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THE GENESEE FARMER 



November 26, 1SSJ 



ON PALL PLOUGHING. 



There is something pleasant to most people, 

 when they receive the approbation of men whom 

 they respect, and whom they have reason to be- 

 lieve, are held in estimation by the public. 



The practice of fall ploughing, has been a fa- 

 vorite one with us, but we have sometimes been 

 rather mortified, when after recommending it to 

 our brother farmers, and giving our decided opin- 

 ion in favor of it, we have been told " that it was 

 a bad practice, and was very injurious to the soil. " 

 On this subject, we publish in this number a 

 communication from one of the most respectable 

 farmers of Western New York, which we hope 

 will go far toward convincing our readers that it 

 is not only free from injurious consequences, but 

 is one of the most profitable autumnal operations 

 which rur farmers can attend to. We are sorry 

 to say that we are not personally acquainted with 



the writer, but know him publicly, and tender him 



our thanks for his valuable communication. We | 

 are aware of the importance of inducing suchl 

 men to become interested in our journal, and of' 

 their contributing to its columns. When practical 

 farmers write, inquiring farmers will read with 

 more satisfaction, than when they know the piece 

 is the production of some theorist in his closet, 

 who, perhaps, would make as awkward work 

 with the plough, as most of our farmers would 

 with a quadrant. The writer in a note accompa- 

 nying the piece, wishes us to accept it " as a drop 

 preceding a plentiful shower ;" and should he con- 

 tinue his observations, we anticipate, our journal 

 will contain interesting matter, whether farmers 

 avail themselvesofthropporUuiity ofreading ornot. 



NEW-YORK MARKET, Nov. 19. 



Flour — The receipts of western have only a- 

 bout equalled the demand for the eartern markets, 

 &c. and as some of the receivers decline selling at 

 present, and are stoiing for winter sales, a slight 

 advance has been obtained. Sales were made last 

 week of common western at $5 75 to 5 81, early 

 (his week at 5 87, and now at 5 94 to $6, and 

 sales of the fancy brands at 6J . Common des- 

 scriptions of southern Sour have been in fair de- 

 mand at 5J, and the dealers and bakers have pur- 

 chased good brands of Georgetown, at 5 5-8and 5* 

 for the beat marks. The stock of all kinds of flour 

 is unusally light. 



Revenue of Great Britain. 

 For the year ending 5'h July, 1830, 



$233,925,445 

 " " 5th July, 1831, 225,807,270 



.Shewing a diminution of $8,1 18,175 



The interest on the pui lie debt for 



tie year ending 5th July 1830, $12,174,910 

 The customs for 1830, were 81,925,445 



Excise, 85,415,750 



Stamps, 8,120,505 



Post-Offices, 6,685,000 



Taxes, 24,692,905 



Miscellaneous, 27,085,840 



$233,925,445 



ANOTHER STORM, 

 Swept over Barbndocs on the 23d of September, 

 which threw down many totterkig walls, " rel- 

 (tjUes" of the tornado of August last. Two vessels 

 were wrecked. The condition of the poor in ma- 

 ny of the W. L Islands is said to be miserable ini 

 *he extreme. 



Manufacturing Establishments. 

 In Dudley, Mass. 



Near French River, Messrs. TufTts have one 

 mill for Cotton and one for Woolens. The cot- 

 ton is just getting into operation. They make up 

 80,000 lbs. of wool in a year, employ GO hands, 

 have 18 bnadcloth and 10 cassimere looms, and 

 finish 33,000 yds. of broadcloth. 



Near the same River are the works of the Dud- 

 ley Man. Co. They run 1550 spindle*, 14 broad- 

 cloth and 14 cassimere looms, employ 125 hai, Is, 

 and work 100,000 lbs. of wool. They make from 

 60 to 70,000 yards of cloth and cassimere. 



On the same River, half a mile, is Preston's cot- 

 ton factory — 1200 spindles — 40 hands — uses 

 60,000 lbs. cotton, and weaves ISO.OOOyds. sheet- 

 ings. 



On the same River is Peny's Sattinet factory — 

 720 spindles — 22 looms — 35 hands — works 54,- 

 000 lbs. wool — finishes 70,000 yds. of sattinets. 

 In Tkrompoon, Con. 



On the same River, half a mile below, is Will- 

 son's Sattinet Factory — 340 spindles — 14 looms 

 — 20 hands — works 40,000 lbs. wool — produces 

 65,000 yds. sattinet. 



On the same River, 3 miles below, Andrews & 



Fisher have a Cotton Factory, 2200 spindles — 52 



looms — 70 hands — work 72,000 lbs. cc'ton and 



make o50,000 yds. of cotton for printing calicoes. 



At MaconviUe. 



On the same River, half a mile below, are s 

 eral mills, to wit — 



1. Mason & Thatcher's — 2436 spindles — 60 

 looms — 80 hands — work 60,000 lbs. cotton 

 make 250,000 yds. sheetings. 



