1847. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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Pennock's Patent Grain Drill. 



T«E above engraving gives a fair representa- 

 tion of this truly valuable labor-saving implement. 

 This Drill was patented some years ago, and has 

 been thoroughly tested in Eastern Pennsylvania, 

 Delaware, and other sections. If the testimony 

 which we have seen relative to its operation be 

 correct, its introduction into Western New York 

 will prove very beneficial to our grain-growing 

 farmers. The machine will sow from 10 to 15 

 acres of wheat, or other grain, in a day — at a 

 saving of seed, and doing the work in the best 

 manner. It received a Diploma at the last Fair 

 of the N. Y. State Ag, Society — and previously 

 awards of premiums from various other Societies, 

 in this and other States. 



The Drill may be found at the Agricultural 

 Warehouse of Rapalje &j Briggs, No. 18 Front 

 street, in this city. They wish to have farmers 

 examine and try it. If the machine proves as 

 valuable here as it is reputed to be elsewhere, 

 they will hereafter manufacture and keep it for 

 sale. 



As we have referred to their establishment, 

 we will add that Messr?. R. & B. have an exten- 

 sive assortment of excellent Agricultural Imple- 

 ments, Tools, &c., for the spring trade. 



To Correspondents. 



Communications have been received during 

 the past month from Lincoln Cumiiiings, S. W., 

 A. P., H., A. Reynolds, C. Robinson, A Young 

 Farmer, W. S., A Suljscriber, A. C./ H. Y., *, 

 A Young Farmers Wife, B. P., N. P. Stearns, 

 L. B. L., Philip P. Bonesteel, Wm. Webb, E. 

 L. Johnson, O. C. Comstock, jr., L. D., Anoth- 

 er Farmer, Elias Parks, J. H. Watts. P. S., and 

 W. C. R. 



Several articles from correspondents, intended 

 for insertion in this number, are deferred for 

 want of room. They will receive early attention. 



Foreign Demand for Breadstiiffs. 



We have received, by the steamer our regu- 

 lar files of foreign journals down to March 4th. 

 On a careful examination of these, particularly 

 the Mark Lane Express, (the best informed, and 

 most reliable paper in the Kingdom,) we see no 

 reason to expect a fall in the price of bieadstufts 

 till after harvest. It is difficult to condense the 

 evidence into the small space we have left for 

 this article, on which this opinion is founded. — 

 We will give a few facts only : 



Bread is higher in Paris than it has been in 

 fifty years. Several German States have pro- 

 hibited the exportation of grain, from fear of a 

 famine. There are not vessels enough in the 

 world that can be spared from other branches of 

 commerce, to overstock the British islands with 

 food. The Government has recently borrowed 

 forty millions of dollars, with which to buy grain 

 for the destitute. They are to be fed till harvest, 

 and have no potatoes. If the hungry millions 

 can get one half that nature demands, they will 

 consume more breadstuffs than we dare to esti- 

 mate in figures. The London Morning Chroni- 

 cle says, the grain needed will load some 2,500 

 vessels of 600 tons each. Nothing like this num- 

 ber can be found to transport grain from the 

 United States to England. 



Prices cannot well rise much higher here, be- 

 cause flour, wheat, corn, and meal can only be 

 shipped in limited quantity, no matter what their 

 value in Europe. In the event of short crops, 

 at the coming harvest, a wide-spread famine is 

 regarded as inevitable. Many are hoarding 

 grain in anticipation of such an event. Fresh 

 meat is said to be very cheap, by reason of the 

 fact that animals are killed to prevent their con- 

 sumption of food needed for human sustenance. 



Great complaints are made of the bad condi- 

 tion in which American Provisions and Wool 

 reach the British market. Bales of wool have 

 been returned, on account of dirt, gum, Arc. 



