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We publish the t'oilowing, from William Stone, Esq., of this place, with great p'earn re. We think the crop described can hardly be beaten. If any of our farming friends know of apian by which as much or more com can l?e raised, ou xj the exhuastcd lauds of tiiis, and the neighboring counties, they will do us, and the community a favor, by letting us into the secret. Communications, on agricultural ' O subjects, we always gladly publish; and we regret that those who have practical knowledge of agriculture, do not oftoner send us trie result of their cxpriui nts. "Ajk, C utting: 4\V j?lii?gtoii, S.'fvr. 15, 1840. "Dear Sir:?The following experiment, and unparalleled production of sixteen barrels, three pecks, and four quarts of com, made upon one acre of poor land. I w ithout any manure, save that of leaves, i (duces me to oiler you this for publication. The following was the proe?ss. * The land was broken up in November, and thrown into broad flat ridges, two fret wide, ami six feet apart. It lay in that situation until the middle ol March, we then run a furrow, with a small root., er, in the middle of tin; Hat ridge, and a similar one on each side of the middle furrow, nine inches from it?making ihree rooter furrows on each Hat ridge and dropped the corn in each rooter furrow, double the quantity ire intended to let stand. When brought to a stand, our O 1 intention was to leave tin; stalks three feet apart iu each furrow which would give alnuit eight thousand five hundred stalks to the acre. When the corn was up, thinned, and had obtained the height of si\ inches, we put on a coat of leaves, about three err four inches thi"k, covering ( the Hat ridge all over and around the corn; j then ploughed and hoed it covering the leaves with soil. In about twelve days, wc repeated a similar process?laid the corn by, some time in May, and then covered the ground all over, between the rows, about six inches deen. with leaves a X which were put on and covered while wet, in order that the ground might retain its ; O c moisture, to prevent the crop from tiring. "The rows were 80 by O'J yards, m iking JW double rows. bO vards Ion?;.? ? w ' o We gathered and measured throe of the double rows, two on each side, and one in the middle; the three rows produced ton bushels in the care, which shelled out six bushels one and a halt' pecks. A short calculation will show that, as the three rows produced six bushels and three, eighths of a bushel, the whole product of the 3D rows was eighty.two bushels, three peeks, and lour quarts for about an acre. The corn being so thick, might have tired in a dry season, and unquestionably would, if not protected by the leaves. " Your s respectfully, " WM. STONE." LUCEKXE. This grass delights in a deep sandy loam. The laud should he thoroughly cleaned of all weeds, or the seed should be sown in drills, so that the plants may be hoed until the weeds arc subdued.? Mr. 8. Howard states in the Zancsville (Ohio) Oazctte, that he sowed a small quantity of seed in drills, the lust week in May, on the "river bottom." The last of July it had reached eighteen inches in height, when it was cut and fed green to bogs and milch c?jws, who both ate it voraciously. in four weeks it had again irrown to.iht5 same height, when it was cut the second time : on the first of November it was again cut, the crop being henvicr than either of the proceeding. A pcice oi very flourishing red clover adjoining, oa precisely a similar soil, did not yield near half as much as the lucerne. Mr. II. lias no doubt hut it may be cut, after the ^ first year, five times in a season, and that ? it will yield a ton and a half per acre, of hay at each cutting. The culture of lucerne has formed a distinguishing feature in the agriculture of franco, where it has been in use for more than 250 years. The crop is there estimated at from five tosevcu tons to tho English acre. Albany Cult. On the Culture ok the Swkkt Potato. Mobile, May 22//, 1^40. To tho Editor oftlw American Parmer : Dear Sir :?I am an earnest seeder after agricultural knowledge, and reading over the different numbers of your paper makes nie fee! a spirit of emulation that * 4 . <?l$f CHERAW almost reaches enthusiasm. Discovering that you solicit every one to contribute in \ aiding all practical improvements derived ' from experience, I have presumed for the ! first time in my noviciate