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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



From the Massachusetts Agricultural Repository. 



[The following communications were madfi by sundry 

 gentlemen who were competitors for the premiums on 

 Agricultural Productions, but did not obtain them, 

 owing to the greater success of others. We thought 

 it but a proper piece of respect to them to publish 

 their communications.— By them the public will 

 learn also that the zeal and skill of our farmers is ex- 

 tensively diifused.] 



ON INDIAN CORN. 

 In July 1821, after mowing the piece of 

 land contaning about one and three quarters of 

 an acre, I ploughed and planted the same with 

 Virginia Corn for fodder, using about ten loads 

 of yard manure in the hill, and hoeing it once, 1 

 commenced cutting and giving them to my cat- 

 tle the first of October, at which time they be- 

 gan to tassel ; after using them all, I again 

 ploughed it. In the spring of 1822, twice 

 ploughed the ground after spreading about twen- 

 ty-five loads of green barn manure and putting a 

 shovel full of manure in each hill, procured 

 from the yarding of ten cows and five hogs to- 

 gether, drawn out of the yard into a henp the 

 fall before, I planted with corn and pumi)kin 

 seed. I discovered in July that the corn was 

 suffering great injury from the pumpkin vines, 

 by their running up the corn and shading the 

 ground by covering it in such a manner, that if 

 there was no corn upon the ground, it would 

 have been completely covered with pumpkin 

 vines, it finally produced sixty bushels to the 

 acre, of corn, and a few loads of pumpkins. Af- 

 ter harvesting I again ploughed it, and in the 

 .spring of 1823, I ploughed it three times and 

 harrowed it as often, previously spreading a- 

 bout twenty-five loads of green barn manure, 

 then furrowing about three feet apart each way 

 I planted with five kernels of yellow and red 

 eight rowed corn, putting a shovel full of j'ard 

 manure in each hill, produced from yarding 

 the above mentioned stock, a sufficient quantity 

 of loam being usually carted into the yard, as 

 would increase the whole to about one hundred 

 loads, all which was used upon that la acres, 

 and another containing one and a half acre, 

 which is nearly if not quite as good as the acre 

 which is represented, being cultivated with 

 equal expence of manure and labor, finished 

 planting all my corn prior to the tenth of May, 

 to which cause 1 attribute solely the success 

 which I have in the crop over former years, 

 having been at less than half the expense in 

 hoeing than when I planted in rows for the three 

 last years, and having nor using any greater 

 quantity of manure in neither of which years 

 did not finish planting corn until the last week 

 in May, it being commonly said t would not do 

 before the season was so far advanced as not to 

 be liable to cold storm; by the first of July 1 

 had finished hoeing corn three times rather 

 lightly, not making much hills nor ploughing 

 among it but little, cut no suckers although 

 very many, except a few hills which appeared 

 not any better for it, on the 27th of September 

 I harvested torty hills (which I expected would 

 make the hundredth part of the number of hills 

 contained in an acre, which when measured 

 produced four thousand and eighty hills in dif- 

 ferent places the first ten hills there was nine 

 quarts, second ten hills twelve quarts, third ten 

 hills ten quarts, fourth ten hills nine quarts, mak- 

 ing in the whole forty quarts, which I spread 



thin for drying, on the twenty-third of October 

 again measured the same and found only thirty 

 quarts. I then examined the corn in the field 

 and harvested ten hills adjoining the second ten 

 hills, where there was twelve quarts and there 

 obtained nine and a half quarts. On the twenty- 

 seventh of October the whole was harvested and 

 measured one hundred and two bushels and 

 seventeen quarts according to the certificate 

 produced, to which adding twenty-eight pound 

 and three quarters of corn, which was overlook- 

 ed and found in cutting and carryino- off the 

 bottom stalks, would increase it to one hundred 

 and two bushels and thirty quarts. If the whole 

 had been harvested on the twenty-seventh Sep- 

 tember ; at which time forty hills produced 

 forty quarts, there being four thousand and 

 eighty hills to the acre, tiie ratio must have 

 then exceeded one hundred and twenty-seven 

 bushels with as much certainty as when on the 

 twenty-seventh of October — by reducing that 

 estimation one fifth part (being the quantity 

 shrunk by standing in the field, as appeared in 

 the harvesting the ten hills and obtaining nine 

 and a halfquarts adjoining the ten hills which 

 produced twelve quarts) gave one hundred and 

 two bushels, the quantity found in harvesting ; 

 the expenses of cultivating have not been kept, 

 not contemplating exhibiting it for premium till 

 about harvest time, but was at no additional ex- 

 pence in cultivating from what is usual and gen- 

 erally done except one additional ploughing 

 and harroiving; the value of the whole labor 

 and manure used I could not have obtained here 

 more for it than twenty-five dollars to the acre. 

 The cultivation of the land prior to the plough- 

 ing in 1821, was in being sown with herds grass 

 and clover seed in the spring of 1812, and con- 

 tinued mowing without the use of any manure 

 every season afterwards, until ploughed up in 

 1821, at which time the crop of hay had be- 

 come very light. The soil a black loam. 



FITCH WINCHESTER. 

 Southboro\ JVov. 25, 1823. 



(To be continued.') 



From the Connecticut Mirror. 