2. Mason's — :700 spindles — 36 looms — 75 

 hands — work 90,000 lbs. cotton — make 250,000 

 yds. sheetings. 



There are several others of less magnitude — 

 which are not described. 



On Five Mile River, which is connected with 

 French River duinebog, there is the factory of 

 Randall, & Co. which runs 900 spindles — 18 

 looms — 40 hands — work 45,000 lbs. cottcn, and 

 make 150,000 yds. or shirtings in a year. 



There is a difference in these factories — some 

 not appearing to deliver as much work, capacity 

 considered, as others — that is owing to width and 

 fineness. These accounts are compiled from data 

 in the American Advocate. 



Tea Duty. — The Ladies, and not a few of the 

 Gentlemen, will be pleased to learn that on the 

 1st of January next, the duties on Teas, arc to be 

 reduced as fallowing : 



Bohea, from 12 cts. lb. to 4 cts. 



Souchong 25 " 10 " 



Hyson Skin, 28 " 12 " 



Hyson, 40 " 1- " 



Imperial and ) ^ „ 03 « 



Gunpowder ) 



AND 



On the 1st of January 1833, the day of Tea Ju- 

 bilee will come, when the entire duty is to be wip- 

 ed away. Then, it is to be expected that alljTea 

 Drinkers, of whatever genus or style, will assem- 

 ble over the delightful beverage, and sip to the 

 memory of Tschou-chang and Hong-chou. 



PRECAUTION IN PLANTING POTA- 

 TOES. 



It appears from experiments made in Holland, 

 Jiat when potatoes are planted, germs of which 



are developed, as happens occasionally in late op 

 erations, or after mild winters, that the product 

 differs in quantity by more than a third of what ii 

 would be, if potatoes not advanced had been used ; 

 and further, that besides this diminution of product 

 the quality is inferior. — dUliman's Journal. 



From the New York F«nnpr. 



THE COUNTRY FARMER— NO. IX. 



Boards of Agriculture, common faults of , and 

 the proper remedy. 



Mr. Fleet, — It is a common remark 

 'that no man ihonld point our faults, with- 

 out proposing a remedy;' which is about as 

 much as to say. that none but doctors may 

 wain a neighbor of his exposure to disease, 

 and none but lawyers of his liability to a law 

 suit. We Farmers are no great hands for 

 nice distinctions in such matters, and yet we 

 sometimes think there are foolish things in 

 very wise sayings, or rather, that there is less 

 wisdom in them, than they pass for. There 

 is certainly commendable pride, or there 

 would be no laudable ambition, as there is 

 also teprehensible, and illaudable. There 

 is a pride of wisdom, and a pride of folly. — 

 When foolishness sets up itself for what is 

 wise, either in literature, or science, or in a- 

 ny of the arts, as in Agriculture, the folly 

 should be exposed, either with 01 without 

 suggesting a remedy. So, when our late 

 Board of Agriculture was in operation, 

 and County Societies of Agriculture, under 

 State patronage, a radical error in the plan 

 of operations, or rather upon the principle 

 upon which premiums were adjudged, went 

 far towards souring the public mind, and the 

 State patronage was withdrawn. Hail the 

 planners of that scheme listened, in season, 

 to advice, or would they have received in- 

 struction from experience, and consented so 

 to modify that plan ^s <•) obviate those objec- 

 tions, the whole might have been in opeia- 

 tion until this time. This is what I call 

 foolish pride. Not learn from experience! 

 How, else do wise men learn ? 



The principle was, to grant premiums to 

 the most extraordinary production, without 

 any regard to the cost, by which foolish, 01 

 rich men, could, and did take the premiums 

 because the prudent, and the poor, and even 

 our middling kind of men, many of them 

 our very best Fanners, were looking at pro- 

 fit, as they should be. The true principle, 

 that upon which the whole system should 

 have been founded, would have been to grant 

 premiums to the best productions, attended 

 with the most profit. The poor, then, and 

 the men in moderate circumstances, and the 

 prudent, economical Farmers, could and 

 would have been competitors, and success- 

 ful ones; "and the details of such success, 

 collected and published, would have been 

 highly useful and instructive. This was 

 what was wanted, by the great mass of the 

 Farmers, throughout the state, or such was 

 the public opinion. The managing men. 

 however, either had other views, or were too 

 opinionated to receive instruction, and the 

 plan went down, I hope not forever, because, 

 with all its fault, it was, though indirectly, 

 productive of some good. 



There was another fault, Mr. F.ditor, per- 

 haps a natural and necessary consequence of 

 the first, or perhaps the first c mse of that, 

 which was, that practical men had but little 

 to do in supplying what was published, in 

 those days, in relation to \griculture. The 

 real Farmers, wrote much less than thev 



