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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



should be as much of an adept in purchasing as the 

 merchant. He cannot shirk the duty of being a full 

 busiicss man, without individual loss. 



In selling, the farmer needs to know the probable 

 demand — the extent of supply, and the probable 

 range of price. The price obtained governs bis 

 guccess. He should never seek to obtain an extor- 

 tionate price, and should use equal care not to sell 

 below price. " Honesty is his best policy." 



He should always seek to sell in large quantities, 

 and not be giving many small credits, which are 

 hardly worth collecting. A large price per bushel 

 dwindles to a small one when time has to be given 

 to the collection of item debts. That farmer who 

 manages his business well, will read the papers care- 

 fully — note the statistics — and calculate the result, 

 Jfo farmer should be the satellite of any other busi- 

 ness man. Be your own man. Be a man. Own 

 your own voice — ^your own mind — your own thoughts 

 — your own out-spoken words — fawn only when you 

 see truth bow to error. Strive to make Agriculture 

 the pillar reaching from earth to heaven, around which 

 the arts and sciences shall cling and twine! 



Homer, JY. Y. Jno. Sanfield. 



MIND YOUS BUSINESS. 



Sovereign Farmer! inside your own line fences 

 you are a Prince, by possession, treaty and conquest ; 

 an absolute ruler and worker with your Maker. You 

 are the mtelligenct, the director and governor of 

 your kingdom. Your adaptcess is shown by your 

 labor — your worth by your success. If a full mm, 

 men know it — if a gieat man, your government will 

 show it. 



Alind your business. Let it be conducted after 

 the teachings of that Great Volume of International 

 Law, given by your Maker. " Seest thou a man 

 diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings; 

 he shall not stand before mean men." 



If you act up fully to the teachings of this Book 

 you will be constantly occupied; it contains the 

 counsel of our Heavenly Father, and was given us 

 by Him, when by sin we had been driven from His 

 beautiful garden. Our loss was great, but our gain 

 may be infinite. 



If you mind your business, you will be interested; 

 you will find no time to be unhappy; your name will 

 be added to the catalogue of the industrious. 



There is much in the proverb of Solomon: — "Go 

 to the ant thou sluggard, consider her ways and be 

 wise." The ant and the bee mind their business. 



If you mind closely your business, you will culti- 

 vate your mind — you will study the habits of mis- 

 chievous depredators upon your possessions — you 

 will look carefully after the interests, and study the 

 necessities of your subjects — you will look to your 

 common interest in the school — you will, to this end, 

 do what you can. Koads and bridges will receive 

 your care, and you will look closely to your every 

 public interest. 



If you mind your own business, your Agricultural 

 Society will not be engineered by lawyers, nor your 

 best cow named by doctors, nor your annual ad- 

 dresses be buncombe speeches by ambitious attor- 

 nies. 



If you mind your own business, it will support 

 you — you will be a man of worth to your country in 

 example and precept — you will be where duty calls, 



shoulder to shoulder with your fellows, or on your 

 farm. You will perform duty with your whole 

 might — will act, will fill manhood's place, the full, 

 willing man. 



If you mind your own business you will be loved, 

 respected, looked up to, and honored by those who 

 do not — will lore and respect others. You will be 

 useful, an honored ruler, and enjoy sunshine in life. 

 Your conquests will be peaceful — laurels enduring — 

 victories undisputed — statutes upheld — name lus- 

 trous, and your golden crown contentment. 



Homer, JY. Y. Jno. Sanfield. 



AGBICTJLTTJKE IN V/ESTEEN NEW YOEE, AS DE- 

 SCRIBED By AK IKTELOGEKT SCOTCH FARMER. 



In 1853, Robert Russell, Esq., an interigent 

 Scotch farmer, visited this country for the purpofc of 

 studying our agriculture, more especiidly in reference 

 to the influence of climate in determining the best 

 systems of rotation, &c. The result of his observa- 

 tions are recorded in a work entitled "Nonh Ameri- 

 ca, its Agriculture and Climate," published at Edin- 

 burgh. The following extract will give some idea of 

 the nature of the work, and will be interesting, as 

 indicating the iu)pressions which a hasty glance at 

 our agricultural practices leave on the mind C^ & 

 practical and scientific Scotch farmer: 



"In company with Mr. Harris, editor of the '^?ne- 

 sce Farmer^ from whom I received much kindness, I 

 drove about twelve miles to the west of Rochester, N. 

 y., to visit some farms in the township of Riga. The 

 sowing of wheat was going on very briskly on many 

 of the farms that we passed, and on some it Was al- 

 ready finely brairded. Wheat is put in very early 

 throughout Canada a. id the United States, and the 

 plants tiller and are well rooted before the winter seta 

 in. In this ]>art of the country the farm burses are 

 a supei'ior class of animals, having a good deal of 

 breeding, and being similar in figure and size to our 

 carriage horses. They are very active, and a good 

 team will sometimes plough 2^ acres of light land in a 

 day. It is common to put three horses abreast in the 

 plough, and to make a furrow fnin 8 to 10 inches in 

 depth and fi-om 14 to 18 inches in bi'eadth. 



"The system of cullivatiiai wliich is pursued is in- 

 terestinc;. The land dt)es not strike one as being par- 

 ticularly fertile, but rather of middling quality. It 

 consists of a light-coloured sandy loam of considerable 

 depth, and having some boulders strewed over it. 

 But this soil seems to be as suitable to the growth of 

 red clover as the limestone gravels of Ireland are to 

 the growth of grasses, and hence its fertility is main- 

 tained by clovel" as our fields in Scotland used to be 

 by grass. The rotation that is followed is usually clo- 

 ver one year and wheat the next. Thei'e are few or 

 no soils in Britain upon which clover would grow with 

 vigour every second year; but were it not for this 

 property of many of the American soils, much less 

 wheat would be laised than at present. On the litcht 

 soils in this region, 1 was astonished at the fine healthy 

 plants of clover in the wheat stubbles. "When the au- 

 tumns are somewhat moist, a considerable growth of 

 clover takes place before winter; but the farmers do 

 not like to pasture it too close. An intelligent farmer 

 informed me that the common clover would last for 

 ten or fifteen years on these soils if it was cut eaily in 

 the season and not allowed to .'eed. By the system at 

 present pursued, the farmers in this district cannot 

 keep a large herd of stock, nnd the clover fields are 

 worth little money, being chiefly of use in renovating 

 the land. 



