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VOLUME I. 



ROCHESTER, AUGUST 12, 1831. 



NUMBER 32. 



|PVBIiISHKO BY Jj. TUCKER &. CO. 



At the Office of the Daily Advertiser. 



Terms— $8.50 per annum, or 



$2,00 if paid io advance. 



N. GOODSEI.L, EDITOR. 



AUGUST. 



Farmers you have now secured your wheat, rye, 

 and barley ; and although the weather during these 

 operations was rather unfavorable, yet you have 

 abundant reason to be thankful that you have suc- 

 txeded so well. You have gathered in a great 

 proportion of the amount of your produce of the 

 present season. Your oats in some instances, 

 and your corn and potatoes, demand a continua- 

 tion of your care at ingathering, and your fallows 

 demand all your skill in preparing for the next 

 year's crop. Although this is a season of die year 

 when you feel to relax a little from those exer- 

 tions which have been required during haying and 

 harvest, yet be careful not to relax into negligence. 

 Now is the time when you should be on your 

 guard. Be cool and deliberate. According as 

 vourbarn is filled with grain or your fields are 

 filled with herds of sheep and cattle, so will be 

 the calls upon you by sharpers. You will be told 

 that the wars in Europe are at an end or nearly 

 3o, and that the prospects of a foreign market for 

 wheat are very bad — that owing to the low price 

 of cloths, the manufacturers are ruined and wool 

 will be low, and sheep will hardly pay for keep- 

 ing, but be careful — " 'tis nought, 'tis nought, saith 

 the buyer, but when he goeth away he boasteth." 

 This year you will be called upon by a great num- 

 b£r of men ; ' from down east," riding in sulkeys, 

 who call "for the express purpose of having you 

 put up a thrashing machine, first in your neigh- 

 borhood, as you can make a great deal of money 

 by it;" but they also wish yoij,to take the patent 

 right, for the town, that you may make more. Be 

 careful ; those men from " down east dont ride so 

 lb st for nothing." We like thrashing machines 

 they are good things, but we would not give one 

 farthing for every patent right that could be given 

 ("or any machine now in operation. They will 

 show you the letters patent, they have them, and 

 ?n yon may have a patent for a cart with two 

 wheels if you will pay into the patent office thirty 

 dollars, and present the papers specified, wheth- 

 er your neighbor's cart had two wheels or not. — 

 but when you have got your patent " then comes 

 the tug of war." You haxe got to substantiate it 

 if disputed, and show that the principle is new ; 

 if it is not your letters patent are good for no- 

 thing, which is probably the case with nine tenths 

 that are given out by the United States. It is a 

 source of revenue to the United States, but as to 

 (he propriety of it,we have some doubts. It is also 

 a great field for speculation for those people " down 

 ■^ast." Buy your machine — pay the mechanic 

 well for making it, and have it well made; but 

 pay nothing for patent rights. There has not 

 been any new principle introduced for many 

 years that we are aware of, and if the principle 

 js a long known one, letters patent are of no use. 



The barn of Jacob Shook, at Milan, N. Y. was 

 burnt on the 23d ult. containing 7,000 bushels of 

 wheat ami rye. It was struck by lightning. 



WHEAT CROP. 

 We have taken some pains to ascertain the sit- 

 uation and prospects of the wheat crop, as to 

 quality, quantity, &c. Farmers that we have in- 

 quired of, since the harvesting was finished, vary 

 in their opinions as to the quantity of the last, 

 compared with former crops, some estimating it 

 at half, while others think the last may be two- 

 thirds of an ordinary crop in quantity, but there 

 will also be a deficiency in quality, as most of the 

 wheat from strong lands is shrunk and some of 

 it is a little grown in consequence of the continu- 

 ed wet weather during harvest. We have also 

 made inquiries respecting the advantages and dis- 

 advantages, of different kinds of wheat, and the 

 propar soil for each. These inquiries have not 

 as yet, been answered, as satisfactorily as we 

 could wish, but appear to be in favor of sowing 

 the large flint wheat, upon strong lands, and the 

 farmers mostly agree that it is not as liable to be 

 injured by the fly, neither as apt to fall down as 

 the red bald wheat, and that it will not sprout as 

 soon in wet weather. On light, sandy soils, it 

 seems to be the prevailing opinion that the red 

 bald wheat is most profitable. 



