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Editorial Notices. 



Vol. VII. 



We are informed by the Delaware Republican, that 

 the Fall exhibition of The Newcastle County Agri- 

 cultural Society, took place about the middle of last 

 month, as published in our last Number. It appears to 

 have been attended with considerable interest, and the 

 display to have been, for the most part, such as was 

 anticipated. Samples of domestic manufacture, fruit, 

 and pot plants, were no less attractive to the visitor, 

 than were the varieties of live stock, which we sup- 

 pose gave favourable evidence of the enterprise and 

 j udgment of the farmers of Delaware. 



Six teams — four of horses, and two of oxen, entered 

 the ploughing list. This, we should judge from the 

 Report, was the most exciting part of the exhibition. 

 The eighth of an acre, seventy-seven yards in length, 

 and eight in width, was regularly measured off and al- 

 lotted to each team. It was stipulated by the commit- 

 tee, that it be ploughed six inches deep, and within 

 forty minutes. It was a green grass sod, that had lain 

 about seven years, and was well calculated to test the 

 merits and capacity of the plough, as well as to show 

 the skill of the ploughman. Moore's — Moore &. Wright's 

 — Garrett's— Prouty's— Beach's, and Peacock's ploughs 

 were the competitors. The horse teams completed their 

 work in nineteen and a half, twenty-one and a half, 

 eighteen and a half, and eighteen minutes respectively : 

 and the ox teams in twenty-eight, and twenty and a 

 half minutes: the average time of the six teams being 

 twenty-one minutes. The average rate of the teams 

 was about one acre of hard sod, six inches deep, in two 

 hours and three quarters! The work was such as good 

 farmers would be satisfied to have done on their own 

 lands. The committee were not without difficulty in 

 deciding the question to whom the premium should be 

 awarded: but under all circumstances, it was given to 

 Moore & Wright's horse team, with their plough. Had 

 they been at liberty to award another premium, it 

 would have been to C. P. Holcomb's ox team, with 

 Prouty's plough. 



It appears to us — and we have in our day, known 

 something of the handling of a plough— as we suppose 

 it did also to the committee, that the contest took too 

 decidedly the character of a match against time. And 

 we are aware of the difficulty of preventing it from 

 assuming this character. The ploughman, however, 

 should remember that the mere rapid running of the fur- 

 row, may allord but little test of the merits of a plough. 



Since the communication on page 102, from J. P. was 

 in type, an interesting letter from John Jones has been 

 received, anticipating the inquiries of J. P. in relation 

 to the "Foot prints, &x." It was of course, too late for 

 this number. We shall in our next, avail ourselves of 

 it, to throw more light upon this curious subject. 



A communication from B. Webb, on the subject of 

 Magnesian lime, has been received, but it came too 

 late for this number. 



The quantity of rain which fell during the Ninth 

 month, (September,) 1842, was a little more than an 

 inch and a quarter 1.209 inches. 



Pennsylvania Hospital, Tenth month 1st, 1842. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Hints for Improvement of Agriculture Page 73 



American Trees 75 



To choose a stock of Bees 75 



On the Use of Mules 77 



Agriculture in former times— Scab in Sheep 78 



"Sandy Point," No. 2 79 



"Dear Wife." 80 



The Grape 81 



Lime, and Mode of applying it — New Mode of 



Making Bricks 82 



Observations on the Animal Races. 83 



Wine from Grapes — Lime and Ashes 84 



To Cure Hams, &c 85 



Lard Oil — Saving Seed 86 



Rotation of Crops in Bucks County — "Will you 



take a sheep ?" — Espy's Ventilator 87 



Buckwheat, or Rag Weed?— Culture of Wheat, 88 



The Kyloe, or West Highland Bull 89 



Mediterranean Wheat— To make Home Happy. 90 



Improving the Soil 91 



Preservation of Peach Trees 92 



Use of Camels on Western Prairies— Blight on 



Trees 93 



Subsoiling— Manufacture of Silk in Ohio 94 



Conquer with Kindness— Autumnal Ploughing of 



Light Land 95 



Large and Small Farms— Mildew in the Grape. 9G 



Anecdote of the Ass, &c 97 



Ross's Phoenix Strawberry — Paste for Wheels. 98 



To Kill Weeds— The Turnip Fly 99 



Premiums of Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 100 



The New York State Agricultural Show 101 



Impressions in Limestone— On Sound 102 



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