at farming, to ' attempt a description of the best mode ot; cultivating the sweet potato, so well suited to be the best and most profitable product, from thn mn?nn of the little labour re qusitc to ensure a good crop on any de-' scription of land in the Middle States, | particularly from Louisiana to the Onroli- , nas, and I wo Id farther state that I have | been engaged in raising vegetables for our city market since 18:30, and have hut' recently discovered that husbandry properly pursued is the only true source of happiness to any people, insuring to all who will be diiligetit a more certain com-! O petenee than even the mechanic arts, leav- i ing out of view those who are subject to! spasmodic affections, from inflated cur-: rency. My experience then assures me j that the most convenient and profitable J mode of culture, is to plant in ridges, four feet apart, on ground only once ploughed,' as the distance is the guide lor the size of the ridge, letting the slips, as the planting I potato is called, he cut very small, say one 1 inch only in length, where the pot a toe is | small; and where large round, diviced or I split in twoor four peices, which will pre-! vent the large peices from growing to j what arc called mothers, which, in other, words, is only an increased size of the potato planted assuming a globular form in- J stead of its striking out roots, each of which will make an oblong potato. The number of small peices when prepared j should be four dropped one foot apart,' and covered liuee to four inches deep: i that done, it only becomes necessary to ! ! scrape off the grass from the surface ot the \ i ridges, and between the potatoes, observ-1 j i'tg to give them a stirring at the same j time; and as soon as completed, plough J them deep into the ridges, so as only to j leave thorns- cure in tiicir places, from in- j jury to the sun's exposure, and at a week's j interval, or sooner, let the ho* s draw up all the itir: well under tlv in as nossiblc. and your crop is made, for the vines will soon j shade ihc whole ground, supereceding the ' necessity of any more labour. Another j decided advantage of a crop of sweet pota- ; toes, results from the proof that, in addition I to the potatoes, it will produce as many I water-melons, or musk, or pumpkins, as if they were planted by themsohvs, and do not injure the potatoes that I could ever discover. Above all is the nutritious aliment which it yields, exceeding the Irish l>otntoe two-fold when fed from the root; but when dried as I do the vines in digging to the sun 48 hours even on the ground turned over next day, and when housed, by shaking all dirt or grit falls olf; and I assure you that my horses leave hay, or clover, or corn blades, to eat the potato vines. In curing the vines, as in every thing else, tho farmer must exercise his judgment according to the intensity of the sun : with me two days arc suflicicnt. You will have lo decipher this scrawl, and if you make any use of it, revise, correct I and punctuate, as I know it is too crude to be seen. I can give nothing but the substance or matter?You must embellish in giving form and language. I would not o ? c* r? write, hut I know you have too much good i- i ,jWt SCI1.SC lO CruiCISC, iroiu ii?itni? mill njv, sensible remarks in your editorials ever since your last control of the American Farmer. By the time you receive this it will he too late to act on my suggestions j in planting from last year's slips, hut not too late, even in your State, up to the last of June, to make goo 1 sized potatoes from the vines, and if you can prevail on any of your acquaintance, who may have some now growing to try the experiment, the result will please them. From the vine j the Spanish will not grow well. All i other kinds may he cut so as to admit of j doubling at least four if not six times, one j foot lo.ig, and that introduced into an np- i crture or hole made either with an iron j crow-haror heavy dibble, that will impress j from the flattened surface of the ridge, \ one foot or more deep, and when put in by ! hand, observe that the running end is left ! out, and none of the ends project hut one to two inches out; the dirt well compress- j cdatthc surface, and the yield will ii> your climate he incredible. It is only ne- j cessarv as in the former, to have them hoed clean off, as soon as the grass appears, and then plough down the ridge, and make ? 