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THE CULTIVATOR. 
August. 
where they stood, and the mangel wnrzel is plan¬ 
ted after the last row of cabbages is taken away, 
getting three crops in one year. There being 
21,780 plants of mangel in an acre, to produce 80 
tons per acre, the plants ought to average 8 : } lbs. 
each, which amounts to a little over 80 tons per 
acre. 
A noble-minded, high-spirited, keen-sighted 
farmer, a pupil of Mr. Bagley’s produced last 
year, in a midland county, yellow globe mangel, 
many roots of which weighed 16, 17, 18, 19 and 
20 lbs., each plant or root; and I saw the said 
roots exhibited in London last Christmas. Mr. 
Charles Bagley’s 80 tons per acre were the long 
red mangel. A great deal of useful information 
may be gleaned by the farmers from the market 
gardeners near London, in producing green crops, 
filling up vacancies, &c., &c. 
Roots being the mainstay, of good husbandry, 
it is by the cultivation of them that the Norfolk 
farmer has spread his fame throughout the world, 
and Lincoln Heath and the Wolds in Lincolnshire, 
the same; all of which has struck thousands with 
admiration and amazement, to see hundreds of 
thousands of tons of fine meat produced where 
only rabbits and vermin existed before; many 
howling wildernesses brought into cultivation, now 
producing fine crops of corn, turneps, and clover. 
Mr. Coke, the late Earl of Leicester, used to say 
the more meat a plowed farmer sent to Smithfield, 
the morn corn per acre he would be enabled to sell 
at Mark Lane. —-e*— 
Box for Sanding Buildings- 
I will try to describe an apparatus for sanding 
buildings, &c., which I made and used, mvself, 
with effect. 
This is an end view. It is in the form of a 
wedge, made of one-half inch 
board, 12 inches long, 8 inches 
wide, 6 inches across the head, 
and one-eightli of an inch at the 
mouth, a and b are the places 
for the hands when using. At 
6 is a wooden handle —c is a 
light support in the middle to 
keep the sides from spreading— 
d is a roller, 2 inches in diame¬ 
ter, and 8 inches long, with 
iron gudgeons, and fastened 
with iron straps to the machine, in such a manner 
that the sand fallsbetween the roller and the build¬ 
ing on which it rolls, and thus presses the sand 
into the paint. The machine is held at an angle 
of 45 or 50 degrees, and runs up on the^ roller, 
being pressed hard to the building. It will fill the 
paint with sand, leave a smooth surface, and give 
an appearance of grained stone. It may be used 
with good effect on buildings, that are ceiled or 
hoarded up smooth, and is supposed to be more 
lasting than common paint. I forgot to say the 
sand is put in at the upper end, which slides out 
and in, for that purpose. A. S. Moss. Fredo- 
nia , N. Y. 
HUr i- Profitable Crop of Hops. 
Messrs. Editors —According to your request, 
I send you the un-published manuscript of my 
account, of five acres of hops, one acre of which 
produced 2,886 lbs., the largest amount per 
acre on record. You will see, by referring to 
the State Transactions,, 1851, Madison county, 
that I received the 1st premium on my farm—the 
manner of cultivation—also a statement of my 
hop crops, &.c. 
You will perceive that I give items of expense, 
depreciation of hop-poles and buildings, which, in 
my opinion, should he taken into account. If 
the enclosed will be of any service to you and the 
public, you can publish them. 
I would refer you more particularly to the 
Transactions for my farm operations. The man¬ 
ner of keeping farm accounts , which, in my 
opinion, is one of the most important matters in 
arming. H. P. Potter. East Hamilton, Madi¬ 
son Co . r N. Y. 
Lot. No. 8—Hops—Five Acres. 
Dk. 
To 109 londs manure and drawing, 4s., ............ $54 50 
134J days work, to Sept. 1st, 6s,... 100 88 
42 “ tending box, 6s.,. 31 50 
15 u drying"hops, 12s.,. 22 50 
14 “ pressing hops, 6s.,. 10 50 
270 bush, coal,- 7c.,. 18 90 
Hop sacking and twine,. 24 32 
Cost of engaging and collecting hop pickers,... 13 IS 
Paid for picking hops,.. 132 36 
Help in house,... 9 00 
Provisions,... 48 65 
Interest on land, $65 per acre,. 22 75 
Depreciation on hop poles, 10 per cent, .. 30 00 
u mi hnn-hr>n.=f» If) npr SO DO 
Insurance,....... 2 75 
Whole expense,... . $55179 
Cost per acre, $110 36. 
Profit of five acres.. 1,050 41 
$ 1,002 20 
Cr 
1851..Sept. 20. By 7,801 lbs. sold, 20c.,. 1,560 20 
Hop roots sold in April,.. 42 00 
$1,602 20 
Making the Most of the Soil 
The interesting Address of W. Clift, before 
the Windham County Agricultural Society, (Ct.) 
for a copy of which we are indebted to the kind¬ 
ness of the author, contains the following excel¬ 
lent remarks on the subject of enriching and deep¬ 
ening the soil. We may lay it down as very 
nearly correct, that the amount of a crop is in 
proportion to the number of cubic yards of good 
soil which the farmer turns up with his plow; so 
that he who plows a foot deep and consequently 
turns up 1600 cubic yards of earth to an acre, 
may expect about as much in product as the man 
who plows only half a fopt deep, and who has to 
go over two acres to get the 1600 cubic yards of 
mellow soil. 
The author of the address before us, in speak¬ 
ing of the importance of agricultural knowledge, 
proceeds as follows r— 
We come to speak, then, upon the economy of 
this education, to the farmers as a class. Some 
of my hearers possibly do not find farming a very 
profitable business. Some perhaps hardly make 
the ends of the year meet, and others do not save 
more than two or three hundred dollars a year, 
by their hard toil. 
This kind of education which is within the reach 
