

L849. 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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Spirit ot" tl)c Stgricultural press. 



Ob Sti >i Fi Nci s. — The 

 and \n\ il says -Peter 



. . and of * i rj r u me it both in hi ■ 

 and hi 



picuous manner of imparting 

 knew t'orth-- bene I 

 a paper was read from him to . ricultural So- 



on the subject of St< ■ Faues. II< 

 the cost of ki e] in • up limbi 1 fern es, wo ihl, in thirty 

 years, amount to norethanlhi worth if tho land, sup; 

 it to be worth $20 an acre: Tin vi n he pres nted was 

 tins : — 



An inquiry naturally pros 

 is the relative value 01 a farm fenced with stone, compared 

 i i or? Take the followiii 

 From the bi st accounts I have i ecu able to obtain from 

 fir mi ray own experience, it m ly be fairly stated 

 that one full month of the annual labor of everj farm i 



in the various operations of cutting, mauling, hauling, 



This is one-twelfth of the y< 



one compl • year in twelve, th ti ' ted exclusively to 



in i| .:,. tiring dead fences and as the expense is 



annunl, it is clear that the condi ion of < ch fences is no 



end of onj yi ar than at 

 — 1 think it may be fairly Btatcd, tl 

 are in place a stone fence do 



d that of erecting one Of rails, including the various 



itions above-mentioned. The value of the timber, 



(which is not taken into the ai advan- 



of having the Ian i cleared of Blone, will balaw 

 . ol moving the stone three or four hu 1 



hat on a form abounding will oni . md » h 

 trans] [think 1 fence 



of stone will in tin- iirst instance be as cheap us a rail one. 

 ise, then, two farms of 500 acres of arable land each, 

 in all other respects equal, except that one is fenced with 

 s one, and the other with dead timber. Eacli of them cm- 

 ploys twelve laborers at $100 a piece per annum. One 

 is •:! no expense, while he who fences with timber consumes 

 one month in every year, in making and repairing fi nces. 

 This is an expense of $100, being the labor of one hand 

 during a complete year. At annual compound interest this 

 would amount in less than 33 years, to $10,00!), which is 

 the entire price of the land, supposing the farm to be worth 

 $20 per acre. Thus in 33 years, the one farm would be 

 aide to buy the other, from the expense saved by the differ- 

 ent mode of fencing. It is true there- are not many farms 

 capable of being entirely fenced with stone, but there are 

 scarce]) any that do not admit of it in some degree, and the 

 advantages would be derived in a similar ratio to any part 

 whieli could be thus enclosed. P. Minor. 



The Lama and Alpaca. — A communication has been re- 

 ceived by the Paris Academy of Sciences, from M. Chris- 

 tian Bonafoux, giving an account of the attempt made In- 

 order of the King of Holland, to acclimatize the lamas and 

 alpacas of Chili. Four years ago. thirty- four of these ani- 

 mals, males and females, were imported into Holland, and 

 put into the royal park Scheviningen, nenr the Hague, 

 where they have propagated freely. The climate does them 

 no injury, and they merely seek the shelter provided ibr 

 them, when there is snow on the ground. 



Antidote for Poisoning. — A writer in the London Lite- 

 rary Gazette, speaking of the many deaths from accidental 

 poisoning, remarks : — " 1 venture to affirm there is scarce 

 even a cottage in this country that does not contain an in- 

 valuable, certain, immediate remedy for such evils ; nothing 

 more than a desert spoonful of made mustard, mixed in a 

 tumbler of warm water, and drank immediately. It acts as 

 an instantaneous emetic, is always ready, and may be used 

 with safety in any case where one is required. By making 

 this .simple antidote known, yon may be ihe means of saving 

 many a fellow creature front an untimely end." 

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How to Gkt Kid of Crows. — \ cotemporary says that 

 some cute fellow " down east'' has discover"!] a novel mode 

 of getting rid of the crows. Yo n must take souk; shelled 

 corn, and run a horse hair through the grain with a needle, 

 and lie a knot in the hair close to the grain, and sow them in 

 corn Gelds, and the crows v ill pick up thi^ grim with the 

 hair in it, and it , will tickle them, and they will kill them- 

 selves a scratching. This is giving them the " Old .Scratch" 

 with a vengeance. 



