THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. [Jury 18, 
494 
Potatoes I have omitted, as the prices, as before stated, FOROR of flour in favour of No. 3 upon egual weights of 
^ val. 
and his Wheat now was, he belived, among the finest in 
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i the country. When told that the farmers of this | would be merely nominal. Tae eron eh Me Hannan. explains tices MOn IE [ 
| country could not compete with those of foreign coun- Ee et rea " jr a "9 5 ing results is, that as the sugar in the green plant becomes 
tries, his answer had been ‘plough deep ; ciear out i Aag (E Bus B g A Ag | changed into the starch o Wheat, so if permitted to re- 
| i (dis d oduce will be as fine and| Year. $8 ae BE ë g E @& | main till fully ripe another change will take place, the starch 
| Roar weeds, ant your, pr T 5 E FEES oo ü & 3 89 | becoming gradually converted into woody fibre ; for it is a well- 
| abundant as that of any country in the world’ But E a FQ aJe nown chemical fact, that sugar, starch, and fibre, are com- 
| fhere was a disinelination amongst many farmers to ———|——— | posed’ of the dam too eal gurani A in the same 
4 t id. 4 v dis. ets.|dls. cts.|dls, ets.| ets. | ets. | cts. ets, | proportions, and are one and the same substance in various 
i im rove.» they pent Pu RADO ye deste Ee 183 10 50| 4 00 Hn 10 5 | 374 6 forms—in some such way as water, ice, and snow are different 
i fathex did well this way, and I shall do the same. But) 155, |10 50| 5 00] s. 124 | 6 | 97» | 6 | forms of one combination of oxygen and hy: 
i they must go on improving now, if they would fener 1834} 10-25 | 5 00) oes ee MELAR ol M EA honge id NOON Gir takes plage in nai 
qu - : i i on improving, he, for 1835 | 11 50 6 00; 7 00 50 6 vegetables, and it is by taking it into account that we can ex- 
l wh ki pas M nd d Sacs DAL n £5 a} 1836 |12 50| 8 00} 9 00} 18 8 50 6 plain the curious fact shown in the Tables that the ripe Wheat 
| bui ee sg ^ A ^| 4837 |13 50| 6 0010 00| 15 | 7L | 623] 6 |contains 50 per cent. more “flinty particles”—“ pollard,” or 
| few years, instead of being asnow, an importing country, 1538 | 14 00| 8 00] 10 50) 18 | 8 62$ | 6 | *sharps,"—than the “raw cut grain." Hence it is no wonder 
i we should be an exporting one.” 1829 |14 00| 4 50| 7 50| 15 | 5 | 624| 6. | that the flour of the ripe should be less free in the grain. 
| " 1840 12 00; 4 50 6 00| 125 | 5j 56 6 Mr. Hannam also claims a ** better quality of flour,” for the 
| Mode of Using Flux-seed for Feeding Cattle, &c.— | 1841 |11 00} 8 50| 5 50 Hh 6 2 &.. zaw cut grain, ond quotes the Salle OF Professor Johnston, 
E ; i i 1842 |10 50 3 00 4 00 5 aT. 6 o whom samples were sent, from which it appears (see ** Lec- 
| She seed given by ioci ie tao strong and oily. i bevery isis |19 o| 3 73 | 4 50| 10 Hi 374 | 6 — | tures,” p. 734) that the f 
wholesome food; and, besides this, the mueilaginous | 1844 | To oo| 3 50| 4 50| 114} 4$ | 374| 6 Raw Wheat contained 9:9 per cent, of gluten. i 
matter prevents the seed from being bruised by the| 1845 f10 00| .. 50| 14 | 54 | 87h) 7 Ripe do. o. 9:6 do. do. 
3j E ae l'he other advantages claimed for cutting early, are a better 
animal’s teeth, or dissolved by the gastrie juice. It is 
much better to take the bolls to a mill, where there are 
edge stones, without thrashing out the seed, and to have Mens 
mentioned. 
