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GENESEE FARMER. 



May. 



Hints for May. 



Are your fences ani gates all up, and the 

 bars all down? We intend to wage a Mexican 

 war at those mnchcros, the devils warping bars, 

 which on many farms have consumed more time. 

 in letting down, putting up, and removing for 

 teams, than would have performed a pilgrimage 

 iiround the world. 



Prune your orchards this month, so that the 

 wounds will heal before the edges of the bark 

 dry and become dead, and to give all the sap to 

 Ihe remaining wood and fruit buds. 



Looli out for the apple tree worm, while in its 

 early stages, before they commence traveling, 

 and wliile nested in their webs, — as at that time 

 a slim rod like a riding whip, with a few ends of 

 branches left, will, by twisting in their webs, 

 completely destroy them — or at a later period, a 

 decoction of tobacco, spirits of turpentine, any of 

 the oils, or a small charge of powder, is effectual 



Plant some potatoes early this month. Try 

 the Merinos, as they are said to be exempt from 

 ihe rot, — and the Rohans also, if any of those 

 humbugs are in existence 



Make your manure into heaps, to keep from 

 leaching, and to assist fermentation and decom 

 position ; and do not draw it on the land until 

 wanted, and then immediately spread and plow 

 in — and do not spread it as Paddy found the six- 

 pence, all in aheap, but evenly and a thorough di- 

 vision of all the lumps into small particles, where- 

 by it is more evenly disseminated in the earth 

 and brought in contact with the roots of the plants. 



Manure your corn and potato ground with fresh 

 manure ; and that part intended for the wheat 

 fallow make into heaps, which should be turned 

 and handled over once or more diiring summer, 

 and be incorporated with plaster — not with lime 

 in a caustic state, as instead of absorbing the 

 gases it disengages and disperses them. 



In planting corn always ridge the ground, as 

 every one knows that it is a plant tliat requires 

 a great deal of heat, whic'i is partially gained by 

 ridging — besides it gives all the advantages of 

 another plowing to the young plant, and brings 

 up the manure for its early use. A capital so- 

 lution, quickening the corn plant, is equal parts 

 of common and epsom salts — also glauber salt?, 

 or salt-petre, or copperas ; the sulphate of am- 

 jnonia is most effective, but not being an article 

 of commerce it is difficult to obtain. 



Top dress old meadows early this month, and 

 if thoroughly dragged in and timothy seed sown, 

 it will greatly improve them. 



Onions, carrots, parsneps, peppers, and lettuce 

 plant immediately. Beans, squaslies, cucumbers 

 melons, &c., are as well out of the ground, in 

 this climate, until the ITith or 20th. Sow cab- 

 bage seed from the middle lo the last of the month 

 and transplant when clover hay is fit to cut, andi 



Webster Agricultural Association. 



Pursuant to aojournment, the farmers of the 

 town of Webster met at the office of Dr. O. Rey- 

 nolds, on Saturday, the 3d day of April inst. — 

 John Phillips was called to the chair, and A. 

 G. Melvin chosen Secretary. 



The Committee on Constitution then reported 

 the following, which was adopted : 



Wk, the Farmers and others of the town of Webster, de- 

 sirous of mutual improvement in the science of Agriculture, 

 Hortivulture, &,c., do associate ourselves together under the 

 following 



CONSTITUTION : 

 Article 1. This society shall be called the " Webster 

 Agricultural Association." 



Aar. 2. It slia'l be the object ofthis Association to endeav- 

 or to excite an interest on the subject of Agriculture, to dif- 

 fuse mutual instruction among its members and others, and 

 to use all suitable means to elevate the ancisnt and honora- 

 ble calling of the Farmer. 



At{T. o. The ofiicers of this Association shall be a Presi- 

 dent, two Vice Presidents, Corresponding Secretary, Re- 

 ording Secretary, Treasurrr, and thirteen Managers, (one 

 from each school district.) who shall together constitute an 

 Executive Committee. They shall be elected annually by 

 ballot, and shall have power to fill vacancies in their own 

 body. 



Art. 4. The President shall preside at all meetings of the 

 Association, when present ; in his absence one of the Vice 

 Presidents shall preside ; in the absence of both {'resident 

 and Vice Presidents, a President pro. tern, shall be chosen. 

 The Corresponding Secretary shall correspond witli similar 

 Associations, and with individuals. The 'Recording Secre- 

 tary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the Associa- 

 tion. The Treasurer shall take charge of the money and 

 other property belonging lo the Association, and accoui.t for 

 the same from time to lime, when called upon by the Asso- 

 ciation. The Executive Committee shall, each in his re- 

 spective district, notify the farmers thereof of the object of 

 the Associatioii, and, if possible, induce them to become 

 members. 



Art. 5. Any person may become a member ofthis Asso- 

 ciation by subscribing to this Constitution, and paying to 

 the Treasurer twenty-five cents annually for the use and 

 benefit of the Association. 



Art. (^. No funds shall be drawn from the treasury, ex- 

 cept by the vote of a majority of the members present at any 

 regular meeting of the Association, and then only by an or- 

 der on the Treasurer, signed by the presiding ollicer and the 

 Recording Secretary. 



Art. 7. A regular meotiitg of this Association shall be 

 held on the first Saturday of every month, except July, Au- 

 gust, and September ; and special meetings as often as the 

 members of the Association think proper. 



Art. J). Every member of this Assnoiation shall be allow- 

 ed to vote for its officers, and to take pan in all the deliber- 

 ations of the Association. 



Art. 1). This ("onslitution may be altered or amended at 

 any annual meeting of the Association, by the vote of a 

 majority of the members present. 



The following persons were then chosen offi- 

 cers of the Association : 



Ckraru DaN.viNr,, President. 

 .losEPH AOAMS, ) y.^.^ Presidents. 

 Samuel Hard, ) 



A. (i. Mei.vin, Rrc. and Car. Secrttanj. 

 Alfred Re yk olds. Treasurer. 

 Resolved, That the first Annual Meeting of this ABSOcia- 

 tion shall be held on the first Saturday in April, 1848. 



Resolved, Tliat the " Genesee Farmer"' be requested to 

 publish the foregoing proceedings. 

 A. O. Melvin, Secy. JOHN PHILLIPS, Chn. 



Webster, Monroe Co., April '.i, 1847. 

 The above association is a fair sample of what every 

 tewn in the State should possess. A small contriliuiion from 

 each m:>mher, provided )ne half of the tillers of the earth 

 will only join in the cood work of self imnr(ivement,\vould 

 secure the benefits of a good Agricultural Library. Farmers 



Ihey will bo early enough for winter stock. * I of Western New York, what say you?— Eo. 



