248 Mammoth Chicken. — Clover Sowing. — Measuring Corn. Vol. V. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Mammoth Chicken. 



Sir, — A friend has taken me to the Man- 

 sion House tavern to see a pair of chickens, 

 which deserve, I think, to be recorded in the 

 Cabinet, the quantity and quality being so 

 much superior. They were of the real black- 

 legged variety of fowls, and weighed eighteen 

 pounds and a half, having lost three quarters 

 of a pound by evaporation, weighing nineteen 

 pounds and a quarter the day before, when 

 killed and dressed. They were bred and 

 fed by Mr. Wood, of Haddonfield House, New 

 Jersey, and are of a breed between the blue 

 and black, having been crossed with great 

 care and attention. The eggs of these mam- 

 moth {owls weigh six to a pound. 



While viewing these fowls, I could but 

 ask myself, How long will New Jersey be 

 doomed to lie under the ban of sterility"! 

 Every one who does not reside there has a 

 bad word for it, and the " barren sands of 

 Jersey" have passed into a proverb — and yet 

 we see nothing of this in the market — as 

 John Lawrence says, where prejudice cannot 

 find its way ; for it is well known, first, that 

 in the Jersey Philadelphia market are to be 

 found the choicest of all the productions of 

 the earth, whether of the farm, the garden, 

 or the orchard ; and second, the highest prices 

 are obtained on accoimt of their being Jersey ; 

 for if we remark on the high price of an arti- 

 cle, we are told, " Oh ! it is Jersey" ! and it 

 is well known that many articles, if of supe- 

 rior quality, are sold at unusual prices as 

 Jersey, that have never come from thence, 

 particularly sausages, made from " Jersey 

 pork." And although we receive from thence 

 the earliest, the fairest, and the best of every 

 thing, yet there is not a boy in our streets 

 who has not heard of " the "barren sands of 

 New Jersey." 



I may add, as a remarkable circumstance, 

 the beautiful town of Haddonfield, containing 

 780 inhabitants, is so healthy, that it can 

 support but one physician and a half, and so 

 peaceable, that an attorney has never yet 

 been able to get a footing there ! J. D. 



Philadelphia. 



On Clover Sowing. 



The red or broad clover is usually sown 

 with barley in England, unaccompanied with 

 ■other grasses : in this case, ten pounds of 

 seed per acre is the least quantity that ought 

 to be sown, but if the crop is wished to be 

 ihifck and fine, four or six pounds more of 

 seed should be added, for if this plant be sown 

 thin on rich land, the stalks will be so large 

 and rs.nk as almost to unfit it for the food of 

 cattle, unless cut into chaff; therefore, by 

 sowing thickly, the plants, although thicker 

 in the swathes at the time of cutting, will 



make much finer hay, and be preferable for 

 every purpose of feeding, although the larger 

 the stalk and the stronger the crop the 

 greater is its nutritious property considered. 

 Red clover should always be cut so soon aa 

 the first blossoms are well expanded. 



When other grasses are mixed with the 

 clover to form perennial pasture, the follow- 

 ing mixture is most approved, viz : 6 pounds 

 red or broad clover, 3 pounds Dutch white 

 clover, 2 pounds yellow clover, and one peck 

 and a half, or three gallons, of Pacey's per- 

 petual ray-grass — these, well-mixed and ac- 

 curately distributed, form the necessary quan- 

 tity per acre. But, after all, many excellent 

 farmers increase the above quantity ; and it 

 is false economy to grudge a full allowance 

 of seed. The grasses to be sown as soon as 

 the barley is sown, harrowed and rolled ; 

 when a single tine of the harrow, on this pul- 

 verized and rolled soil, is sufficient to cover 

 it as deep as is requisite. X. 



Measuring Corn. 



The following rule for ascertaining the 

 quantity of shelled corn in a house of any di- 

 mensions, is by Wm. Murray Esq. of South 

 Carolina, and was read before the St. John's 

 Collection Agricultural Society, and commu- 

 nicated by them for publication in the South- 

 ern Agriculturist. 



Rule. — Having previously levelled the 

 corn in the house, so that it will be of equal 

 depth throughout, ascertaining the length, 

 and breadth, and depth of the bulk ; multiply 

 these dimensions together, and their products 

 by four, then cut off one figure from the right 

 of this last product. This will give so many 

 bushels and a decimal of a bushel of shelled 

 corn. If it be required to find the quantity 

 of eared corn, substitute eight for four, and 

 cut off one figure as before. 



Example. — In a bulk of corn in the ear, 

 measuring 12 feet long, 11 feet broad, and 6 

 feet deep, there will be 316 bushels and 

 eight-tenths of a bushel of shelled corn, or 

 633 bushels and six-tenths of ear corn, as : 



132 

 6 



132 

 6 



792 

 8 



316,8 C33,6 



The decimal 4 is used when the object is 

 to find the quantity in shelled corn, because 

 that decimal is half of the decimal 8, and it 

 requires two bushels of ear corn to make one 

 of shelled corn. In using these rules a half 

 a bushel may be added for every hundred, 

 that amount of ears results from the substi- 

 tution of the decimals. — Amer. Paper. 



