xNEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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pository are " An Essay on the advantages of 

 manuring wilh Green Crops — by S. W. Pomo- 

 roy, Esq. first Vice President of the Society ,"" 

 which we have republished, (p. 9,) and an arti- 

 cle on " The felling of Trees for Timber," by 

 Hon. Timothy Pickering, which we have also 

 republished, (p. 17.) 



05= We have now transplanted into (he JVcic 

 England Fanner, either in substance, or at 

 length, every article in the last mimber of tiie 

 Massachusetts Agricultural Repository, whose 

 more general diffusion we thought might be 

 useful to that numerous and respectable class 

 whose principal occupation is cultivating the 

 earth. In doing this we may, perhaps, incur the 

 censure of some of our readers, who were pre- 

 viously in possession of the work, which has 

 been the subject of our notices and extracts. 

 But we believe that more than four tifthsof our 

 subscribers do not take the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Repository, and many of them would, 

 probably, never have seen much of the useful 

 matter first published in that valuable work, 

 had it not been presented to them through the 

 medium of our paper. We are moreover con- 

 fident that the liberal use which we have made 

 ol'the Repository will be so far from giving ot- 

 fciice to its conductors, that they will approve 

 of our proceeding, as comporting with their 

 own patriotic views and intentions. Dr. A. Hun- 

 tor, the author and compiler of several volumes 

 of valuable Essays on Agriculture, invited Ei/i- 

 h : rs nj' A~c-^'spapers to maks extracts or republish 

 .. 'lo/e articles from his essays, in order that the 

 public might be the more extensively benefitted 

 liy his labors. Utility rather than originality is 

 our object, and we prefer copying a valuable 

 irlicle from another publication, to publishing 

 original matter, written expressly for the New 

 r.ngland Farmer, which may have less merit 

 : ban the article thus copied. We mean, how- 

 ever, always to give credit, to the sources or 

 authors from whom we derive our second-band 

 articles ; and if some editors of newspapers (for 

 ^vhom we hope this hint will suffice.) would 

 leal as fairly by us, they would confer an obli- 

 gr.tion. If certain jackdaws will not be con- 

 sented Avith their own feathers, we will not 

 promise not to divest them of their stolen plu- 

 .■nngc. We shall handle them with as little 

 f remony as a hawk would a robin. 



a laudable spirit of emulation. If. under a bet- 

 tr course of husbandry, «'c could raise from 

 50 acres as much inoduce as we now do, un- 

 der the ])resent system, from 150 acres, lands 

 would become more valuable and the benefit 

 generally would be incalculable. 1 understand 

 Messrs. Pratts feel confident, from the result 

 of this experiment, that they can, in a good sea- 

 son, raise 200 bushels to the acre, and that they 

 hope to do it next year. 



A P^ARMER OF ONEIDA. 

 STATEMENT. 

 Dr. Interest on value of three acres, at 



20 dollars per acre jjSl 20 



Rlanure, gl5 per acre 45 00 



Ploughing and dragging three times IG 50 

 Seed 75 



Planting 7 50 



Hoeing 10 50 



Gathering 15 50 



Topping stalks 6 00 



Cr. 



Corn from 1 ac. 172 1-4 bush, 

 do. do. 161 



do. do. 161 



glOo 95 



494 1-4 



Deduct 10 per 

 ct. tor shrink- 

 age 



49 



Bushels 445 1-4 at 37 1-2 



cts. per bush. ^1*^^ ^^ 



2355 bundles stalks at 1 ct. each 23 55 



Offered for but-ends and husks 10 00 



Deduct 



Net profit from three acres 

 Or ^31 55 per acre. 



$200 61 

 105 95 



g94 6G 



To the Editor of the Utica Gazette. 

 Sen — A friend has furnished me with the fol- 

 lowing account of a very extraordinary crop of 

 corn raised on three acres of land, by Messieurs 

 .T. and M. Pratt, of Easton, Madison county, for 

 which they received a premium from the Agri- 

 cultural Society. The character of these gen- 

 tlemen, as well as the exertions of a respectable 

 committee to ascertain the truth, preclude all 

 doubt of the correctness of the statement. The 

 effect is unexampled in this county, and 1 hope it 

 will not fail of convincing many of our farmers 

 that they have mistaken the true source of ag- 

 licultural profit, and that it may excite in thein 



From the Farmer's Weekly McFscnger. 

