VOT.. TVI. NO. 30. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



283 



ry, nnd f-Mvn tlicni on boiled npples and pola- 

 s, iiiixi'd witli a plonly of milk and Indian nioal. 

 28. Take nlioiit 75 loads of manure froni tlip 

 ■i.'S. It is made of peat, soil, wash from the 

 d-sidp, and vegetable matter. 

 2<). I hire one boy by the year, witli waf;ca at 

 m 80 to ")() dollars per year ; one man about si.t 

 nthf. Willi waiTcs at Vi to 14 dollars per month, 

 1 from I'j to 17 days work in hayin;;. I bejian 

 debt; also had an incumbrance of a widow's 

 fer during four and a half of the eleven years 

 t I have lived on my farm. Thus situated, and 

 beiiij able to hire, I have ii'-en obliged to do 

 principal part of my work with my own hands. 

 iO. Have about 300 apple trees ; aOO grafted ; 

 le of them in bearing nnd some not: common 

 03 I feed out to my hogs and cattle, the most 

 hem. 



11. About 40 peach, pear and plum trees. 



12. I have never seen any canker-worms on my 

 s: the borers have made Iheir appearance. To 

 troy Ihcm, J scrape the trees thoroughly and 



on a paste made of cow-dung and clay, mixed 



I a strong solution of potash. 



3. I make no use of ardent spirit, other than 

 medicine. When a child, my father taught 



to beware of its influence, 

 he farm I now own was wasted and run out 



)re I jought it : when I first took it, I cut for 

 years, not more than four tons of hay per year. 

 EBENEZER RICHARDSON. 



The statement of Ephraim Abbot comes next 

 rder, but its great length compels us to defer 



II ne.xt week.] 



Clemtnt Harrison^s Stalemeni. 

 My farm consists of 225 acres of improved 



. The soil is sand, loam, gravel and clay. 

 . I plow about 5 inches deep. 

 . Deep plowing makes a more durable soil. 

 . To improve my land I plow in dung, and seed 

 n with a grain crop, without hoeing. 

 , I till about 25 acres a year, and put 20 loads 

 ung to the acre. 



. My manure is applied in its green state. 

 . I spread and harrow in my manure in all 

 ?, with an addition of dung in the hill (when 

 ted with corn or potatoes,) from my hog vault. 

 1 plant green-sward the first year, but seed 

 wn the second year, in all cases. 



0. I mow about 15 acres of upland ; the ave- 

 , one and a half tons to the acre : when the 



gives but one ton, I plow it immediately. 



1. I irrigate five acres, but no longer than the 

 rr runs roily : too much water makes sour hay. 

 i. I manure no land except on the furrow; 

 ow it in while spreading, to keep it from waste 

 lie sun. 



J. I plow all my mowing land; if swampy or 

 I drain it, and in a dry season of the year 



' in dung and seed it down ; and in lieu of 



Tip grass get timothy and redtop, and this year 



a large crop, thick at the bottom, but not so 



h seed. 



1. If the bog land cannot be drained, I should 



mmend to cart on sand. 



5. I planted four acres of corn this season. I 

 my poorest dry meadow, turn it over, cart on 



It 20 loads of dung, harrow it in, furrow it 

 ways three feetapart; put half a shovelfull of 



I from my hog vault in a hill ; soak my seed 



in saltpetre; roll it in plaster; plant it carefully 

 and hoe three times. The average yield is froin 

 .'iO to i)0 bn«:hcl3 to the acre ; — Inst year, the com- 

 mittee called it !'5 to the acre. 



Ifi. I planted two acres of potatoes. T prepare 

 the ground as for corn ; plant two by three feet 

 apart ; apply long manure in the hill, and seed 

 with my largost potatoes — (II hills this year made 

 a bushel.) Plant four different kinds : for feeding, 

 the flesh-colored and old white. My table pota- 

 toes do not yield so much. 



17. Raised no other field vegetables ^this year. 



18. I sowed 15 acres of oats, 1(! acres of barley, 

 and 12 acres of rye. Last fall, all crops were very 

 stout — more than a common yield. I recommend 

 barley to seed after. In the spring, I seeded down 

 25 acres to meadow, with one peck of timothy seed 

 to the acre; if mixed with clover, a less quantity : 

 this is a plenty, as you see on my land I sow three 

 bushels of oats or barley per acre. 



19. I sometimes sow wet land in August after 

 mowing; dung it on the furrow; and after sow- 

 ing it, cover it with the litter from my threshing 

 floor. Too much grass seed can be sown on an 

 acre, as well as other seeds. 



20. I make manure in a vault, in which I keep 

 six or eight hogs for that purpose; I cart in earth, 

 ashes, lime, all the filth of the house, and all I can 

 get from low places. 



