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VOLUME 1. 



ROCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 3, 1831. 



NUMBER 35. 



PUBLISHED BV I» TUCKER & CO. 



At the Office of the Daily Advertiser. 

 Terms— $2.50 per annum, or 



$2,00 if paid in advauce. 



N. GOOD3ELL, EDITOR. 



SOWING RYE. 



It is a common practice to put off sowing rye 

 until after wheat ; this we hold to be " getting (he 

 cart before the horse." Rye can be advantage- 

 ously sown before the proper season for sowing 

 wheat arrives. When sown upon wheat or rye 

 stubble a good crop may be raised by once plough- 

 ing, if well done, by which the weeds and stubble 

 should all be turned under, after which, the ground 

 should be made fine on the top with a light har- 

 row. By sowing rye early, good pasture for 

 calves and young sheep is secured, iFter the com- 

 mon grasses have failed ; and even in the spring 

 it may be fed down with small stock, without in- 

 juring the crop. Another advantage of early sow- 

 ing is, the roots become much firmer fixed in the 

 ground, and are not so apt to be flung out of the 

 ground by the frost ; besides when sown early, 

 less seed will answer for the same ground. As 

 in the common course of farming, there is more or 

 less land upon farms which is in good condition 

 to produce rye, that would not produce wheat, and 

 from which a crop of rye may be raised with 

 little expense; we therefore recommend to our 

 farmers to put in a little rye each year, and be 

 careful about the quality sown, as there are two or 

 three varieties of this, which are in common cul- 

 tivation amongst us ; one kind is lighter in color 

 than the others ; this is to be preferred, as it pro- 

 duces equally as well as the darker kinds, and 

 when well ground, makes a very wholesome and 

 palatable bread, which is preferred by many peo- 

 ple to wheat : for mixing with corn meal for ma 

 king bread, it is allowed to be superior. In Ger 

 many and some other countries, rye is preferred 

 for common use, and the inhabitants consider it 

 much more healthy for food than wheat. Rye 

 makes excellent malt for beer, and may be raised 

 on grounds that are too light to produce barley. — 

 Mr. Hunt the English politician has prepared an 

 article from it which he denominated domestic 

 roffce, which has been much used by the lower 

 class of people, in that country ; whether it pos- 

 sessed reforming qualities we are not yet infor- 

 med. 



PICKLES. 



This is the season of the year for pickling ; 

 we would recommend the following as the most 

 approved method of preserving cucumbers for this 

 . ise. After gathering your cucumbers, place them 

 in a suitable vessel, and pour over them a strong 

 brine in sufficient quantity to cover them. Let them 

 remain in this until wanted, when they should be 

 put into water and allowed to remain twenty-four 

 hours. Pour off this water and cover them with 

 water boiling hot, and allow them to stand a coup 

 leof hours, after which, the same process should 

 be repeated, and if the color should not be as 

 green as wished, repeat it a second time, when 

 they will be found hard and green. Let them be 

 put in vinegar with pepper according to taste. — 

 When cucumbers are prepared as above, they 



will keep through the season. Some practice 

 putting cucumbers into spirits and water to un- 

 dergo the acetous fermentations; these never 

 make pleasant pickles. Cucumbers may be 

 kept in strong brine for any length of time, 

 and by so doing, a small quantity can be fresh- 

 ened at a time, and the quantity of vinegar re- 

 quired will be less than when a barrel is prepar- 

 ed at once. 



VULGAR ERRORS. 

