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GENESEE FARMER. 



Oct. 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



A Good Mother. — She is a good mother who 

 brings up her children to work ; to work in the 

 kitchen, if you please. We shall never have 

 good puddings and pies, chowders and frickasees, 

 while the ladies are taught that it is a disgrace to 

 learn to cook. The time may not come when 

 the daughters of wealth shall be obliged to take 

 their stand in the kitchen, but should they not 

 know how to bake and wash ? What is a young 

 woman fit for, to a farmer or mechanic especial 

 ly, whose mother allows her to lie in bed till ten 

 o'clock, and who, when she rises, sings a song or 

 two, and sits down to the last new novel ? She 

 may answer for the wife of a wealthy fop ; and 

 a miserable life, miserable indeed, will she live. 

 Far better for her, no matter what her condition 

 may be, if she be brought up to work. 



The Tomato. — Now is the time for gather- 

 ing this healthy and most desirable vegetable, 

 which is cooked in various ways, according to 

 the peculiar taste of the people. As a salad it is 

 good — as an omelet, with butter, eggs, and 

 crumbs of bread, capital — it is good stiffed and 

 baked — good stewed down close with a fat piece 

 of beef and Lima beans — in short, in what posi- 

 tion is it not good ? Recently the tomato has 

 been successfully used in medical cases. It is 

 good for a cough, and soothing to the lungs.— 

 Use it freely in the hot months to check the ac- 

 cumulation of bile. If you wish to pack them 

 away in bags for winter, gather them when ripe 

 and scald them to get the skin off, then boil them 

 Well with a little sugar and salt, but no water, 

 spread them in thin cakes in the sun, and when 

 dry'pack them away in a dry room. 



To Preserve Peaches. — Clean your peaches 

 by pouring hot water upon them, and afterwards 

 wiping them with a coarse cloth ; put them into 

 glass or earthen jars, cork them up and fasten 

 the corks with wire or strong twine ; then place 

 the jars in a kettle of hot water until the atmos- 

 pheric air is expelled from the jars ; after which 

 seal them up tight with wax. Peaches prepared 

 in this way retain their original flavor, and are 

 equally as delicious, when cooked in the ordina- 

 ry manner, six months or a year after being put 

 up, as if just taken from the trees. 



Fine Pickled Cabbage. — An exchange pa- 

 per gives the following directions for making 

 this excellent and wholesome relish : — " Shred 

 red and whhe cabbage, spread it in layers in a 

 stone jar, with salt over each layer. Put two 

 spoonfuls of whole black pepper, and the same 

 quantity of alspice, cloves, and cinnamon, in a 

 bag, and scald them in two quarts of vinegar ; 

 pour the vinegar over the cabbage, and cover it 

 tight. Use it two days after." 



MRAKET INTELLIGENCE. 



Rochester Produce Market— Wholesale. 



Wheat, $1 00 1 12 Pork, bbl. mess 10 50 11 00 



Corn, 48 50 Pork, cwt., ... 



Barley, 50 5fi Beef, cwt., ... 



Oats, 22 25 Lard, lb., 



Flour, 5 25 5 50 Butter^ lb.,... 



Ceaiis, 83 100 Cheese, lb., .. 



Apples, bush. Eggs, doz, 



PoUtoes 20 30 Poultry, 



CloverSeed,. 4 00 4 75 Tallow, 



Timothy, 2 00 2 50 Maple Sugar, . 



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



Wood, cord,. 2 00 3 00 Green Hides, lb 



Salt, bbl,.... 1 25 1 38 Dry 



Hams, lb, 6 7 Calf Skins, ... 



Wool. — The market is still inactive. The following are 

 present quotations : 



Native Blood 18 to 23c 



Quarter to half, 20 22 



Half to three quarters, 22 24 



Threo quarters to fuU . .24 26 



Saxon, 26 28 



Rochester, September 29, 1848. 



New York Market. 



New-York, Sept. 2S-7 P. M. 



Flour & Mkal.— There has been a large business in Flour tO' 

 day, with quite a speculative action. The demand for future de- 

 livery being considerable. The market in the morning was 

 steiuly but improved at the close, when it stood 6d higher than 

 in the morning. The sales add up 13 to 15.000 bbls. including 9 

 or 10.000 for delivery in O.ctober and November, at $5,62%. The 

 sales on the spot have tieen 5.50a5.72>^ for common and good 

 brands, closing at $5,56;^a5.623^. firm, with the latter price re- 

 fnsed for choice brands — included in the sales were 1000 barrels 

 Brooklyn at 5 56. There was a good demand for shipment at full 

 prices. Meal is 3,75 and quiet with sales 500 barrels Jersey. 200 

 barrels Rye flour at 3.87%. 



Grain.— Wheat is quiet to-day, with fair demand. For good 

 Genesee $1.28 was bid. Some descriptiocs of corn were firmer, 

 but common mixed was dull. The sales add up 30,000 bushels at 

 61 a 62 for inferior mixed, 67 a 68 for good, 71 a 74 for flat yellow, 

 and SO for round yellow. A s.-ile of round corn was reported at 

 81, but it could be bought for 80 at the close. The demand for 

 Corn was less active than yesterday. Rye is better, with sales 

 2500 bushels at 71 a 73 cents delivered. A parcel or two of Bar- 

 ley was in market but not sold: held at 85c. Oats 35 a 35%— 

 sales 7 or 800 bushels. 



Provisions.- Pork firm— demand for mess fair ; sales 1500 bbls. 

 at $13 for mess, and $10 o 10,12>^ for prime. Lard— sales 4 or 500 

 bbls at S'.i a 8%cts. Cheese in good demand for export ; sales 

 2000 boxes at 6% a l}^. Butter steady. 



Contents of this Number. 



Fair of the State Agricultural Society, 237 



The Constituents of Plants, 239 



Prepare for Winter 240 



Quantity of Manure produced by dififercnt crops 240 



Densmore's Straw Cutter 241 



Madison County Cattle Show and Fair, 241 



What Cows should Farmers keep ? 242 



Lime and Ashes on Corn 243 



Chautauque Co. Ag. Society ; The American Hare 243 



Crops in East Bloomfield, N. Y., in 1848, 244 



Wire Fence ; Improvemsnt in Filtering Water, 244 



Preserving Butter ; Preservation of Eggs 245 



Method of Hunting Wild Bees; Kidney Worms in Swine,. . . 245 



The Great State Fah- at Buffalo, 246 



S.alting Stock ; KeepSng Farm Accounts 247 



Premises of an Unlufeky Farmer 248 



Premises of a Lucky or Good Farmer, 249 



Premiums awarded at the recent State Fair 250 



Editor's Table -Notices, &c 253 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Autumn Planting 254 



Buffalo Pomological Convention, 254 



The Louise Bonne of Jersey Pear, (figures of Fruit and Tree,) 256 



Bulbous Roots, .257 



Notes on the Horticultural Department of the State Fair, ... 258 



Answer to Mr. Burr's Inquiry. 259 



Acknowledgmenti ; Hovey's Fruits of America. 259 



ladies' department. 



A Good Mother 260 



TheTojpato; To Preserre Peaches ; Fine Pickled Cabbage.. . 260 