1 it up to tiiein again, n uio vine ?ntn doubled lour or six times, should not bo over six inches in length, it will answer; but tiie longer, the hotter yield, and more certainty of living, for which my mode is particularly remarkable, entirely obviating the necessity of watering, if the vines are set out when (lie ground is thoroughly wet. Another advantage of this root is the case with which it is kept ; which is ! only to have than put under the ground deeper than the frost will penetrate, and make trenches between them lower than the potatoes, so that they arc drained.? They are not injured by the rains penetrating tlicm, as all they require to keep tuem fresh, and not even to sprout under ground, if kept there until June, is to have { tne water drained off, and so deep as not \ to be affected by cold or frost. In my Opinion it exceeds all other because jf'isso certain : no worms or 'pug injure it lit any s.age of its gr%wtl\, \yhercas beet and turnip are liable to boiq. L. V. F>. P. t*. I assure you, you cannot expati 0 $ 1 * w ?wm?<tiw .SOUTH-CAKOIJNA. W ate too lengthily on the advantages of the culture of the sweet potatoe, for if farmers would but try it, I am satisfied it would supercede many root crops, to the enriching of the grower, to be used to fatten cattle for the shambles, cows for the dairy, horses for the plough, by having them washed, intermixing a little salt; and in fattening hogs, they arc next in nutriment to corn. The above should have appeared long since, but was mislaid by some means?it is worth the consideration of those who have not already given attention to the culture of this root. American Farmer. * AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS. At the 'Farmer's Festival' held at (Jcorgetnviwi Masn piirli:<?nn tp.irna vvpre in *""" - f - O 1 the ploughing match. The Salem Gazette says: "In the hall for domestic manufacture* we noticed a rich exhibition of useful article*.? The number oi entries was about 149. comprizing the usual variety. The display of hearth ruga was highly creditable to the taste and industry of those who tnadethem. Among the ar idea exhibited was a siik gown made by a lady now 93 years of age, from silk of her own rai.-ng. Tint chairman of the committee pleasantly suggested to the Trustees the expediency of ottering a premium to that young lady who should produce a similar gown, as her own handiwork; and then as me best reward that could be given to the best young farmer in the county, the young lady herself." Of the Fair at New Haven, the New England Farmer says : "The exhibitions of the day were distiri" guished by a team of more than three hundred yoke of oxen fr? in t!ie neighboring towns ? The cattle, with scarce y an exception, were almost red and marked every wh?*rejpviili the Devon blood. There were many Jphnal* of pure Devon, we presume des. endeairoin the stock presented n?iue years since by Mr. Coke, n??w Lord Liecestor. one of the best breeders of Devons in England, to the Messrs. iiurlbut, of C .nnccticiit. 'Lite cattle were not only remarkable tor their s ze, color and fortn, but hkewise, and particularly, for their high condition, shewing excellent keeping, and likewise for very skilful training. It would he d;ffi< ult to conceive of a show of this kind in this resj>ecl more gratifying or honorable. At two o'clock an address was delivered in the ehurch;the reports were read and the pretn;uin-i pronounced ?The proceeds ofoneof the farms presented for premium, exceeded, '1000 dollars; the size of the farm was 160 acres. \Ve are promised a copy ol the report on (arms which was drawn up with great care, and shall l-?y iC as soon as received before our readers." CAUSES OF TItK FAILURES IN REARIN'C. mii k.wninic To the Editor of the Farmers* Register. Fredericksburg, Sept. Is?, 1840. The last number of the Farmers' Register contains (to mr) unpleasant news relative to the general result of silk culture, in Virginia, during the past summer; hut it is proper that these failures should he known, that persons intending to prosecute the business may provide convenient ad proper fixtures, and exercise more care in time to come. Some of Dandolo's directions for the preservation of silkworms' eggs are good, hut others are unnecessary, and impracticable in our climate. As a specimen take the following: "The linen clothes upon which the eggsare deposited may he left then in the same place, provided the heat of the room