stooks to cure; when thoroughly dry it was husked, the corn cribbed, and the stalks housed. The corn was shelled and measured the last of December, and the first week of the present month, and found to yield 5161 bushels of good merchantable corn. The Expenses of crop were as follows: Labor of plowing, harrowing and marking, .... $15 75 Six days planting at $1.00 per day, putting up twine 11 00 3 60 34 00 Five days cutting up at $1.00 per day, 27 days husking 150 loads of manure at 25 cents per load, cartage and The value of the crop was as follows: 5161 bushels corn, 50 cts. per bushel, and 11 tons stalks, at $3 per E. S. Salisbury, Jefferson County.-One acre 17 rods; 46 bushels 20 lbs. per acre. 1st. Previous crop corn; five loads manure applied on one portion of the piece. 2d. Soil, a mixture of clay and sand, mostly clay. The farm on which the crop of peas grew is located in the town of Ellis burgh, Jefferson county, between the two Big Sandy Creeks, about four miles from Lake Ontario. 3d. No manure was applied to the crop this year. Three and one-half bushels crown head peas were sowed on the piece. 4th. The ground was once plowed at a depth of ten inches, on the 16th of April. On the 22d of April, ground well harrowed down, peas sown broadcast, and plowed in with one horse corn plow, at a depth of four inches, and left in the furrow. August 11th and 12th, cut peas with scythe. On the 15th August, drawed peas and put them in barn-three large loads. November 10th, finished thrashing and cleaning; thrashed with common flail, and cleaned twice with fanning mill, and measured in sealed half-bushel, and weighed on patent scales. The yield was fortyfive bushels twelve quarts, and weighed 61 lbs. per bushel, making 46 bushels and 20 lbs. by weight. Peas have not been sold; are worth at my farm $1.25 per bushel. Expenses and interest on land,. Straw,.. ... $14 42 $56 72 4 50 $61 22 BEANS. E. S. Salisbury, Jefferson County.-One acre; 34 Bushels. 1. Previous crop, potatoes; forty loads barn yard manure having been applied before planting the potatoes.. 2. The condition of the land was good and clean, soil, gravelly loam; the farm on which the crop of beans was raised, is located in the town of Ellisburgh, Jefferson co., situated and lying petween the two Big Sandy Creeks, about four miles from Lake Ontario. 3. No manure was applied to the crop this year; one bushel of the small Early Vermont bean was planted on the acre." 4. The ground was twice plowed at a depth of eight inches; first on the 25th of April, second on the 2nd of June, then har rowed down and marked, rows 22 inches apart; marked with corn marker, by putting two runners between the others; beans planted June 3d, by dropping the seed along in the rows, about six beans to the foot; hoed the beans twice, 1st on the 26th June; 2d time from July 16th to 18th; no cultivator or plow was used among the beans. Sept 6th to 10th, pulled and stacked the beans on the ground where they grew, by putting stakes in the ground, and stones and blocks of wood at the bottom of each stack; eighty stacks were made on the acre, roots of the beans put next the poles; stacks four to five feet high, three feet through at the bottom; Sept. 19th and 20th, drawed, thrashed, cleaned and measured the crop; the yield was 34 bushels and 2 quarts per acre, measured in sealed half bushel, weighing 63 pounds per bushel, making 35 bushels 46 pounds by weight. Beans sold at my place soon after they were thrashed, at $1 per bushel. TIMOTHY SEED. Douw Van Vechten. Manner of cultivation. This land was seeded down in the spring of 1849, on oats and peas. The quantity of seed sown was about fifteen quarts of clover and timothy, half of each mixed, and in the year of 1850, about the 15th of April, it was sown with about half a bushel of plaster to the acre; the first of July it was mowed for feed, and on the first of October, it was cut the second time for seed clover; and in 1851, it was mowed for timothy seed about the last of August; and that the quantity of seed from the piece, of one acre and twenty-two rods, was nine bushels and eight quarts. (Proofs as required, by Society.) C. W. Eells, Westmoreland, Oneida County.-Timothy seed, one acre, six and a half bushels. The previous crop was hay. The farm is located in the town of Westmoreland, in the south-west corner, near the town of Kirkland, on an elevation inclining to the east. The soil is is a gravelly loam, in good condition; no manure on the land for several years; the crop was allowed to stand until ripe enough to begin to shell; was then cradled up from the ground high as possible and save all the heads; bound up immediately and set up in stooks and let stand about ten days before carting to the barn. The bottom, or stubble, is mowed as soon as the bundles are set up, and carted to the barn without drying at all and salted, one peck salt for every ton of hay. The bundles were thrashed in December, with a flail, cleaned with a good fan mill and then sifted over again with a fine seive. Expense of cultivation and interest on land, .... $7.00 27 00 CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO, By Thomas A. Smith, Syracuse. The sample is from a field of five acres, of very uniform growth. Soil a sandy and gravelly loam, with a free dry subsoil. The field, as I have been informed by a former owner, was well manured for a single season, some eight years ago, with stable manure, and planted to corn. Since then it has been cropped with wheat, oats, &c., having been constantly under the plow, without additional manuring, except the use of plaster. In 1850 it was sown to Spring wheat-the field very foul with quack, and crop light. 1851.-Plowed last of April six or seven inches deep, and followed with the subsoil plow, loosening the bottom of the furrow six or seven inches in addition. Harrowed, and left the field at rest till the fore part of June, when about one-hundred one-horse cart-loads, principally of horse manure, (or twenty loads of twenty bushels per load per acre,) were spread, and covered with a two horse wheel cultivator. There were mixed with the manure about ten bushels of plaster, twenty of lime, and fifty or more of ashes. The plaster and ashes were spread over the heap to prevent the escape of the gases, the manure having been gathered and piled up during the spring-while the lime was mixed with the coarser portions to hasten decomposition. By the subsequent shoveling to and from the cart, these substances are supposed to have been generally diffused through the mass, and evenly spread over the field, which gave a dressing of lime, plaster, and ashes, of about twenty bushels to the acre, in addition to the manure, and combined with and preserving some of its best properties. Large quantities of quack roots were loosened by the cultivator, which were raked into winrows by a wire tooth horse rake, and carted off the field. This process was repeated, the second time crossing the field diagonally to the first. The cultivating, &c., effected a tripple purpose-freeing the field in some good measure of what to most farmers is considered a formidable enemy, the quack-thoroughly incorporating the manure with the soil at a |