No. 5. 



DrilHnrr Wheat. 



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rents are worth millions, it is not the less 

 proper that yon should understand the value 

 of money, and the honest, honourable means 

 of acquiring it. What multitudes of young 

 men, particularly in our cities, make fatal 

 shipwreck of reputation, health, and eventu- 

 ally of pioperty, by a neglect of this simple 

 maxim. They are aware that their fathers 

 obtained their wealth by habits of industry, 

 but they are ashamed of the very name. 

 They forget that wealth in this country 

 passes rapidly from one to another, and that 

 he who is rich to-day may be poor to-mor- 

 row; or that he who relies on wealth amassed 

 by his father, may end his days in a poor- 

 house. It is for the young here to say whe- 

 ther by industry and economy he wilfsecure 

 competence and respectability, or by extra- 

 vagance and idleness become a worthless 

 beggar and sponging outcast. 



Shun avarice. One of the most disagree- 

 able characters on earth, is that of the 

 grasping, avaricious, penurious man. Gene- 

 rosity is perfectly compatible with economy; 

 and the means which enable some of our 

 most noble hearted, generous men, to do so 

 much to benefit and bless mankind, are ob- 

 tained, not by closefisted penuriousness, but 

 by economy. The distance is not greater 

 between the zenitii and the nadir, tlian be- 

 tween the covetous and economical man: 

 the first banishes every just and honourable 

 feeling from the heart, the other fosters and 

 ministers to them all. 



Determine to be useful. No matter what 

 may be your condition in life, you have an 

 influence, and that influence should always 

 be exerted in a proper way. The young 

 have no right to fold up their arms, bury 

 their talent, and become the drones of the 

 social hive. Aim high, but with prudence; 

 act with determination and perseverance; 

 let no obstacle drive you from the path of 

 honour and duty, and you may be sure of 

 eventual success. Riches are not within 

 the reach of all: competence is; and the 

 latter condition is preferable in every re- 

 spect to the first. Remember the Deity 

 helps those who lielp themselves, and that 

 utility is the great end of human exertion. 

 Boston Cultivator. 



For the Farmers'Cabinet. 

 Drilling "Wheat. 



To THE Editor,— I am aware that the 

 period for putting in wheat is for this season 

 gone by, and with it, apparently, the proper 

 time for a discussion of its manner : but let 

 it be remembered, that general principles 



may at any time be inculcated, and the ob- 

 servant man will not suffer the subject to 

 pass so transiently over his mind, as to leave 

 no impression to be recalled when the mo- 

 ment for action may have arrived. I was 

 particukrly interested in the statements of 

 Dr. Noble m the last Cabinet, respecting his 

 experiments in drilling wheat. If by this 

 process the crop may be increased 27 per 

 cent, it appears to me it would be well to 

 inquire, if it does not behove us to leave the 

 eld tra€k and adopt another. 



My main object in asking a nook in the 

 Cabinet at present, was to refer to a para- 

 graph or two in Cohnan's second Report, on 

 European Agriculture, now lately published, 

 part of which has reference to the putting 

 in of wheat by the drill. In passing, suflfer 

 me to express an opinion that one cannot 

 read these Reports, so far as they have been 

 given to the public, without feeling sensible 

 of their great value and practical import- 

 ance, and I trust many readers of the Cabi- 

 net will possess themselves of them. He 

 gives several statements drawn from Parlia- 

 mentary reports, of persons who, from three 

 oi- four, or five acres of land, for which too 

 they pay a rent of £4 or £5 per acre, man- 

 age to support their families of five or si.Y 

 persons, comfortably, and lay by a little for 

 a rainy day. 



The example of J. Piper, of Sussex, 

 " shows the extraordinary results of minute 

 and exact cultivation, and the value of econ- 

 omy in husbanding with extreme care, all 

 the resources for manure." From four acres 

 in 1^42, he obtained produce valued at more 

 than £61, or say $300. To wit : 



42 bush, of wheat, at 7s. 6rf. per bush. X15 ^5s Od 

 250 do. potatoes, at 15rf. per bush. 15 12 6 



Food for 2 cows, which gave each 4 lbs. 



butter per week, at li. per lb. 20 



Food for 3 pigs, at 20 stone each, and 



at "is ?.d per stone, 10 10 



£61 17s 6rf 



One of the peculiarities in this man's 

 management is, that he works one of his 

 cows in his cart, and estimates that her la- 

 bour saves him an expense of £.5 a year. 

 "She is milked in the morning before she is 

 put to work, and although worked, she makes 

 eight lbs. of butter a week, besides furnish- 

 ing some milk for the family." And why, 

 pray, should she not be worked? As our 

 author justly observes, " it would not be 

 easy to find a reason why the female of one 

 class of animals should be exempted from 

 labour rather than another." 



A second person, J. Dumbrell, from three 

 acres and a quarter, in 1841, gathered, 



