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GENESEE FARMER. 



Ado. 



To DESTROY Cockroaches. — If your correspondents will 

 try the following simple plan, I will warrant them that 

 every beetle and cockroach will shortly di.s:ippear, and that 

 the kitchen will not again be infested. Add about a tea- 

 spoonful of powdered arsenic to about a tablespoonful of 

 mashed boilded potatoes ; rub and mix them well together, 

 and then crurnhle a third of it every night at bed time about 

 the kitchen hearth ; it will be eaten up or nearly so by the 

 following morning. The creature is very fond of potatoes, 

 and devouring them greedily, crawls again into its hole and 

 perishes. I had occasion to have some alterations made in 

 the kitchen stove, six months afier I pursued this plan, and 

 found hundreds of wings and dried mummies of defunct 

 cockroaches. Their disappearance was not attended with 

 the slightest perceptible smell , and though five years have 

 elapsed, not one has again been seen in my kitchen. In 

 putting it into practice, any remaining crumbs should be 

 swept oft" the next morning. 



F. H. HoRNEK, M. D. 



We have tried the foregoing, and fuund it perfectly ef- 

 fectual. — Horticulturist. 



Household Drudges. — If the paper wasted in vain 

 attenipis to^so/i *oap the ladies into washerwomen, could 

 be restored to the pristine form, what a tine washing of 

 clothes would there be, my contry women ! 



What would be a more beautiful illustration of womanly 

 dependence and manly courage, than a lady gracefully 

 cleaning handkerchiefs and laces, while her loving lord 

 boldly wrestles with the counterpane and table cloths ! 



We will darn your stockings for you, gentlemen ; we'll 

 make your puddmgs ; but w hile you continue to prefer 

 smoking segars to smoking bacon ; mauling each other wilh 

 hard words in political debates, to the equally gentlemanly, 

 and more useful employment of mauling rails, graciously 

 condescend to pity our weakness— let us dance a little, 

 let lis make a little music, and Oh ! leave us time to read 

 and dress a little. Have compassion, kind sirs. Turn us 

 not into water nymphs and salamanders! — Grace Greenuoood. 



A CURIOUS FACT IN BcTTER MAKING, — According to Pro- 

 fessor Johnston, the time and frequency of milking have a 

 great influence on the amount of butter yielded by milk. 

 If a cow be milked only once a day, he says, the milk will 

 yield a seventh part more butter than an equal quantity of 

 that which is obtained by twomilkings in the day. When 

 the milk is drawn three times a day, it is more abundant, 

 but slill less rich. It has also been remarked, that the 

 morning's milk is of better quality than that obtained in 

 the evening. 



A Nut for the Curious. — The Doylestown, (Pa.,) 

 Democrat says ; — A singular phenomenon occurred this 

 spring at the farm of Martin Mull, Esq., in Falls township. 

 His orchard is compo.sed of the usual variety. The blos- 

 soms on one of the fall pippin trees, which bear excel- 

 lent fruit, has been particularly fatal to nearly all the bees 

 of every description that have visited it— -the bumble bee 

 in an especial manner. The ground is thickly* strewed 

 with the dead. The bees, after visiting several blossoms 

 in their usual way, would be apparently attacked with 

 vertigo, as if ihey had taken a deadly narcotic and descen- 

 ded in spiral circles to the ground. Some would be dead 

 very soon, others would linger a considerable time before 

 they would die, and but few would recover to escape. — 

 The tree is now thickly set with young fruit. No other 

 Ircea in the orchard produced such or similar eflects on the 

 bees, nor was it ever observed befo.-e on the tree in question. 



To Destroy Flies. — Mix in a saucer, a table-spoonful 

 of cronm, half as much ground black pepper, and a tea-spoon- 

 ful of brown sugar. This will attract and kill Hies without 

 danger of poisoning children. 



MRAKET INTELLIGENCE. 



Rochester Produce Market^ — Wholesale. 



1 OG 

 4i 



56 



40 



5 75 



I 00 



75 



Pork, bbl. mess 10 00 10 58 



Pork, cwt., 



Beef, cwt., ... 



Lard, lb., 



Butter, lb.,... 

 Cheese, lb., .. 



Eggs, doz, 



Poultry, 



Tallow, 



Maple Sugar, . 

 Sheep Skins, . 

 Green Hides, lb 

 Dry 

 Calfskins, ... 



