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AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



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IS a pmhiviiy, whicli linJ bcpn iiseil as an alloy 

 r a pirtl'Ti, iliirin;j many yenrs. Nortli nf this 

 omul was a similar extent of soil, sepai-ntod only 



n fjravi^l walk and some rows of calibnircs, from 

 B large square wliero llie carrota, for "liich the 

 emiiini is claiincil, were raised. This was con- 

 lered by the owner, and believed by the siihscri- 

 T, to he part of the same lot. It was (il feet 

 ng and 44 feet wide, and wa.s refjardcd by the 

 oprictor as belnj portion of a large tract of many 

 ros. 



All the evidence required by the Society is nn- 

 xe.l to this .-staltMni-nt. T.^PT FOSTER. 



irorcesier, Dec. 2, \f-n. 



Wkstboro', Nov. 58, 1843. 

 r the .Infixes on Root Crops of c/ic Worcester Agricultu- 

 ral Soctttij : 



Gentlemen — My land for Beets decreased nnder 

 e ficrutiriy of the surveyor, and was not sufficient 

 r your n'^lice : that for Carrots w,is otherwise, 

 he crop of the same ground in 1841 was carrots, 

 connection with ground ailjoininn-. The qiianti- 

 of manure in 1841, I am not able to state with 

 ecision, but it did not exceed 2.5 loads (of ;J0 

 shels) to the acre — the quality of two parts mca- 

 w mud, and one part lon^ inaiinre. In the fall 

 the same year, was plowed in 7 loads on about 

 e-third of the piece. In the spring of the year 

 42, eleven loads were added of compost, as 

 ove, with the addition of cracked bone — one load 

 which proved hy experiment on corn, to be equal 

 three loads without the bone, and it is estimated 

 cost as much, save the carting. 

 Meadow mud estimated at 25 cts. ; long manure 

 .$] ; working over, carting and spreading, at 25 

 . — making the cost 75 cts. per load. 

 \bout one-half was plowed with a subsoil plow, 

 remainder with a common plow. It was bar- 

 red, bu?hed. and leveled in places with a hoe. 

 .ved May 25lh, with Willis's seed-sower, the 

 '8 24 inches apart. The whole care, until liar- 

 ting, including sowing, was let out by contract. 

 ;y were dug with a shovel, and topped with a 

 fe. The expense was as follows: 

 .0 loads manure at 75 cts. iJ.^O 00' 



Deduct carting, &c. on bone 



compost, 22 loads, 5 50 $24 50 



Mowing, 7 87 



' larrowing, bushing, and leveling, I 12 



' lowing, weeding, and care to harvesting, 23 00 



larvesting and putting in cellar, 18 /5 



ieed, I 1-4 lb. 94 



" $76 18 



' ■''he value of manure for next crop, perhaps may 

 " ;onsidcr(;d equal to interest on the value of the 

 I. 



Jround, one acre and three rods ; product, G02 

 lels, as per enclosed certificates. 

 n past years I have sowed 15 and 18 inches 

 t, and have observed that the tops have remain- 

 Teen longer when 24 inches, but am not fully 

 sfied as to the effect on the roots. If the rows 

 24 inches, can use the cultivator or harrow with 

 irso. 



Very respectfully, 



GEO. DENNY. 



falling 11 loads o3. 



he Committee on Reot Crops, nf Me Worcester Jlj^ri- 



Iturat iiocictjj : 



'he land upon which the rutd baga offered for 



the premium of the Worcester AgricuUural Socio- 

 ty were grown, contains by inoasurement 42 rods. 

 It was part of an old pasture, broken up in 1840, 

 and sowed with buckwheat, without manure. It 

 was again plowed in the spring of 1841, sowed 

 with oats, and produced an average crop. After 

 harvesting, the stubble was immediately plowed 

 under, and again in the fall a thick after-growth 

 from the grain which had fallen in harvesting, was 

 turned under with the plow. No manure was used 

 during the season. In the spring of 1842, about 

 12 common cartloads of green barn yard manure 

 was spread evenly upon the lot and plowed in. 

 The land was again plowed about the last of June 

 and harrowed. The drills for the seed were then 

 made by drawing a chain upon the ground, about 

 three feet apart. Four ounces of seed purchased 

 at the seed-store, were then scattered thinly along 

 the drills by hand, and slightly covered with earth, 

 the back of a common rake being used for the pur- 

 pose. The seed was sown about the first of July, 

 and in a fi^w days came up well. As soon as the 

 plants had formed two or three rough leaves, they 

 were thinned out by hand, leaving them at distan- 

 ces varying from G to 12 inches apart. A few 

 weeds only appeared, and the ground continuing 

 mellow, a single hoeing only was deemed necessa- 

 ry. The cullifjalor was afterwards, about the 10th 

 of August, passed through the rows. No further 

 care nor labor was bestowed upon them until the 

 second week in November, when the crop was har- 

 vested. The produce by actual measurement was 

 seven thousand fiflij five pounds — or, allowing fifty- 

 six pounds to the bushel, one hundred and twenty- 

 six bushels of nita baga, free from dirt and without 

 tops. 