does not exceed 06 to 68.' * Now where in Virginia shall we find a place frce/rowi (htmpness that can he kept at a temperature as low as 63 "in July or August.'" The eggs from which my rear ings were made the past summer were frequently exposed to a temperature, a short time after they were deposited, as high as 85 to 88, and yet worms proceeding from these eggs were more thrifty than any large parcel that I have seen. The hatching of a portion of the eggs was retarded by placing them in the ice-house the 10th rxC iwiiinmrv nnrJ n not her on reel were 1)11 V/* 1 v./. ..... . , g ried underground, and these too succeed, ed well. Well I ain not yet sure that this plan will retard the hatching ns late as 1st of August, because a thermometer occupying the same situation, under ground stood on June 27th at sunrise at 67, and I on June 29th, at 2 P. M., at G8. The plan which I adopt for retarding the | hatching differs in some respects from any that has hitherto been made public, i and as it is probable that some of your ! readers may wish to try it, 1 will send you ! an accurate description in November oi I December. I will state my opinion relative to the causes of failure in rearing silk-worms during the summer: 1. Closing too inanv of the window, ! and ventilators of the room in warm and | damp weather. j 2. Crowding the worms so as to prej vent their feeding with regularity, anc i which also checked proper transpiration ! Hear Dandolo on this point. "It must he acknowledged transpiration canno n i ! exist without the contact of air. Th< health of animals requires that they shouh expel, by means of the excreting organs 11 he superabundant liquid and cxtrancou ; substances, which may have been inlro i duccd into their organization by nutri ; tion." ) 3. Wi:!c hurdles or shelves and narrov i passages have been a fruitful cause ofdis i j * Dandolo's treatise, p. *?31. London etli tion, 18--3. Vol. VIII?78. f ' 'MBWIMSiWWU EDNESDAY, NOVEMBE 1 .% ' ease wncn in other respects the manage- j ment may have been very good. These ! i wide hurdles with narrow passages render it impossible to expel the large quantity of carbonic acid generated, with that uniformity and rapidity required to ensure health. Hear Dandolo on this point also. "The quantity of carbonic acid which is discharged by thesilk-worms is in greatI cr pro[>ortion when the worms arc numerous, when the temperature is high in the laboratory, and when the atmosphere is laden with moisture. This same acid is well known to be heavier than the atmosjpheric air; and it would fill constantly the "regions of pure air which are in immediate contact with the silk-worms, if care irere not taken to establish currents of air to expel it" (Note at page 263. Lonj don edition, 1823.) j The success of C'ount Dandolo in rearing silk-worms in 1814, when, as he says "the crop of cocoons generally failed in Italy." is mainly attributable to the ample space allowed the worms, and the means which he possessed for a very free vent itaf ion. This of course is nothing more than my opinion, and it may pass I for it is worth. These statements have reference only to cases where the worms | were healthy ichcn hatched. The best ar' rangement and management can avail | nothing for worms from diseased eggs, i An opinion that rearing* of silk-worms I // *>rrn oonoonnrinc ! art* more j?rucui u?us m #?##??> vwwhvi?vj ! than in small ones, has prevailed to some extent, both in Italy and in this country. In Virginia especially, this objection has I been zealously urged by those who contend that the culture of silk cannot be i pursued with profit on an extensive scale. Farts stated by Dandolo stand in diJ rect opposition to this opinion. I "In general the laboritories of the tenants, farmers and common cultivators, j ; have the appearance of catacombs. I say j ! in general, for there arc some few, who, although thev may not have all the roO ? 0 quisitcs of rearing silk-worms in perfection, yet have care sufficient to preserve the worms from any very severe disease. "I have often found, on entering the rooms in which these insects arc reared, i that they were damp,* ill-lighted by lamps | fed with stinking oil, the corrupt and stagnant to a degree that impeded respiration, disagreeable effiuvia disguised with aromatics, wickers too close together, covered with fermenting litter, upon which the silk-worms were spinning. The air was .never renewed except by the breaches which time had worn in the doors and windows; and that which made this seem more sad and deplorable, was remarking that the persons who attended to these insects, however healthy they might have , been when they entered on the employ, i ment, lost their health, their voices became hollow, their hue pallid, and they j had the appearance of valetudinarians, as j if issuing from the very tombs, or recovering from some dreadful illness/'?