4 00 

 3 50 



7 



11 

 5 



10 



4 50 

 4 50 

 8 

 lit 

 6 

 11 



7' 

 8 

 1 00 

 4 

 8 



Wheat, $1 00 



Corn, 40 



Barley, 50 



Oats,.. 35 



Flour, 5 50 



Beans, 88 



Apples, bush. 



Potatoes, 70 



Clover Seed,. 



Timothy, 



Hay, ton,.... 10 00 12 50 



Wood, cord,. 2 00 2 50 



Salt, bbl,...- 1 25 1 .30 



Hams, lb,..-. 6 7 



Wool. — The market is inactive. The following are pres- 

 ent quotations : ' 



Native Blood 20 to 25o 



Quarter to half, 22 24 



Half to thrne quarters, 24 26 .; 



Three quarters to full . .26 28 t 



Saxon, 28 30 



Rochester, July 28, 1848. 



New York Market. 



New.York, July 26-7 P. M. 



Flour and Meal. — There is a demand for Flour, and quota- 

 tions are without change from yesterday. There continues to be 

 demand for shipment at $4 75. 3 or 4000 bbls sold. Aggregate 

 sales of the day. 7000 bbls at $1 75a5 for common and good brands 

 State and iVfichigan. $5 12 a 5 25 for prime Genesee, and $5 50 a 6 

 for Jersey brands for baker's use. The market for Meal is firm 

 at $2 02 for Jersey. Sales 3 or 400 bbls. and 450 bbls western at 

 $2 2ba2 50. Rye flour is $3 52 with small sales 



Grain. — The demand for Wheat is moderate and prices are 

 heavy. A sale of 7000 bu Ohio wa.s reported at 90c, but oould not 

 be traced. Sale 2700 bu new North Carolina at about $1 06 ; 3000 

 do good Ohio at $1 06 ; 2500 do at 98c. The market for Corn was 

 firm, but the demand is moderate. The quotations of samples in 

 the market was limited. -A.bout 10 000 bu sold at 51 o 53c for 

 mixed. 54c for round mixed and 59^ for round yellow. Data are 

 steady and selling at 45 a 47c. 



Provisioss— There is a disposition to buy Pork, but holders arc 

 asking generally higher figures than buyers will reach. The sale« 

 are 500 bbls at $8 75 a 8 87 and $11 25 a 11 50. Beef is quiot and 

 rather heavy. The sales are only of retail parcels. Lard heavy 

 at 8c. A sale of 200 bbls pickled hams was made at 5>^c. Butter 

 and Cheese are quiet. 



Guano.— A cargo of 400 tons Guano was sold a few days since, 

 and 300 tons was sold to-day at $35 per ton. 



Competitors for our August Premiums. 



But few persons have become competitors for these pre- 

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

 petitors who have obtained 10 subscribers or over, since 

 the 1st of May :— 



Contents of this Number. 



Corn Culture— Lime, Deep Tillage, &c., 189 



Subsoil Plowing, 191 



A Word about the State Fair at Buffalo, 192 



.Pay your Debts ; Plcuro-pneumonia, 193 



Agroultural Ramble— Things by the Way, 194 



Long Isl'-uid Farming, Soil, &c. ; The Hessian Fly,.. 196 

 Botany— Construction of Flowers ; Wool Mattresses ; 



Rationale of Climate, .i- 197 



Manufacture of Navy Butter for Foreign Stations, 198 



Hints to Writers and Readers — Underdraining, 199 



Smith's Patent Lever Drill, or (jrain Planter ; Wash 



for Buildings, 200 



Tabular Estima'e of the Crops for 1847, 201 



Progress of Agricultural Improvement — Ag. Journals, 



Societies, Exhibitions, &c., 202 



Preservation of Manure, 203 



Notes by S. W. — Cheating the Worms, &c. ; Best 



PlanofaBarn, 204 



Editor's Table— Notices, (fee, 205 



horticultural department. 

 Pomological Convention ; Hints for the Month ; De- 



scirption of Three Fine Cherries, 206 



Description of 25 Select Varieties of the Strawberry,.. 207 



Pear Tree Blight. --- --- 208 



Answers to Correspondents ; Horticultural Exhibitions, 209 



ladies' department. 

 English, vs. American Girls ; Indian Rye Bread ; Egg 

 Pone, 211 



To destroy Cockroaches; Fact in Butter Making, &c. 212 



