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S). I have not practised irrigation. 



10. I put on my Knglisli mowing as much horse 

 maniirc as I can obtain from my stables; how n;uch 

 to tiie acre I cannot say ; but I jiut it on wliere I 

 tliink it most nct'dcd. 



11. I mowed about ton acres of fresh meadow 

 the present year, and obtained si.x tons of hay of 

 rather a poor quality ; \lso eleven acres of biack- 

 "lass nio.idow, and o!)tained about fifteen tons of 

 good hay. 



\'2. 1 have not redeemed any meadow land. 



\'-i. I planted four acres of corn this year. I 

 ploughed the land in the fall and spread part of the 

 Dianure ; ploughed it again in the sprmg and har- 

 roived it: my seed was the common yellow corn. I 

 put of compost manure about ten loads to the acre ; 

 a part of it in the liill. I had thirty bushels on an 

 acre, and also about twenty cartloads of pumpkins 

 on the same ground. 



14. I planted one acre of potatoes : I planted in 

 the hill: put on fifteen loads of manure and raised 

 about a hundred and fifty bushels of long red pota- 

 toes and chenangos ; also thirty bushels of turnips 

 on the same ground. 



15. I cultivated also half an acre of beans, pease, 

 squashes, cabbages, beets, carrots and French tur- 

 nips, for the use of my family. 



](j. I sowed six acres of grain. The land was 

 ploughed in the fall and spring and rolled: sowed 

 one bushel of rye, or five pecks of wheat, or three 

 bushels of oats to the acre. I cultivated a bald 

 wheat in a loamy soil with the use of lime. 



17. I have stocked down to grass the last year 

 six acres: two in the full and four in the spring. 

 I am accustomed to sow half a bushel of herds grass, 

 a bushel of red-top and five pounds of clover on an 

 acre. It was sowed with grain. 



18. For the purpose of making manure I get 

 mud, loam, leaves and stuff out of the woods, and 

 some straw to litter. 



19. My stock consists of two o.xen, four cows, 

 nine young cattle, two horses and ten sheep. Of 

 my barns, one is thirty by fijrty feet, the other thirty 

 feet square. I have no cellar under them. — My 

 manure is not covered. 



20. My cows are of native stock. 



21. I allow my calves to suck tlie cows until 

 they arc about three months old. 



22. I make about two hundred and fifty pounds 

 of butter and four hundred pounds of cheese: not 

 all of new milk but all good. 



23. I have nine swine. I keep three over win- 

 ter and make a thousand weight of pork. They are 

 of the common breed. 



24. I feed my hogs on whey and meal and ap- 

 ples in the summer, and fatten tliera on potatoes 

 and pumpkins boiled, an«l meal and corn. 



25. Of compost manure I obtain twenty loads, 

 made of trash and ditch sods from the meadow and 

 some green stuff" mowed, and some straw and some 

 loam. 



2(i. The labor of my farm is performed by my- 

 •self, one man and two boys. I generally pay $12 

 per month the year round. 



27. I have 200 apple trees, some grafted and 

 some natural frui'. 



28. I have fifty peach, plum, pear and quince 

 trees. 



29; I have never been troubled cither with cank- 

 er worms or borers. 



30. I have not drank a glass of spirit for forty 

 years, and have not used any for my laborers for 



several years. I think it is of no use: they c 

 do more without it than with it. 



ICIIABOD R. JACOBS. 

 ScUuate,.\'oL: 29, 1839. 



[The Committee of the Society awarded Mr J 

 cobs a gratuity of S.'iO.l 



Kur thf New Easland Farmer. 



EVERY THING 1\ ITS PLACE. 

