No. 17. 



Strarvbcrryy Grape— Marl. 



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throw a few hints together for your very use- 

 ful Cabinet on this very important and vital 

 subject, particularly aS I have observed in 

 my" travels through the tountry that if the 

 theory is understodcl,- tltere are many who do 

 not practice in accordance with its requisi- 

 tions. 



1 hope that formers generally will keep 

 their cultivators movinsr briskly tlirough their 

 fcorn fields this f^eason/tq' Stir up the soil to 

 greater fertility and protit. 



" He ihat by the iilougti \*o>ilci llirive, 

 Hiraselfniusteiiherhohlov drive." 



For the farmt-is' Cabinet, 



The Strawberry and Grape. 



It is a matter of importance tr* farmers 

 who attend market regularly with butter, 

 poultry, and other productions of their farms, 

 to turn their attention ifiore than most of them 

 do, to raising fruit of the most valuable 

 kinds for sale in the market, as well as for 

 home consumption. Attention to iruit trees, 

 furnishes an agreeable pastime to the young- 

 er members of the family, and produces home 

 (itlachments which arc important to bo incul- 

 cated in youth of both sc.xes, and at the same 

 time may become a source of considerable 

 profit to art industrious,- intelligent family. — 

 A good strawberry bed, occupies but little 

 room, and requires but little time to keep it 

 in good and productive order, which the plea- 

 sure derived from so agreeable and whole- 

 some a fruit would repay four fold — but it 

 it should be extended a little beyond the 

 wants of the family circle, and their friends, 

 would become a source of considerable in- 

 come. I have seen a strawberry bed, not 

 half the size of a common kitchen gar 

 den, which produced to its worthy owner 

 more than five hundred dollars a year clear 

 profit; a sum much greater than is realized 

 on an average from more than half the 

 farms in Pennsylvania, of 100 acres and up- 

 wards. 



The grape is also a fruit much sought after 

 in our markets, occupies but little room, re 

 quires but little labor, and meets with a ready 

 sale at good prices, and furnishes an agree 

 able, cooling, refreshing relish in a family 

 The more delicate kinda ol foreign grapes 

 are too uncertain to justify tl>eir cultivation 

 in our climate unless under peculi;ir circum- 

 stances; but the Isabella, the Catawba, and 

 the Elsenborough are all hardy, native grapes, 

 and can be raised with certainty of success 

 in any part of our country. 



There are other valuable kinds of grapes 

 that stand our climate and do well, but those 

 named are readily procured, are well known, 

 and the fruit much esteemed. A gardener 

 B'ear the city, who has been referred to in 



the last number of the Cabinet as eminently 

 successful in the prosecution of his profession, 

 informed me that a few years since a friend 

 gave him a few of the Isabella vine.«, which 

 he planted on an arbor near his dwelling, and 

 that last season after giving away several 

 hundred weight to his friends and customers, 

 and amply supplying his family circle, he 

 sold si.x hundred and sixty pounds at ten cents 

 per pound, producing $66.00. The expense 

 and trouble connected with their production, 

 is too small to be taken into the account. 



A worthy gentleman residing at Camden, 

 N. Jersey, causes to be ^ent to the Philadel- 

 phia market several thousand weight, annu- 

 ally, of the Isabella and Catawba grapes 

 which are sold at from 10 to 12 cts. per lb. 

 The Elsenborough grape is small, but it is 

 perhaps the best native grape we have; vast 

 quantities of them are raised by the gar- 

 deners and private citizens of the ancient 

 and honorab'lecity of Burlington, and the ex- 

 hibitions of the Horticultural Society annual- 

 ly display quantities of tlie finest specimens 

 of this most delicious and valuable native 

 fruit. 



I bring into view the strawberry and grape 

 only, each of which is raised with less ex- 

 pense and trouble than the potatoe, and is 

 mucii nrore profrtable to the producer ; but 

 there are many other descriptions of fruit 

 equally worthy of the attention of farmers 

 and perhaps equally profitable; the raising of 

 which is shamefully neglected, but which 

 it is sincerely hoped will soon claim the at- 

 tention of all wortliy cultivators of the soil, 

 for the profit to be derived from it, for the 

 purpose of cultivating habits of industry and 

 home pleasures as well as the public good. 



" They shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of 

 tliem," 



West. 



Fer the Farmers' Cabinet. 



I^arl. 



The Cabinet having an extensive circula- 

 tion in different parts of the United States, 

 and the marl or green sand of New Jersey 

 having claimed the attention of some of the 

 writers in it, and as this is a very different 

 substance from the marls of Europe, which 

 are often referred to in boobs ona:gricultural 

 subjects, it may be a: means of preventing 

 erroneous opinions fronn taking root, briefly to 

 note their difference. 



Chaptal says,' "that numerous analyses 

 have been made by him of the marls of the 

 centre and south of France, and that he has 

 found them to contain from 10 to 60 per cent, 

 of sab^carbonatQ of lime, from fifteen to fifty of 

 alumina, (or clay,) and from fifteen to sixty- 

 six of silicious sand ; and he further statfee 



