Vol. 6. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



ference between the whole potatoes and cuttings 

 was marked and obvious in favor of the former,— 

 The cattle on the farm are soiled. Italian rye grass 

 is mentioned as one of the best articles for feeding. 

 It is cut four times in a season, yielding at each 

 cutting a good crop. Lucerne is sometimes cut five 

 times. The Scotch potatoe oat, and the Hopetown 

 oat, are the varieties of this grain here raised.- — 

 They yield an average of 80 bushels per acre, and 

 weigh about 44 lbs. per bushel. 



The typographical execution of the second Part of 

 Mr. Colman's work, is very perfect, and though the 

 matter is somewhat miscellaneous, it is of a nature 

 calculated to interest not only the agricultural, but 

 general reader. The style is exceedingly chaste 

 and agreeable, and a most beautiful moral tone per- 

 vades the whole. His remarks on the condition of 

 the laboring classes in England, show how vastly 

 superior are the advantages of that class in this 

 country. ^^ 



COTTON BEDS. 



We have received from ,T. A, Geurnsey, Esq. a 

 copy of the " Southron,*' published at .Tackson, Miss., 

 containing some remarks on the advantages of cot- 

 ton for bedding. These advantages may be sum.med 

 up as follows. It is claimed that " it is the cheap- 

 est, most comfortable, and most healthy material for 

 bedding, that is known to the civilized world." In 

 addition to these, may be named '■^svperior cleanli- 

 ness — vermin will not abide it — there is no grease 

 in it, as in hair or wool — it does not get stale and 

 acquire an vnpleasant odor, as feathers do — moths 

 do not infest it, as they do wool — it does not pack 

 and become hard as moss docs — nor does it become 

 dry, brittle and dusty, as do straw or husks — and it 

 is in many cases medicinal.'''' It is said not to cause 

 that lassitude and inertia, which is produced by sleep- 

 ing on feathers. People not acquainted with it, 

 have supposed they had been sleeping on the best 

 feathers when in fact their beds were made of cotton. 

 The relative cost of cotton compared with feathers, 

 hair, fcc. may be seen from the following statement : 



" Cost of a Hair Matrass. — They are generally 

 sold by the lb. and cost from 60 to 75 cents per lb. 

 30 or 40 lbs. will cost $15 or $20, 



Wool. — 30 lbs. of wool, at 30 cents per lb. t;9 ; 

 12 yards ticking, at 12i cents per yard, i}^l,50 ; la- 

 bor, thread, fee, 2,75. "Total $13,25. 



Feathers. — 40 lbs. feathers at 30 cents per lb., 

 Sl2,00 : 15 yards ticking at 12^ cents per yard, 

 l,87i ; labor, &c. 2,75. "Total $]6,62|. 



Cotton.— W lbs. cotton at 8 cents per lb., $2,40 ; 

 12 yards ticking at 12 J cents per yard, $1,50 ; labor, 

 thread, fee, $2,75. Total $6,65." 



It is recommended to run the cotton through a 

 " picker," where one can conveniently be obtained, 

 before using. This gives it additional cleanliness 

 and buoyancy. 



The substitution of cotton for bedding throughout 

 the United States, would be an immense saving, be- 

 sides opening a new avenue for that article to an 

 extent according to the estimation of the writer, 

 equal " to more than two of the largest crops of 

 cotton ever produced in the United States." — Culti- 

 vator. 



Hurrah for the girls of '44, cried a politician at a 

 caucus. No, no, luirrah for the girls of 16, respond- 

 ed another, and the sentiment was enthusiastically 

 cheered. 



MUSTARD SEED. 

 We have recently purchased from J. H. Parmlee 



of Ohio, a part of his crop of brown mustard seed, 

 raised, as he informed us, on 27 acres of good rich 

 land, prepared with as much care as is usually be- 

 stowed upon wheat land. The crop was well work- 

 ed during the season, and when near ripe was cut 

 with sickles, laid on sheets or wagon covers, hauled 

 to the barn in sheets, and there thrashed out and 

 fanned. 



He has delivered to us a part of the produce of 27 

 acres of land, 114 barrels, containing 382 bushels 

 45 lbs. of brown nmstard seed, weighing 52 J lbs. 

 per bushel, making 20,100 lbs., for which we paid 

 him 8 cents per lb,, making $1,608,00 ; and he has, 

 he says, 100 bushels of tailings, which he estimates 

 will clean up 75 bushels, say, 50 lbs. per bushel, 

 making 3750 lbs. at 8 cents, 300,00. 



Produce of 27 acres of brown mustard seed, 

 $1,908,00, or $70,66 per acre. 



The time is not far distant, if not already at hand, 

 when the interests of the American farmers will be 

 best promoted by devoting a portion of tlieir tima 

 and land to the raising of many crops which are now 

 imported from countries refusing (except when 

 their own crops fail) the surplus of the American 

 farms, and thus not only raise the price of their 

 grain crops by diminishing their quantity, but se- 

 cure to themselves a large amount of money which 

 is annually sent out of the country to purchase 

 these crops : mustard seed is one of them, which 

 can be raised here to a profit, and for which, if the 

 seed is delivered clean and in good order, the de- 

 mand wdl be found very active and certain. 

 Respectfully, 



J. C. Fell k, Brother. 



THREE HUNDRED SPINNING WHEELS IN 

 OPERATION ON BOSTON COMMON. 



In an address delivered before the Caledonia (Vt.) 

 Agricultural Society, by Henry Stevens, in which 

 the importance of affording suitable encouragement 

 to domestic manufactures is very forcibly set forth, 

 the author says : 



" We find in the American Annals, an account of 

 the anniversary of a society for encouraging indus- 

 try, held 1753, on which occasion Boston Common 

 presented a novel sight. In the afternoon, about 

 300 young female spinsters, decently dressed, ap- 

 pearing on the Common at their spinning wheels, 

 which were placed regularly in three rows, and a fe- 

 male was seated at each wheel ; the weavers also 

 appeared cleanly dressed, in garments of their own 

 weaving. One of them working a loom on a stage, 

 was carried on men's shoulders attended with mu- 

 sic ; an immense number of spectators wore pres- 

 ent at this interesting spectacle. The Rev. Dr. 

 Cooper preached a discourse, and a collection was 

 made for the benefit of the institution. Ladies of 

 Boston whirling three hundred spinning wheels ! — 

 These were afterwords the matrons who refused 

 British tea, and who never saw a piano. Wonder 

 if a thousand delicate ladies could not be seen in the 

 city, at their pianoes, whore one old fashioned rosy 

 damsel could be found at the healthy exercise of 

 the spinning wheel ?" 



Mr. Stevens adds — "The woman who manufac- 

 tures for her own household, and one piece of goods 

 to sell, does more to retain the solid coin in our 

 State, than all the banks, or the great financiers," 



