VOV. XVI. NO. 36. 



AND GARDENER'S 



JOURNAL 



285 



tion. Tlie Gyiophora nnd Cetraiia may furnish 

 him with the hare tneansof .susiaining lite, hictthe 

 wht-at anil oat, with their iiiimBrniis kiiulrod 

 gras.ses, only indicate in their fjrowth the presence 

 of civilization, luxury, and reljnenicnt. The phy- 

 sical enerjry requi.-iite in the piodnec of such 

 means of snhsistence as the latter, operates in no 

 small degree to dcvelope the menial and moral 

 powers, est;d.liihinir as an uinpie-stioned fact in 

 tlie hi.siory of man, tlie circumstance tli;it the char- 

 acter of a people may he ascertaiir('d hy t!ie char- 

 acter of their agru-nltural pnrsnils. lie then is 

 no small henefactor to the hnman race "who 

 makes two hlades of gra.=s grow where one grew 

 before." We trnst the time is hastening when 

 the science of Agriculture will receive a more gen- 

 eral altenlion in our country, and assume that 

 rank and station among the occupations of society 

 which it nierits. A science comprehensive of all 

 that pert.iins to human knowledge ; first in im- 

 portance, and without which all else must fail. 

 The hrjman mind scarcely recognizes limits to its 

 operative ingenuity ; and in a field so wide, and a 

 scene of enterprise so extended, the very elements 

 of matter, and t!ie Laws of Nature will hecouie 

 snhservient to the advancement of philanthropy 

 and moral worth ; of iiulividiial good and national 

 prosj.erity. J. L. R. 



Lancaster, M H. Feb. 1838. 



Tops, estimated value, 



4,60 



$329,00 

 Balance over and ahove all exfienses of la- 

 hor, manure, seed, and machine, (which 

 last is still on hand,) $254, .50 



From this statement it will he seen that at 10 

 cts. per hushel, the cultivation of carrots is a sav- 

 ing husiness. 



Yours, &.C. Agiucolae Filius. 



To the Editor of ike jV. E. Farmer: 



Dk.ir Sir — "He who makes two hlades of 

 grass grow where hut one grew hefore, is the 

 henefactor of mankind." As your sheet is design- 

 ed to promote such heneticient residls hy puhlish- 

 ing experiments which promise to secure them ; 

 permit me to spread hefore you and your readers, 

 H few facts respecting a hed of Carrots, cultivated' 

 in U'esthorough, the last summer hy Mr George 

 Deimy. Mr 1). has heen repeatedly reqnesteil to 

 rive puhlicity to the results of his experiment, hut 

 is these results were less favorahle than lie antic- 

 pated, he has cliosen not to do it. The following 

 acts, however, ohtained from the overseer of his 

 "arm, we presume he will not he unwilling to have 

 l;iven to the puhlic for the general good; and 

 nany questions, which a carrot hed of such unu- 

 ual size for this region has elicited, will therehy 

 >e answered. 



This carrot hed covered one acre and a half of 

 round; was ploughed twice, harrowed, and 

 ushed. Ahout one third of the hed was manured, 

 'ive and a half hours were occufiied in the row- 

 ig, which was done with a machine on the 7th 

 ayofjime. The rows were 15 and 18 inches 

 part. In ihe harvesting, eig/a hundred and eleven 

 ushels of carrots were taken from the hed, some 



f wliich have heen sold at 40 cents per bushel. 



'he tops constituted the principal food of sixteen 

 ead of cattle from Oct. 21st, to Nov. 8th. 



A brief summary will show the valm; of the ex- 

 eriment. 



mount of labor expended including oxen. 



41 1-2 days a 6s. 

 [anure, seven loads, 

 eed, 



iterest on estimated value of land, 

 ost of machine for sowing, 



$41,50 



7,00 



1,50 



9,00 



15,50 



For the N. E. Farmer. 



ON PRUNING FOREST TREES AND OR- 

 NAMENTAL SHRUBS. 



At the present period few things can he done 

 with more advantage in fine days on the farm and 

 garden than the priming of hardy forest trees and 

 ornamental shrubs, and in many cases hardy fruit 

 trees and vines both ornamental and useful, may 

 not only he pruned with the greatest safely, but 

 to a good advantage, as such work greatly forwards 

 the husiness on the farm and garden in the 

 spring. 



'J'here are few things more essential than [>runing 

 orn»mental forest trees and few branches of Hor° 

 ticultuie more neglected in many cases, as most 

 people have an idea that in such plantations na- 

 ture should be allowed to have her own course • 

 however a little consideration teaches us to ihe 

 contrary. In most plantations of Forest trees the 

 ground is well prepared previous to its being 

 planted, and the consequence is, the young trees 

 make a rapid growth and come in contact with 

 one another, and if they are not thinned, many of 

 their under and side branches die as the plants 

 grow in height and size, and the dead wood in- 

 cumbers and weakens the lire. There are hundreds 

 of acres of land covered with forest trees at this 

 time, that are much in want of this kind of prun- 

 ing or thinning out, Treves in such situations 

 should also be pruned into a handsome and regu- 

 ular shape and everything of the kind should be 

 forwarded previous to ihe coming spring when 

 ploughing, crossing and many other things will 

 have to be done and the trees wdl he allowed to 

 grow and injure one year after another. I could 

 say a great deal more on pruning, but at present 

 must defer it until a better opportunity. 



