No. 42. 



Editorial Notices — Letter — Crops. 



375 



if left at this office, can be bound at twenty- 

 five cents per volume. 



Treatise ou WJieat. 



A gentleman of this city has placed in our 

 hands a copy of Le Couteur's celebrated and 

 valuable " Treatise on Wheat," the republi- 

 cation of which (with the illustrations) we 

 shall commence in the first number of our 

 third volume. To wheat growers this work 

 is one of great value. It is divided into the 

 following chapters:—!. Wheat, its origin 

 and varieties— 2. Faults in ordinary practice 

 — 3. On the choice of Seed — 4. A first com- 

 parative experiment — 5. On the roots and 

 growth of Wiieat— 6. On the necessity of 

 preserving crops pure — 7. On meal and 

 bread— 8. On manure for Wheat— 9. On a 

 change and choice of seed— 10. On the ten- 

 dency of wheat to degenerate — 11. On the 

 disposition of wheat to sport- 12. On the 

 early habits of some varieties — 13. On the 

 properties of some varieties— 14. Classifica- 

 tion— 1.5, On the relative advantages of the 

 drill or broad cast system— 16. Result— 17. 

 Conclusion. 



Ice Ilonses. 



One of our worthy subscribers, S. W,, 

 requests to be informed through the columns 

 of the Cabinet, as to the best plan of building 

 ice houses; the most suitable situation, &c. 

 &c. Who will answer in season for our 

 August number? 



liCtter from a Subscriber to tlie Far- 

 mers' Cabinet* 



Having been a subscriber for seven copies 

 of the Farmers' Cabinet from its first publica- 

 tion, I now forward to you five dollars in pay- 

 ment, in advance, for seven copies of the third 

 volume. Your instructive periodical I should 

 not be willing to do without, for I esteem it 

 amongst the most valuable and useful publica- 

 tions issued from the press in this country, 

 and it is certainly one of the very cheapest! 

 There is nothing in it that can do injury to 

 any one ; but, on the contrary, we find on every 

 page much toinstruct, animate, and amuse us. 

 You may perhaps wonder what I can do witli 

 so many copies. Now I will condescend to 

 inform you ; and as I have not taken out a 

 patent for my invention of the mode of dispo- 

 sing of them, any of your patrons who may 

 choose to do much good in the world, at little 

 cost, may adopt the same plan, without any 

 infringement of my rights or privileges. 



I first of all serve myself, as charity still 

 continues to begin at home, by havino- one 

 copy duly stitched and put on file, ready for 

 reading, and being in order for binding at the 

 end of the year. 



In the next place, I distribute the remain- 



ing SIX copies regularly every month when 

 they come to hand, to as many farmers, for 

 the use of themselves and their chiklren ; and 

 a very great benefit truly has been derived 

 from it to all of us, as well as to those to 

 whom it has from time to time been loaned. 



I consider the investment of this annual 

 sum of five dollars as producing a much great- 

 er interest than any investment I have ever 

 before made ; and I doubt not but this paltry 

 five dollars which 1 forward you will be the 

 mother of at least five hundred dollars by tlie 

 end of a twelve month from this time. I don't 

 say this to make you proud, for that would 

 spoil all, but to animate and stimulate you to 

 still greater exertions to beautify and enrich 

 your already most invaluable little sheet— the 

 " Farmers' Cabinet." J. B. 



June iifth, 1838. 



[The writer of the above is a gentlemaia 

 of great intelligence, who takes as lively an 

 interest in the advancement of agricultural 

 knowledge, and the diffusion of sound intelli- 

 gence among the people, as any other indivi- 

 dual in our country. And he not only pro- 

 fesses to feel thus, but he acts out his profes- 

 sion. In a word, he is a practical man ; and 

 he has set, not only in this, but in many other 

 matters, an example worthy the imitation of 

 others. It is very gratifying to us to know 

 that our labors, however humble, are thus ap- 

 preciated. That the Cabinet has, to a certain 

 extent, exercised a beneficial influence,, w© 

 are fully persuaded — and this fact encourages 

 us to greater efforts to render it still more 

 valuable and acceptable to its patrons. Our 

 friends can aid us essentially in this. Let an 

 individual in each neighborhood exert him- 

 self among his personal friends, to extend our 

 subscription list, and our circulation, large as 

 it now is, would be immediately increased 

 seven-fold. Ma_y we not ask with confidence 

 the aid of the friends of the enterprize in this 

 matter ? Any gentleman may, by forward- 

 ing five dollars, constitute himself a special 

 agent. All are invited — who will respond, 

 and that right early ?] 



Letter addressed to the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet, 



On the state of tJie Crops, &c. 



As the hay is now in, and we have a very 

 short blowing time, which is much interrupt- 

 ed by attention to our corn and sugar-beet, 

 &c., I thought I would address a few lines to 

 you, to let you know how things are going on 

 in this district of country. We have had fine 

 crops of grass, but, since it has been cut and 

 got in, some of us have been examining our 

 fields where it grew, and we are unanimously 

 of the opinion, that our grass seeds have been 

 sown too thin; for though it appeared to shade 

 and cover the ground completely while it 

 was growing, if now appears that not one- 



