1837.] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



623 



season, with the two most popular khids of tohac- 

 co, to wit, Oronoko and Piyor, (well calculated to 

 test their resf)ective merits,) I herewith send the 

 result, tor publication in the Tleirister. 



Believinix, that notwithstarulinir the little inte 



lbs. — 40 do. of plastered, when cured, weighed 

 16 lbs. — dillisrence in lavor of plastered, 3 lbs. 

 This Tobacco <rrew on a lot that has been kept up 

 mainly by clover and herdsgrass, on the three- 

 hilt system. The tobacco was only plastered 



rest lelt in the tobacco crop at present, it is a mat- once, about the time it began to spread, on the hill 



ter ol" considerable importance to those who culti 

 vate it at all, to know which kind it is most to 

 their interest to plant. Having thought for seve- 

 ral years, that the Oronolco tobacco, matured 

 earlier, and yielded more in weijiht, than any other 

 tobacco I had ever made — I proceeded during the 



o-enerally, with about a tea spoonful to each 

 plant. The difference was manliest during the 

 whole season, even at three hundred yards dis- 

 tance. 



] had also several experiments almost consum- 

 mated, on corn, by pulling and not i)ul!ing fodder, 



last season, to submit that opinion to the strictest i cutting and not cutting tops, all of which were 

 test, by actual experiment in the following manner, carefully put away in my farm pen, preparatory to 

 While setting out a rich hisrhland lot, with Oro- measuring and weio:hing. When lo ! my plans 

 noko plants, we got some Prvor plants, from a were suddenly dashed by a mischievous ox, break- 

 neighbor's bed, close at hand, and planted a row ins: in up.on them, not only in violation of the Sab- 

 nearly through the centre of the lot, with tho?=e I bath, (on which it happened,) but also the law of 

 plants. And after having given the whole lot the | 'Square clansiim fregit.''' 1 hope, however, at a 

 same cultivation and attention durinii the season, future time, to be able to mature similar experi- 



I designated a row of Oronoko, running parallel 

 with the Pryor, for experiment; andjn the month 

 of September, when the row of Prj^or was tho- 

 roughly ri|)e, (by which time, however, a number 

 of the plants in the row of Oronoko, had, to all 

 appearance, sufficed for the want of cutting,) I 

 proceeded to cut the two rows, laying the plants to 

 the right and left, and after they were "lindiered" 

 sufficiently by the sun, I carefully weiirhed them 

 separately, and found the following result — to wit: 

 48 plants of Pryor, weiixhed 62 lbs., and 48 plants 

 of Oronoko, weiirhed 78 lbs. Difl'erence in favor 

 of Oronoko, 16 lbs. I then had both Pryor and 

 Oronoko, huns on sticks separately, placed in a 

 barn, and cured with fire — and attain submitted 

 them to the same test, with the following result; 

 Pryor, where cured, weighed 18 lbs. Oronoko, 

 when cured, 22^ lbs.: difference 4^- lbs. in favor of 

 Oronoko. On stripping the two parcels, the dif- 

 ference still greater in fiwor of the Oronoko — the 

 stalk of the Pryor being much longer and harder 

 than the Oronoko. I would remark, that I made 

 a large cutting in the, above-mentioned lot, ten or 

 twelve days before the experiment rows were cut, 

 at which time, there was not a plant of Pryor ripe, 

 but several of the Oronoko ouijht to have been cut. 

 I think fi'om the best observations I have been able 

 to make, the Oronoko, is from ten to twenty days 



ments, and communicate the result for publication. 



R. I. GAINES. 



GOOB AND INCREASING EFFECT OF MARL. 



To tlie Editor of tlie Farmeis' Register. 



Berkley, Charles City, January 3, 1837. 



Before closing this letter, I have an act of sheer 

 justice to perform. Some sixteen years ago, you 

 were liberal enough to allow me permission to 

 procure several vessel loads of" marl from your 

 shores. These were applied principally to a belt 

 of land, and running through a large field, which 

 contained all the varieties of soil fi'om a cold white 

 pipe clay, to a light loam ; all, however, greatly- 

 exhausted. Shortly after its application, I disco- 

 vered a considerable improvement in the land ; 

 and with a view of equalizing the fertility of the 

 adjacent ground, I applied a considerable quantity 

 of stable and farm-pen manure, to a strip on one 

 side of the marled belt. The succeeding two or 

 three years, botli pieces exhibited fine crops; since 

 that period, the difierence between the marled 

 land and manured belts, is every year more maoi- 

 fest ; and 1 think, it may be said, with entire truth. 



^ 1 ,1 ., n I • 1- • -. *'p1 that the portion marled, is fully equal to the pro 



forwarder than the Pryor, which is a_matrer of, ^^^^^j^^ 'c ^^^^ ^^^^p,^ ^^ ^^^/^ ^^,,g_ ^y,^^, 



considerable moment, to those planters whose lands 

 have become slow, from excessive cultivation. 

 And when we add to these advantages, the still 



per acre, n nen 

 last in wheat, my principal scythe-man, on ap- 

 proaching it, remarked to his fellow-laborers, "this 

 is a monstrous growth of wheat — there must have 



more important one-that the Oronoko, commands , ^^^^ ^^^ ^,^j farm-pen here ;" another renlied : " It 

 a much higher price for manufacturmg Purposes, | .^ ^^^ ^.^^^^j^[^^ ,1^^ ^^^^, ^^^^ Mr.Ruffin's." 

 I am decidedly ol opinion, that it ought to have ^^ ^ ^^^.J^ '^^^ .^^ .^ ^^ ^^^y^^ ^^.y 



he preference over all other kinds for general cul- ; j ^-^^^^^^ ,^-,1, ^^ .^..^ess in It, 

 tivation. 1 he only objections I hav^e ever liearcl i •' •' a „.i „„, ..„„..„. 



against it, are, that on rich wet land, it breaks and 

 "fires," more than other kinds. As to the first 

 objection, I am satisfied that a leaf need not be 

 picked up that breaks ofij and much more of it 

 will be made, than of any other. As to the second 

 objection, I am not probably qualified to judge 

 correctlv — for in the cultivation of fourteen crops 

 of 100,000 plants each, I am satisfied I have never 

 lost 500 plants by "firing." My land is uncom- 

 monly free from that objection. 



And am respectfully, 



BKNJ. HARRISON. 



For tlie Farmers' Register. 



APPLES AND CIDER. 



A writer in the Register, who has spent his 

 two last summers and autumns in the apple re- 

 irions of the north," has collected thirteen propo- 



1 also made an experiment with plastered and i sitions. With some of them I entirely agree, and 

 unplasfered tobacco (all Oronoko,) with the same , from others I entirely dissent. The evidence can- 

 care, with the following result: 40 plants of un- j not rest on the personal knowledge of your cor- 

 plastered tobacco, after being cured, weighed 13 I respondent, but must have been derived from 



