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GENESEE FARMER. 



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Laconics. 



Tlie kd economy of burning green Fire-wood. 



We have been burning, for tlie last month, 

 greaa black and white oak wood, cut from small 

 ir.|-ees. Our students find on analysis that 100 

 lbs. of this wood contain 35 i lbs. of water, and 

 lejS tlian one pound of ash. We demonstrated 

 in a^i articlp published in the last Farmer, that 

 1000 degrees of heat are taken up, in converting 

 •wzl-er into steam vhich occupies a space 1696 

 time-s lai-ger than tliat filled by the water. Al- 

 tlKKx^h the quantity of latent heat contained in a 

 <'Z-'iP>i of green wood is not increased by season- 

 iing, and hence the latter can evolve no more 

 ^JEBi^Jble heat than the former ; still, in burning 

 ;§TO?«i wood, or wet wood, it is almost impossible 

 %.Q a^/foid the loss of one-fourth of the heat gene- 

 ir»tsd, in combination with wat3r, in steain and 

 To^r, Most of the heat rendered latent in these 

 gsiseous bodies j)asses up chimney, where they 

 ■aj:« cruidensed, and give out their heat to warm 



M^e are anxious to give the most unscientific 

 reader A vdear idea of this subject, for it is really 

 one of great practical importance. Look at it, 

 tlien, in this light : You have dirided your 100 

 lbs. of green oak, beech, or maple wood, into 65 

 ibs. of dry combustible matter, and 35 lbs of cold 

 ^«.ter. Every pound of this water you evapo- 

 rate in green wood, and fhrotv the heat away by 

 Die consumption of a part of yojr 65 lbs. of fuel, 

 aad then take the heat evolved by the balance cf 

 your fuel to warm joir room. How many 

 •ounces of perfectly dry wood are required to 

 'transform a pound of water into steam, we can 

 ■:nct at this moment say ; nor can we determine 



Avhat portion of the heat taken up by steam in , , , , , , , 



*V,« «^..,k.,„t;-,„ ^r „„v. . ^„j . ' •'. , J ] ol Honest Industry should take some pains to make good to 



tne combustion ot greenwood is again evolved L^e publisher. 



bj condensing in the room where the fire is Kev^r give Labor ninety cents and take a dollar back, till 

 ^■jade. We believe, however, that the usual loss >'o" -«- '^"l''' S^'o^J-iig spontaneously out of the earth. 

 -•1. 1, i-jriiii |A man that is able to work, and unwilling to produce in 



lfi_ about equal to one-third Oi all the heat con- [ gome form, a full, and fair equivalent fair what he consumes, 

 '•tailied in 65 lbs. of kiln-dried wood ; and that the from the cradle to the grave, should be driven out of civil- 



•^ain in seasoning wood undercover is at least ' j^'^^'^^^'^'^'^'J'' '^"'^ '"^'^^ ^"'^^^'^ '" '^^^ 



-io per cent. if all producers will only keep their own, or exact a per- 



Winter is a good tinie to cut and get up a^'^^''^^"'^'^!®"' **"" 'l^® ^^'^^'''^*^^^*'' ^'^'^'^ ^" *^'® ^'^^'*'^°'^* 



•«-,r.r..:>^ r,«^^l. ^r « J T? ' . iu- ers, all non-producers will be compelled to ear?( all (hat they 



yeai S stock of firewood. Farmers at this sea- jjc,;,,,,^, and all that they consume. But Humanity comes 

 SOQ ha\ie less other work to perform, and wood into the world naked, huno;ry, and houseless. It can not 



is easier loaded and drawn when there is good k^epwhat it has not It is at the mercy of Capital ; and 



-1 • V. ■ ,1.1 • T1 . 1 Capital has hitherto been in the service of the Lvil One. — 



Slj?Jgli!ing, tnan in summer. But remember one Hence, the wrongs and suftbrings of poor Humanity, 

 -thing: Don't attempt to warm all creation, by Humanity gives being to nil the capital in the world ; but 

