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22 THE GENESEE FARMEK. 



voided in the liquid and solid excrements, which may be returned to the soil, where, 

 providing there has been no loss, they will be more beneficial than had the food itself 

 been plowed in. This method also aftords an opportunity of enriching the nutritive 

 qualities of the food and greatly increasing the value of the manure by giving to the 

 Jinimals, w^ith the clover, rich nitrogenous foods, such as oil-cake, peas, beans, &c. But 

 this is "high fixrming," and requires more capital than most farmers are willing to invest 

 on their ftirms. To these generally, any caution about growing " too much straw" is 

 unnecessary : plowing in clover is the best thing they can afford to do ; and in a few 

 years, Avhen by this means their straw grows too rank, they will have spare capital to 

 invest in more stock and artificial foods. 



"Wm. B. Le Couteulx, of Black Rock, has furnished us with the following translation 

 fi'om the French, which we publish with j^leasure, and hi\s kindly promised us further 

 favors : 



Report made to tfie Cen'tral Agricultural Societt of Paris, upon the ditferext Maxadies extstinq 



IN Wheat in France, particularly a new Malady which appeared for the first time in 1851. 

 Besides the accidents from vegetation, to which the wheat is subject, and which in the markets* 

 according to these diit'erent accidents, causes it to be called, scalded, shrunk, melted or laid down wheat* 

 •fee, there are tliree maladies which are peculiar to it 



Reached by the tirst, the wheat is deformed and of bad aspect ; it is almost always deprived of the 

 re-productive germ, and veiy often of that substance necessary to make bread. It is called Rickety 

 — ^in French Rachitique. 



In the second, the grain, its envelope, and the ear, altogether, transform themselves into a black 

 and dry dust, which the winds or rains carry away. It is called Coal — in French, Charbon. 



In the third, the appearance of the wheat is altogether diiierent, the ear keeping its exterior shape 

 until harvest ; but the least pressure with the tingei-s will be sufficieut to criLsh it, and a fat, black, 

 dusty substance, of an infectious smell, will come out of it. It is called Rot — in French, Carie. 



The new malady which has appeared this year, (1851,) lias no analogy with those above enumerated. 

 Instead of Ijeing in the head of the plant, otherwise the car, it is in the low part of it. This is what 

 caused it, from its first appearance, to be called the Malady of the foot — in French, Maladie du Pied, 



That malady has its seat close to the ground, or between the roots and the fii-st joint of the stalk. 

 It consists of a mouldine.'SS which, at first sight, one would think came from being burnt. In some 

 cases, the mouldiness covers the whole stalk, when in some others only a part of it. The part so 

 affected dries iip, dissolution commences, and it soon loses that necessary strength to bear the weight of 

 the plant, which bends and then drops on the ground as if beaten by storm, where it would rot, 

 was not the hand of the farmer ready to gather it. 



In some parts, said malady showed itself ju'it as the wheat was beginning'to bloom ; in some others 

 before, and in many others, after. In the first instance, the harvest is entirely lost ; in the second, 

 the ear already formed still progresses, but not without some ditficulty, remaining short and the grain 

 small, giving only half a crop. If an incision be made in the mouldy place with a pen-knife, it will 

 be seen in the interior that the cellular tissue has lost all its elatiticity. — that it is no more impregnated 

 with sap, as when in a healthy state, the fibres being stiff, dried up, breaking, and offering all the 

 symptoms of a dead plant. If examined with the magnitying glass, it will be seen that all those 

 white and porous filaments are nothing else tlian mushrooms, wliieli, although but just rising, have 

 had sufficient strength to stop the ascendant 'march of the sap and bring death to the plant. 



This malady appeared most particularly in tlie country around Paris — in La Brie and La Beauce, 

 in the valley of Iscre, in the departments of the Rhone, Aisne, Somme, Oise, Meuse, Ardennes, and 

 many other parts of France, from which authentic reports are not yet received 



AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION. 



BY P. BARRY, FROM NOTES TAKEN AT THE WORLd's FAIR. 



I HAVE never seen a cart at any of our American Agricultural Fairs. There is no lack 

 of plows, harrows, wagons, cultivators, straw cutters, &c., but no implement-maker in 

 America, that I am aware of, has taken it into his head to make and exhibit a nice 

 farm cart. May I take this occasion to call upon them to do so. Will not our imple- 

 ment dealers in Rochester suggest to their ingenious manufacturers to try their hand on 

 carts. They will "take," — there is no question about this. We use three in our . 