(page 0030 "The silk-worms succeed better in the I great laboratory, and form finer cocoons. eliAtu tlvit fhn j "1 in; IUIU1 IVOIIII n III .mull W?? ..... | great laboratory is less expensive, and betI ter overlooked, consumes less leaf, preI serves the worms belter from the attacks J ot'dLseasc, and affords nn abundance and i fine produce of cocoons." M. Dandolo ; observes, that having reared silk-worms, i in large, middle-sized, and small lahornlories, the cocoons of I he large laboratories ! were invariably of superior quality.?"Neither is it liable to breed so great a quantity of carbonic aciil gas, ormophetic air, so peculiarly noxious to the silk-worm, I as the small laboratory."?(Note, page I 298.) j 1 have recently ascertained that the mortar or lime from an old budding, wiioii used as a surface dressing, will produce a growth of white clover. In the spring of* 1838 a cart load of this compost was thrown j 011 apiece of land that produced nothing I but hen's nest grass, and a very feeble 1 j growth of that; in June last a beautiful 1 j growth of white clover covered the spot i whence the compost had been shovelled off* and applied to some trees a few steps disI taut. When I wrote you some time ago 1' on the subject of marling this spot was ' overlooked. 1 Layton* Y. Atkins. postscript. Among (he causes which have contribu1 : ted to failure, in many of the attempts to ' , rear silk-worms during the past summer, j the retarding the hatching of eggs by icc! houses, or otherwise, mav be named.? 51 The cause, however, of disease, must he ! sought for in the manner of retarding, or ; in the circumstances of the eggs, either I before or after they were subjected to the I process. If, for example, eggs had been I placed in a refrigerator or ice-house in I ! January or February, and the package i containing the eggs was opened frcquent1 ly in March, April and May, for the purl pose of withdrawing portions for hatching ' j or for sale, the condition of the remaining 1 , eggs would he changed by the sudden in> j traduction of the atmosphere, so as to s , render it dangerous to subject them again I to the full operation of the retarding pro J cess. My experiments, made the present , season, prove that eggs may be safely re/ | * Some persons have supposed that closing the windows and ventilators in rainy weatliei - nro rctcd the worms from dampm ss. This er rut jias destroyed millions of mlk-woruis. I I R. II, J840. 7 7 tarded until late in June, full tiro months beyond the natural period for hatching. This period, in Virginia, in latitude 38, varies from the 20th of April until the 15th of May. In 1936 it occurred the 5rh of May, in 1838 15th of May, in 1839 5th of May, in 1840 20th of April.* If the winter state of the eggs may he prolonged until the 20th June, i think it fair to inter that it may be extended to July or August. Mr. McLean, of New Jersey, has succeeded in retarding the eggs until the last named periods. But this is an important subject, anJ time, with oft-repeated cxperimenIs. alone must furnish facts on which positive co >cU*~I sins may be based, in the mean time a free communication offsets and opinions from persons engaged in rearing silkworms is very desirable. There is another cause which I believe has produced numerous failures in attempts to rear late broods of silk-worms, which deserves notice. In all early roarings it is well known that the worms and the leaves of the mulberry advance simultaneously towards maturity; and hence the worms have leaves suited to their different ages. But in many cases, when late rearings have been attempted, the leaves have been fed to the worms promiscuously, and consequently the young worms have been compelled to cat leaves not containing the kind of nourishment suited to their delicate organs when first hatched. I know it has been asserted that the young silk-worm will devour voraciously the toughest leaf; hut because the worms will eat such leaves to escape