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GENESEE FARMER. 



Sept. 



What it is to bk Polite. — Politeness is a trait wliicli 

 every one admires, and wliicii confers upon its possessor a 

 cliarin thai does nuicii to pave tlie way of lite with success. 

 But it is very murh misunderstood. Politeness does not 

 consist in wearing a silk glove, and in gracefully lifting your 

 hat when yon meet an acquaintance — it does not consist in 

 artificial .smiles and flattering speech, but in sincere and 

 honest desires to pomote the happiness of those around you ; 

 in the readiness to sacrifice your own ease and comfort to 

 to add lo ihe enjoyment of others. The man who lays 

 aside all seltisliness in regard to the happiness of others, 

 who is ever ready to confer favors, who speaks in the lan- 

 guage of kindness and conciliation, and who studies toman 

 itest those little attentions which gratify the heart, is a 

 polite man, though he may wear n homespun coat, and make 

 a very ungraceful bow. And many a fashionable, who 

 dresses genieely, and enters the mo-;t crowded apartments 

 vviih assurance and ease, is a perfect compound of rudeness 

 and civility. He who has a heart flowing with kindness 

 and good will towards his fellow men, and who is guided 

 in the exercise of these feelings by good common sense, is 

 the truly polite man — and he alone. 



The True Life. — The mere lapse of years is not life. — 

 To eat, and drink, and sleep ; to be exposed to darkness 

 and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and to 

 turn the wheel of wealth ; to make reason our bookkeeper, 

 and turn thought into an implement of trade — this is not 

 life. In all this, but a poor fraction of the consciousness of 

 hum.nnity is awakened ; and the sanctities still slumber 

 which make it most worth while to be. Knowledge, truth, 

 love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the 

 mechanism of existence ; the laugh of mirth which vibrates 

 through the heart, the tears that freshen the dry wastes 

 within, the music that brings childhood back, the prayer 

 that calls the future near, the doubt which makes us medi- 

 tate, tluf death which startles us with mystery, the hard- 

 ship that forces us to struggle, the anxiety that ends in trust 

 — are the true nourishment ol our natural being. 



MorH!a:s. — It is true that the sacrifices ynu make for the 

 world will be little known by it — men govern and earn the 

 glory ; and the thousand K\alchful nights and sacrifices, by 

 which a mother purchases a hero or a poet, for the state, 

 are forgntton, not once counted ; for the mothers themselves 

 do not ciinni tliein ; and so, one century after another, do 

 mollifr ; Diiiiaaifil and unthankcd, send forth the arrows, 

 the siuis, lilt- storni-hirds, and the nightingales of time I — 

 But sekhj'ii does a C'ornelia find a Plutarch, who connects 

 her name with the (iracchi. But as those two sons who 

 bore their meither to the temple of Delphi, were rewarded 

 by death, so your guidance of your children will only !ind 

 its perfect recompense at the termination of life. 



Hints to Young Farmers. — Make it a rule to read a 

 little every day, even if it be but a single sentence. A 

 short paragraph will often afford you a profitable source of 

 reflection for a whole day. l'"or this purpose your agricul- 

 tural paper is admira:)ly adapted. Keep it always within 

 your reach so that you may lay your hand on it at any mo- 

 ttnent when you are about the house. We know a large 

 family thai has made itself intimately acquainted with 

 history, probably more than any other family in the entire 

 United States by the practice of having one of the cltildren, 

 each one taking a week by turns, read every morning, 

 while the rest were at breakfiist. — fowa Farmer. 



3IRAKET INTELLIGENCE. 



Zinc Pans. — It was recommended by Mr. S. 

 VVillianns, at. the last meeting of the Philadelphia 

 Society for Promoting Agriculture, that zinc 

 pans be used for dairies, possessing as they do 

 the power of preserving the milk in a sweet or 

 pure state, much longer than any pans used. — 

 Dr. Hare remarked that gi-eat care would be 

 necessary to keep tliem perfectly clean, or the 

 milk and butter might be unwholesome. lie 

 thought it probable that a small block of zinc, 

 placed in a tin pan, might produce the same ef- 

 fect on the milk by preventing it getting sour 

 too soon. 