HARTFORD CO. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The stated meeting, for the choice of officers, 

 and for transacting the annual business of this 

 Society, was held in this city, on Tuesday, the 

 nth ult. Notwithstanding the bad state of the 

 roads, there was an unusual number of the mem- 

 bers from the country present. The increasing 

 interest for the prosperity of the Society, so ev- 

 idently manifested, by this class of its members, 

 is the best evidence of the utility of the Associ- 

 ation ; and, viewed in connection with the unani- 

 mity which prevailed at this meeting, furnishes 

 a sure pledge of its stability. It is believed, 

 that every citizen, who has had at heart, the 

 wealth, appearance, or respectability of our 

 county, has looked with some interest, upon 

 the transactions of this Society. 



It is known and acknowledged, by the friends 

 of this institution that its influence has thus far 

 been limited and that some of its regulations 

 have been defective. Perhaps, too, in some in- 

 stances, the premiums of the Society have not 

 been awarded in exact proportion to merit. 

 But, from the more recent transactions of the 

 Society, it would seem, that the members are 

 aining wisdom by their experience ; that just 



mil, 



lit, 



views, in relation to the object of the associ 

 tion, and the manner of affecting it, are becoi 

 ing more current ; and that good ground is ; 

 forded for the belief, that its utility will be i 

 creased, and its beneficial influence extende 



Without disparagement to his predecessoi 

 the almost unanimous election of Mr. Perkii 

 may be considered as an additional pledge 

 the permanency and usefulness of the Society. 



It ought to be well known, that, for son 

 years past, he has devoted his time and attentio 

 principally, to Agricultural pursuits; and th 

 he is, in reality, a practical Farmer. His ass 

 ciates in office, are practical men ; and it 

 gratifying to observe, that there appears to 

 a fixed determination among them, to adhere 

 their proceedings to the principle which oug 

 ever to be adopted — that of encouraging, oni 

 what ti/ili conduce to our individual and nation 

 welfare. 



A stated meeting of the members of the H 

 A. S. was held at the Slate-House, in pursuam 

 of public notice, on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1 

 and adjourned from that place to Morgan's Ha 

 The following persons weie chosen officers 

 the Society for the ensuing year: 



ENocn Terkins, President ; Martin Kellou a 

 \st lice President ; Luther Loomis, '2d Vice Pn it 

 dent ; JoH.v L. CoMSTOCK, Corresponding Secrelar 

 Daniel P. Hopkins, Recording Hiecrelary ; Solom« 

 Porter, Treasurer; Cyprian Nichols, Jluditt, 

 Samtei. S. Stebbins, Chairman View. Com. ; Jose- 

 Pratt, Chairman Com, on Produce ; Horace Cowli 

 Chairman Com. of hispeclion ; Barzillai Huds( 

 Cliairman Com. on Manufactures ; Joseph Spekce» 

 Chairman Com. on Ploughing; Harvey SEYMOt 

 Seedsman. 



viewing committee. 



Benjamin J. Boardman, Charles Wells, AmosRii 

 som, Martin Ellsworth, Aaron Bissel, Winthrop Bu' 

 Joseph Porter, George Cheeney. 



committee on produce. 



Joseph Morgan, Austin Hall, Linus North, Rob 

 Francis. 



committee of inspection. 



On Bulls, Cows, and Heifers. — Hurlehigh [HaskU 

 Roger Wells, Moses Goodman, jr. 



On Working Oxen and Steers — George Wells, S 

 ney Wadswortb, Jeffrey O. Phelps. 



Ore Horses. — Roswell Riley, Jonathan Ram3a<|)ll<l 

 Henry Phelps. 



On Sheep and Swine. — Philips Gaylord, Asa BoK- 

 Samuel Whitman. 



committee on MANITFACTCRES. 



Reuben Langdon, Josephus Granger, Backus 1 

 Dirge, Jesse Goodrich, Thomas F. Fuller, William M 

 ther, jr. Timothy Cowles, Dan H.Arnold. 



COMMITTEE ON PLOUGHING. 



Jedediah VV. Mills, Joseph Camp, Gad Lewis, OH ^f 

 ver Tudor. 



COMMITTEE or PUBLICATIONS. 



John L. Comstock, William H. Morgan. 

 TOWN COMMITTEES. 



Hartford. — Frederick Oaks, Albigcnce Scarborou| 

 Edward Marsh, Charles Babcock, Roderick ColUf 

 Aaron Goodman, E. W. Bull, Russel St. John, He«) 

 W. Terry. 



Berlin.— Seih J. North, David Whittlesee, Off 

 Beckley, Adna Stanley. 



Bristol. — Joel Truesdale, George Mitchell, Thom 

 F. Fuller, Joel Root, Philip Gaylord. 



East Hartford.— Timothy Hall, Henry Phelps, Solf 

 mon Olmsted, Joseph Goodwin, Joseph S. Spencer. 



East Windsor — Henry Watson, Samuel Tudor Wo "j 

 cott, Jacob Strong, Samuel Bartlett, jr. Henry Elmet 



Enfield. — Henry Terry, Lorrain T. Pease, AustJ! u 

 Pitkin. 



Farminglon. — Solomon Cowles, 2d, Samuel Demia| 

 John Belden. 



Granby — Erastus Holcomb, Hezekiah Goodrld 

 George C. Owen. 



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