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THE GENESEE FAEMER. 



CULTIVATION OF BEANS. 



Messrs. Editors: — Beaas produce best on a rich, 

 loamy soil, but they will usually produce well on any 

 soil that will grow good corn, wheat, barley or peas. 

 There are numerous varieties, among which, for field 

 culture, we prefer the small round white bean, which 

 will usually get perfectly ripe in ninety days from the 

 time of planting, and will yield from twenty to forty 

 bushels per acre. Plant them in drills or hills, as 

 soon as your corn is planted, about two feet between 

 the rows, and if in hills, one foot apart in the row. 

 Keep the weeds down with the hoe, but do not hill 

 up the beans. When ripe, stick down stakes about 

 eight feet long, lay stone or wood around the bot- 

 tom, so as to keep the beans off the ground, pull and 

 stack them around the pole, the roots inward, cap 

 with straw, and let them stand until well cured, when 

 they should be drawn in and threshed with a flail, 

 and well cleaned, ready for market. 



H. H. Taylos. 



East Rodman, Jefferson Co., JY. Y. 



Plowing Without HEADLANDs.-^Comraence in 

 the middle of the field or land (as the case may be) 

 where you would finish in the ordinary way of plow- 

 ing. Make one furrow the length the dead furrow 

 would be if you had finished there, lift the plov/ 

 around and turn the team gee, and throw the second 

 furrow slice against the first, and so on. Avoid 

 plowing at the ends until you have gone five or six 

 rounds, when the broken land will have become wide 

 enough to plow across. Continne on in this way 

 until you have finished the field or laud at the out- 

 ward edge. In this way the teams never have occa- 

 sion to walk on the broken land, and you may keep 

 plowing all the time. The teams will turn "gee" as 

 readily as " wha," after going a few rounds. 



Ballardsville, Ky. W. B. 



WHY BITTTEE IS BEAR, 



Messes. Editors: — In the lastvolame of the Gen- 

 esee Farmer, some one tells ns why butter is dear; 

 but I think he attributes it to the wrong cause. I 

 live in a community of farmers, and I know of no 

 farmer's daughter that does not know how to make 

 butter; and some 1 know that have an ornamental 

 education, but it does not interfere with their knowl- 

 edge of butter making, as they learn that as they are 

 growing up, and will no more forget it than they will 

 their A, B, (J's. If the women and girls don't know 

 how to make it, why is it that the farmers have batr- 

 ter for their own use ? which I can affirm* they do 

 have, and use it too. 



The reason why butter is dear, is because it is 

 scarce, and it is scarce because of the increase of 

 populatios, which consumes the surplus in the small 

 villages, and but little comparatively finds its way to 

 the cities, unless from the dairies, and that is not of- 

 ten sold until fall. The only remedy will be for rich 

 men to buy stock farms, and stock them, in reach of 

 these Northern railways where land is cheap, and 

 the butter can be sent into market once a week. 

 There are many fauulies who have help of their owb 

 enough to manage a small dairy, who have not the 

 means to buy, or even to stock a farm, who would d® 

 well for their employers on s'ach a place. I think it 

 wonld be a better investment than bank stoek. 



Saratoga Co., JY. Y. A Fasmeks Wiys. 



Peruvian Guano as a Manure. — Last year I pre- 

 pared a piece of ground, hauled out at the rate of 

 twelve loads of good fine barn-yard manure to the 

 acre, spread it, and then sowed to buckwheat, I had 

 a large growth of straw, but, on account of the dry 

 weather, had but little wheat. After sowing the 

 above described lot, I prepared another piece by the 

 side of it, in order to try an experiment with guano. 

 After preparing the ground, I sowed at the rate of 

 one hundred pounds of guano, mixed with four bush- 

 els of ashes and two bushels of plaster, to the acre ; 

 then sowed my buckwheat, and harrowed it ia The 

 wheat was equally as good, in every respect, as that 

 part manured with barn-yard manure. A. F. 



Corinth, Saratoga Co., JV. Y. 



'' Selecting Seed Corn. — I have been very particu- 

 lar in selecting my seed corn. I continue to ciilti- 

 vate the same kind of corn that I h£.ve raised for 

 twenty-two years past, and it has greatly improved, 

 both in size and time of maturing. My plan is to 

 select the largest and best filled ears when I am 

 husking, and put it into a barrel or box until spring, 

 when I again pick it and reject all that is not per- 

 fectly sound, and the result is that my corn comes up 

 well, and, instead of running out, it is greatly im- 

 proved. So much for my experience in saving seed 

 corn. W. W, Gsahah. 



Duncansville, Ky. 



Peas. — Select a piece of clover sod where you eas 

 drain it dry ; plow in the fall as deep as possible? 

 drain it well. In the spring, as soon as the ground 

 is thoroughly dry, harrow the ground well, and sow 

 the peas, plowing them in about four inches deep.—- 

 Then go over the ground once with the harrow lengiii- 

 wise the furrows. To destroy the bisgs in the peaSj 

 put them in boiling water loag enough to kill them, 

 before sowing. G. Joslik. 



ML Brydges, C. W. 



Bone Spavin. — I have tried the following and 

 found it a good remedy for bone spavin. Take two 

 ounces of mercurial ointment, one Jounce of iodiiie 

 ointment, two ounces of camphor and six ounces of 

 oil origanum ; warm and mix thoroughly by holding 

 the dish in warm water. Apply twice, daily. Keep 

 the horse dry while applying; rub the mixtars in witis 

 the hand. It will cure in five days. * 



Niagara, JV. F. 



Cultivation o? Cosn in Indiana. — The best 

 mode of cultivating corn with ns, is to take a grass 

 sod, roll and harrow fine. Then stir the top of the- 

 ground between the rows often ; keep the weeds 

 out and hill up but little. The distance three feet 

 each way is about right. Four stalks in each hilS 

 for eight rowed corn. C B. Hzldktth. 



Dv^xmt, Jeff. Co., Ind. 



Beans. — The most profitable varieties of besss 

 which I have rasicd-~and I have tried a good may- 

 are the White Mountain, a large white beaa ; aad 

 the Dwarf Horticultural. The former is a half rat- 

 ner, and is very productive and profitable; the littes' 

 eaily aad gaQd. S- ^ 