New York Marlsct. 



Nkw.Yors, August 28-7 P. M. 



Flour and Meal. — There is a fair demand for flour, but the light 

 supplies, in connection with the firmness of the foreign markets, 

 has caused the flour market to be buoyant. Fancy's are CX to 

 12)^c. better than on Saturday. Sales 12.000 bbls. at $5 50a5 62}^ 

 for common and good brands the market closing with little to be 

 had below $!i.52)4. Included in the sales were 100 bbls round hoop 

 fit $.5.30 some uninspected sold at $5.-17>^ ; extra and fancy do not 

 improve like common descriptions. Meal is in fair demand and 

 steady at !fi3.12>^a3,2.') for Jersey 



Grain— For Wheat there is a fiiir inquiry and .shippers were in 

 the m.Trket for good samples. Sales 10,000 bush at 98c. the former 

 if not the latter was for export. Corn has been fluctuating and 

 was better at the close than in the morning. The orders were to 

 a consider.able extent and sale 50 or 60.000 bus. at 54 a 50 mixed 

 and ntarly yellow ; 57 for white. 64 a 65 for round northern. Some 

 of the sales of mixed show a decline. 



Buffalo, Aug. 28. 

 There was a good inquiry for flour on Saturday morning, and 

 there were sales of between 2 and 3000 bbls. 1331 bbls two choice 

 brands Ohio were taken at $5 ; the balances .at 4 81'4 " 4 87^.— 

 Th<'re was also a fair demand for wheat, with sales about 4000 

 bushels old and new Ohio at $1 . 



Contents of this Wamber. 



A Review of an Interesting Subject, 213 



Rural Barbecues ; Southern Grasses, 214 



Butter for the Navy, 214 



Another fact relative to the Potato Disease, 215 



Ag. F.air— Wool Growing at the South, 216 



Letter from England— Show of Royal Ag. Society 217 



Notes of the Past Month 218 



Fat rattle -Mr. Ayrault's Twin Steers, 218 



Agricultural Education— A Suggestion, 220 



Foreign Extracts— To m.ike Hens lay Perpetually ; To reno- 

 vate old Apple Trees ; Ireland, 221 



Rural Taste— Cottage Residences ; Honey Bees, 222 



Ag. Products of the U. S. and France ; Origin of Various 



Plants ; Facts in regard to cutting auripe Corn, 223 



Plan of a Piggery, 224 



Facts and Inquiries ; Exposure to the Sun, 225 



Plowing 220 



Draining of Marshes and Wet Lands ; Remarkable Cows, . . 227 

 Editors Table— (various notice.-;, extracts, &c.) 228 



HORTICUI.TVKM. DEPARTJUENT, 



Deep Tillage 230 



Two Fine Late Cherries, 231 



().sband's Summer or Verg.ilieu Pear, 231 



Two Early Plums ; Strawberry Culture— Burr's New Pine,. . 232 

 Salt on Plum Trees ; Starting Buds too Soon ; Beehiye 



Strawberry, ; 232 



The Summer Rose Apple; The Fleur Blanche Perpetual 

 Rose ; Noxious and Troublesome Insects ; Keep Clean 



Gardens, 233 



Mildew on Peache.s ; Gatheriug and Planting Apple Seeds ; 



Grafting the (Jooaeberry on the Yellow Flowering Currant, 234 

 Gre.at National Convention of Fruit Growers ; Inquiry- 

 Burr's Stiawberrics, 234 



Cultivation of Trees,.' 23"> 



r.ADIE.s' DICP.tP.TMENT. 



Stilton Cheese ; Econojny iu Linca Washing ; Mock Cream, 235. 



