V ok 1.— No. 49. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



39 J 



card fallow crops, and to prepare for wheat 

 by a naked summer fallow ; taking care io 

 turn up the soil to the full depth of the 

 plough, and to reduce it to a fine tilth- 

 Ill regard to seed, it is a law of nature 

 that like beget like ; and if you wish to har- 

 vest a crop of chess, you cannot hettei in- 

 sure one than by-sowing it. 1 know ii to be 

 the settled opinion of many of you, that 

 « heat, affected by the frosts of w inter, or 

 rains of spring, degenerates, and by some 

 strange process of nature becomes chess. — 

 Numerous facts have helped to give curren- 

 cy to this opinion. But men of sienee teli 

 ns that this is impossible, because chess be 

 longs to a different order of plants, and can 

 no more grow from a grain of wheat than a 

 pine tree can grow from an acorn. But; 

 whether this be true or not, it more nearly 

 concerns us to know that chess will vegetate 

 and produce itj kind, ii we sow ii therefore, j 

 we shall assuredly reap it. J have seen this 

 pest come in where I know the seed wheat' 

 wis clean; but 1 ascribe it to chess having 

 been brought on with the manure : or to its 

 lying dormant in the ground ; for it is ascer- 

 tained that some seeds will lie in the gioiind 

 forages, ami .ceil vegetate wheii brought 

 will in the ii ill . ce of the atmosphere. 



We are uoi much troubled with smut, and 

 with a little more attention to our seed should 

 be still less so. The same law prevails in 

 regard to it as w th chess, it uniformly repro- 

 ducing itsi-lf ; and if seed entirely dee from 

 it cannot be procured, a should be steeped 

 twenty fou hours in lime water, which will 

 correct the evil. 



In this climate, late sown wheat is pecu- 

 liarly liable to be thrown out by the frost and 

 winterkilled, however Hell the ground may 

 have been prepared for its reception. Ac- 

 cording to my limited experience, the propei 

 lime for sowing, is from the middle to the 

 lasi of August. The operation should be 

 closed with the Roller, an implement which 

 is fast coming into general use, and fui nici- 

 es its own recommendation. It is especially 

 useful where seeding own to grass, for it 

 leaves the surface smooth for the scythe; but 

 it is of great sei vice in sowing all small gram, 

 by breaking the lumps to pieces, and pies- 

 sing the earth around the seed, causing it 

 to vegetate more certainly and more evenly 

 The adavntages of early sowing are these. 

 The plant becomes well rooted, and acquires 

 sufficient strength to resist the frosts of fall 

 and spring ; which are so apt to Ilea ve out 

 and destroy the leeble plants of late sowings. 

 In the spring, it is prepared to make vigor- 

 ous offsetts and conies forward rapidly, unaf- 

 fected by the droughts, which sometimes pre- 

 vail at that season, and occupies the ground 

 to the exclusion of weeds and noxious pla ts. 

 A rotation of crops, resting upon a basis 

 of wheat and grass-, filling up one or two in- 

 termediate years with spring grain, such as 

 corn, oats, bailey or peas, will keep our old 

 farms in good condition ; and combined 

 with a well selected stock of sheep, and neat 

 cattle, will bring them to high point of pro- 

 ductiveness. 



is worth doing well. This maxim applies 

 especially, to the selection of stock. It is 

 as easy to raise a colt of high blood, as it is 

 an inferior one, and at four years old, the 

 former will be worth twice as much as the 

 latter. 



Efforts are making by several members of 

 the society, to introduce the improved breeds 

 if neat cattle. -Our pens to-day, exhibit spe- 



r pHE GENESEE FARMER and Gardek- 

 ■*- En's Journal— L. TUCKER & Co.. Pub- 

 lishers— N. GOOD3ELL, Editor. 



In issuing proposals for the second volume of 

 the Farmer, which will commence on the first of 

 January, 1832, the Publishers have the pleasure of 

 stating that the work 1ms met the decided appro- 

 bation of that class of the community for whom 

 it is intended, and has had the salutary effect of 

 calling out many writers, whose experience would 

 otherwise have been unavailable; and they are al- 

 so induced to believe it has been die means of a- 

 wakening many of our Farmers to the importance 

 of extending their information upon the subject of 

 their daily pursuits, and convincing diem of the 

 utility and necessity of a paper devoted especially 

 to "the tillers of the ground." The public papers, 

 and the judgment of many of our most enlight- 

 ened husbandmen, concur in the opinion that Mr. 

 Goodsell, the Editor, has fulfilled his duties with 

 such ability, as, with the aid of his correspondents, 

 to have placed the Genesee Farmer on a level 

 with the best Agricultural journals of our coun- 

 It has, as yet, enlisted the good feelings and 



cimens of both the Devonshire and short 

 horn Durham breeds, crossed upon our com- 

 mon stock, from various parts of the country. 

