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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



had little instruction to give. Had seen excellent effects 

 from applying manure on grass lands in the fall, intended 

 for corn. The corn was a foot higher and of a darker 

 color. He thought that in the fall was the time to applj' 

 manure; but the que.'ition was how to keep the winier- 

 made manure through the summer without loss. He had 

 thrown it into piles under sheds, but it firefansed. 



Joseph Harris thought that in the wheat growing dis- 

 tricts, where there is an abundance of straw, manure 

 could be kept through the summer without loss. There 

 is faV greater loss from leaching than from evaporation. 

 The yard should have a concave bottom, and the horse 

 and sheep manure, which ferment rapidly, should he 

 mixed with the sluggish cow and hog manure. This, 

 with plenty of straw, and the heap properly compressed 

 by allowing animals to tread upon it would check injuri- 

 ous fermentation. And if the building was spouted so 

 as to carry off the water that falls on the roof he thought 

 the manure would absorb all the rain that fell on the sur- 

 face of the barn yard. But as more rain fell at some 

 seasons than at others, it would be well to have a tank at 

 one corner of the yard for the liquid to drain into. This 

 should be saturated with plaster and pumped back on to 

 the manure in dry weather. Sulphate of lime or plaster 

 in sohttion wiWfix ammonia, and he felt confident that if 

 this course were adopted there would be uo loss in keep- 

 ing manure during the summer. 



THE INTEENATIONAL WHEAT SHOW. 



COST OF HAY. 



The editor of the Country Gentleman says a 

 farmer who usually cuts nearly 200 acres of hay 

 annually, finds that a good mowing machine will 

 cut 1,000 acres before wearing out, and that the ex- 

 pense of the machine, including repairs, will not 

 be more than 12 cents per acre. Estimating the 

 value of the team at $2 per day, and at 10 acres 

 each day — or 20 cents per acre— the whole cost of 

 cutting will be only 32 cents per acre. A yield of 

 2 tuns per acre could, therefore, be cut for 16 cents 

 per tun. He thinks the whole expense of cutting, 

 raking, drawing the hay half a mile and pitching it 

 into a barn, does not usually exceed 80 cents per 

 tun, and with good supervision, hay from heavy 

 meadows can be cut and secured for 50 cents per. 

 tun. 



Undebdkainino Meadows — In some notes of a 

 visit to New Jersey, the editor of the Country 

 Gentleman says: 



" Of tlie meadows, we saw more than once two 

 fipld<j <\<]o' by side, one bo^'gy and overjrrown with 

 coar'i.-> find nlmost useless gr.-iisses, in which cattle 

 would sink at every .step at the risk of beini; mired, 

 and llie otlier tirm under foot, witli a fine, thick 

 sod, and as luxuriant a trrowth of green grass (Poa 

 pratenith) and wliite ol-.ver, as weever saw on the 

 meadows of tlie IJraiidywine or in the best pas- 

 turatre of Kentucky. The first canse of tlie con- 

 trast thus exhibited, was the uuderdraiuing of the 

 laud." * 



The first International Wheat Show was hel« 

 this city, in connection with the Monroe Com 

 Fair, September 8-9-10. The number of enti 

 were not as large as might have been expec 

 from the-liberal premiums offered ; but the qua 

 of the wheat for the season was truly excellent. 

 There were but six entries for the piize of %\ 

 for the best 20 bushels of Wliite Winter wh« 

 All the samples were of excellent quality. 



No. 1 was a fine sample of Blue-Stem wh( 

 grown by Isaac H. Anderson, of West Flam hoi 

 0. W. The berry was large and handsome, t 

 the wheat was remarkably well cleaned. It weii 

 ed 65 pounds per bushel. Mr. A. states that it t 

 cut on the 8th of July, and produced 30 bush 

 per acre. 



No. 2 was a sample of Boughton wheat, gro- 

 by S. B. Walton, of Fallston, Harford coun 

 Md. [ Mr. W. forwarded 20 bushels of this whe 

 but it was detained on the road and did not arr 

 until after the Fair had closed. Mr. W. v 

 present, and bore the disappointment with gr. 

 equanimity. We trust he will be more fortun; 

 in future.] The wheat was purcliased by Jo 

 Johnston, of Geneva, and F. P. Root, of Swed( 

 at $3.00 per bushel. It is a very early varie 

 and we trust will prove useful in this section. 



No. 3 was grown by Mr. Jacob Hinds, Ilini 

 burg, Orleans county, N. Y. In April, 1852, 1 

 H. received a sample of Red wheat from t 

 Patent Ofiice, which he thought was a sprint \ 

 riety, and he sowed it immediately in his gard( 

 The wheat came up and remained green until fa 

 but did not head out. The next spring it cat 

 rapidly forward, and early in July produced wh 

 wheat! The wheat on exhibition was harvest 

 July 25th. 



No. 4. was a fine sample of Soules wheat, gro^ 

 by Robert Embdrt, of Penfield, Monroe coun^ 

 N. Y. It was harvested about the 20th of July. 

 No. 5 was an excellent satnple of Diokinsc 

 wheat, grown by Willard Hodges, of Brighto: 

 Monroe county, N. Y. It was clean and quite frc 

 from all impurities, but Mr. H. had not taken i 

 much pains in dressing it up for exhibition as son 

 iif his competitors. This wheat was brought 

 year or two since from Michigan, and was recon 

 mended to Mr. H. as a very early kind. In th: 

 respect it more than fulfilled Mr. Hodges' expecti 

 tions, for though it was not sown (on potato lauc 

 until the 25th of September, and did not come a 

 on account of dry weather till towards the middl 



