1847. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



6! 



Hints for the Month. 



If the sleighing lasts get your plaster home, 

 as no good wheat farmer, who follows a system- 

 atic rule of rotation with clover, can do without 



Price of Breadstuffs. 



- This is a delicate subject to handle, just at this 

 time. From all we can learn, from a careful 

 perusal of several cf the best English journals. 



jet your summer's wood, rail timber, posts, I iind the due consideration of the subject, w 



stakes, and timber and boards from the mill, and 

 all other foreign jobs ; it is much handier than 

 poking about on wheels — besides it relieves tiie 

 spring work. 



Look well to the security of your potatoes, and 

 to saving them in every way, for use and for 

 planting. They will be dear and scarce this 

 spring ; in many neighborhoods they will be 

 worth 75 cts. to •*! per bushel. Try early plant- j 

 ing, as early as the middle of April. | 



Litter your barn yards, sheds, and stables free- { 

 ly ; every armful of straw under the catties' feet 

 is a bushel of corn ; and if it is not decomposed ' 

 and rotten, the hollow tubes of the straw retain I 



hazard the opinion that prices can not very much 

 recede till near, or aftei-, the next hp.rvest in 

 Europe. But nothing is easier than tor the best 

 informed to misjudge on such a question. Panic 

 and excitement are so easily awakened in either 

 direction, by speculators on both sides of the 

 Atlantic, that one can hardly guess what a day 

 will bring forth. Freights to British ports are^ 

 enormously liigh. We think they must come 

 down, which will help dealers in this country- 



European Agriculture. 



Part viii of tliis work by Mr. Colman, siioulii 

 ave been noticed in our February number. It" 



the urme and juices of the droppings, beyond U^ ,,^^^^.^ -^^^ ^^^^^ any of its predecessoi-s,. 



the reach of the rains and snows If you can- |^,-,j Jecidedlv an improvenient, conveving mucb 

 not house the manure made in stab es, keep it as ^^^,^^^^,^j^ information on the culture' of crops., 

 much in piles as possible to avoid leaching. , ^^^ ^^^.^^ ^,^j ^^.^^j j^^^ ^^ ^j^.^^^^^j^ ^^i^^^l^^ ^^^ ^L 



Slop and nurse cows that come in early, or :|ii,gbandry, and the manufacture and application 

 you will have poor milkers next summer. Beets l^^f manures. 



and bagas, and carrots, are excellent for this ])ui 

 pose. 



Mr. C. feels sore from the criticism of the Ag- 

 ricultural press in this country ; but the applica- 



Put farming tools in order ; and make this tjou has evidently done him good, and will result 

 month ttoo good farm ^«/e*— the sign is right in j,^ adding to his well earned reputation as an au- 

 thor. Mr. J. H. Watts is agent for the sale of 



the heavens, as we have consulted them astro- 

 logically — and get rid of two of those devils, 

 ivarping bars, which are such a nuisance on 

 your farm, especially if before your door. 



Cattle need a little extra feeding this month 

 OT they will be in bad heart for grass. 



Smoke your hams, and as soon after as they 

 are dry, put them singly into any kind of cotton 

 cloth bags — tie fast and hang them up in tlie 

 garret, 



the work in this city. 



JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE ANT> 

 Conducted by Dr. E. Emmoss and A. Os- 



AMERICAN 

 SCIENCE 



BORS, Esq. 



This quarterly has been changed to a monthly 

 journal, and the price reduced from three to two 

 dollars per annum. 



Prof. E^nioxs of Albany, has been long, if 

 Cut scions this month for grafting, especially 1'^"^ f™"i ^I'e commencement, connected with the 

 cherries and plums. Apples and pears may be jCxeological Survey of this State. He has studied 

 cut later, if neglected this month. Set t!ie ends I its ™cks and various soils, and their constituent 

 in the earth on the cellar bottom. Mind and i elements, with peculiar care. His Journal of 

 graft early, which is the great secret of success. Agricultural Science may be regarded by some 

 ^ '„ . .... . as a whortleberry above the heads of practical 



Do up all of your cousin visiting— give your l^^^,^^^,.^^ .^^ ^ ^.^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^i^j^ ,^^^^. ^^ ^^.^^^ . 



mite to the suffering Iri.sh-take the Genesee 1,^^^ thev have only to hold their heads perpen- 

 -pay for it— do your duty to j^jcular'to their feet, and let their minds ivork as 



Fan 



(lod and man, and -defy the foul fiend." * 



Wild Turkies. — Mr. Charles Louis Bona- 

 parte, in his Natural History of the United States, 

 asserts that the wild turkey is a native of America, 

 and was a stranger to the old world, till after the 

 discoveries of Columbus. It was sent from 

 Mexico to Spain in the early part of the year 

 1.^14. By degrees it spread over Europe, Asia 

 and Africa. The English supposing it to have 

 come from Turkey, through Spain, gave it the 

 name of Turkey. The wild and domestic Tur- 

 key is of the same species. 



well as their hands, to comprehend the whole 

 subject. To tlie young men who desire to raise 

 the cultivation of the earth to the dignity of a 

 learned profession, we commend this journal as 

 worthy of their study. It contains a good deaf 

 of information on the practice of various branch- 

 es of rural economy. 



Weeds exhaust the strength of the ground, and 

 if suffered to grow may be called garden sins. 



The hand and hoe are the instruments for erad- 

 icating weeds yet; if there is room belween the 

 I rows for the spade it is well to use it.. 



