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AND GARDENER'S JOUJINAL 



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till luirvcst time, this wouiJ be worlli about Ji) 

 dollars. Biit here we must take into considera- 

 tion the loss on the value of the stalks by not be- 

 ing cut. We will say ,50 sli<ii-ks of ten bundles 

 each, at one cent less than if rut at the usual- time 

 is 5 dollars from the 100 bushels. Now the labor 

 of cutting and securing tlie stalks, more than if 

 left uncut, say .$2,-50 to be deducted from $.3,00, 

 leaves $2,50 for the net loss on tli-? stalk, if left 

 to stand till harvest and gathered with the corn. 

 This sum of $2,50 is to he deducted from the 

 $20,00, (the gain in corn) and we have for each 

 year's crop a net gain of §17,50 in favor of not 

 cutting, the amount of which is .$437,50 in twen- 

 ty-five years ; to this we may add each year's in- 

 terest at six per cent, compound, and we bave, if 

 my hasty computation be right, about nine hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars, which the farmer might 

 have been worth more, if he had not cut his stalks, 

 than he now i.s, and that too with the consoling 

 idea of having saved it, and not sponged it from 

 his neighbor, merely by a shaving bargain by 

 which his neighbor is made the poorer. Now if 

 this calculation be right, as it respects one indi- 

 vidual, what would be the amount in the same 

 time to the whole State of New Hampshire ? tell 

 me this, reader, if ye can ? 



And here let me invite my brother farmers to 

 take some Agricultural paper, not that I have any 

 particular partiality for helping an editor more 

 than others, but in so doing, we could help each 

 other; we coulilform companies to whom the pa- 

 per would be afforded at a low rate, as is now ihi: 

 case in my neighborhood ; and besides it would 

 excite an emulation that would serve as a great 

 stiinidus to improvement — indeed there is no tel- 

 ling the value of the information to be obtained 

 from this source. The account of a single exper- 

 iment may be worth mure to him than the expense 

 of twenty such papers. 



Do you my friends properly appreciate the im- 

 portance of the station in society that you fill — 

 and are you not aware that improvements of much 

 consequence remain to be made iti our profession 

 and that each of us ought to strive to perlorm a 

 part in this great work ? 



We find many farmers umvilling to patronize 

 an agricultural publication, even at the little ex- 

 pense of $1,00 l)er year ; stating for excuse, that 

 they know better how to manage their farms than 

 those soft-handed editors can tell them. Hut is 

 this the reason ? Truly I fear this is not the 

 thing in all cases; 1 would not impute wrong mo- 

 tives to farmers in general, but may we not fear 

 the opposition manifested by some, arises from a 

 mere sordid selfishness that ought not to be en- 

 couraged ? Is it not because they think they know 

 a little better how to cultivate their farms profita- 

 bly, than the generality of farmers, and consider 

 it for their interest to have others kept from ob- 

 taining information on the subject? I conceive 

 the greatest utility to be derived from such a pa- 

 per, is to give farmers an opportunity to commu- 

 nicate to their brethren the experiments and itn- 

 provemenls they make, together with such obser- 

 vations and arguments as may be most useful to 

 the public. And have we not many farmers, prac- 

 tical farmers too, in this country, capable to com- 

 municate much useful information to the agricul- 

 tural community ? And why is it that the larm- 

 ers stand back in this aflfair ; if they have made 

 an experiment or discovery that may be of value 

 to others, as well as themselves, why should they 



wis!) to hoard it in their own bosoms ? Cor;ie 

 brother farmers, let us not be too niggardly about 

 these things. 



I sboiild have been very much pleased to have 

 been al the meeting of the Agricultural Association 

 at Keeue, in January last, to attend lh<i discussion 

 on the subject of raising corn — but as I could not 

 attend then, it uoiild be extremely gr.-itifying to 

 see something in your paper from gentlemen who 

 partici|iated in that discussiori or from others who 

 may be dispose<l to communicate. N. WILD. 



ChesUrfidd, Feb. 1837.— Si/A: CaUurist. 



(From the Lynn Record ) 

 WATER ARID ICE. 



L:e in Summer. — If your cellar freezes, put in- 

 to it a large trough, or, which is quite as well, a 

 hogshead tub, and pour in a pailful or two of wa- 

 ter every cold nig-ht until you find the tub full of 

 ice, when yon may proceed with another in the 

 sanje way. This will inodcrate the severity of 

 the cold very sensibly. If these tubs are covered 

 with a blanket or some other good non-conductor 

 of caloric, they will remain frozen nearly through 

 the summer, and will be found very serviceable 

 in a variety of ways. 



Dissolving Snow. — Some persons for the lack 

 of soft water, melt snow for washing clothes. This 

 rn.-iy be necessary sometimes, but it is a considera- 

 ble expen.se of time ami fuel; forsnow in melting 

 absorbs as much caloric as water gives otit in 

 freezing, which is nearly as much as is reipiisite 

 to raise water from the freezing to the boiling 

 point. 