 But this cannot be practised unless a place be 

 provided for every thing. When a man takes pos- 

 session of a particulai premises, he 'should (.lake a 

 general and then a particular survey of the various 

 implements which are on hand and the convenien- 

 ces afforded for the disposal of them. This done, 

 he should determine upon the place which each ar- 

 ticle shall occupy ; and if there are many persons 

 in the family, some designation should be made, so 

 that no mistake be made about it. When this is 

 done, then he should himself be very particular not 

 to transgress his own arrangement, and that others 

 shall not do it. The axes, the shovels, the iron bar, 

 hoes, rakes, baskets, wheelbarrow, each, every one, 

 and all, should have its hook, nail, location, and 

 when not in use, kept there. It may sometimes be 

 thought unnecessary to be so particular. It may 

 be supposed just as well to leave them where you 

 expect to use them next ; but before this next lime 

 comes, you may alter your plan, or some other of 

 the family may have occasion for thi'm and you at 

 the moment be out of the way ; or you may have 

 forgotten; then comes the inquiry, the hunt, the 

 general wonder where the article can be; tilen fol- 

 low mutual suspicions that each other has been in 

 the fault ; next, recrmiinalion ; then evil surmises 

 that some neiglibor has without leave borrowed it, 

 ami neglected or forgotten to return it ; and in the 

 end, beside all the excitement, recrimination and 

 evil surmising, twice the time and labor is lost in 

 searching that would have been required to put the 

 article in its place at first. I have presented no 

 overdrawn representation here : all and more than 

 all of the evils above numbered, I have known many 

 times to have grown substantially out of what many 

 would think hardly worth a notice. A hoe or some 

 other utensil had been left where it was last used 

 instead of being put in its proper place, and a whole 

 family set in confusion thereby. How serious then 

 must be the inconveniences, how many the excite- 

 ments in those families where nothing has a place, 

 or where if things have their places, the members 

 ijre negligent about putting them there. B. 



CUCUMBERS AND MELONS. 

 Among the first and greatest difficulties in rais- 

 ing cucumber and other vines of a similar nature, 

 is their liability to be destroyed by a worm under 

 ground or the yellow fly above the ground, soon af- 

 ter they come up. J could not well count up the 

 number and varieties of the preventives which I 

 have used to guard against thi; evil, and sometimes 

 wiih apparent success; but as a constant and efl\)c- 

 tual security they have all failed : neither elder 

 blossoms, lime, soot, ashes, pepper, mustard, alkalies, 

 nor acids have done the work effectually and last- 

 ingly. My method now is, to -plant so many, say 

 a hundred or more in a wide hill — no matter if the 

 whole ground devoted for the vines to run upon be 

 sowed entirely over with them. In this way there 

 will be sufficient for the flics, and enough escape 



uninjured. This I believe upon the whole is the 

 safest and least troublesome method. The only 

 plausible objection that presents itself to this course 

 is, that in clioico varieties great quantities of seed 

 cannot be aflijrded ; but the objection may be obvia- 

 ted by phintinf; the choice si^ods in the centre of 

 the hill, and putting up such marks as certainly to 

 designate them, and then planting common seed 

 around them. Let those who have been disappoint- 

 ed in their former preventives, try tliis. 1 think 

 they will upon trial approve it. If they do not, 

 and can find abetter, I hope they will communicate 

 their discovery, as I do this, to the public, for the 

 conunon good. 



If any upon reading this, shall reject it upon the 

 principle that it is '■book' gardening, such will per- 

 mit me to say that I have connnunicated the same 

 fact to many of my neighbors and friends, by word 

 of mouth, and it has worked well with them, and I 

 cannot believe that ink and paper will mar its ope- 

 ration. B. 



For the N. E. Farmer. 



USEFUL HINTS. 



On many farms there is mowing land which pro- 

 duces a good crop of after grass, or second crop, 

 which is very good for milch cows. It is the prac- 

 tice of most farmers to turn their cows on to such 

 land in the morning, when there is a great white- 

 frost, apparently not thinking that it is very detri- 

 mental to the grass. 



If any one will drive cattle or a team on to a 

 good growth of such grass, when the frost is on, 

 and will take a view of the same grass in the after- 

 noon, he will find it killed — looking as if fire had 

 been on it. 



£esi4« the injury to the grass, the cattle will not 

 eat until the frost is off, but will keep travelling, to 

 the great injury of the grass. Cattle ought not to 

 be turned out of the yard and be permitted to go on 

 to such grass till the frost is off. My cattle are 

 never allowed to go on to a large crop of feed when 

 the frost is on, but are kept confined in the yard 

 until the frost is off. 



Whenever cattle are put from a short pasture to 

 a large growth of grass, they should not be allowed 

 to remain on it at any one time, longer than suita- 

 bly to fill themselves : this for two reasons; — one 

 is, they will eat more than does them good, and 

 perhaps injure them ; the other is, they travel about 

 or lie down; either of which is injurious to the 

 grass. A FARMER. 



MarcWiQ, 18-I0. 



Rotation of Crops i?i Gardening. — A rotation of 

 crops should be observed in garden as well as field 

 culture. As a general rule, tap-rooted crops should 

 succeed those of spreading roots; those with large 

 and luxuriant leaves should succeed those of less 

 size ; those requiring much tillage should be suc- 

 ceeded by those needing but little culture. Defi- 

 ciency in practical and scientific information rela- 

 tive to the proper succession of crops, renders it 

 advisable to sow red clover on alternate portions of 

 the garden, even if it is ploughed or spaded in the 

 same season. The sowing may be at the last hoe- 

 ing of some crops. — Rural Library. 



sale 



the Baltimore 



New potatoes were for 

 market three weeks since. . 



Strawberries at N. Orleans sell at 45. a pint. 



