1847. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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Hints for June. 



If your corn and potatoe planting is not finish- 

 ed, complete it immediately, as the unfavorable 

 appearance of wheat and prospect of good prices 

 renders it an important crop. Finish garden 

 planting, beans, cucumbers, &c. Plant mangle 

 wurtzels, or sugar beets for stock, the first week 

 in this month, if not already done. Carrots 

 should have been sown before, but will now an- 

 swer if sown immediatel3\ Ruta bagas may be 

 sown from the 10th to 20th ; if sown too early, 

 they "neck up" and are woody. 



Slather on the manure on all the hoed crops, 

 If you have it ; if not, buy of your improvident 

 neighbor. It is the true philosopher's stone — 

 turning all it touches to gold. Make up your 

 compost heaps for summer fallows, with all the 

 overplus and coarse straw and stalk manure ; but 

 use no lime, as it disinfects and disengages all 

 the gasses of decomposition. Plaster and ashes 

 are tbe thing ; swamp and ditch mud, sods, urine, 

 and water. Lime is beneficial to dry inert and 

 over-rotted vegetable substances, used with them 

 only. 



" A bad May makes poor hay." Take care 

 of overplus hay, as the present prospect in this 

 region is unfavorable for even an average crop: 

 Cut your clover hay early ; and as soon as wilt- 

 ed in the sun, cock it and let it sweat from 2 to 

 4 days. Open to one hour's sun, and it is fit for 

 the maw — the real pow-shong hyson — this is the 

 only way to do it right. 



Weed your wheat fields of cockle, and if not 

 too abundant, of red root, &c., so that you may 

 get the great prices that wheat will open at after 

 harvest. Look out for about 12 ^shillings, or a 

 leetle more. 



Clean your orchards of every worm's nest ; 

 and, if necessary, take a missionary tour to your 

 lax neighbor's orchard ; for it is not only an act 

 of charity, but of self defence. 



Do up youj- high-way work honestly and faitli- 

 fuUy, as you would your own — and don't be par- 

 ticular about hours and minutes. Go to election 

 on the 7th inst., in this state ; and don't let poli- 

 tics, printed tickets, nor the humbug of party 

 discipline, influence your vote for judicial offi- 

 cers. Let the question be, "7* he honest, is he 

 capable ; is he the best 7nan to judge the land 

 between rich and poor, high and low, innocent or 

 criminal, man and man?" Do all this, dearj 

 reader, and you can sleep o' nights, and defy th' 

 night-mare and hypocondria. * 



Choice Neat Stock for Sale. — The read- 

 er's attention is invited to the advertisement of 

 Mr. Sherwood, of Auburn, late President of the 

 State Agricultural Society. Mr. S. has one of 

 the largest and best collections of thorough bred 

 Durhams in the State. The opportunity to pur- 

 chase is well worthy the attention of breeders. 



To Correspondents. 



During the past month communications have 

 been received from Alfred Marsh, Solomon 

 Hoxie, Chas. H. Randall, Apis, A Subscriber, 

 S. W. Jewett, J. Chafi'ee, Agricola, D. Lewis, 

 A. H., J. C, Farmer Tim, Inquirer, and I. S. 



ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



We have got so far in the rear in our atten- 

 tions to obliging friends, and communications 

 have so accumulated, 'that we hardly know where 

 to begin — in fact we are all but sioamped. B. P., 

 J. D. C, A. R., A Farmer, L. Manly. J. L. 

 R., W. S., O. P. Q., Cosmopolite, Plow Jogger, 

 &c., are on file for publication. Further noti- 

 ces next month. 



D. W. H., Clifford, Pa., i^ referred to " Mo- 

 rell's Sheep Husbandry," a work that no wool 

 grower should be without. The disease of grub 

 in .the head is a fatal one, and preventives are 

 the only safety. 



C. M., Plymouth. Your deslfle has been com- 

 plied with. Corn ground with the cob is better 

 food for all animals, except the fattening hog, 

 than when ground alone. Corn meal alone is 

 too heavy feed, and requires something besides 

 mere nutriment to distend the stomach and ren- 

 der the food pervious to the gastric juice, and 

 give irratability and action to the nervous organ- 

 ization. 



Our opinion is that timber, for durability, 

 should be cut at about that period when the leaf 

 has arrived at its full size, as the gum, saccharine 

 matter, &c., is then entirely exhausted. 



Early in the spring, before the buds or sap 

 have moved, is the best time to set the peach, 

 cherry, &c. Apples, pears, and the hard-wood- 

 ed trees, in autumn. 



H. J., Holland, N. Y. We know of no way 

 to kill the willow by cutting, if located in wet 

 ground, except extirpation root and branch. — 

 Most other wood is destroyed by cutting at that 

 period, say August, when it is too late to start 

 new buds for the future growth, and yet while 

 the weather is warm enough to ferment and sour 

 the sap, and destroy vitality. 



M. B., Romulus, N. Y. "Youatt's Cattle 

 Doctor" will give the information required. , 



Analysis of Soil. — The gentleman of West 

 Bloomfield, who left with us specimens of soil 

 from Oswego county for analysis, is informed 

 that at the time of the making up of this number 

 of the Farmei- the analysis was not completed. 

 We shall endeavor to give him a full account of 

 its constituents and capabilities, either by letter 

 or through this journal in its July number. 



A good word is an easy obligation ; but not 

 to speak ill, requires only our silence, and costs 

 us nothing. 



