1846. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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equally as consistent as the other. Reading 

 is necessary for every one who wishes to obtain 

 general knowledge on any subject, and especially 

 on agriculture. No farmer ought to be with- 

 out an Agricultural Journal ; but if you have 

 no taste for such reading, nor think it of any 

 value to yourselves, do not deny your sons and 

 their associates the useful gratification. En- 

 deavor to stimulate them to obtain knowledge 

 relative to their own pursuits, by reading. Sup- 

 ply them with books and journals, and encourage 

 them to read them. Value not the trifling ex- 

 pense, for rest assured that you cannot bestow on 

 them a greater boon ; for without it, they never 

 can have comprehensive views, nor extensive 

 knowledge. 



The Genesee Farmer, is purely a Farmers 

 Journal, and ought to be patronised by us all. 

 Were every farmer in Western New York to 

 become a subscriber, and occasionally a contribu- 

 tor, what a splendid volume of useful information 

 would it annually make ! Try it, fellow plow- 

 holders, and let the coming year prove that we., 

 as well as others, can obtain knowledge by rea- 

 ding. Yours most respecsfully, 



A Plow-Holder. 



Monroe Co., Nov. 24, 1845. 



Baldwin's Universal Pronouncing Gazet- 

 teer. — Here is a book. Edited by Thos. Bald- 

 win and others, Philadelphia, which fills an im- 

 portant hiatus in our Lexicography. All our 

 Dictionaries, I believe, are deficient in giving 

 the pronunciation of the pi'oper names of towns, 

 cities, &c. How often do we hear a man from 

 the west speak of Purr-dy-skin, Terry-hut, Bat- 

 ton-Rowg, Cally-furny, &c. &c. With the aid 

 of this Gazetteer, at a cost of a few sliillings, 

 every man can speak and write the proper names 

 of most places, in every part of the Globe. 



Every Common School in the United States, 

 should have one or more of these pronouncing 

 Gazetteers. How often do we form a favoi-able 

 opinion of the intelligence of a stranger, or a 

 fellow traveller, merely from his correct pro- 

 nunciation of proper names, and vice versa. 



But if a correct naming of places is so impor- 

 tant, how much more so is a knowledge of their 

 geographical position, statistics &c., — a very 

 graphical notice of which is given in this Gazet- 

 teer. In point of literary importance, it is sec- 

 ond only to the Dictionary. It should be pres- 

 ent in every family in which books are read. 

 Published by Lindlay & Blackistan, Philadelphia, 

 1845. * 



To Extract Grkase from Carpets. — The 



New York Tribune gives the following mode of 

 extracting grease from carpets : Cover the spot 

 with whiting till saturated-then remove the whi- 

 ting and apply another coat. Continue to apply 

 it till the grease is extracted. Three applica- 

 tions will generally be sufficient. 



For the Genesee Farmer. 



Letter from S. W., of Seneca Co. 



E. H. Bartlett, of Romulus, near Seneca 

 Lake, planted the pa-t spring an acre of Corn 

 for fodder, 18 inclies apart one way, 12 inches 

 the other, tl)ree kernels to the hill- He got five 

 tons of well cured fodder, and 54 bushels of ears 

 of corn. The land had been previously planted, 

 but had never received any organic manure ; it 

 was a clay loam, interspersed with quartz and 

 limestone pebbles. 



Five Ions stalks, worth this year $7 por ton, $35 00 



51 bushel ears of Corn, 25 cents per bushels, 13 50 



$43 50 

 Deduct expenses, one bushel seed, plowing land, 

 hoeing twice, cutting up, husking, stacking stalks, 

 and use of land, _ ^ 17 40 



Profits,.. $31 10 



Mr. B. also grew forty bushels good spring 

 wheat to the acre, this season. It was of the 

 Labrador variety, sown very early in the spring. 



The stalks and corn blades from the acre above 

 noticed, leaving the corn to go as extra profit, 

 will winter stock enough, if stabled at night, and 

 yarded during the day, to make manure sufficient 

 to keep an acre of ground fertile. This same 

 acre, had it remained in meadow, would hardly 

 have produced, this dry season, one ton of hay : 

 had it been kept in pasture, a single cow would 

 have starved on it. Tilled as it was, the huinus 

 in the soil united its hydrogen with the ammonia 

 and carbonic acid, generated at the expense of the 

 atmosphere, and evolved by the worked surface, 

 now formed a vegetable structure of five tons of 

 slender stalks, and corn blades, and fifi;y-four 

 bushels of ears of Corn. 



Often the past summer in passing a drought 

 stricken pasture, have I asked in vain for that 

 oasis in the desert of famished herbage, a green 

 acre of roots, or Indian Corn planted for fodder. 

 This should not be, in our warm dry climate and 

 calcareous soil, and a summer without a drought,is 

 considered a phenomenon. The closed surface 

 of manures, and pastures, has no inherent power 

 to retain the dews of heaven, or to make avail- 

 able to any great extent, the fructifying gasses 

 therein contained. 



Strange as it may seem, many of our best 

 Seneca County farmers, for the want of a single 

 acre or t\vo,thus appropriated, are now seen igno- 

 bly competing witli the poor villagers, in the pur- 

 chase of Shorts, short of nutriment as they are, 

 when manufactured at our sharp grinding Mer- 

 chant mills. Yet without this accessary, much 

 of our farm stock would be " on the lift,''^ as the 

 Virginians sav, before the coming spring. 



Waterloo, Dec. 17, 1845. S. W. 



A Good Wipe. — Andrew Johnson a member 

 of the House of Representatives from Tenesee, 

 was tauglit by his wife to read after his marriage! 

 Pie is a sailor by trade, and is said to be an es- 

 timable and intelligent man. 



