1849. 



E GENESEE FARMER. 



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Spirit o*' tljc 3griaiitural JJress. 



ANi.u Manure.— Robert Brj Cumberland 



county, about eight miles from Harrisburgh. hat 

 rimen I m-bark 



nd valual le is a man i ' 



rries on the tanning business, Fi- 

 nally. after i pense and many failuri 



has Buccei led in a method of producing from 



.i manure. Tins is his plan: He has his 

 tan wheeled out on to a level piece of ground, and leveled 

 off, two or three feet thick. Over thi ds a layer of 



two or three in -In g of lime, and over ih tt again a s ti-iium of 

 tan. i : so on I le lets the bed s pre- 



cemain i'ir two years: at the end of this time he 

 himself in possession of a bed of manui icts of 



which upon the land, can hardly be surpassed for the rich- 

 ness of its product and the durable fertility which it imparls. 

 Co., I'i., Farmer. 

 Proper Selection of Stock. — At a late agricultural 



lion in Derbyshire, Mr. '>. Greaves remarked that the 

 choice of a breed pf stock was as important as the manage- 

 ment [tBeemedto him that enough attention was seldom 

 paid to the particular kind of produce it was inten led I i ob- 

 tain from stock. The same breed did not answer for . 

 and Cor the dairy too; tor the early maturity of stock and 

 the propensity to fatten, were m ist observable when) 



. e functions were not so perfect, whereas the 

 milker was almost always a good iireeddk For early feed- 



•ck. it wodld always be advantageous to mix good 

 nursing dames with sires that had:; great tendency to fat- 

 ten. He agreed in the opinion thai feeding stock should be 

 kept well when young, but calves intended for the dairy, 

 and ewe Iambs for the breeding dock, should not be made 

 fat. — Cultivator. 



A Freak of Nature. — A communication in the Boston 

 Courier from the lite editor of that piper, Mr. Buckingham, 

 states that Mr. William Carter, of Cambridge, has a healthy 

 and well-formed calf, having a coat of wool instead of hair! 

 There is no perceptible did'erenee in the appearance of the 

 animal's hide, from that of a saeep of the same age. Like 

 the sheep, the face and lower part of the legs are covered 

 with sliort and not very pliant hair; th-3 rest of the body has 

 a covering of wool, which, to all appearance, may alford as 

 liberal a fleece as a true Saxon or Merino. 



Camklina Sativa. — Some of the Georgia planters, for 

 want of. sufficient encouragement in the cultivation of the 

 cotton-plant, are beginning to give attention to the culture 

 of Camelina Sativa, (or gold of pleasure.) an unctious seed 

 resembling flax-seed, from which oil is expressed in the same 

 manlier as from rlax-seed. The plant is a native of S^beri t, 

 but well adapted to our southern climate. It is an annual 

 growing from two and a half to three feet high, and yields a 

 large and certain crop. It is already in demand in this 

 country. 



Worth Trying For. — The London Athenaeum says that 

 the Belgian Government has instituted two prizes of five 

 thousand francs, with a gold medal and duo thousand francs 

 respectively; the first for the best work on general agricul- 

 ture, the second for the best treatise on the disease of the po- 

 tatoes. Foreigners are invited to compote, and manuscripts 

 are to lie sent to the Ministry of the Interior before the 1st of 

 January in next year. 



Extensive Coal Fikld. — The great central coal field of 

 the Mississippi valley covers an area of 70,001) square miles, 

 or 4-1,8 10,000 square acres — six times the area of all the coal 

 fields of Great Britain ; and yet. this vast supply is seldom 

 taken into the account, \\ hen estimates are made of the coal 

 resources of the United States. 



Singular Mode of Keeping Fish alive. — Those wor- 

 thy individuals who lake delight in Iziak Walton's art, and 

 who, moreover, are in the h ibit of s nding the result oc their 

 sports lo their epicurean acquaintanc s. must learn an indis- 

 pensable piece of information, viz.: h iw to keep fish 

 This may be done by soaking the soft part of lire ul in bran- 

 dy, and inserting it into the gill of the fish, while it is yet 

 alive, and afterwards sprinkling it over gently with brandy, 

 Thus prepared, and carefully pecked in straw, the fish will 

 keep alive ten or twele days, as may be pr >ved by putting 

 it in fresh water at the end of that time when, after a few 

 hours' immersion, it will recover from its protracted drunk- 

 enness. — London Literary Gazette. 



