Vol. VII. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y., OCTOBER, 1846. 



No. 10. 



THE GENESEE FARMER : 



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Agricultural Improvement in England. 



We have received through the Mark Lane 

 Expres? and other English journals full accounts 

 of the great Fairs held this season in Great Brit- 

 ain. The recent change in the Corn Laws has 

 not the effect to dampen the ai'dor with which 

 improvements in grain and root culture have 

 been prosecuted. Be the prices what they may, 

 Englishmen will continue to augment their crops 

 and ability to feed their own people, for many 

 years to come. Hitherto there has been a strong 

 popular prejudice again.st the use of labor-eaving 

 machinery, and steam power, in rural affairs. — 

 It was thouglit to diminish the demand for manu- 

 al labor. Experience, however, has satisfied the 

 more intelligent poi-tion of laboring persons that 

 instead of lessening the demand for their services, 

 the use of machinery and improved implements 

 has the effect to render their skill and toil more 

 valuable, because they are far more productive. 

 Having seen men in cur own Legislature who 

 are truly learned in matters of law, politics, and 

 classical literature, denounce the use of labor- 



into his hand and his labor would be worth five 

 times more than it would with a small knife. Give 

 him a good cradle and let him know how to use 

 it, and his labor will be worth as much again as 

 it was with the sickle. Now, let him learn to 

 use a good reaper propelled by horse-power that 

 will cut 20 acres of wheat in a day, and his labor 

 will be twice as valuable as it was with a cradle. 

 In England, a single steain engine reclaims, by 

 pumping out the water, 30,000 acres of waste 

 land, which gives employment to 5,000 person?. 

 Is this engine a had or a good thing ? 



The great imj)rovement of this year is an ad- 

 mirable contrivance to transport manure from the 

 barn-yard to the fields and spread it, without the 

 labor of hauling in any form. It also combines 

 the advantage of a great saving in the fertilizing 

 elements contained in the excretions of animals, 

 and rotted vegetables. These ingredients are 

 composted in a large reservoir, and leached, like 

 tan-bark in a large leather fiictory, to dissolve 

 out all the fertilizing matter in the manure. — 

 From the reservoir (which is on high ground) 

 the liquid is conveyed under ground in wooden 

 pump-logs or coarse linen hose pitched with tar 

 and rosin, to all the fields. Hose is fastened to 

 the tube containing the liquid in the field, which 

 liquid is distributed over an acre of ground, as 

 water may be over a like surface from the move- 

 able hose of a fire engine. 



In this way, it will be seen that the farmer can 

 apply as little or as much, and as often as he 

 chooses, any compound of soluble ingredients to 

 his crops. The expense of putting down cement 

 pipes, in many parts of this state, which will last 

 for ages, can not be great. Indeed, we think the 

 gain in using manure in a liquid state, and hav- 

 ing the barn on the highest ground so that it will 

 run, by its own gravity, into every field, will be 

 greater to the husbandman than the advantage to 

 the tanner of leaching his bark in a vast reser- 



saving machinery as a wrong done to the poor 



who must work for a living, we will say a word voir, and permitting the ooze to flow through ten 



or two on the merits of this question. The ser- thousand sides of leather, instead of laying them 



vice of a man to harvest wheat with a jack-knife all away by hand in ground bark. 



would be worth next to nothing. Put a sickle! Who among our readers will refuse to studij 



