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than one kind of grain is raised in a field — and thus the amount 

 of ground covered by each kind of grain is not always accurately 

 known. All the grain raised on the farm is measured, and the 

 measurements entered in books kept for that purpose by proper 

 men. The work hired by the day is entered in these books, and 

 any other thing that appears of sufficient importance. 



These memorandum books furnish most of the materials for a 

 farm-book which is kept by myself 



From the farm-book, it appears that there have been nine hun- 

 dred and twenty-seven days' work done on the farm, from the 1st 

 day of April to the 1st day of November. This account covers 

 all the work done in drawing plaster, sowing it, drawing out ma- 

 nure, threshing and delivering so much of the grain in market as 

 has been sold, and all other men's labor on the farm. There have 

 been produced on the farm five thousand six hundred and foity- 

 three bushels of grain, aside from garden vegetables. Besides 

 this, sixty-six loads of hay. 



As the grain is sold, entries are made in the farm-book, of the 

 price it brings; and that part of the products of the farm that is 

 kept for home consumption, is estimated at the price it is M'Orth 

 in market. Thus arrived at, the grain and hay raised this year 

 was worth three thousand five hundred and twenty-three dollars 

 and seventy-nine cents. 



I have no means of determing the value of the pasture, fruit, 

 and many other things produced on the farm, nor the cost of team 

 work. Geo. Geddes. 



Fair Mount, Onondaga Co., JY. Y., Dec. 31, 1845. 



METEOROLOGY OF WESTERN ASIA. 



[The following remarks on the most important features of the 

 climate in several places in Western Asia, are extracted from an 

 article communicated to the American Journal of Science and 

 Arts, by Rev. Azariah Smith, M. D.] 



At Erzeroom, we find, as might be expected from a place in 

 the latitude of 40 deg., and more than a mile above the level of 

 the sea, a cold winter and relatively cool nights throughout the 

 year. The heat of summer, more particularly of the middle of 

 the day, is however less modified by the circumstances of latitude 

 and elevation than one would suppose from the mention of these 

 particulars alone. The extensive and nearly barren plain, which 

 stretches for several miles north and west of the city, has un- 

 doubtedly much to do in counteracting the causes of cold which 

 exist there, as in places similarly elevated. A remarkable free- 