| them ground under the stones, set very close, or have RAS WERT TULERIT cho reh tens th 
] die: 5a n REA TIT owing to there being more soluble matter in the fresh than the | 
| the seed cracked in an oat bruiser; or, the small y, | Oxen in | Tarooyr-fTwo year] Dairy | wemers | dry straw. In tact, the additional weight of straw is nearly al 
| farmer, when no other means are within his reach, may yoke: if i E an additional weight of nutritive matter, starch, sugar, &€» 
use a metal pot, bedded in clay, and pound the bolls dis. dis. d. nr “dis. cts, | Which would when dead ripe have become fibre ; and therefore 
| in it, with a hard wood pestle, made to fit the bottom 70 24 14 27 2 95 CES consequence to the SES E. b ec SET dodo 
* z " 5 98 35 9 5 rticle 004 or as a manure. ) Hà e pace to allut 
of the pot.* About. dozen of strokes are sufficient to a 23 2 ee 2 45 | to the other indirect advantages which Mr. Hannam claims for 
make the bolls into a fine meal. The chaff and seed, 105 32 24 35 2 00 | carly reaping Wheat, nor can we follow his arguments or facts 
| mixed together, afford most excellent nourishing food. 85 28 20 25 1 75 |5 eG ene ae on the ponte apaa d E: HORE 
| F E " Coa 6 ever, we have been able to give our readers an idea of the cast 
| It may be given steamed or boiled ; but it is best to w A M 20 1 32 | asitnow stands, or to draw their attention to the further in- 
| steep the mixture from 12 to 24 hours in cold water, 58 u 9 13 1 og | vestigation of the subject, we shall have done them good 
and then mix it up with lukewarm water, to the con- 60 16 10 14 1 95 | service. n a : f 
sistence of a gruel. It will have formed a rich, finely- 65 17 12 17 2 12% In conclusion, we give Mr, Hannam's estimate, based on i 
ilissplvod jelly, easily digested, and of the most whole- 70 20 14 18 1 35 experiments of the money value of an acre of the same Wheat 
some and nutritive quality, excellent to be given to cows 
for produeing plenty of milk and butter, for horses, for 
young cattle, or for pigs; a pint of linseed, and half-a- 
bushel of the chaff, may be given at a feed} A farmer 
who has once experienced the advantages of saving the 
seed bolls of his Flax crop, will never neglect it again, 
as they can be turned to much advantage in one way 
or other,—5th Report, Flax Society. 
Average Prices of Agricultural Produce in State of 
New York, U. S.—In giving the Tables of prices asked 
for in your sixth question I have thought it not expedient 
to rely simply on farm books. These, though correct 
as far as they go, could not indicate average prices. 
I have, therefore, resorted to the books of extensive 
dealers in the several products, giving in all cases the 
In the above Table each animal is priced separately, 
with the exception of oxen in yoke, where the price of 
a pair or yoke is given. I have not included wool in 
any of the above products, as you make it a separate 
subject of inquiry in your 27th interrogatory.—Reply 
of Colonel H. S. Randall to a Treasury Circular. 
Published in the “ Cortland Democrat? 
Calendar of Operations. 
JULY 
We shall devote a paragraph here to the detail of a few 
experiments chiefly by Mr. Hannam, of North Deighton, near 
erby, whose results exhibit the policy of cutting Wheat 
before it is dead ripe. It will be remembered that the object 
of the farmer generally is to supply the miller, not the seeds- 
man; an e may reasonably depart from the course in- 
dicated by nature, whose object being to prepare the grain as 
cut raw and ripe. 
No. III, Cut a fortnight before ripe . . £14 
a a e AE okie cou on! | 
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Notices to Corre ipondenits, 
A»oPLEXY—Jnquirer—The disease you speak of is apoplexy. 
The blood-vessels being in a full state, and the blood suddenly 
determined to one 
Box-rEEDING— /nquirer— We prefer it; our cattle did better on 
that plan last winter than when fed in stalls. e compound 
is profitable to consume; more so than oilcake at 8%. or 9 
on. The last price we paid for Linseed was 64s, per quar- 
ter; we do not know what its price in Bristol is now. About 
erecting boxes, see page 110, col. c, “Sundries.” We do not 
sink the floor, 
Draws—Lmbryo—The water does get into these pipes. There 
is no doubt of that. The mode in which it enters the tube is, 
seed, is best effected by permitting it thoroughly to ripen before 
it sheds itself, There is thus nothing which can at the outset 
be objected to the course which these experiments indicate as 
the best to follow—there is no à priori ground on which any 
fears that they are inaccurate can rest, 
Mr. Hannam's first experiment was executed in 1840, Three 
samples were cut, viz, respectively :— 
0. toe ger 
average prices paid to the producer. For the following 
Table of prices of the cereal grains, pulse, &c., I am 
indebted to Mr. Abraham Mudge, a miller of standing 
in this place, (30 miles south of the Erie canal. 
