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THE GENESEE FAEMEE. 



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and would therefore be four times as valuable as a manure for wheat. Foods, too, con- 

 taining a high percentage of nitrogen are highly nutritious ; and not only are they best 

 adapted for supplying the wear and tear of animal tissues in working horses and cattle, 

 but experiments prove that they will actually produce the most fat and butter, although 

 these substances contain no nitrogen. Hence we may expect that, weight for weight, 

 peas will make more pork, mutton, or beef, than corn, barley,* or oats. 



Raising a crop of peas is attended with much less labor than a crop of corn, it is a 

 first rate preparative for a wheat crop, and is off the land in good time for preparing it 

 for wheat sowing. The principal objection to growing peas in Western New York, is 

 the destructiveness of the " pea bug;" but if we grow peas as here advocated, for feeding 

 hogs, this difficulty is removed, from the fact that the bug does little injury to the pea 

 till late in the fall, or winter, and in feeding them to hogs they may be given as soon as 

 harvested, and may be all eaten and the hogs ready to butcher before cold weather sets 

 in and renders more food and attention necessary. Peas are first rate food for horses, 

 cattle, and sheep ; but for the horse especially they should be very dry, and therefore it 

 is not desirable to feed them to him soon after cutting. So that, during the prevalence 

 of the pea bug, the hog appears to be the best animal for feeding with peas, and 

 answers every purpose. The pork or bacon from pea-fatted hogs is considered firmer 

 and of altogether a superior quality. "We would recommend that the peas be soaked in 

 cold water frofn twelve to twenty-four hours before feeding to hogs. 



In making these remarks, it is not intended to underrate our grand natural crop, 

 maize. In many districts this is the best crop that can be grown for all purposes ; yet 

 on wheat farms, where the principal object is the growth of wheat, we would not grow 

 com for the purpose of feeding hogs — peas being a better crop, because produced at 

 less expense to the soil, and afibrding the most valuable manure for the wheat crop. 



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IMPROVED BREEDS OF CATTLE IN THE WEST. 



No country in the world is better adapted to the raising of cattle and sheep than our 

 own great Western States, where land is not only plentiful and cheap, but of unequalled 

 fertility, yielding rich natural gi-asses in great abundance. This undoubted fertility of 

 the soil for grazing purposes, the fine dry climate, the cheapness of land, and the high 

 price of labor, all point to stock-raising and wool-gi-owing as the most profitable depart- 

 ment of farm economy in the west. In no country can improved breeds of cattle be so 

 readily and profitably introduced as in the new States of this Union. It is therefore 

 gratifying to observe that Our western brethren are making most praiseworthy eflbrts 

 to improve their breeds of cattle, by importations fi-om the Eastern States and Europe. 

 Last spring a company of intelligent farmers was formed in the Sciota Valley, (Ohio.) 

 for the purpose of importing cattle and improving their present stock, though it is now 

 by no means inferior to any, common in the country. Two good judges were sent to 

 England, in furtherance of the object, and it appears they have purchased and shipped 

 for New York, twenty head of very fine cattle from the north of England, and also 

 intend getting a first rate stallion. These cattle, it is said, will be exhibited in Cleve- 

 land, at the Ohio State Fair. The celebrated Short-Horn bull " Lamartine" has been 

 hired by Calvin Fletcher, of Indiana, for the sum of $200 for one season. This, with 

 " Earl Seaham," gives that State the two best Durham bulls in the country. The other 

 day, likewise, we saw passing through this city two very fine young Short-Horn bulls 

 from Col. Sherwood's stock, in the possession of A. C. Stevenson, Esq., of Monroe. 

 Indiana, where we believe that gentleman has already a fine herd of cattle, into which 

 however he wishes to infuse a little fresh blood. Mr. S.'s stock must be very fine indeed 

 if these bulls do not impr^e it. , r 



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