NO. 3. 



THE farmers' cabinet. 



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laborious, skilful gardeners. Being so 

 poor they had but little to carry. They 

 always took their bundles of garden seeds 

 that they had brought from Germany and 

 greatly improved gardening, both in quality 

 and a greater variety of vegetables. The 

 great emigration from Germany before the 

 French war was the making of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Samuel Preston 



I<ast Lieaf of a Farmers L<cgcr. 



BY NIAGARA. 



Last leaf of a Fanner's Leger for 18.35, or 

 a recapitulation of farm accounts. This " last 

 leaf," or "recapitulation," is obtained by the 

 following course: 



1st. I make, on a sheet of drawing paper 

 of good size, a map of my farm, drawing 

 lines to designate fences — (then let a little 

 girl paint these lines after the fashion of an 

 engraved map) — number every fiold or di- 

 vision of the form, and let these n-imbers be 

 the only names by which the fields shall be 

 designated. 



2d. Every evening before retiring to rest, 

 in a regular account book procured for the 

 purpose, (called day book,) I charge the ex- 

 penses of the day to the field or fields where 

 the work has been done that day, and with 

 the sa'ue care and precision as a merchant 

 charges his goods, with such remarks on the 

 description of the work and the weather as I 

 may think of consequence. 



" 1S3.5. No. 4. Dr. 

 May 6, To 2 teams and drivers drag- 

 ging in barley, $3 00 



3i bushels barley sowed to- 

 day, (east part,) at 5s 2 19 



Sowing same, (2 bushels to 

 the acre,) 25 



The north-east part of this field ploughed 

 last fall and the barley sowed, dragged in and 

 rolled without further ploughing. 



Weather pleasant in forenoon. P. M. 

 cloudy, N. W. wind, and very cold, — frost 

 this morning." 



The above is a sample of the manner in 

 which I keep my farm accounts. 



3d. During the long evenings of the fall 

 season, I put all these accounts into a Leger 

 of suitable size, kept expressly for farm ac- 

 counts, and no other. By the close of the 

 year I will have my accounts all posted up 

 and footed. Then, 



4th. Carry these footings, with descrip- 

 tions, results, &c. forward to "the last leaf 

 of the Leger" for that year, and I have, as 

 will be seen, the kind of crop on each field, 

 the expense of cultivation, the amount of the 



crop, the profits of each field, and the profits 

 per acre, &c. 



Now, Mr. Editor, if all our farmers should 

 follow a similar course from year to year, 

 there would be an immense amount of agri- 

 cultural matter cominilted to paper, and if 

 never made accessible to the farming com- 

 munity by publication, it would at least be 

 accessible to the writer, and to his posterity. 

 And might it not possibly be of service to 

 theml Would they not ascertain the most 

 profitable crops, and the m^st profitable man- 

 ner of cultivation — the proper quantity of 

 seed— time of harvest— and, especialhj wheth- 

 er there is any particular advan'age gained 

 by " sowing in the moonr^ &c. &c. 



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But perhaps the above would be more in- 

 telligible to some, if put in the following 

 form, to wit: 

 38^ tons hay, at $12. . . $462 00 

 48 bushels peas, at Ss. . . 48 00 

 109 " oats, at 44 cents, . 47 96 

 129 " corn, at 63. . . 96 7.5 