FARM 
D n ~~] Indian Buck- . Aug. 4, 1840 done with a heavy sickle in one han d a wooden hook in 
n "Year. | Wheat.| Corn. | Barley.) Oats. | wheat.| Peas. . Raw » . Y . Aug. 18 e other, The corn is hewed down and gathered into 
[ I i ARR aii) ODE sheaves by the same man, 
hi | dls. cts.|dls. cts.| cts. cts. | cts. Cts. These were thrashed and carried to market, when the fol- | Lime: ‘ugolk—Y our land is poor from over-croppiug. Then 
i 1832 1 12] 0 56} .65 35 | 44 60 lowing prices were put upon them :— do not lime it—that would but the more effectually exhaust 
p: 1833 i 12 0 56 65 38 44 62 No; I. . . . " + 61s. per quarter its fertility, nd itis not 1 i to sow oil-cak give 
n 1834 | E} 0 62 60 37 | 40 62 II. . * R £ . 648, ^ it to your stock, and use their manure on the land, "Or 
"n 1835 1 25| 0.69 75 98 | 56 15 I. Syd. ais ete eau or Gk apply guano : sow 3 cwt, of Peruvian guano broadcast in wet 
D 1 38] 0 87 15 40 | 50 75 In 1841, a more extensive experiment was instituted ; 5 sam- | weather, 
n 1837 2 00| 1 00| 75 411762: 80 ples of half-a-rood each were cut, viz,— Roorinc—TZ' Yonge— We beg[to state more expressly than we 
i 1838 1 60} 0 88; 70 42 50 75 No. I. Very green x X » . Aug. 12 did last week, that we haye no personal knowledge of the 
Ji 1839 1 50| 0 80| 62 38 50 62 II. Green D . . . . Ang. 19 relative merits of Ms and C.'s nufactures; for we have H 
i 1840 1 25} 0 62} 50 30 38 50 Ill, Raw . " A 2 " . Aug. 26 had no experience of the efficiency of the latter. Both we | 
i} 141 | 1 7| 0 62| 50 28 38 50. TY. i C E PO eae ese. TER know to be highly spoken of by those who have tried theme 
iM 1842 1 6| 0 60 45 5 38 50° wistpeuws nel T, I T Sept, d Make further inquiry before you choose for yourself, 
il 1843 0 88 0 44 40 | 320 31 40 These samples were thrashed, and the samples were as | SMALL Farm—Capstick—The meeting at Newcastle has inter- 
M 1844 | 0 85| 0 44| 40 20 30 44 follow :—No. 5 (ripe) was “bold, but coarse;" Nos.1 and 2| fered with our intended article on this subject. Excuse the 
| 1845 | 0 90} 0 50 49. | 25 31 40 (green), “fine in the skin, but small;" ai os. 3 and 4| further delay of a week. 
HEAT-GROWING Wanrs—Homo being exceedingly desirous 
of correctly ascertaining whether, upon an average of sea 
sons, Wheat can be successfully or, in other words, profit- 
ably grown upon an upland farm in Wales, which averages 
700 feet in height above the sea, situated in latitude 539— 
perhaps some of our practical readers, who may occup; 
farm in a similar situation, will kindly state their experience 
as to their success in obtaining fair crops of this grait, 
and likewise their time of sowing, in order to obtain a suc 
cessful result. 
