THE GENESEE FARlVfER. 



led 



vMi•,^■V;ww.■wV^'!^^.lii»■';.,"^" '■'^ 



TOMATO RACK AND VINE AS IT APPEARS WHEN FULLY GROWN. 



en nail others at a foot apart lower dovro, to with- 

 a foot of the ground. If sawed strips cannot be 

 id, long thin polls will answer perfectly well. It will 

 en form a trellis, somewhat resembling the above 

 graving, which is a correct likeness of a plant 

 •own by me in 1856, and is but a fair representa- 

 m of a great many, only that it does not show half 

 e number of fruit which had ripened and been pick- 

 !, for it was taken late in August. I have grown 

 em so for many years and find that they ripen more 

 srfect fruit this way than any other. Train the 

 ain stem right up the post, and when it has set the 

 st bunch of fruit pinch out its leading shoot to one 

 «f above the bunch of fruit; it will immediately 

 ush another leader and also throw out laterals from 

 e bottom. Train out one of these laterals on each 

 ie of the main stem as shown in the cut, and when 

 iQj have set the first bunch of fruit pinch out the 

 ader to one leaf as advised for the main leader. — 

 hey will immediately push again and as soon as 

 aether bunch of fruit is set repeat the pinching. — 

 rain out other laterals a foot above the lower 

 iir, and so on to the top of the trellis. Cut out 

 '■ery superfluous shoot as soon as seen; cut them 

 it to the axil of the leaf but do not injure the 



To Save Tomato Seed. — Save the first finest, 

 noothest, roundest and largest fi-uit Repeat this 



few years and you will soon have a fine sample of 

 )matoes. I have adopted the plan, and I now have 

 lem, not flat or wrinkled all up, but as round as an 

 range, and as smooth and large as the largest North- 

 m Spy apple. Josiah Salter. 



Rochester, A*. Y. 



BIRDS -AGAIN. 



Messrs. Editors: — I have always been an admirer 

 of birds — the denizens of the air. TLey have always 

 appeared interesting to me, not only from their song, 

 but their lively, interesting habits and beautiful plum- 

 age. In my youthful days I was taught that it was 

 wrong to harm birds. 



Flowers have been called " the poetry of nature,* 

 a compliment which might be applied with even more 

 justice to birds; which not only vie with the tulip and 

 rose, in the splendor and beauty of their colors, but 

 in their sprightly and joyous movements, their elegant 

 and graceful forms, and more than all, in the variety 

 and sweetness of their melody, may be said to em- 

 body the very soul of poetry. To study the charac- 

 ter and habits of this most interesting portion of" an- 

 imated nature," has been to me highly pleasing and 

 instructive. 



Singing birds are undoubtedly for the most part, 

 found near the habitation of man, and commonly fol- 

 low the track of cultivation. This is part owing to 

 the protection which he aflbrds and the greater faci- 

 lity of obtaining food. 



I consider birds are benefactors as well as injurious 

 to the husbandman. They destroy millions of grubs, 

 caterpillars, larva, and aphides, which would have 

 ravaged his crops; but at the same time, some com- 

 mit depredations and havoc upon his fruit and seeds. 

 The wisest course is to frighten them from the trees 

 and garden at such times, or from the portion of it 

 in which they can be prejudicial, but to leave them 

 to visit it unmolested whenever and wherever they 

 cannot be miBchievous. Thus in early spring, and 



