No. 11. 



Coal .■ishet—To (Jeslroy the Cut Worm. 



859 



small roots I selected for my own fire, the 

 smallest I burnt upon tiie jxround. I com- 

 menced harrowinjr with an iron tooth iiarrow, 

 an soon as the frost bcsran to come out of the 

 gniund. The sods being fastened down by 

 the fro?t, and the harrow passing ever the up- 

 per side, they mouldered away as fast as the 

 frost would admit ; and when the harrow had 

 <Tot to the depth of the sods, tlioy were worked 

 up pretty fine, the frost below making: a bridge 

 for the team to pass on. About the first of last 

 May I began planting with potatoes, without 

 any manure. I cut the seed very fine, and 

 planted the parts near together. I merely 

 marked the iiills with a hoe, then a man fol- 

 lowed after wiih the seed, and then anottier 

 man to cover it. So I made speedy work m 

 phntino-, I calculated to have the seed when 

 covered", one inch from the surface, I used 

 sixtv-nine bushels of seed, that is, about four- 

 teen bushels to an acre. \ should not have 

 seeded so li?ht, had I not felt an uncertainty 

 about obtaining a crop, without the use of 

 manure. There was but one man, among 

 tho^e 1 consulted, who pave me any encour- 

 agement. Many said I should lose my labor. 

 To their astonishment I harvested 927 bush- 

 els of excellent potatoes. The e.vpense in- 

 cident to planting, lioeing, harvesting, &c., 

 includintr the seed, I estim;ite at $;117. 1 he 

 land is now in a state that I can plough it at 

 pleasure. On a small piece of the land I 

 olanted corn, and it ripened well. On a small 

 piece I sowed wheat, but it came to no per- 

 fection, either in the straw or grain. 



The wood was converted into charcoal. In 

 l-^^? I coaled 1201 bushels, which oold in the 

 market for $1H6 40. In 18:38 I coaled 42(10 

 bushels, which sold on the hearth for $-3.3.3 .3.3, 

 and I ascertained from the purchaser that it 

 sold in Boston market fiir ii!;G:30. 1 sold wood 

 to the amount of ^50, and I estimate that 

 which I used for my own fire worth S-aO more. 

 I have on hand one hundred cart leads of the 

 bottom of the coal pits, which I value at -97.5, 

 having had some knowledge of its virtue as a 

 manure. 



The account may he thus stated : 



Pro.en<ls of Coal in 1S17, ^m 40 



|)„ ,|o. in l-3ri ■/ ■ V ,• • -t" -B 



V.iiue of Crop of Potatoes at 50 cts. a bushel,. AM 50 



Value of Ashes for Manure, &c 75 uu 



Val.ie of Won.l sold. ^" "" 



Value of Woodiisod •••■•. ■•• ^ "*» 



Increased value of the land it being now i 

 worth S125 an aore, and originally thought V j6o 03 

 ' an acre, ) 



I Itave about two acres more of similar land, 

 that I am managing in the same way. It re- 

 quires much hard labor, but it yields a fair re- 

 ward. Yours with respect, 



Timothy II. Brown. 



SauRUs, Dec. 7, 18 '8. 



The society appears to he in a very flour- 

 ishing condition. Its funds, invested in safe 

 and productive stocks, amount to seven thou- 

 sand five hundred and eleven dollars and ten 

 cents. Five hundred and six dollars were 

 awarded in premiums during the last year. — 

 The society, under the management of able 

 and prudent men, has been eminently success- 

 ful in creating and keeping alive a spirit of 

 agricultural improvement, to the great and 

 lasting benefit of the county of Essex, and the 

 surrounding neighborhoods. 



Coal Aslies. 



Col. S., one of the best farmers of Phila- 

 delphia county, informs us that last season 

 sad havoc was made among his pumpkin and 

 squash vines by insects. Having anthracite 

 coal ashes at hand he had a quantity applied 

 to the vines, using a fine seive for the pur- 

 pose. The remedy was effectual, as the in- 

 sects forthwith suspended their operations. 



to be worth only $12 an i 



$1702 23 

 Labor, <^c. 

 LrvelWns and dearins; the land, &c.,. .$.r4 00 



Cartinff the wood and roots, -iJ "" 



Harrowinj. fee r'V \\-i nn 



Plantins. hoping, harvesting, &c II . 00 



Coaling in 18S7 y •;■:•.:::::;; ^ .ioo 00 moo 



Coaling in liW' 



Balance in favor of the Experiment, $8J4 23 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



To Destroy the Cat IVorMi. 



Sir— I am not a firmer ; but as I take a 

 lively interest in the prosperity of agricul- 

 ture," the first and most important of the arts, 

 it is my delight to converse with farmers, es- 

 pecially if tliey are intelliirent. I had a con- 

 versation with a irentleman a few days since, 

 Mr. A. C. R., of Arneytown, N. J., in which 

 he stited, that ahoui a year since, he met with 

 a small article in the Cabinet, upon the utility 

 of giving the cut worm something green to 

 eiit? lie determined to try it, and accordingly 

 giithered the skunk weed or cabbage, that 

 being the earliest and most easily obtained. 

 He (Tropped the leaves from si.^ to seven feet 

 apart between the rows; and found it to suc- 

 ceed to admiration; as on an examination a 

 few days afterward, he found the corn un- 

 touched, but under each leaf or weed he 

 had dropped he found from twenty-three to 

 forty-seven worms. The ground under the 

 leaves and tlie leaves themselves were com- 

 pletely perforated. The worms being thus 

 collected, were easily destroyed. Mr. R. 

 thinks it an e.'^cellent remedy. J. D. 



May 24tb, 1839. 



