No. G. Officers of P/iiTa Ag. Society. — Productive Farm. — Mildeu\ 197 



The questions asked about fowls, tlia editor cannot 

 answer; and if he coiiM, it would be betlerforA. G. II. 

 to come here and buj' Bemcnt's Poulterer's Companion. 

 \\ hich will tell him all about it, and which will cost 

 iiim but §1 '25. Every raiser of fowls should have that 

 book. 



Our friends Coatos and Powell, both in Market street, 



ul whose advertisements arc in the Cabinet, \\ill no 

 . .nibt, furni.=h good orchard grass seed, and tell when 

 to sow it. The editor has preferred sowing it in the 

 Ef.i'ing. 



The accounts ofpoudrcttc have very generally given 

 il full credit for making the corn grow. For this crop 

 it must be a cheap manure. We would not advise our 

 correspondent to rely upon "thin land," for raising a 

 full crop of corn, in preference to that \\hich is 

 "thought to be good." Indian corn delights in a rich 

 soil. In a very dry summer, however, corn will suffer 

 less in a thin lightish Jersey soil, than in land that is 

 full of manure.^Eo. 



Officers of the Philadelphia Ag. Society. 



At a stated meeting- of tke Philadelphia 

 Society for promotinaf Aofviculture, held on 

 the 7th inst., the following named gentle- 

 men were elected officers for the ensuing 

 year, viz: 



President — James Mease, M. D. 



Vice Presidents — Kenderton Smith, Al- 

 gernon S. Roberts, — in place of James Gow- 

 en, declined. 



Recording Secretary — Aaron Clement. 



Assistant Recording Secretary — P. R. 

 Freas. 



Corresponding Secretary — A. L. Elwyn, 

 M. D. 



Treasurer — George Blight. 



Curators — Isaac Newton, Samuel C. Ford. 



Librarian — Aaron Clement. 



Jan. 8th, 184G. 



Productive Farm. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet:- — 



Mr. Israel Lamborn, of Marshalton, 

 Chester county, informed me a few weeks 

 ago, that his farm of twenty-seven acres of 

 land, had produced the past season, as fol-| 

 lows, viz. : one hundred and fifty bushels of 

 corn, thirty bushels of wheat, and twelve 

 tons of hay, vegetables for family, &c. ; that 

 he fatted twelve cattle of .500 lbs. each, kept 

 six large hogs, two horses, and two milch 

 cows; and had also received for pasture, 

 from drovers, 840. 



This may be considered as another, and a 

 very strong evidence of the productiveness 

 of small farms, when properly cultivated and 

 kept in high condition. The principal part 

 of Mr. Lamborn's farm being in grass, the 

 labour on it cost but little. There is, per- 



haps, no part of tliis country where land is 

 better adapted to the growth of grass and 

 grain, than Chester county. 



Aaron Clement. 



Philadelphia, Dec. 28th, 1845- 



Mildew. 



Very few seem to be aware of tlic nature 

 of that substance called mildew. We copy, 

 says the American Farmer, an abstract of a 

 lecture by Professor Lindley, of England, on 

 the subject: 



" Mildew is often confounded with blight, 

 honey-dew, &c., but it is a distinct sub- 

 stance, and peculiar to peculiar tribes of 

 plants. It generally appears on the leaves 

 or stems, in the form of red, white and black 

 spots, as a number of minute projections, or 

 frosty incrustations, or a brownish powder, 

 spreading more or less rapidly, till the plant 

 is destroyed. Mildew is fungi of different 

 kinds, and these are divided into three 

 classes: 1st, those which grow or lie on the 

 surface of leaves: 2nd, those which are 

 formed in the interior of the stein or leaf, 

 and produce when ripe ; and third, those 

 which only attack the roots. All these sel- 

 dom appear but in autumn. 



"The first of these fungi injure the plant 

 by preventing its respiration. One of the 

 most common of the fungi, which attack the 

 common cabbage, is the Cylindrosporium 

 concentrictim, and they have the appear- 

 ance of small white patches or specks of 

 frosty incrustation. The mildew which at- 

 tacks rose-bushes, and many other flowering 

 shrubs, is a kind of Uredo, so called, from 

 Ura, to burn or scorcli; for it gives to the 

 plant attacked the appearance of being 

 scorched. The fungus called Acrosporium 

 Monilioidcs, resembles, when magnified, a 

 string of beads, and consists of a number of 

 globules which, when ripe, fall, take root, 

 and form fresh strings, or necklaces. Some- 

 times tufts of these appear, fixed to stalks, 

 and are then called Aspergillus, from their 

 fancied re.'emblance to the brushes used for 

 sprinkling holy water. The superficial mil- 

 dew which infects the onion, and is fatal to 

 that plant, is called Bolrytis, or bunch of 

 grapes. The bean and pea have a superfi- 

 cial mildew — Uredo Faboc — which spreads 

 along their leaves like white roots curiously 

 interlaced. 



"The second class of fungi which spring 

 from the interior of the leaves and stems, 

 are the most fatal. They appear in a sort 

 of bag or case, supposed to be formed of the 

 cuticle of the affected leaf These attack 

 the oak, pine, and other forest trees; the 



