1841). 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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grass or grain cutting machine. As represented 

 above it is attached to Ketchum's Mowing Machine, 

 which is made to answer a double purpose. A far- 

 mer can use it for mowing; and by attaching the 

 platform it is made a reaping machine, capable of 

 raking its own grain, and easily operated by one man. 

 The great amount of time and expense saved by 

 this invention will be acknowledged when it is known 

 that in all other reaping machines it requires a num- 

 ber of men to operate them, or to bind the grain and 

 get it out of the way, for the* next swarth. By this 

 machine one man can drive his team and rake the 

 grain into a bundle and leave it smooth and even on 

 the ground, and out of the way of the machine when 

 it comes round for the next swarth. The attachment 

 of this " rake off" to Ketchum's Mower, or any 

 similar machino,enables the farmer to cut his hay, and 

 cut and rake his grain with the same machine." 



Further information relative to Ketchum's Mowing 

 Machine, and Pease's Raking Platform, can be ob- 

 tained of Mr. Samuel W. Hawes, of Buffalo, N. Y., 

 who is owner of the patents. See his advertisement 

 in February number of the Farmer, and also in the 

 advertising department of this number. 



NOTES FOR THE MONTH. 



H. Y., in the last Farmer, demurs to my use of 

 the term alluvial soil as incorrect when applied to 

 our formations. He says diluvial is the word. I 

 wrote alluvial, because every farmer knows the 

 meaning as rich bottom soil ; and all the subsoil of 

 Seneca County is of that character. Diluvial, I take 

 it, is often mere barren drift or detritus. The hills 

 of Indiana have been called alluvial by professed 

 geologists. But as I am far from accusing H. Y. of 

 hypercriticism, I hope he will excuse me for demur- 

 ring to the expletive he puts in a line of Shakespeare. 



The Sovereign Peo -le. — It must be admitted 

 by all the world that to the people of these United 

 States alone belongs the title of Sovereign People. 

 In republican France all is taxed to support a colos- 



sal army to protect the government, not against the 

 foreign loo, but against the fickle, factious people, 

 who made the government itself. It takes the enor- 

 mous amount of $328,000,000 annually to support 

 the republican government of France : whereas the 

 Secretary of the Treasury of the United States 

 estimates our expenditures for the coming year at 

 a little over ($33,000,000. The taxation of the 

 United States is only about one dollar and fifty 

 cents per head, and nearly all from a duty on imports. 

 In France it is nearly ten dollars per head, and the 

 revenue is raised chiefly by direct taxation. What 

 would our farmers say to such taxation ? 'Tis true 

 that the products of the soil might rise in price, but 

 what would become of those farmers who have little 

 or no surplus to pell ? S. W. 



CARROTS. 



Cyrus T. Deak has raised in the town of Mt. 

 Morris, Liv. Co., the past season, on seventy-tlnv.' 

 square rods of land, three hundred and seventy bush- 

 els of carrots, about one half of the yellow kind, the 

 remainder of the white field variety. The land on 

 which they were raised, is a black muck, with. clay 

 subsoil. The expense of raising the crop was as 

 follows: 

 2 days work of hand and team plowing and 



harrowing, $^.00 



4 days planting by hand. 4.00 



7 days hoeing, at $1 per day, - 7.00 



Expense of harvesting at 3 cents per bushel, 10.00 



$24 .50 



Crop worth 25 cents per bushel, 00.00 



Over and above expenses $65.50 



Yours, fcc., Wm. W. Deak. 



Remarks. — We are highly gratified with the 

 above result, as it is a subject, — the raising of roots, — 

 that we have taken a great interest in, and the ben- 

 efits of which we wish to enforce upon our readers. 

 Mr. D. has stated his price for labor, and perhaps 

 the value of his crop, too high — but with that deduc- 

 tion, it is an important result. — Ed. 



