Vol. 8. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. — SEPTEMBER, 1847. 



No. 9. 



THE GENESEE FARMER : 



Isisued the Jirst of each month, m Rochester, X. I'., by 



D. D. T. MOORE, PROPRIETOR. 



DANIEL LEE, EDITOR. 



P. BARKY, Conductor of the Horticultural Department. 



To CorrespoiidPiits, 



CoMMPNiCATioKS have been received, during the past 

 month, from S. L., Nathaniel Smith, C. N. Bement, J. 

 Majlory, Arator, H., J. M., One who is willing to learn 

 from tke experience of others, *, Geo. Vail,. Young Joe, J. 

 Carpenter, A. C, Alvin Wilcox, John, A Subscriber. 



Correspondents whose communications do not appear in 

 tliis number, are informed that their favors are on file for 

 ptiblication or notice. We have a large number of articles 

 on hand, and are consequently compelled to defer many of 

 them from month to month in order to give a sufficient 

 amount of seasonable and other matter. 



Silliman's Chemistry. — Few men have an equal oppor- 

 tunity to acquire a critical knowledge of Chemistry with the 

 author of tlie text book before us. A careful examination of 

 the work enables iis lo speak adviseilly of its merits. For 

 the use of schools we know not its equal. The explana- 

 tions of chemical phenomena are plain, the illustrations 

 abundant, and the arrangement of questions at the margin 

 of eich page greatly faMlitates the teaching and study of 

 the text. For sale by Erasius Darrow, Bookseller, cor- 

 ner of Main and St. Paul streets, who has a general assort- 

 ment of Agricultural Books. 



Notices of several Books and Periodicals deferred until 

 next month— among others "Cole's American Veterinari- 

 rian,"' an excellent work, published by John P. Jewett 

 & Co., Boston, and C. M. Saxtox, New York. 



Hints for September. 



This is the month for seeding, and its prepa- 

 ration. In the region where the fly has prevailed 

 do not sow too early, and in no case before the 

 10th. Brine and lime your seed — a process 

 that many object to on account of the labor and 

 trouble, but it is an effectual remedy against smut. 



The following process answers every purpose, 

 with little labor. After a thorough winnowing 

 through the mill, put the seed in a heap and 

 sprinkle over it fine salt, about a peck to 10 

 bushels, and then dash on wate.- Irom a small 

 basin or cup till the brine shotvs itself on the 



floor. Shovel it over two or three times, and 

 leave it over night ; add as much slaked lime as 

 will adhere to the kernel, and if not moist enough 

 ad ! more water. It is much sooner done than 

 floating it in a tub of brine, and equally efficacious. 



If you sow late, or on soil liable to heave, 

 put more seed to the acre — and if you wish to 

 lay it down as a meadow, and not for a regular 

 rotation of grain, sow your Timothy with the 

 grain in the fall. There is no other certain 

 method, as a dry May or June is fatal to spring 

 seeding with that grass. Timothy is of very little 

 use as a fertilizer, and is a detriment to the wheat 

 crop — and is only to be tolerated, as sown with 

 wheat, for the hay and feed it produces. Clover 

 is the only cheap, natural pabulum for wheat f 

 it contains nearly all the elements required to 

 produce it. 



See that your fallows are well and perfectly 

 drained. Do not trust alone to the plow; let the 

 hoe and shovel be put in requisition to deepen 

 and open all obstructions. 



So much wheat was winter killed the past sea- 

 son that a great quantity of seed will be produ- 

 c 3d ; many crops that we have observed, the 

 grass seed, at ordinary, prices will be worth the 

 most money. In those cases the threshing ma- 

 chine, without the separator, should be used, or 

 most of the seed will be lost. 



The kinds of wheat now preferred in this 

 wheat region, are the Improved White Flint, 

 Sovle''s, and Hutchinson. — A sample of either, 

 compared with the trash that comes from some 

 quarters of the west, is a caution lo Grahamites. 



The White Turnep should now be thinned 

 out, if sown too thick, leaving the width of a hoe 

 blade between each plant. 



If you wish thoroughly to eradicate all weeds 

 from the Garden, now is the time to do it, as all 

 the foul seeds have by this time vegetated — or if 

 they again appear they have not time to ripen. 



Bud young trees immediately, and use in all 

 cases well formed and well ripened buds, from 

 large and well ripened wood, ^j^ 



