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GENESEE FARMER 



July. 



Cooking Food for Domestic Anfmals. — 

 On this subject Professor Lindley, much to be 

 relied on as a man of science and a practical far- 

 mer, says : — It has been of late much recommen- 

 ded lo feed Cattle on cooked food; not to give 

 them all their food thus prepared — this would be 

 too expensive — but the farinaceous portion of it 

 merely ; that is, to replace their oil cake by a 

 cooked meal of Linseed and Beans, or Linseed 

 and Barley. The advantages of the practice are 

 perfectly consistent with the theory of nutrition, 

 and, what most of our readers will probably con- 

 sider of even greater importance, they are consis- 

 tent with experience. Of this, abundant evi- 

 dence exists. Our own experience for the last 

 few years is sufficient for our own assurance; 

 and that which has been pnblished on the subject 

 is, we think, sufficient for the assurance of others. 

 The most of this will be found in a little tract 

 lately issued, which states the theory of the sub- 

 ject very satisfl^ctorily, and the different methods 

 of practising it very clearly. The cases descri- 

 bed are selected from the counties of Norfolk, 

 Suffiilk, Cornwall, York, Wigton, and Dumfries : 

 some of them are new to us, others have already 

 appeared in our columns. They all point to the 

 fact that the use of cooked food is greatly more 

 efficient and economical than the uncooked. 



Preserving Currants, — Currants and goose- 

 berries may he preserved the year round as fresh 

 and sweet as when taken from the bush. The 

 fruit should be plucked while green, or before 

 the berries assume the red color which precedes 

 and heralds maturity, and put into dry glass bot- 

 tles, which should be corked and sealed tight, and 

 placed in the cellar, or some other cool place. 



Preservation op Cucumbers. — In Germany 

 and Poland, it is said barrels of cucumbers, of 

 various sizes, and ages, headed up water tight, 

 are preserved fresh, from one year to another, 

 by immersing them in deep wells, where the 

 uniform temperature and exclusion of the air 

 seem to be the preserving agents. 



Marble Fire Places. — If you happen to live 

 in a house which has marble fire-places, never 

 wash them with suds ; this destroys the polish in 

 time. They should be dusted ; the spots taken 

 off with a nice oiled cloth, and then rubbed dry 

 with a soft rag. 



MARKET INTELLIGENCE. 



Rochester Produce Market—Wholesale. 



Wheat, $1 13 



Corn, 40 



Barley, 50 



Oats, 35 



Flom, 5 25 



Beans, 88 



Apples, bush, 



Potatoes, 



Clover Seed,. 



Timothy, 



Hay, ton, 



Wood, cord,. 



Salt, bbl, 



Hams, lb, 



1 22 



44 



56 



40 



5 75 



I 00 



25 50 



80 90 



4 00 4 75 



1 50 2 50 

 10 00 12 50 



2 00 3 50 

 1 25 1 38 



6 7 



Cork, bbl. mess 10 50 H Oft 



Wool. — But little Wool has been brought into market, 

 in comparison with the same period in former years. The 

 price is from 6 to 8 cents per pound less than last season, 

 from 12 to 15,000 pounds have been sold within the past 

 two days, at prices \arying from 18 to 2(j cents per pound. 

 Rochester, .Fune 27, 1848. 



New York Market. 



Nkw-York. Juno 26-7 P. M. 



Flour and Mem..— The market for Flour was without marked 

 chiinge. and the demand limited. The transactions were abont 

 4.000 barri.'lsat $5,25 for Oswego, and common State ?!5.37.'4, and 

 $5-50 for good State and Michigan brands. The quotations show 

 no change, but if any thing the market was the time on the 

 paper of the buyer. 



The home trade was not very active. A fair extent of salcfl 

 took place of brands of Ohio and State better than common at 

 $.5,S7'.i'i6 00. The better grades of Flour sustain prices well. 

 Eye Flour f,3.75a.3,81'4. Sales 3 or 400 barrels. 



Meal remains quiet. 4 or .500 barrels Jer.-<ey sold at $2..'')0. 



Wheat.— The marKet without change and quiet. It was offer* 

 ed at previous rates. A sale of 1000 bushels white at $1,20. 1000 

 do. on private terms, and another parcel of Wiscon.sin at about $1. 



Cor.-:.— The market for Corn was unsettled by the foreign news. 

 There were no sales reported. A good .sample could ))robably 

 have been sold at 53 cents, and 64 was asked. A sale of 10,000 

 bu.«hels mixed, in store, was made on private terms. 500 do. com- 

 mon mixed at 50c. 3.000 do. common at 48a49c., and 5,000 do. 

 Southern flat yellow at 56c. 



Ryk is 75c.. and steady. Oats— 40(741c. for northern. 



rRovisioNs.— The market for Pork is dull. Sales 400 bbls. at 

 5.S,12}4nl0.75. Sales 200 bbls., some fine, at $7,00. The market 

 was quoted lower at the close. 



Ashes— $4,87;:,'a5:87K- 100 bbls. sold. 



Competitors for our August Premiums. 



Rut few pnrsons have become competitors for these pre- 

 miums. We give below the names of the regular com- 

 petitors who liave obtained 10 aubi-cribers or over, since 

 the Isi of May :— 



Our friends will observe, by rtference to the first page 

 of this number, that the premiums olVered are worth con- 

 tending fir — and that there is yet abuiidinl opportunity to 

 obtain "subscribers before the time expires, the 20th of .Aug. 



Contents of this Number. 



.A.n Agricultural Excursion in and to Abbeville District. S. C. 165 



Hints for July 166 



Kxperiments in the Culture of Indian Corn; How to Man- 

 age a K icking Cow. 167 



Fatting Pigs on Parsnips; Short-horn Cattle; Cucumbers; 



Destruction of viice 168 



Notes from S. W. of Seneca Co. ; Another Grain DriU ; Fresh 



Bones for Hens, 169 



Sulphate of Lime, Thick and Thin Sowing, Draining. 171 



Heaping iMachiae ; Wireworm, 170 



Cost of Clearing Land at the West ; Draining,. 171 



(.'omparative Forwardness of the Seasons. 172 



Meteorological Observations; Discovery of a Mineral Paint 



or Cement ; Scratches and Colic In Horses 173 



Rearing Poultry- Ducks, Young Turkeys and Geese 17i 



Last KH'orts of an InAcntivo Genius ; Improved Cheese Press, 176. 



llusspy's Reaper, and other Implements, 176 



The Crisis of the Crops, 17? ' 



The ManufVicture of Cheese. . . 178 



The Ksseutials of Productive Farming ; Lunar Influence, 



tides, &c 17» 



N. \. State Ag. Society— Judges on the Premium List, for 



September Show, 170 



.Agricultural Fairs for 1848 ; (Jrand River (Mich.) Plaster; 

 Lightning Rods, 181 



KOUTICUr.TURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Progress of Horticulture 182 



The Karliost (Cherries— Baumann's May. F.arly Purple Guigne, 



Knight's F.arly Black, and the E.arly White Heart. 183 



Burr's New Pine Strawberry ; The Hemlock Spruce as a 



Hedge Plant 184 



Strawbi;rry Plantations ; Hovey's Fruits of America ; Public 



Parks of Roche-itcr 185 



Notice of '• The Rose," by Parsons ; Northern Spy Apple,. . . 186 



lames' department. 

 Items In Domestto Keoaotay. > 187 



