THE OENESEE FARMER, 



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f ."ed. say one quart of graiK per fe.e*d each day, there 

 will be no nieuey lost, for your stock fviili come out 

 ia a thriving <s*i!(iit«>sn ia tbesprinir, aiid wfka you 

 see them rang^lRg tte &?W the first day «<■ Juiie, with 

 tkeir cid oo£ts eatirely oJ[f, aud tfcekr new osKfs 

 g^lifJeoK^g like a new Af'Sst'^B doiHur, you will feel 

 yourself tfenee-l'oid paid ifer «ire ie^w shiUings^ worth 

 of graJE tiey 4;ave consumed. 



Some jyeopk ia: fisirf vicinity are m the habit of 

 keeping their bUh^ '0«>vfijAoj jn a email yani, un<il 

 ^ass gets a eui^ciest sii£t for them U pick their 

 liWag; tfcen turn them oat at vwsse and i5eed tiiem no 

 nscjce. This idea I do n«>tsapporL Tfce sudden 

 chacfe Prom hearty hay "t® fresh, fistiiy pastsine, is 

 too muc^ for them; it.ifitoo physiciaj and fn^akea- 

 ing, — they will io«4: jf^r some time tike a 6fe;a5d<»w "by 

 QKKWjJigiiL i prefer -^viag them a large rsmge fr<jni 

 the ticse gr-aes fesgine to start, aad feed {(hem hay as 

 usual, and when it idoss tfaeen txj good they will make 

 it manifest l»y .peiafifesf^ t© <x>ms &b3 eat, when you 

 carry it out. 



Do not foyget'to salt ywir stock ocrce e-viety week. 

 I'-i aiy opinion that is often enough, aad nasae too 

 oftea, I think it a first rate plan to change from 

 one pastsee ifco another occasioni^'iy; once is tViree 

 or four weeks is offw a eiiosgh, nsalees the feed gets 

 too short to afford & £c:ScieQ.t supply for them. 



W, B. Oaratt. 



S^Jencer, A*. Y. 



2LTW1KG IN GEEEN CORN TOR MATSUEE. 



To -wltat Bjesms sWl ^rcners resort for the clieap- 

 est and <^uic'ke!!t i£e£.ni 'sf keeping thek farms 'm a 

 high state of cultivafiGti'f 



This is a subject in whicli every farmer sb&'&M 'be 

 int-ere^ed, and one whicl Should cali os-t tie ezperi- 

 Cftce of 8<-ieotific and practical farmers. It ia a, 'k- 

 mentable fact^, that most of eur farms are deterioirat- 

 iog, and are growifig poorer. The farmer who iias 

 ODO hundred and sixty s&ms of Isisd under eultiva- 

 iioB, 13 not able to manure more thao fifteen or 

 twenty acres .each season witTi his barfi-yapl macure, 

 and this is not enough to keep up the farm, witb aa 

 ooca-slcnal crop o1 clover plowed under as a gi'eesi 

 manure, unless it is perrcltt-sd to lay over several 

 years, wticTi but few tblnk I'ney chti afford to do. 



The means to which I shall resort are these:— Feo- 

 ■winter crops I shaFl break the fallows early, say about 

 tlie fixst of June or soon after, using the jointer 

 plow, BEd barrow it d>own very smooth, and theo 

 drill two bushels oTJcorn per a/^re., or sow two and 

 o.ne i^f broadcast, and harro^v it in,- bm I should 

 prefer to have it drilled, and then harrow afterwards 

 if necessary. The driti covers almost every kerneL 



AftftT it has grow^ s£ krge as can be plow-ed un- 

 der, which I ■shouid judge will «o<t be ■fur from the 

 first of September, or before, t"am it under. I have 

 a few a-cres whieh were driKed on the 24th ef Jnne 

 laat, v.'lrich is nerw nearly as large as eould fee plo ^ed 

 Kiider. K has •sow 'two niGnChs' growth, and would 

 cat ei2:bt or ten tens to the a^re, and will pro'bably 

 ^ow to several more, as it has .>u8t begun to t&esel. 

