vol,. XIX. NO. 86. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



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His iridde was as follows : Imvin? divided his farm 

 into ojorlit fif'lds of equal size, as near as possible, 

 three of those fields, were sowed with wheat each 

 year, one with rye, one planted with corn, two in 

 clover, and one an open fallow, on which corn had 

 been raised the year previous. One of the two 

 clover fields i.j kept for mowinnr, the other for pas- 

 ture, both of which are ploughed as soon .nfter the 

 liurvest as possible and prepared for wheat in the 

 fall. All the manure whicli is made on the farm 

 for one year, is hauled in the sprinir on the tield 

 intended for open fallow, which is then ploiifrheri, 

 and alter one or two cross plouirhings throiigli the 

 summer, is also sowed with wheat in the fall. 

 Tlie field on which the rye is sown, is that from 

 which a crop of wheat has been taken the same 

 year, and which has yielded three crops. Corn is 

 planted on the field from which rye had been taken 

 the year previous, the stubbles of which are 

 ploughed down in the fall. Clover 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 meantime, 

 has lain an open fallow, and received a heavy dress- 

 ing of manure, perhaps at an average of fifteen 

 four-horse loads per acre. His crop of wheat i.s 

 seldom less than fifteen hundred bushels, but often 

 much more. His average rye crop is about four 

 hundred and fifty bushels, and his corn crop an- 

 nually, 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 witli- 

 all very highly improved. 



who saw its growth, and that every effort was mak- 

 ing to obtain old seed to sow, for experiment, for 

 the last crop. We begged to be informed of the 

 results of these latter trials, but have heard nothing 

 more (m the subject; and thence infer that the 

 hopes entertained have been disappointed. — El. 

 Farmers' Register. 



558,000 bushels. 

 2J5,000 

 184,000 " 

 320,000 

 110,000 lbs. 

 2,300 bbls. 



OLD WHEAT FOR SEED. 

 In a recent conversation with Mr Win. Skinker, 

 of Fauquier, an old and experienced farmer, he 

 mentioned that, for experiment, he had sown a few 

 bushels (from four to ten) of wheat of the previous 

 year's crop, in each of his three last seedings, and 

 that he had found the product of the old wheat al- 

 ways much better than that of the new wheat sown 

 sdjoining. Indeed, he thought the increase to be 

 not much short of 100 per cent. He could not as- 

 sign any other reason for the superiority, except 

 that fay keeping the seed wheat a year longer than 

 usual, the imperfect grains might lose their vitality, 

 and leave nothing to grow except those of the be.-it 

 quality. We think this totally insufiicient to pro- 

 duce the manifest superiority which we are confi- 

 dent Mr S. saw, whether he was or was not mista- 

 ken as to its amount. But the experiment is worth 

 repeating, and we hope it will be repeated by as 

 many of our readers as can conveniently obtain 

 old seed of good wheat. 



A year ago we heard stated, by a gentleman of 

 Cumberland, a still more remarkable fact, which 

 had been recently observed in that county. A 

 farmer had sown a few bushels of old seed along, 

 side, or perhaps between, the sowing of the balance 

 of his field with new seed. There was no diffe- 

 rence between the adjoining parts, except as to the 

 age of the seed. No experiment had been design- 

 ed, nor was any difference expected ; but the re- 

 sult was that, while the crop from the new seed 

 was greatly injured by the Hessian fly, that from 

 the old seed escaped entirely. Our informant un- 

 derstood tliat there was no doubt of the existence 

 of this remarkable difference in the minds of all 



From the Cincinnati Chronicle. 



THE RICHES OP THE WEST. 

 We have before us the agricultural returns of 

 nine townships of Monroe county, N. Y., contain- 

 ing over 22,000 people. The result is astonishing I 

 It is proof conclusive of the immense and almost 

 illimitable resources of these heaven-blessed 

 United States. These towns produce in gross, as 

 follows : 



1. Wheat, 



2. Oats, 



3. Corn, 



4. Potatoes, 



5. Sugar, 



G. Spirituous liquors. 

 The above is only part! Such trifling affairs as 



horses, hay, dairies, manufacturies, &c. we have 

 not added up. But look at the result. Every 

 living soul, man, woman and child, has in the al- 

 lotment, as its sharer in the production, 25 bushels 

 of wheat, 12 bushels of oats, 9 bushels of corn, 14 

 bushels of potatoes, 5 lbs. of sugar, &c. Or any 

 head of a family has 150 bushels of wheat, 72 of 

 oats, 54 of corn, 84 of potatoes, and :iO lbs. of 

 sugar. 



