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GENESEE FARMER. 



Feb. 1845 



town office, had power to withdraw him — overcams 

 every iinpodiment to his success. Lahor omnia 

 vincit. 



I confess, that from that day's journeying to the 

 present time, I have never looked into the face of a 

 German farmer, however vacant and unintcllectual it 

 may have been, but I have felt a respect for the man. 

 Even after I have listened to liis coarse, uncivilized 

 elocution — his crude, disjointed notions of political 

 economy — his qaint, superstitious theology — I have 

 still fell a respect for the man. Like the Pacha of 

 Tripoli, who judged of the moral power of the naval 

 captain only by his large physical proportions ; so I 

 respected the man who, by the force of an early well- 

 trained muscle, and indomitable, persevering indus- 

 try, could thus bind Nature to him— the willing 

 handmaid, the smiling caterer of all his wants. 



The dilapidated and slovenly farm was owned and 

 managed by one who was called a " book farmer ;" 

 he was one of those unfortunate men whose hered 



cause of this complaint is, frosted feet and tight 

 boots or shoes. 'J'he fine ramifications of the 

 veins of the arterial and venous circulation of the 

 blood become disorganized, and the arterial system 

 forces the blood into the feet, which the nervous 

 system is unable to dispose of ; consequently swell- 

 ing and inflammation result. 



The certain cure for this complaint is cold water. 

 Take a tub or pail, with a quantity of cold water, 

 (if half snow the better,) set it in a situation that 

 the feet may be immersed till you cannot tell wheth- 

 er you have a foot on your leg or not. Take them 

 out, and sit till you feel a pleasant glow of heat : and 

 so continue 4 or 6 times during an evening, and 

 they will be and remain cured, as long as you keep 

 them from excessive cold or heat. No ill effect ever 

 results from this application. This remedy should 

 be applied before the skin becomes cracked or 

 ichorous. Its medical effect is the same as the cold 

 bath — the sudden alternation of heat and cold equal- 



Yours, Sec. 



itary fortune had strangled his physical education in jzes and restores circulation, 

 the cradle. That lack of self-denial, management, ,r . 



and economy in the outset of life, so inseparable 

 from the youth of the silver spoon, soon dissipated 

 the better part of his fortune. Determined to se- 

 cure the remainder, he invested it in a farm. He 

 now bought Merino and Saxony sheep, imported a 

 Durham %ull and Leicester cow, at an enormous 

 cost ; subscribed for two or three agricultural pa- 

 pers, and commenced farming. During the first year 

 he was heard to complain bitterly of the faithlessness 

 of hired help : the fact is, he always said, " Go, boys, 

 and do it," instead of <' Let us go, boys, and do it." 

 His farming went on from bad to worse — some of 

 his sheep died, others ate out one side of the hay- 

 stack, when, losing its balance, it fell over and killed 

 them — his bull broke down the fences, became un- 

 ruly, and was told at a tythe of his cost — ^his cows, 

 owing to exposure and irregular feeding, looked in 

 spring, like the cows of eastern Virginia, as though 

 " they were on the lift." 



Here was the melancholy spectacle of a man of a 

 good natural mind and temper, with a well-read the- 

 ory, so sadly wanting in physical energy and prac- 

 tice, that all his best resolutions were nought — to 

 sum up his present character, in one short word, he 

 was a discouraged man. Speak to the thrifty Ger- 

 man farmer about his neighbor's bad husbandry, and 

 he will exclaim, with a mingled expression of pity 

 and contempt, he is a hook farmer ! 



Thus is agricultural science brought into contempt 

 by those unfortunate men whe have had no early 

 physical training — who have the will to do, without 

 the nerve even to stand by and see others execute. 

 What would be the situation of that ship, in a gale 

 of wind, if, after giving the men orders to reef and 

 take in sail, the officers should go below to smoke 

 their pipes 1 It could not be worse, even should 

 half the ship's sails blow away from the yards, than 

 that of the farm whose master is never present with 

 his men in the field — not even at seed-time and in 



L. B. BIPED. 



harvest. 



S. W. 



CHILBLAINS, OR JOHNNY-CAKE GOUT. 



Mr. Editor — There are none of the little ills of 

 life more annoying than chilblains, or that burning, 

 swelling, and itching sensation of the feet of many 

 persons, so common in cold weather. There are as 

 many nostrums and cures for it as there are for the 

 ague, very few of which poBsCss any virtue. The 



"OHIO CULTIVATOR." 



Mr. Editor — I have just enjoyed a perusal of the 

 first number of this paper, published at Columbus, 

 Ohio, by our friend Mr. Bateham, late the presiding 

 genius of the Genesee Farmer. I am glad to find 

 that he has reached his destined point in safety, and 

 seems to be in such mighty good humor with him- 

 self and every thing and every body around him. 

 His first number is rich and racy — a real treat, not to 

 the agriculturist alone, but to the philosopher, the 

 student of human nature, the lover of literary oddi- 

 ties, such as D'Israeli — and above all, and beyond all 

 to the ladies. 



A large portion of this number is occupied by 

 friendly, congratulatory, and excellent letters from 

 distinguished agriculturists throughout the Union. 

 These are all in about the same spirit — complimen- 

 tary to Mr. Bateham, laudatory of his new enterprise, 

 and hopeful of his success. 



The prospectus is quite comprehensive, and rather 

 compact and ably written. But the " Introductory,"' 

 " Our letters of Introduction," " The Editor's own 

 Corner," and other editorial scraps, savor too strong- 

 ly of bombast, in my opinion, to be well relished by 

 the plain intellectual palates of Mr. Bateham's rural 

 readers in general. Some of the editors in the city 

 of New York, or such places, may indulge to their 

 advantage in these editorial swaggerings, and per- 

 haps the more lavish and inflated the better ; but it 

 does seem to be out of place — not what we would 

 naturally expect to see addressed to a plain farming 

 community by a staid and sober old bachelor like our 

 friend. 



Old bachelor, did I say ? but he insists upon it 

 that he is 2/o^m^ yet. Well, he knows best. Hear' 

 what he says himself, to the Buck-eye ladies, on this 

 subject of bachelorism : 



" Of course, the ladies will not expect the editor 

 to write articles upon household management, or 

 the duties and pleasures of domestic life, for the 



truth is — and it may as well come out — he is a 



— a bachelor ! Not very old as yet, however, for he 

 promises, as soon as the profits of the Cultivator are 

 sufficient for that purpose, he will endeavor to find 

 an assistant who is qualified, and will consent, to 

 take the editorial charge of the "Ladies' Depart- 

 ment." He hopes, therefore, that all who feel any 



