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GENESEE FARMER. 



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These facts all go to prove that constant labor, 

 and a stinting of nutritious food, even to a state 

 bordering on destitution, are favorable to the \-e- 

 production of all organized beings ; and the op- 

 posite state, of high and generous living, where 

 the palled appetite is provoked with the most 

 pungent provocatives, or any state approaching 

 to it, is unfavorable and often fatal to that desire 

 of otispring that is inherent in every human breast. 

 Let our readers compare this theory with the 

 facts within their knowledge, and observe if it 

 sustains this view of the subject. 



Hints for March. 



March is usually a rather unin}portant moath 

 as to farming operations, but the careful and 

 prudent husbandman can alwavs find something 

 to do, to keep him from rusting. From the 

 great lack of snow this winter, we are induced 

 to expect more than usual of boisterous and fall- 

 ing weather. If March possessed any personality, 

 adose of chloroform, from its tranquilizing effects, 

 would have a happy effect on the sourness of its 

 temper, eis it proves a wonderful quiter of scold- 

 ing women. But as the tree falls so it lieth, and 

 we must grin and bear it as we do the curtain 

 'ectures of our wives. 



Procure your Clover and Timothy seeds. If 

 you design to lay down a field for a permanent 

 meadow, or for a term of over two years, sow 

 the large kind of clover, as it ripens the same 

 time as Timothy. If for a three years rotation 

 for wheat, use plenty of the medium variety — 

 say six to ten pounds per acre, and four quarts 

 of Timothy. For a permanent meadow, if not 

 too wet, four pounds large clover, and from four 

 to six quarts Timothy. It is difficult to insure 

 the seeding of Timothy in the spring, especially 

 if May is dry. The only secure method is to 

 sow it with wheat in the fall. 



It is best to sow clover after some slight fall 

 of snow during this month, as it can readily be 

 seen when evenly distributed. Be sure and sow 

 it before the hard spring frosts are past, as on 

 the heaving and rising of the earth depends its 

 deposit beneath the surface. 



If there is any snow this month, improve every 

 hour in getting home rails, wood, and lumber of 

 all kinds, particularly for farm gates. We ob- 

 serve a great improvement in the country in 

 getting rid of what one of your correspondents 

 calls the devWs waTping bars. It is a grand 

 desideratum ; we read of the gates of Paradise 

 but not of bars — they belong legitimately to the 

 ether place. 



As soon as the fear of heavy frosts is past, 

 open potato heaps, and spread them on a dry 

 floor if any rot appears, for as soon as dry the 

 disease is suspended. It is conclusively settled 

 that the infection is not propagated by the tubers : 



it is a disease of the leaf, the lungs of the vege- 

 table economy ; tlierefore the sooner the rot is 

 arrested the more root and eyes are saved for 

 planting. 



There is great danger of extensive injury be- 

 ing inflicted on the wheat crop by continual 

 freezing and thawing, especially to the late sown. 

 On those fields that ai-e injured past resuscitation, 

 sow the Italian bearded spring wheat, and drag 

 it in thoroughly ; it will not injure, but benefit 

 any sets of the winter shoots that may be alive. 

 Look well to the furrows and ditches of your 

 wheat fields, and have them well opened before 

 the sun gets suffi.cient power to scorch it in wet 

 places. 



Keep your manure under cover, or in heaps 

 as much as possible, to avoid leaching by spring 

 rains, and don't draw it out until you are ready 

 to use it. A housewife that would scatter her 

 ashes, intended for soap-making, over the yard, 

 would not be considered a fit candidate to wear 

 the breeches ; — so with manure-:-the cases are 

 analagous. 



See that your animals have their tea and sugar 

 regularly, (water and salt) — an ear of corn a 

 day will not hurt them ; it is better for their 

 hair than Macassor Oil. If you have any hay 

 that is not very palatable to your cattle, litter 

 your horses freely with it, and they will eat it 

 voraciously. 



You may sov/ this month, if the weather is 

 favorable. Peas, Spring Wheat, Oats and Barley. 

 Don't try to raise peas on very light, sandy soil 

 — for it is no go; they require a strong clayey 

 loam and early sowing. Clover takes well with 

 spring wheat, rye and barley, but badly with 

 oats and peas ; but if oats are mowed down pre- 

 vious to the starting of the seed stems, clover 

 will often do well — otherwise the foliage is so 

 heavy that it shades and chokes it. 



Overhaul and assort your apples as the warm 

 weather comes on ; one rotten one affects all it 

 touches, and destroys the flavor of a whole 

 barrel. 



Cut your scions for grafting immediately ; 

 keep them in the cellar on the ground. When 

 the weather becomes warm they should be kept 

 in a dr}- cool place, excluded from the air. Set 

 Cherry and Plum grafts early ; Apples and 

 Pears at any time till June, if the scions are 

 fresh. 



Now, kind reader, we do not pretend that our 

 hints are very prolific with valuable information 

 to old cocks like you ; but they may be of bene- 

 fit to some of the unfledged young birds, that 

 have not summered and wintered as many years 

 as you have. So, in all humility, we trust you 

 will take the will for the deed, and it being Leap 

 Year, when the ladies rule, we acknowledge 

 the corn, in partaking of the premonitory symp- 

 toms of effeminacy, under the sway of our beau- 

 tiful new lords of creation. * 



