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EDITOR'S TABLE. 



To CoRKEspONDF.NTS. — Communications have been re- 

 ceived, since our last, from T. D. J3urr:illj Calvin Sperrj^ 

 11. B. Howland, Anonymous, *, A Milk Maid, Jas. H. 

 Watt--;, A. H., A Farmer, Inquirer, II. C. VV., A Subscriber, 

 A. Wilson, W. S., and A. N. N. 



Acknowledgments. — We are indebted to Messrs. 

 Greely & McEi.iiATH, publishers, New York, for parts 

 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Ewbank".s Hydraulics. To U. ftl. Dew- 

 ey, agenf, Rochester, for the first four numbers of the 

 present volume of the American Phrenological .lournal, 

 and a copy of the Edinburgh Journal, and Magazine of 



Moral and Intellectual Science. To .T. W. Bau.ey, for 



proceedings of Clinton County Agrurultural Society, for 



1847. To Hon. Messrs. E. B. Holmes, J. A. Dix, and 



others, for various Pu!)lic Documents. To D. Appleton 



&, Co., publishers, New York, for copies of the " Cyclo- 

 pedia of Practical Receipts," " The Horse's Foot, how to 



keep it sound," and other works. To H. P. Johnson, 



Esq., Secretary of State Ag. Society, for Transactions of 

 said Society for 1841 and 1842. lo C. M. Saxton, pub- 

 lisher. New York, (by .S. Hamilton, Rochester,) for sev- 

 eral numbers of the American Architect. 



Hints from a Tennessean. — We take the liberty of pub- 

 lisliing the subjoined extracts from the letter of a friend who 

 orders about 411 copies of the Farmer to be sent to Wilson 

 Co., Tenn. The notions of the writer's friends will be new 

 to many of our readers — while his own ideas relative to 

 giving full particulars in reports of large crops are to the 

 point. We will bear the wants of our distant readers in 

 mind, and meet their wishes so far as we can consistentlJ^ 

 We shall feel obliged for the information desired relative to 

 a clover seed machine, and hope some friend will furnish it 

 for publication. But to the extracts. The writer says : — 



" I must say that I was well pleased with the papers re- 

 ceived, and have taken some pains to extend the circulation 

 of the Farmer. The greatest difficulty in obtaining sub- 

 scribers here, is, that people generally think that the process 

 and modes of culture used in the north, will not answer here. 

 Many say that if by reading the Farmer they could learn to 

 raise 15 bbls. of corn, or 15 or 20 bushels of wheat to the 

 acre, they would have it though it cost ever so much. And 

 show them the atnount of 6f5 bushels, and in England of 

 80 or 9) bushels per acre, and they are disgusted — seem to 

 think that any person of half sense would know that such 

 yields were impossible. 



" In reports of large crops I would like to see the mode 

 of culture, kind of soil, quantity of seed, and any thing else 

 that had a tendency to increase the quantity, mentioned. 

 I should be pleased also to see a cut representing a clover 

 seed machine, with a description, showing the cost and ex- 

 ecution of the same, the number of hands required to use it, 

 and the quantity of seed obtained per acre. In short, give 

 us cuts of all labor-sa~ving macliines — and let some of your 

 subscribers here know how to raise 15 or 20 barrels (of ears) 

 of corn to the acre ; they don't seem to have the most dis- 

 tant idea of 30 or 40 bbls. per acre—" that's all a Yankee 

 trick." 



" I am not writing for the press, but thought best to let 

 you know the notions of some of your subscribers here, 

 that you might meet them." 



A Fruitful Tree.— Mr. Samuel C. Corwiv, of Phelps, 

 Ontario county, has an apple tree (Greening) which bore 

 70 bushels the past year. Of the 70 bushels 65 were good 

 merchantable apples. This may be considered " rather 

 steep' by some of our readers, but we are assured the state- 

 ment is correct. 



Ohio Wheat Crop. — The Ohio Cultivator of April 15, 

 says : — 



" The wheat crop in the central portions of the State looks 

 very promising, and is now past ditnger from the winter. 



A friend from Huron County informs us that in Huron, 

 Erie, and other northwestern counties, the appearance of 

 the crop is not so promising — many fields being badly win- 

 ter killed, especially where the land is too wet ^nd imper- 

 fectly drained. 



Letters from Columbiana county state the wheat crop 

 looks well, except on wet lands — but the neglect of drain- 

 age is a great loss to the wheat farmers. 



