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NEW ENGLAND FAllMER. 



Jlay 25, }8U7. 



and strongly confirnied by the quantity bred in 

 the smoky cabins of Ireland." 



A meeting of the .Teffersnn roiinty Agricultu- 

 ral Society v\ as held in VVatcrtowii on the 27th 

 lilt, when it was resolved to have a Cattle Show 

 and'Fair tlic ensuing fall, and also to petition the 

 Legislature for an Act of Incorporation. Officers 

 and committees were appointed, whoso names, 



with a list of preminms, will be given shortly in a I corn in the car, and eleven thousand five hundred 

 handbill. The President, Mr Lk Ray de Chau- and fifty pounds, or five tons three hundred weight 

 3I0NT, favored tlie meeting with a few remarks, of stalks, which made very good fodder for cattle 



tive account, the expense of the lime or manure. 

 I have considered them as a necessary appendage 

 of the field aiiovc mentioned, to render it of an 

 equal capacity for producing corn as the other 

 land, though it was thought by the workmen of a 

 nature better adapted to the cultivation of it. — 

 Tiioso who have not seen standing, the corn sow- 

 ed broad cast, will be surprised to hear that the 

 two acres thus treated produced 150 bushels of 



vhich are published at the request of tlic meeting 

 They display the unremitting exertions of this 

 best of men in endeavoring to ascertain tho ob- 

 jects, the pursuits of which will most promote the 

 best interests of the inhabitants of this county 

 and to point out to the public at large, the great 

 inducements here offered for the industrious and 

 enterprising. 



Remarks of Mr. .T. Lk Ray de Ciiaukont, at ikt 



late meeting of the Jefferson Coimty Agricultural 



Society, .Veio York. 



Gentlfmen — You are apprized by the notice 

 of this meeting, that the purpose is not only to 

 'ransact the ordinary business of our Society, but 

 also to inquire into tlio propriety of petitioning 

 the Legislature for an net of incorporation. — 

 Among the reasons whicli may be adduced in fa- 

 vor of ibis measure, 1 will mention one wliich may 

 not have occurred to other persons. Tliere lire 

 .;ome landholders in the county, who might feel 

 disposed to make a grant to the Socicly, of some 

 properly which it will require powers to hold. I 

 have not consulted the persons whom I have more 

 particulartj in my niind, in speaking thus ; but I 

 should think, frou. o„/ir cna.,„,er, and from their 

 llhpralitv in nthor instances, iha. ^ ,y ^^.,-,„].i h,, 

 iiappy in hiivino- n-- ^rf^''-^''"-y of inal-.ing a dona- 

 lion I" a Society, whoso efforts to improve th 

 .-;ounty they cannot observe without satisfaction 

 and pride. 



I avail myself of tliis occasion to offer you some 

 remarks, which I liopc you will receive as a token 

 of my sincere and constant solicitude to be of 

 much utility to our Society as n;y foable pov, 

 will permit me. 



The successful cxpeiiment I have made last 

 year, in sowing corn broad cast, prompts me to 



and changes of weather, permit me to recomi) 

 you to make the experiment of cutting pli 

 your wheat before it is quite ripe, say abouj 

 days sooner than you would in following the] 

 time to begin the harvesting of wheat. The! 

 ity of the grain is improved by this process, 1 

 somor, more substantial, and produces modi 

 better nouiishment. I am credibly informed 

 in tho south part of France, tlio bakers 

 larger price for wheat so harvested. Repl 

 experimehts have proved there was at leastf 

 cent, added to the nourishment by that proce 

 A very great advant^.ge of this mctliod, 

 will strike you at once, is that it diminishes i 

 bly the unfavorable chances you are expog 

 when you wait till your wheat is quite ripe td 



ydV- 



during fall and winter. 



1 must conl'oss, the season was very favorable, 

 while I remain confident that, upon an average of 

 seasons, the farmers who will give tlie experiment 



a fair and steady trial, will find it advisable toi Tl o great point is to relze the proper roomeni 

 have a certain proportion of corn cultivated in i if you were to cut the wheat too soon, the 

 that way. Supi;ose ton acres a farmer would Iiave j would shrink and be injured. The time i 

 set aside for raising corn this year, in liis ordinary when, in pressing the grain between your finj 

 way of distributing his crops ; I would recom- you find it giving away as would the crumi 

 mend him to have one half of those ten acres ' bread so pressed, when taken from lb 

 sov.'ed broad cast. The first advantage he will \ After the wheat is cut, you must lieat it as goi 

 reap from the division is, that he will avoid the { ally practised in the harvesting of rye or 

 frequent inconvenience of finding himself unable ! leaving it to ripen in the field, and movini 

 to cultivate his field of corn as it ought to be, and ■ sheaves, if the weather requires it 

 as probably he first contemplated. But how often -f his process has been adoijted and founi 

 unforeseen events and weather have disappointed ! ,,„^\ver tince several years, in different pari 

 such calculations, and left a fiold too much a prey | England, France and Italy. I tliink it more si 

 to weeds, tho result of which is not only to dimin- 1 |,ie to our climate, which is during the ti, 

 ish tlie crop, but to leave the soil in a bad condi- 1 harvest, a great deal less subject to long rai.. 

 tion. In the way I recommend the wiiolc care ' ^,^.en fogs, but more exposed to intense'^hcat 

 which was to be consecrated to the ten acres, be- 1 nrcal winds. 



