VOL. XII. NO. 34. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOUKNAL. 



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years has much increased in size from wlmt it was 

 when .first iiitrod need. The largest kind of eight 

 rowed corn is a magnificent plant, hut of a late 

 maturity ; requires very wide planting, and is 

 often allowed from six to eight, and even nine 

 feet hy five between the hills. I presume your 

 correspondent does not refer to this kind, and I 

 shall take it for granted from his remarks, that lie 

 refers to a middling sized eight rowed corn, which 

 produces an ear from eight to nine inches in 

 length, o/ld a' larger kernel than the twelve rowed. 

 I will then recapitulate in order the grounds on 

 which be gives the preference to the eight rowed 

 corn over the twelve rowed, and subjoin the re- 

 sults of my own observations and experiments. 



1. First he says, "Two bushels of twelve row- 

 ed ears when shelled, will yield only one bushel of 

 corn, and frequently fall a little short. Two bush- 

 els of the same length * ears of eight rowed will 

 yield generally a bushel and three or four quarts 

 of shelled corn." 



These positive statements put me upon an in- 

 quiry into the actual facts, as far as I had the 1 

 means of determining them. I have no theory to 

 establish, but am desirous as your correspondent 

 of ascertaining what is true, and consequently de- 

 termining what is best. I therefore applied to a 

 near neighbor, G. S., a small farmer, but extreme- 

 ly careful in all his operations, and obtained some 

 eight rowed corn, of which he raised as tine a 

 sample as 1 ever saw, and of a good size, in order 

 to compare it with my own. His corn being planted 

 very early, was in perfect condition ; mine planted 

 from three weeks to a month later was ripe, but 

 not so sound as his. His too was saved in small 

 quantity — mine in large. 

 Half bush, of ears of G. S.'s corn weighed 25 lbs. 



do ... do do .... II. C.'s do 24| lbs. 



This was an uncertain mode of measuring — for 

 though we designed to be exact, yet a few cars 

 might, easily have been placed on the one, or not 

 have been placed on the other, and yet both meas- 

 ures have appeared equally heaped to the eye. 



When the above was shelled and measured, 

 there was not a difference of half a gill — G. S.'s 

 measuring 1 peck, 3 quarts ; H. C.'s measuring 1 

 peck, 3 quarts, and a fraction. 



2. His second position is that, " Although there 

 is one-third more kernels on the twelve rowed, 

 yet the cob of the eight rowed is so much smaller 

 and the kernel so much larger, the quantity of 

 shelled corn is considerably in favor of the eight 

 rowed." 



The cob of G. S.'s corn compared with the size 

 of the ear, judging by the eye, was as small as I 

 ever saw. Now the cobs of the above two par- 

 cels of corn were weighed, and the result as fol- 

 lows : 



G. S.'s cobs weighed 4 J. lbs. 

 H. C.'s..do...ido...4| lbs. 



In order, however, to determine more exactly 

 the relative proportion of the cob to the grain in 

 the two kyids, I selected two of the best ears of 

 each sort, shaved the butt as closely as possible, 

 and having carefully shelled the corn, caused the 

 grain anil the cob of the two parcels to be sepa- 

 rately weighed in an apotecary's scales. Of the 

 two ears of G. S., one measured in length eight 

 inches and one quarter, the other eight inches one 

 half. Those of 11. C. one nine and three quarter 



Of the 



inches, the other ten inches and one half, 

 two ears of G. S.'s eight rowed, 



The grain weighed S& oz. — the cob 1J oz. 

 Of the two ears of II. C.'s twelve rowed, 



The grain weighed 13J oz. — the cob 2^ oz. 



In these cases it will be found that the propor- 

 tion of the cob to the grain is precisely the same, 

 and the comparison was made as exactly as possi- 

 ble. 



With a view farther to compare the two kinds, 

 I caused one peek of each kind, shelled, well 

 shaken and struck, to be weighed — the result as 

 follows : 



( me peck G. S.'s weighed 17 lbs. — 68 lbs. per bush, 

 do... H. C.'s.. do.... 164;..— 65 do 



This difference would doubtless have been less 

 had the two kinds been equally well ripened and 

 saved. The season was particularly unfavorable 

 to late planted corn, and G. S.'s was extraordina- 

 rily sound. In proof, likewise, of the very fine 

 and superior character of his corn over that which 

 is generally raised of the eight rowed, perhaps 

 arising from his early planting and particular at- 

 tention, I immediately weighed one peck of the 

 corn of two other neighbors, of the eight rowed 

 kind, which had been taken in by a shrewd trader 

 at the highest market price. The measure was 

 hard shaken and struck. 



One peck weighed 15£ lbs. — 61 lbs. per bushel, 

 do do 14* do. — 57 do 



With this certainly the twelve rowed would 

 bear not an unfavorable comparison. H. C. 



(To be continued.) 



wages to provide an abundance of good food and 

 good raiment ; and these are the things that make 

 happy families; and these are the thhigs that make 

 a good, kind, sincere, and brave people; not little 

 pamphlets about "loyalty" and "content." A good 

 man will be contented fast enough, if he be fed 

 ami clad sufficiently; but if a man be not well fed 

 and clad, he is a base wretch to be contented. 