 The story that the early settlers of New-Eng- 

 land were in the habit of whipping their beer bar- 

 rels, because they allowed the beer contained in 

 them to work or foment on Sundays has long been 

 told for the amusement of those who have sup- 

 posed themselves clear from such vulgar errors 

 and rank superstitions. But we ought to recollect 

 that those scenes were said to have been acted 

 more than two hundred years ago. What migh 

 ty improvements have been made within the last 

 two hundred years. How different is the state of 

 society, and how multiplied the sources of infor 

 mation since the existence of that code of blue 

 laws about which we hear so many anecdotes 

 Then a peson might be disposed to improve him- 

 self in the knowledge of the arts and sciences, but 

 found it very difficult to procure information on 

 subjects which he wished to investigate. At 

 this time the channels of infonnation are so nu- 

 merous in our country that every reasonable de- 

 sire to become learned is 1 easily satisfied ; so that 

 if people now remain in ignorance it is their fault, 

 and they have not the excuse which our forefath- 

 ers had, that they wished for information, but 

 could not procure it. Let us examine ourselves 

 in this era of light and knowledge, and see wheth 

 er we improve ourselves according to the advant- 

 age we possess or whether we are content to boast 

 that we possess advantages without improving 

 them. We have seen several cases the present 

 year in this section of country where plum trees, 

 poor insensible plum trees, have been most horri- 

 bly beaten because they allowed those little cun- 

 ning, sly insects, the curculios, to destroy their 

 plums. Now this beats the story of the beer bar- 

 rel " all hollow.'" If these little creatures come 

 frothing and hissing on like the fermentation of a 

 cask of beer, into the tops of our trees without de- 

 tection, it might look a little like neglect ;but they 

 are shy, invidious little creatures that would de- 

 ceive even man himself if he was not so very sa- 

 gacious. We have seen two or three instances 

 where people have bruised their trees with stones 

 from top to bottom, and after that, as if wishing to 

 keep them in fear, have put the stones in the crotch- 

 es as a kind of memento mori in case of another 

 neglect. Others again, as if impressed with the 

 idea that the trees were bewitched, have loaded 

 them down with horse shoes, and various kinds of 

 old cutting instruments, over which, if any of the 

 little fairies should chance to gallop, they would 

 be maimed most surely. When we consider these 

 great improvements, and that they are to bear 

 date 1831, we are filled with astonishment! — 

 At this ratio of improvement, what will not 1832 

 bring forth. 



Destroy all Weed' 



INDIAN CORN.- 

 The summer past has been a favorable one for 

 Indian corn, and we have never seen the crops 

 look better in Old Genesee. Already the yellow 

 ness of the husks of some crops on early land in- 

 dicate maturity, and those on later lands or such 

 as was later planted, are out 'of danger of frost. 

 Much attention should be bestowed upon this 

 crop this month. The stalks should be cut and 

 secured, after which, seed corn for the next year 

 should be selected. For this purpose select such 

 ears as grow two or three upon a stalk, and are 

 first ripe, with good proportions, and well sha- 

 ped grains. Great benefits will be derived from a 

 continuation of this practice from year to year. — 

 We were forcibly struck with the importance of 

 it a few days since on being shown a number of 

 rows planted side by side, at the same time, all of 

 which had been treated the same, but a part of 

 the rows were already ripe ; the others were yet 

 green. The owner informed me that the differ- 

 ence was occasioned by planting different kinds of 

 seed, one of which was from a farmer who prac- 

 tices picking his seed corn as above ; the other al- 

 though similar in other respects, had not been 

 subject to the same care. 



PEACH GRUBS. 



This is the proper season to examine the roots 

 of peach trees for the purpose of destroying the 

 young grubs, as the eggs which were deposited 

 by the fly, are all hatched out at this time, and a 

 little attention will destroy them. As they have 

 not buried themselves deep at this season, boiling 

 water poured into the crown, after removing the 

 dirt will destroy most of them ; the remainder af- 

 ter a few days should be dug out with the point 

 of a knife. Their hiding places may be 

 easily discovered by the gum which exudes being- 

 filled with red dust, like saw dust. A little at- 

 tention spring and fall will secure your trees a- 



ainst this enemy to peach trees. 



HOMMINY. 

 This is a favorite d'sh in most of the southern 

 states, and one which most northern people who 

 visit the south are fond of. It is made from the 

 large, white corn grown at the south, called by out- 

 farmers gourd seed corn. We planted a little of 

 this kind of corn very early last spring to try the 

 experiment, whether it would ripen in this cli- 

 mate. On the 27th of August we picked some ot 

 it perfectly ripe. We see no reason why the far- 

 mers of Old Genesee cannot furnish this article 

 for their tables as well as the southern planters. — 

 As it is a cheap wholesome dish and one that is- 

 relished by most people, we would recommend 

 to our good farmers to plant a small patch of the 

 white gourd seed corn each year, if only for fam- 

 ily use. One of the methods by which this dish 

 is prepared at the south is first to wet the com ; 

 after a short thne it is put into a large mortar ani I 

 pounded so as to break the kernels into quarters 

 The advantage of wetting is, that in pounding 

 the skin separates from the kernel and is easilj 

 blown or washed from the pounded grain. Wheii 

 cooked it is put into cold water and a few white 

 beans are mixed with it in proportion of two 

 quarts to the bushel, more or less ; it is put over a 