In Southern Ohio, on rich lands, the wheat crop is so for- 

 ward, that pasturing it off with sheep, will be of advantage." 



The Albany Agricultural Warehouse, as will be 

 seen by reference to our advertising department, has passed 

 into the hands of Mr. Horace L. Emery— Mr. Tucker, of 

 the Cultivator, retiring from the establishment. From his 

 business habits and capacity, (having spent several years 

 in the Ag. Warehouse of Messrs. Ruggles, Notn-sc &. Ma- 

 son, of Boston,) we think Mr. E. will conduct the establish- 

 ment in a proper and creditable manner— alike beneficial to 

 himself and the agricultural public. During a •'call" at 

 his Warehouse, a few days since, we noticed that his stock 

 of well made Farm Implements, Tools, &:c., was complete 

 and "'in order." We commend the establishment to our 

 readers, and particularly to those in its vicinity and the 

 surroiniding country. 



Desirable Farms. — We would r?fer those wishing to 

 purchase a homestead in this vicinity to the advertisement 

 of John Moxon, Esq., in this number. The farms offered 

 for sale by Mr. M. are very desirable for their location, 

 buildings, and other conveniences. [The advertisment of 

 these farms, inserted in our April number, contained an 

 error. As now published we believe it is correct.] 



Durham Cattle. — Persons desirous of purchasing Dur- 

 ham stock are referred to the advertisement of Geo. Vail, 

 Esq., of Troy, in litis number of the Farmer. 



Every Man a Farm. — On motion of Mr. Wentworth, 

 of Illinois, the following resolution was recently adopted 

 by the U. S. House of Representatives : Resolved, That 

 the Committee on Public Lands inquire into the expediency 

 of providing by law, that any landless citizen of the United 

 States, or any other adult landless person who will legally 

 testify that he has taken the necessary steps to become a 

 citizen, and intends to be so soon as possible, may possess, 

 by actual residence and cultivation, so long as he shall 

 continue landless and destitute of the means of purchasing 

 land, a certain quantity of the public lands now remaining 

 unsold and unclaimed under any of the pre-emption laws 

 of the United States, and thus secure every person a farm 

 who is willing to dwell Upon and cultivate it. 



Stock of Flour at Detroit. — The Detroit Advertiser 

 of April 17, says the quantity of flour in store at Detroit will 

 not exceed 75,000 or 80,000 bbls., and that the surplus of 

 the old crop now among the farmers is much less than at 

 the same period last year. A comparatively small amount 

 of Hour is in the interior on the line of railroads to come 

 forward. Last yefjr at this lime there were over 225,000 

 bbls. of flour in store at Detroit. 



The receipts by the Central road from Jan. 1 to April 1, 

 in 1848, and for the same time in 1847, were as follows : 

 1848. 1847. 



January, bbls. 8,692 20,829 



February, " 11,630 27,120 



March, " 16,638 36,619 



Total,. " 36,960 84,618 



Trees.— Now is the time to set out trees— whether fruit, 

 shade, or ornamental. It is the time to show our interest 

 for posterity, by planting trees to shade the heads of our 

 children, if not our own. Every man who owns a rod of 

 land upon any street, should plant trees upon it. The cost 

 is trifling, while the increased value it will give to it will 

 pay a hundred per cent, interest. 



Peas and Beans.— Peas should be sowed tolerably early, 

 even for main crops, or they will be liable to rust or mildew. 

 They will endure cold without injury. We have seen them 

 in flourishing condition when the ground was covered with 

 snow. 



Beans are tender, and much injured by cool weather, even 

 if there is no frost. We had beans as early from planting 

 in May, after the weather became warm, as from those 

 planted a month earlier, and the crop was far better. As 

 the early planted partially failed to vegetate, and those that 

 came up became chilled and stinted from the cold and the 

 pelting of storms. — Boston Cultivator. 



Cranberries on Upland, — Mr. Gardner, of Massachu- 

 setts, according to a statement in the F'armer's Cabinet, 

 raised a full crop of cranberries last year on upland, while 

 those on their native swamps were killed by frost. 



Mr. Burke, the Commissioner of Patents, estimates the 

 corn crop in the United States, for the last year, at 540, 000,- 

 000 bushels -equal, at fifty cents per bushel, to 270,000,- 

 nOO dollars— or about four limes the value of the whole pro- 

 duction of cotton. 



