THE GENESEE FABMER. 



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Feeding Cotts. — A correspondent thinks there has bean 

 a good deal of talk in the Farmer lately in regard to milk- 

 ing the cows, and rery little in rej^ard to feeding them. 

 nifl practice is as follows : Give them as much hay as they 

 Tflll eat } water them early in the morning ; give each cow 

 per day four quarts of carrots, beets, or potatoes, and one 

 quart of Indian corn meal ; feed them three times a day ; 

 water again at sunset. See that they are properly fas- 

 tened ; curry them, and keep the stables clean, and well 

 littered with straw. The meal adds materially to the 

 quality of the milk, and keeps the cows in a good, healthy 

 condition. Cows cannot bo kept profitably on dry fodder, 

 without roots. The lice are sure to find a poor cow ; it 

 seems as if they held a heavy mortgage on all half-starved 

 animals, and it is not an unfrequent occurrence for them 



to foreclose 



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SiiOBTruonn Bull " JIaster BuiTBBrLT." — This 

 oelebratad animal, winner of the First Prize at the last 

 Fair of the Koyal AgTicultural Society of England, and 

 at the Universal Exhibition in Paris, and which was sold 

 to Mr. Ware, of Camperdown, Australia, for the unprece- 

 dented sum of 1,200 guineas, arrived at his destination in 

 safety, and in good condition. We gave an excellent por- 

 trait of Master Butterily in our last volume, page 2S0. 

 We chronicle his safe arrival with the more pleasure, from 

 the fact that many fears were entertained that he would 

 not survive tlie voyage. Indeed, it was rumored sometime 

 ago that he had been thrown overboard a few weeks after 

 leaving England. 



" Feeding Cows for Butter — New Views." — "We 

 have received an article, under this caption, from a scien- 

 tific gentleman in Philadelphia. It contains some good 

 ideas, bnt none of any great importance, we believe, that 

 have not been presented to the readers of the Genesee 

 Farmer. Why tliey should be termed " new vietcs" we do 

 not exactly see. They are not new to us, or to any one 

 acquainted with the agricultural literature of the last de- 

 cade. The results of the experiments referred to aa " re- 

 cently " made in England, were given in a book which we 



read ten yeart ago. 



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TouKO Faemkbs should take the Genesee Far- 

 mer. — A friend writes : — "As well might the young stu- 

 dent Buaceed without his dictionary in learning the mean- 

 ing of words, as those who are in the incipient stages of 

 agriculture or horticulture without the timely aid of a 

 well directed and able periodical, whose every page is de- 

 voted to enhance the interest, not only of those who culti- 

 vate their scores of acres, bnt the mechanic or professional 

 man who wishes to make the most of his one or two acres. 

 As such, we have welcomed the Genesee Farmer, as a time- 

 ly friend from month to month for the last two years, often 

 fe«ling the reading of one number amply paid us for the 

 coat of the volume." 



To Destroy Weeds. — On some soils, a good method 

 of destroying weeds ii to plow, in the fall, as shallow as 

 possible the first time, and then shortly afterwards to plow 

 again quite deep, being careful to Imry completely tlie first, 

 furrow. G. G. 



[The Michigan double plow would effect the above at 

 one operation.]— £d«. 



Lime as a Manure. — A Canadian correspondent writes 

 that on clayey soil, lime should be applied in the caustia 

 state, on the wheat fallow, about the middle of July, and 

 immediately harrowed in, and the land plowed up into 

 ridg(j3 as soon after as jiossible. Let it lie in this state fly« 

 or six weeks and then sow the wheat. He finds from ex- 

 perience that lime so applied enriches and mellows clayey 

 land. On sandy soils he thinks lime is best applied " in a 

 mortered state, as it cools the land and it makes it firmer." 

 For pasture or meadow, it is better to compost it with soil 

 and barn-yard manure, than to apply it in the clean state, 

 nis opinions are derived from forty years' experience. 



Cultivation op Potatoes in Washington Tebbi- 

 tobt. — Jami;s F. Hunt, of Laport, Washington Territorj, 

 sends us an article on the cultivation of potatoes, from 

 which we make a faw extracts. " The cultivation of po- 

 tatoes requires considerable care ; the soil should be 

 thoroughly plowed and manured, and if dry irrigated. 

 Plant about the first of May, and when the plants are 

 about four inches high plow them under ; and when they 

 get out of the ground the second time about four inches 

 high, hoe them thoroughly, and repeat tlie process three 

 or four times during the summer." 



Fall Plowing to Kill Canada Thistles. — H. B. 

 White, of Sterling Village, C. W., writes us that a neigh- 

 bor of his had a piece of land completely covered with 

 thistles. He plowed up a portion of it in the fall, and a 

 portion in the spring, and sowed both with oats. " That 

 plowed in the spring was all thistles, while on the part 

 plowed in the fall there was scarcely a thistle to be seen." 

 It is suppose'd that the thistles were killed by the severe 

 cold. 



To Secure Male or Female Progeny at Will. — 1 

 have seen several articles on this subject lately in the agri- 

 eultural papers. It is stated that a heifer calf is invariably 

 produced when the cow is put to bull before milking, and 

 a male calf if put to buU immediately after she has been 

 thoroughly milked. What do you think of it ? 



A Constant Bsadsb. 



[We think it is all nonsense. — Eds.] 



Pikk-Flsshed Apple. — H. F. Delany, of Valley 

 Forge, Pulaski Co., 111., writes that he has an apple tree 

 in his orchard which produces fruit of " a pale yellow on 

 the outside, but when cut open is of a beautiful bright 

 pink, and some quite red. It is an early autumn apple, 

 very good for eating, but does not cook well. It is quite 

 a curiosity in this part of the world." 



Chester White Pigs. — In our allusion to the beauti- 

 ful "Chester White" pigs exhibited by Mr. Thomas 

 Wood, at the Fair of the United States Agricultural So- 

 ciety last fall, we made a mistake in the post-office address 

 of Mr. Wood, which is PcnningtonviJle, or Steeleville, 

 Chester Co., Pa., instead of Bemington. 



Lice on Calves. — A correspftndent writes that he finds 

 nothing so good for killing lice on calves as a strong de- 

 coction of tobacco — Gay about half a pound to each calf. 

 Wash the calves all over with it once, and again, if need 

 be, after two weeks. 