 "^oa-king hard to chop and haul fire- wood, and at , 1^ "" oflspring, falling into the hands of heartless strangers, is 

 ■ •fW^ .^>^^^,^ ♦;. ,^ 1,^.,,,,,. .^ . 1... ir, ^ ti J muds to act the part of an infamous parracide. More sufler, 



£he same tune leave xour dwelling so open that h„,,^,,.,,_ f^om their own vices and follies than from the 

 iiie oold wind will rush in on all sides. By all wrongs of others. 



means maJie your house comfortable. Bank it . The elevation of fallen man in morals, in knowledge, and 

 J 1 11 •,. 11 .• 1 . 1 1 in physical comfort is the work oi time. Agrarianism, ana 



up, and have all its walls tight, and good non- lall ideas of a divisim of property, are at best mere quite 

 conductors of heat. While taking good care of remedies, calculated to do infinite harm rather than good. 



those in-doors that can tall:, and tell their wan<s, I '^'''? 87*^ P^op'*' "f Monroe county pay some $20,000 a 

 - 17 7.. , ! I ye.ar for the support of the poor. I he annual consumption 



Xte-v.er forget the dumb brutes ni your barn-yard , bf one half of that sum would carry into effect the benevo- 

 and stables. " The merciful man is merciful to , lent intentions of the law better than is now done. 

 h\s hpast " ^'' '"*'" are so deeply engrossed in attending to tlieirown 



diis VHdiiU ^^^ pprsonal affairs, that few, or none, iiave time duly to study 



<^Inditsiiiv pponomv and npi-spvprinop" i<? o '"'»'^"« ^'f P"''''''' '"''''■^'*- "^^^"^ """*' continue to suffer 

 i>Df-blTlY, economy and peiseveiance is a ^^ j^^^^ ^^^ seUlshne-^s, and the little honors and emoluraenta 



.;^>0d motto for young men. | of office reign supreme in the human breaa. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



Every person sliould study the science of Productive 

 Industry, that he may know.how to employ his menial and 

 l)hysical powers to the best advantage, and give to the 

 community more than he consumes. If produi tion did not 

 exceed ionsiiiiiption, there could be no increase of the hu- 

 man f nily on the earth. 



Evi^ry human being should study the science of Keeping 

 Properly, for ignorance on this subject is the source of in- 

 calculable evil. Somebody ought to write a good book on 

 this important science, and fully illustrate its principles and 

 economy. 



IJeware how you run into debt, and assume the payment 

 of annual interest on money, or other dead matter, which 

 can not add one particle to its own weight, nor one cent to 

 its own value. Interest is a contrivance of the Devil, by 

 which he enables one mau to retake from another all that 

 he gives, and something more. Disguise the truth as best 

 you cun, still it is a, fact that, that sometfii/ig which Human- 

 ity gives more than it receives, is a consuming ulcer on its 

 body and its soul. 



If you believe that you are not a brute — that you should 

 cherish some hope of Heaven, some fear of a just God — then 

 read yo ir Bible, and believe it when it tells you that, " it 

 is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, 

 than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." 



The devil invented Usury — the getting from Humanity 

 .something for nothing — to entrap immortal, accountable 

 beings in the snares and perils of "laying up treasures on 

 earth, where moth doth corrupt, and thieves break through 

 and steal ," and in the crimes incident to that " love of 

 money," which is ' .h'> root of a// evil.'' 



Christians are fast becoming idolaters. They buiLl unto 

 themselves idols of brick and mortar, or other dirt, and com- 

 pel their pastors like themselves, to fall down and worship 

 them. We have waited 30 years to see people iegin to lay 

 up treasures in heaven. 



There is no liberty of the Press in America ; because the 

 most honest men in the community are but a little less dis- 

 honest than the greatest rogues. 



Man's rank injustice to his fellow man forbids our writing 

 and publishing truths of vital moment to Society, which 

 ought to be proclaimed on every house top. We shall in- 

 dite for volume vm of the Farmer as many as we dare, and 

 not destroy the circulation of the paper. Our Laconics will 

 cost us some subscribers, which the friends of Justice, and 



