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Sugar Beet — Spring Wheat — Raising of Calves. 



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the south of it. On the east and west sides 

 are cow stables, containing' one hundred and 

 ten well made stalls, ventilated by a sufficient 

 number of windows and double doors. At 

 the tails of each range of cows there is a 

 drain made of strong planks, and so fixed as 

 to receive all their dung and urine. These 

 several drains have a sufficient declivity to 

 carry all the fluid matter to their southern 

 terminations, where they intersect similar 

 drains, which convey all this liquid manure 

 into a cistern, fifty feet long. This cistern 

 is so placed and constructed as to receive not 

 only the urine of the stables, but also the 

 liquid matter of the farm-yard. In it there 

 is a pump, by means of which its contents 

 are pumped into a large hogshead, fixed on a 

 pair of wheels drawn by oxen. To the ^nd 

 of this hogshead is attached a box pierced 

 with holes, in which this liquid manure floats 

 through a spigot and faucet, and is then 

 sprinkled over the ground as the oxen move 

 forward. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 The writer of this would be obliged if any 

 reader of the Cabinet would give information 

 through the columns of it, where the best ap- 

 paratus can be procured for boiling or otherwise 

 converting- the juice of the Sugar Beet into 

 sugar, and also the best form and dimensions 

 of the building used for that purpose, &.c. &c. 



Lancaster, November 4, 1837. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Can any of the readers of the Cabinet in- 

 form the public, through the columns of that 

 paper, where a supply of Sugar Beet Seed 

 can be procured, the quantity and price ? 



Gap, Lancaster Co. Pa. 



In order to accommodate our numerous 

 friends, we have procured a quantity of the 

 Sugar Beet Seed, price one dollar per pound. 

 Orders, accompanied by the money, will be 

 promptly attended to, and purchasers may 

 rely on having the genuine Sugar Beet Seed. 



Sugar Beet. 



That the soil of our state is adapted to the 

 cultivation of the sugar beet is sufficiently 

 proved by the large growth which we see re- 

 peatedly noticed in our papers from the inte- 

 rior. Among the last is the product noticed 

 in a Bedford paper of Col. M'Elwee's Beets 

 of the White Silesian or Sugar species, ex- 

 ceeding nine and a half pounds. We are 

 told of others having been raised in Bedford 

 coulity exceeding in weight the above. — U. 

 S. Gazette. 



Sugar Beet and Mangle Wurtzle* 



One thousand and seventeen bushels of 

 Sugar Beets and Mangle Wnrtzle were 

 topped and pulled by nine men in three hours. 

 This is the production of a little over an acre 

 of ground in Newton Township, Gloucester 

 county, New Jersey, Many of the Beets 

 weigh twelve pounds. — U. S. Gazette. 



Spring Wlieat. 



The Spring Wheat noticed as for sale in 

 our last, by Mr. Peirce, is $12 per barrel, 

 the price having been raised from ten to 

 twelve, in consequence of the lateness of the 

 season and the great difficulty of procuring a 

 suitable supply. OCT" Orders to insure atten- 

 tion, must be sent without further delay. 



Raising of Calves. 



The best method of raising calves, we 

 think is to do so by hand. If taken from the 

 cow as soon as dropped, there will be no diffi- 

 culty in teaching it to eat. Loblolly made 

 of half a pint of corn meal and a pint of new 

 milk given to it about thrice a day will be 

 sufficient to keep it. It is the easiest thing 

 imaginable to teach the calf to suck up its 

 food ; by simply pressing down its head into 

 the pan containing the mixture, with one 

 hand, and inserting the fore finger of the 

 other into its mouth, it will instinctively suck 

 up its beverage. If it be desirable to husband 

 your milk, you may begin to decrease the 

 quantity which you add to your loblolly when 

 the calf is about three weeks old, putting in 

 less milk each day until the calf impercepti- 

 bly forgets its taste altogether. When the 

 calf is six weeks old you may turn him out 

 in a grass lot; but if you desire to push its 

 growth, continue its loblolly twice a day ; by 

 doing so you will increase its size fully one- 

 third. 



Use of JLinie* 



/Certain acids and acid combinations often 

 exist in soil or subsoils, and produce infer- 

 tility. Lime, by forming new combinations 

 with these bodies, frequently neutralizes 

 their effects. Thus, if sulphate of iron, 

 (known to exist where sorrel grows) or cop- 

 peras, which is a combination of sulphuric 

 acid with the oxide of iron, exists in the soil, 

 and lime be applied, the lime will combine 

 with the sulphuric acid of the copperas, and 

 form a gypsum or plaster of pavis, and thus 

 convert into fertilizing matter, a substance 

 which in excess is injurious.— iojo's Agri- 

 culture, page 62. 



