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ANL) }{ R T I C IJ L T (J il A L R K G 1 S T K R . 



'■ nd a hall" feet apart m llio drill. By this arranire- 



-' lont It will at onco be perceived tliat cacli parcel 



' rcupvMifj exactly the saiiio space of ground, (which 



' as jint a .^uarlor (.r annexe,) had precisely the 



" line number nf stalks of corn on it — llio only dif- 



■^rence between Ihcin bein^; in the mode of plaiit- 



' If, viz: one with one stalk, one wjtii two, and the 



• Aer with three stalks in a hill. Tlio distances 



'Jtwceii the lulls were taken by measure; the 



hole lot was planted at the same time, with the 



.me variety of corn, cultivated alike, and harvested 



ike, and the product of each parcel carel'iilly kept 



itself, was as lollows: 



No. 1, one stalk in a lull, tho hills one and a half 

 ot apart, 14 I.J bushels. 



No. V.', two stalks in a hill, the hills three feet 

 )art, U; l-'J bushels. 



No. :3, throe stalks in a hill, the hills four and a 

 ilf leet apart, 14 1-4 bu.shels. 

 Thus it would appear, that on such land as I ex- 

 riinented on, corn is more productive with two 

 alks in a hill, than with either one stalk or with 

 ree ; and that there is no difference in product 

 aween that with one stalk in a hill and that with 

 rec. 



My lot of three fourths of an acre produced -I.") 

 isheLs or at the rate of GO bushels per acre ; 

 hile the quarter of an acre which was planted 

 th two stalks in a hill, produced 16 1-2 bushels, 

 at the rate of t)li bushels to the acre, beini' a 

 ear grain of (j bushels to tho acre, merely from the 

 Ddc of planting — a most important and valuable 

 .in, truly. There were some stalks missing in 

 ch parcel, but I thought not more in one than in 

 other ; and though there may have been some 

 ade of difference in the quality of the soil, or of 

 2 manure applied to it, I did not perceive any. 

 -bought the experiment was (as it was intended 

 be) a very fair one. I was induced to make it 

 )m reading in the Register a very valuable arti- 

 2 on the cultivation of corn, from tho pen of Mr 

 illiam P. Taylor, of Caroline. He advanced the 

 inion. as the result of his experience and obscr- 

 tion, that corn produces more when planted with 

 o stalks in a hill than with one. Knowing that 

 s experience and intelligence entitle his opinions 

 great respect, and having myself observed that 

 e ci>rn-makcr of my acquaintance, who always 

 ants with two stalks in a hill, (to save hoe work, 

 lich it does to a considerable extent,) generally 

 ide belter crops than his neighbors, 1 thought it 

 )uld be well to test it by accurate experiment 

 le result tends to confirm Mr Taylor's opinion, 

 le corn which I planted was a variety of the 

 ineared prolific corn, and the season was a good 

 e. The common opinion in this part of the 

 untry is in favor of planting with a single stalk 

 a hill ; and I know It is in general unsafe to 

 ■St to a single experiment, or to the opinions of a 

 w, in opposition to the common opinion of the 

 jrld. founded on general experience ; but so few 

 curate experiments have been made on this sub- 

 :t, that I have not hesitated to rely on Mr Tay- 

 ■'s opinion, confirmed by my own experiment and 

 servation; and I now plant my corn with two 

 alks in a hill, and recommend it to others to do 

 e same. It certainly saves labor in planting, and 

 seding with the hoe, and I think there is again 

 the product of the crop. 

 Should this meet the eye of any who ha»e made 

 :perimenU on the same subject, I hope they will 

 ve the results through the Register. 



JOHN Z. HOLLADAY. 



STATISTICS oi' 1,.\i;im;. 

 Enirlaiul. — In Kngland ilie price ot labor vanes. 

 Tho Noltin«haiii stocking wonvers, as staled by 

 them Ilia public address, after working from 14 i., 

 lii hours per day, earn only from four to five shil 

 lings per week, and aro obliged to subsist on 

 bread and water or potatoes and salt. 



.Sro//nn</— Among the laboring classes of the 

 industrious Scotch, meat, except on Sund.iys, is 

 rarely used. 



FniHce. — Of the people of France, seven and a 

 half millions do not eat wheat or wheatcii bread. 

 They livo upon barley, rye, buckwheat, cliosnutsi 

 and a few potatoes. The common wages of n 

 ''"■<='! Jaborer in France, are $:J7,.".0 for a man, and 

 $ 18,75 for a woman, annually. The taxes upon 

 Ihem^ are equal to one fifth of the netl product. 



.Voneay. — In Norway tlic ordinary food for tlio 

 peasantry is broad and gruel, both prepared of oat- 

 meal with an occasional mixture of dntd fish. 



Moat is a luxury rarely used. 



Poland. — The common food of the peasantry of 

 Poland, the working men, is cabbage and potatoes ; 

 sometimes, not generally, black bread and soup, or 

 rather gruel, without the addition of butter or meat. 

 A recent traveller says, ' 1 have travelled in every 

 direction, and never saw a wheaten loaf to the 

 eastward of the Rhine, in any part of Northern 

 Oern.any, Poland, or Denmark.' 



Oenmark.—h, Denmark the peasantry are still 

 held in bondage, and are bought and sold together 

 >vitli the land on which they labor. 