The crop, under ordinary circumstances, would 



not be thought remarkable; but considering the 



lateness of the season when the seed was sown, 



and the amount of labor bestowed, it will probably 



prove more profitable than many larger crops. 



The cost of cultivation I estimate as follows: 



Plowing and harrowing twice, $1 .50 



Seed, ■ 25 



Sowing, weeding and cultivating 1 day, 1 00 



Harvesting, 2 days, 2 00 



Manure $12 1-3 to this crop, 4 00 



Spreading and carting same, 1 00 



The value of the crop would be differently esti- 

 mated from 12 1-2 to 25 cts. a bushel. 



At 12 1-2 cts. the value <if the crop would 



be $15 75 



At IS els. 22 G8 



Leaving for the net profit on 1-4 of an acre of 

 land upon the least valuation, $(! or $24 per acre, 

 and upon a higher and more correct estimate $12 

 93 as the profit of 1-4 of an acre, or .?50 92 on an 

 acre. D. WALDO LINCOLN. 



The Youthful Mind. — A straw will make an im- 

 pression on the new-fallen snow ; but let that snow 

 remain but a short time, and a horse's hoof can 

 hardly penetrate it. So it is with the youthful 

 mind. A trifling word may make an impression on 

 it ; but after a few years, the most powerful ap- 

 peals may cease to influence it. Think of this, ye 

 who have the training of the infant .mind, andleave 

 such impressions thereon as will operate to keep 

 it pure amid the follies and temptations of the 

 world Selected. 



Consumption and its J'ictims. — It is estimated 

 that 55,000 persons perish annually in Great liri- 

 tain from this disease. It is said also to be on tho 

 increase, especially among the middle and higher 

 classes of society. The number of victims to this 

 disease in the United Slates must bo immense ; 

 and no wonder, when we consider the extent to 

 which the use of corsets is carried, to say nothing 

 of thin shoes and light dresses. A table carefully 

 prepared, showing the uuiiiber of victims who per- 

 ish annually at the shrine of fashion, wovild exhibit 

 a most melancholy evidence of the results of hu- 

 man folly and crime. Intemperance doubtless has 

 its thousands of victims aninially ; and yet many of 

 those who rail most violently at the improper uso 

 of ardent spirits, are quite as regardless of lifo and 

 health in tho manner in which they distort their 

 frames, and thus excite disease and death. On 

 looking over the bills of mortality which are pub- 

 lished from week to week, we find that while m<inia 

 a potu carries off its one, two, or three victims from 

 Monday to Monday, in a city like ours, from ten to 

 thirty are chronicled as the victims'of consumption. 



The curse of intemperance has indeed been a 

 prevailing evil of the land ; but, thanks to the be- 

 nign and persuasive influence of philanthropy, it is 

 rapidly disappearing. 'J'here are other evils and 

 infirmities which scarcely require less attention. 

 They are more dangerous because sanctioned by 

 taste and fashion, and not deemed inconsistent with 

 good morals. Chapter after chapter is written, 

 death after death is recorded, and yet our fashiona- 

 ble promenades are as thronged as ever with the 

 pale and emaciated, the corseted and thinly clad, 

 who may thus be said to woo consumption and to 

 court death, — Philad. Inquirer. 



A Challenge to Farmers. — Mr Ambrose T. Gray, 

 of the town of Pine Plains, butchered a cow that 

 had been grass fed, from which he took one hun- 

 dred and eighty pounds of rough tallow, which 

 yielded one hundred and sixty pounds of the same 

 article tried. Of the beef all can readily judge 

 from such premises. 



Last spring, the same gentleman sheared a Me- 

 rino buck, of Ills own rearing, whose fleece weighed 

 ten pounds — also, a full blood Saxon Iamb, one 

 year old, whose fleece weighed five pounds. The 

 wool of the latter fleece, he assures us, was, if not 

 the finest, certainly of as fine quality fur the weight, 

 as any raised in the United States. 



We must therefore put down Pine Plains against 

 the Union. If any farmers, in any other place, 

 know of any thing that can go ahead of her, li?t 

 them speak out, or otherwise yield the palm, and 

 try to beat her hereafter. — Poughkeepsie Eagle. 



'' It is vulgar." — The following is extracted from 

 Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott: 



"Lest I should forget it, I put down here a re- 

 buke which late in life Sir Walter gave in my hear- 

 ing to his daughter ."Vnne. She happened to say of 

 something, I forget what, that she could not abide 

 it — it was vulgar. 'My love,' said her father, 'you 

 speak like a very young lady. Do you know, after 

 all, the TT.eanjjig of this word vulgar.- 'T is only 

 common ; — nothing that is common, except wicked- 

 ness, can deserve to be spoken of in a tone of con- 

 tempt ; and when you have lived to my years, you 

 will be disposed to agree with me in thanking God 

 that nothing really worth having or caring about in 

 this world, is uncommon.'' " 



