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nCiRl CULTURE 
PROGRESS yVTSTU IMPROVEMENT 
ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, -JUNE 20, 186-3 
!WHOLE NO. 701 
PRACTICAL FARMING. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
AX ORIOiSAL YrKEKLY 
RURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker;—W e read and 
hear a good deal about thorough laming, the 
rotation of crops, etc., uud if you think by pub¬ 
lishing a little practice it will help to show its 
utility .find practical importance, 1 will give my 
system of rotation and plan of my practical 
farm, as I will call il, in contrast with the orna¬ 
mental farm you gave us some time since. I 
first laid out my farming land into four equal 
divisions, for a four years’ rotation of crops, with 
three acres near the house and barn, to use 
alternate years for garden, calf pasture, and 
mowing. Afterward I drew a plan of my farm 
in what 1 call a farm book, numbering the lots, 
and giving each lot pages for Dr. and Cr., and in 
these I mark the time that I plow, or plant, or 
mow, or harvest any lot, which I find very useful 
to refer to in other years. Commencing with 
lots Nos. 2 and 3. I seed 15 acres to clover, the 
next year seed No. 4, next No. 5, and fourth year 
No. C. Then 1 let each lot lie two years to 
clover, which gives me HO acres of clover each 
year, one lot for mowing, and ono for pasture,— 
then I liavo a two-year old clover turf to plow in 
in the fall or spring, and either plant or sow to 
peas or barley the first year and to grain after, 
in order to seed with clover again the second 
year. I find that lots pay well while into clover, 
for we obtain what they yield with very little 
expense, and it rests and enriches the laud 
enough to pay interest on tho lots. And every 
one knows that clean clover turf is the very 
cream of land for planling or for any crop, and 
thorough hoeing or cultivating of that turf will 
insure good seeding to clover again with next 
grain crop after. Having tried this plan of 
rotation, 1 believe that any one, like me, who 
wants to obtain all that his laud can yield him, 
cannot work it any better way for profit, and I 
do not know how to Improve land any faster, 
while raising crops, without much more expense 
for fertilizers. I will give a sample of my farm 
account, by copying one lot—ifb. 4: 
I860, Lot No. 4,-10 A csss. I)r. 
April—To man and team 16 days fitting ground, $30 00 
“ u 116 bushels seed potatoes 25 eta.,_ 29 00 
" “ 8 days catting Beed, 76 cts. per day, 6 00 
May 6—“ 15 “ planting, 70 cts. “ 11 25 
“ 31 “ man and horse three days plowing 
out i»ith horse hoe,..... 3 Jo 
June 21—To marfand horse do do do 3 75 
July 15— “ do do do do do 3 76 
' " 29 “ 7 days hoeing and weeding,. 7 0C 
1 Get. 30— “ digging,... 90 0C 
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DR. JOHN A. K«NSI«OTT. 
of aiding you, as I wish, in thu groat work. Lint 
though a (durable thinker, and much givoti to 
observation, I am no writer. Not that I have 
not written much, but that I cannot write well} 
and yet I love to write on all subjects connected 
with the cultivation of the earth; and aa the 
spring melts into tho summer, my season of 
hibernation will close, and if you will promise 
me to bo as candid as Gil Blas, you shall, per¬ 
haps, have as many quids of my rambling, inco¬ 
herent. rhapsodies, as you will read. 
«I love (lowers and fruit, the graceful tree and 
half sentient plant, nearly as well as 1 love my 
■cry apt to love all who 
DR. JOHN A. KENNICOTT. 
This distinguished Horticulturist, and advo¬ 
cate of Agricultural Education, died at his late 
residence, at ‘-The Grove,” Cook Co., Ill., on 
the morning of the 4th day of Juuo insL 
On pages 21 and 22 of the last volume of the 
Rural, I gave, somewhat in detail, the promi¬ 
nent events of his early life, prior to removing to 
Illinois. These I will briefly recapitulate. Dr. 
