Tlie Office of the Farmers' Cabinet is removed from No. 81 South 

 Third Street, to I¥o. 67 South Second Street. 



THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



DEVOTP]D TO AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY. 



Vol. I. 



Pliiladelphia, ]¥ovember 15, 1S36. 



No. 9. 



Published 1>y 

 MOORE &, AV ATERHOUSE, 



JVo. 67 South Second St. Phila. 



3. \'aii (^diirt. Printer, 48 Market street. 



The Cabinet is published on or about the first 

 and fifleenth of each month. Each number will 

 contain 16 octavo pages on good paper and fair 

 type. The subjects will be illustrated by engra- 

 vings on wood whenever they can be appropri- 

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 months only, the twelfth number will be accom- 

 panied by a titJe page and index, in order for 

 binding. Any person remitting us five dollars, 

 will be entitled to six copies of the work for one 

 year, or twelve copies for six months. The Cabi- 

 net, by the decision of the Post Master General, 



j is subject only to newspaper postac^e ; that is, 

 one cent on each number within the stale, and 



! within one hundred miles of Philadelphia, out 

 of the state, — one cent and a half on each num- 

 ber to any other part of the United States. Gen- 

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makes the animal healthier. A horse or a 

 cow will become fat on one-half of the grain 

 which is usually given, mixed with two- 

 thirds of the usual quantity of hay if cut. 



THS FARIMSRS' CilStirTST. 



Greenes Patent Hay and Straw 

 Cutter. 



This most valuable machine can now be 



obtained at Melony's, No, 5 South Fifth 



street, Philadelphia. We are assured by 



gentlemen who have seen and used this ma- 



;hine, that its capacity to do all that is repre- 



jsented, is fully verified by their experience. 



' It is used without labor ; a boy of fifteen 



>'par3 old can cut as much hay or straw in 



hirty minutes, as will supply a stock of 



welve head for twenty-four hours. 



The advantages of using all kinds of fod- 



ler cut, is not known, or certainly is not at- 



ended to, by livery stable keepers, farmers, 



>T gentlemen who keep their own horses. 



t eavea full one-third of the fodder, nnd 

 Vol,. L~No. 9 



The grain must be mashed, or ground, and 

 allowance is made for the cost of thus pre- 

 paring it in this statement. 



We shall, probably, publish an Extra 

 Farmers' Cabinet, with full testimonials of 

 the superior excellence of Green's Hay and 

 Straw Cutter, and of the importance of its 

 use, now the property of J. D. Shuler & Co. 

 Lockport, New York; but we, in the mean 

 time, subjoin some extracts from the " Cul- 

 tivator Extra," published at Albany, Au- 

 gust 1, 1836. 



Mr. H. Colman, under date of January, 



1836, from Madison county, states : 



"The next authority I quote is that of 

 Richard Peters, Esq., of Philadelphia, a 

 name always to be in the highest measure 

 revered by the friends of an improved agri- 

 culture. A more enlightened, active, disin- 

 terested, devoted friend to the cause, has 

 never appeared among we. In a letter dated 

 April 8, 1817, he says, "I find a wonderful 

 saving of provender by chaffing it. I accmiat 



