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GENESEE FARMER. 



Mar. 



Tlie Siar\ing in Ireland. 



Farmkr^, what excuse do jou make for 

 withholding your mite from the famishing poor 

 in Ireland ( M. I\I. Noah, of tlie New York 

 iSunday Times, a Jew. not always "outwardly," 

 says — " The poor woman, with her iiungry, rag- 

 ged children, stands but a poor chance of relief 

 from the ladies benevolent societies in the city 

 of New York, unless she can produce a certifi- 

 cate that she belongs to Dr. so and so's church !" 

 Methinks I liear many a fat farmei' exclaim — 

 *'the Irish don "t belong to my church — a wide 



I have for years been a faithful reader of the 

 Genesee Farmer, and other agricultural journals, 

 yet I find myself deficient in the necessaiy 

 knowledge how to commence my operations, not 

 having been able to obtain the necessary infor- 

 mation from any of my agricultural reading. 



Now, Mr. Editor, if you or any of the excel- 

 lent farmers who are contributors to your useful 

 joui-nal will give me the necessary information 

 in the April number of the Farmer, you will 

 confer a great favor on a new beginner. I wish 

 to be informed how much men's help it will be 

 ^ necessary for me to employ in summer, and in 

 ocean is between ; s— we have poor enough at i winter, to carry on my operations to the best ad 



home, and besides, England, that great plunder- ' 

 <erof nations, is rich enough to support her own 

 poor." I would ask, do such narrow-minded 

 excuses come with a good grace from a class of 

 men, above all other, benefitted by the extra 

 ]nice and quick sale of their productions, in- 

 duced by this very famine abroad we now pro- 

 pose to alleviate. I would also ask, arc such ex- 



vantage. Not being accustomed to labor I do not 

 expect to do much myself, except overseeing. — 

 How much team shall I want, and of what kind, 

 whether horses or oxen, and what may be their 

 probable cost in the spring? Also what quantity 

 of other stock it will be most profitable for me to 

 keep, viz : cows, sheep, and swine ; and when I 

 commence my opei-ations, how many acres must 



cuses compatible with our christian civilization ? t annually sow to wheat, barley, oats, or peas ; 

 The great Author of our religion compassion- how much plant with corn, potatoes, and other 

 ated the suflerings of both Jew and Gentile ; ! roots, so as to produce the greatest profit for the 

 His benevolence was as expansive as the ocean, I labor employed and capital invested ? Also, how 

 and as indiscriminate in its bounties, to both saint I many acres'^of meadow I must keep so as to have 



plenty of fodder in winter — and how much ground 

 it would be best to keep in pasture? And last, 

 but not least, what amount of profit may I reason- 

 ably expect, annually, to receive from the pro- 

 ceeds of the farm ? 

 . ' <_. I On looking over the reports of the Committees 

 •mg anguish of a parent's joj, pi^d Crops. I see that the nett profit per acre 

 akened by the child s low, I j.^nges from 20 to $40, averaging about $30 per 

 ry tor bread . ^.^^.^ j-,g^ profit per annum — a very liberal com- 

 pensation to the cultivators of the soil — and I see 

 no cause why 150 or even 200 acres of good soil 

 cannot be cultivated so as to produce the same 

 amount of profit per acre that one does. Now 

 if f can but realize $20 per acre nett profit from 

 my 150 acres of cultivated ground, I will think 

 that farming is a pretty fair business and has not 

 been too much extolled. D. 



Genesee, Feb. 15, 1817. 

 Will some of our practical and experienced 

 -, -, T , , , . . correspondents answer the above questions ? 

 Mr. Editor : — it has long been my intention 



to become a Farmer, believing that it is the most! ,\ Curiosity.— Mr. Samuel Dudley of Rox- 

 honorable, healthy and profitable pursuit that a j bury, has brought us a number of Pears from one 

 prepared to enter , t,.ee, that has borne three crops this season. The 

 I lirst specimen is a large Pear four inches in 



and sinner. I 



Our cities and villages have responded nobly 

 to the call of the starving hundreds of the labor- 

 ing Irish, have divided their scanty pittance, to 

 send the small moiety to their suffering country- 

 men. These poor people seem to have a living I 

 sense of the torturing anoruish of 

 .heart, which is aw 

 plaintive, sleepless cr 



Farmers will you be behind hand in alleviating 

 this great dessolating famine, when to you inpar- 

 Jicular, accrues the benefit of the high prices in- 

 duced by it ? Your pockets are full. It was 

 averred by an ofiicer of a Bank the other day, 

 that the farmers had absorbed the whole Bank 

 circulation, and that he had not notes enough left 

 ,to pay a small check. S. W. 



Agrieullural Information Wanted. 



man can follow. I am now 

 on my favorite pursuit. 



If I am blessed with health I intend to com- • length — the second specimen is two and a half 

 mence farming in the spring — having purchased inches — and the third is fully one and a half 



farm of 200 acres, 150 acres of it under what inches long. 



Mr. Dudley says the tree put forth its second 



is called good improvement, with dwellings that 

 will answer for the present, although not such a? 

 I would like to have them. The improved land 

 is all arable, and every foot of it capable of pro- 

 ducing wheat, of which there are 50 acres on the 



blossoms in the latter days of June, and its third 

 set in the latter part of July. — Mass. Ploughman. 



It is an error to plant seeds from a State further 



ground, which I get \\i\\\ the farm at $50 per I south. In a cold season only the seed of a colder 

 acre; the remainder is all in grass. | climate will ripen well. 



