VOL. XIX. NO. 80. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



157 



Tliomas B. E..ton, of Worcester. From the 17tfi 



to tlie 27th June, she averaged Ki qts. of milk 



DC" liav, weiirhing about 4;t lbs. From the 10th to 

 tuf •■lOlli of September, 11 qts of milk, Mr. Eaton 

 statt'H, " That since the middle of May, I have sold 



J478 qts. of milk and supplied my family, of from 

 8 to 10 in number, with milk and cream." 



The third premium of $8, was awarded to T)ana 

 51. Fitch, of Leicester. Mr. Fitch made in tliree 

 weeks in Juno 3;i 1-4 lbs. of butter from his cow, 

 besides using 3 pts. of new milk and some cream 

 per day. In three weeks in September he made 

 21 lbs. 9 oz. of butler. From the second of June 

 to the present tmie, he has made from this cow 

 14S lbs. of butter. 



The other cows exhibited, did not come in com- 

 petition with those ti> whom premiums were award- 

 ed, as they hid not complied with the requiifitioiis 

 of the Society. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



C. C. P.HASTINGS, Chairman. 



Ploughing Match with Double Teams. 

 The Committee on Ploughing with double teams 

 present the following report: 



That there were nine teams entered which per- 

 formed their work in the time stated, as follows : 



No. 1. Marshall Pratt of O.xford — in 1 hour 

 and minutes ; team 1 yoke 3 year olds, 1 yoke 2 

 year olds; No. 2. David Carpenter, of Charlton — 

 time 1 hour 6 minutes ; team 3 and 4 year olds; 

 No. 3. Leonard Wheelock of Grafton — time 1 hour 

 10 minutes ; team yearlings and 3 year olds ; No, 

 4. Joseph Dudley of Sulton — time 1 hour 21 min- 

 utes: team 2 and 4 year olds; No. 5. Stephen 

 Marsh, Jr. Sutton — time 1 hour 21 minutes ; 

 team two yoke two year olds ; No. 6. Dexter 

 Putnam, Sutton — time 1 hour 17 minutes; team 2 

 yoke 3 year olds ; No. 7. Simon Carpsnter, Charl- 

 ton — time 1 hour II minutes; team 3 and 4 year 

 olds ; No. 8. John McLclian, Sutton — time 1 hour 

 10 1-2 minutes ; team 2 and 3 year olds ; No. 9. 

 Paul Goodale, Worcester — time 1 hour 13 1-2 

 minutes ; team 2 yoke 5 year olds. 



The Ploughs nere all of Nourse's make, but 

 some were of different patterns from the rest. 



The Ploughing was all well done, — the ground 



was not uniformly I'lvorable — some of the lands, 



' one eiglith of an acre each, "ere stony, under the 



surface, throwing the plough out, and breaking 



the evenness of the furrow. 



The Committee take pleasure in stating that 

 each land was ploughed well — the teams were 

 well trained, and the ploughmen were expert and 

 well skilled in their work. 



Ploughing is an important branch in the business 

 of agriculture ; and as an encouragement to com- 

 petition, the Committee unanimously recommend 

 that the society bestow a gratuity of two dollars on 

 each of the remaining competitors. 



All of which is re.<pectfiilly submitted. 

 By order of the Committee, 



DAVID HENSHAW, Chairman. 



Ploughing Match ivith Single Teams. 

 The Committee on Ploughing Match with 

 Single Teams, make the fidlowing Report. Nine- 

 teen teams were entered in the Society's books, 

 and eleven competed for the premium and per- 

 formed the labor as follows: 



No. 12. Tyler Carpenter, Sutton— .50 min 

 en 4 years old. No. 13. Loren Carpenter, Chail- i of the greatest number." 

 ton— 55 min.; oxen 3 years old. No. 14. Reuben I J. G. THURSTON, Chairman. 



Carpenter, Charlton — .'iO min. ; oxen 4 years old. 

 No. 15. Nathaniel Dodge, Sutton— 58 min.; oxen 

 .') years old. No. Ki. Alonzo Dana, Oxford — 55 

 1-2 min. ; oxen age not noted. No. 18. David Car- 

 penter, Charlton — 51 1-2 min. ; oxen (i years old. 

 No. 19. Leonard Wheelock, Grafton — 54 min. ; 

 oxen 3 years old. No. 20. ElbridgeG. Wheeloi^k, 

 Milbury — 57 min.; oxen 4 years old. No. 21. 

 William Eames, Worcester — 56 1-2 min. ; oxen 4 

 years old. No. 23. James Leach, Westboro' — 

 51 1-2 min.; oxen 5 years old. No. 25. Elijah 

 L. Case, Grafton — (JO min. ; oxen 4 years old. 

 No. 27. George W. Rugg, Worcester — entered 

 the Match for exhibition only, and completed his 

 ploughing in 38 1-2 min. ; oxen (J years old. 



Tlie Committee hazard nothing in saying that 

 too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who 

 took part in this exhibition. The skill of the 

 ploughmen, who performed a double service, and the 

 masterly workmanship displayed in turning the 

 sod with such perfect smoothness, rendered the ex- 

 hibition one of uncommon interest. The ground 

 selected was not uniformly good, consequently 

 some allowance was made to those who drew the 

 most unfavorable lots. 



