1848. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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Notices to Correspondents. 



M. Mackie, Clyde, N. Y. Your seedling apple is one 

 of the best we have seen in a long time — combining large 

 size, great Ijeauly and excellent quality. We shall give a 

 description, figure and account of it in a future number of 

 the Farmer. We have no desire to increase the number of 

 apples, still this variety is eminently worthy of culture- 

 superior to many now in catalogue. 



IVhil" Pearma'in. — We know nothing about it. It is a 

 large, tine looking apple, but not yet mature enough to 

 judge of its quality. We shall speak of it more minutely 

 as it ripens. 



T. C. Peters, Darien, N. Y. Apples. — No. 1, a rich, 

 yellow tleshed, green apple. Don't know the name. No. 2, 

 Herefordshire Pearmain, or Autumn Pearmain frequently 

 allied, a very fine fruit. No. 3, is a handsome, pale yellow 

 sweet apple, of medium quality. No. 4, a green apple, 

 with yellow flesh, exceedingly rich. No. 5 resembles Tal- 

 man Sweeting, but is more crisp and tender ; will not keep 

 so long. No. U, Rambo. No. 7, Baldviin. No. o, Sweet 

 Russet, rich, but too dry. No. 9, Canada Reinette — a fine 

 fruit. No. 10, cultivated as English and sometimes Pough- 

 keepsie Russet. No. 11, too ripe ; some sort of a Codlin. 

 No. 12, don't know ; looks well, but not mature enough to 

 judge of it. No. 13, Esopus Spitzenburg. No. 14, don't 

 know. No. 1.5, very large specimens of No. 7. No. 16, 

 Swaar. No. 17, quite decayed. 



Horace Holt, Webster, N. Y. Your apple is very large 

 and showy — but coarse, and fit only for kitchen purposes. 



Chas. G. CoRWiN, Port Gibson, N. Y. A handsome 

 yellow sweet apple, but spongy and fit only for feeding 

 stock — for which, if very productive, it may be valuable. 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



Music 



Among the Milk-Maids. 



Orange Sweet. 



Tree strong, vigorous grower ; top wide spreading 



and 



in the niu-sery inclined to throw out lateral brandies very 

 aarly ; a regular annual bearer of abundant crops. Fruit of 

 medium size, flattened at each end : of a pale yellow color, 

 with a bright red cheek on tlie sunny side. Flesh yellow- 

 ish, melting, full of rich saccharine juice. Ripe from the 

 last of September to mid- winter. From its great produc- 

 tiveness, and the richness of the fruit, this tree is considered 

 one of the most profitable sweet apples where it is known. 

 (Cultivated by J. .S iorrs, Jr., Marathon, Cortland Co., N. Y. 



Mr. Storrs handed us a specimen of the fruit 

 accompanied with the above note. It is truly 

 one of the most delicious sweet apples we have 

 seen, but is not the Orange Sweet, which is only 

 a synonym of the Golden Sweeting. We have 

 specimens before us of the same apple from 

 J. Milton Earle, of Worcester, Mass., under 

 tlie name of " Monson Sweeting." We shall 

 get some account of it from Mr. Earle. Mean- 

 time we can recommend it as an excellent fall 

 and early winter sweet apple. We saw, at the 

 late Convention or Congress, a sweet apple ex- 

 hibited under the name of Northern Golden 

 Sweeting, which struck us as being remarkably 

 fine. It is cultivated by Jonathan Battey, of 

 Keeseville, N. Y 



Growing Pine- Apples by Steam. — A useful 

 method of disposing of waste steam has been 

 adopted by a gentleman in Philadelphia. He 

 raises pine-apples with it. The steam is intro- 

 duced under the roots of the plants, and the com- 

 bined heat and moisture act so powerfully that 

 the pine-apple is soon ripened, while the body 

 of the plant, being all day exposed to the open 

 air, assumes a healthy and agreeable taste, which 

 renders the fruit far superior to those ripened 

 in the hot house. i 



We have received several cotnmunications in 

 reply to the article of S. W., published in our 

 April number — page 115. A lack of space, (as 

 well as sympathy for our correspondent,) has 

 prevented us from inserting them heretofore — 

 and we have only room, now, to give the 

 subjoined : 



Messrs. Editors :^The farmers' daughters thank Mr. 

