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Horticultural Premiums. — Timothy Grass. 



Vol. XL 



or oxen, — milch cows, or for fattening cattle, 

 swine or sheep. 



14. Dairies and dairy produce: showinj^ 

 the quantity of butter and cheese produced, 

 the quantity per cow, the best modes of 

 making these articles, and the kind of pas- 

 ture and food, as well as the general man- 

 agement, which is found most profitable. 



1.5. Wool growing; showing the number 

 of sheep in the county, the breeds, the quan- 

 tity of wool produced per head, the value 

 per pound of the different kinds of wool, its 

 preparation for sale, and where sold ; the 

 number of sheep pastured per acre on differ- 

 ent soils; time required for winter feeding; 

 quantity of hay required for carrying a given 

 number of sheep through the winter ; most 

 economical mode of winter feeding, whether 

 with hay alone, or with any other fodder, 

 and whether any and what kinds of grain 

 or roots, and in what quantities, and in what 

 manner, are fed to sheep. 



16. Manufactures; the kinds carried on 

 in the county, their extent, and the effect 

 they have had on the farming interest 



17. Examples of good management or 

 success in farming. 



18. General profits of farming; showing 

 the returns for capital invested. 



19. Education ; the state of schools, and 

 whether any instruction having a particular 

 reference to agriculture, is given in schools 

 and academies, and with what success or 

 advantage. 



20. Suggestions for improving the condi' 

 tion of agriculture. 



21. Zoology of the county — at least a no' 

 tice of those indigenous quadrupeds, birds, 

 reptiles, fish, &c., that are serviceable or 

 detrimental to man. 



Horticultural Premiums. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 

 offers the following premiums at its stated 

 meeting on the 20th inst., at eight o'clock, 

 P.M. 



Grapes. — For the best, three hunches, of 

 a black variety to be exhibited, $3. 



For the second best, do. do. do. $2. 



For the best do. of a white variety, do. $3. 



For the second best do. do. do. $2. 



Apricots. — For the best, two dozen named 

 to be exhibited, $2. 



For the second best do. do. do. $1. 



Plums. — For the best, one dozen to be ex- 

 hibited, ^2. 



For the second best do. do. $1. 



Figs. — For the best, one dozen to be ex- 

 hibited, {|2. 



Pears. — For the best, one dozen named 

 to be exhibited, $2. 



For the second best do. do. do. $1. 



Apples. — For the best, half a peck named 

 to be exhibited, $2. 



For the second best do. do. SI. 



And at the meeting on the 18th proximo, 

 the following premiums are offered : 



Grapes. — For the best, three bunches, of 

 a black variety to be exhibited, §i3. 



For the second best do. do. do. $2. 



For the best do. of a white variety, to be 

 exhibited, $3. 



For the second best do. do. do. $2. 



Nectarines. — For the best, one dozen 

 named to be exhibited, $2. 



For the second best do. do. $1. 



Plums. — For the best, do. do. $2. 



For the second best, do. do. $1. 



Peaches. — For the best, two dozen to be 

 exhibited, $3. 



For the second best do. do. $2. 



For the third best do. do. SI. 



Pears. — For the best, one dozen to be 

 exhibited, $2. 



For the second best do. do. $1. 



Apples. — For the best, half a peck to be 

 exhibited, $2. 



For the second best do. do. $1. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Timothy Grass* 



Phleum Pratense. 



This valuable grass, is, I believe, gene- 

 rally considered as a naturalized foreigner. 

 An accidental examination of an agricultu- 

 ral work printed in London in 1764, enti- 

 tled " Museum Ruslicum et Commerciale^'' 

 seems to throw some doubt on this point, and 

 to make it common to both England and 

 America. It is there spoken of as delight- 

 ing in wet or moist soils, and having a root 

 like couch grass; and for this reason forming 

 a strong covering for bogs, and other wet 

 places. It is also spoken of as by no means 

 a good pasture. Nothing is said of its quali- 

 ties for making hay, and its cultivation is 

 not recommended on account of the diffi- 

 culty of eradicating it when once in posses- 

 sion of the soil. A Mr. Rocque, who seems 

 to have been an experimenter in grasses, ia 

 a communication to the same work, uses this 

 language: "As to Timothy grass,, it grows - 

 prodigiously quick. Lord Robert Manners .-jk 

 brought me a root from Lincolnshire, that ^ 

 grew on a quarry, the stem of the grass was 

 about two feet and a half high, the seed was 

 ripe and larger than that brought from Vir- 

 ginia." From this it might be inferred,, that 



