No. 2. 



Comyniliees of Ag. Society. — JVur series. — Grajye. 



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Committees of Agricultural Society. 



At a meeting of the Committee of Ar- 

 rangement of the Philadelphia Society for 

 promoting Agriculture, held on the 1st in- 

 stant, the following named gentlemen were 

 appointed to act as judges on the various 

 committees, at the Exhibition to be held on 

 the 14th and 15th of October next, at the 

 Lamb tavern, on the Lancaster turnpike. 



On Horses. — Dr. A. L. Elwyn, Chairman; 

 Jacob Peters, James Jeanette, Capt. J. B:ib- 

 ington, James Torbcrt, and Josepii French. 



Cattle over two years old. — 7'homas S. 

 Woodward, Chairman; Benjomin SerrilJ, 

 David George, Garrett V\ illiamson, John 

 Hibberd. 



Cattle tinder two years old. — Joseph Craw- 

 ford. Chairman; John M. George, W. W. 

 Roberts, John Johnson, Samuel Cooper. 



On Sheep or Stchie. — John Lardner, 

 Chairman; David Whitall, John Worth, jr., 

 John James. 



On Butter and Poultry. — C. S. Smith, 

 Chairman; Asher Moore, George Blight, 

 James McPherson, Homer Eachus. 



On Implements and Produce. — Morris 

 Longstreth, Esq., Chairman; iSamuel Wil- 

 liams, Jesse Georoe, Thomas S. Davis, Sam- 

 uel H. Dager, Dr. G. Emerson, Dr. Hare. 



On Ploughs and Pluughins;. — Samuel 

 Williams, Chairman ; S. S. Richie, Garrett 

 Williamson, Isaac Newton, Joseph George, 

 John Hunter, Aaron Clement. 



Aaron Clement, Sec'ry. 

 Pliiladelphia, Sept. 2nd, 1847. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Nurseries. 



The greatest defect of nurserymen in 

 general, particularly in the West, is the 

 number of kinds they cultivate. Few per- 

 sons in that business cultivate less than one 

 to two hundred kinds of apples, and to a less 

 extent in other fruit; which is a great loss 

 to the community. I would ask why culti- 

 vate so many? There are but twelve months 

 in the year — some of the choice kinds last 

 two months and more. Theti why raise a 

 second or third-rate fruit, when the labour 

 of altering is the same or nearly so? The 

 different tastes of men do not vary so much. 

 I am answered by some, that all these differ- 

 ent kinds are called for; and they may be, 

 by many who have known no better fruit; 

 but give of the fruit of each kind, and their 

 decision will agree. At Wheeling, some 

 years since a committee of fruit men met 

 every month and made decision of the best 

 kinds of fruit exhibited for that month — this 

 was a good plan. In the absence of such 



committee, take apples to suitable compa- 

 nies at different times, and by their decision 

 arrange the fruit, confining the number to 

 tenortweve kinds of apples. The differ- 

 ent nurserymen, by communicating their fa- 

 vourite fruit, those acquainted with that 

 fruit will know if they have a better. I 

 wiU'conmience with two — the Golden Gate 

 and French Pippin. T. 



Fallstoii, Pa. 



For the Farmers' Cabiiret. 

 Grape. 



The grape is of the most simple and easy 

 cultivation ; once give it a start and it will 

 take care of itself Some years since I 

 planted two vines at opposite corners of my 

 house. After one year's growth, I directed 

 one branch up the house and carried others 

 underground to the next desirable situation, 

 between windows, and tacked the end up, 

 and in a few years I had the sides of my 

 house covered, and barrels of fruit of the 

 choicest kinds. They generally ripen sooner 

 on the house than on'trees or arbours, and 

 on the south-west fiist, south-east next, north- 

 west last, having a succession from early to 

 late. tSorae years since there was plenty on 

 the house when those in gardens were killed. 

 If too much trouble to tack up the vine on 

 the house, plant a few and start them up 

 trees, and in a few years they will produce 

 largely without even pruning. Do not omit 

 to leave some sprouts near the ground, and 

 the following spring put part under ground 

 leaving the end out, and in one year it will 

 take root; if two to four joints are put under, 

 it mr.y, when taken up, be cut in two, and 

 thus supply neighbours who want them. 

 This mode of increasing grape vines takes 

 very little trouble, and is as certain to grow 

 as "the parent stock. The plan of letting 

 them run on trees, is by no means objection- 

 able. The Isabellas this year are ripening 

 as fast on trees as elsewhere, and large and 

 full on the vine. If it be desirable to in- 

 crease the number of vines, instead of laying 

 down as mentioned above, take a long sprout 

 from the root of the growth of the preceding 

 year, dig a ditch six inches deep the length 

 of the vine, laying the dirt on each side if 

 level, if side hill, put the dirt on the upper 

 side, to keep rain from filling it up too soon ; 

 fasten the vine in the bottom of this ditch, 

 leaving it uncovered until the sprouts from 

 each joint raise a foot or more, when the 

 vine may be loosely covered with earth, and 

 by rubbing off the ends of those growing too 

 fast, a root may be raised from every bud or 

 joint. 



Large vines may be greatly improved in 