Ken'.vicott waB born in Montgomery Co., New 
York, about 1800; the family records disagree. 
He was the eldest of fourteen children, and was 
known in the West as, and called in tho family, 
‘‘the Old Doctor;” so called because of the fact 
that there were several members of the profes¬ 
sion in the family. With his father's futnily, ho 
removed from Montgomery Co., successively, to 
Onondaga, Ontario and Cattaraugus counties, in 
that State. His early life was Bpcnt ou the farm 
and in a small nursery, with his father, until 
about 1823, when he left the farm and wont to 
Buffalo, N. V.. where he taught a school, served 
as a clerk in a drug store, and studied medicine, 
—spending his winters, meantime, at the Medi¬ 
cal College at Fairfield, Herkimer Co. While 
attending college, he delivered a course of bo¬ 
tanical lectures in Buffalo, which were quite 
successful. After graduating, he lectured and 
wrote for the Buffalo press, practiced medicine 
on the Welland Canal, Canada, pursuing his 
botanical studies. About 1828, he left Buffalo 
and vicinity, and visited Detroit, Kaminsky, 
Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville and Natchez, 
spending some time at eftOh of these places and 
In their vicinity, botanizing, &c. From NalonCz 
hi wfml to Jackson, Miss., where he lectured 
and practiced medicine one summer. Thence 
he went to New Orleans, where lie became well 
known and popular as a teacher, lecturer, writer 
and editor. Here he started and published and 
edited the first literary, scientific and religious 
paper ever printed in New Orleans—the Louis¬ 
iana Recorder, Associated with him, as writers, 
were some of the most accomplished literary 
characters, of that period in the South. But his 
career here as an editor and writer, was inciden¬ 
tal only to his labors us a teacher and lecturer. 
He was principal, for six years, of the Upper 
Primary School, Old Fauxbaurg, St Mary, N. O. 
ne left thin school to take charge of the Male 
Orphan Aryl uni. He had charge of this institu¬ 
tion about one year before removing to Illinois. 
In March, 1838, he removed to “The Grove," 
where the last twenty-seven years of his life 
Lave been spent, where ho died, and where rest 
his remains, in the midst of the beautiful forms 
he planted, and cultivated, and created. 
Such, in brief, is the history of Dr. Kbn.vioott 
to 1830. His first work after arriving in Illinois, 
after providing a rude shelter for his wife and 
child, was the planting of fruit trees and dower¬ 
ing shrubs and plants about his home, and the 
creation of a private nursery, from which to 
supply his own wants and those of his neigh¬ 
bors. His early education and cultivated tastes 
made such surroundings a necessity to him; and 
bis first work was an index of his passion for and 
love of all the beautiful things which God has 
created for man’s enjoyment. During the earlier 
years of his life in this State, he practiced medi¬ 
cine, riding an extended circuit among the set¬ 
tlers on the sparsely settled prairie3. ne has 
children; and 1 am v 
think as I do on these subjects; and what I think 
and feel, / write, 
“ God is Love, and He has made this princi¬ 
ple Hie one upon which turn the pains and pleas¬ 
ures of existence. All of us who arc human, 
are Imbued with some love of the beautiful and 
some, capacity for enjoyment. There is religion 
in the love of the voiceless productions of na¬ 
ture; there are words of promise written on 
every opening bud, and the older we grow, the 
mure we learn of the capabilities of this beauti- 
learn of the capabilities of this beauti¬ 
ful earth, and the natural enjoyments which tho 
Creator has placed within the reach of every 
man who owns or rents a rood of ground— the 
more grateful are we for life aud all its present 
blessings and future hopes.” 
lie loved nature; aud listening to the voice of 
God in nature, he loved the Creator of all things 
beautiful and good. 1 never knew a man more 
sensitive to the influence of the beautiful, whether 
in the tiny insect, the flower, the tree, or the hu¬ 
man form. God’s works were not voiceless nor 
meaningless to him. Hu seemed to have an in¬ 
tuitive perception of the nature of plants. He 
was the friend of all ignored and uncultivated 
plants. He transferred them from the prairie 
ami the grove, to genial and suitable spots in his 
garden, where he nurtured them and taught his 
friends to admire his wild beauties. Many a 
flower, unnoticed on the prairie, has won excla¬ 
mations of delight from the visitor through such 
intervention. 
