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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



May 28, 1S3L 



Le Raysville, prompt me to recommend it 

 ivilh an entire confidence. It can all be 

 made by the hand of the farmer, and comes 

 to him so cheap, that the benefit he may 

 reap from its use will repay him the very 

 first year. It is not only advantageous to 

 grain crops, but very much also for grass. 

 One hour's work with the roller after plow- 

 ing and harrowing, says a farmer after eight 

 years experience, will do more in pulveri- 

 sing the soil, and in producing a finer tilth, 

 than ten times the amount of labor with plow 

 or harrow. A smooth round log, eighteen 

 inches or two feet in diameter, but the 1 ir- 

 ger the better, and five or six feet long, will 

 answer a very good purpose for a roller. — 

 Add if you please, a box to carry the stones 

 out of the field, or to augment the weight at 

 pleasure, and a scraper to prevent the earth 

 clogging your machine. 



It is a gratifying task for me to have to 

 felicitate you upon the means we have of 

 improving our already good stock of neat 



! while the refined and endeariDg attributes 

 ! of woman, furnish the names, or give dis- 1 

 tinction, to those interesting favorites who! 

 throng the brilliant court of Flora. 



" We may ask in the eloquent language 

 of the enthusiastic Boursault — 'Who does 

 not love flowers ? — They embellish our gar- 

 ■ dens ; they give a more brilliant lustre to 

 i our festivals; they are the interpreters of 

 ■our affections for our relatives and friends; 

 | they are the testimonials of our gratitude; 

 we present them to those to whom we are 

 [under obligations; they are often necessary I 

 l to the pomp of our religions ceremonies, 

 and they serve to associate and mingle their 

 perfumes with the purity of our prayers, and 

 the homage which we address to the Almigh- 

 ty. — Happy are those who love them and 

 cultivate them.' 



" The ancients paid particular attention 

 to the culture of flowers. They were in great 

 request at the entertainments of the wealthy, 

 for adorning the apartments, as well as the 

 cattle. We have in this county two bulls of |' participants of the feast ; they were scatter- 

 Devonshire and Hertfordshire ; and through jjed before the triumphal chariots of victori- 

 the enterprise of Mr. Budd of Carthage, we, ous generals; they were placed upon the 

 now own a very fine full-blooded bull, of ! tombs of the illustrious and beloved, to per 

 that most valuable breed, the Durham short 

 horn. It was bred by the celebrated Mr. 

 Powell of Philadelphia. 



The growth of wool is not a favored one 

 with our farmers, but the prospects are bright- 

 ening, and a better market will reward our 

 exertions. The subject, however, to which 

 I would direct your most serious attention, 

 is the employment of that material in the 

 family manufactures. It is said by some, 

 that they can buy imported cloth cheaper 



petuate the pleasing, yet mournful reminis- 

 cences of their virtues ; they formed the dis- 

 tinguishing insignia of many of the divini- 

 ties of mythology ; they glitter as genius in 

 the diadems of the seasons, and constitute 

 the mystical language of poetry. 



'• We are informed that Descartes prose- 

 cuted, with equal ardor, astronomy and the 

 culture of flowers, and often retired from his 

 celestial observations to study the sleep and 

 floration of his plants, before the rising of 

 than they can make it. I believe the report jlthe sun. The great Conde, returning from 

 of your viewing committee will bear out thejthe dangers and glories of the battle-field, 

 contrai y opinion ; but even if there was a [devoted his leisure hours to the cultivation 

 little difference, is there not a great advan- of his flower garden ; and so enamored was 

 tage in answering yourself your own wants, Lord Bacon with these silent, yet eloquent 

 rather than pay money or the equivalent of:! and soothing companions, that the vase of 



The practice also saves labor and cold fin- 

 gers. We have in this way had no butter 

 that was not as high colored as what I send 

 you. But perhaps the high color may be 

 owing considerably to the extra richness of 

 the milk, and this quality of the milk is 

 wholly attributable to the cows. My stock 

 consists of the Short Horn breed in the blood 

 of Calebs, Denton, and Holderness, the Here- 

 fordshire in the blood of Sir Isaac, the 

 Bakeivell, and that excellent, though unde- 

 fined breed introduced here from England 

 by Charles Vaughan, Esq. and the best 

 selected native. 



I am aware that much contrariety of opin- 

 ion exists as to the properties and relative 

 value of the different breeds of cattle, and 

 my intentions have been, and still are, to go 

 through with a series of fair experiments on 

 the subject. 



So far as several years' observation and 

 one year's experience will enable me to judge, 

 I am inclined to think the improved import- 

 ed races (the short horns, particularly,) the 

 most prof table, — that is, taking them for all 

 purposes. I do not know that they will give 

 any more milk than the ' natives,' but it is, 

 I believe, generally of a better quality, and 

 they certainly keep in much belter order on 

 the same food. They are also put togethei 

 more on mechanical principles, are stronger, 

 and have better constitutions. I would re- 

 commend to every farmer to give them a fail 

 trial. Sanford Howard. 