in" now entirely to tho five acres, they will give; ..r,-, . , • ■ ■ , w 



"'-■'- . !•'_*-. . While wc have been rejoicing in this countjf4 



the result of the last favorable season for f 

 crops, the abundance of which has been felt ii 



a larger crop and leave the grti.,nd in tlie desira 

 ble order. Tho part which will bt oowed broad 

 cast, in the way I recommend, will be h...,t natu- 



rally free from weeds, provided the field was .,ot \T^ every d...rict, we have found more than < 

 "fll„.'°-/.r,,y by ...M, nernicio,.= pl.uts as the ^"e ^vant of a canal to carry nway the greal 

 Canada thistle, which a good farmer must notsuf- •^''.-''^ of our produce, and what has been sonti 



fer to remain in the ground. While your corn is "''"''='' '^^ ^'f 'g'''"? ^o the Erie canal will, I hM^, 



carry abroad a strong conviction of our justclaj 

 to tho support of the state for a more easy aceT 

 to market ; for though the road from here tol 

 canal has been almost constantly covered withL 

 sleighs carrying our produce, how much morel 



growing, you will be able to jodge what will bo 

 more desirable for you, to have more fodder or 

 more grain produced in yo'T field tliis year. That 

 part sowed brond cast oan either be consecrated 

 to produce merely fodder, or srain and fodder, 



conformity to vour wants. You can also cut a ^^^'^ '" °'" '',"'"' 'T ' '"'"''°' ^° P-'op^ed in ., 



part of it green, to feed your cattle when wanted. ""'^ ^°„"'^;' ourselves of the remaining sleiifhit 



This you can do by large strips, givincr thereby f T '' "°"''^'e'-' » ffrt^^'t cncouragemer.t is o 



. , = , , r .„ more air, and a belter chance to come "sooner to ^"°^' ''''.''" ""' ^T-'"' '° " ^'^""^ P"' °f °'" '^O'"" 



recotnmend to follow that method for a part of I maturity to the plants left on both sides of the , '^"■'.tinuing their eflorts to get from our 



the ground which each farmer would consecrate [ strips cut to feed your cattle. For that cultivation j^^atever can be more advantageous forma 



1.0 the rai^ing of corn. I cultivated, in that wav, | vour ground must bo well prepared. The grain , Oswegu canal wi.l bo open before we 



two acres. The land is good, but was not so well i must be well soakod and roUod in either lime or 'f I'"/'"'^ "^ "''^ ensuing crops. Wo mrst 



prepared as it ought to have been. No manure I plaster, which would be better. It must be sowed ^' ' ^^""^ "P« ardsot one hundred miles 



rke 



we hav 



cot 



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imitsi 



and that from those borders wc can send our 

 duce to New York for tho same price as ft 



Rochester. 



iias over been used upon it, since it has been'ns .soon as possible after the last plou-hino- and '"O'^ ^n"" ""e Halt ot .he extent of the li 

 cleared, upwards of twenty years ago. I had only I harrowin-r of the ground, then harrowed in and ""^ ?w fL' J"^? ''"'■Coring on a sloop navi 



one bushel of phiiler sowed upon each acre, after i rolled. I take this opportunity to observe, we * 



the corn was in thn ground. | don't make enough use of the roller 



I cultivated at the same time, in tho usual way, | In some remarks I took the liberty to impart to, 

 .■several acres of corn in a soil favorable to the ' my fellow citizens the day of our last public meet- I The landholders in this county having g,^ncrallj 

 raising of that grain. A great part of the field ; in<r. having mentioned and entered into some de- j ''"^'^ '''^ P"«=ss of their land, and the conditions oi 

 where the corn was planted had been improved of i tails roncernine several productions suitabie i,o P^y""^""^ ^° ^s to suit the low price of produce and 

 bte, by a sufficient quantity of lime and dung to lour soil which I thought advisable for us to culti- ' °"''"' "'-'f^ivourable circnmst.mces which afflict us 

 promote well the gron-lh of the corn. Plaster was ' vale, st least iinon a small scale, to divide .md i ''■"'"P"''""';''' '*■ ^■''' '"''i"*"" a considerable .accession 

 ,also applied upon each hill, and in duo time. The multiply at tho same lime our chances of success ] "^^ PfP'jla'i"" to renew the improving and growing 



in our agricultural pursuits, I will not repeat them , *^"'®'"'^'-' "^ '''° '■"unt;'- 



here : but actuated by that serious consideralinn, | Frou: these windows we can see another areat 

 that it is really oi' primary importance, not onlv to ,' motive of encouragement : these immense build- 

 calculate and be prepared as much as possible ) i"g^i and great and useful operations wliich are 

 against the too unfavorable variation in the de- ! preparing, must stronglheu, more than anythin<r 

 mands and prices of the markets, but yet to be \ Plse> a' the present moment, the favourable idetw 

 guarded as well as we can against the vicissitudes ' ^^'e ''a^e of the advantages this country offers both 



ground had b<?en well ploughed, harrowed and 

 rolled. The rest of the work was bestowed upon 

 it, when requisite— yet in crmparing the cost and 

 the produce of two of the best acres of that field 

 with the two acres sowed Irnnd cast, the balance 

 has been much in favor of the corn sowed broad 

 oast, though I have iioi admitted in the compara- 



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