21. My stock consists of four oxen, five cows, 

 four two-year olds, four yearlings, four calves — all 

 of the Durham and Devonshire breed — run into 

 a cherry-red color. I keep one pair of horses and 

 600 sheep. I have one barn 72 feet long by .38 

 wide — 32 feet posts, with basement story and cel- 

 lar ; one barn 60 by 40 feet, 23 feet posts, with 

 basement story ; one barn 40 by 34 feet, 21 feet 

 posts, with basement story ; also one more barn, 

 40 by 30 feet, 15 feet posts, with sheds attached 

 sufficient to house 300 sheep. My manure is cov- 

 ered. 



22. My cows are, ns before mentioned, mixed 

 breeds. 



23. My calves I take from the cow at six days 

 old, and bring them up by hand. 



24. I make butter and cheese for my own use. 



25. The number of sheep I wish to keep is 500 

 — sometimes overrun and sometimes fall short of 

 this. My sheep are of mixed Merino and Saxony 

 breeds. I expose about 200 ewes, from which I 

 raise 150 lambs upon an average: they come in 

 May. I feed my sheep in boxes in the winter, un- 

 der cover. They yield from 3 to 3 1-2 lbs. of 

 wool to the head, and it takes about 1 cwt. of hay 

 to grow one pound of wool. 



26. I kept eight hogs and seven pigs : breed, 

 Berkshire mixed with China. Made 2700 pounds 

 of pork. 



27. Through the summer I feed with the wash 

 of the house and mow clover for them. I also bury 

 corn in the vault, with a view to make them stir 

 up my dung. I fat them by boiling potatoes and 

 pumpkins, mixing in while hot, barley meal, to 

 scald it. 



28. I take about 40 loads of manure from my 

 hog sty. It is made as stated in answer 20. 



2!>. I employ five hands in the months of April 

 and May, at .50 cents a day and board ; from the 

 15th of July till I get through haying, I employ 8 

 hands at $1 ; after haying, two hands by the month, 

 at 50 cents a day. 



30. My apple trees are 100 in number; about 



onc-hulf grafted fruit. 1 have a plenty pro\y, but 

 living in a manufacturing neighborhood, I cannot 

 siive enough for my family's use. I have 50 young 

 trees. 



31. I have pkuiis, cherries, cranberries, pears 

 and quinces. 



32. My trees have not been attacked by worm«. 



33. I use no ardent spirits on or about my farm. 

 I cut about twice as much hay as I formerly did. 



My barns are all full, and half of the floors. 



With re.=ipect to the agricultural cause, I beg 

 leave to submit this to your inspection. 



CLEMENT HARRISON. 



Mams, Oct. 25, 1842. 



[The statements of Messrs. Abbot and Sexton 

 will be published in our next paper.] 



RESULTS AND INQUIRIES. 

 To the Editor of iLe New England Farmer : 



As you gave out an invitation to your subscri- 

 bers to send in their experiments, &c., I will take 

 the liberty to describe a few results, and ask many 

 questions. 



In the fall of '41, I sowed 1 3-4 bushel of wheat 

 on 143 rods. During the early part of spring it 

 was very backward and thin ; but it improved rap- 

 idly after the spring rains. When heading out, it 

 looked finely, promising a large crop ; but the rust 

 struck it, as it did the wheat generally throughout 

 the country. My neighbors, many of them, advis- 

 ed me to let it stand till it was riper, as the heads 

 and most of the straw were quite green. To sat- 

 isfy myself as to what others had said, I turned to 

 the remarks of those who had communicated their 

 practice through the Albany Cultivator, and found 

 (hey were all in favor of cutting forthwith after its 

 appearance. I followed their advice, and cut all, 

 excepting what would make a single bundle : this 

 I left, to see if there would be any difl^erence in 

 the grain. After this had stood till the straw was 

 ripe, I rubbed a little of it out, and it wasso badly 

 shrunk that, taking this as a sample, I would have 

 let any person have all that the piece produced for 

 five bushels. And yet the yield was 21 bushels. 

 Had I let it stand a week longer, I presume there 

 would not have been five. 



[The good effect of cutting grain as soon as the 

 rust strikes il, was no greater in this instance than 

 others have often found it. — Ed.] 



Can you explain why grasshoppers like bearded 

 better than bald wheat. Last season, I raised both 

 adjoining, and I presume they dropped one-twenti- 

 eth part of the bearded, and scarcely any of the 

 other. 



[They love it better, we guess, and this is all 

 that we can say in answer. Why they should love 

 it better, we know not. — Ed.] 



I have a number of acres of muck, from 4 to 10 

 inches deep, resting on a subsoil of clay, which 

 formerly produced grass well; but of late it has 

 become quite unproductive — the wire and grub 

 worms eating the turf mostly up. I have thought 

 of managing some of it in the following way : — 

 Plow deep, and if possible turn up the clay, (as 

 clay produces better than muck,) and make narrow. 

 beds, as the land is rather moist; sow early peas 

 that can he taken off in July ; then buckwheat, 

 without plowing, if the land is not weedy ; harrow 

 well, and when in blossom turn it under for a green 

 crop : next year, sow oats and grass seed. It is 



