"Believe, lie icpucu, » ..«* j 



it but 1 know it. There has not been h 

 blade of cheat on my farm before lor thirtj 

 years, and this summer my whwit fields were 

 full of it, and there was none among theryi 

 nor in any other field; how then could II 

 <r e t into my wheat field unless the wheat tur- 

 ned to cheat?" He is as intelligent a prac- 

 tical farmer as we have in Baltimore county. 

 His argument was a poser; yet we ventured 

 to suggest, that the cheat might have been 

 brought to his wheat fields by crows as the 

 very hard winter had drove thousands of 

 these birds to the bam jards and fields in 

 search of food, and they always select the 

 naked spots in the fields : and these spots. 

 where the snow had been blown off in the 

 winter, produced the cheat, this was most 

 likely And this view of the case was the 

 more likely from the fact, that crows in the 

 winter are continually found in the roads 

 scratching among horse dung and picking 

 up any undigested seeds found therein. I hal 

 we are correct in our theory of the introduc- 

 tion of cheat into wheat fields, we by no 

 means assert, but it seems plausible to us. — 

 Cheat is frequently found around the fen- 

 ces in large town gardens, and it is quite 

 common for crows on these fences of a clear 

 morning in winter — we have cheat in our 

 »arden, and there has not been a head of 

 wheat grown there for thirty years if ever.— 

 We have seen cheat in all sorts of crops— 

 n rye fields, corn fields, in clover fields, in 

 meadows, in pastures, and even on the road 

 sides in the wild woods — evidently deposi- 

 ted in the latter places by travellers' horses. 

 If any one entertains a doubt of the clear 

 difference between the plan's of wheat and 

 cheat, let them examine them when they are 

 in bloom and be satisfied ; — bearing in mind, 

 that however plants may change in some 

 unimportant features, there are peculiarities 

 in all of them that never vary ; — those which 

 will enable us to distinguish at a glance 

 whether in flower, in fruit, or barren, an ap- 

 ple from a pear tree, a cherry from a plum ; 

 rye from oats, corn fiom bailey, and wheat 

 from cheat.— Amer. Far. 



From the New-Enpland farmer. 



CULTURE OF HEMP. 



Mr. Fessenoen— Avery considerable in- 

 terest having been felt by individuals, ;c dif- 

 ferent parts of New England, on the sub- 

 ject of growing Hemp, I am induced to offer 

 vou my experience in the business, hoping 

 that if it should not prove useful, it will, at 

 least, be acceptable to your readers. 



The distance from which we live from the 

 seaboard and navigable waters, and the want 

 of a ready cash market for the produce of 

 our tillage lands, led me to consider Hemp 

 as a profitable acquisition, especially upon the 

 intervals bordering upon our rivers. 



The last week in May, 1829, I sowed, in 

 drill, about three acres of poor grass land, 

 broken up only a few days before, and har- 

 rowed. The rows were from two to three 

 feet apart, and three to four quarts of seed 

 sown on an acre. We paid very little atten- 

 tion to it, during its growth, hoed a part of it 

 once to keep down the weeds. 



The crop was small, yielding in all, about 

 25 bushels of seed. I think an acre of good 

 fand, well prepared and hoed, would have 

 produced as muoli as the whole of this, in the 

 manner we conducted it. At the same time, I 



rfem. The seed sown and planted, this year, 

 I procured from Burlington, Vermont at 4 

 lollars a bushel. 



On the 25th of May, 1830, I sowed 12 

 bushels of seed, broadcast, on about four a- 

 cresand three quarters of land. One acre, 

 was land long usetl for pasture, on which, 

 however, a crop of rye had been grown the 

 year before, which had never been manured, 

 to my knowledge. The crop was small, 

 some part of it so short that 1 did not think 

 it worth cutting. The remaining SJ acres 

 was good meadow land though not rich. It 

 had been planted with corn and potatoes the 

 year before and tolerably well manured. It 

 was prepared for the Hemp crop by being 

 ploughed once and harrowed, without ma- 

 nure. It produced what I considered a fair 

 crop, varying in its giowth according to the 

 quantity of the land in the different parts of 

 the field, from three to seven feet high, when 

 fully grown. The produce of this year, I 

 estimated at five tons of stem when dry. — 

 We cut most of it with a common grain cra- 

 dle. We pulled the longest part of the stem 

 and when bound and dry, cut off the roots. 

 After drying and securing it from the dews 

 for two or three weeks, we commenced wa- 

 ter rotting, by sin ing the bundles in a small 

 artificial pond prepared for the purpose, large 

 enough to contain, with convenience a ton 

 and a half, at a time. In September, the 

 weather being warm, twelve days was suffi- 

 cient time for rotting. Late in the season, 1 

 let it remain in the water from fifteen to 

 eighteen days. 



