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closes with the setting sun. Although the 

 industrious farmer finds many little jobs of 

 work to which he very economically appro- 

 priates his evening leisure, yet the greater 

 part of the long winter evenings he can appro- 

 priate to his amusement and instruction. In 

 no place do we see more cheerful counte- 

 nances than around the blazing fire upon the 

 farmer's hearth. There, at the merry apple 

 pearing, or at the neighborhood collection, or 

 even in the family circle alone, do we find 

 social happiness in its purest simplicity. 

 "What an opportunity this for the acquisition 

 of knowledge ! What farmer who improves 

 these opportunities can but be intelligent ] 

 And what instruction so interesting as that 

 which gives him a knowledge of his own 

 employment? Here we would suggest the 

 importance of every farmer having a supply 

 of agricultural books and papers. It seems 

 to us that no one can be insensible of their 

 utility. If this should be a suggestion of 

 self-interest, which we do not deny, still 

 we believe it coincides with the interest of 

 the farmer. We will not enlarge on this 

 subject, as we apprehend it would not con- 

 vey that knowledge which we recommend. 

 We will barely say, that we expect our sub- 

 scribers to increase as the evenings lengthen. 

 American Silk Groicer. 



Important to Farmers. — Judge Strong, 

 in a recent case in our common pleas, has 

 decided that no one has a right when making 

 a division fence, to run half the same on the 

 lot of the neighboring owner ; but that it 

 must he wholly on the land of him who makes 

 it. The case which called forth this deci- 

 sion, was an action of trespass, for cutting a 

 ditch in meadow land, for the purpose of a 

 fence. It appeared that the defendant, in 

 this case, cut a ditch some five feet wide on 

 •each side of the line which constituted the 

 boundary between him and the plaintiff; and 

 tJie judge, in his charge, enforced upon the 

 jury that by no existing statute was the mak- 

 ing of a fence on the lot of the adjoining 

 owner justified ; but that those constructed 

 half on one side and half on the other, must 

 l)e constructed by mutual consent, otherwise 

 legal measures could be instituted for dam- 

 ages, &c. The owners of real estate should 

 recollect this decision, as cases in which it 

 would be applicable are not unfrequent in our 

 courts of justice. — Massachusetts paper. 



number of small heads growing on each sid( 

 of the principal head and making a head ai 

 inch or an inch and a half in diameter, an( 

 containing in some instances 150 kernels o 

 grain. It is more productive than commoi 

 wheat and is not liable to smut or the attacks 

 of the weevil. It is a spring grain and re 

 quires early sowing. Mr. C. being desirom 

 to contribute his mite towards the improve 

 ments of the present age, requests us to sa; 

 to such farmers as wish to procure seed tha 

 he will furnish them on making their apph 

 cations to him, post paid. We are inclinec 

 to the opinion that it is a valuable variety am 

 worthy the attention of wheat growers.- 

 Silk Culturest. 



EsyptiaH IVIieat. 



We learn by a letter from Mr. .Tohn Calkin 

 of Elizabethtown, Essex county, N. Y., 

 that he has a new variety of Wheat, which 

 he believes to be the true Egyptain. It was 

 originally taken from a wild goose, has a 



liiming and Draining. % 



To the Editor of the Farmers'' Register. 



Fairfax County, Sep. 6th, 183G. 



Your pamphlet upon the use and value ( 

 calcareous manures is a public benefactior 

 in as much as it promises individual wealtl 

 My corn crop, from its use, is far better tha 

 I expected, and I am now burning shells fc 

 100 acres of fallow, and if 1 am not deceivec 

 the difiference in the crop will more than pa 

 the expenses. Be this however as it may, 

 shall plough no more land than I can lira< 

 It may be well to remark that no wet Ian 

 should be limed until well drained, for upo 

 this materially hangs the result. Much he 

 been said and written upon draining; but or 

 from the dead would not convince ten men i 

 this county so far as to move them to actioi 

 All the flat lands or low grounds of thi 

 county have a tight impervious pan near th 

 surface, which holds the water that falls upc 

 it, and subjects it to regular and perpetui 

 deterioration from the action of frost an 

 sun. 



I could name farms all around me upo 

 which the manner of cultivation has bee 

 much improved, yet from having neglected 1 

 drain their land, not more than one third i 

 now made on it which was made forty yeai 

 ago. I blush, sir, when I say that I beliei 

 I have defeated my own purpose in agricu 

 ture by seeking to force nature. She will n( 

 be forced. Man cannot force her to grow Ii 

 dian corn and wheat where .she has resolve 

 by an unchanging law that the bullrush, wil 

 oat, and corn grass shall grow.* Let tb 



[• We must express our entire dissent to tl 

 doctrines here broadly stated. It certainly : 

 possible to produce profitably the vegetables whic 

 require a dry soil, on land imperfectly drainei 

 But there are not many cases (in this countrj 

 in which wet land (not subject to inundation 1: 

 tide or fioods,) may not be perfectly drained; ar 

 when that is done, nature readily yields to tl 



