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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



GENERAL GIFFORD, JR. 



".GENERAL GIFFORD, JR." 



' Among the many beautiful stallions, says the Pal- 

 myra Courier, exhibited at our Horse Show last 

 week, we noticed a capital specimen of a horse, 

 owned by Eliab Yeomans, Esq., of Walworth, N. 

 y., known as the " General Gifford, Jr.," horse. In 

 his general form, although he is but three years old,) 

 he possesses the most important requisites in a stal- 

 lion, viz: — "as much goodness as could possibly be 

 condensed in a small space." His head is fine, eyes 

 lively and prominent, his chest capacious, barrel 

 round, loiu broad, back short, quarters long and mus- 

 cular, flanks deep and full, limbs shortjointed, flat 

 and sinewy; a Hvely, quick action, with head up, and 

 an intelligent and docile temper and spirit. Color, 

 chestnut, with no white. General Gifford, Jr., was 

 got by old General Gifford; grand sire, Gifford; great 

 grand sire, Woodbury; great-great grand sire, Justin 

 Morgan. Dam, a beautiful, clean limbed and very 

 active animal, of Messenger descent. General Gif- 

 ford, Jr., took the first premium at the Show. 



Turnips and Carrots. — My testimony is in ac- 

 cordance with that of " irJ." of Niagara Co. The 

 white carrot not only yields better, but I have al- 

 ways found it harvested much more easily. I con- 

 sider the popular notion that the yellow is best and 

 more nutritious, founded in error. 



I received from B. P. Johnson, Esq., of the State 

 Agricultural Rooms, a new variety of turnip — River's 

 Stubble. They have done nobly this season. I am 

 a friend to turnip growing, but consider it useless to 

 undertake their growth, even en very rich land, with- 

 out a liberal dressing of rotten manure. Let the 

 Buccesses and failures be reported. Who fails in 

 growing turnips on land manured especially for them? 

 I never have — have you, reader ? 



Homer^ JV. Y. Jno. Sanfield. 



MANAGEMENT OF MUCH COWS. 



As soon as grass begins to fail in the fall, milch 

 cows should be well fed on good warm "slops," that 

 they may not get a " backset,' and kept at night in a 

 warm and comfortable stable. If the farmer prefers 

 using hay. they should have all of it they will eat up 

 clean, and each night and morning a feed of fron: 

 four to six quarts of " shorts," wet with about the 

 same quantity of warm water. Or a more economi- 

 cal way is to feed them twice a day with about hal 

 a bushel of nice, clean, cut straw, mixed with abou 

 three gallons of meal, — two-thirds "shorts," and one 

 third " finished middlings," wet with three gallons o 

 warm water. They will then need no hay, and giv 

 an abundance of good, rich milk. Corn is too heat 

 ing for milch cows, and too mnch of a tendency t 

 fatten. 



The stable should be thoroughly cleaned ever 

 morning after the cows are turned out, and littere 

 with clean straw. When it is stormy they shoul 

 remain in the stable until the middle of the afte: 

 noon, when they should be turned out to get wate 



Salem, Ohio. David Street. 



Pumpkins. — There is much difference in pumpkini 

 I had a variety which kept much longer than t\ 

 common sort, without freezing or decay. They wei 

 solid-fleshed as the squash, and should be propagate^ 

 I suppose I have some of them now, but, as the see( 

 got mixed, I cannot telUuntil winter. Who else hi 

 them ? Save their seeds in abundance, and distribu 

 them at your winter Agricultural Meetings. Sec 

 some for distribution to the office of the Genes 

 Farmer. Jno. Sanfield. 



Homer, JV. Y. 



Six Drachms op Aluji, dissolved in quart of sa 

 tea, will stop a horse from frothing at the moatL I 



