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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 1 



ry inconsiderable portion of the corn. Tiie yield 

 was upwards ot" 800 barrels, making an average 

 of 12 barrels, or 60 bushels, to the acre. My mana- 

 ger measured on acre of the drilled corn upon a 

 rough, but rich hill side, and it shucked out nearly 

 16 barrels, (78^ bushels) of shelled corn. The sea- 

 son was generally s])eal-;ingt;ivorab!e. 



From tills unadorned skeleton of my mode of 

 culture, it will be observed, that my first great ob- 

 ject is, to prepare the land thoroughly, l)efere plan- 

 ting. 2J. To have my seed stinnalated in their 

 early growth, by the most powerful and concentra- 

 ted manures. 3d' To keep the ground as I started 

 with it, in perfect tilth, and entirely clean. 4th. 

 To use such implements as cut very deep, with 

 little labor fo the horse ; which being necessarily 

 narrow, will pulverize tha^oil. and make it more 

 permeable to iieat and ^wsture : a circumstance 

 to which the ingenious Tuli perhaps attached too 

 much consequence — but one which 1 am satisfied 

 the opponents of his theory undervalue. Another 

 object in using this narrow, deep cutting plough, is, 

 that from the beginning it cuts off all the surface 

 roots in the balks, antl makes the corn strike deeji- 

 er ; and thus, renders it less liable to be aifected 

 by the vicissitudes in the seasons. I have observed 

 that whenever corn is ploughed, after being neg- 

 lected until the grass and weeds have sprung up, 

 and especially when the working is followed by 

 dry weather, it is invariably injured seriously. 

 Sometimes it is fired so badly, as to cut off the 

 crop by half what it would have been, had it been 

 left to the weeds — and occasionally it produces al- 

 most a total failure. This, of course, arises Irom 

 the corn being irregularly worked — and when 

 worked, the surface merely scratched over. The 

 roots are suffered to spread themselves uninter- 

 ruptedly near the surfiice in the balks; and these 

 being broken necessarily in the after working — the 

 corn is thus deprived of its principal sources of 

 moisture and nourishment, and suffers immediate- 

 ly. When I cease working at harvest, I never put 

 a plough in afterwards ; believing that the time 

 has then arrived v>^hen the crop requires that its 

 roots should be sufi'ered to extend themselves un- 

 interruptedly in every direction, in quest of food to 

 support its increased size. During two short dry 

 spells vvhich we had last season, mj^ corn contin- 

 ued to preserve a deep blackish green color, 

 whilst that of my neighbors was a good deal in- 

 jured. 



I have thus in obedience to your appeal to your 

 Bubscribers, contributed my mite of facts upon one 

 branch of our agriculture. Should you excuse the 

 negligent and hasty manner in which it is thrown 

 together — and consider it of any value to your pa- 

 per, you can publish it ; and at some more leisure 

 moment, I will extend my remarks so as to em- 

 brace the other crops cultivated by me. 



Your obedient servant, 



W. M. PEYTON. 



"VIRGINIA CORN AND COR CRUSHER AND 

 GRINDER." GENERAL REMARKS ON THE 

 RECOMMENDATIONS OF NEW PATENT MA- 

 CHINES. 



A correspondent requests of us information respect- 

 ing the above named machine, which is spoken of 



highly, but only in general terms, in a late number of 

 the Farmer and Gardener. The maker's name is Jas. 

 L. Baldwin, but his place of residence is not stated. 

 Any particular information respecting the machine from 

 a disinterested source, if lilvely to be useful to the pub- 

 lic, wdl be thankfully received for this publication. If 

 this notice should meet the eye of the patentee of the 

 machine, he is requested to write to N. Herbemont, Esq. 

 S. C, and state particularly its performance, price, &,c. 



We also request, for another correspondent, informa- 

 tion (derived from experience,) of the best and cheapest 

 corn-mill, to be worked by horse power, and on a scale 

 suitable for the wants of a single large farm. 



We use this occasion to say, tliat similar information, 

 founded on sufficient experience, and sustained by the 

 vohmtary communications and signatures of disinter- 

 ested and respectable individuals, will at all times be 

 received and published in this journal, with pleasure. 

 But we have discouraged such communications, and 

 will continue to refuse to publish them, when they are 

 not sustained by names of known respectability, and 

 unless the object appears to be to serve the public, and 

 not merely to help tne sales of the owner of a patent 

 right. Without such strict regulations, many of our 

 pages would be filled with the certificates, (in form or 

 substance,) of the superior advantages of new patents ; 

 and which we know, nine times in ten, even of those 

 the most abundantly supported by certificates, prove to 

 be of little worth — and often of none. Such " commu- 

 nications" would be, in fact, mere advertisements in dis- 

 guise — difiering from ordinary advertisements in these 

 respects however, that they would not be paid for, and 

 that from their position, and the editor's apparent sanc- 

 tion, they would have far more authority, and ef- 

 fect, than any advertisement in ordinary form — and 

 the publication would thereby serve the more to aid 

 deception, if the invention was indeed worthless. 



Every one knows that the names of respectable indi- 

 viduals may be obtained in recommendation of a new 

 machine, with as much ease as to a quack medicine — 

 and that they are worth, in the general, as little in the 

 one case as the other. On our advertising sheet, or 

 covers, any such advertisements may be placed, on the 

 responsibility of those, who sign and pay ' for the ad- 

 vertisements. But information respecting those or 

 other machines or inventions, which appear in commu- 

 nications to the Farmers' Register, must stand on very 

 different, and much higher authority. It is a matter for 

 regret, that we have been enabled to publish so few com- 

 munications onthissubject. But it is far better that they 

 should be too few than too many — as by a free ad- 

 mission to such advertisements m disguise, this journal 

 would be made the channel of communicating to its 

 readers ten times as many falsehoods as truths, respect- 

 ing new patent machines and implements. 



These remarks are, in part, a suitable introduction to 

 the list and descriptions of new patents which follow, 

 and which will be continued regularly hereafter, if the 

 plan should be approved by our readers. The Journal 

 of the Franklin Institute, to which we shall be indebt- 

 ed for these descriptions, contains monthly lists of all 