Taken as a whole, these townships raise at least 

 four times as much bread stuffs as are necessary 

 for their consumption, and other things in propor- 

 tion ! 



But if the reader be a little surprised at this, he 

 will be more so, when he learns that these same 

 towns made $105,000 worth of butter and cheese ; 

 raised $32,000 worth of fruit ; made $40,000 

 worth of home cloth ; and produced $450,000 

 worth of manufactured articles ; or $30 a piece for 

 each living soul. This affords matter for comment, 

 not only on the physical but the moral condition of 

 the country. None but a country in the highest 

 moral condition can produce such a result. These 

 people are not only well off, independent, but they 

 are the richest in the world. Nor is this an isola- 

 lated example. Our Western Reserve will show 

 the same result; so will many other districts. 



Besides these wheat fields rise the village 

 church and the village school. There are happy 

 faces, young and old, around them. Long may 

 they enjoy the peaceful fruits of happy, indepen- 

 dent labor! 



TAXATION IN ENGLAND. 



We can inform Brother Jonathan what are the 

 inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory: 

 Taxes upon every article which enters into the 

 mouth or covers the back, or is placed under the 

 foot— taxes upon every thing which is pleasant 

 to see, hear, feel, smell or taste — taxes upon 

 warmth, light and locomotion — taxes on every 

 thing on earth, and in the waters under the earth 

 — on every thing that comes from abroad, or is 

 grown at home — taxes on the raw material, and 

 on every fresh value that is added to it by the in- 

 dustry of man — taxes on the sauce which pampers 

 man's appetite and on the drug which restores him 

 to health — on the ermine which decorates the 



judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal .' 

 on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice — 

 on the brass nails of the cofliii, and the ribbons of 

 the bride— at bed or board, couchant or levant, we 



must pay. The school boy whips his taxed top 



the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with 

 a taxed bridle, on a taxed road: — and the dying 

 Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 

 seven per cent, into a silver spoon, which has paid 

 fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz 



bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent. and ex. 



pires in the arms of taxed apothecary, who has 

 paid a license of £100 sterling, for the privilege of 

 practising his caling! His whole property is tiien 

 taxed from two to ten per cent. ; and, besides, the 

 probate, large fees are demanded for burying him 

 in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to 

 posterity upon taxed marble, and he is at length 



gathered to his futlicrs — to be taxed no more! 



English Piipir. 



DISCOVERY IN ELLECTRICITY. 



A curious and probably a most important discov- 

 ery in this branch of natural philosophy, was made 

 about a fortnight ago in a boiler attached to a haul- 

 ing engine, at Seghill, on the Cramlington Railway, 

 near Newcastle. The engine man, on attempting 

 to lay hold of the lever of the safety valve, receiv" 

 ed what he described as a severe blow which 

 nearly caused him to fall, he a second time at- 

 tempted it, and received a similar blow. 'J his 

 having been made known, an examination of the 

 boiler followed, and it was found that the steam 

 which was escaping from a "blower" near to the 

 safety valve was highly charged with electricity. 

 Our informcnt states that on himself placing one 

 hand in the steam, sparks upwards of half an inch 

 in length were emitted from the other, and this 

 while he stood upon the masonry which was sur- 

 rounding the boiler ; bo that had he been upon a 

 glass stool the effects would have been much great- 

 er. We are glad to hear that this discovery is 

 being followed up by experiments on other boilers. 

 When the discovery was made, it was considered 

 by many to be owing to the quality of the water 

 used, which was pumped from the coal mine; sub- 

 sequently, however on trying the steam from a lo- 

 comotive engine on the Newcastle and North 

 Shields railway, a great quantity of electricity was 

 obtaini'd, and the water used in this case was from 

 the river Tyne. The subject is highly interesting, 

 and we hope that the discovery may lead to useful 

 results: the explosion of boilers has hitherto 

 baffled research and is not improbable that electri. 



city is intimately connected with it Dedham 



{Eng.) Adv. 



USEFUL RECIPE. 

 A correspondent of the Buffalo Commercial .Ad- 

 vertiser gives the following receipt for making a 

 composition which will render wood entirely In- 

 combustible : 



Take a quantity of water, proportioned to the 

 surface of wood you may wish to cover, and add to 



it as much potash as can be dissolved therein 



When the water will dissolve no more potash, stir 

 into the solution, first, a quantity of flour paste of 

 the consistency of common painter's size; second 

 a sufficient quantity of pure clay, to render it of the 

 consistence of cream. 



When the clay is well mixed, apply the prepara- 

 tion with a brush to the wood. 