Fuel should be, if possible, provided in summer, 

 or at least some of it. Turf and peat must be got 

 in summer, and some ivood may. In the wood- 

 land countries, the next winter ought to be thought 

 of in June, when people hardly know what to do 

 with the fuel wood ; and something should, if pos- 

 sible, be saved in the bark harvest to get a part of 

 the fuel for the next winter. Fire is a capital ar- 

 ticle. To have no fire, or a bad fire, to sit by, is 

 a most dismal thing. In such a state man and 

 wife must be something out of the common way to 

 he in a good humor with each other, to say nothing 

 of colds and other ailments which are the natural 

 consequence of such misery. If we suppose the 

 great Creator to condescend to survey his works in 

 detail, what object can be so pleasing to him as 

 that of the laborer, after his return from the toils 

 of a cold winter day, sitting with his wife and chil- 

 dren round a cheerful fire, while the wind whistles 

 in the chimney, and the rain pelts the roof? But, 

 of all God's creation, what is so miserable to be- 

 hold or to think of, as a wretched, half starved 

 family creeping to their nests of' flocks or straw, 

 there to be shivering, till sent forth by the fear of 

 absolutely expiring from want ? 



* In measuring corn in the car by Uie bushel or basket, I do 

 not sco why die len^iliot'ihe ear should be considered. 



From Cobbrtt'x Cottage Economy. 

 DRESS, HOUSEHOLD GOODS, AND FUEL,. 



In a former paragraph, I said, I think, enough 

 to caution you, (the English laborer,) against the 

 taste now too prevalent, for fine and ftimsy dress. 

 It was, for hundreds of years, amongst the char- 

 acteristics of the English people, that 'their taste 

 was, in all matters, for things solid, sound, and 

 good ; for the useful, and decent, the cleanly in 

 dress, and not for the shoivy. Let us hope that 

 this may be the taste again ; and let us, my friends, 

 fear no troubles, no perils, that may be necessary 

 to produce a return of that taste, accompanied with 

 full bellies and warm backs to the laboring classes. 

 In household goods, the warm, the strong, the 

 durable, ought always to be kept in view. Oak 

 tables, bedsteads n^d stools, chairs of oak or of 

 yew tree, and never a bit of miserable ileal board. 

 Things of this sort ought to last several lifetimes. 

 A laborer ought to inherit from his great grand- 

 father something beside his toil. As to bedding, 

 and other things of that sort, all ought to be good 

 in their nature, of a durable quality, and plain in 

 their color and form. The plates, dishes, mugs, 

 and things of that kind, should be of pewter or even 

 of wood. Any thing is better than crockery ware. 

 Mottles to carry a-field should he of wood. For- 

 merlv, nobody but the gypsies and mumpers, that 

 went a hop-picking in the season, carried glass or 

 earthen bottles. As to glass of any sort, I do not 

 know what business it has in any man's house, 

 unless he be rich enough to live on his means. It 

 pays a tax, in many cases, to the amount of two- 

 thirds of its cost. In shin t, when a house is once 

 furnished with sufficient goods, there ought to be 

 no renewal of hardly any part of them wanted for 

 half an ag e i except in case of destruction by lire. 

 Good management in this way leaves the man's 



THEY WORK IT RIGHT. 



Report of Oxford Farmers. — Samuel Garnsey 

 produced about 1800 bushels of potatoes, on three 

 and half acres of old pasture without manure. 

 Twice spring ploughed — twice dragged and ridged 

 — planted on the ridge in the bill, about -level with 

 the surface, on the first days of June — hoed out 

 only once, producing 500 bushels to the acre. 



Lyman Balcom, reports 650 bushels of potatoes, 

 of flesh red and pink eyed, on one and a half acres 

 of wheat stubble — spring ploughed — seed cut in 

 hills — twice hoed. 



Benjamin Butler, 600 bushels Ruta Baga, on 

 one acre of sandy loam, after a crop of clover — 

 once ploughed ; 400 bushels of compost manure, 

 spread on the furrow — rolled, harrowed and ridg- 

 ed with a double mould board plough, drilled on 

 the ridge,' in the last week in July. — Farmer's Adv. 



TO PRESERVE BOOKS. 



A few drops of any perfumed oil will secure 

 libraries from the consuming effects of mould and 

 damp. Russian leather, which is perfumed with 

 the tar of the birch tree, never moulders; and mer- 

 chants suffer large bales of this leather to remain 

 in the London Docks, knowing that it cannot sus- 

 tain any injury from damp. This manner of pre- 

 serving hooks with perfumed oil, was known to 

 the ancients. The Rinnans used oil of cedar to 

 preserve valuable MSS. Hence the expression 

 used by Horace — " Digna ccdro," meaning any 

 work worthy of being anointed with cedar oil', i f, 

 in other words, worthy of being preserved and re- 

 membered. — Greenfield Gazette. 



TO HOP GROWERS. 



Hops are sold in New York at 19 and 20 cts. per 

 pound, and are likely to become an article of regu- 

 lar and extensive exportation. 