 We have also the gratification, through the 

 liberality and enterprise of Messrs. Bost- 

 wick and Buck, and several other gentlemen 

 of Lowville, of a fine display of the lull 

 blood Durham cattle, which have been in- 

 troduced by the former gentleman into Lew- 

 is county, from the collection of Colonel 

 Powell at Philadelphia, and an opportunity 

 is afforded us ; thus realizing one of the ini 

 portant benefits of our society, of comparing 

 these two breeds of cattle with each other, 

 and both with our common stock. No man, 

 1 think, can be at a loss which to prefer. So 

 far as I am informed, wherever the short horn 

 Durhams have been introduced, they nave 

 challenged competition, and been pronoun- 

 ced supeiior for draft, for the dairy, and lor 

 the butcher. Uur long nourished prejudice 

 is in favor of red cattle ; but it will yield, 

 when the superior excellence of the Durham 

 breed becomes inure generally known; nd 

 we shall no longer consider white marks as 

 a blemish. 



tome are so blinded by prejudice, tliat ,|u T- 

 they ascribe the acknow ledged supei loiity of contributions of but a small part of that portion of 

 the unproved breeds of cattle, solely to the our agriculturists who are well qualified to impart 

 greater care and attention bestowed upon II an interest and value to its columns. We shall, 

 them. Admitting this to be the case, and 1 1 therefore, commence the publication of the second 



that they are, intrinsically, no better "haul 



the coiiiiiino bleed, yet if from fancying 



them so, we can ethus easily biibed to be- 1 



-tuw such attention, m fitting ihem lor mar- 



ket,asto make them at three years , u ,;ture to predict that the second volume will at least 



bring the price that our present stock does at | equal, if it does not excel, the first. 



Its leading object has been, and will be, to impart 



volume with tlie hope and the assurance, that ma- 

 ny names will be added to the list of contributors 

 in the course of another year, and we may ven- 



four, which 1 believe will be the case, it is a 

 sufficient reason for incurring the expense of 

 their introduction. But in truth, there is as 



that information which will tend in the greatest 

 degree to the improvement of the Agriculture, 

 marked a difference between them and the Horticulture, and Domestic Economy, of our coun- 

 onginal stock of the country, as there is be- t 



tween the ungainly prairie bog and the com- j The first vo , ume can be supplied to all new sub- 

 pact grass breed, which is rapidly supplanting I ■,,,■■ , 



r . ° M , <.,,„,...,, i, . senbers, and bound in a neat manner to such 



it in all parts of the country. It is assert- \\ ' 



ed that the same difference exists in the ex- 1 as desire it In soliciting the patronage of the 

 pense ol keeping them, as between these , public, and especially of Agricultural and Horti- 

 last animals , that the Durhams in particu- 

 lar, are comparatively small eateis, and take 



on fat more readily than any otliei cattle. 

 (Remainder next Week.) 



cultural Societies, we ask aid no further than an 

 intelligent farming public may think we deserve it 

 CONDITIONS — The Farmer is printei ev- 

 ery Saturday in a quarto form, on fine papti md 

 fair type, with a Title Page and Index, m 

 416 pages a year, at $2 50, payable in six mom hs, 



A new species of sarsaparilla has been 

 lately imported from the E. Indies, which, II or $2° if pa'id in advance. 

 it is said, by those who have given it a lair II gj. Gentlemen who procure five subscribers, 

 trial, l.-. very superior to the sarsaparilla and forward the payment for the same, will be 

 that has hitherto been used in Europe. — allowed a sixth copy gratis 

 The cortical part is slightly aromatic, very'jj £j= js Subscription received for a less term 

 grateful to the palate, and sits very pleas- | !tnan lmlf a yem . — and au subscribers to com- 

 antlyonthe stomach; and the decoction | meBC eonfirstof January or July 



of the ligneous part is more mucilaginous 

 than another kind of sarsaparilla. On ac- 

 count of the aromatic quality of the cortical 

 part being volatile, the decoction is direct- 

 ed to be made in a retort, and, when cool, 

 the water collected in the receiver contain- 

 ing the essential oil, is to be added. — 

 Monthly Gazette of Practical Medicine. 



Effects of Intemperance. — A young man 

 was found drowned lately in North Carol 

 na, in a little puddle or stream of water not 

 more than two inches deep, nor six broad. 

 He had previously drank freely of spirits, 

 and it was supposed that he had laid down 

 to get a draught of water, and was too 

 much intoxicnted to aise again. 



LUTHER TUCKER & CO 

 Rochester, Dec. 1831. 



f£j=- Printers with whom we exchange are re 

 quested to publish the above. 



Auo. her Revolutionary Soldier i;oj,,. — 

 On the 21st inst. in the town of Schagti- 

 coke, Rensselaer County, .Jacob Yates, 

 Esq, died in the 77th year of his age. He 

 was among the first who took up arms in 

 defence of the rights and privileges which 

 the war of the revolution secured to the 

 people of this republic. He was a cap;ain 

 in the army which captured Gen.Burgoyne, 

 and it »vas believed that he was the last 

 .surviving captain who fought in the halite 

 of Stillwater. — TfW Budget, 



