and twenty-eight bushel.'j. 



It will appt^ar then, Mr. Editor, that 1 have re- 

 ceived this season 363 bushels of corn more Irom 

 twenty acres of this field than the former crop, 

 which was received from the same twenty acres. 

 Or, taking in the five acres which had no lime on, 

 I received an overplu.s this season of 328 bush- 

 els, there being that number of bushels of corn 

 from the field, more than at the former crop. 



We will now make some estimate as to the cost 

 of the lime, and I think it costs nothing to those 

 who use it judiciously upon their land. We will 

 take into this estimate the overplus corn from the 

 twenty acres of land which was limed, the over- 

 plus of which is 363 bushels. 



Land (twenty acres) Dr. 



1638. May 1. To am't paid for 800 bushels of lime 



delivered, $200 00 



Tospreading lime, &c. 8 00 



Not. Interest on thu money, 7 mo. 7 00 



Supra, 



By 363 bushels of corn at 75 cli. 



215 00 



Cr. 



«272 25 



By balance remaining on overplus corn, $57 25 



Thus it will appear, that after paying for the 

 lime, and for carting and spreading it, and allowing 

 the interest on the money paid, there still remains 

 a balance from tiie overplus corn the sum of $57 

 25, which will amply pay for all extra labor and 

 expense that the raising of this overplus of corn 

 may be charged with. If such then is the case, 

 which is to me as clear as that two and two make 

 four, how is it that lime ''costs too much,'''' which ap- 



f)ears to be the hobby-horse upon which too many 

 and-holders in our neighborhood ride upon ; and 

 for which reason it is not used upon their lands. 

 There are few individuals here who have lately 

 given it a trial, and they have been fully satis- 

 fied as to the powerful effects of this invaluable 

 mineral upon their land; and I hope that the time 

 is not for distant when many of our land-holders 

 in this neighboorhood will give it a trial. We 

 shall not then fear but what our section of country 

 will advance too in the march of improvement. 



R. M. Black. 

 ffneader Hun., N. Cattlt Co., Del., Dec. 25, 1888. 



From the Silk Culturlst. 

 EXHIBIT OF THE VALUE OF SILKS, IMPORT- 

 ED INTO THE UNITED STATES, AND EX- 

 PORTED, FROM 1821 TO 1837 INCLUSIVE. 



T. L. Smith, Register. 

 Treasury Department, 



Register's Office, jlug. 31, 1838. 



From the Franklin Farmer. 

 the short-horn fever in KENTUCKY. 



The Cultivator and Genesee Farmer were pro- 

 phecying a short time ago, that the cattle fever 

 in the west would soon reach a crisis. Those 

 who are gifted with the spirit of prophecy never 

 fail to find the tacts which verily their predic- 

 tions ; and accordingly, the last number of the 

 Cultivator, in noticing the price of a cow which 

 was lately sold lor !^2000 in Kentucky, announ- 

 ces, that "this is the climax." The lever, hav- 

 ing reached its crisis, according to the opinion of 

 the Cultivator, we wonder that paper had not ad- 

 vised its readers whether the patient would die 

 or get well. Judge Buel is unquestionably an 

 excellent farmer and writer, but clearly he is no 

 doctor ; and if he were, he could not feel the pulse, 

 of a patient, at his distance, fi-om Kentucky. But 

 if our worthy cotemporary will honor our stale by 

 a visit, we promise to accompany him to the farm 

 of every prominent breeder, and he will then be 

 able to study and learn the true pathology of this 

 disease, which at a distance, appears so fright- 

 ful. We will point him to the glorious blue-grass 

 pastures, and the immense fields of "meal, mea- 

 dow and manure," abounding in Kentucky ; we 

 will show him estimates of the exports of live- 

 stock from Kentucky to every quarter of the vast 

 south ; vve will prove to him the great demand 

 for improved animals of any discription, not only 

 existing in Kentucky, but the whole valley of the 

 Mississippi, and which cannot be met; vve will 

 point him to the spirit which is exhibited here of 

 substituting superior for infierior stock, and to the 

 willingness of paying at present a comparatively 