 Now, suppose sucfe a Jwdy as this ghoald ■be plowed 

 »B<56r, what isust be the result? It must certainly 

 be w orth as much as three or four crops of dover, 

 *Gd has many other advaevsges. It fs grown in two 

 or three montfes, aed is vecyeSectaal ia ekj.kinf 

 grasses ,acd otiier obaeiious weeik Tke ejcpense of, 



the seed is aat, very great at present, and when tli.; 

 sorghum is moine getner aijy cultivated, ii may bo ua&i, 

 and the eJcpeD.^^e wiii be very maJt&iia.lly legoeoed. 



Another advatitaf^s ia this JK«de of maaariKg h. 

 tiiCJe is no carting >*m be dooe, whidii atnoaato to if j 

 swttK eJii&, especially k here ilta distance is gi'^st. I 

 have 8*ets and heard of many wbo aow 6«cfewbes.'(, 

 and plow jl, ar»fe.r, for manure, but if [ am not very 

 m«ch mistakea, xJms ^s. would lea^,-© it entiteiy in 

 the eiiade. I have Bi€ffitMfs,9<i! this plan or mode »>^' 

 Kiaoyring to several farmers, vim ^^tirely agree witbt 

 me that ikis wiil aaperiede any Q^hesr greon crop as ^ 

 manure 



It EEiiay fee tikat tkis plaa has beero trie^ by eij-saf' 

 one. If so, 1 shoald fee g\sd to hear from tb€» 

 t'japosgfe your columns, i havie foartfiea acres wherv. 

 1 ^ic-tetM! to test it next season, and see if it proves t'j« 

 be as -vailiBtiaSife in practice as it appears in theorj. 

 We heser m^dk imw s. days about the detsdwslitm 

 of the ■wfeat «n©p, «,n4 e£ tc Ky opiijion that it is t*Hr 

 most .entirelf saesod 'by ibW datefioraijaa of ck^ 

 farms for the wjiM, ^f majavwe, 



ScottMnlle, Monroe Co., TV*. F. 



TKELL MTE TUBS TO CHESS* 



I ASK the ciaestion becausft by many ta this p&^t 

 of the country it is believfed taat it rsHt, althou;.t» 

 ■not by me. A few years sa^o I was in a mill wiwa 

 a man of my ac^nLaimtaioee bron^t in a griist tlsat 

 be calleS wheats there was certaiijlj as much co<k},t 

 as wheat, -with 4 fair aliowaii&e o^ chess. »- Mv 

 friend," said I, " wfcy do y\m sow sacJi sttiffas thai'/" 

 " When I sowed it,'' said he, ^ there was but littfe 

 cockle in it, but the wheat has turned to eodd*', acid 

 I caaaot hdp it" Xow, this man thoaght that be- 

 cause he gathered more cockle in proportion to the 

 wheat Ihtm he sawedj that tite wbe&i bM turned to 

 ccrckfe. 



Kd ever any ooe attewipt to find ont how nrach 

 more seed may be obtaioed from a single grain of 

 chess or eockte thaa froisa a graia of -wheat or nt?.? 

 Wfeile wheat and rye wi51 wittfer-kili cbe&e eekU^n 

 does. Th4e, together with the greater ftfiionst «>f 

 grains grown from the same number of seeds S6«s-ii, 

 explains, probably, the true cause of the npvtKe^a 

 change of wheat and rye to ehess 



I had a piece of rye the last season that was bad>y 

 winter -kUled. I-n fa«t there was mere chess than n-e 

 on the grmind, aJlfnongh ^kfev% maa but iitt^e ehesf;*-ia 

 the rye when sown. This *hows that -white the -n^ 

 was killed by the winter the ehess was more hardy, 

 and escaped. Farmers should not sow cockis. or 

 cfcess with their wheat or rye. If they do, and res*p. 

 they mil be suxfi and £jid the .ciieat, i'faot the wl e*i 



±. TlTtS. • 



Yarktown, W^stdkester Co., J^. V. 



Natiokat. Wealtb.— '= T^ene seems to be," say? 

 Frankun, " but three ways for a nation to acqiR>e 

 wealtL _ The first is by war, aa the Romans did. ia 

 pIoadefiEg their neigtborg ; this is robbery, lie 

 second by commerce, ivhich is fiequestly cheat kvg^. 

 The third by agriculture, the oaly honest way, wliere- 

 JQ a snan receires a real iflcrease of the seed thrown 

 icto the groand ia a kiiKl of coatiaaed miracle 

 wrought by the fcaud of Guo in his favar, ad a re- 

 ward for iis inno<eesKt life And his virtii&ya indiastijJ' 



