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plow. Such is the continually-varying resistance 
given by the inequality of the earth’s surface, and 
the obstacles under it," that the index of the dyna¬ 
mometer revolves as rapidly as a weathercock in 
a storm. We want an instrument not so easily 
affected, or farther removed from continual fluc¬ 
tuations, which will note in single pounds the 
average power required in a given number of feet. 
Yankee ingenuity has evidently not been sufficiently 
employed in the construction of this instrument; 
and we are persuaded it needs but little encourage¬ 
ment from your society, to stimulate it to the pro¬ 
duction of an instrument which will render the 
power required in the draught of a plow, as easily 
determined as the power of a locomotive. 
All of which is respectfully submitted, by your 
humble servants, 
Myron Adams, ) 
C. S. Button, 
L. B. Langworthy, 
R. Harmom, Jr., ) 
Rochester , September 23, 1843. 
The Plowing Match. 
1st, to J. Howell, Chili, Monroe co. $15 
2d, to W. Utley, Phelps, Ontario co. 10 
3d, To Wm. Craig, York, Livingston co. 5 
4th, to George Sheffer, Wheatland, Monroe co. Vol. Tr. 
}■ Committee. 
From the American Agriculturist Almanac. 
NORTHERN CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER. 
It is now time to close up the operations of the 
warm season, and provide for the cold. Finish collect¬ 
ing in all your crops, corn, turneps, cabbages, &e., and 
see that your cellars are well secured against frost, 
and your granaries against depredators. Finish the 
fall plowing. All clay land should be thrown into 
ridges for the action of the frost. One good plowing 
on such land in the fall, is worth two or three in the 
spring, and as this soil has a great affinity for am¬ 
monia while thus exposed, it will absorb large quanti¬ 
ties of it brought down in the winter and spring, by 
the snows and rain, which it will yield to the crops the 
ensuing season. Examine the winter grain, and any 
water-furrows which have become choked up, let them 
be opened. Standing water will kill any useful vegeta¬ 
ble, excepting rice. 
The yards should be well bedded with turf, peat, or 
muck, weeds, refuse straw, and other vegetable mat¬ 
ters ; and so constructed that the soluble parts of it, 
which are the best, shall not be drained off to help in¬ 
undate the roads and ditches. If time permits, drains 
should be made to carry off the latent water, which 
destroys the crops, or diminishes them so much as 
hardly to pay for the raising. Under-ground, in pref¬ 
erence to surface drains, should always be constructed, 
unless large quantities of water are required to pass. 
Give all your roots in heaps for the winter, an additional 
covering before the ground is frozen. Have all the 
barns and sheds well covered and mended, and the 
racks and mangers all tight, and in order, that no 
hay or provender may be wasted. Before the ground 
is frozen, look well to your fences. No meadows, win¬ 
ter grain, or even pastures, should be exposed to poach¬ 
ing from cattle, sheep, or hogs. An animal will fre¬ 
quently do more hurt in one of them in a day at this 
season, than in a week while the ground- is well set¬ 
tled in summer. In the meantime the household plants, 
the children should not be neglected, and especially the 
older ones, who have helped through the labors of the 
summer and harvests. Good schools must be provided 
for them, good teachers, and good books. Their minds 
now, and indeed at all times, should be as closely 
watched over, as the more tangible things of the farm. 
On their correct moral and intellectual education, de» 
pends much, perhaps all their success in after life, and 
no fences should be neglected, or bars left down in 
their young minds. Good seed sown here, on good 
soil, and well cultivated, if the weeds of vice and bad 
principles are thoroughly extirpated, will never fail of 
producing an abundant harvest. It is not sufficient 
that their parents see them furnished with all the 
means for mental improvement; they must take an 
interest in their studies also. Daily examination into 
the progress of their children, should be the constant 
practice of parents; questions asked having a bearing 
upon them; the connexion between their studies and 
their own business pointed out, to show that they 
have a practical application to the concerns of every¬ 
day life ; and they should be explained and illustrated 
in such a manner as to excite an interest and inquiry 
in their young minds. The discipline of the school 
ought to be inquired into, and the relative standing of 
the children ; and when praise is due bestow it; and 
where censure and even punishment are needed, they 
should not be withheld. No farmer would think of 
putting out his land to be managed by an agent, with¬ 
out frequent and close supervision. Do not, there¬ 
fore, put out the minds of your children, which are of 
infinitely more value, to the management of every in¬ 
dividual, without a closer and more thorough attention 
than he gives to his grounds and his cattle. 
Commence spreading out hemp for dew rotting, 
bearing in mind the observations on this subject last 
month. 
Kitchen Garden. —If not done last month, many 
of the early vegetables may be sown for the ensuing 
spring, if you have not hot-beds for forcing. The beds 
ought to be thrown up high, so as to avoid water during 
winter and spring, and being soon dry when the snow 
is offj the young plants will take an early start. They 
should be well filled with the more heating manure, as 
horse-dung, &c. In these, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, 
cress, &c., may be sown. The asparagus bed should 
have a large supply of rich manure, which the winter 
rains will drain of all its enriching, soluble matters, 
and carry to the lowest roots, and on the opening of 
spring, will be ready to furnish a fresh treat for the 
table. Let the lettuces in frames still be exposed to 
the air during the day, but be covered by the glass at 
night. Practise the same treatment with cabbages and 
cauliflowers in frames. Take up all remaining roots, 
and store them as detailed last month. Rhubarb seed 
can now be sown, and will vegetate better than if 
kept out of the ground until spring. In the early 
part of this month, manure and trench the ground in¬ 
tended for early spring crops. 
Fruit Garden and Orchard. —Gooseberries, cur¬ 
rants, and raspberries, may now be transplanted. Of 
the latter, the red and white Antwerp are considered 
the most desirable. Do this the early part of the 
month, and in the latter part lay down the raspberries, 
and cover them with sedge or any kind of litter. Cover 
the strawberries with litter, or they may be killed, or 
at least injured by the winter. Dig and trench or 
plough the ground intended for planting in the spring. 
Flower Garden and Pleasure Grounds. —The 
directions for last month will also apply to this, while 
the ground is free from frost. The latter part of the 
month cover the flower borders and bulbous beds, and 
also all flowery plants and shrubs with a litter of straw 
or of salt hay. 
