New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-03


frs, vcar-it shoots out great quantity Of forage tn
second wear Wheat grows largely on the plains oi
rThehes' n is cut with hooks VITA teeth ike the
teSth ~ a saw They very rude impls ments, aal
The work Of harvesting progresses slowly
UIafore the most protfGhe Cr0D'.-T w. FiELD-
7 bol;eye the most profitable crop grown near the
CITY OF New-York, as well a. at the West, Is loiiln
corn. c.,,
cayrots can grew no bushels Of corn per acre bat
can't seinrg 20 grow IT, because DO better by
growing something else. have sold 5000 worth Of
hpbarb from threequarters OF an acre this Spring
meet 10 get another slOO and this crop don't take
ippcb work a. a crop. can get 900 bn-ies "
carrots per acre, and sell them at 30 bushel
parsaips this year Oh cents; beets, 20 cents bu-he
The tage of of carrots costs no more than
mere of corn the manure ST. 30 acre. do all me
work bv teams and machines, even the digging. Ny
crops all better than corn ri ITO bushels
Mr. FIKLD-An crops are profitable a right miod
one that cultlyates with skill But tal cannot be
market gardeners, however good they may be at orl
nary farm crops / don't think that one in
that tries, rases good crop Of carrots. kno"
men who grow rbubnrb, five or six acres IA
piece, that yields 500 acre. But all men cao-
not raise rhubarb, or the market would be over
stocked. i noticed OF the great rhub4rb-
growers on the Island blowing up part OF his plot
b. he had got more than khe could attend to and
sell prOftably. But you cannot raise too much corn.
What We want to know is. what l. the crop that all
can grow profit with ordinary skill and that Is In
dian com. because, if properly cured, the stalks are
worth So $50 acre for feed If properly cut aud
wet and sprkled with bran, and cows and horses all
eat this feed and fatten The top stalks are worth a.
much per ton "a hay anywhere and the grain here will
average Al bushel In Illinois il is worth Is or %
cents, and the stalks nothing.
joins G. BERGEN-As one crop, / think the potato
crop more profitable than corn, but would not advise
any farmer to cOnine himself TO any crop IL may
succeed one year and fail the next. Wheat sometime,
fails over whole regions When farmer gets con
fined to one crop it is difficult to get out Of it,
after il dOes fail.
Mr.. FELD-I do not advocate corn "a a specially
though 1t is a crop that will always se-you cannot
overstock the market with corn Tomatoes will some
times bring $500 an acre but that is not certain.
Mr.. A. BERGEN-Every farmer should always grow
corn, even where other things are fruitful.
Prof MAPES-I believe that potatoes more
profitable than corn. The high price is kept up by
our immense number Of immigrants. If 2iO.O)O i'm
migrants are landed here this year, they will require
200 900 bushels Of potatoes at least and that sort Of
extra annual demand upon this crop will always keep
1t at high figure compared with other products of
3he farm. Besides | raise kind of potatoes the
Mammoth Nutmegs, which sell for seed at >!
busbel. But esteem common potatoes certain;
profitable crop. shall grow 20 acres this year and
expect to redlze 81 bushel, and over 3)O an
acre though the average yield OF the country -
not over 100 bushels per acre. 1t Is remarkable
thing that all the neighborng towns are supplied win
vegetables from the city, and many feed upon stale
New-YOrk vegetables, while looking out OF the WIN
dow upon Il bare garden | could have sold ten acres
of Ihubarb this year if had had Il. We get great
prices this year for cabbages here because there
raised Of the first quality. l have sold l2V0 late
Bergen cabbages from This is profitable
crop. That year produced 500 an acre.
land transportation, and the crop requires more sk
Than corn potatoes
Prof MAPEs-Not one of ten towns on the Hudson
gets vegetables enough grown in its own vicinity for
rs own consumption. Even Newark takes ON, every
day, wagon loads OF stale vegetables from NeW-Iork
market
L. o1lsp hpai
10 people who could just well grow them as the
gardeners on the Hudson River.
A Ncc Farmers MH.-Prof. MAPEs-l have at
my house one of the most extraordinary machines for
the farmer that have ever seen. 1t is mill that
will grind quart of corn per hour with one by to
turn The same mill will grind wheat into -four, or
cut corn stalks into the best form for feed. There Is
no substance that will not easily reduce to Hour or
fibre for the farmers use. 1t will grind wheat and
separate the flour and bran at the same operation,
and then with the slightest change, the operator may
grind bones, and thai without duing his mill.
SoLoN ROmSsoS-I see deep expressions OF doubt
upon the faces of Of those here, and perhaps
they thinking that Professor Mapes Is cracking
one of his Jokes upon them; but do mott lndJr5e
every word that re has said--I have this ex-
traCrdinary mill aud gave my opinion OF II year
ago. 1t is Blanchards invention, and t.e grain Is
sawed by small circular saws instead OF being
ground and il will work revolution III oil milling.
A Self Nc4ghing CdHJ. X. ALWiSE OF this city,
exhibited Martins SelfWeighing Cart, SO constructed
that load of coal be- weighed at the place OF
delivery in five minutes time and il the buyer know
his own weight he can then jump on and prove 1t,
correctness. The machinery is simple, yet strong aud
not abletO get out ofOrder and five live tohave
an honest city government We shall have these cart
in universal use keep coal merchants honest The
additional expense to apply the weigher to cart il
about $40. The inventor says:
For has been ict 10 tho recall coal trade
apparatus which wOud convince the buyer o the u
fetty of the sellers scaos for however great the personal N
feSrlty the seller be- he might be himself deceived the
apparatus up0n which he depended Tor the true weh OF th
article he proposed sell Every who has purchased %
IL fully aware of and the dissatisfaction which has been
manifested IN large Cities and there found expression in the
public prints has doubtless been felt IN every place where t'o
j. o retail coal yard" .,
And we say many wis have purchased coal have
been most shamefdlly cheated. We hope this cart
will cure the evil.
The Club meets next two weeks from to-day.