It is commonly said that snow water is softer 

 than rain water, and that we are more likely to 

 get our boots soaked through and our feet wet in 

 the " slosh " of a thaw than in water alone. By 

 the wny, slosh is a Yai>keeism, but we feel under 

 the necessity of using it (with all due defference 

 to the literati) until somebody will be kind enough 

 to introduce a more classical word i i its stead. 

 Po|)ular observatior. is better than ))opular philos- 

 ophy, and such sayings as the above are not gen- 

 erally without some kind of foundation. 



The facts I believe are these. Snow is gener- 

 ally procured in a pm'er state than rain water, 

 which is generally caught from the roofs oC the 

 houses, and is exposed to dust and vegetable mat- 

 ter which are not so observable in water as snow. 

 Again, snow in the act of dissolving has a power 

 which it has not when that action is over. The 

 chemist is familiar with numerous exatHjiles of 

 siibst.ances possessing peculiar powers while in the 

 act of transition from one state to another. It is 

 jiot strai.ge then, that the act of dissolving should 

 communicate to the water for the time being a 

 peculiar power to penetrate. 



Washing Hands. — Many people who have not 

 fairly tried it know not the value of snow for 

 washing the face and hands. It is a genuine cos- 

 metic prepared by Madame Nature without a par- 

 ticle of any poisonous vegetable, and offered to the 

 public "more from b(;nevolence than any pecuni- 

 ary motives," and " p.irticubirly designed for the 

 relief of all who are afflicted with an ugly skin." 

 fry in the next light snow that falls. Fn-st rub 

 the hands with a piece of bar soap till a suftieient 

 quantity adheres, and then taking up a little snow, 

 rub the hands with the snow and soap until the 

 water drops so pure as not to stain the snow where 

 it falls. Then proceed to the face, and if it does 

 not produce the pure blush of health, you may 



rest as-iured there is nothing in the apothecary'B 

 shop nor in the hands of Leader Dam himself that 

 will do it. Anglic. 



Raha AVl 



A bird of very singular appear- 

 ance, belonging to the duck family, was a few 

 days since [licked up at Stnith's Point, Northwest- 

 ern extremity of t. lis Island, and brought to town. 

 It is somewhat smaller in size than the ordinary 

 eider duck, but of most beautiful form and plum- 

 age. Its prevailing color is a very dark purple, 

 deepening itito black ; but the feathers upon the 

 body beneath the folding of the wing.s, are of it 

 reddish brown. — Upon the base of the neck, near 

 the wings, on each side, is a pure white semicir- 

 cle, and the head and upper part of the neck are 

 variegated with white and brown spots. The feet 

 and bill are black. We know not by what name 

 our ornithologists have christened the stranger. 



Another rare fowl made its appearance in our 

 vicinity a week or two since, awd was shot within 

 a mile of the town — proving to be a large gray 

 eagle, whose wings expanded to the extent of si.x 

 feet ten inches, from tip to tip, and whose talons 

 seemed strong enough to carry off the fattest 

 wether upon our plains — no hard job either. — 

 .Yuntucket Inq, 



IstraovEMENTS i.v Athe.\s. — llailroad.s, steam- 

 boats and banks have carried the conquests of our 

 utilitarian age into the bosoiii of this classic land 

 of the inonumentaf arts. A part of the marsh of 

 the Pireaus is being filled up, and several exhu- 

 mated tombs have been placed in the museum of 

 the temple of Theseus. Streets are being laid 

 out ; and shortly we shall probably hear of a man- 

 ufactory for locomotives, within the precincts of 

 the Parthenon, and a range of cotton factories up- 

 on the side, of Motmt Fynettus. 



The SkiSwhegan (Me.) Sentinel, boasts of a far- 

 mer in Penobscot Co. having raised 88 bushels 

 and 3 pecks of wheat on two acres 142 rods of 

 ground, v"hich has been beaten "all hollow " by 

 Capt. Amasa Bowles of Lisbon, (Sugar Hill) N. 

 II. who has raised lije past season one hundfeil 

 and ten bushels on three acres of stony up land, 

 being almost thirty-seven bushels per acre on an 

 average. Also in the same neighborhood, Mr 

 Ashael Garnsay rai.seil a field of oats which yield- 

 ed more than 80 Ini.'^bels to the acre, or 76 b^jsli- 

 els on an average of 5 acres together without hav- 

 ing been manured for the last seven ye^rs. — Ha- 

 verill Rep. 



Mr Sheldon of Deerfield, has five fine cattle, 

 ready for slaughter, of the following weight : 

 1 pair, - - ' 4252 



1 do. - - - » 4002 



1 Ox, - - ' 1995 



The Worcester Palladium says it is cheaper to 

 fatten hogs with oats, if they are cut when just 

 ripe, as two crops may be procm'ed, and they are 

 as good as corn. 



The Great Warren and Charlestown Bridgo 

 cause has at last been finally decided in the Su- 

 preme Court of the United States. The decision 

 is in favor of the free bridge. 



Wood. — Green oak wood sells at the wood 

 wharves of Philadelphia at six dollars per cord — 

 dry at seven. 



