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FARMERS' REGISTER 



[No. 4. 



The only permanent laborers requisite for such I For permanent and occasional labor, $200 



a farm as this, would be a man, his wife, and a boy 

 old enough to plough. In shearing time and har- 

 vest, it might be necessary, perhaps, to employ ad- 

 ditional labor. 



The above system is adapted to the poorest de- 

 scription of high and broken lands in our country, 

 and may be applied to a farm of any size, from 

 two hundred to some thousand acres. I have now 

 five farms, stocked with from two to five hundred 

 eheep each, undergoing this process; and after 

 experience of many years, and even at the present 

 low price of wool, I have no disposition to change 

 my system. 



The following I consider a fair estimate of the 

 product, expenditure and profits, of a farm of 1000 

 acres, thus cultivated. 



Product. To be used on the Farm. 



20 acres of corn manured in the hill, at 3 



barrels per acre, 60 bbls. 



20 acres of unimproved land in oats, at 5 



bushels per acre, 100 bush. 



10 acres of manured land in oats, at 20 



bushels per acre, 200 bush. 



5 acres of turnips, at 200 bushels per 



acre, 1000 bush. 



Hay, veal, hogs, &c. &c. 



For Sale. 



For contingencies, 



200 



400 



Nett profit, 



.$1200 



Being ten per cent, on the original investment. 

 I will only add that this amount might, of course, 

 be very much increased, by improving the quality 

 of the wool. 



W. II. F. 



The wool of 1000 sheep, estimated at 4 



lbs. (in the dirt,) per head, 4000 lbs. 



An increase of 400 head of sheep, after 

 making allowance for casualties, the 

 use of the farm, &c. 400 head. 



Supposing every thingmadeon the farm, except 

 the wool and the increase of the sheep, to be con- 

 sumed, we shall have for sale — 

 4000 lbs. of wool in the dirt, at 25 cents 



per lb.— equal to, $1000 



400 lambs and muttons, at $1 50 per head, 600 



From which deduct — 



Gross sales, $1600 



From the Tennessee Fanner. 

 USE OF TOADS OR FROGS TO DESTROY BUGS 

 IN GARDENS. 



On every square rod planted with cucumbers, 

 put a piece of a board flat on the ground, to pre- 

 serve your plants from a striped bug, which some 

 seasons is very destructive. This simple experi- 

 ment may seem to be novel and ineffectual; but 

 the secret of the matter is, the board forms a shel- 

 ter for a toad, which hops from under the cover at 

 night and destroys the bugs, and during the day 

 time may be found by turning over the board. 

 Should any one have doubts on the subject, he can 

 easily try the experiment. 



Extract from A Guide to a course of Lectures on Geology, de- 

 livered in the University of Pennsylvania. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL ROCKS, 

 AND STATEMENTS OF THEIR COMPONENT 

 PARTS. 



By H. D. Rogers, Professor of Geology and Mine- 

 ralogy. 



The whole number of simple minerals is be- 

 tween 300 and 400; of these, however, a very 

 small list will be found to comprise the ordinary 

 materials of most rocks. 



The following table embraces those minerals 

 which occur, mingled together, most frequently in 

 nature. They are given nearly in the order of 

 their relative abundance, with the average quanti- 

 ty of the several metallic oxides, earths, &c. which 

 enter into the composition of each. 



TABLE OF MINERALS, &C. 



