Vol. 8. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. — JULY, 1847. 



No. 7. 



THE GENESEE FARMER : 



Jsmtd Lhe first of each mouth, in Rochester, N. Y., by 



D. D. T. MOORE, PROPRIETOR. 

 DANIEL LEE, EDITOR. 



p. BARRY, Conductor of the Horticultural Department. 



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 of several agricultural books, &c., recently received from 

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Enlargement of the Farmer. 



Next month the Farmer will be enlarged to thirty-two 

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Hints for July. 



The duties of this montii are mostly devoted 

 to Haying and Harvesting, which are important, 

 items in the farmer's avocations. 



The late heavy rains and cool weather -will 

 improve the grass, and probably retard its period 

 of ripening. Clover slioiild be cut when in. full 

 blossom, as should June grass and meadows; it 

 is a respectable stock liay, if cut green, but if left 

 till ripe is little better than straw. Timothy will 

 bear a riper stage than any other grass. As a 

 general rule all medicinal and culinary herbs 

 should be gathered while in blossom, and before 

 ripening their seed, as they then contain more 

 of the essential oils and saccharine matter than 

 at any other time : the same reasoning applies 

 to hay and clover. 



Clover and Timothy .should be cut about the 

 first blossoming of the timothy, if the clover is 

 of the medium kind — if of the large kind, .they 

 come into season at the same period, and sliould 

 only be sown together. Fields that are three- 

 fourths clover should only be cured by sweating 

 in cocks. After laying in the sun till fairly wilt"- 

 ed, make up into cocks of 75 or 100 lbs., where 

 they may lie 3 or 4 days; then open to a k\v hours 

 sun, and it is ready for the barn. A little salt, 

 say 4 quarts to the ton, is beneficial — more than 

 that is sometimes injurious to cattle. 



The horse rake, on old fields, is a great saving 

 in expedition and expenditure. No farmer with 

 ten acres of hay should be without one. Swift's 

 Patent, of Clarkson, in this county, is the one we 

 prefer, containing an important principle that no 

 other one does within our cognizance. 



Wheat harvest will be late this season, and 

 therefore exposed to rust and shrinkage. The 

 heads of wheat will be short, in this region; the 

 cold and drotith, at the period the embryo formed, 

 has had the effect to defeat a full development — 

 although it has increased in offsetts, but not 

 enough to compensate for the shortened heads. 



Cut all the grains before fully ripe. You wil! 

 have more povinds of berry and finer flour, and 



