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FARMERS' REGISTER— PEEWEE— EARL STIMSON'S FARM. 



see thai half the energy and industry they are 

 obliged to exert in removing and fixing themselves 

 in the west, if applied to their farms at home, would 

 secure to them a good income and an improving 

 capital. 



I am respectfully yours, 



II. BIEADE. 



P. S. Mr. Old has, within the last year, added 

 another tobacco lot, (lor reasons connected with the 

 general arrangement of his farm,) but still uses 

 no manure for tobacco. I had for several years 

 past cultivated two lots in tobacco and wheat al- 

 ternately, in the hope that a crop of peas sown on 

 the stubble immediately after harvest would keep 

 up the fertility of the lots. But the dilTiculty of 

 getting the ])eas sown in time have forced me to 

 abandon tlie system, which otherwise I have no 

 doubt (on land lying well, and made rich at first,) 

 would be a very good one. 



H. M. 



THE PEEWEE. 



From the Genesee Fanner. 



None of our feathered songsters are more in- 

 clined to become domestic that the Peewee (3Ius- 

 cicapa fuscow . ) When not disturbed, they soon 

 become unsuspicious of evil designs ; and take up 

 their lodgings on the outside of the house without 

 caring who lodges within. This summer one has 

 chosen to roost on the limb of a tree about two feet 

 from our chamber window. He must often see us 

 moving about within ; but his business is to catch 

 the flies without; and he has performed this ser- 

 vice greatly to our comfort and satisfaction. With 

 the nature of Hass, however, he is not yet fully ac- 

 quainted ; and seeing flies on the inside, he often 

 raps against it with his bill to no purpose. Since 

 the brooding season is over, his mate also comes 

 round ; and late as it now is in the season (the 18th 

 Oct.) and cool as the weather has become, they 

 seem to feel very much at their ease ; and in look- 

 ing at them through the glass where they sit at tiie 

 distance of five feet from me, I perceive nothing 

 that would indicate their prospect of shortly jour- 

 neying to Carolina. 



It has been said that they eat bees ; and many of 

 their race have been destroyed in consequence of 

 this suspicion. I should be very unwilling to lose 

 mine on such an idle charge. They are really use- 

 ful birds ; and I shall feel a sense of lonesomeness 

 when they take their departure. When we under- 

 take to kill birds, we ought to know for what ; and 

 we should remember that in charges against them 

 as in other cases there are two sides to a story. 



EARL STIMSO?j's FAR 31. 



From Stuart's Three Years in America. 



On the 18th of November, made an excursion 

 to the township of Galway, with a view to see Mr. 

 Stimson's farm, about eleven miles from Ballston 

 Spa. Mr. Stimson is a very enterprizing person, 

 has an extensive fiirm, a large hotel, and great 

 stores as a merchant. We are told that there is 

 no farm within our reach at present so well enti- 

 tled to notice. Mr. Burtis, our Saratoga chariot- 

 eer, carried us to it. We were unlucky in not 

 finding Mr. Stimson at home, but Mrs. Stimson 

 was extremely communicative and obliging, more 



especially considering that we had no introduction 



to her. 



The situation of the farm is very elevated, with 

 the highway running through it. Of 800 acres, 

 of which the farm consists, Mr. Stimson has about 

 one half in cultivation. His fences, horses, farm- 

 houses, and the whole establishment, are good, and 

 in good order ; and there is an appearance of ac- 

 tivity and attention about the place that would do 

 credit to the agriculturist of any country. 



The whole land has been improved by Mr. 

 Stimson ; it is laid off in fields of about eight 

 acres, enclosed with stones gathered from the land 

 in the lower part of the fence, and a frame of wood 

 on the top of them. There are two rails above 

 the stone, and about twenty miles of this sort of 

 fence. 



The soil is generally light, but Mr. Stimson ma- 

 nures, though perhaps not so much as might here 

 be done with advantage, yet a great deal more than 

 most farmers in this country, and of course raises 

 better crops. His general rotation is, 1. Maize or 

 Indian corn, with patches of potatoes or turnips on 

 the edges of the field; 2. Barley, or sometimes 

 oats ; 3. Wlieat, in which he sows five pounds clo- 

 ver seed, and two quarts timothy per acre. Then 

 he puts the timothy for two years and pastures for 

 one. He breaks up the pasture for wheat, then 

 takes a crops of maize and follows the above rota- 

 tion, manuring either on breaking up or with the 

 maize. Land is less overrun with weeds here than 

 in Britain, and for some time after being cleared, 

 much richer in point of soil. In this view, the ro- 

 tation by which crops of grain are taken consecu- 

 tively may admit of justification to some extent. 

 Yet I cannot but suspect that the return would, on 

 the whole, be greater, if the manure was always 

 applied to the maize or green crop, followed by 

 only one grain crop of wheat, or oats, or barley, 

 with whicli grass seeds are sown. The land would 

 thus constantly be clean, and in good tilth, and the 

 lesser number of grain crops would be compensa- 

 ted by their superior quality. 



Mr. Stimson has reported his produce from 85 

 acres to be what follows, after actual survey and 

 examination; and while he can obtain such a 

 return, he is well entitled to adhere to his own sys- 

 tem. 



Mr. Stimson has gained almost all the agricul- 

 tural premiums in the county ; for having the best 

 managed farm; for having raised 62 bushels of 

 barley on an acre ; for having raised 357 bushels 

 of potatoes on half an acre; and for having raised 

 five tons of timothy hay per acre. 



The field of maize on this farm, when well hoed 