A Forester. 



in 1836 bore potatoes and corn ; a part of it was 

 ploughed in the fall only, a jiart in the fsdl and 

 spring both, and a part in the spring only. I 

 could not see any ditlerence in the growth of the 

 wheat. The qnaniity of manure put on the land 

 in 1836 was nothing extra, there was not any put 

 on in 1837. 



ThtS wheat was prepared by wetting it, and 

 then turning it into a vessel that would let the wa- 

 ter drain off, and then adding two ounces of blue 

 vitriol, dissolved in two quarts of water, stirring it 

 well ; the wheat was then separated for sowing, 

 by adding abo:it six quarts of plaster to a bushel 

 of wheat. The wheat may be sowed immediately 

 or not, as best suits the farmer. This treatment 

 prevents stnut. Yours, with respect, 



E. T. MORRILL. 



$74,50 

 ilue of 811 l)iishels Carrots at 40 cts. per 

 •"'shel, $324,40 



Atkinson, Penobscot Co. Maine. \ 

 March 5, 1838. )' 

 AIessrs Joseph Breck, & Co. 



Gentlemen : I sowed one and three fourths bush- 

 els of Black Sea Wheat, May 9, 1837, on about an 

 acre of land that ha<l potatoes on it in 1836. The 

 grain was threshed with flails an<l yielded forty 

 busliels of good well cleansed wheat; the laud was 

 not prepared, either in 1836 or '37, for an extra 

 crop. 



1 also sowed five bushels of l>ald Wheat on 

 four acres, May 15, 1837. This grain wcs cradled 

 with one of Vaughan's cradle,* hy a man who had 

 never seen one before. I think one half of the 

 expense, in gathering grain, may be !4aved hv 

 using thiscradle instead of the sickle. It requires 

 some f)atience to learn to use it well. The wheat 

 from the five bushels, I had threshed with flails 

 and measured for the bounty, was one hun- 

 dred and twenty and one half bushels. The land 



Interestiing to Farmers. — .^n English paper 

 relates that a practical fartneratthe aimual dinner 

 of the Preston Agricultural Society, gave some ac- 

 count of various interesting discoveries in farming, 

 particularly as related to the economy of seeds. 

 He said that he had always been of opinion that 

 much less seed than was generally used for grain 

 would answer the purpose. With this impression 

 he made experiments upon difl'erent portions of 

 the ground. He had planted at the rate of one 

 grain of wheat to a square foot, or nine grains to 

 a square yard. In several instances, one grain 

 had produced thirty-eight stems, in others rather 

 less, but in all a crop amply sufficient. He had 

 also examined the heads, and found that one head 

 contained as many as fony two grains. The gen- 

 eral rssult of hii calculation showed a produce at 

 the rate of forty-two bushels per statute acre. — 

 There were 1640 grains in half a pound of wheat, 

 and thus, according to the projiortion he had 

 named, 4 po\;nd» 10 ounces of seed would be suf- 

 ficient for a statute acre. This he thought was a 

 subject deserving Ihe attention of agriculturists. — 

 He had this year drilleil three acres of wheat at 

 the rate of six bushels for three acres, in rows of 

 from twelve to thirteen inches asunder, and though 

 this was only to a small extent following out the 

 former experiment, yet it would be a guide to the 

 principle. 



"The Scotch Bow. 



Economical food for Horses. — Nine pounds 

 of bread, made of oatmeal and bean flour, will af- 

 ford more nourishment to horses than a bushel of 

 oats of good quality, weighing twelve or thirteen 

 pounds. A French (arnier in Hainault, feeds his 

 horses during the winter, with a mixture of boiled 

 potatoes and chopped straw, giving each horse 

 daily, at two feeds, about fourteen pounds of po- 

 tatoes, which food agrees with the horses, and is 

 much relished by them. 



Si.NGULAR HEiy Mr James Drinkwater, of 



Harpurhey, near Mai-hester, Eng. has a hen up- 

 wards of two years old ; it has not a white feath- 

 er on it, but is as black as jet. For upwards of 

 eighteen months it has laid an egg every other 

 day, and, has never been known to change its 

 feathers. 



iJ 



A hog raised by Mr Noah Frisbie, of Litchfield, 

 was exhibited in this city last week, and nag 

 slaughtered on Friday last, which weighed alive 

 One Thousand Three Hundred and twenty-five lbs. 

 and made one thousand lbs. of handsomely dressed 

 pork ! D'ye give it up.— Hartford Times, 



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