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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



No. 6 



14lh, the weather turned out very rainy, so th.at 

 they could not finish till the 29th. Part of it let 

 out at 2d. per rod the fir-sl iioeing; the rest by the 

 day, at Is. 4d. a man, cost rather more than l^d. 

 per rod. June 7(h, began to hoe a second time 

 at Is. 4d. a day; cost 18s. or not quite l^d. per rod, 

 or per acre 16s. 8d. First lioeing 1/. Began to 

 take up October 25th, at ^d. per bushel. Produce 

 455 bushels, sold at 6d. a bashel. 



1779. — Began to sow one acre April 22nd. Be- 

 gan to hoe June 1st, and continued it occasionally 

 till August. Produce, besides many stolen, 368 

 bushels : sold to Lord Grosvenor at Newmarket, 

 for 8d. a bushel, paid 2d. for carriage, 6d. therefore 

 nett. 



The carrots were given to hogs more than once; 

 some seemed to thrive tolerably for a time ; with 

 others they were prejudicial. Upon the whole, I 

 can value carrots for hogs at not more than 3d. 

 and not to be depended on at any price. They 

 are better for horses than lor hogs, especially for 

 such as are broken-winded ; but not to be relied 

 on as a food instead of oats, being chiefly to be 

 considered as a luxury or physic. 



[n respect to their efTect for succeeding crops, 

 the soil is light and sandy, and consequently very 

 subject to spear grass (JriticiLm repens) which iioe- 

 ing rather increases than destroys; and 1 could ne- 

 ver find that tlie laud was in order for barley to lay 

 down with clover, so that I have generally sowed 

 them after wheat, in order for the turnips to fol- 

 low ; and have found much labor necessary to 

 free the land from the spear grass. In a word, 

 they can never be introduced in courses, as turnips 

 are; to sell, they are highly advantageous, but the 

 demand is nothing: the culture should, therefore, 

 be confined to a small space of land for the parti- 

 cular uses I have just mentioned.* 



Observations. By the Editor. 



iVIy own experience in the culture of this root 

 is rather different from my friend's, in several 

 particulars ; but this by no means impeaches ei- 

 ther his practice or mine, for our soils are equally 

 different. 1 have found carrots to clean the land 

 better, I think, than any other crop I cultivate, 

 and had the pleasure, two years ago, of showing 

 a crop of barley to JVlr. Carter after them, that 

 was absolutely clean. But I am very litile trou- 

 bled with spear-grass, which certainly multiplies 

 in sand vastly more than in other soils, and ac- 

 counts for the different results of our trials. The 

 great object is the value of the root consumed at 

 home. Mr. Carter's expenses may be thus cal- 

 culated. 



Seed, five pounds at Is. and sowing, £0 5 6 

 Hoeing, 1771, £1 14 per acre, 1 

 1772, 1 11 I 



1773, 1 16 8 



1 14 



1 19 6 



Average of the three. J — 



Taking up, at |J. per bush, 

 crop of 1771, per acre 283 



1772, 250 



1773, 404 

 1779, 368 



* I should observe, that Mr. Carter did not draw 

 lip tliis account with any intention of printing it, but 

 merely for his own private use; I persuaded him to let 

 me copy it for this work; it is accordingly transcribed 

 verbatim from the journal- book of his farm. 



Average 326 bush, which at \d. are, 13 7 

 Suppose rent, &c. &c. to be 10 



£3 8 1 



The crop at 326 bushels, the prime cost of the 

 carrots is something better than 2\d. per bushel. 

 Suppose them consumed at home, to pay Ad. per 

 bushel, the profit would be l^d., or per acre (at 

 326 bushels) 21. Is. Qd. which would answer per- 

 fectly well, jlra they worth Ad. ? Fiat experi- 

 mentum. 



If ever Mr. Carter makes any trials to ascertain 

 this point, I have no doubt of their being very 

 valuable, since no man is more accurate or more 

 attentive. A. Y. 



METHOD OF PERFORATING GLASS. 



By Mr. ^Ibrecht. 



Put a drop of spirits of turpentine on the place 

 where the hole is to be made, and in the middle 

 of this drop a small piece of camphor. The hole 

 can then be made without diificuhy by means of a 

 well tempered borer or a triangular fde. Solid tur- 

 pentine answers as well as a mixture of the oil or 

 spirit and camphor. — Annates des Mines. 



THE DEEPEST ARTESIAN WELL. 



From the Mining Journal. 

 The bore which has been going on for so long 

 a period near Paris, has now reached the depth of 

 410 metres (or about 1345 feet) and the funds 

 being exhausted, M. Elie de Beaumont has been 

 requested to examine the matters lately brought 

 up by the auger, and to say whether they afiord 

 any indication by which the thickness of the bed 

 to be pierced, before arriving at the sand, may 

 be gathered. M.de Beaumont has accordingly 

 given his opinion, that the bore has reached the 

 lower beds of the chalk formation, and that the 

 marls and gault which still intervene between the 

 bore and the stratum where the water will be 

 found, will, probably, be less than 100 metres 

 thick, (328 feel.) If M. de Beaumont's anticipa- 

 tion should prove correct, the well should have a 

 depth of 1600 fijet, at which depth, according to 

 recent calculations, the water should have a tem- 

 perature sulKciently high to furnish Paris with an 

 abundant supply of hot water for baths and for 

 many other purposes. 



NATURAL DISCHARGE OF INFLAMMABLE GAS. 



From the American Journal of Science. 



Inflammable Gas — Carburetted Hydrogen. 



Disengaged in many places — at Albany, from a 

 boring in the slate, where a saline carbonated 

 water is discharged — at the Oneida springs in 

 Vernnn— in the Ontario gas springs, on both sides 

 of the Canandaigua lake — in Bristol, nine miles 

 from the village, and within three miles of it — in 

 the Niagara gas springs near Lockport, and so 

 abundantly in a particular place, that it has been 

 called Gasport. 



