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THE GENESEE FARM Kit. 



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late for Mr. Emery to say thai in mellow ground the 

 saving of power is more tharf counterbalanced by 

 the incn a6ed resistance to be overcome. 



• "the more complicated construction, 

 and the constant wearing of the axis and revolving 

 parts, has retarded its very genera] use." '■ 

 tacts arc both assumed. The plow has fewer parts, 

 and is lesi al id than the self sharpening 



plow which he commends in the very next paragraph 

 — while the axis and revolving parts have less friction, 

 and wear longer than the common landside. The 

 Is o[' all those sold by mo have been warranted 

 to wear as long as the mould-boards, and of two 

 thousand sold, not an instance has occurred to my 

 knowledge, in which the axis has worn to injure it. 

 On appealing to Mr. Emery to correct his state- 

 ments, he reiterates them, and I must therefore re- 

 quest you, as you have given currency to them, to 

 insert the following certificates. Yours, fee, 

 Geneva^ Oct., 1849. Tnos. D. Burrall. 



" I have used one of Mr. Burrall's Wheel Plows four 

 yen's; have cultivated about 150 acres per year, and this 

 plow has run nearly all the season each year, being used 

 more than any other on the farm, from the fact that it run 

 and made bt tter work than any other plow on the farm, 

 and has plowed over 500 acres. It is now worn out com- 

 pletely in the mould-board, landside, and face of the wheel, 

 while the axis or bearings of the wheel remain as perfect, 

 apparently now, as when first put in use. My farm consists 

 of clay and loamy land, and a part stoney, with gravel. In 

 all soils l'. works perfectly well. Many of these are in use 

 in my neighborhood, and highly approvod by all. Joseph 

 I'i.m.'.ian. — Benton, June 5, 1849.'.' 



" I have used one of Mr. Burrall's Wheel Plows on my 

 firm until the mould-board is worn entirely out, while the 

 journals of the wheels are apparently as good as when first 

 taken from the shop. I am now ob'taining a new sett of 

 is for the wood, believing; it to be the best plow in use. 

 Stephen Shear. — Genera, Aug. 13, 1849." 



" I have been in the employment of Mr. Burrall ever 

 since the commencement of his experiments with the Wheel 

 Plow, in getting up the patterns for the same, amounting to 

 more than twenty different kinds. There lias never, to my 

 knowledge, been an instance, of failure in the axis of the 

 wheel, though I have repeatedly seen the mould-boards 

 brought in as old metal, completety worn out. Elias 

 Smith.— Geneva, Oct. 12, 1849." 



" For the last live years I have been in the employment 

 of Mr. Burrall as a wood workman, most of the time in 

 wooding Wheel Plows. I have never heard a complaint of 

 the wearing of the axis of the wheel, nor have I ever seen, 

 heard or known of an instance of a new wheel being called 

 for in place of one worn out. Nicholas H. Kip. — Geneva. 

 Oct. 12, 1819." 



'• Ever since the invention of the Shell W T heel Plow, I 

 have been engaged in .Mr. B:irrrall's shop, in setting up the 

 igs for the Wheel Plows — have broken up a great many 

 worn oi '. mould-boards and landsides, but have never seen 

 much worn in the axis as to render it unfit for 

 i a new mould-board. Samuel Price. — Geneva, Oc- 

 tober 12, 1819." 



Reaping Machines. — The Priarie Farmer says : 

 "McCormick's Reaper has heen now sold in the 

 west for three seasons extensively, and somewhat 

 before that. The sales amount, say to the following 

 figures: for the year 1847, to 500: the year 1848, 

 to 800; and 1849, to 1500; total, 2800. Of Ester- 

 ly's Harvester, the whole number in use this harvest 

 may reach 180. Other kinds, say 100. These all 

 do "the work of nearly 17,000 men." 



Hussey's and McCo, mick's Reapers are the prin- 

 cipal ones used in Western New York. Who can 

 ■rn us how many of each have been sold in this 

 State ? 



JUMPING AT CONCLUSIONS. 

 i;Y a rOCNQ '• DIGGER." 



Most men are at to travel the road of 



reason to a careful and sab' conclusion) even at a 

 railroad speed, hut they go it with a jump. This 

 jumping at conclusions — hit or miss — right or wrong 

 — is quite an easy, if not a very profit Ltion. 



It is altogether different from the piu , >ccss, 



and is characteristic of this "go ahead," Bteam and 

 lightning age. Perhaps to no department of science 

 is this svsl !i,>d, and the practice 



of thousands so seriously affected, as to Agriculture 

 and Horticulture. 



A farmer, during the prevalence of "potato rot" 

 plants a " patch" early, and digs them early — they 

 happen, from some caus'e or other, to be sound. 

 he concludes at once that it was prevented by i 

 planting and digging, and he of course has di 

 ered "a remedy for the potato rot." Another 

 covers a worm in the tops, and he proclaims to his 

 neighbors and the world, that he has found out •• the 

 cause of the potato rot." 



I have often searched for worms or insects in the 

 haulms of rotting potatoes without, being ab 

 discover any. For the purpose of testing the mat-. 

 ter a little, the two last seasons, I planted potatoes 

 on the fourth of July, and dug them on election day, 

 the first Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem- 

 ber, and found them as little rotted as the same - 

 on the same soil, that were planted the 1st of April 

 and dug early in September. Still, I am far from 

 jumping at the conclusion that there is no advantage 

 in early planting. 



The farmer or the horticulturist examines the 

 "knots" on the branches of his plum trees: he 

 tects an insect, and immediately proclaims that "the 

 black gum on plum trees is caused by an insect'' — 

 not waiting to examine very closely whether the in- 

 sect was really the cause of the evil, or whether the 

 diseased state of the branch merely furnished it a 

 congenial home. 



One of your correspondents last month took quite 

 a jump into the turf, when he discovered that "per- 

 miting the grass to grow around the roots of pan- 

 trees will prevent the fire-blight" — because trees 

 thus treated, or ill-treated, have not been subject to 

 the blig'ht this season: forgetting that the blight has 

 done but little injury the present year, in this section 

 of country. And even in previous seasons many 

 trees and plantations of trees, under a high state of 

 culture, escaped uninjured, while others in the im- 

 mediate neighborhood fell a prey to the blight. On 

 examining my young pear trees, about twenty in 

 number, after reading the communication referred 

 to, I found that the only one atlected by blight was 

 the last one in the row: and the one most completely 

 surrounded with " turf." That tree, however, may 

 have been predisposed to the disease; or its position 

 may have had some influence in favoring the attack. 



I once knew a man who declared that soot put 

 around the roots of foreign grapes subject to, mildew, 

 was a sure preventive — because he happened to 

 throw the soot from his stove-pipe around a young 

 vine, which that season produced a crop of fine fruit. 

 The next year, and ever after, the mildew destroyed 

 the entire crop in spite of the soot. 



I might enlarge and show the injury thus done to 

 the cause of Agriculture and Horticulture : but a 

 word to the wise will suffice for the present. J. V. 

 —Monroe Co., JV. Y., Oct., 1849. 





