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Notices. — Water Gauge. 



Vol. VI. 



Notices. 



We hope to give, in an early number, a portrait of 

 a remarkably fine wether sheep, of the full-blooded 

 Leicester or Bakewell breed, now feeding by Major 

 Philip Reybold, of Delaware, whose name is in all the 

 country as a breeder of the finest sheep in the Union. 

 He is fatting twenty-one pure bred Leicester weth- 

 ers, which it is expected will equal those fed by him 

 the last winter, and slaughtered by Sterling Tho- 

 mas and Jo8. M. Turner, of Baltimore. The weights 

 of which were as follow— No. 1, 157 lbs. ; 2, 156; 3, 150; 

 4, 167; 5, 145; 6, 162; 7, 137i; 8, 143| ; 9, 123; 10, leof 

 The mutton was unequalled in fatness and the quality 

 remarkably fine, not too fat to be eaten, although mea- 

 suring 44 inches thick on the ribs. The Major is feeding 

 65 half-bred wethers also, a cross between the Leicester 

 and common stock, of which we hope to give an ac- 

 count in a future number. The buck of the flock is 

 expected to weigh, dead weight, upwards of 50 lbs. per 

 quarter. 



We are indebted to Mr. W. Worthington, Darlington, 

 Hartford Co., Md., for several remarkably large ears 

 of corn, two of them counting 30 rows on each cob. 



We would inform Mr. Waring of Cecil County, that 

 Prouty and Mears's plough may be obtained of D. O. 

 Prouty, No. 176 Market Street, of several different 

 sizes, all of the same pattern ; but we would advise our 

 correspondent to venture upon the C. sod-plough at once. 

 It will not be found too large for the lightest work, but 

 sufficiently so for almost the heaviest ; the prices are 

 governed by size alone. The price of sod C being $11, 

 without wheel. 



OtjR best thanks are due to R. M. C. for his kind offer ; 

 we shall be happy to be informed of his readiness to 

 commence the experiment to which he alludes. It has 

 always appeared to us that some cause, other than the 

 heat of the climate, must exist for the very great dif- 

 ference between the crops of potatoes in this part of 

 Pennsylvania and the Eastern States, a difference 

 amounting to four or six hundred bushels per acre. He 

 has commenced well, and the present frosts and thaws 

 must operate very beneficially upon a subsoil turned up 

 two months ago. We would suggest the propriety of 



well dragging the surface before turning it back, prepa- 

 ratory to a spring working of the land before planting; 

 the long dung turned in will, at that time, be found well 

 decomposed, and the intended surruce-dreseiiig of lime 

 will lend much to render the crop clean and free from 

 worms, keeping under, in a remarkable manner, the 

 spontaneous growth of seed weeds. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Water Gauge. 



Statement of the quantity of rain and melted snow 

 which has fallen from the Isl of January IglO, to the 

 1st of January 1842, a period of 32 years. The first 14 

 years by the gauge of P. Legeaux, of Springmill, about 

 12 miles from Philadelphia, and the following 18 years 

 by that kept at the Pennsylvania Hospital, in Phila> 

 delphia. 



inches. 



1810 32.656 



1811 34.968 



1812 39.300 



1813 35.025 



1814 43. 135 



1815 34. 660 



1816 27.947 



1817 36005 



1818 30.177 



1819 23.354 



1^20 39.(09 



1821 32.182 



1822 29.864 



I8^>3 41.815 



1824 38.740 



1825 29.570 



1826 35.140 



inches. 



1827 38.500 



1828 37.970 



1829 41.850 



1830 45 070 



1831 43.040 



1832 39.876 



1833 48.550 



1834 34. 240 



1835 35.300 



ia36 42.6G0 



1837 39.040 



1838 45.289 



1839 43.739 



1840 47.400 



1841 55 500 



Total inches 1223. 671 



Average quantity fallen in each year for 32 



years 38.240 



Average quantity fallen in each year for 18 



years, since the Hospital account commenced 41.243 

 The largest quantity which fell in any year 



since the account was kept, was in 1841 .... 55.500 

 The smallest quantity which foil in any year 



since this account began, was in 1819 23.354 



Difference of extremes 32. 140 



The quantity of rain and melted snow which fell 

 during the 12th month, (December), 1841, was five 

 inches and nine hundred and seventeen thousandths 

 of an inch 5 917 



The quantity for the year 1841 was fifty-five and a 

 half inches. John Conrad. 



Pennsylvania Hospital, Ist mo. 1, 1842. 



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