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Quantity of Seed per Acre — Notice. 



Vol. V. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Quantity of Seed per Acre. 



The last number of your most excellent and useful 

 paper contained a communication from James Gowen, 

 Esq., of Mount Airy, regarding the culture and product 

 of his grain crops in 1839-40, but without mentioning 

 the quantity of seed sown to the acre. Now as there is 

 n3uch controversy in our neighbourhood respecting this 

 latter, if you will obtain from that gentleman this in- 

 formation, and report in the ne.\t number of the " Ca- 

 binet," you will confer a favour on 



Vours, most respectfully, 



Tobias John DnRNET. 

 Jacquehurst, Montgomery Townsliip, Jan. 22, 18-11. 



Mr. Gowen inform.=, the quantity of wheat sown per 

 acre was two bushels ; rye, two bushels ; and barley, 

 two and a half bushels. 



Notice. 



We are happy to announce that Mr. James Ronald- 

 80n has returned from Europe, bringing with him spe- 

 cimens of seeds, and agricultural implements, that will 

 be valuable additions to the varieties already possessed 

 by us. We have been favoured with samples of several 

 of the former, and can recommend them to the notice 

 of the agricultural community, as being the finest of 

 their kinds. They are for sale at his house. No. 200 

 south Ninth St., in small quantities, his object being to 

 introduce, from his own country, long famous for the 

 best varieties of the oat, barley, and other grains and 

 roots, those only that would ensure for it in this coun- 

 try, the high character that it has sustained through- 

 out Europe. Mr. R. has published a small pamphlet, 

 enumerating and describing the dilTerent articles which 

 he has brought, and received by ships that have arrived 

 since his return, from whence we select the following 

 list: 



Smith's Deanston Subsoil Plough,'] 



A Portable Grain Mill, 



Weed-Hooks — - Iron Chains, 



A Bull Ring — Safety Lamp, J 



Oxford White Prize Wheat ; Golden-Drop, and Pome- 

 ranian Red Do. ; Scotch, and Chevalier Barley ; Hope- 



•for inspection. 



toun Oats ; Perennial Rye-grass ; Scotch Rye-grass ; 

 Great Northern Rye ; Don, Calico, and Forty-fold Po- 

 tatoes ; French White Silesian Beet, together with a 

 variety of small seeds, both field and garden, which he 

 will feel pleasure in distributing, for cultivation, 

 amongst his friends, in small quantities. Applications, 

 post paid, may be addressed to James Ronaldson, 200 

 South Ninth St., Philadelphia. 



Odr next number will be embellished with a Portrait 

 of the Mammoth Ox " PENNSYLVANIA," taken from 

 the life, by Woodside, expressly and exclusively for 

 our work. This magnificent animal was slaughtered 

 at Philadelphia, on the 2d of February, and the Far- 

 mers' Cabinet for March will contain his portrait, to- 

 gether with many incidents relating to him — his pedi- 

 gree ; by whom bred and fed ; dimensions and weight, 

 while living, and when dead ; and other matters, which 

 cannot but prove highly interesting, as well to them 

 who had the opportunity of viewing him whilst living, 

 as to those who were debarred from sharing in that 

 "feast of fat things." Such a noble animal ought not 

 to be suffered to pass away without record, and the 

 pencil of the first animal painter of the day is now 

 engaged in rendering him the honour that was most 

 unquestionably his due, as the finest specimen of judi- 

 cious breed and feed, that has ever been exhibited in the 

 United States. 



To Correspondents. 



S'omeof our correspondents are laying us under heavy 

 charges in the shape of Postage. — "We pray you 

 mercy." 



" A. C." is entitled to our best thanks, but we cannot 

 see exactly as he does; when that time arrives, how- 

 ever, we shall no doubt pursue the line which he pro- 

 poses for our adoi)tion. 



The quantity of rain and melted snow which fell 

 during the 

 1st month, (January,) 1841, was. . . .7.837 inches. 



John Conrad. 

 Pennsylvania Hospital, 2d mo. 1, 1841. 



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