THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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in damp weather, when the leaves "will not be so 

 liable to break, and laid in piles with the tips to- 

 gether and covered up with boards to keep it from 

 drying. The next thing is to strip the leaves from 

 the stalks, and to assort them according to quality. 

 They are then made into "hands" of sixteen or 

 eighteen leaves and fastened by winding a leaf 

 around them. They are thea laid in a pile, as 



PIG. 5 — TOBACCO STACKKD AFTEE STEIPPING. 



shown in the annexed engraving, and covered with 

 boards to preserve the moisture. In four or five 

 days the crop will be ready to pack in boxes for 

 market. About four hundred pounds are pressed 

 with a lever into a box three feet eight inches 

 square and three feet eight inches long. Here it 

 Qudergoes the sweating process, and will lose about 

 10 per cent, of moisture. 



One tun per acre is a good crop, but 1,500 lbs. 

 is fully up to the average. At the present time 

 the crop, if well grown and cured, is worth 20 

 cents per lb., but ordinarily it does not average 

 more than 10 cents, and frequently not more than 

 B cents. The cost of manuring, cultivating, har- 

 vesting, curing, packing, &c., is about $66 an acre, 

 [f the crop average 1,500 lbs. of cured tobacco, 

 and brings 10 cents per lb., we have $84 for the 

 use of the land, building, <fec.; at 20 cents per lb., 

 Qo the other hand, the profit will be $234 per acre I 



Harrowing Wheat m the Spriko. — Your ar- 

 ticle in the Rural Annual for 1863 on hoeing 

 wheat reminds me of a fact that happened in On- 

 ondaga county some years ago. A neighbor 

 wislied to borrow a drag from a farmer, in the 

 spring, to harrow-in some oats. The oats were at 

 the lower end of a field of wheat. He went for 

 the drag, and drew it right across the wheat-field. 

 The farmer was very angry. But when he came 

 to harvest the crop, he was surprised to find the 

 strip over which the drag had passed the tallest 

 mid heaviest wheat in the yield. John Nutt. 



AsPARA&rrs Worm. — Our readers already know 

 that there is a worm which has done immense 

 damage in the asparagus gardens around New York, 

 No remedy has yet been found. Dr. Fitoh, the 

 State Entomologist, says fowls will eat them, and 

 recommends keeping fowls among the asparagus for 

 tbia purpose. 



A LABGE STOCK FABM. 

 In the Oenesee Farmer for August, 1860, we 

 gave some account of a visit to the farm of Mr. 

 Joseph Wright, Waterloo, N. Y. Mr. W. had, at 

 the time of our visit, about a hundred head of 

 horses, many of them thorough-bred and not un- 

 known to fame. His farm, at that time, comprised 

 about three hundred acres. He raised but little 

 wheat, and but little grain of any 

 kind, except what was needed for the 

 use of his stock. What interested ua 

 more particularly was some low land 

 which he had reclaimed by tile-drain- 

 ing, and which, from being unsightly 

 swamp holes, had become the richest 

 and most productive portion of the 

 farm. And this was not all. He used 

 »arge quantities of the swamp-muck, 

 and found it an admirable manure, applied either- 

 in its raw state as a top-dressing on grass land, or 

 when composted with manure in the barn-yard. 

 Thus he not only reclaimed his swampy lands, 

 but obtained from them the means of enriching 

 the upland portion of tho farm. 



In a private letter recently received from S.- 

 Williams, of Waterloo^ he says : " Joseph Wbight 

 has hired Knox's large swamp farm, a mile north 

 of the village, solely to grow timothy for his great, 

 equine herd. It is a deposit of leaf-mold, drained 

 by one large open ditch, and he is making many 

 laterals. It is & great Boil for grass, oats and po- 

 tatoes, but too frosty for corn. Mr. Wright will 

 plant more corn than ever on his uplands the 

 coming season, as he makes a world of the richest 

 manure." That is the point — "he makes a world 

 of the richest manure." Rarely have we seen such 

 splendid crops of timothy grass. One meadow of 

 twenty-eight acres, four years from seeding, wan 

 estimated to yield three tuns per acre. It had been 

 top-dressed in the ^arly part of the previous win 

 ter with a compost of 8w.amp-muck and manure. 



Mr. Wright has raised for some years large 

 crops of the Ohio Dent corn. He gets his seed 

 corn, we believe, every year from the West. Hia 

 land is very rich, and the corn matures with him 

 and yields enormous crops. He has raised two 

 hundred and fifteen bushels per acre. Besides- 

 this, he sows several acres every year broadcaat 

 for fodder and esteems it highly. 



He now saya he " shall never plant another hill 

 of Flint corn. The Ohio Dent has not failed him 

 a single season, and fhe yield is ftiUy one-third 

 more than that of the Datton or long and eight- 