(A mmunications reaching town after Wednesday 
cannot be answered the same week, 
sPlavkets, 
SMITHFIELD, Monpay, July 13.—Per Stone of 8 Ibs, 
Best Scots, Herefords, &c. 3s 10t04s 0 | Best Long-wools = sto -i 
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To enable you to compare the prices of the southern | 199 early. ie, Baxaples were shown at the Anz 
counties with those of the markets on the Erie canal, Pom i di seal thE Eee aha 
(which are supposed to correspond with those of New udges, who awarded to it “an extra premium, wit] 
York, bating the price of transportation,) I append tho | high commendation of the sample No. 3, cut à fortnight before 
a following Table. I am indebted for it to George |" : 
Geddes, Esq., of Tyler, (one of the most intelligent and | afterwards by the opinion of a publie meeting, in order to 
correct of our New York agriculturists,) who collected 
it for me from the books of the most extensive grain 
merchants in Syracuse. The averages are taken be- 
tween the Ist of April for each year, except 1845, 
Toun 
which only extends to August, Best Short Horns ” - itto (shorn) < 3 8 
i Grain. Second quality Beasts - 210 3 4| Ewesand second quality — ~g 
n Y wi s. pie alves - - - -40 46 Ditto (shorn) = 8 4 9$ 
i! ear, heat. |Indian Corn| Barley, Oats. Best Downs & Half-breds — —|Lamb - - - -50 55 
i pn Weight Flour, |Pollard.| Bran. | Waste. | Cut. Ditto (shorn) ~- 4 0 4 4| Pigs AR ADT ei 
dis, cts. ets; Aa) n Pens, Beasts, 3110; Sheep and Lambs, 33,780; Calves, 935; Pigs, 150, jg 
i 1840 0 86 44 45.1 28. Neo Hodie nds eren MEER TE 
ji 1841 0 98.7 52.1 46 31.5 st. lbs. | st, Ibs. | st. Ibs, | st. Ibs, | lbs. ut the demand has increased; best qualiiies are readily disposed of at es 
ii 1842 1 067 44.2 35 26 61012]|9 1 $ Raw, | %P quotasions.—Lamb trade remains about the same, trade for Cal¥ 
Ji 1843 0 87.5 47.1 36 19 We | continues heavy; and for Pigs very duli indeed, 
| 1844 0 90 43.1 53 22 HEAP Inat 28 dood at QA: " sach dace aca mele ER 
| 844 " d hi trade amongst ti ta; Monday’ D 
i 1845 os | Á 1912 5| 2 [Rip. fully supported, and in some instancon a Hie pma" realised Dho vt 
ii eight per bushel of or Sheep ls rather dull, but prices remain the seme, Lamb ia not quis 
f 3 i ; qualities make about 68 8d, but seco! 
Wil For the prices of pork, eggs, and feathers, I am in- are rather lower Calf tado i heavy; ie difficult to make over 4a 4d 0f 9 
| J i .— Pork: trade is a little betters 
| debted to Messrs. J, Barber and Son, extensive dealers| No.| Grain Flour. Pollard. Bran, | #908 "Beasts, 708 5 Sheep and Lambs, 11,8103 Calves, 407; Pigs, 20, ia 
| of Homer; for those of butter and cheese, to James E: m 41, West Smithfield 
Ji Van Valen and Co., of this „place, who S. S. lbs, lbs OOL.—Bnrrisn, FRIDAY, July 17. 
i . D 5 1 x, July 17. . 
Wi s valne ef 100500 dcm ua eo IL] 62$ 495. 32 82 p Qur market continues much In the same au as we reported Jast woke 
a thi 2 annually ; Iv. 6222 4622 25 85 'rices rema: + The demand ís still limived. — 
it ose of beef, to Rufus Boies and Sons, of this town, y 59 $9 $$ MD Sd ad si S geri 
| extensive drovers and packers ; for those of wages, to un Sr E. Mike à ic iT N ERE MELODIE 
il my own recollections, aided by those of various agricul- ent, of Hif bro thers 93 30 
i turists with whom I have conferred onthe subject. 4 ribns wed R DNO S 
| T have found it impossible to ascertain the average N°: | ^7 Flour, Pollard. Bran, Janne Pus, Broker 
|! aeos TA M lard, and several other products, there Ibs Tos e A EARE ER op EA is 
n eing tile commerce here in icles. 1 " > » eng Prime Mend.Hay 76; New Hay 60s to 72s j NewClr. 65810 
| those articles. Hay and | TII. 100 8049 528 132)  |ta&NemáHowenór ^ co [Glover ^ gs wile | Straw . 39. 9 
| CHUA uL o IV. 100 T 74 1489 n ety Coon, Sle 
E Tm 919 rr 'UMBERLAND MARKET, July 16, 
b = For large farmers, a machine, made by Mr. Dean, of|— 100 7238. | ugy | 1538 — Prime Mend, Hay Zsto 84s | Old Clover 108s wo 1120) 30s 10265 
hinhl cccontmonded © Of rollers for crushing the seed, is| “From this we seo,” says Mr, Hannam, “that the bushel | Now Huy: @ 7 | frie, $ mm | 
EUM EE * o. ASA raw, gives more flour than the bushel of No. 5 Josnua Bager, Hay Salesman. | 
F ts of i y 641bs,, showing a gain of 151 per cent. in weight of flour WHITECHAPEL, July 17. 
TUN M need. unbruised bolls contain, on an average, a upon equal measures of grain." ` d] LE ap eicit Loto a Clover 2060 tol | saw 208 10 3% 
Again, we find also that there is an advantage of “nearly aia ju lom JolNow Giver 76 35 
