No. 5. 



Tfie Wheat and Indian Corn Crop of 1845. 



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have produced this season IGO bushels of 

 shelled corn, besides all the stalks and husks. 

 This corn bealt out in meal would make an 

 allowance of 6§ busiiels to eacli of the 24 

 cattle tor seven weeks and five days — or 

 213 quarts of meal to eacli. That is, about 

 three tjuarts of meal per day for each ani- 

 mal, besides tlie husks and stalks. Should 

 we not think it costly feeding to give out so 

 much in addition to what could be obtained 

 in the pasture? 



We wish to see more experiments made 

 on feeding out green corn, and we therefore 

 make these remarks on the experiment of 

 Captain Randall. 



The Wheat and ludian Coru Crop 

 of 1845. 



The aggregate crops throughout the U. 

 States form a subject of congratulation for 

 every lover of his country. The wheat 

 crop alone for the present year, is estimated 

 at 125,000,000 of bushels. The wheat crop 

 of 1842, which was the largest ever previ- 

 ously raised in this country, was 103,000,000 

 bushels. Tlie increase of 22,000,000 shows 

 not less the large additional amount of land 

 brought under cultivation, than the genial 

 character of the last summer. 



The crop of Michigan is comparatively 

 larger than that of any other State in the 

 Union. With a population of not over 400, 

 OOO, she raises this year at least 7,000,000 

 bushels of wheat. The quality is also of the 

 very best. The Wolverines are glorying in 

 their abundance, and they say they can fur- 

 nish Europe with all the bread she may 

 need. The Central rail-road now brings 

 down to Detroit 10,000 bushels of wheat 

 daily, but the supply is so very heavy at 

 Marshall and the other depots at this busy 

 season, that the motive power cannot take it 

 off as fast as the forwarders require. This 

 will give some idea of the production of 

 Michigan. The recent advance in prices 

 will most fortunately afford a fair profit to 

 the producer, and thus with an immense 

 crop he reaps a high price — which fortunate 

 combination is all that is wanted to ensure 

 a sound and enviable prosperity. 



In 1844, the amount of Indian corn raised, 

 according to the best calculations, was about 

 425,000,000 of bushels. Commenting upon 

 this subject, the Albany Argus says:-— 



"The half-starved operatives of Europe 

 may well look at the returns with glistening 

 eyes, for it affords 22 bushels of corn alone 

 for every man, woman and child in this 

 country. Indian corn will rarely bear ex- 

 portation, and therefore but little is carried 

 abroad. It is nearly all consumed at home. 



Our cattle enjoy an abundance of that food 

 which would be deemed a luxury in Europe. 

 Such is the prolific fertility of our soil and 

 the extent of production under the competi- 

 tion of freemen. 



Egypt was once called the granary of the 

 world, but America in the extent of its 

 wheat pioduction, as well as the superiority 

 of its quality, will throw into the shade even 

 the fables of Herodotus. — BickneWs Re- 

 porter. 



Making and Saving Manures. — Several 

 interesting and useful volumes have been 

 written on the management and application 

 of farm-yard manure. I can say little more 

 on this subject this time than give the opin- 

 ion that we manage the whole affair in a 

 most wasteful and unscientific manner gene- 

 rally. Instead of saving carefiilly every 

 solid and liquid substance about our premi- 

 ses, and by combining them with bog muck, 

 the sediment of bogs and ditches, parings 

 from the road-side, loam from the woodlands, 

 and decaying vegetables, making them lea- 

 ven the whole lump, with the addition of 

 ashes, soot, plaster, lime, salt, &c., we suffer 

 thousands of loads to be exposed to sun and 

 rains, which dissipate the most valuable por- 

 tions, and impoverish our means of prospe- 

 rity. 



Every family who uses a barrel of soft 

 soap in a year, may saturate two cords or 

 four ox-cart loads of loam with suds and 

 filth of the wash-room, which would be a 

 good top-dressing to an acre of grass land, 

 or half an acre of wheat. I could speak of 

 other wastes which happen about almost 

 every house, which if they were saved, and 

 properly composted, would manure in the 

 State of Maine, 100,000 acres of w^ieat. In 

 China, almost no cattle are kept, and no de- 

 pendence placed on barn-yard manure. Their 

 sole resort is to compost, formed from the re- 

 fuse matter about human dwellings, and the 

 most of that land which sustains 300,000,000 

 human beings is a garden. — Dr. Bates' Ad. 



Curious Facts in Grafting. — I have 

 just visited an orchard of Mr. Jeremiah 

 Lambertson, Flushing, L. I., and was shown 

 a small apple tree, into which in April, 1844, 

 thirteen grafts of different kinds were insert- 

 ed, all sweet, and all ripening about the same 

 time, in the latter part of July. On one of 

 the grafts of the strawberry variety, of about 

 twenty inches growth, there had grown 

 eight fine strawberry apples. The graft 

 had two branches, on one of which six beau- 

 tiful apples hung in one cluster, on the 

 other there were two, each nearly as large 

 as a hen's egg. — American Agriculturist. 



