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John Bailey says that the grey or speckled clorking is the best 

 fowl for the table. 



ANCIENT AUTHORITY. 



Mr. Wainwright of Dutchess County, New- York, has an early 

 agricultural work, the English Improver Imjn'oved or the Surveyor 

 of Husbandry Surveyed. Discovering the improvableness of all 

 lands, some to be under a five or six fould, double and treble. 

 Yea ! many under a tenn fould, and some under a twenty fould 

 improvement. Dedicated to Oliver Cromwell, Protector. Its 

 title headed by the term " Vive la Repubhck.'^ By Walter 

 Blythe, a Lever of Ingenuity. All the above are inclosed in a 

 border coarsely engraved on copper, representing the days when 

 swords shall be beaten into 'pruning hooks., etc. 



A FARMER'S WIFE. 



One woman is worth two men on a farm. She makes $30 per 

 annum from one cow, and can manage twelve, add the hog and 

 garden and she makes all the money to support the lamily. 

 Poultry too belongs to her. She must, however, always be per- 

 fectly supplie I witli good dry fuel in plenty, and with pure and 

 plenty soft water. 



NUMBER OF SEEDS IN A POUND. 



Strange that this is neglected. Messrs Kendle of Plymouth, 

 answers it; of 



Wheat, ; 10,500 



Barley, 1 ,540 



Oats, 20,000 



Rye, 23,000 



Canary grass, 54,000 



Buckwheat, 25,000 



Swedes turnip, 1 55.000 



Cornish do 239,000 



Orange Jelly, 233,000 



Cabiiage, Scotch drumhead, 128,000 



do Savoy do 117,0. ;0 



Clover, red, 249,000 



do white, G86,4n0 



Rye grass, (perennial) 314.0')0 



do Italian, 272,00!; 



Sweet vernal grass, 923,2 )0 



