No.. 12. 



Hints to Correspondents. 



191 



find them weighing from 7 to 9 lbs. 1 was 

 led to weigh some of them by seeing a piece 

 in the Farmer of some one sliowing you some 

 that were very nice weighing 2^ to 3 lbs. 

 Cr. by 200 bushels Carrots, at 25 cts. $.50 00 

 Dr. to preparing ground and sowing, $2 .50 

 ,, " weeding and thinning, 4 00 



" six days gathering at 75 cts. 4 50 



$11 00 



Nett proceeds of three-eights of an 



acre of land, $39 00 



I have made calculations according to the 



prices that I sold them in the field. 1 find 



them to be very valuable for milch cows. I 



shall make some experiments in feeding tur- 



neps and carrots and the result I shall record. 



Yours respectfully, A. Ford, Jr. 



Union District, Micliigan, Dec. 11, 1837. 



Hints to Correspondents. 



Too much of the Editor's space, and too 

 much of the writer's and reader's time is very 

 often consumed in long preambles, and apol- 

 ogetic (half of them affected) introductions. 

 The better way is for the writer to do as we 

 like to see a good horse do, come down at once 

 to his work, and say in the plainest language 

 what he has to communicate. 



Another hint. — Whatever may be his sub- 

 ject, the writer should always give date and 

 place, if not his real name — especially if pro- 

 mulgating theories or giving facts. The bear- 

 ing and application of what is said depend 

 much on time and locality. For example, at 

 page 218, Vol. I, of Farmers' Cabinet, under 

 the head, •' Importance of Manures," speak- 

 ing of the use o'f plaster of Paris, the writer 

 says, "in the River counties it has been for- 

 merly used for half a century." Now what 

 river does he mean — Pocomoke or Nanticoke 

 — the Raritan or the Rapidan "! J. S. S. 



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TJie SilK Worm. 



A small pamplilet has been lately publishedi 

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