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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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DEATH CF MR BATES, AND SALU OF HIS HERD. 



i . (li \. Farm eh: Ulow me here\t ith to fur- 

 nish you for I 



of a letti r I i 

 i rivul of a 



rt Beli . I Kirkleavinj t< d, Ai 



. He n marl 

 •■It is my painful duty, to announce to you, thai 

 our late n fi iend, Thom is Bates, Ks. [., 



: ir '. His s] irit r. turned to God 

 I ie 2Gth July last, after an 



aid of him, in his death, his country has 



t loss : mor arly its agricultural 



community, as he was a practical agriculturist of a 



ting mind and great experience, lie more 



parti< led in the si ience of br< eding, 



iallj in thi of sh< rt horn cattle. He 



zinced a livel} interest in this depart- 



. raid by nature he seemed highly qualified not 



to become conspicuous, bu1 successful, in this 



branch of his profession; and the result of his sixty 



rs of daily practical application, has, 



! the question of a doubt, placed him in the 



ranks, < f the most successful breeders Eng 



ha: ever produced. . 



: reputation and standing of his 

 ■■•.- herd of : hort horns is well known and ap- 

 pr ciat< ■ '. 'i he | ublic will now have an oppor- 

 tunity to ju ■ ir merits, as they will be oi 



. m, probably next, spring or summer. 

 The time of sal \ is i ot yet fixed, bu i as it 



is, I will take the earliest opportunity of informing 

 i intend offering part of my hen', and that of 

 my brother ai the same tim -probably the number 

 offered will amount to 1^0 head." 



Having myself, sold in your vicinity, as well as in 



other parts of the United States and in Canada, many 



sessing the blood of Mr. Bates' herd, I 



me the intelligence contained in Mr. Bell's 



letter will be highly ap] reciated by these gentlemen: 



allow me to ask its insertion in the Genesee 



Farmer. Geo. Vail. — Troy, JY. Y., Sept., 1849. 



Too Hot for the Apfles. — That, very hot week 

 in June was a little too strong for many of the ap- 

 ples in our vicinity. One hundred and one degrees 

 'ahrenheit in the shade, is a little too much free 

 calorie for fruit of that description. 



It fairly cooked some of the outsiders, and hence in 

 many orchards we have noticed a great thinning out 

 of the fruit, which had set abundantly, and which 

 promised to give an abundant crop. The crop must, 

 of course, be not a very great one. Friend Cole 

 we never have a great crop in "odd years.'" 

 It is odd to have such hot weather in June as we 

 have had this year, and it is odd to huve baked ap- 

 ple* so sunn alter tin blossoming. This is an odd year 

 to all intents and purposes, and the odds are against 

 the apples. — .Maine Farm, r. 



Munificent Be^thst. — The late Mr. Theodore 

 Lyman has bequeathed a legacy of $50,000 to the 

 Reform School, at Westborough, .Mass., of which he 

 was the founder. He has also given $10,000 to the 

 Boston Farm School, of which he has been an active 

 officer for several years, and $10,000 to the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, in whose labors he 

 always took a deep interest. 



AM21UCAN BUTTER IN ENGLAND. 



Speaking oi American Butter, the London > 

 mercial Journal has the following rem 



"At .i pi butter at Li\ erpo »1, ii 



(i ;, lied for bi , iindred and tweh 



eight j -four shillin \ :ond vent . two to bi venl . 



. ; aid; w hil< inl rior only sold at fortj -three 

 shillings in ireel chiell) 



The quantity arrived at the London market shows the same 



i I rim ip d part bi ii 

 The American makers of butter are very far behind the 

 Irish, Engli b or Dutch; from the first opt ration to thi 

 all se ms to be done without system <>r care; the same ma- 

 terials would, if managed bj experienced bands, fetch in 

 this market twenty-five shillings <>r thirtj more 



n i attention , tiling, 



king." 



Disagrei able to our national pride ■■< 

 as the above statement i neverthe- 



less, lor the purpose of correcting the defects in 

 American butter. It gives us pain to know that so 

 many citizens of this free and enlightened ci 

 "are behind the Irish, English and Dutch in making 

 butter" — that where provisions arc so scarce and 

 dear as in England, none will eat common •■Ameri- 

 can butter," but it goes, ala . for soap grease! For 

 the credit of our rural population, we invite all our 

 readers to aid us in putting an extinguisher on the 

 manufacture and exportation of mean and nearly 

 worthless butter. The production of so much '"grease"' 

 of this kind, is alike unprofitable ;• > the farmer and 

 disreputable to the United States. The i vil is in 

 truth as unnecessary as it is d I. It costs 



but a trifle more to make a firkin of clean, sweet, 

 pure butter than one of rancid, curdy, filthy grease, 

 tit only for the soap boiler. The former will bring 

 a fair, remunerating price, (and it costs no more to 

 transport it to Liverpool,) while the latter will hardly 

 pay freight, insurance and commissioiv:. 



All the first rate butter and cheese which our 

 enterprising dairymen can send abroad will be bought 

 and con umed with avidity. Theyaregreal luxuries 

 as well as valuable and wholesome articles of food. 



Rule for Constructing; Chimneys. — A very er- 

 roneous practice prevails, among chimney builders, 

 of contracting the passage for the smoke at the low- 

 er part near the lire-place. "This," says Trt a 

 "is like contracting the aperture or> a pipe which 

 supplies a jet."' Chimneys, to draw well, should be 

 contracted at the top. The rule for ascertaining the 

 require:! degree of contraction is as follows: — 



Let 17 times the length of the grate, in inch( 

 divided by the square root of the height of the chim- 

 ney, in feet, and the quotient will be the area in in- 

 ches, of the section of the aperture at the top ot the 

 chimney. For example, a grate 15 inches in length, 

 with a chimney 3fj feet high, to which the conti 

 ing top is required — 17 multiplied by IS gives 255, 

 which number divided by t ; , the square root of 36, 

 gives 42£ inches for the area of the top. 



Shoei.no Horses. — At i ; of the Royal 



Agricultural Society of England, some time since, 

 Professor Sewel remarked, that he frequently found 

 old horses shod with a lay< r of leather, forming an 

 artificial sole between the hoof and the shoe, recov- 

 ering from severe affections, causing injury to the 

 hoof — such for instance, as contraction, brittleness, 

 and cracks, or even diseases of the foot itself, as 

 thrushes, corns, cankers, etc., and permanently re- 

 gain their original elasticity and firmness. 