Hallowcll, April 18, 1831. 



it ? Do you not feel a pride and a satisfac 

 tion in wearing homespun ? But above all, 

 will not your good housewives enter into 

 those feelings, and seize an opportunity of 

 rendering useful the industry of their daugh- 

 ters ? The mention of this better as well as 

 fairer portion of the human race, reminds 

 me that our assembly is graced as usual by 

 their presence, in a number which is a re- 

 ward and an encouragement for our labors, 

 and that their flattering attention should not 

 be fatigued. Their usual influence will al- 

 so move us to raise our eyes from earth to 

 heaven, and to ask a continuance of those 

 great privileges and blessings with which it 

 iias pleased the Almighty to favor us. 



From ihe Lanuiopburgh Gazette. 



FLOWERS. 



Mr. Editor — You will much please me 

 by giving the following extract of a commu- 

 nication from II. A. S. Dearborn, which ap- 

 peared in the New-England Farmer, Feb. 

 1830, a place in your paper. 



A Subscriber. 



"In all ages and countries, flowers have 

 been universally cherished and admired as 

 the ornaments and the delight of the vege- 

 table, as are their prototypes, of all the ani- 

 mal kingdom. The fondest titles, the most 

 ardent expressions of attachment, and the 

 lovely qualities of each, have been recipro- 

 cally bestowed upon the pre-eminent of both 

 realms. The Rose of Sharon, the Violet, 

 and the Lily of the Valley, have become the 

 vonsecrated emblems of female excellence ; 



flowers was daily renewed upon his table, 

 while composing the volume of his sublime 



philosophy." 



Frotp the New-England Farmer. 



WINTER BUTTER, SHORT HORN CATTLE, SiC. 



Mr. Editor — Much has been said in the 

 New-England Farmer about freezing the 

 milk to obtain cream for butter. My objec- 

 tions to this practice are, the butter so made 

 is inclining to be ivhite, ivill not sell well, and 

 is crumbly and will not cut handsomely. — 

 [Besides, I think the flavor hardly equal to! 

 that made in the method we have pursued. 



Our object has been to keep the milk in 

 a temperature always above the freezing 

 point — say not lower than 40 or 45 degrees. 



The method which we have practised, and 

 which I think best for winter, was recom- 

 mended to me by that great ftiend to agri- 

 cultural improvement, Charles Vaughan, 

 Esq. as followed in the counties of Somer- 

 set and Devon, England. The milk, im- 

 mediately after it is taken from the cow, is 

 put in a copper or brass vessel, of a size ac- 

 cording to the quantity of the milk, care be- 

 ing taken that it is not more than eight or 

 ten inches in depth, and gradually brought 

 to within two or three degrees of boiling heat, 

 when it is permitted slowly to cool. In the 

 course of five or six hours, the most of the 

 cream rises in a beautiful thick sheet, and is 

 so solid that it may be cut with a knife in 

 almost any form. It comes to butter almost 

 immediately, never requiring more than five 

 minutes churning. The butter is of line 

 quality, being of good color and flavor.— 



TULIPS. 



Now that we are beginning to feel a little 

 of the ' etherial mildness' of spring, we may 

 perhaps turn our thoughts for a moment to 

 the subject of flowers. The weather has 

 been so cold for five weeks past, with the 

 exception of two or three days of the pres- 

 ent, as greatly to retard vegetation of every 

 description. The trees have not yet entire- 

 ly assumed the appropriate livery of the sea- 

 son, and flowers have hitherto refused to 

 distil their odours. A refreshing change, 

 however, is now discoverable in the fragrance 

 of the suburban atmosphere, and our "fair 

 friends can at length venture forth to enjoy 

 the sylvan scenery of the neighborhood, with 

 the assurance of regaling themselves upon 

 sweets of other leaves and flowers than ice- 

 plants and snow-drops. 



Of the early history of the Tulip, from 

 its discovery among the Turks, to the e»- 

 travagant speculations in the roots, as arti- 

 cles of merchandise, in various countries, 

 but particularly in Holland and England, 

 about a century and a half ago, our readers 

 are probably as well acquainted as ourselves. 

 Mr. Neale, however, has put into our hands 

 a leaf from a very old Magazine, from Which 

 we quote the following paragraphs " on the 

 fondness of the Turks for the Tulip," from 

 the Opuscoli of the Abbe Sestini, which will 

 probably amuse, if it does uot instruct, the 

 readei . 



The Tulip, called in the Turkish language 

 Lale, is a flower which these people were so 

 passionately fond of, that they employed the 

 utmost care to bring the cultivation of it to 

 perfection. Tbey did not set much value on 

 those, the bulbs of which were brought from 

 Holland, because it is an established rule 

 among them, to esteem more whatever grows 

 in their own country, than the productions 

 of foreign nations. 



Tulips, however, have been in so great 



