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Statement of Rain. 



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partially doing it — and who has not experi- 

 enced the difference between pasture land, and 

 mowed land, when broken up ? A first rate 

 farmer said to me, a few days since, " I could 

 not raise crops, if I did not alternate, — first 

 pasture, then till, then mow." 



A stock of twenty head of black cattle would 

 manure, fit for any crop, the fourth of an acre 

 in a half of a month. If you have a light 

 fence, it might be shifted every half month, 

 and you will have 3 acres manured for any 

 crop. These acres added annually to your 

 manured tillage land, would be felt in a few 

 years, and make you, perhaps a thriving far- 

 mer when you might not have been before. 



Make your calculation upon almost any 

 tilled crop, and see what the profits will be. 



If put to Ruta Baga, it will probably, with 

 a little top dressing, produce you eighteen 

 hundred bushels, and the land left in good or- 

 der for a crop of wheat or other grain. If put 

 to potatoes, it would probably produce nine 

 hundred bushe's ; and that amount of roots 

 would make your stock shine, if prudently 

 given to them during the winter. I presume 

 you need no long arguments to convince you 

 of the loss of substituting a barn yard for fold- 

 ing yards, or as they are called, cow yards. 



W. 



Winthrop, Oct'r. 1837. 



For the Fanners' Cabinet. 



The following tables show the quantity of 

 rain which has fallen in each year, for the 

 last twenty-eight years; from 1810 to 1824, 

 iboth inclusive, from the books of the late 

 -P. Lkgoux, at Spring Mill, nine miles N. W. 



Inches. 



1810 . . . • 32.656 



1811 

 1812 

 1813 

 1814 

 1815 

 1816 

 1817 

 1818 

 1819 

 1820 

 1821 

 1822 

 1823 



34.968 

 39.300 

 35.625 

 43.135 

 34.666 

 27 947 

 36.005 

 30.177 

 23.354 

 39.609 

 32.182 

 29.864 

 41.851 



of the city of Philadelphia ; and for the last 

 thirteen years from the guage Kept at the 

 Pennsylvania Hospital. The snow in all 

 cases, was melted and measured in the guage. 

 The average quantity fallen for twenty-eight 

 years, is 36.99; and the average quantity for 

 the last thirteen years, is 39.66 inches. 



Inches. 

 1824 . . . 38.740 



1825 

 1826 

 1827 

 1828 

 1829 

 1830 

 1831 

 1832 

 1833 

 1834 

 1835 

 1836 

 1837 



29.570 

 35.140 

 38.500 

 37.970 

 41.859 

 45.070 

 43.940 

 39.870 

 48.550 

 34.240 

 39.300 

 42.660 

 39.040 



Statement of the quantity of Rain for the last thirteen years. 



* The bottom line shows the average of each month for thirteen years. 

 39.66 inches, average per annum for thirteen years. 

 36.99 inches, average per annum for twenty-eight years. 



