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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 



Baldwin came into general cultivation, is too 

 large for the demand, and the price has been 

 drooping, until they are now dull in Boston at 

 $1.25a$1.50 per barrel, and may be had de- 

 livered at the raih-oad depots, 30 or 40 miles from 

 Boston, at 35 to 40 cents a bushel, or $1 without 

 the barrel, the cost of the barrel and of trans- 

 portation"' bringing them to about $1.25 to $1.50 

 on the railroad. 



RiEMARKs. — We copy the above from the Bosio?i 

 Daily Mail. Good Baldwin apples are selling in 

 Quincy market, to-day, Nov. 10, for $1.50 to 

 2.00 a barrel, and the demand is equal to the 

 supply. The sale is quick for good, well selected 

 apples. We hope our friends will not find dis- 

 couragement in this report. They can raise 

 apples at a profit at $1.00, barrel not included ; 

 and when they are lower than this, they can feed 

 them to cattle and swine with as much profit as 

 can be found in any other crop. 



For the New England Farmer. 



BEST METHOD OF GETTING COEN AND 

 HAY. 



Mr. Editor : — Feeling deeply interested in the 

 improvement of agriculture, I esteem it a privi- 

 lege, as well as a duty, to make known what I 

 think to be an improvement, that others who are 

 situated on like soils may profit by my experience. 

 Corn and hay are the two most reliable crops in 

 this region ; and how to obtain the most of them 

 with the least expense, is what we ought to study. 

 A part of my land is too wet for common cultiva- 

 tion but good for hay. I find it most profitable 

 to turn it up once in four or five years. 1 have 

 tried plowing in September and seeding down, and 

 have succeeded well. For a number of years past 

 I have practiced taking uif one crop of corn, and 

 then seeding down to grass, which I think is much 

 more profitable. My method has been to turn up 

 the land in tlie fall, laying it oil' in beds about 

 two rods wide, and put the manure in compact 

 heaps near enough to transport it by hand. So 

 that I need no team but a horse to go upon it in 

 the spring ; l)y this means I can plant ab()ut as 

 early as common land. As soon as the '^'>'^^ is 

 hard enough to ripen on the si^ik, 1 cut it up, 

 carry it off an'i '^'^'^^ "^ 'i^nd sow the land with 

 gr^oe seed immediately, always spreading on a 

 small coat of compost manure. By this method I 

 have never failed of getting a good crop of corn, 

 and can get the land smooth and suitable for 

 good mowing witli little labor. By tliis manage- 

 ment I think I can obtain as much corn from my 

 lowland as from my high, and keep it in good 

 order for hay. Tuojias Haskell. 



Gloucester, October 31, 1854. 



to break them up, is not a valid one, because, if 

 often plowed, one pair of oxen would perform the 

 labor and there would be little more expense than 

 in plowing an acre of stubble land. There would 

 be an extra cost of grass seed, but the increased 

 crop, we think, Avould be more than sufficient to 

 offset the unusual expense . * 



Deep Plowimg and Plastering. — The Michigan 

 Farmer gives the following experiment of Mr. 

 Millspaugh, of Van Buren, in that State, as "a 

 fair dollar and cent operation." With a heavy 

 team, he plowed a twelve-acre lot twelve inches 

 deep — sowed to oats, and seeded at the same time 

 with three and a half bushels of clover seed. Soon 

 after he sowed sixty pounds per acre of plaster. 

 The crop of oats was good. He cut, the nextyear, 

 two tons of clover per acre, and in the fall gath- 

 ered clover seed worth one hundred and sixty-four 

 dollars. That is 



24 tons of hay, at $6 per ton, $144,00 



Clover seed, 164,00 



Total, 308,00 



From this the labor is to be deducted, which is 

 not given, but which would doubtless leave a 

 "fair" profit as one year's proceeds of 12 acres, 

 for which deep plowing, liberal seeding and 

 plaster, are to have the chief credit.-^ Cown^r?/ 

 Gentleman . 



What Boston has done for Aoriculture. — 

 The attention of the reader is called to a capital 

 article with the above title, in another column, 

 which we take from the Boston Post. 



Remarks. — We are glad to find the mode of 

 husbandry detailed above gaining new advocates. 

 Corn, hay and fruits are our staple crops, and 

 how to secure the most of each permanently, at 

 the least cost, is a question worthy of thought, 

 and experiment. There is no doubt in our mind, 

 that much of our mowing lands remain too long in 

 grass. The oV>jection urged, that it costs too much 



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