starvation, it should not be inferred that it does no harm. A little reflection, I think, should convince us that it is unreasonable as that i is unnatural. The following quolai ion from an article translated from the French, and published in the Farmers' Register, tends to confirm the opinion expressed above. " On the other hand, if the putting forth of the leaves is backward, and it is followed by beat that lasts long, as may usually be expected, and yet if but little heat is kept up in the laboratory, the worms will advance 6lowly and their growth will be prolonged. Still the leaves grow and Itceomc harder. and have too much consistence for he worms, in their backward slate" Th is. (hen, is a state of things in which the growth of the worms should be hastened by continued high temperature, in order that their progress may be brought up to l that of the leaves, which is an essential point." I will only add that the object of the French writer may be obtained without ; raising the temperature, or without the use I of artificial temj>eratura, at all, viz.: by sc| lecting the most tender and succulent I leaves for the first ten days, reserving the ! toughest for the last age. I have pursued ' this course for jive years, and have only had one late rearing that was diseased. The hatching of silk-worms* eggs had | been retarded until the first of August in i Italy, prior to the year 1778, andconse: queutly is not a discovery of American ini genuity. The discovery was of 110 use to I them, because the rearing of late broods 1 was prohibited by the government, to pre| vent the destruction of the mulberry trees. 1 (See Farmers' Register, vol. vii. p. 274.) ! ; * -~.1~ ?,1 Kv Ion v.. 1 firriuun ntit oni.iiiarivu " ? egg8 exposed to all the changes of the : weather, in our cocoonery during each pre. cceding whiter, with the exception of le'3G.? j The eggs lor that year had been kept in an upper room in Fredericksburg. From the Indiana Fanner. rut a bag a. ; Friend Wii.lets:?I am much gratified to see and know that the value of the Ruta Ilaga is rapidly becoming properly appreciated among my brother Far1 mors in this part of the country, and ' though the feeding out the roots is uttended with some trouble, the advantages of : their culture arc so dccidod, that wc may i reasonably expect the time is near at hand, when very few farmers will he found who ! do not cultivate that excellent root ; as i they can be fed out to any animal, and in ! almost any way, with great profit.? j They ran he raised with a great deal less j labor than grain of any kind whatever, j and yield a much larger crop; last season dry as it was I raised, I suppose, between five and six hundred bushels, or about twe | hundred bushels per acre. Some will nr doubt say this was a very poor yield ;indeed ; it was in proportion to what they will dr j in even ordinary seasons, but poor as il | may be, they were the most profitable crop that I cultivated. They were of niort value in feeding my stock, than a corn crop of about twenty acres, while the laboi of sowing and harvesting the Ruta Rnga was less than the labor bestowed upou tin corn crop acre for acre. My horses wer< j very fond of Ruta liaga, and done wel J when fed upon them. When I first com I mcnccd to cultivate of the Ruta Baga I there were many conjectures by some o ! my neighbors as to my success, 6cc? ' | These doubts seem all to be removed; am many have determined to cultivate tha excellent root for themselves. Last sea ! son I could have sold oil mine at 37 1-: ' i nrr bushel as I had manvappliction ... for them and all I sold were sold at tha 1 price, though I refused to sell at air . price. At that rate I should have mad | not les than 73 dollars-per acre. Now !e #+ * -. J*' * > . 1 * y ^- ? ? i * ,. < __ % % "* ' '# * ? . * \ 1 V t* ; , 1 NUMBfcK W ' i| ggagggg ^ " '" " *.? . ' 4 . * **" ^ mc ask my brother fiarme^ if l bad to hatfe sold them at even Tfo low' a# Id 8-4 eaatt per bushel, what other crop with tha aaaar lobor would have been of so much profit? Anthony The New Specie# or Balt(K08e, Oct. 3d, 1840. To the Editor of the American Farmer* i . Sir,?I think it proper to taiie the ear- % liest occasion to notiee the new wheat, ? drawing of which has just been puMiahed? in the American Farmer and copied into* % double purpose oi saving money and. trouble to all concerned. This new species of wheat, is, without doubt the Egyptian wheat, triticum c