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GENESEE FARMER. 



Sr.vt. 1845 



Cult VATOR for getting i.v Wheat. — Many 

 of tha best farmers we have f-een u-^e a cnl 

 tiiator, after the tir-t plowing and one harrowinj;. 

 to prepare the proiinii for winter wheat, and to co- 

 ver the seed It wuiks much faster than the plow, 

 and piiheiizps the soil nnch tiner. It covers the 

 seed deeper than the iiarrow, and not qvnte so deep 

 as the plow. Two-horse cnltivators having eight 

 or nine teeth are the kind of implement used. 



Franklin College, Trnessee. — It is worthy of 

 remark that Tenessee is the first State in the Union 

 ti estiihiish and maintain an Agricultural College. — 

 Franklin College is a brick edifice 120 feet in length 

 bv 40 in width, 3 stories high. Annexed, is a din- 

 ing hall 60 feet by 30, with a kitchen 24 by 20. In 

 aldition to the above, there is a dwelling 60 by 20 

 feet. 



The institution is live miles from Nashville, on a 

 firm of 170 acres. It has about 80 students at th's 

 time, but is intended to accommodate 120 when the 

 buildings are completed. Expenses for board, tuition, 

 &tr., $100 per annum. Besides practical farming, the 

 meciianical trades of saddlery, tailoring, shoe-ma- 

 king, bhcksmithing, wagon making, cabinet making, 

 and carpentering, are now carried on at the establish- 

 ment. 



Mr. Fanning deserves the gratitude of the South- 

 west for the zeal, ability, and success with which he 

 has undertaken and prosecuted this noble experiment 

 of attempting to unite learning and science, with 

 Afrricultural and Mechanical labor. 



Smut Insect. We saw yesterday at Gen. Har- 

 mon's twenty or more small brown bugs which have 

 lat( Iv emerged from kennels oi smvt wheat leaving a 

 small opening in the grain of smut like the apperture 

 in the nna throuo-h which the pea bug escapes. 

 Gen. II. placed full heads of smut, before the wheat 

 was ripe, into a closely wrapped paper for the purpose 

 of seeing if any insect would be developed in the heads 

 6m\it. The insect and heads were together when we 

 saw them yesterday. 



Mr. Hammon thinks that this insect is somehow 

 the cause of this malady. 



At Mr. Eiisha Harmon's we saw a head of wheat 

 free from smut on one side while every kernel on 

 the othey was nothing but smut. 



Butter. — The protracted dry weather has pro- 

 duced a scarcity, or rather a deficiency in the quan- 

 tity of butter. Speculators have made large pur- 

 chases in expectation of a great rise in the value of 

 tie article. If the farmer can just as well keep his 

 butter as to sell it, he will doubtless be the gainer 

 rot to sell very early. 



The whole amount of butter and lard that reach- 

 ed tide water last season, was 22,596,300 lbs. Of 

 th'8. Buffalo sent off 6,281, 600 lbs— Oswego, 3,521,- 

 970 lbs.— Whitehall, 1,068,000 lbs.— total, 10,872,- 

 000. 



Vegetables and Fruits for the State Fair. 



The Railroad companies having kindly proffered 

 to convey to Utica, every thing forwarded for exhi- 

 bition at the Fair, free of charge, it is hoped that 

 Monroe, and other western counties, will send a lib- 

 eral quantity of Fruits and garden Vegetables. — 

 Fruits are generally scarce, and those that have 

 them, should select their best varieties, and either 

 Bend or take thera to this grand State Festival, 



Potatoe Rot. — We have gained little additional 

 information in regard to the cause of th s malaJy, 

 since our la>t number. It ia hardly time yet for tha 

 injury of this season to develope itself. Many vines 

 are more or less affected, but the tubers but slight- 



ly. 



The potatoe worms which we took from the vines 

 wh' re the eg'JS that contained them were deposite ', 

 are now in the pvpa state, being abo'>t three fouitha 

 of an inch in length, an eighth in thickness, and near- 

 ly black, as to color. 



For the Gfnesee FarmT. 



OAKLAND FARM— HUSSEY'S THRASHING 

 MACHINE— IMPROVED FARMING, kc. 



John Delafield, Esq., of Oakland farm, near Seneca 

 Lake, has this sf ason cut 104 acres of wheat in eight 

 da^s, with Hussey's reaping machine; at a cost of, 

 1 man and team, 1,50 

 boy to drive, 0,50 



$2,00 per day. 



8 days $16,00 

 Int. on cost of machine, 100, 1 year, 7,00 



23,00 



The same work would have taken six cradlera 

 eight days, this at $1,50 per day, board included, 

 would amount to $72: showing a f-aving by the ma- 

 chine of $49: which Mr. D. justly remarks, is noth- 

 ing compared to the anxiety which every large wheat 

 growing farmer suffers, from the paucity of good cra- 

 dlers, their selfish caprice, their extortionate prices 

 during the wheat harvest . Many a farmer with an 

 excited, wo begone face, have I seen this season, ri- 

 ding about in search of cradlers : 'tis true he 'could 

 find ph'nty of wild Irish and others, who, like High- 

 land Willie, " could neither say nor do ;" but expe- 

 rienced era llera were few indeed : and when found, 

 onlij to think, the price of two bushels of wheat for a 

 single days work. 



This niachine is drawn by a pair of horses on low 

 wheels, it cuts a swarth five feet wide with twenty 

 knives, working horizontally, which are to be sharp- 

 ened once a day with a whet stone: a man sitting 

 on the side of the platform, pushes off the cut grain 

 with a rake to the binders. The work is done ex- 

 peditiously and neatly, not a waste head was to be 

 seen. A field of oats had been cut with the same re- 

 sult. 



My faith in the machine was secured the moment 

 I heard Mr. D. dilate on the ease of body and mind 

 with which lie had compassed his present great har- 

 vest ; when I saw the execution it had made, I had 

 no longer a doubt of its economy and usefulness.— 

 It is one of the few patented articles of the present day 

 which is no humbug. 



Here is a farm of 360 acres, without a foot of 

 waste land, with a surface and subsoil such as Lie- 

 big himself would pronounce perfect. It was origi- 

 nallv owned by the late Robt. S. Rose, Esq., who 

 left it a well manured sheep pasture for several years 

 after his denuse, it was let out on shares to tenants, 

 who did little more than replace a wheat crop by a 

 crop of weeds and thistles. During the two years 

 Mr. Delafield had occupied this farm, he has m Tie or 

 relaid four miles of fence, eradicated nearly all the 

 wild mustard and foul weeds, planted an orchard, 

 fruit yard, shrubs, vines, and flowers ; erected barns, 

 stables, sheds, he. &,c. He has an •►nthusiasm for 

 his new and truly noble calling, wbieh is, and ba» 



