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SILK MANUAL, AND 



consider the roots digest so well on an empty 

 i5tomaeh. In order to be able to proj)ortion the 

 different kinds of roots, grain, &c. according to 

 their nutritive qualities, it is necessary to know in 

 what proportions tliose qualities exist in tliem re- 

 spepti»'eiy. The following table exhibits the re- 

 sults of the experiments of the distinguished agri- 

 culturalist De Raumer, on the effects produced by 

 an equal quantity of several substances in increas- 

 ing the flesh, tallow and wool of sheep. 



lbs! 



lbs. 



1000 lbs. potatoes, raw, with 



salt, 46i 



do potatoes, without salt, 44 



do mangel wurtzel. raw, 38.2 



do wheat, 155 



do oats, 146 



do barley, 136 



do peas, 134 



.do rye, with salt, 133 



do do without salt, 90 



do meal, wet, 129 



do buckwheat, 120 



do good hay, 68 



do hay with straw, without 



other fodder, 31 



These results agree with those of De Don. 

 and other agriculturists. — Genesee Far. 



6^ 

 6i 



-">\ 

 14 

 10 

 Hi 



14 



12^ 

 13.^ 

 10 



7i 



1.5i 



lbs. 



12', 



6.^ 

 59.^ 

 42.^ 

 60 

 41 

 35 

 43 



nj 



33 

 13 



61 

 bale, 



Top-DRKssiNG Grass Lands. — An important 

 fact in regard to this matter, has been communi- 

 cated to us by an intelligent visitor, viz : that the 

 same quantity of manure is twice or thrice as ben- 

 eficial on young as it is on old meadow. Plants, 

 like animals, if stinted or half starved when young 

 seldom acquire great vigor or luxuriance after- 

 wards ; the organs of nutrition become adapted to 

 the early supjdy of food, and cannot be readily 

 enlarged, on its being increased in advanced age. 

 Hence the advantage of employing rich soils for 

 nurseries — of keeping young farm-stock well — 

 and of applying manures to young grass. A gen- 

 tleman top-dressed some grass lands at one, two, 

 ami three years old, and he found the benefit to 

 the first, double what it was the second, and treble 

 that shown by the third. The hint is one of 

 some importance to husbandry, and we hope it 

 will be improved upon. The rule does hold good 

 in regard to animals. — Cidt. 



'^this " Notice," inasmuch as it is cheap, and any 

 body can buy it : and its instructions are l)rief 

 and simple, and the results of experience. Far- 

 mers who intend to turn theirattention to the beet 

 culture, will find it an assistant to their labors. It 

 was compiled by Mr Church, of Northamjtton, 

 who has resided several years in France, and while 

 there gave particular attention to this branch of 

 industry. 31r C. is the gentleman who introduced 

 the steamboat into the Geneva lake. — Franklin 

 Mrcury. 



Notice on the Beet Sugar. — Mr J. H. But- 

 ler has published a compendious manual on the 

 culture and preservation of the sugar beet, and the 

 mode of manufacturing sugar from it. We like 



' AGRICULTrRAI. PROSPERITY. 



Never since the first settlement of the country, 

 were farmers in circumstances so ea.sy and |)ros- 

 perous as the present time ; and if they are not 

 j)aying oft' their debts, improving their lands and 

 buildings, and making provision for the education 

 and .settlement of their children, it is because they 

 are indolent, or inattentive to their affairs. It is 

 true some crops, in some parts of the coun'ry, 

 have been less abundant than in former years; — 

 but others have been more so, and it is believed, 

 taking the whole into consideration, the fruits of 

 the earth have not fallen much short of its average 

 annual increase ; — and as for prices of all kinds 

 of agricultural productions, they are unpreceden- 

 ted in our history. Without detailing present 

 prices, it may safely be stated, that farn)er's pro- 

 duce, especially articles indispensable to the up- 

 holding of life, has advanced at least 50 per cent, 

 within the last eighteen months ; and it is fair to 

 infer that their lands have advanced in the same 

 ratio — for real estate, like stocks, ri.ses and falls 

 in market with the amount of income it yields, or 

 with good management may be made to yield, its 

 cultivator. If this be so, it follows that every far- 

 mer is actually worth at least fifty per cent, more 

 than he was a year and a half ago, and more than 

 he may suppose himself to be worth at the pres- 

 ent time. 



Though the causes which have produced this 

 astonishing advance in the prices of farmer's pro- 

 duce, while those of the manufacturer have remain- 

 ed nearly stationary, may be concealed from his 

 vie\\ ; yet he may rest assured they ate of such a 

 nature as to warrant hinj in increased exertions in 

 the cultivation of his farm, and product of such 

 fruits of the earth as are necessary to sustain life. 

 While the present dis| osition to exchange the la- 

 bors of the field |br those of the workshop, the 

 factory and the learned professions continues — 

 while the present- mania for the construction of 

 canals, railroads and other public works rages — 

 and while the present tide of foreign population 

 flows in u[ion us, the present disproportion be- 

 tween production and consumption will exist and 



prevent a material reduction in present prices 



Though agricalture is unquestionably the most 



