THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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" Bat if we conclude to have our fields of a 

 ore extensive character, so as to embrace from 

 lO to ■5<30 acres, I shall in that case recommend 

 e digging of such well and the building of such 

 ation house in the centre of the field, and when 

 e machine is set to work, have it commence op- 

 atiott at the farther extremities of such field, 

 le machine will, therefore, be working toward 

 e station, and at each time it is compelled to go 

 for w«od and water the distance to travel is 

 ortened, and the land worked will not have to 

 I passed over again by the engine. But if the 

 achine is doing mowing or reaping, then it will 

 mmenee next the station and work away from 

 thereby preventing the necessity of running the 

 achine over the standing gcass or grain. 

 " To every 400 or 50O acres there must be one 

 ■Ktion house as reccommended. 

 " If the farm is devoted wholly to the culture of 

 aio, the station should be provided with the nec- 

 3ary granaries. It must be the store-house not 

 ly for the steam plow and its machinery, but for 

 e threshing machine also. In short, it must be 

 ide the depository for everything used and pro- 

 iced upon the land allotted to it. 

 "The arrangements for doing the grinding 

 eded upon the place, should also be embraced in 

 e station house, and operated by the engine. 

 " It should also contain an appropriate place for 

 e portable blacksmith's forge and tools required 

 r the sharpening of plows, shoeing of horses, and 

 pairing generally. • 



"Having the farm or plantation arranged as 

 pove described, and equipped with the machinery 

 ready recommended, you are ready, beyond all 

 mbt, for the introduction of steam to agriculture 

 ccessfully and profitably. 



" We have no longer any need of teams to haul 

 e wood and water to the machine while at work, 

 r the farm is now so admirably adapted to the 

 achinery, that the two teams and four of the hands 

 lually employed, can be dispensed with. In 

 ace of having to carry the wood and water over 

 e field after the machine, the machine runs to the 

 ation, draws its own water, and is there replen- 

 lied with the required [fuel. "When it has ex- 

 lustedits supply of wood and water, the plows 

 •e raised clear of the ground, and the machine 

 ms into the station, obtains its supplies and re- 

 irns to its work again — at no time requiring over 

 lirty minutes in doing so. It would have to run 

 to the station but three times a day : at 9 a. m., 

 I M. and i p. M,, for wood^nd water,ito complete 

 le day's work. 



" The system of steam cultivation under consid- 

 •ation 4S particularly applicable to the unimproved 

 rairie lands of the South and "West. For, in es- 

 iblishing a new farm or plantation, the expense 

 F alteration which is demanded of those already 

 itablished, is avoided. And the arrangements of 

 le new places will be more complete, generally 

 jeaking, than those that are altered to suit the 

 ew system." 



It is estimated that twenty thousand persons 

 'ere present at the unveiling of the statue of the 

 ite Prince on the memorial monument in the gar- 

 en at South Kensington. 



"LAMP AS"m HOBSES. 



" The horizontal bar," says Dr. Dadd, " in the 

 roof of the horse's mouth, is undoubtedly in- 

 tended to aid the animal to retain food in the 

 mouth while it is being masticated. They are 

 abundantly furnished with blood vessels and 

 nerves, and are therefore very sensitive. When 

 colts are teething, the disturbance of the ad- 

 jacent parts sometimes cause these parts to be 

 inflamed and swollen. Then the animal can not 

 eat without pain, and uninformed persons have as- 

 cribed the apparent falling off of appetite tmder 

 such circumstances, to a disease called " lampas." 

 To remedy the supposed ailment, it has been rec- 

 ommended, and is still practiced in some localities, 

 to burn out the swollen bars with a red-hot iron 

 made for the purpose. The operation is an unnec- 

 essary and injurious cruelty. The portion of the 

 mouth thus destroyed can never be replaced, and 

 thus the power of perfect mastication is impaired. 

 The only surgical operation allowable in cases need- 

 ing assistance, is to lance the inflamed parts, the 

 same as a physician would treat the gums of a 

 child in case of difficult teething. This can easily 

 be done with a sharp penknife. After lancing, it 

 is recommended to wash the mouth with two 

 ounces of tincture of myrrh to a pint of water, or 

 a strong solution of alum in water. Feed the colt 

 on bran-mashes and grass — withholding all grain 

 until he eats without difficulty ." 



BEST TIME TO CUT TIUBEB. 



A WRITER in the Scientific American says: 

 " I have found the months of August, Septem- 

 ber and October to be the three best in the year to 

 cut hard-wood timber. If cut in these months the 

 timber is harder, more elastic and durable than if 

 cut in winter months. I have, by weighing tim- 

 ber, found that of equal quality got out for joiners' 

 tools, is much heavier when cut and got out in the 

 above named months than in the winter and spring 

 months, and it is not so liable to crack. 



" I have walnut timber on hand which has been 

 cut from one to ten years — with the bark on — 

 which was designed for ax-helves and ox-bows, 

 and not a worm is to be found therein. It was 

 cut between the first of August and the first of 

 November. I have other pieces of the sarne tim- 

 ber cut in the winter months, not two years old, 

 and they are entirely destroyed, being full of pow- 

 der-post and grub worms. "Within the last ten or 

 twelve years I have stated the result my of observa- 

 tion on, and experience of, cutting timber in differ- 

 ent seasons of the year, to many of my neighbors 

 and others ; and all who have made the trial are 

 satisfied that the above statement is correct." 



Ants. — Camphor dissolved in whisky and 

 sprinkled on the places they frequent will drive 

 away ants. 



