THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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thirty-sis hours before skimming, according to the 

 weather. My cream is churned soon after it is taken 

 from the luilk, when it is sweet. I'lie butter, when 

 taken from the churn, is rinsed in cold water, then 

 salted with fine rock salt, about one ounce to the 

 pound; it is then put in a cool place until the next 

 aay ; then worked over and made into balls, and 

 packed in a stone pot, covered closely." 



Good Bcttkr Commands Good Prices. — The Com- 

 mittee of the AVorcester North Society, in their re- 

 port on butter, well observe: "So important has this 

 product of our farms become, that she who success- 

 fully vies with her sister dairy- women in producing 

 the purest, sweetest and most palatable article, can 

 command for it her own price, and stand forth as the 

 undisputed sovereign of the product of her skill and 

 industry, without a rival. Such a position of ce- 

 lebrity, however, is occupied but by the few, while 

 the mass plod on iu the old beaten track, with but 

 little, seemingly, to care or hope for. 



" The demand for good butter, both at home and 

 abroad, is rapidly increasing, and should stimulate 

 our farmers, not only to increase its supply, but, so 

 far as possible, improve its quality." 



ITEMS SUGGESTED BY THE AUGUST NUMBER. 



Hatixg is, or ought to be, about over, and our 

 farmers fairly into the barley and wheat harvest. 

 Harvest ! pleasant word ! used to have but one 

 meaning for us — the time of the ingathering of the 

 wheat crop — the great staple of Western New York. 

 Now other crops rightly take the precedent — wheat 

 having withdrawn from the field in a great measure, 

 uuder the pressure of its tiny but powerful enemy. 

 But it's " all right," and we shall find and acknowl- 

 edge it so in the end, 1 dare say. 



Varities of Wheat. — Some competent man might 

 do a good service to American Agriculture by gath- 

 ^ing all the information available on the different 

 varieties of wheat, and their adaptation to different 

 soils and climates. I should like to know more about 

 them, and not as now be in doubt whether any for- 

 eign variety I hear of, be nottiing but one common 

 to us uuder a different name. There may be some 

 work containing such description, etc., but if so, I 

 have never chanced to hear of it. Meanwhile, let us 

 have such information through the Farmer; you 

 have made a good beginning in the present num- 

 ber. 



Carrots — White and Orange. — Mr. Brodie, says 

 " the yield of the white carrots was much greater 

 than that of the orange." So I have found it, and I 

 find, too, the white carrot more palatable for table 

 use than the orange. We cooked a good many last 

 winter and spring, the same as one would parsneps, 

 and they were esteemed quite a luxury by all who 

 tasted them. The cows seem to have the same opin- 

 ion of them in a raw state, and " gave down" much 

 better while they lasted. 



The May Beetle. — I found large quantities of 

 these " bugs," while working in my garden this spring, 

 and at evening the cherry and butternut trees near, 

 seemed all alive with them. I am glad Dr. Fitch 

 has given us this full account of them, and hope you 

 will secure one as particular of the cut and wire 

 worms. 



Ohjects of Hoeinq. — The "second" o))ject — to 

 drstroy weeds has been one of the chief, the present 

 rainy summer. I wish " B. F." would go into our 

 bears awhile, and there give us an example of his 

 prowess. 



Surface Manures. — Friend McVean, always 

 writes to the point, and never more so than in this 

 brief article. 1 hope he will favor your readers 

 often. 



Sheep on Good Land. — A little extra attention 

 to our flock last winter, convinces me that sheep will 

 repay good care — that it is most profitable to give 

 them such. I mean to go a little farther, next win- 

 ter, and Mr. Johnston's article gives me just the " in- 

 formation wanted" on the subject. 



Sound Corn. — The method of securing corn stalks 

 when cut up in autumn, recommended by your Pa. 

 correspondent, is the only safe one, and answers the 

 best results with the least trouble in the end. The 

 corn will be much better, and the same is true of the 

 stalks, and we had better leave them thus stacked in 

 the field until mid-winter, than to place in a large 

 mow or stack to heat or mould, as is too often the 

 case when so secured. 



Teaching Animals. — Animals will acquire good 

 habits just as easily as bad ones, and it is really worth 

 while to teach them when young to be gentle and 

 obedient. If well fed and comfortably cared for, 

 they will be quiet — if starved, nature prompts them 

 to seek food and shelter, wherever it may be found. 

 Bro. Sanfield, is a schoolmaster, both to the herds 

 and flocks, and to the " young ideas" of his country, 

 and his advice is worth listening to, and followmg. 



Clean Me.a.dows. — We pay too little attention to 

 clearing our meadows of sticks and stone, and this 

 neglect brings double the expense in injury to 

 scythes, rakes, and mowing machines, as well as in 

 loss of hay and temper. When I was a boy, mea- 

 dows were " picked up" every spring— there was no 

 excuse for a loose stone or a stick left upon thera. 

 Now, boys have too much play on their hands, for 

 this, besides they " don't like to do it." 



Shade Trees.— Too many shade trees, is almost as 

 great an evil as none at all, and one fine, full grown spe- 

 cimen, is worth a dozen spindle-trunked and half- 

 headed trees, crowded into the space which the first 

 named would fully occupy. I have a single maple 

 near my house, which I value more highly because it 

 does not discommode me, and is really an ornament 

 to the grounds-^a noticeable feature thereof. 



Angle Worms. — 1 never knew a soil full of angle 

 worms which would not bake, as described by Mr. 

 Edwaeds. They work in it when wet — making mor- 

 tar wherever they go, and when it dries it becomes 

 hard whatever the character of the drainage mary 

 be. How to get rid of them, is more thau Dean under- 

 take to say. B. 



JViagara Co., JV. Y. 



Growth of the " Sorghxtm.'^ The sugar cane is 

 a slow grower in such cold, wet weather as has been 

 ours the present summer. Mine looks thrifty, and 

 now, early in August, is about three feet high, with 

 only a small show of suckers, except in hiUa with bat 

 two or three stalks. R 



Niagara Co., JV. Y. 