But space and time would fail me to write all ! 
that is in my heart to say of the worthy life my 
father-friend has lived, of the good he has done, 
of the influence be has exerted and still exerts. 
1 may sum it up thus:— He was a faithful and 
true friend; a pure patriot; a lover of his race 
and of everything good and beaulil'ul and true; 
eminently social and affectionate; hospitable and 
self-sacrificing to a fault; unimpeachable in his 
integrity; progressive in ail his impulses and 
acts; Implacable in ills opposition to wrong, and 
just in all his relations to men. As a writer, he 
was original, vigorous, and emphatic. He al¬ 
ways wrote as he fell and thought; and thinking 
and feeling strongly, he wrote strongly. His 
articles always commanded attention. They 
were so invested with his Individuality, it could 
not be otherwise. And added, there was a poetic 
1800. Lot No. 4,-15 Acres. 
Oct. 15—By 655 bushel* Clinton potatoes (3}f 
acres,) at 25 cts. per bushel,. 
"22 “ 1562 bushels Buckeye*, (6,3,1 acres,) 
Bold for CitetH.,.. 
« 30 “ 1625 bushels Jackson Whites, (5 
acres,) sold this winter at 40 cts.,.. 
character, His hand, head snd heart were 
a 1 fray* ready to co-operate in any work calcu¬ 
lated to lift up the cultivator of the soil, and 
teach him and all others to honor and love all 
created things and their Creator. 
Few men have done, said, or written more 
than Dr. Keknicott to secure the establishment 
of an Agricultural Bureau by the general gov¬ 
ernment. Ou this subject, his views, at length, 
have been repeatedly given the public. He was 
especially active to secure this recognition of 
Agriculture, about the time of the election of 
Gen. Zachary Taylor to tho Presidency of 
the United States. And he has often told me 
that President Tatlop. was fully committed to 
the scheme, and that it would have been success¬ 
ful had the General lived. 
About this time, when there was a prospect 
that such a Department would be organized, the 
friends of Dr. K.. without his solicitation, united 
in commending him to the President an a suita¬ 
ble head for this Department. The Illinois 
Legislature, then in session, passed a resolution 
unanimously recommending his appointment to 
the position. Dr. J.no. A. Warder, then editor 
of the Wedern Horticultural Revie w, in tin edi¬ 
torial, said, after referring to the importance and 
magnitude of such a work, “ I do not propose, 
Deduct interest on lot at $100 per acre, 
Clear profit on lot,. 
Stafford, N. Y., 1863. 
CONCERNING THE PRICE OF WOOL. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker;— The interest in 
the clip of wool in this country, and the ap¬ 
proaching time for marketing the same, will jus¬ 
tify a brief discussion of the prospects of prices. 
The price of wool, like that of all products of 
the farm, depends upon demand and supply. 
What is likely to be the demand fur the present 
clip? 
For the last fifteen years the world has been 
clothed to a large extent with cotton, principally 
the product of the Southern States. For the 
past two years the raising of cotton has been 
greatly interrupted by the civil war that is now 
unhappily devastating large portions of our 
country, and drenching it» generous soil in 
blood. All accounts received from the Cotton 
States represent that the culture of this staple is 
almost entirely abandoned this -eason, and when 
it is known that very considerable quantities 
have been destroyed, it is safe to conclude that 
tbe market will have been deprived, at the close 
of this year, of at least a crop and a half, or six 
millions of bales, which, at four hundred pounds 
per bale, makes twenty-four hundred million 
pounds. What is to fake the place of tills large 
amount of cotton, which would have been con¬ 
sumed but for the interruption of the culture by 
the war? The growth of cotton in other sec¬ 
tions of the country, and other portions of the 