 S. W. for the trouble he has taken to learn them something 

 useful. But we should like to know if he would prefer to 

 have us deaf and blind to all, the wonders of the age ; and 

 if he thinks we have no taste for the fine arts, as they are 

 called — such as music, painting, dancing, &c., wliich he 

 advises us to lay aside, and learn something useful in pref- 

 erence. Now I hope he will not think it at all strange if I 

 should ask him the question, is it not advisable for the 

 daughters of residents of cities and villages to learn some- 

 thing useful, in the place of studying music and almost all 

 the branches of art to be accomplished belles, or perhaps 

 reading novels to pass away the time agreeably — while 

 their mothers, who perhaps are farmers' daughters, are at 

 work in the kitchen, which ought to be tlie daughter's 

 place, instead of making calls and receiving company ? But, 

 alas, how true it is that we behold our cities and villages 

 filled with intelligent looking young ladies, who are not ca- 

 pable of superintending the getting of a meal of victuals! 

 A Milk-xMaiu. 



Would our friend S. W. suppose that farmers' daughters 

 are insensible to the thrilling sounds of music, when the carol 

 of a thonsend sweet voices call them forth to their tasks at 

 early dawn ; that are performed before the smoke of the vil- 

 lage chimnies grace the air ? Tiie dairy is in order, breakfast, 

 over, and the city Miss is iilill locked in the arms of 31or- 

 pheus ; while we have an hour to devote to music, tliat 

 calls forth all the finer feelings — all that is good and lovely 

 in nature and mind — and it inspires us with a devotion 

 that points Heavenward, from whence no sound returns. 

 It also lulls the smiling infant to sleep, stills tlie noisy 

 urchin, and holds the raving maniac spell-bound ; even 

 the brute creation are not insensible to its sweet voice. 



But perhaps our organs of hearing are not so refined aa 

 those of our friend S. W. ; but it is an age of progression, 

 as he says, and he must expect all to move on in the pro- 

 gress. And if we touch a jarring note of the sweet-toned 

 piano, it does not create discord within us ; and we touch 

 the keys lightly and try it again. But for our part, our 

 own music, like the crows, is sweet to ovr-elvcs \-\Jielher 

 it springs from a well-toned piano or a spinning wheel ; 

 and reason teaches us that all cinnot be pianists and poetn, 

 " no more than a sheep can be a goat," as the printer said. 



As friend S. W. has taken the pains to write against milk- 

 maids turning pianists, I shall suppose he is a shrewd, rich 

 old bachelor in quest of a wife (by a glance at your Alarch 

 number,) to hear him talk of Valentines and billetdoux ; 

 but he must not come to Wayne county, among the milk- 

 maids, dairy-maid-pianists, and maida-of-all-work, for we 

 should think him officious and that he wanted to manage 

 both in doors and out, find thought more of the contents 

 that filled his pocket than the comfort and happiness of his 

 wife and children. But we hope to he so employed that 

 we may he both useful and respectable, independent and 

 dependent on all. A Dairy-Maid. 



Waym: County, May, 1S43. 



Potato Cheese. — Tn some parts of Saxony, potatoes 

 of the best quality are dressed in steam, peeled, and re- 

 duced to a pulp. Five pounds of this are mixcil 'vith about 

 ten pounds of sweet curd kneaded together, with the ad- 

 dition of some xalt ; after lying for a few days, the Mixture 

 is again kneaded, pressed inFo little baskets, where the 

 superfluous moisture drains offand the cheese is then formed 

 into balls, and dried in the shade. These cheeses are said 

 to keep well, when drj-, and their taste and quality improve 

 with age, with the advantage that they generate no vermin. 