cup positum. For a draw ing and discription of which seo Loudon's Encylopedia of plants. The engraving in Loudon and that in the Farmer present, the same characters precisely. Beside*, I have often seen the Egyptian wheat and the head of the new species which has been exhibited to me is identical with the Egyp-. tian. This kind of wheat was introduced into England in 177G and from that time to the present has made frequent appear* ances in the United Slates. It has been called successively the Egyptian, Syrian, Manv-spiked, Seven-headed Reed, Wild goose wheat, &c. Ate. The name "Wildgoose" was given from the fact that a few grains of it were found some years ago in the crop of a wildgoose that was killed on the shores Lake Champlain. The name "Reed wheat'1 was'given to it because of its' stout stem resembling a small reed or cane It was received by the Philadelphia Society for promoting agriculture in 1807, from General Armstrong then our minisat Paris. Judge Peters took charge JQ&+A --- * part of it and grew ti fiyje^sffrTrars. It was at first very productive under his cultivation; a pint of seed sown in drills and** hoed producing one bushel and a peck 4>f * grain. But after three or four years th#' J udge says it did not thrive.suflictent to authorize extensive cultivation. At that time it was extensively distributed by the above society. Judge Buel says#he had seenex* tensive fields of it. In the Domestic fincyclopedia published in 1821 It is stated that the Egyptian wheat does not yield, as. much flour as any of.the other kinds and that the flour is scarcely superior to that obtained from the finest barley. In March 1838; it was selling in Albany, N? Y? *frfive dollars per bushel. It has several times been brought from Santa Pee, by travelers, and traders. 11 appears to be cultivated, in that country probably owing to its batter adaption to the climate than other Ifin/to 'Phfit flio ftjo/tA Tmtranc miorht have obtained it from fcjanta Fee, ie no way improbable. How it found its way from Egypt to Santa Fee, I cannot pretend to guess, unless a wiidgooscaJso carried it from the former to the latter country-; which, on reflection is scarcely more improbable than tlic fact s'ated above, that one of these birJs carried it to the shores of L ike Charnplein. From all thes? facts it would appear that if the wheat i 1 question had beicn adapted to our climate, or was susceptible of acclimation tc in other respects a good variety, it would have gone into general cultivation long before this time, as I take it for granted that an article that had been so exteusively distributed and so thoroughly ex* pcrimented upon, would have been retained and universally cultivated, it* it had been found valuable. During the twenty years of my agricultural expert* ence it has been presented to my notice at least twenty times. Your obedient servant. Gideon B. Smitii. From the Maine Farmer. Doct. Holmes :?In your last number, noticed an article headed,4 the Rohan outdone. " I wish to make another convnun* * ication on the same subject. About thfr usual time for planting, my son planted 1 lb. 11 oz of the Rohan potato, from which i he dug 120 lbs. At the same time, and ou the same kind of ground, he planted 7 oz. of another kind, recently ruiscd from ' the ball, by one of my neighbors, which we , call the t^ueen potato, from which he dug i 50 lbs., a little over 100 to 1, and if we i had planted the same quantity that we did > of the Rohan, it would make the astonish* ) inrr difference of 74 lb. in favor of the I I Queen potato.?The quality to say the > least is as good as the Rohan. Beat that t it' you cau, aud then wo will try again. > Respectfully yours, N. Pierce. MvNatoirrn, Sept. 29, 1840. I r Experiment with Corn. We are indeed pleased to receive Mr. , Wit.liaks' report of his experiment. Wo j would be gratified and the public would bo nothing the loser were such experiments more frequent. So tar as a single instance j- may go, Mr. Williams' experiment proves the correctness of the principles on which j it was conducted. We are convinced t that the common modes of cultivating this plant arc wrong, and they err in no par2 ticular more tliau in the mutilation of the rtx>ts. If this experiment, and others t which we have before quoted in support of ' his opinion arc not sufficient to convince the doubting, wc beg of them to try an *t periment for themselves, and 9eud us the result. jf A