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THE GENESEE PARMER 



Feb. 12, 1881, 



continue such general discussions as our obli- 

 ging correspondents shall favor us with, and our| 

 own poor abilities be able to produce, togeth- 

 er with such selections as a large exchange of 

 kindred works shall afford us. 



SEED CORN. 



I have been in the habit a number of years, 

 (says a writer in an eastern paper) of «electing 

 the best car of two that grmcs on a stalk of corn, 

 and have found it annually to improve to a very 

 considerable increase. After pursuing the ex- 

 periment for three years, and establishing the 

 fact in my own mind, that by this method there 

 was a constant and accumulative increase and 

 improvement, I communicated the circum 

 stance to my noighbor — be was quite incredu- 

 lous, and I invited him to a thorough experi- 

 ment. We took each our field of equal qual- 

 ity of soil, and richness, lying side by side, — 

 planted them on the same day, and tilled them 

 alike as we could; the result was, that his, 

 from ordinary soed, produced nearly 40 bush- 

 els ; while mine, from the selocted and impro- 

 ved soed, gave me about sixty bushels per acre. 



Heartt, G. B. Warren, John Holme, mem- 

 bers. 



A committee was appointed to prepare 

 the Constitution and By-law? for publication, 

 with a compendious statement of the objects 

 of the Society, and the modes in which it will 

 operate, to be prefixed. This publication will 

 be in a pamphlet form, and fitted to receive 

 the subcription of members, and will be circu- 

 lated for that purpose. The next meeting will 

 be on tho 19th inst, to which day, at 3 o'clock, 

 P. M. at the Rensselaer House, the society 

 adjourned. 



From the Vermout Inquirer. 



BLOATING IN CATTLE. 



A gentleman recently from France commn 

 nicates to us the following cure for this com 

 monly fatal disorder. 



The Volatile Spirit of Ammonia is found to 

 produce instantaneous relief. Its action is 

 chymioal. decomposing gass generated in the 

 stomach by fermentation. 



M. Thenard, the celebrated French Profes- 

 sor of Chymistry, speaking of scientific inves- 

 tigations, and of the innumerable instances 

 where they have been found subservient to the 

 general interests of society, among many others, 

 adduced this as an example, and related the 

 following anecdote, in illustration of its effects 



The Weather — January has been one of 

 the most constant and uniform cold months 

 that this region has witnessed since its settle- 

 ment; the average daily temperature is 21^^ 

 by two observations registered at TO o'- 

 clock, morning and evening, and only on four 

 days has the thermometer rose above the free- 

 zing point at 10 o'clock. A. AI. While the 

 most intense cold has been felt in other parts 

 of the stale, our lowest temperature in this 

 village during this month, at sunrise, was on- 

 ly 2 below Zero, — a discrepancy in the tem- 

 peratures of places in the same latitude, not 

 easily explained. Good sleighing commenced 

 on tho 19th, and has continued uninterrupted 

 to this date. 



The amount of snow which fell during Ja- 

 nuary was 13 T ' n inches, and to this date 3! T ' 5 

 inches — and a fair prospect. 



Feb. 10, 1831. 



rope next seabou. As to the filature and 

 twitting of the Bilk, it is as well executed as 

 any I have seen id this country, and convin- 

 ced me that with proper instruction and ma- 

 chinery we shall be able to manufacture silk 

 not only equal but superior to any in the world. 



Promenade, Sec. in the Caledonian Horticural 

 Society's Experimental Garden, at herleitk 

 Juhj 10. 



The garden is about ten English acres in 

 exteot.and commands from every part a superb 

 view of the city. It is divided into compart- 

 ments suited to the different kinds of plants 

 raised in it; the chief of these apartment? 

 being the aboretum, the orchard, the nursery, 

 the hot bouses and stoves, and the kitchen 

 garden. The aboretum is formed of the nu- 

 merous species and varieties of trees & shrubs, 

 and extends round nearly three sides of the 

 garden, besides intersecting it in the form of 

 two raised belts. The orchard contains up- 

 wards of 600 sorts of apples, collected with 

 great care, and at considerable expense and 

 many new seedling varieties. The pears a- 

 mount to 350 sorts, the plums to 100 sorts, the 

 cherries, to CO sorts, and the filberts to about 

 10 sorts. Of the gooseberries there are 350 



A short lime previous, while on a visitto his varieties; and the distinct kinds of straw ber- 



From Ihe Troy Sentinel, of Feb.7- 



HorTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The organization of" The Kensselner Coun- 

 ty Horticultural Society" was completed on 

 Friday last, at the Rensselaer House. 



The following is a complete liet of the ap- 

 pointments. 



President, John D. Dickinson; 1st Vice 

 President, Abraham C. Lansing ; 2d Vice Pre- 

 sident. Herman Knickerbacker ; 3d Vice Pre- 

 sident, Richard P. Hart: 4th Vice President, 

 John Carpenter: 5th Vice President, R. I. 

 Knowlson; Treasurer. John T. Al'Coun; Re- 

 cording Secretary, Albeit P. Heartt; Corres- 

 ponding Sorretary, O. L. Holley. 



Board op Council, for 1831. 



Horatio G. Stafford, Chairman ; Alexander 

 Walsh, Amos Briggs, Amos Eaton, Moses 

 Hale. Horatio Hicoek, Elias Parmele. Genrge 

 B. Warren, John Holme, Jacob Monit, Hen- 

 ry Bulkley, Elijah F. Willey, Members. 



