1839] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



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week's milking, were frozen, and thereby lost. 

 The hiitlor was very beautiful in appearfince, and 

 of a very superior quality, and we liope that ma- 

 ny of our (iiir country-women will follow the ex- 

 ample of Mrs. Kenworthy, who deserves no little 

 credit lor her cure and attention to the duties of 

 her dairy. J. M e. 



From tlie New England Farmer. 

 BOUNTY ON SILK IN 31 ASSACHUSETTS. 



The Secretary of State, by the direction of the 

 house, has laid before the legislature the amount 

 paid in the form of bounties, since the act of 11th 

 April, 1836. 



Tli;i returns embrace the names and residence of 

 the claimants; the number of pounds of cocoons 

 raised; the number of pounds of silk reeled; the 

 nuniber of pounds thrown; and the amount of 

 bounty granted in each instance. 



The highest quantity of cocoons raised is 615 

 lbs., and of silk reeled is 52 lbs. 8 oz. Wc will 

 give the names of a iiiw of the principal growers 

 of silk. 



Cocoons raised. Silk reded and 

 Uirouii. 

 Ancory Holinan, Bolton, 615 lbs. 52 lbs. 8 oz. 



Benjamin Walker, Rohoboth, 277 

 Tauothy Smith, Amherst, 156 60 



Reuben Hoar, Littleton, 159 8 oz. 



Jonas Holland, Belshertown, 182 

 J. BoJman, Williamstown, 182 

 Roswell Rice, Chailemont, 97 8 19 



Joseph Field, do 76 8 16 4 



Cyrus Smith, South Hadley, 70 

 John Perry, Wales, 69 8 



And several others, whose names may be ascer- 

 tained by a reference to the secretary's report. 

 We subjoin the aggregate for the lour years : — 



■Aggregate. 



6100.9 525.10 2.96.14 f 1021 22 



Secretary'' s Office, March 14, 1839. 



This great interest is just in its inlancy. As we 

 have always believed and said, it is destined to be 

 one of the great interests of the country ; but we 

 must wait patiently until ihe mulberry speculation 

 has ceased, or at least abated, before much pro- 

 gress can be made in the raising of silk. Of the 

 decline of the disease there is at present little pros- 

 pect. A sale of mulberry trees the last week, has 

 gone far beyond any which have been made be- 

 ibre. We shall venture no predictions, but calm- 

 ly wail the event. 



A SrCCESSFUf.1 DIODE OP KEEPING SWEET 

 POTATOES. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



I see in the last number of the Register, an ar- 

 ticle from a correspondent, in which he speaks of 

 the difficulty of keeping sweet potatoes. I can 

 give him the plan of a houee, which has kept po- 



tatoes for the last five years. At the usual time 

 for digging potatoes, the old ones were to be re- 

 moved to give place to the new. This is a plan 

 of the house: dig a square pit in the ground about 

 four Itjetdeep, about the size you wish your house 

 to be; log it upon the inside until the 1o(ts are 

 about four or five feet above the surface of the 

 earth ; ram the dirt well around the log frame in 

 the earth. On the outside of the first frame, build 

 another frame.of logs, leaving a space of one foot 

 between the two; fill the space between the 

 frames with sand or dry earth ; upon the top of the 

 frames lay a plank floor, and the upper part of the 

 floor to be covered with earth about 4 inches deep, 

 then a roof with the gable end open to the south' 

 and closed at the north. Have a door in the loo- 

 frame about two feet square, to the south. Afte° 

 the potatoes are dug they must be protected from 

 the sides and bottom by dry pine leaves. The door 

 must be kept open in warm dry days, and closed 

 in cold dam[) weather, and always at night. 

 P. S. Also a floor to the potatoe-house of poles. 

 A Subscriber. 



From the Farmer and Gardener, 

 SUGAR BEET FOR MILCH COWS. 



An intelligent gentleman from the eastward, 

 assured us a lew days ago, that by giving his cows 

 a peck of sugar-beet twice a day, cut up with their 

 hay, he was enabled to get just as rich milk and 

 butter during the winter, as in summer, when the 

 pasture was at its best. Now as an acre of 

 ground well manured, planted, in this root well at- 

 tended, would yield beets enough to keep ten cows 

 from the 1st of November till the 1st of May, 

 should not every farmer make his arrangements 

 for planting beets next spring ? From our'own ex- 

 perience, we have no doubt, that this addition of 

 beets to the ordinary tised of the cows, would 

 make a weekly difference of 2 lbs. each in their 

 product of butter. From the 1st of November 

 10 the 1st of May, there are 26 weeks. Thia 

 number of weeks at 2 lbs. additional butter, would 

 give us 52 lbs. for each cow during the period 

 named, or 520 lbs. for the 10 cows, and if we set 

 down the butter as being worth 25 cents per lb., 

 it will give us 130 dolls, as the value ol' addi- 

 tional yield brought about by the feeding with the 

 product of an acre in beets. But this is not all, — 

 the proprietor of the cows, in the spring, would 

 have the gratification to know that he had treated 

 his animals well, and the satisfaction of seeing 

 them in jiood condition. 



From the Southern Agriculturist. 

 CERTIFICATE OF THE PRODUCE OF ONK 

 ACRE OF corn; WITH OBSERVATIONS, BY 

 AGRICOLA. 



The undersigned, a committee of the Agricul- 

 tural Society of Liberty County, Georgia, do 

 hereby certify, that on the loth of September last, 

 they measured carefully, by a sealed measure, 

 the product of corn raised by Doctor Wm. P. 

 McConnell, from one acre of manured ground, 

 which yielded eighty-three bushels, three pecks, 



