THE GENESEE FARMER. 



381 



Inquiries and Answers. 



ulture of Tobacco. — (C. S. Kacet, St. Catharines, C. 

 You will find an article on this subject in. the Rural 

 inal for 1863. Barry' s Fruit Book is a good work for 

 , We can send it to you, prepaid by mail, for $1.25. 



Agricultural Items. 



PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Literary Notices. 



. Z. Potter, of Union Town, 111., has obtained a pa- 

 for a new evaporator for making sugar from sorghum. 



gentleman in Ireland, Charles Kenny, claims to 

 e discovered a method of cooking food for stock with- 

 Jire! What next? 

 ^e were told last spring that an immense amount of 



would be raised- this year in Ireland. It now turns 

 that less was sown than usual. 



here are complaints from different sections ot the 

 atry of the difficulty of completing the work on the 

 i on account of the scarcity of labor. Corn, potatoes 

 other crops are still in the fields. 

 f England, as in this country, barley seems to be 

 •ce and high. The last Mark Lane Express says it has 

 anced three cents per bushel, and the Irish Farmers' 

 :ette of November 1, says of the Dublin market : " The 

 iition of barley shown is so bad as to render it mostly 

 alable." 



t the last monthly meeting of the Royal Agricultural 

 iety of Ireland, some samples of wheat, barley, oats, 

 s, flax and hay seeds were presented by the Secretary 

 the Canadian Government Emigration Association, 

 ch attracted much attention. Great efforts are beiruj 

 le abroad to induce emigration to the cheap lauds in 

 ver Canada. 



.lluding to our experiments on Indian corn, a corre- 

 ndent of the Country Gentleman says: "The single 

 leriment quoted from the Geneeee Farmer is too limited 

 settle any point. It should be repeated many times, 

 )rder to show that other influences were not acting at 



same time and controlling the result." Very true. 

 is is what we have always said. Let others repeat 

 m. The work should not be left to one man. Let our 

 snd do Ms share. 



'he Irish papers are filled with gloomy accounts of the 

 ither. The Mayo Constitution says: "The conse- 

 >nce of the continuous fearfully tempestuous weather 

 •eally appalling to contemplate — each day being more 

 1 more unpropitious for harvesting operations." The 

 rry Journal says : "The weather continues more and 

 re unpropitious for saving the grain crops. From the 

 h to the 28th of October five and a half inches of rain 

 re fallen, or about four times the average rain fall of 

 ! season. This state of things, with more than half of 

 : crops still exposed in the fields, has produced a de- 

 ;ssion in the minds of the farming community, such as 



have never seen equalled." The Irish Farmers' Ga- 

 te of November 1, also contains communications corn- 

 lining of the wet weather and the "backward state of 

 : harvest." Crops out in the fields in November is not 

 •leasant subject of contemplation. 



LONDON, EDINBURGH, NOUTII BRITISH and WEST- 

 MINSTER QUARTERLY REVIEWS. Republished by 

 Lkonakd Scott & Co., 79 Fulton street, New York. 



BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, (Monthly.) New 

 York : Leonard Scott &, Co. • 



For some reason there are no essayists in the United States, 

 which at all equal those of the Old World. Our historians, poets, 

 and novelists, rank side by side with those of Great Britain, but 

 essay-writing seems to require an older and more thorough cul- 

 ture than our literary men have yet attained. Genius will not 

 make an essayist. A poet can ji>e above the want of learning, 

 and by the strength of his inspiration wiu a place in the hearts 

 of the people which gives him undying fame. An essayist has 

 no such empire — his place is in the intellect, and for him study 

 and culture are every thing To those who enjoy receiving the 

 cream of foreign literature, prepared for them by skillful hands, 

 and to whom pure and elegant English adds a charm to thoughts 

 and opinions, interesting in themselves, these republications of 

 the Quarterlies are invaluable. The Westminster is objected to 

 by many on account of its infidel tendencies; and on all subjects 

 in any way connected with the Bible, or with the sentiments of 

 the religious world, it is utterly unreliable. It has one advantage 

 over all the other Quarterlies — it devotes several pages to cotem- 

 porary literature, which contain notices of almost every hook on 

 scientific, religious, or merely literary subjects, which are pub- 

 lished in the English, French or German languages. Black- 

 tcood, which is published monthly, has, in addition to essays of 

 equal merit with the Quarterlies, tales written by the leading 

 novelists of the day. George Elliot and Bulwer are among 

 jts contributors. At present the former is writing a series of 

 stories called " Chronicles of Carlinglord," the second one of 

 which — '• Salem Chapel " — is now in progress. The authoress of 

 Adam Bede fully sustains the reputation which her more elabo- 

 rate novels have won for her. Bulwer is now contributing a 

 paper each month on "Life, Literature and Manners," which, 

 like every thing he writes, is replete with sense, wit and learning. 

 Blackwood, is $3.00 a year; each of the Quarterlies $3.00; 

 Blackwood and any one of the Quarterlies, $5.00 ; the four Quar- 

 terlies and Blackwood $10.00. 



NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA. Volume XV. Spiritual- 

 ism — Uzziale. New York ; D. Appleton & Co. 



Article on United States very lull. Comprehensive tables of 

 Population, Agricultural Statistics, Manufactures, Domestic Ex- 

 ports, Imports from Foreign Countries, Commerce of the United 

 States, Value of Domestic Manufactured Articles, Educational 

 and Religious Statistics, Statistics of Newspapers and Periodi- 

 cals, Annual Revenue and Expenditures. Article on United 

 States Literature reviews briefly but fully the whole subject, and 

 will be found valuable for reference. 



THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ON HIS WAY THROUGH 

 THE WORLD. By W. M. Thackeray. New York: Har- 

 per & Bros. 



This new work of Mr. Thackeray's which has been published 

 in serial form, but is now finished, is so much better lhan the 

 Yir/jini'in that the public will welcome it eagerly; for with all 

 his affectations he has many admirers, who will, of course, read 

 his book. His detractors must read it, loo, in order to abuse it 

 intelligently, for in this case the btock criticism will hardly 

 answer, for there is only one or two really wicked characters in 

 the book— and they are not women ! 



CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD — THE DOCTOE'8 



FAMILY. By the author of •• Adam Bede." 



These papers are being published in Blackwood, and this one 

 is the first of the series. " Salem Chapel," the next one, is still 

 unfinished. They are like the authoress' first tales which ap- 

 peared in Blackwood, and gave her a reputation before Adam 

 Bede made her famous. 



