Editorial Aotices. 



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it must be acknowlctlged that we always at- 

 tribute great garden crops to superior culti- 

 vation; especially in the article of digging 

 iiid pulverization ; and I know of no law that 

 should prevent llic workingof the rule in one 

 cate as well as the other. These cars I have 

 obtained, and send, for tiic purpose of exhi- 

 bition at the office of the Cabinet ; and al- 

 ithough tliey have been selected, yet every 

 practical man will know, that the whole crop 

 must have been in keeping, to show the re 

 suit at harvest. D. F. 



AVest Chester. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



AND 



Philadelphia, Third Month, 1845. 



|ineroiis ciiqiiirifs liave licpii made in relation to their 

 mode of inisjn!; water. Wo can only refer enquirers 

 to their htler, and to one on tlio same siiliject fruni J. 

 H. B. I,atroho,in the 2nd nnniberof our last volume. We 

 have understood that several fanners in the neighbor- 

 hood of West Chester, have been entirely succcFsful in 

 availine themselves of this beautiful mode of supply- 

 ng water to their houses and farm yards. 



The fifth number of Colman's Agricultural Tour in 

 Europe, was received a month ago, treating principally 

 on Soils and ploughing. An extract will be found on 

 page 25G. This number completes the first volume, 

 which we shall have bound and for sale in a' few days. 

 If subscribers w ill send their five Nos. to this olfice, 

 they will be well and cheaply bound. 



Although we have rarely alluded to the numerous 

 evidences received from our subscribers, of the esteem 

 in which they hold the Cabinet, the Editor owes it to 

 hiiuself, as well as to those who are pleased to express 

 themselves so favorably of it, to say that he is by no 

 means insensible to the good opinions of those for 

 whom he labors. He values tliose good opinions as 

 hi^'lily perhaps as any one, and is desirous to merit 

 them. It is his ambition to make the Cabinet of far 

 more value to its readers than the small amount of its 

 price, and when he ceases to believe it is so, his name 

 shcill be withdrawn from its head. We have never held 

 out any great or extraordinary promises;— we have 

 never supposed that the Cabinet was to work any re- 

 markable and sudden change in the condition of the 

 farmer who lacked the enterprise or shrewdness neces- 

 sary to make its hints available; but we have believed, 

 and it is gratifying that others believe, that those who 

 hiok through its pages will hardly fail to gather many 

 hints that may be carried out advantageously in the 

 every day operations of the farm. 



In a letter received a few days ago, from Delaware, 

 the writer is pleased to say, " I value the Cabinet, and 

 am endeavouring to practice in accordance with some 

 of its sentiments, for which I incur the ridicule of 

 some of our old fashioned fanners down here. How- 

 ever, I have the satisfaction to know, that two years 

 labor has about doubled the product of my farm, with- 

 out any additional outlay more than what I have made 

 on the farm." 



And we would impress it on our citizens, that it is 

 not to the farmer alone, that the Cabinet is calculated 

 to be interesting or valuable. Who is the man whose 

 habits or pursuits preclude him from deriving gratifi- 

 cation at least, if not profit, from its plain matter of- 

 fact pages? For this is the character we have always 

 intended to give it. The Editor having no wish himself 

 to deal in visionary schemes or theories, would not 

 willingly lead others into them: and if lie does but little 

 good, it is his hope that the Cabinet shall still less do 

 harm. 



Since the insertion of the Communication of Reeve 

 and Brothers, in the last number of the Cabinet, nu 



Since our last number was published, a long cora- 

 muTiication has been received from a valued friend in 

 relation to the Provty and the Moore ploughs:— it 

 does not seem to throw any new light on the matter, 

 and as a great deal of talking, or a greal of writing, 

 will neither make these ploughs better nor worse, we 

 think it is quite possible to say more on the subject 

 than will be of interest to the readers of the Cabinet. 

 That they are both excellent ploughs, we do not hesi- 

 tate to believe. Conclusive proofs of their excellence 

 may be found in the numerous premiums, each of them 

 has taken at our ploughing matches, and the extensive 

 introduction of them into the hands of our farmers. 

 The editor wishes to state explicitly, that he has no 

 interest in either of them, directly or indirectly, fur- 

 ther than that which would lead hi[n to wish the wide 

 spreading of such excellent implements. Let them 

 both advertise in our paper; then they cannot fail to 

 be known from Cape May to the Cherokees: and we 

 may venture to say that wherever they are known and 

 thoroughly tried, they will be liked. 



We are indebted for the blocks of the Dorking and 

 Poland fowls, on page 249, to the courtesy of the Ame- 

 rican Farmer, 



Dr K.rkbride's Report of the Pennsylvania Hospi- 

 tal for the Insane, for the year 1845, has been politely 

 forwarded through the post office, and we have as 

 usual, looked through it with much interest. We have 

 long been of the opinion that this Institution— this 

 branch of that noble charity, the Pennsylvania Hos- 

 pital, is managed by the principal and his as.'tistantg 

 with great eflnciency and sound discretion. Numerous 

 proofs of this are observable in the Reports which 

 have been made from time to time by Dr. K., since the 

 Institution was opened five years ago, for the recep- 

 tion of patients. Its whole economy is based upon 

 those liberal and enlightened views which look rather 

 to moral influences, than to the strap, the mitten, or 

 the straight jacket. These last, indeed, might almost 

 be said to be interdicted from the premises. There is 

 certainly no ordinary degree of satisfaction in being 

 able to refer to this retreat, as having thus far realized 

 all the anticipations of its projectors, and we trust 

 it may be allowable to invoke the blessing of the Su- 

 preme Being upon their efforts to meliorate, as far as 

 possible, the condition of the most afflicted of our kind. 



