228 



Agricultural Reports. 



Vol. 



Having nothing more to communicate of 

 interest to the cause, — I remain, 

 Very respectfully, 



Your obedient servant, 



James Gowen. 



Messrs. Aaron Clement, 



Isaac W. Roberts, 

 Henry Cuorley, 



Committee of the Philad. Soc, for promoting Agriculture. 



To the Committee on Crops. 



Gentlemen, — In compliance with your 

 notice, I proceed to give you an account of 

 my corn crop on the Scott farm, North Penn 

 Township, Philadelphia county. I hauled 

 on the lot, in the month of April, 20 large 

 cart loads of good stable manure, per acre, 

 which was carefully spread and ploughed 

 in; the ground was well harrowed, and the 

 rows marked out, 4| feet from each other; 

 the corn planted from the 5th to the 7th of 

 May — the hills 3 feet apart in the row. 

 After the corn came up, it was dressed with 

 bone dust, to the value of $15. The culture 

 in all respects, was similar, and not more 

 expensive than usual in the neighbourhood, 

 with those who raise fair crops. The five 

 acres produced 375 bushels, or 75 bushels 

 per acre. The soil was light, and the situ- 

 ation of the land was high, with a south 

 exposure. The latter part of the season 

 was very dry, or the crop would have been 

 more abundant. 



Respectfully, yours, 



Henry Chorley. 



To Messrs. Aaron Clement, 

 James Gowen, 

 Isaac W. Roberts, 



Committee on crops, appointed by the Philadelphia Society 

 for promoting agriculture. 



January 31st, 1843. 



European Agricultural Tour & Survey. 



Several gentlemen, interested in the ad- 

 vancement of agricultural science and im- 

 provement, and of rural education, have 

 proposed to Mr. Henry Colman, late com- 

 missioner of Agricultural Survey of Massa- 

 chusetts, to visit Europe for these objects. 

 The plan is for him to spend a year in Eng- 

 land, in the examination of the husbandry 

 and rural economy of that country, and a 

 year on the Continent, in the examination 

 of French, Flemish, Swiss and German hus- 

 bandry, and especially the Agricultural or 

 Manual labour schools and the Experimental 

 farms. 



It is thought that such an examination, as 



yet never undertaken by an American, m 

 if well conducted, essentially conduce tc 

 advancement of agricultural knowledge 

 improvement in this country, and espec 

 serve the cause of rural and practical 

 cation, which is now exciting great int< 

 throughout the United States. The ger 

 plan of the Survey, will conform to 

 Colman's Survey of the Agriculture of] 

 sachusetts. The Royal Agricultural Soc 

 of England, in publicly tendering to 

 Colman a welcome reception, will wit 

 doubt, essentially aid his labours. 



It is proposed to publish his reports in 

 cessive numbers. The first number is 

 pected to appear by the 1st of January, 1 

 and sooner if practicable. The rest of 

 numbers will follow in convenient sue 

 sion, at intervals of two or three months 



The whole work will be comprisec 

 eight, or at most, ten numbers, of at 1 

 Kil) pages each, handsomely printed ii 

 octavo form, stitched and covered, and 

 bellished with necessary and useful di 

 ings and engravings, title pages and in 



The cost will be 50 cents each numbe 

 subscribers. Gentlemen who subscribe, 

 understood as subscribing for the whole w 



As the enterprise involves of necessii 

 large expense, it is expected that one d< 

 per copy, will be paid on subscribing 

 otherwise, one dollar on the delivery of 

 first number; one on the delivery of the 

 cond number; one on the delivery of 

 fifth number; one on the delivery of 

 seventh number; and one on the deJivei 

 the ninth number, should the work be 

 tended to ten numbers. 



Mr. Colman will leave for Europe, as t 

 as the subscription will warrant the un 

 taking. 



An early return is respectfully requei 

 of gentlemen to whom this is sent, addrci 

 to Henry Colman, Rochester, N. Y.; to 

 tie & Brown, Boston, Mass. ; to Charle 

 Francis & Co., No. 252, Broadway, N. 

 or to Luther Tucker, Cultivator office, 

 bany, N. V. 



October 4th, 1842. 



If husbandry is made respectable, a 

 ought to be, it will serve to check one of 

 greatest evils that bear now heavily u 

 the community — the rush of our young r 

 into the learned professions, which are 

 ready filled to overflowing; especially t 

 of the Law, which, under the present wret 

 ed course of legislation, of making litigal 

 cheap, is starving this once honourable i 

 most useful profession. 



