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THE farmers' CAUINET. 



VOL. I. 



they may be sowed early in Juno. Tlie pre- 

 paration consists in enricliing', if practicable 

 by rotted manure, and finely and deeply pul- 

 verizing by ploujrhing' and liarrovving. 



Soils for root crops should always be rich 

 and deep enoun^h to require no ridgino-; but 

 when a soil is fertile and shallow, better 

 crops are frequently raised by throwing it 

 •into ridges than leaving the surface flat, be- 

 cause in this ridge the fertile soil is accumu- 

 lated. Hence some have supposed that 

 ridging should be performed in all cases. 



Pejis as a Field Crop. 



There is probably no vegetable which af- 

 fords more nutritive matter than peas. Their 

 culture, however, as a field crop, is not very 

 extensive in this State, and their use as an 

 article of diet or food, except when green is 

 not very general. According to the calcula- 

 tion of some farmers, as many bushels of peas 

 can be raised on rather poor land, as there 

 could be raised bushels of corn on the same 

 soil. If this be actually true, it would be 

 much better to sow peas than to plant corn 

 on such land. Oats should be sown with the 

 peas, as they serve to support them and pre- 

 vent their lodging, and they may be sepa- 

 rated afterwards by a sieve properly made. 

 Rich land is not so favorable for peas, as it 

 causes them to produce more vine in porpor- 

 tion to the peas, than land of a poorer quali- 

 ty, and it is also thought best not to sow too 

 many to the acre. — Maine Fariner. 



SiVU. Growers Almanac for 1838. 

 The Subscribers propose publishing by sub- 

 scription, an Almanac with the above title, 

 which will contain, besides the usual calcu- 

 lations, full directions for the cultivation of 

 the Mulberry tree, rearing silk worms, and 

 reeling the cocoons into merchantable raw 

 silk, also directions for the cultivation of the 

 Sugar Beet, and converting the same into 

 sugar. It will be edited by an experienced 

 Silk Grower, printed on fine paper, 12 mo. 

 with fair type, and embellished with nume- 

 rous engravings, and will contain from seven- 

 .*y-five to one hundred pages of closely printed 

 matter. The Almanacs will be ready for de- 

 livery on the first of September, 1837, and it 

 is requested that subscription lists, to whom 

 they may bo sent, will be returned by the 

 first or middle of August, as no more will be 

 published than sufficient to supply subscribers. 

 Terjis. — §1.5 per hundred, $2 2^) per dozen, 

 and 25 cents per single copy. All orders by 

 mail (post paid,) or otiierwise, enclosing the 

 cash, will be promptly attended to. Those 

 persons to whom these are sent, are requested 

 to act as agents. 



TiioMvs D. Per IT & Co. 

 No. 108 Chesnut street Philad. 



ISnck Nusiibers. 



We liavo now fniishi'd tlio roprinl of our back num- 

 Iktk, Uifi sHVonlli nunihi'i- will m the courso of a tew 

 da>s, bo fill vv;iril(;il lo all our sulj-crilier.-i wlio are en 

 tilled to rcci'ive il. If omissions linvc nrcurreil in the 

 transmission or riiceipt of llorHicr nunilieis, -.ve will, on 

 receipt of notice tbeteof, free of expense, forward dupli- 

 cate copies. 



Tlic Money Market, and Prices Ciirren*. 



There is still great fluctuation in the mar- 

 kets — the prices of most articles have de- 

 clined considerably, and are at present so 

 unsteady as to induce us to defer our prices 

 current until the first of June. The most im- 

 portant matter that has transpired for years, 

 and one which will afl^ect every cla.es of'the 

 community, is the suspension of specie pay- 

 ments by (ill the Banks in Philadelphia, New 

 York, Boston, and Baltimore; we presume 

 that country baniis generally will adopt tJie 

 same course, in self defence. The suspen- 

 sion of specie payments by the banks, has 

 created much unnecessary alarm — and shows 

 pretty conclusively, we think, that they are 

 not able, on every emergency, to meet their 

 liabilities: nevertheless, we believe they are 

 generally solvent, and that no greater risk is 

 run in taking their notes 7ivw than there has 

 been heretofore; indeed, if the present course 

 had not been adopted, the country would have 

 been well nigh drained of specie by excess- 

 ive cxportutimi. Farmers should not be 

 alarmed — there is no necessity of sacrificing 

 the notes they have on hand, as we think they 

 will soon piias current in all business transac- 

 tions. The greatest inconvenience will be 

 felt in cities and large towns; and among the 

 poorer classes. As the country banks have 

 already, or must undoubtedly follow the ex- 

 ample ot the banks in the large cities, in the 

 suspension of specie paymcnt.s, we pre- 

 sume that they will not be backward in re- 

 deeming their notes whenever the citv banks 



commence the " cood work. 



Tlie Balti- 



more banks redeem all their five diillar notes 

 — we regret that the other banks in this city 

 and elsewhere, had not adopted a similar plan; 

 it would have prevented the great inconve- 

 nience now lelt for want of change. Again 

 we say, be of good courage — keepoutof (Icbt, 

 and above all let every fanner shun a bank — 

 his name should never be Ibund within its 

 doors. 



PuMisbed by 

 MOORE &, AVATERHOtTSE, 



Mo. t)7 South Second St. Phila. 



JOHN I^ IBBY — Pitts-burg. 



One Dollar per year. 



