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Fine Crops of Coi-n. 



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igthe blessings of creation and Providence, 

 ley have sought their happiness in the em- 

 loyments of fiends; and if the malice of 

 len could but have had its way, the race 

 ould long since have been extinct, and the 

 irth would have rolled on to the end of her 

 )urse, her treasures unexplored and useless, 

 cience shows us that the capacities of the 

 irth have hardly begun to be developed, 

 id the human fan^'ly hardly begun to exist, 

 ther in numbeis or individual enjoyment, 

 vidently no sort of conception has been 

 irmed in the minds of more than a very 

 !\v, of the swarming millions which this 

 irth is capable of sustaining in luxurious 

 enty. Land and labour have been brought 

 > ignorantly together, that nothing almost 

 IS been the product. The meagie stinted 

 •ops which have so poorly repaid the la- 

 )urs of the farmer, have exhibited the mea- 

 ire of man's ignorance rather than of 

 irth's barrenness. We are opening now 

 3on an era, when every field will be a sci- 

 itific laboratory, most interesting in its 

 )erations to every noble feeling. The 

 lange will operate to compensate the farm- 

 's near the great markets, for the competi- 

 on they endure from the cheapness of 

 t^estern land. In proportion as the quan- 

 ty of crops is increased, the value of prox- 

 lity to market is increased. If the crop 

 'wheat were doubled per acre, the expense 

 " transportation per acre would be doubled, 

 id this would go to enhance the value o. 

 nd near to market, to the amount of the 

 ipital upon which this saving would pay 

 le interest. But when we come to fruits 

 id vegetables, which decay rapidly, or are 

 ijured by much travelling, or are of great 

 ilk, compared with their value, then we 

 ive another element of value for land near 

 I markets. 



" VV'e are indebted for the most of these 

 iggestions to Mr. Pell, whose fruits, vege- 

 bles and grains, attracted much attention 

 ; the late Fair, and now constitute a mu- 

 lum at the store of Mr. J. B. J\hirray, No. 

 3 Old Slip. We do not however mean to 

 lake Mr. Pell responsible for any blunders 

 hich we have committed, in repeating from 

 lemory a little outline of the very interest- 

 ig conversation of lialf an hour which we 

 ul with him. We do not suppose these 

 lings are as new or interesting to every 

 xly as they were to us; but they will pcr- 

 jps set some of our readers upon a track 

 )at will bring them to more thorough and 

 sact information." 



In London there are markets for tlio ex- 

 usive sale of poultry and game; in Dublin, 

 lere is one wholly devoted to that of eggs. 



For the Fanners' Cabinet. 

 Fine Crops of Corn. 



Mr. Editor, — Having a little leisure, I 

 concluded to employ it in giving you an ac- 

 count of the corn crop grown this season on 

 the farm of the brothers Samuel J., Ebene- 

 zer J., and David D. Dickey. 



Field No. 1, containing eight acres and 

 one hundred and forty-two perches, produced 

 1037 bushels of corn, averaging 116 bushels 

 and 21 quarts to the acre. Field No. 2, con- 

 taining fourteen acres, three roods and tiiirty 

 perches, produced 1145 bushels, averaging 

 over 76 bushels to the acre. No. 3, contains 

 sixteen acres and fitly-six perches, and pro- 

 duced 1,110 bushels, averaging over 68 bush- 

 els to the acre ; maldng in all 3,292 bushels 

 of shelled corn on forty acres and twenty- 

 eight perches, averaging 82 bushels to the 

 acre. Lest some persons should think there 

 was some guess work about measuring ei- 

 ther the field or the corn, it may be proper 

 to slate, that the person Vvho surveyed the 

 ground, has been qualified to the measure- 

 ment of the same ; one person measured all 

 the corn on field No. 1, and has been quali- 

 fied to the accuracy of his account : as also 

 the persons who measured the corn on fields 

 Nos. 2 and 3, are willing to be qualified to 

 the accuracy of their accounts. 



I will now state the manner in which the 

 corn was planted, worked, and manured. 

 Seven acres of field No. 1, had sixteen cart 

 loads of manure to the acre, of rough ma- 

 nure from the barn-yard spread on the sod, 

 and ploughed in about seven inches deep, 

 with the Prouty plough. I do consider it 

 very important that the ploughing should be 

 well done, that all the ground should be 

 turned up, and to a good depth, for any 

 crop, but more particularly for corn. The 

 ground was then rolled with a heavy roller, 

 and harrowed over once with a spike-tooth 

 harrow; it then got two strokes with a large 

 cultivator; about five feet wide, with nine 

 teeth in it, similar to the teeth in the small 

 cultivators. I value this implement very 

 highly, and it is one I think no farmer should 

 be without; it pulverizes the ground, and 

 leaves it in a better state for planting than 

 any other harrow that I have seen in use. 

 I always harrow the ground well before 

 planting corn, as it can be done more effect- 

 ually and at less expense than at any other 

 time. There were then spread on five acres 

 of the field 15 bushels of crushed bones to 

 the acre, and 30 bushels of ashes on the bal- 

 ance of the field, with the exception of 

 about an eighth of an acre, that had neither 

 bonedust nor ashes. It might be well to 

 state here, that judging from that part of 



