NO. 16. 



THI FARMERS CABINET. 



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veniber, ami the seed was harrowed in ae 

 early in tlie spririg as the frost would permit; 

 this will yield rne twenty bushels per acre. 

 I also sowed four acres from wiiicii corn had 

 been taken the year previous, and which will 

 give me thirty bushels to the acre. As a 

 continuation of my former experiments of 

 Bowinij Spring Wheat on winter killed 

 wheat, I sowed one bushel on some spots 

 where Winter Wheat had been killed out by 

 enow drifts, one half at least was picked up 

 by the pij^eons, yet the remainder produced 

 sixteen busiiels, and had 1 have sown all that 

 was killed out of the piece of nine acres, it 

 would have added to my crop fifty bushels 

 more. ' 



I am so well satisfied with my experience 

 on this subject, that 1 would in all cases where 

 wheat is badly winter killed, whether in 

 spots, or ji^enerally, recommend to sow the 

 ground with Spring Wheat, and harrow it in 

 as early as you are satisfied the old roots are 

 dead. Harrowing lightly over wheat that is 

 alive will not injure the roots at all, and the 

 scattering Winter Wheat that grows up will 

 produce no injurious effect. Between the 

 two you are sure of a good crop ; and besides 

 you keep out of ihe land, grass, weeds, and 

 other foul stuff, such as cockle, chess, &c., 

 which every farmer knows will spread on the 

 unoccupied soil to a thousand folcl. 



Genesee Fanner. 



Clover and Rye Grass. 



In the selection of clover and rye grass 

 Beeds, particular attention shoui<I .,1:0 paid to 

 thejr quality and cleanness'; the purple color 

 of the clover &3cd denotes that it has been 

 ripe and well saved : and the seeds of weeds 

 may be detected in it by narrow inspection, 

 if there be any ; but various noxious weeds 

 are frequently mixed up with the seeds of the 

 rye grass which it is difficult to discover or 

 to separate from them. Between the seeds 

 of the annual and perennial rye grass the 

 difference is hardly discernable ; and there- 

 fore, unless of his own growth, the cultivator 

 must depend in a great measure on the 

 character of the person from whom he pur- 

 chases it. 



' The after culture of clover and rye grass 

 jconsists chiefly of picking off any stones 

 or other hard bodies which may appear on the 

 surface in the spring succeeding that in which 

 it was sown, and cutting out by the roots any 

 Jiistlos, docks, or other large grown weeds. 

 After this the surface should be rolled 

 )nce, to smooth it for the scythe. This opera- 

 tion is best performed in the first dry weather 

 n March. Some give a top dressing of soot, 

 jypsum, common lime, peat, or wood ashes. 

 It this time or earlier j gypsum has been par- 



ticularly recommerdctl as a top dressing for 

 clovers, and the other herbage legumes, be- 

 cause as their ashes afiord that substance in 

 considerable quantities, it appears to be a ne- 

 cessary ingredient of their food. Dutch ashes 

 have been strongly recommended as a top 

 dressing for red clover, and they also contain 

 gypsum ; but where the soil is in good heart, 

 and contains calcareous matter, any descrip- 

 tion of top dressing though it may be of ad- 

 vantage when it does not interfere with the 

 general economy of the farm, cannot be con- 

 sidered as necessary. 



The taking of the clover, or clover and 

 rye grass crop, is eitiier by cuttmg green for 

 soiling, by making into hay, or by pasturing. 

 It is observed in the "Oode of Agriculture," 

 that it is a most important point to ascertain 

 in what cases cutting, or feeding, is most 

 beneficial. If fed, the land has the advantage 

 of the dung and urine of the pasturing stock; 

 but the dung being dropt in irregular quanti- 

 ties and in the heat of summer, when it is 

 devoured by insects, loses much of its utility. 

 If the dung arises from the herbage, whether 

 consumed in soiling, or as hay, were applied 

 to the land in one body, and at the proper 

 season, the operation would be more effectual. 

 The smoother of a thick crop, continued for 

 any time upon the ground, greatly tends to 

 promote its fertility ; and it has been pretty 

 uniformly found, after repeated trials, upon 

 soils of almost every description, that oats 

 taken after clover that has been cut, either 

 for soiling or hay, is superior to the crop 

 taken after clover pastured by sheep. 



Maimfactiire of Beet Sugar, 



We copy the following from the Journal 

 des Debats, a French publication of April 

 1-5, 1836, for the purpose of showing the 

 simplicity of the proce.ss of manufacturing 

 beet sugar, and the little expenditure which 

 is necessary to prosecute the busmess on a 

 small scale. " Four residents of the village 

 of Wallers, department of the north, one a 

 blacksmith and the others farmers, formed, 

 some months since, an association for manu- 

 facturing beet root sugar, with a capital of 

 400 francs [$7.3,] in four equal shares of .50 

 franks a piece. They were able, every day, 

 to make a loaf of sugar of medium quality, 

 weighing from forty to fifty pounds. The 

 following is their simple mode of manufac- 

 turing the sugar. They used curry combs 

 to rasp the beet roots with, and linen bags 

 for expressing the juice; the syrup thus ob- 

 tained was boiled in the family iron pot, on 

 the blacksmith's fire. By these simple means 

 they were able to make a loaf every day." 

 If with this rude apparatus these men were 

 enabled to make forty or fifty pounds daily, 



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