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GENESEE FARMER. 



Oct. 



Paring Peaches. — There may be some who 

 have an abundance of peaches this season, who 

 would like to know some more expeditious way 

 of pairing to dry, than the common way of flay- 

 ing with a knife. I have tried the plan of 

 scalding as an experiment, and found it success- 

 ful, and would suggest it through the medium of 

 the Farmer, that others may try it if they see fit. 



The method of scalding which I prefer is to 

 have a kettle, of convenient size, partly filled 

 with water heated to about the boiling point ; 

 then have the peaches in a basket, or vessel with 

 holes in the bottom, and immerse in the scald- 

 ing water. The peaches must be ripe (or mel- 

 low all over,) for scalding. They can be paired 

 in this way with much facility, by slipping off" 

 •the skin. They should be stoned and spread for 

 'drying soon after pairing, as they become more 

 soft and of a darker coler by lying in a mass. 

 Summit Co., Ohio, 1847. A Subscriber. 



Music in the Family. — Its beneficial effects 

 may not be doubted. No family should fail to 

 encourage the largest possible amount of musical 

 talent. Independent of its happy influences on 

 the mind, it should be fostered on account of its 

 physical advantages. The late Dr. Rush said, 

 *'The Germans rarely die of consumption, be- 

 cause they are always singing." If this beauti- 

 ful accomplishment tends in any degree to miti- 

 gate a malady so terrible, for the world's sake, 

 let us have a world of it. But there are other 

 reasons — it induces amiability and banishes bad 

 passions. We have somewhere read the testi- 

 mony of an excellent clergyman, possessing much 

 knowledge of human nature, who instructed a 

 large family of daughters in the ordinary prac- 

 tice of music. They were observed to be amia- 

 ble and happy. A friend inquired if there was 

 any secret in his mode of education, to which he 

 replied : " When anything disturbs their tem- 

 per, I say to them, sing; and if I hear them 

 speaking against any person, I call them to sing 

 to me ; and they sing away all the causes of dis- 

 content, and every disposition to scandal." Such 

 a use of this accomplishment, might seem to fit a 

 family for the company of angels ; young voi- 

 ces around the domestic altar, breathing sacred 

 music at the hour of morning and evening devo- 

 tion, are a sweet and touching accompaniment. 



The Affections. — How beautiful are these 

 words of Longfellow : "One by one the objects 

 of our affection depart from us. But our affec- 

 tions remain, and like vines, stretch forth their 

 broken, wounded tendrils for support. The 

 bleeding heart needs a balm to heal it ; and there 

 is none but the love of its kind — none but the af- 

 fection of the human heart." 



MARKET INTELLIGENCE. 



Rochester Produce Market— Wholesale. 



Wheat, $1 10 



Corn, - 50 



Barlef, 50 



Oats, 38 



Flour, 5 12* 



1 12 



75 



12 



18 



4 50 



1 50 



Beans, 



Apples, bush. 



Potatoes, 



Clover Seed,- 



Timothy, 



Hay, ton, 



Wood, cord,. 

 Salt, bbl,...- 



Hams, lb, 



Rochester, Sept. 30, 1847. 



40 

 18| 

 87 

 37 

 25 



2 00 

 8 00 10 00 

 2 00 3 00 

 1 25 



8 10 



Pork, bbl. mesa 15 00 16 



Pork, cwt., 

 Beef, cwt., ... 



Lard, lb., 



Butter, lb.,... 

 Cheese, lb., .. 



Eggs, doz, 



Poultry, 



Tallow, 



Maple Sugar, . 

 Lamb Skins,.. 

 Green Hides, lb 

 Dry 

 Calfskins, ... 



4 50 

 3 00 

 9 



12 

 5i 

 10 



5 00 



4 00 



10 



14 



IVcw York Market, 



[By Magnetic Telegrceph.^ 



New York, Sept. 30—7 P. M. 



Flour and Meal — Market without marked change, and 

 good enquiry from home trade. Sales 4 or 5000 bbls at 

 $5,87^- for new Genesee ; $5,69a$5,75 for fresh ground 

 do : $5,62^a$5,75 for fresh western and Oswego, and $5,- 

 50a$5,75 for old weste/n and Genesee. Nothing sound 

 below $5,50. Sour flour $4,25, and uninspected $4,87,^ 

 a$5,12.i. About 2G00 bbls sold. Receipts of Flour mod- 

 erate. Rye Flour is $4,25, and supply very small. Buck- 

 wheat Flour $2,25a$2,50. 



Grain — Good enquiry for wheat ; receivers firm, for a 

 good parcel Genesee $1,25 ; sales 1000 bush Fredericks- 

 burg at $1,19, and a cargo North Carolina under negoti.i- 

 tion at $1,20; 7 or 8000 bush red western and New Or- 

 leans at 92ca$l,06, according to quahty. Corn, fair en- 

 quiry, but dull at the close ; sales 25,000 bush at 66a67 for 

 mixed, 68a69 for yellow, including 3000 bush round yel- 

 low at 67 cts in slip. Rye fell off 3 or 4 cts ; sales 8000 

 bush at 80a83c closing at 81c ; new Barley 80c asked, no 

 sales. Oats 54a56 cts at retail. 



Provisions — Pork firm' but not active ; sales 700 bbls at 

 $10,75c$ 11 for prime, and $14,25a$14,50 for mess. Beef 

 is dull at $7,75a$8,25, and $ll,75a$12,25. Lard quiet.— 

 Cheese in fair request ; 1500 boxes Herkimer sold at $7^, 

 and 500 do Ohio at 6ia75G. 



Obituary. 



Died, in this City, on Sunday morning, Septembers, 

 LILLA, only daughter of Daniel D. T. and Anna E. 

 Moore, aged 1 year and 22 days. 



Contents of this Number. 



Study the Soil — Magnesia, 225 



"Lime 3Iania," 226 



To cure Ho ven iu Cattle; Potato Rot, 227 



Hints for October ; Wagon Shelvins ; Vermont Farm- 

 ing; Crops in Wisconsin, 228 



Nutrition of Corn Cobs; Preparation of Seed Wheat; 

 Heavy Wool operation ; Hydraulics for Farmers,... 229 



Clearing Land; Taking Honey from Bees, 232 



The Genesee Farmer; Premium Bee-Hives, 233 



Experiments in Wheat Culture — Hessian Fly; The 

 New SeUlements vs. the Old, 234 



Comparative Profits of Agricuhure, Trade, and Com- 

 merce; Wheat Crop in Michigan, 235 



Gen. Harmon's Merino Buck, "King of Vermont;" 

 Fair of the State Ag. Society, 236 



Notices of Agricultural Fairs in Monroe, Jeflerson, Or- 

 leans, and Livingston counties; To Correspondents; 

 Cole's American Veterinarian; Ag. Fairs this Month, 237 



Address of the late Silas Wright, read at the recent 

 State Fair, 238 



Science with Practice, 242 



horticultural department. 



Peaches, 243 



The " Benoni" and "Summer Queen" Apples; An- 

 swers to Inquiries,... 244 



Horticultural Festivals in Boston and Philadelphia; 

 Transplanting Trees; Horticultural Exhibition at Ro- 

 chester; Don't Steal that Fruit; Give Credit, 245 



The Ripening of Winter Pears ; Acknowledgments, . . 246 



ladies' department. 

 Making Pickles; An Improvement in Bread-Making; 

 Corn Meal Cakes: Frying Fish, 247 



Parijog Peache8; Music in the Family; The Affections, 248 



