TITE GE!^ESEE FARMER. 



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fterwarils purchased a farm for liirnself. lie 

 orked liard, and was not long in paying for it. 

 e kept on working and buying more land, and in 

 le or tvpo cases selling one farm and buying 

 lotlier, until he had a farm of 780 acres of the 

 sst land in Western New York all paid foi-, be- 

 ies other property. He was pre-enunently en- 

 )wed with that greatest of all gifts — common 

 NSB. This, added to his industry and indomita- 

 e perseverance, formed the ground- work of his 

 ccess. The farm is now most admirably man- 

 ed by his son, Mr. Benjamin Fellows. The 

 ad is i-olling, and the view from the highest 

 lint presents large fields of splendid wheat ripen- 

 y for the harvest. It reminds us of some of the 

 eat farms in Norfolk, only that the hundred-acre 

 Ids of turnips are missing. But if Norfolk 

 ats us in turnips, we can beat Norfolk in red 

 •ver — to say nothing of our grand cereal Indian 

 rn. 



Mr. Fellows has a 3-i-acre field of corn, on 

 ■ver sod turned over last spring, and the corn 

 illed in rows forty inches apart. It is very 

 au. Mr. F. thinks he gets quite as much corn, 

 i twice as much fodder, as wlien planted in hills, 

 large stock is kept on the farm, and fodder is a 

 )minent object. He has 90 head of cattle, and 

 3 of the best Shorthorn bulls in the county, 

 sides this, he has a flock of 900 Spanish Merino 

 •ep and 300 lambs. He feeds his sheep hay and 

 lin once a day, and straw ad libitum. Thinks 

 s- the best grain — one bushel per day for 80 

 •ep. " Corn is good for wethers, but not for the 

 ■eding ewes." 



\.fter dinner we took a ride through Caledonia 

 I Avon, and passed what Mr. MoVean said was 



best field of Soules wheat in the county. It 

 3 on the farm of Mr. James Mallock, and was 

 'n on a three-year old chjver sod that had been 

 tured and then summer followed. It was a 

 ',e field, and the crop as heavy as it could stand 



very even. 



WHAT IS MEANT BY SUMMER-FALLOWING?" 



he usual practice in this section is to break up 

 lover sod about the 10th of June, with a 

 ter plow. This plow buries all the grass and 

 er completely. The land is then harrowed, 

 as soon as any weeds appear it is gang-plowed 

 iultivated. There is no particular rule as to 

 number of harrowings, provided the land is 

 clean. It is not plowed again, 

 le time of breaking up varies according to cir- 

 3tance8. "We saw several farmers still engaged 



in this labor with three and sometimes four horses, 

 and in one instance with five horses— one team 

 being placed ahead of a three-horse team. "We 

 saw one splendid field of wheat on a clover sod- 

 that was pastured down close and then plowed the 

 middle of July. After harvest it was cultivated 

 twice before sowing, but was not plowed again. 



"Here is a field of wheat that was sown on a 

 clover sod turned over immediately before sowing. 

 The land was not plowed at all until the other 

 fields were sown. Let us get out and examine it." 

 "We did so, and Mr. MoVean remarked that it 

 was far better wheat than he should have ex- 

 pected from such management. It was a very fair 

 crop--say 20 to 25 bushels per acre. 



In England this is the common system of put- 

 ting in wheat, and if our land was rich enovghund 

 clean enough we can see uo reason why it would 

 not answer in this country. 



A POOR FIELD OF WHEAT. 



"«^e imagine that our worthy friend drove ns 

 through the very best section of the county, but 

 nevertheless we passed one poor field of wheat ! 

 "There," said he, "is a sample of the land I 

 spoke about. It formerly produced good wheat, 

 but has lost its organic matter and is water-soaked. 

 Such land can not be profitably cultivated with 

 wheat." There is no doubt on this point, as long as 

 it is "water-soaked;" but if it was underdrained, 

 and properly cultivated and manured, we think it 

 would produce just as good wheat as ever. 



A WATKR-SOAKKD HILL. 



" Yonder hill, where you see the three oak trees, 

 is the highest land in Monroe county ; but the land- 

 is water-soaked." 



" Many farmers have yet to learn that high land is 

 not necessarily dry land. I have known instance? 

 where the highest portions of the farm were the 

 wettest. It was so on Mr. Swan's farm, neat 

 Geneva. And it frequently happens that if this 

 springy upland is drained, the water which sat- 

 urates the low land is cut off, and few, if any, 

 drains are needed on the low land." 



A GOOD FARM AND A GOOD GARDEN. 



Mr. D. Lacet, of Caledonia, has a fine farm of 

 340 acres. He has also a nice house, good barns 

 and an excellent garden. Every tiling about the 

 place has a home-like appearance. Mr. Laoet is 

 one of the early settlers, and he has a right to en- 

 joy, as he evidently does, the rich and ahnndfint 

 rewards of his [labors. His son has the active 

 management of the farm. We found him in the 

 barn, engaged in testing one of Cladding's hay- 



