324 Green's Patent Straw Cutter— Culture of Wheat, ^-c. Vol. III. 



Agricultural Stati««tics. 



Tiie following statistics of the county of 

 Susquehanna, are from an official report 

 made to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, for 



1838 : 



No. of farms 

 Acres of Wheat 

 Rye 

 " (^'orn 



Oats 

 " Meadow 



" Potatoes 



2708 

 5J39 



3n:w 



8404 

 34792 

 2307 



No. of maple trees tapped 

 Whole No. of Horses 



Oxen 



Cows 



Sheep 



Swine 



Neat Cattle of all I 

 Pounds of Butter sold 

 " Cheese sold 



Acres of Turncps 73 



Tiickwheat 3546 

 Flax 195 



Ruta baga 32 

 I'eas 320 



Beans 83 



Aggrepate val. 

 97,901 $;;3,512 64 

 195,025 CO 



3,998 

 2,919 



8,187 



5i,6nfi 



9,033 



22,740 

 257,325 

 58,559 



99,425 (lO 

 164,305 00 



84,101 00 



12,800 00 

 454,920 00 



14,519 00 

 3,059 94 



The average size of farms, 105 acres. Of 

 barley 178 acres were rai.sed in the county. 

 Corn averaged 33 bushels per acre. Potatoes, 

 170 bushels per acre. The county has a sur- 

 plus of oats, corn and potatoes. 193,78^3 lbs. 

 of maple sugar were made, averaging 3 lbs. 

 to a tree. The best crop of ruta baga on rec- 

 ord in the United States, was raised in Cho- 

 cronut township, averaging on 3 acres more 

 than 1200 bushels per acre. 342 tons of plas- 

 ter were sown. Dr. Rose, of Silver Lake, 

 has a large number of merino sheep, and sold 

 18,000 lbs. of wool, at 44 cts. per lb. 



Oreen'8 Patent Premium Straw Cutter< 



F,^. 36. 



The best Machine ever known for cutting 

 hay, straw, and all long feed for farm stock ; 

 efficient, durable and cheap; cutting faster 

 and with less power than any other instrument 

 yet invented. 



The Albany Cultivator states, on the au 

 thority of an intelligent and worthy farmer, 

 that two active men, will, with this machine, 



by ihe application of manual power alone, 

 cut Jive lO)is of hay per day! 



This invaluable implement has reccntlj 

 been t-o altered as to produce the following 

 important effects : — 1st. The frame has beer 

 greatly strengthened by the application of iror 

 screwbolts in a new way. It is now perfectly 

 firm. 2d. The knife cylinder has been st 

 improved, that the No. 2 machine, which cuts 

 feed tliree-fourths of an inch long, and which 

 formerly cost .$40, is now sold for 8133, pack- 

 ing and drayage included. 3d. In the im 

 proved cylinder the divergency of the knives 

 is so great, that the machine will cut corn' 

 stalks without choking. 



Orders for this machine, which is fast cut 

 ting its way into universal favor, will be exe- 

 cuted at our establishment (No. 87 North 

 Second st. Phila.) with promptness and fidel- 

 ity. 



From the N. H. Farmers' Monthly Visitor. 



The following communication is from f 



practical farmer of the adjacent town of Can 



terbury. If we do not mistake, the discover] 



and remedy he has here developed in relatioi 



to the weevil or grain worm, so destructive t( 



the wheat grower's prospects, will be of mori 



value to the public than all the combined dis 



coveries and efforts which have been exhibit 



ed in the essays of the best scientific writer 



of the country. 



On the Culture of WIieat« Important Di8> 

 covery and Remedy for "Weevil, or Graii 

 A\'orm« 



[n order to prepare the soil for a good crop of wheal 

 very niiich is depending on ploughing, as well as ma 

 nuring the ground. A few years since, I made in 

 experiment by ploughing a piece of ground four or fiv 

 times, before I sowed on it one peclt of red beardoi 

 wheat, and when the wheat was grown about four o 

 five inches high. I sowed half a bu.=liel of slaked litii 

 and plaster, well mixed, upon the wheat early in th 

 morning, while tlie dew was on, which gave it a whit 

 appearance for a few following days. It soon change, 

 to a dark, lively green, and grew freely and filled well 

 so that it produced seven bushels of good wheat, clcni 

 from smut and almost every thing else but wheat, an. 

 that of an excellent quality. But on three bu.«hel 

 sowing in the ordinary way of plouehing but once ii 

 the spring, and sowing no plaster nor lime, I got bu 

 about twelve bushels to one bushel sowing. 



The last spring (1838) I sowed ten bushels, lackin, 

 four ipiarts of wheat, of which one bushel and twelv. 

 quarts was what is called Tea wheat, half a bnshe 

 was the old red bearded wheat, and all the residue o: 

 the seed was what goes by the name of HIack Sei 

 wheat. About three acres of ground was pasture land 

 the rest was tillace, which the year before was wel 

 manured, .Tud produced corn and potatoes, except th- 

 pasture land, of which a part was iilantcd with con 

 and part witii |)otatoes, and had no manure at all, an. 

 was badly hoed on account of being very hard an. 

 rocky, but was ploughed in the fall and three times ii 

 the spring before sowing. The otlter old ground wa 

 ploughed twice in the spring before sowing. Th 

 wheat was all washed clean and drained off the watei 

 Tiu-n 1 added an equal quantity of lime aiul plastei 

 as much as would stick to it, and sowed four bushel 

 and a half of clean »eed, (meaning before prepared i 