We again invite our practical farmers to make 

 communications to us, of facts respecting their 

 last crops, on all such points as will be useful to 

 their brethren, as to manner and time of sowing, 

 quality of land, variety sowed, and quantity and 

 quality harvested, &c. &c, in order that we may 

 give them place in season to benefit the public. — 

 We are aware that many an honest farmer whose 

 experience would be of the utmost consequence to 

 community will excuse himself by saying, " I can- 

 not write for a public paper, because I have never 

 been used to it." To such men we would say 

 that is not the part expected from you." You 

 are the professors of Agriculture; you perform 

 the experiments to demonstrate the theory to the 

 world; and every editor of an agricultural paper in 

 the country stands in the capacity of a clerk to you 

 ready to record the result of any, and every ex- 

 periment at your bidding. Only give them the 

 facts, in the plainest possible manner, and they 

 will do any thing that is found necessary, to in- 

 duce their patrons to read it. 



became partially covered-with oil 1 or because tht 

 smoke of the lamps ascended into the tops and 

 affected the foliage, communicating to it some dis- 

 agreeable property, which drove the insects from 

 the trees 1 or was it on account of the disposition 

 of insects to fly towards the light, during the night, 

 by which they have approached so near the blaze 

 of the lamps as to be destroyed by them 1 The 

 latter supposition appears to us the most reason- 

 able. Knowing that most insects during the 

 routine of transformations assume the forms of 

 moths or millers, many of which are very troub- 

 lesome about candles during warm evenings ; it 

 maybe well to inquire whether the curculios do 

 not, at some particular season, appear in that 

 shape attended with the disposition to approach 

 fire light 1 If so, may not these destructive little 

 creatures be destroyed by placing a few lamps in 

 a plum orchard, during that particular season 

 when they appear 1 



I am aware that the idea of lighting up our 

 fruit orchards with lamps, may disturb the gravi- 

 ty of some of our sober readers, but should it be 

 found useful, and thereby become common, it 

 would be thought no more of, than it now is to see 

 the pC?°7 figure of a judge posted up in our corn 

 fields with presented arms. 



We think this accidental discovery of a few 

 plum trees, with their fruit entire in the midst of a 

 district where the crop of plums has been entirely 

 destroyed the present season by the curculio, 

 promises much towards discovering an antidote ; 

 and any observations on the subject will be thank- 

 fully received, and laid before the public. 



HORTICULTURAL. 

 There are to be seen in the public garden kept 

 by Mr. Smith, in this village, several plum treesof 

 differentkinds,heavily laden with fruit,upon which 

 there does not appear any marks of the curculio, 

 although the plums in the neighboring gardens 

 have all been destroyed by them. This garden 

 has been kept open during the warm season, for 

 several years past, as a place of public resort, for 

 eating ice cream, &c, and has been lighted up 

 with open mouthed glass lamps during the fore 

 part of each evening. The ground, as usual in 

 such places is laid out into walks and plats. Th 

 plats are planted with ornamental shrubbery and 

 flowering plants, amongst which stand the plum 

 trees referred to, and visitors are not allowed to 

 tread upon the plat. 



Query. Why these plums escaped the rava- 

 ges of these insects ? ' 



Was it because the lamps were many of them 

 suspended in the p'.ivm trees, by which the trees 



BULBOUS ROOTS. 

 This is the seasonal which many bulbous roots, 

 such as tulips, hyacinths, and some others are gen- 

 erally taken out of the ground, in conformity to 

 ancient usages. We cannot give any reason why 

 this is so absolutely necessary, as many florists 

 would have us believe ; but that it is a good prac- 

 tice, we readily consent, for several reasons.— v 

 First, unless the ground is well dug and manur- 

 ed, we cannot suppose it will be in the best con- 

 dition for producing a fine growth of vegetables of 

 any kind. Secondly, were those bulbous roots, 

 which increase by offsets, allowed to remain ma- 

 ny years in the same place, they would increase 

 to that extent, that they would be injured for want 

 of room. As it would be very difficult to prepare 

 the ground, or place the bulbs at proper distances 

 without, taking them up, we recommend it. Pre- 

 vious to this season of the year, the flowers men- 

 tioned have completed their growth, and both leaf, 

 andfiberous roots are dead, and they can be moved 

 without injury. Directions have been given by 

 many for the taking up and planting of bulbous 

 roots, witli all the mathematical nicety of demon- 

 strating a problem in Euclid; but such directions, 

 we are not prepared to subscribe to, neitheir can 

 we see the necessity of keeping them out of the 

 ground any longer than is necesssry for prepar- 

 ing the ground for their reception. Surely to dig 

 up roots, and dry them, in order to make them 

 grow well is rather an unnatural course. We 

 should recommend the taking up of such bulbs as 

 require it, before the leaves were entirely decayed, 

 (as they will direct where the bulbs axe to be found) 



