THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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Agricultural Items. 



PREPARED EXPBE88LY FOR THE QBNBSEE FAEMKE. 



The Prairie Farmer, published at Chicago, after stating 

 at "common to inferior" beef cattle sell in that mar- 

 t for $1.50 to $1.85 per cwt.. well observes: "We 

 jnder that, with the experience of weeks past, cattle- 

 mers will continue to force stock on the market in the 

 lor condition they do, when the means of putting them 



eood condition are so easily and cheaply obtained as 



present in the cheap corn of the country." At the 

 ist, where corn and fodder are comparatively high, 

 ere is some excuse for sending lean cattle to market; 

 it at the West, where corn is so cheap, it is the quint- 

 seuce of folly. 



The Calif orrda Farmer complains that the Eastern pa- 

 irs do not urge their readers to emigrate to the " Gar- 

 n of the World." Why should we? There is already 

 lite sufficient inclination to move from place to place, 

 eking for an easier life and a happier lot. In nine 

 ses out of tea an intelligent, industrious man had bet- 

 r stay where he is. He must eat his bread in the 

 reat of his face, go where he will. California, though 

 may be the " Garden of the World," is not the " Gar- 

 iu of Eden." 



A. B. Dickinson, in an article written for the Ccmntry 

 entleman urging the importance of having axletrees 

 .ade only from well-seasoned timber to prevent sprlng- 

 ig, says: "If 1 had a boy seven years old, that would 

 lay with a wagon or a cart with warbling wheels, or a 

 ae-sided top, 1 would never think of making a farmer 

 " him. He might, perhaps, live on land, or make an 

 liter, lawyer, doctor, priest or king, but he would not 

 e fit for a farmer 1" 



Mh. Campbell, of Irondequoit, near this city, raised 

 inety-one bushels of good Soules' wheat from three 

 jres of land, sown at one plowing. He cut a heavy crop 

 f clover bay from the land last year, and then pastured 

 , until a few days before the time of sowing. It was 

 len plowed once and the seed sown. 



Paschall Morris thinks the Chester White pigs, now 

 3 much talked about, originated at least thirty years ago 

 y crossing a Bedfordshire boar, imported into Chester 

 ounty, Penn., with the best stock of the county They 

 re now considered a well-established breed. 



A COURSE of lectures on Agriculture and Vete ,'iiiary at 

 he University College, Toronto, C. W., will commence 

 n Wednesday, January 21, 1863. We would urge all our 

 oung farming friends in Canada, who have the opportu- 

 lity. tg attend these lectures. 



The Pennsylvania Farmer and Gardener says it was 

 ilways somewhat difficult to get farm labor in that State, 

 )ut now that 180,000 able-bodied men have been with- 

 irawn from the State, ivhat is to he done"* The only 

 •emedy it has to suggest is labor-saving machinery. 



In 1814, a woman of Cuissy, fearing an attack from 

 ;he Cossacks, hid a crock of butter ia the ground, and 

 ifter they were gone could not .find the spot. It was re- 

 cently discovered, and was as firm and white aa when 

 buried forty-eight years before ! 



Inquiries and Answers. 



Fish as a Manure. — Will you please inform me whether 

 salt fish will make good manure or not. 1 have some six 

 or eight barrels pickled herring ('damasred.) What shall 

 I do with them? — M. J. Philbin, I'ittaton, Pa. 



We have had no experience on this point. We should 

 compost them with muck or soil and barn -yard manure. 



Farm Wanted. — (W. K.) Your best way would be to 

 put a short advertisement in the Genesee Farmer, Country 

 Gentlem,an and other agricultural papers, stating the kind 

 of farm you want, whether for grain, fruit, dairy, sheep, 

 &c. You must be hard to please, if you do not find just 

 what you want. 



Those who have farms for sale should advertisd-in the 

 agricultural papers. If such persons do not wish to give 

 their names to the public, they can have applicants direc 

 their letters to our care, and we will forward them to the 

 proper address. 



Hollow Horn in Cattle.— In the November number 



of the Farmer I see "A Kent Farmer" asks for a "sure 



cure" for " hollow horn" in cattle. As I am no cattle 



doctor, I can not give liim a sure cure, but will tell him 



of a " sure" preventive, which is said to be better than a 



cure for diseases, viz: breed the horns off of catties' 



heads. They are unnecessary appendages on domestic 



animals, and dangerous in many instances "when cattle 



do congregate together." Tla^y contribute nothing to 



please the free thinker of sound judgment. Their only 



desirable quality is to please a badly-educated eye — every 



thing else pertaining to them forbids the impropriety of 



cattle burthening their heads with them; and as the 



ladies have done transferring them to their own heads 



they can not be fashionable ornaments, and therefore any 



modest cow will refuse to wear them. — Moolt, Clyde, 



N. Y. 



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The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory 

 for 1863. — This beautiful little book is now ready. We 

 hope every subscriber to the Genesee Farmer will procure 

 a copy. We shall be disappointed if they do not find it 

 the best number of the series. It costs only twenty- 

 five cents. We want every reader of the Genesee Farmer 

 to have a copy of the Rural Annual for 1863, and we 

 here authorize all our Agents to club^^it with the Farmer 

 for jifteen cents ! 



A ®0LLAR AND A HALF FOR Barlet. — Barlcv Is now 

 selling in this city for $1,371 per bushel, and it is difficult 

 to get it even at that price. The fact is, far less land 

 was sown than usual, and the dry weather iniured the 

 crop. Our friend who was " ashamed to bring straw to 

 the city" has eight hundred bushels of barley on hand. 

 He has been offered $1,37^ per bushel for it, but will not 

 sell for less than $1.50. He thinks " everybody will want 

 barley next spring," and it will be in demand for seed. 



A Good Idea. — A farmer asked his neighbor if he 



would join a club for the at $1.50 per year ? 



"No," said he, "I am going to economize next year." 

 "Well," said he, "as you cannot do without an agricul- 

 tural paper, give me 50 cents for the Genesee Farmer. — 

 You will save a dollar." Our friend might have added, 

 too, that he would get as much agricultural and horticul- 

 tural matter for the half dollar as for the $1.50— and cer- 

 tainly of quite as high a character. 



The publisher of a family paper in this city thinks the 

 above paragraph, which appeared in the December num- 

 ber of the Farmer, refers to him. We assure him that such 

 is not the oase. It was an agricuUura,l &xid uoi a family 

 paper that our friend was acting as agent for. 