R re;.- FOR R.AI ■ >.— I. \ll 



ki pi under co .> r. out o 

 we uhei , durii 

 ■-.'. Twice oi eek, pepper, shallots, shn ■ 



uld he mixed up w ith th ir food. 

 :f. \ >m dl lump of ass ifiBtida should bo placed in t 



i their u iter is given them to drink. 

 4. Whenever tin j ma . the droopin 



the u ings or anj other outw ird sign of ill health, a lid 



i ito small lui '.Mlh 



their food. 

 ... Chickens whi i it from the dunghills i 



lould be the ob- 

 il i hose who h 

 s to preclude their young from the range 1 of born or 

 stable yard i. 



il. Should any of the chickens have th . up 



small p assafjetidu, rhubarb and pepper, in . 



m one-half the bowl <.>!' a sm dl tea p ion. 



7. For the pip, the following treatment is judicious: 



off the indurated covering on the point of the tongue, and 



give twice a day for two or three days, a piece of gar 

 size of a pea. If garlic c in not be obtained, oni i 

 or shives will answer, an 1 if n either of th ii nt, 



r tins of black pepper, to he given in fresh butter, will 

 answer. 



8. For the snuffles, the same remedies as for the gapes will 



ad highly curative; Inn, in idditinn to them, it > 

 try to melt a little ass tfuetid i in fresh butter, and rub 

 the chicken about the nostrils, t iking cure to clean them out. 

 it. Grown-up ducks arc sometimes taken off rapidly by 

 convulsions. In such cases, four drops of rhubarb, and four 

 grains of cayenne pepper, mixed in fresh butter, should be 

 administered. L ist year we lost several by this disease, and 

 this year the same symptoms m'nifi Ives among 



them; but we arrested the malady without loosing a si 

 duck, by a dose of the above medicine to such as were ill. 

 One of the ducks was at the time paralyzed, but was thus 

 saved. 



Vivegar. — Many families purchase their vinegar at a 

 very considerable ann ml expense: some ''make do" with 

 a very indifferent article; and others, for want of a little 

 knowledge and less industry, go without. It is an 

 matter however, to be at all times supplied with good vine. 

 ^ar, and that too without much expense. The juice of one 

 bushel of sugar beets, worth twenty-live cents. anJ which 

 any farmer can raise without cost, will make from live to -ix 

 gallons of vinegar, equal t> the bc<t male of cider-or 

 Gr lie the beets, having '. them, and ■ 



juice in ach or in many other ways, H I 



tie ingenuity c in suggest, an 1 put the liquor into an i 

 barrel; cover the bung with gauze, and set it in the sun, 

 and in twelve or fifteen days it will be fit for use. — Farmer's 

 Advocate. 



Chkss — Transmutation. — Reading the article with the 

 above caption in your paper this morning, taken froi i 

 G< aesee Farmer, I send you the following for insertion 

 Advertiser, or for the flames, as you think proper: 



In reply lo II. W.,of China, N. Y., I know fro.m my own 

 ei perienci , and from the experi uicc of others, that m 

 or feeding oft" wheat in the spring will not always i ; 

 to chess, nor do I believe it ever will. I believe the wheat 

 was mown or led, as stated, but do not believe the • 

 was turned to chess. I think Simeon J. Barrett mi-- 

 small grain of .shrunk whe it for chess. If you publish this, 

 I may send you another communication on the subject. — 

 Detroit Advertiser. 



Agricultural Fair in Michigan. — The State of Michi- 

 gan, following the example of New York, has organ 

 State Agricultural Sociaty, and the first Fair is to he held in 

 Detr ut on the 26th and 27th of September n sxt, pnvi le I a 

 sufficient sum of money shall be raised there : . >d 

 local expenses. It can hardly be doubted that the amount, 



I, w ill bj ; ■ >mptly subscribed. W 

 gratulat" our Michigan friends this enterprise, and antici- 

 pate fromlt, if energetically ano liciously pro i il 



ii ne ii i I r suits. No State in be Union is moi 

 vorably situated for proltabl^ agriculture than Michigan. — 

 Her soil is fertil •. her cli oate is mild and salubrious, >n I al- 

 most surrounded as she is by water, she has, in connection 

 with her extended system of internal improvement:, and 

 mi igable streams, un-mrp issed facilities for sending her sur- 

 plus products to market. — Buffalo Com. Adv. 



