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Notices. 



Vol. VI. 



Notices. 



The Chester and Delaware County Agricultural So- 

 ciety will hold its fourth annual Exhibition and Cattle 

 Show, in Westchester, on the 15th October. Farm- 

 ers and others interested, are invited to forward for ex- 

 hibition, their stock, agricultural implements, and ve- 

 getable productions. It having been concluded to dis- 

 pense with a public sale, and adopt the principle of 

 private sales, as is customary in England, persons who 

 intend offering stock to sell, will please give notice to 

 the secretary of the kinds of animals and number, so 

 that they may be entered in the catalogue, that is now 

 open. Pabchall Morris, 



2d Oct. Secretary. 



We have received from Mr. Kenworthy, Frankford, 

 a bunch of the finest Carrots that we have seen the 

 present season; his specimens of Ruta-Bagas are ex- 

 cellent, although the seed was sown so late as the 15th 

 of August. Why were not his agricultural products 

 e.Thibited at the meeting of the Philadelphia society, 

 on the 29th September ? 



Odr agricultural friends are informed that a model 

 of a Drill has been left at the Office for inspection, 

 which appears likely to supersede the use of all others: 

 it operates on a principle so simple, and with so little 

 friction, that a drill to sow five rows at once, can be 

 made to perform the work of wheat, sugar-beet, turnip, 

 and corn-drilling by the same machine, merely by with- 

 drawing the wooden delivering slides, in a moment of 

 time ; so that five rows of wheat may be drilled at 10 

 inches apart, or, by removing two of the intermediate 

 elides, three rows of peas, beans, sugar-beets, or tur- 

 nips, at 20 inches; or, by removing the three interior 

 slides, two rows of corn, at 40 inches apart ; the grains 

 deposited in any quantity, at any required depth, and 

 dropped at any distance, with the most perfect preci- 

 sion — the machine covering the seed and rolling it at 

 the same time. Application for a patent lias been 

 made, and it will give us pleasure to inform our read- 

 ers in our next, when and where they may be obtained. 

 The ingenious inventor is Mr. Joseph Jones, coach- 

 maker, Camden, New Jersey ; who informs us that he 

 will deposit for inspection, at the Office of the Cabinet, 

 a Drill of the full size, as soon as it can be got ready. 



We have received from Mr. T. Affleck of Cincinnati 

 a copy of the " Western Farmer and Gardener's Alma- 

 nac, for 1842," for which he will please accept our 

 thanks. It appears well adapted to that meridian, and 

 contains a large mass of agricultural information. 



Mr. Affleck's little work, " Bee-breeding in the West," 

 is much approved; will he send on a number of copies 

 for sale, addressed to the proprietors of the Farmers' 

 Cabinet, No. 50, North Fourth Street ? Another new- 

 ly-invented Hive is in preparation, and will be exhil>- 

 ited with those already deposited at the Office, in a few 

 days, at the same place. 



We perfectly coincide in opinion with our corros 

 pondent W., that far too little attention has hitherto 

 been paid to the all important business of Ploughing. 

 It is the greatest and most momentous of all our ope- 

 rations, and yet it has been performed by us with a 

 hurriedness of execution almost setting steam at defi- 

 ance. Instead of taking up the furrow and laying it 

 over with mathematical precision, few ever think any 

 more about it, than to throw it up and let it fall as it 

 will — whether to an angle of 45°, horizontal, or verti- 

 cal, is to them all Latin. We thank W. for his inte- 

 resting paper on the subject ; it will give us pleasure 

 to insert it, with as many more as our practical friends 

 will furnish on the same topic, in our next. Our^or- 

 respondent's proposal is excellent, and, singular as it 

 at first appeared, is no doubt feasible, and would be 

 productive of incalculable good : we have ever been of 

 opinion, that the operation of ploughing is of sufficient 

 importance to warrant the exclusive attention of our 

 Agricultural Societies, and a day devoted to it at our 

 seasons of leisure, even if it be three or four times in 

 the year, would command and richly repay the attend- 

 ance of thousands. But let it be understood that tlie 

 trials be made at a distance from taverns, and the in-, 

 terdiction of all refreshments upon the ground be. 

 rigidly enforced ; no practical man would require any 

 other refreshment than to see a number of ploughs and 

 ploughmen all intent upon the business that had called 

 them together — a noble emulation, worthy the days of 

 Cincinnatus! 



The quantity of rain which fell during September, 

 (9th month,) was one inch and eighty-nine hundredths 

 of an inch 1.89 inch. 



Pennsylvania Hospital, 10th mo. 1, 1841. 



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