Of this crop I prepared for market i the 

 spring of 1831, 142o lbs. which 1 sold to 

 Mr. Edward Adams, cordage maker at 

 Ciiarlestown, at 209 dollars a ton, amounting 

 to §132,94 



The expense of this I estimate as fol- 

 lows : 

 12 bushels of seed at 1,50 per 



bush. 18,00 



Use of 4$ acres of land, inclu- 

 ding taxes 4,00 19,00 

 Ploughing and sowing, 1,50 per 



7 in 

 acre, 7 >'~ 



Harvesting— 4 days cradling 

 1,00 4,00 



12 days other labor in pulling, 



. binding and securing, inclu- 

 ding board 4s. 12,00 



Rotting, spreading, dry ing.bin- 

 ding and securing, 19 days, 

 including board 4s- 12,67 



Expense of breaking and dress- 

 ing, equal to one third of the 

 crop 44,31 



[Freight to market, at 75 cents 



per 100 lbs. 10,68 



r 123,78 



cur climate, and the soil of our interval 

 lands, are well adapte to the growth of 

 Hemp. The best of our land with good cul- 

 tivation, is necessary, to insure a profitable 

 crop. It is a waste of time and expense, to 

 put it upon poor land. It is an exhausting 

 crop, as much so, as flax, or any of our lar- 

 gest crops. And without some cheap and 

 convenient machinery for breaking and clear- 

 ing, Hemp cannot be made an advantageous 

 crop, where land can be enriched, or kept 

 in good tilth, only, by expensive labor in ma- 

 nuring and tillage. 



Natural meadows or drained swamps 

 would probably produce several successive 

 crops of Hemp without manure. And with 

 the aid of some cheap machinery which 

 might bedevised) it would answer well, as a 

 cash crop, when grain is plenty and cheap, 

 The greatest difficulty "Inch I experienced 

 in preparing mv crop so as to make it equal 

 to Russian Hemp, was, in separating the 

 shive from the fibre. In Russia Hemp, the 

 fibre seems entire, et free from shives,which 

 in mine, with much exertion in hand-dress- 

 ing, a considerable portion of shive remain- 

 ed. I am Sir, respectfully, 



Your obedient servant. 

 JOSEPH SAWYER. 



Pierpont, N. H. Sept. 8 , 1831. 



TO EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS. 



4 Gentleman, residing in the country, prac- 

 A. ticallv engaged in husbandry and having 

 some knowledge of science, literature and 

 politics, wishes to engage with some publish- 

 ers of our Periodical Works, in supplying ar- 

 ticles and papers for the public press. He 

 has been for many years, a pretty liberal con- 

 tributor, but always voluntary and gratui- 

 tous, in which he has probably done his part. 

 He now asks a reasonable compensation for 

 the fruits of his eisure and experience- 

 Reference, N. Goodsell, Editor Genesee Far- 

 mer. 



BARLEY. 



ROSSTTER $• KN OX are paying Cash for 

 any quantity of good Barley, delivered at 

 their seed store. 



I have remaining about one ton 

 of stem, which would pvo- 

 duce, propably, 3 cwt. of 

 dressed Hemp; give one 

 third for breaking and dress- 

 ing and we have two cwt. of 

 hemp. At the above price g20,90 

 deduct freight 1.68 



9,16 



19,22 



STATE OF NEW-YORK. > Albany Sept. 1st, 

 Secretary's Office. ) 1831. 



Sir I hereby give you notice, that at the next 



General Election, to be holden on the first Mon- 

 day in November next, and the two succeeding 

 days, a Senator is to be chosen in the eighth sen- 

 ate district, in the place of Timothy H. Porter, 

 whose term of service will expire on the last day 

 of December next. 



A. C. FLAGG. Secretary of State. 

 To the Sheriff-of the Covnty of Monroe. 



N B Members of Assembly, Sheriff and 

 Clerk, are also to be chosen at the General Elec- 

 tion. ,._ ,,. 



5J= Proprietors of the different public newspa- 

 pers in this eounty, will please to publish this no- 

 tice once in each' week, t.ntil after the Election, 

 and forward their bills to the undersigned. 



J, K. LIVINGSTON, Sheriff. 



Rochester, Sept. -20th, 1831. sept -21 



FRUIT TREES. 



ROSSITER & KNOX would remind those 

 who intend to order Trees from New- York 

 this fall that it is desirable to have their orders 

 handed in as soon as the first of Oct. Prince's, 

 Thorburn's, Floy's and Parmentier's Catalogues 

 can be had at their store. sept 17 



Leaving «28,38 



The small crop raised in 1829, was pre- 



LUSHINGS, Lion skin, and Petershams for 

 overcoats, for sale by ,..,„« 



sept 10 THOS. KEMPSHALL&CO. 



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