Lecturer, on Botany, Vegetable Physiology, 

 and tloritcuttural Chemistry, Amos Eaton. 

 Standing Committees. 



On fruit trr.es, vines and fruits — Alexander 

 Walsh, Chairman; Amos Briggs. Elijah F. 

 Willey, Elias Parmele, 11. G. Spaflbrd, mem- 

 bers. 



On Kitchen Gardens and thr. cultivation oj 

 culinary vcgetahUs — Stephen Warren, Chair- 

 man ; Henry Bulkley, Horatio llicock, Jacob 

 Merritt, members. 



On Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, and 

 Green Houses— Moses Hale, Chairman; A. 1' 



native village in some remote part of France 

 a drove of thirty or forty cattle broke into a 1 

 fieid of rank clover, and all of them became! 

 affected with bloating, and whsn discovered,] 

 some of them were so far gone as to fall down' 

 upon their fore legs. Ho called immediately! 

 for Spirits of Ammonia, but none could be! 

 found in the place, and they were obliged tol 

 send four miles to a neighboring village Fie-! 

 fore it could be procured. He commenced bv! 

 giving it to those most severely affected, and 

 so on to the others, and all were saved excep- 

 ting two. If there had been no delay in get- 

 ting the remedy, probably none would have 

 been lost. 



The dose for a cow or ox is a table spoon- 

 ful, diluted in water or any convenient liquid. 

 If not effectual, repeat the dose. 



From the Harrisburgli Statesman 



AMERICAN SILK AND RED MULBERRY. 



We have examined a sample of sewing 

 silk, manufactured by Mrs. Oliver, lady of, 

 the present representative in the stale legis! 

 laturefrom Mercer county, and we believe itj 

 to be quite equal to any we have ever seen. — ; 

 The thread is fine, slrong and remarkably | 



even. It is truly a pleasant thing to koow(| the se a SorJi interspersed with conlections, and 

 that the citizens of this commonwealth are 



ries are about 100. The nursery is filled with 

 fruit and forest trees and shrubs, in vaiious 

 stages of growth, intended chiefly for distri- 

 bution among its members. The hot house 

 establishment is not yet complete, but the col. 

 lection of pine apples amounts to about 20 

 sorts, and that of grape vines to about 100 

 sorts. Tbecnlinarum, or kitchen garden de- 

 partment, is richly stocked with rare culinary 

 plants and herbs. The whole garden is un- 

 der the management ofMr. Barnet,and never 

 did we see a place of the kind in better or- 

 der. Not a weed was to be seen, and, still 

 more marvellous to be told, not a bush appear- 

 ed deranged, not a bed furrowed by the de- 

 luges which had poured down daily from the 

 weeping skies. The turf walks were shaved 

 so closely, that they soemed to the eye, and 

 felt to the foet 1'ke a carpet of velvet. 



In the centre of the garden a large tent 

 was erected, supported on pillars gaily festoon- 

 ed with evergreens and flowers. Under tins 

 awning two tables were placed, capable of ac- 

 commodating about 500 people. The tables 

 were profusely covered with all the fruits of 



turning their attention to such an useful and 

 profitable domestic manufacture as that of I 

 silk. The matrons who take a lead in such: 

 laudable work, set an example for which they 

 deserve the highest praise 



From the following extract which we have 

 been permitted to take of a letter received 

 by a gentleman from this place, we perceive 

 that the wor i s were fed on the red mulberry, 

 and that the manufacture is pronounced ex 

 cellent by Air Du Ponceau, who is one of the 

 btst judges. 



Extract of a letter, from Mr. Du Ponceau > 

 of Philadelphia, to a member of the Pennsyl 

 vania legislature. 



Dear Sir— I have reoeived Ihe sam 

 sewing silk that you had Ihe goodness to send; 

 me manufactured by a lady of the family ol! 

 Mr. Oliver, of Mercer county. It confiimsl 

 me in the opinion that I have for several: 

 months entertained, that worms fed on the led 

 American Alulberry will produce as fine silk, 

 as those fed on Ihe while. I see no difference 

 in Jhe appearance of the silks — As to the 

 |iAiti!y and quality, that will, God helping.be 

 submitted to fair experiments here and in Eu- 



beside each cover a nosegay was invitingly 

 deposited. At each end of the tent was an 

 elevated platform, supporting a variety or 

 magnificent exotic ph.nts, the exhibition of 

 which was one of the pimcipal features of the 

 entertainment. The collection was as nu- 

 merous as many of the specimens were splen-* 

 did. — Edinburgh Observer. 



THE FRAGRANCE OF FLOWERS. 



As the atmosphere cooveys this quali- 

 ty to a considerable distance, it must be 

 a fugitive body suflieienty material, tho' 

 invisible, to be incorporated with com- 

 mon oir m a gaseoi.s or other highly re- 



„, .I fined state. It seems to be yielded most 



P' e of, . ... , -• , „ 



' snnH ; intensely Irom the centre ef the flower: 



heoce it has been supposed to be a kind 



of vapor from the houev or nectar; but 



!t is alio coulaiued in tha other parts, as 



detached c.'yces, Stamina, petals, style 



and pericarp, as well as the seeds, which 



rarry with them ihe .irsoma, more or 



less intense. The state of the air has 



considerable influence in regard to the 



