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chilled, which prevents their flying and escaping as 

 freely as when the sun has warmed them. Sandy 

 land, having no crust to shelter these pests, is gen- 

 erally exempt from their depredations. 



We are acquainted with the system of rotation of 

 crops, and it has been practised among our farmers 

 for years; but cucumbers, as well as some other 

 vegetables, do not seem to require it. I have a 

 piece of about half an acre, on which I have culti- 

 vated them for the last ten successive years, plough- 

 ing in the usual quantity of street-manure every 

 second year, and they have flourished as well as on 

 the adjoining ground, which has been similarly ma- 

 nured, and on which the crops have been changed. 



The following is the number o'f hills planted, their 

 produce, and the amount of sales for the last four 

 years, viz. : 



fear. Hills planted. Cucumber, sold. Amouut received. 



1835 . . 6000 . . 104,965 . $823 84 



1836 . . 6600 . . 99,670 . . 820 96 

 137 . . 7370 . . 130,735 . 532 00 

 1838 . . 7110 . . 118,600 . . 734 874 



During each of these years large quantities of 

 cullings, and, when unsaleable, good cucumbers, 

 were fed to the hogs and cattle, of which no ac- 

 count was kept. TUNIS G. BJSRGEN. 



Narrows, L. I , October > 1838. 



THE ^ICUMSCRIBED FARMER. 



By this we mean such as possess a limited capi 

 tal, and a limited desire for improvement, except in 

 their own way ; such as decline taking an agricul- 

 tural paper, because it teaches nothing, they say, 

 that is adapted to their practice or that is graduated 

 to their scale ; because, in fact, it is not oral, or de- 

 livered by word of mouth, but has been subjected to 

 the operation of the printing-press. 



Let us ask these gentlemen, if they were disposed 

 to have their son become a first-rate farmer, wheth- 