Itiissia.— In Russia the bondage of the peas- 

 antry IS even more complete than it is in Denmark. 

 The nobles own all the land in the emoire and the 

 peasantry who resido upon it are transferred with 

 the estate. A great majority have only cottages, 

 one portion of which is occupied by the family 

 while the other is appropriated to domestic ani- 

 mals. Few, if any, have beds— but sleep upon 

 hare boards, or upon parts of the immense stoves by 

 which their houses are warmed. Their food con- 

 sists of black bread, cabbage, and other verrelables 

 without the addition of any butter. ° ' 



.■?uW;-w.— In Austria, tho nobles are the proprie- 

 tors of the land, and the peasants are compelled to 

 work lor their masters during every day except 

 Sunday. The cultivators of the soil are in a slate 

 of bondage. 



Sweden.— In Sweden the dress of the peasantry 

 IS prescribed by law. Their food consists of hard 

 bread, dried fish, without gruel and without meat. 



Hungary.— In Hungary their state is, if possible 

 still worse. The nobles own thejand, do not work 

 and pay no taxes. The laboring classes are obliged 

 to repair all high ways and bridges, are liable" at 

 all tunes to have soldiers quartered upon them 

 and are compelled to pay one tenth of the produce 

 of their labor to the church and one ninth to the 

 lord whose land they occupy. 



Ireland.— The average wages of a laborer is 

 from nine and a lialf to eleven cents per day. Their 

 food is 'milk and potatoes, occasionally varied, as 

 one of them describes it, by ' potatoes and milk ' 

 Truly may it be said that all over the world ' hard 

 IS the fate of the laboring poor.' Yet they an? the 



producers of all the wealth in every country ,V. 1' 



Era. 



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Mi;i,l<)K.\T|n.N OF I.IVKRY CLAYS. 

 If you Imve any c.ld livery clay land on your 

 (arm, and desire to improve it permantcntly, and 

 will follow our advice, wo will promise you suc- 

 cess. Most lands of that charocter lay low, are 

 consequently loo wel for hoalhful cultivation,' and 

 presuming that yours is so, wo shall lay down a 

 tew |ilnin rules for your government, by which you 

 can remedy tho evil resulting from the natural con- 

 dition of your soil : 



1. Ditch or drain it. This may be effectually 

 done by making a blind drain, (or if necessary scv- 

 eral of them) in the followiuj, simple way : dig a 

 dram or ditch to a suflicient depth and of the right 

 grade to carry off the water, say from two to three 

 teet deep ; then lay on the sides of the ditch, bricks 

 stones, or pieces of scantling about inches high, 

 across these place bricks, stones, billets of wood or 

 plank ; if one of the three first named articles, they 

 should be placed sufficiently close together to ex- 

 elude the dirt from sifting through, to prevent fill- 

 ing up the drain, or obstruct the passage of the 

 water: should there bo any doubts as to that result, 

 let long straw be laid on the top of the driiin, and 

 then be filled up with dirt. 



2. After the superabundant water shall thus have 

 been drawn off, haul on from 50 to a hundred cart- 

 loads of sand to the acre, which should be spread 

 evenly on the ground and ploughed in. 



3. If your ground has not been previously limed, 

 then spread on about .50 bushels to the acre, and 

 you will find that the texture of your soil the ensu- 

 ing season, will not only be greatly improved, 

 but you will have laid the ground work of last- 

 ing melioration Imtrican Farmer. 



Let those who would affect singularity with sue 

 cess, first determine to be very virtuous, and they 

 will be sure to be very singular. Lacon. 



CATTLE ON RAIL ROADS. 

 Two or three cows have recently been killed on 

 the Hartford and New Haven Rail Road, and the 

 lives of the passengers in the cars greatly endan- 

 gered. A writer in the Daily Herald maintains 

 that as the Rail Road Company own the road way 

 in fee, and have taken covenants from nearly all the 

 adjoining owners that they would build and support 

 division fences between their own premises and the 

 road, those owners are liable to the Company for any 

 damage the Company may sustain by Obitle stray- 

 ing on the road in consequence of negligence in 

 building or keeping the division fences in repair. 

 He also contends that if personal damage should 

 be sustained by passengers, in consequence of 

 the cars coining in contact with cattle on the road 

 the owners of such cattle would be liable to each 

 passenger injured for the amount of damage sus- 

 tained. These are questions worthy of the con- 

 sideration of all land-holders through whose prem- 

 ises rail roads are constructed, and of the owners 

 of cattle running at large.— /armer'j Gazette. 



Injlmnce of the Stock on the Scion It has been 



a disputed point among orchardiats and fruit grow- 

 ers, whether the stock produced any sensible effect 

 on the fruit in grafting. 'I'he Perth Courier gives 

 the result of an experiment in preventing tho at- 

 tack of the aphis or bug on the apple. Mr M'- 

 Hardy having observed that this insect never in- 

 fested the Jargonelle pear, conceived that the ap. 

 pie might be saved by grafting on that stock. 

 Fouryears since he grafted the Ribstone Pippen 

 on this pear, and the experiment has been comple- 

 tely successful the fruit being improved in size and 



flavor, and perfectly secure from the bug imerican 



Farmer. 



