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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Jan. 
brackets, f. The strip e, is added by matching, form¬ 
ing the trough. A coat of good paint completes it. A 
lining of tin-plate, or zinc, would be more substantial. 
JD, shows the mode in which the two inch plank, for 
brackets, is cut up without waste. The cross lines 
are for the saw, the dotted lines where the wood is 
separated by splitting. C, is a finished bracket 
The advantages of this plan are,—considerable room 
is afforded at a very cheap rate, the whole house, when 
completely finished, not costing $200 ; the heavy tim¬ 
ber frame is obviated, as the two wings, being small, 
may have a frame of scantling four inches square, and 
the central part seven inches square. Studs are not 
needed. The wings and central parts serve as sup¬ 
ports to each other. The outside being coated with 
colored whitewash, which is quite cheap, the usual ob¬ 
jection to an extended outside surface, is removed. The 
carpenter work is very small. 
As many farmers will be controlled in the erection 
of such houses by the cost, we give below the bill of 
expense, which they may easily alter to suit prices in 
different places. 
8 sticks of timber, 16 feet long, 4 cts. per foot 
running measure,. $5.12 
300 ft. scantling for braces and rafters,. 2.25 
300 ft. joists,. 2.25 
200 ft. scantling for frame of wings,. 1.50 
600 ft. roof boards,. 4.50 
700 ft. surface, shingles,. 17.50 
950 ft. flooring,... 9.50 
1800 ft. 1| inch plank, for siding, all 10 in. wide, 18.00 
800 ft. strips for joints, one-half straight, clear, 
and handsome,. 8.00 
1200 ft. lath boards, for three lower rooms,.... 7.00 
400 ft. plank for windows, doors, &c.,. 6.00 
Sash and glazing,. 8.00 
Nails and door trimmings,. 7.0C 
Cellar wall, mason work, digging, materials,.. 20.0C 
Lathing, plastering, lime, sand, labor,. 12.0C 
Painting window frames, doors, &c.,. 8.00 
Brick and chimney,. 3.00 
Carpenter work,. 30.00 
Contingencies,. 9.88 
$180.00 
In many parts of the country, the cost of materials 
would be less, and in others more, than in the prece¬ 
ding estimate—in case of the house actually erected 
after this plan, the cost was not $150. T. 
CULTURE OF GREEN CROPS FOR SOILING—CARROTS. 
Editors Cultivator —The September number of 
the Cultivator contained a letter from our friend W. H. 
Sotham, in which he notices the rotation of crops, as 
cultivated on my farm, for Soiling Milch Cows. His 
favorable notice of my experiment, has induced several of 
the readers of your valuable journal, to ask of me a 
statement of the amount of green food raised by me on 
the twenty acres, on which I soiled sixty cows, for six 
months. To save time, permit me to trouble you with 
the following statement for publication in your paper. 
The whole product averaged more than 12 tons of green 
food per acre, as you will see by the following table. 
5 acres of clover, cut three times, 57 tons. 
5 acres of oats, cut twice,. 41 “ 
5 acres of corn, cut twice,. 84 (t 
5 acres of corn and pumpkins once, 73 11 
20 acres in all,. 255 tons. 
The Corn on one acre, (black muck, manured with 
cow dung, leached ashes and lime,) yielded stalks over 
ten feet long, planted in drills one foot apart, and four 
inches apart in the drills, and weighed over twenty tons 
of green fodder to the acre. 
The Carrots noticed by Mr. Sotham, yielded on the 
average six hundred bushels to the acre, and on some por¬ 
tions of the muck soil, (manured with cow manure and 
leached ashes,) they were in many instances fourteen and 
fifteen inches in circumference, and twenty-seven and 
thirty inches long, and produced at the rate of twelve 
hundred bushels to the acre, in beds of one quarter acre 
each. They were drilled in by machine, (as was also 
the corn.) in drills one foot apart, and the Carrots 
thinned to one every four or six inches in the drills. 
They were weeded by hand at a cost of five dollars an 
acre, for three times weeding, and pulled and topped for 
two cents a bushel ready for cellar. Being in muck land 
they pulled easy ; thirty bushels was about a days work 
for each of the laborers, who were mostly German wo¬ 
men. My Carrot crop cost me this year, five dollars 
an acre for plowing and preparing the land, five 
dollars for weeding, four dollars for seeding, (including 
the seed.) twelve dollars for pulling and covering, and 
four dollars for interest on land, making thirty dollars 
an acre or on an average five cents a bushel for the Car - 
rots , they being worth in the Rochester market, twenty 
cents a bushel by the quantity, and retail at twenty- 
five cents,, at which latter price I should clear one hun¬ 
dred and twenty dollars per acre, on my whole crop of 
eight acres. Is not this a valuable crop ? My last 
years crop of four acres, yielded me six hundred and 
forty bushels per acre. I intend next year to sow at 
least ten acres of Carrots, and two acres of Sugar 
Beets for my cows. Would it be of any interest to you 
to know how I cultivate them ? If so I will tell you 
next month. I shall always be happy to answer all 
inquiries. Yours, C. B. Stuart. 
Rochester. December 4, 1846. 
We should be glad to receive an account of Mr. 
Stuart’s mode of cultivating carrots and beets.— Eds. 
