1859. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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in the vertical column of darker figures at the 

 left. The area will be found below the one and 

 opposite the other. 



Having ascertained the area of the piece of 

 ground, and the quantity of the crop grown, the 

 quantity per acre may be found as follows : Sup- 

 pose the piece to measure 80 feet in width by 

 140 feet in length, the crop to be barley, and the 

 quantity grown 288 quarts, — annex as many cy- 

 phers to the number of quarts as there are 

 decimal numbers in the area as given, and divide 

 by the area. The result will be the number of 

 quarts per acre ; divide by 32 and the result will 

 be bushels. In this case the quantity being ex- 

 pressed by 288, annexing four cyphers we have 

 2,880,000 ; dividing by 2571, we have 1120 quarts 

 per acre ; divide by 32 and the result is 35 bush- 

 els per acre. As by example : 



Area of a piece 80x140=: .2571, as taken from the taMe. 

 Quantity 288 quarts. Annex four cyphers, and divide by 



.2571^2880000/1120 quarts. 

 y2571 \. 



3090 

 2571 



5190 

 5142 



Divide that result by 32 \1120./35. bushels. 

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160 



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The process would be the same if the quantity 

 of the crop were expressed in bushels, pounds or 

 tuns. If the quantity per square rod is sought, 

 the same figures must be used, except that the 

 quantity must be divided by the area in rods as 

 expressed by the upper number in the table, in- 

 stead of the area in acres, as expressed by the 

 lower number. 



The quantity of the experimental crop should 

 be measured in the smallest denomination that is 

 practicable, to insure accuracy in the result per 

 acre. If by dry measure, the crop may be meas- 

 ured in quarts, if by weight, in pounds. 



The calculations required iu making up this 

 table have been performed by our assistant, Mr. 

 Wm. H. Foss, and to facilitate the work, he con- 

 structed a small table, which can be used to re- 

 duce any number of squai-e feet, small or large, 

 to a corresponding value in rods or acres, with 

 but little labor. 



The table will be given in a future number of 

 the Farmer, and cannot fail to be of value to any 

 one who is in the habit of making such reduc- 

 tions. J. Herbert Suedd. 



Boston, Bee, 1858. 



The Horticulturist. — The number before 

 us for Becember is an attractive one. Editor, 

 contributors and publisher, have served up a 

 good dish in good taste. The Editor's "Chat, 

 Country Life, Men in Cold and Tropical Cli- 

 mates," we found exceedingly interesting, per- 

 haps because we have given considerable thought 

 and investigation to the influences of climate 

 upon cliaracter. The article upon "Manure for 

 Fruit Trees— Where to Feed Fruit Trees," by 



our citizen, Wm. Bacon, of Richmond, is of that 

 practical and valuable character which always 

 give his articles interest. The one that follows, 

 by E. NoRTOX, Farmington, Conn., upon the 

 subject of "Pears on the Quince Stock," gives a 

 pretty accurate history of a good many experi- 

 ences that did not take place in the good old 

 State of Connecticut. While the fact that a great 

 many have been abundantly successful in the 

 culture of the pear on quince stocks, it cannot be 

 controverted that a still larger number have 

 failed to meet with that success which their ex- 

 pense and care would seem to justify. The article 

 will unquestionably turn attention to the sub- 

 ject, and lead to a more careful investigation of 

 its merits. 



The whole number is a valuable one. 



EXTSACTS AND BEPLIBS. 

 MILK BEFORE THE CALF. 



Mr. J. S. Marston, of North Hampton, N. H., 

 has a heifer that, after giving a fair quantity of 

 milk for five and a half months, has calved for 

 the first time, the calf being fat and rugged. Is 

 not this a rare circumstance ? s. D. B. 



Portsmouth, N. U., Bee, 1858- 



Remarks. — It is a rare circumstance. We 

 have a fine three-year old heifer that we turned 

 to pasture early in May last. She had never had 

 a calf or given milk, to our knowledge, and we 

 had owned her from the time she was six months 

 old. On visiting her in one week from the time 

 she was turned to pasture, we found her bag much 

 distended, and milked upon the ground what 

 we supposed to be four quarts of milk. There 

 was no appearance in the animal, or in the milk, 

 of her having dropt a calf. She was returned to 

 the home pasture, and milked regularly until the 

 middle of September, when she dropt a spright- 

 ly, but small calf, at noon, having given her usual 

 quantity of milk, on the morning of the same 

 day! 



We have heard of such cases, but this is the 

 only one that ever came under our own observa- 

 tion. 



COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES AND THE 

 STATE BOUNTY. 



If I am correctly informed, there are now four 

 agricultural societies within the limits of what was 

 the original Worcester County Society, and three 

 within the limits of the original Middlesex Soci- 

 ety, each of which receives from the treasury of 

 the commonwealth 8000 annually, being $2400 in 

 Worcester and $1800 in Middlesex — while die 

 county of Essex pays as much as either of these 

 counties, and receives only $600. This is unequal 

 and unjust — and if this plan of subdividing soci- 

 eties is continued, it will undermine and overturn 

 the whole. I have been astonished that close cal- 

 culating legislators have-not noticed the bearing 