Thin Sow 



le, i • worth nt loan! oni thuua ti id 



i therefore send > on the comp irati 



suits of two experiments with five pecks of seed wh 



1 w bra'. This is the third year of i 



cnt . and as ii i!er qu inty \ iclds the I 



ing the addi ional see I. In oat • 



io wheat was c Ti- 

 ed, thrashi d. and : 



the laborei -. somo of \\ bom had m ide bets as to the i 

 The ground was accurately measured. I hod sever ipi 

 h ith only one bushel , certainly w 



i ire productive than the five peeks. 



i . field on the farm should bo entered by n 

 and self-! isti i \ proper i . 



ill si cure the former requisite, an I a goo I 

 ■ Ij constructed, the latter. Each field i hould be 

 numbered, and the number painted on the gate-post. Let 

 the farmer who has bars instead of gates make a trial of their 

 comparative conveni n them out and repl 



them without stopping, as often as he does in one year on his 

 - ty about six hundred limes, and he cann >t fail t< be 

 satisfied which is the cheapi t foi u . — Thomas. 



Deep and Shallow Planting. — C. L. Shepherd, of 

 Illinois, planted his corn-:ield shallow, or about an inch 

 except eight rows through the middle, which were planted 

 two or three inches deep. The shallow corn came up Iirst, 

 and kept the lead through the whole season. The difference 

 was discernible as far as the corn could be seen. 



Farm i obs, — We understand that an " Agricultural 

 and Mechanical Club" his been formed in the town df \u- 

 of. which is the free discussion of nil 

 pertaining to the interests of mechanics and agricultu- 

 The officers are J , > r i n Gavlord, Presi lent Wh. 

 Woods. Vice President; < '. Fkrris, Secretary; Joseph 

 Swift, Treasurer, The association .s considered an auxil- 

 iary to the Cayuga Co. Agricultural Society. — Cultivator. 



Premu a Crops. — The Ontatio (N. Y.) County Agricul- 

 tural Society, awarded premiums on crops grown in 18 

 follows : Wheat, first premium to John R \nkin, 45} bush- 

 els per aero ; second premium to Jared Wilson, 4o bush- 

 els per acre ; third premium, 31| bushels per acre. Indian 

 Corn, first premium to Uri Beach, HU bushels per acre; 

 second premium to John Rankin. 92 bushels per acre ; third 

 premium to E. M. Bradley, S3 bushels per acre. Barky, 

 first premium, to E. M. Bradley, 60 bushels per air. 

 cond premium to S. B. Dudley, 48 bushels per acre; third 

 premium to M. Adams, 4.3 bushels per acre. — lb. 



A BAROMETER kept in the same place undergoes vari ttions 

 of altitude, some of which are tegular and other irregular. — 

 The former, which depend upon diurnal tides in the atm w- 

 phere analogous to tides in the sea, occur about the same 

 time in the day ; the greatest depression being commonly 

 about four in the morning and evening, and the greatest ele- 

 vation about ten in the morning and night. In sumra ir, 

 however, they are an hour or two earlier in the morning and 

 as much later at night. 



Large Cow — The Detroit (Mich.) Advertiser, says ■ — 

 We noticed a cow in front of our office yesterday afternoon, 

 belonging to Mr. iiigley of this city, weighing more than 

 sixteen hundred pounds. This cow was imported by Henry 

 (lay some years since, and is of the line Durham stock. — 

 She was driven into this city from Calhoun county, in tins 

 State. 



To PRESERVE Milk. — If milk be introduced into bottles, 

 then well corked and put into a panofcold water and gradu- 

 ally raised to the boiling point, and after being allowed to 

 cool, be taken out and put away in a cool place, the milk 

 may be kept perfectly sweet for half a year. Or it may he 

 evaporated to dryness, by a gentle heal, end under constant 

 stirring. A dry miss will thus be obtained which when 

 dissolved in hot water, is said to possess all the qualiti 

 the best milk. 



Grain raising in Cuba. — The Philadelphia North Ameri- 

 can has Havana pipers to the 22d of .March, in which the 

 utility an I necessity of planters devoting their attention to 

 cereal crops, in preference to sugar, is said to be urged and 

 argued with much force an I earn «tn ss. 



Tools and Implements. — Let every description of tools 

 and implements be examine I, hive those requiring it repair- 

 ed, and those not in use earefully put away under cover. — 

 Such attention saves both lime and money. 