In an exhibition like this where it may be truly 

 said that all excelled, it was found to be a task of 

 no ordinary difficulty to do justice in awarding 

 the premiums. 



Within the last few years great improvement 

 has been made in the construction of ploughs, 

 whicli has tended very much to facilitate their 

 movement; and as this is the most important im- 

 plement of husbandry known to the farmer, it is to 

 be hoped that still greater improvements may yet 

 be made. The ease with which the plough in its 

 present state of perfection is managed, has enabled 

 many farmers to make a great saving of exjiense 

 by dispensing with a driver — or otherwise uniting 

 ploughman and driver in the same person. 



Dr. Franklin, whose sage advice was frequently of- 

 fered to his countrymen in his own peculiar way, has 

 the following maxim with which every one is familiar. 



"He Umt by the pi nigh wnuld thrive, 

 Himself must either hold or drive." 



But had it been the good fortune of that great 

 man to have lived among the present generation of 

 Yankees, so renowned for their inventions and en- 

 terprise; as his mind was always in advance of the 

 march of improvement, it is probable that his ad- 

 vice would have been meted out in somctliinir like 

 the following strain. 



He that by the plough would thrive 

 Himself rimst always hnld and drive. 

 In offering this improvement upon the advice of 

 Dr. Franklin, the Committee feel assured that all 

 who witnessed the ploughing match, which was 

 universally admitted to Jiave been unequalled by 

 any similar exhibition, will bear testimony that its 

 truth was fully demonstrated. 



The Committee take great pleasure in expres- 

 sing their gratification that so many of the enlight- 

 ened and enterprising yeomanry of the county 

 were present to witness this exhibition ; and they 

 confidently imiiige the hope that each succee<ling 

 year will bring with it new inventions and improve- 

 ments to benefit mankind ; and that all who are en- 

 gaged in cultivating the soil, will feel it a duty to 

 contribute in some way towards improving this 

 \ important branch of national industry, which must 

 ox- ! always tend to promote the "greatest happiness 



From the Farmer's Cabinet. 



ROTATION OF CROPS. 

 Mr Editor — In your very valuable paper T have 

 found contained much valuable information on the 

 subject of agriculture, from the application of which, 

 in many instances, I have realized immense bene- 

 fit. One question, however, of paramount interest 



to farmers, still remains unsettled, and that is 



What system of rotation of crops should be adopt- 

 ed, with a view to immediate profits and the contin- 

 ual improveuient of the soil ? I have carefully 

 remarked many experiments which have been made 

 in my own neighborhood, in this particular branch 

 of husbandry, and among the many instances of 

 fail ire, there has been one of success, which it is 

 my present purpose to conununicate, for the benefit 

 of such as may see proper to improve the hint. The 

 example to which I refer is thatofan old, practical, 

 hard-working farmer, who commenced in the world 

 as a day laborer, and who ie now worth at least 

 one hundred thousand dollars, not taking into the 

 account many heavy pecuniary losses he has at 

 various times sustained. This man, when thirty 

 years of age, by tlio avails of his industry, added 

 to a small legacy, was enabled to purchase and 

 pay, in part, for a fari« of one hundred and thirty 

 acres of land, one hun-dred of which was under cul- 

 tivation, but ill a very low state. The farm is al- 

 together upland, with a soil composed of loam, clay 

 and sand, in chief of which the latter preponde- 

 rates, the former being least considerable. When 

 he commenced farming, he adopted a particular 

 system of rotation, to which, he has implicitly ad- 

 hered from that time to the present, which is forty 

 years, and his success is the best comtnent on the 

 worth of the experiment. His mode was as fol- 

 lows : having divided his farm into eight fields of 

 equal size, as near as possible, three of those fields 

 are sowed with wheat each year, cue with rye, one 

 planted with corn, two in clover, and one an op(!n 

 fallow, on which corn had been raised the year 

 previous. One of the two clover fields is kept for 

 mowing, the other for pasture, both of which are 

 ploughed as soon after harvest as possible and 

 prepared for wheat in the fall. All the manure 

 which is made on the farm for one year, is hauled 

 in the spring on the field intended for open fal- 

 low, which is then ploughed, and after one or two 

 cross-ploughings through the summer, is also sowed 

 with wheat in the fall. The field on which rye is 

 sown, is that from which a crop of wheat had been 

 taken the same year, and which had yielded three 

 crops. Corn is planted on the field from which 

 rye had been gathered the year previous, the stub- 

 bles of which are ploughed down in the fall. Clo- 

 ver seed is sown early in the spring on two of the 

 wheat fields, those which have been most recently 

 manured. By this method, each field yields three 

 crops of wheat, two of clover, one of rye and one 

 of corn, every eight years. Each field, in the mean- 

 time, has lain an ofien fallow, and received a heavy 

 dressing of manure, perhaps at an averarre of fif- 

 teen four-horse loads per acre. His crop of wheat 

 is seldom less than fifteen hundred bushels, but 

 often much mure. His average rye crop is about 

 four hundred and fiity bushels, and his corn crop, 

 annually, about five hundred bushels — all which 

 grain, at the present low prices, would amount to 

 more than two thousand dollars annually, and at 

 former prices to double that amount, and his farm 

 is withal very highly improved. 



Yours, P. W. 