 It appears by experiments made in Pennsyl- 

 vania, that potatoes and corn given in a raw 

 state are interior to the same quantity when 

 ground, boiled and steamed, forty-five per cent, 

 i. e. if a hog weighs three hundred, and it cost 

 half to fat him with ground corn, and he is sold 

 for four cents, in the one case it will cost six 

 dollars to fat him. and in the other case it will 

 cost eight dollars and seventy cents. If he that 

 sells his pork, when fatted on the best terms, 

 only lives by if, the man who feeds on whole 

 grain must shortly expect the officer after him. 

 It is believed that there is more diffei'ence than 

 even the above. 



A discovery has been recently made, which 

 prom'ses the most important consequences in a 

 commercial and agricultural point of view. — 

 About two years ago, 200 acres of land, near 

 Flint, in Wales, were planted with the common 

 holyhock or rose mallow, with the view of con- 

 verting it into hemp or flax. We have been 

 informed, that, in the process of manufacture, 

 it was discovered that this plant yields a beau- 

 tiful blue dye, equal in beauty and permanence 

 to the best indigo. We relate the circumstance 

 precisely as we have heard it from the most 

 respectable quarter, without pledging ourselves 

 to the fact. — Liverpool Kaleidoscope. 



From the American Centinel. 

 TO J\IY niiOTHER FARMERS. 



I am sorry that there is so much need of the 

 admonitions I am about to give. Depend on it 

 you do not " ti'or/r it right,'''' or } ou would make 

 your farms and stocks twice as profitable as 

 they now are. Many of you farm too inuch. 

 You would find it much more profitable to fiirm 

 twenty acres well than forty by halves. The 

 last season, I made ground ])roducc at the rate 

 of one hundred bushels of Indian corn to the 

 acre. Is not this much better than a common 

 crop of 30 or 40 bushels? You will most cer- 

 tainly say it is, ami with the same breath ask 

 how I managed to make it produce so plenti- 

 fully ? My ground being much infested with 

 groimd mice, or moles, and also overrun with 

 grubs and other vermin, 1 put on, early in the 

 month of March, about seven bushels of salt to 

 the acre, which thoroughly destroys all kinds 

 of vermin, being an excellent manure ; early in 

 April, I gave it a good coat of stable manure, 

 and ploughed and worked the ground over and 

 over, until it became completely mellow ; I 

 then had every corn hole filled with hog ma 

 uurc, and after dropping my corn, which had 

 been previously soaked in warm water, I scat- 

 tered a pint of lime over every hill, and then 

 covered the whole with a little mellow earth. 

 In about one week the corn began to come up 

 plentifully, after which I nursed it well with 

 the plough and hoe every other week for eight 

 weeks, at which time it was as high as my head, 

 and not a spire of it was destroyed either by the 

 frost, grub or birds. My other things I nursed 

 equally as well, and 1 have been amply paid 

 for all my extra care and trouble, as 1 raised 

 more than twice as much per acre as any of my 

 neighbors, and did it in much less lime — 1 mean 

 I got all my harvesting done two or three weeks 

 before many others. This is accomplished in a 

 great measure by redeeming time ; rising be- 

 tween 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning ; then if 

 the day be very suKry and hot, 1 lie by iVom 12 

 to 3, and then 1 feel refreshed and able to go 

 to work until quite dark — this 1 call ' ivorking 

 it right.'' Whereas, should I lay in bed until 

 the sun be up and shuine me, haunt the taverns 

 at night, drink too much whiskey, but half ma- 

 nure, half plough, half plant, half nurse, half 

 harvest, and do every thing else by halves, I 

 surely should not ' li.-ork it right,'' nor get half 

 a crop. 



I shall now conclude, by giving you, for fur- 

 ther consideration, a few excellent observations 

 from a wiser head, perhaps, than my own, which 

 I shall endeavour to improve for myself, and 

 hope every brother former will do so likewise, 

 viz ; — 



I often say to myself, what a pity it is our 

 farmers do not work it right. When I see a man 

 turn his cattle into the road to run at large, and 

 waste their dung, on a winter's day, I say this 

 man docs not -jsork it right. Ten loads of good 

 manure, at least, is lost in a season, by this slov- 

 enly practice — and all for what? For nothing 

 indeed but to ruin his farm. 



So, v/hen 1 see cattle late in the fall, or early 

 in the spring, in a meadow or mowing field, 

 poaching the soil, and breaking the grass roots, 

 1 say to myself, this man does not work it right. 



So when 1 see a barn yard, with a drain to 

 it, I say the owner does not work it right, for 

 how easy is it to make a yard hollow, or lo\«£st 



