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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Feb. 



cropped, with the exception of No. 13, which was 

 put in on the first furrow with the cultivator; and lot 

 No. 5, was put in after barley and well manured. — 

 Making 70 acres, including fence and some road. 



Lot No. 8, was the last field sown, fininshed on the 

 19th. of Sept. There were 30 bushels of seed, (soles 

 wheat) sown on this field, which was a trifle more 

 than IJ bushels per acre. It was harvested and 

 thrashed separate from the rest of his crop; — it pro- 

 ducal 793 bushels, all of which was suitable for seed, 

 and more than one half was used as such. This lot 

 lies adjoining the highway, and the 20 acres includes 

 nearly one acre,of road. 



Lots No. 1, 9 and 17 were sown to barley without 

 any manure; they produced 48-^4 bushels. Lot No. 

 16, was sown to oats again, in consequence of the 

 drouth destroying the clover the year previous; the 

 crop was more abundant than the first — some 45 

 bushels ] er acre. 



Lot No. 12, a clover sod, which had lain two years, 

 was planted to corn and potatoes, without applying 

 any manure, it produced 1425 bushels of ears of corn, 

 and 164 bushels of potatoes. 



Lot No. 2— a crop of clover hay was taken from it 

 the last day of June, and at the commencement of 

 September following a crop of seed of 29 bushels. 

 This item was omiled in the products of the second 

 year, therefore ^86 should be added to the profits of 

 tlie farm, and a sufficient quantity was reserved for 

 the use of it for the next year. 



Lots No. 3, 10, 11, 14 and 16, (the last of which 

 contains 2 acres, and appropriated to the most choice 

 fruit trees which furnishes a large supply of all kinds 

 of fruit,) were in pasture. - The quantity of clover 

 seed sowed on this part, was seven and one half bush, 

 and 6| tons of plaster were sown on the wheat and 

 barley, an 1 some 400 used on the corn and potatoes. 

 The clover this season took as well as could be de- 

 sired, the fields at the begining of winter were clothed 

 with one of the most valuable fertilizers of the soil 

 that can be produced, and from which the finest crops 

 always ensue. The farm this season kept six horses, 

 four cows, three calves, ninety-five sheep, and fifteen 

 swine. 



The lots put into wheat, the third year were No. 

 10, 11, 14, 16, all of which were fallowed early, and 

 plowed twice. No. 15, was put in after the second 

 crop of oats, with a fine dressing of manure; and lots 

 No. 1, 9 and 17 were sown after barley, which 

 make 80 acres and upwards. Lot No. 12, was in 

 barley, the remainder of the fields we,re either mown 

 or pastured. That which augments the profits of 

 every farm, is the growing of all kinds of spring crops, 

 at least in quantities sufiicient for the feeding of 

 teams, fatting ])ork &,c. The occupant of this farm 

 produced a surplus of these crops; therefore instead of 

 using a portion of the money arising from the wheat 

 in bying mill-feed forteams, fcc. he has added several 

 hundred dollars to his profits, from the sale of barley 

 and corn. 



This farm contains preicsely 215 acres of liind, 

 196 of which is cultivated. It was bought in the 

 winter of 1847, for the sum of $3,100, with 85 acres 

 of wheat on the ground; it was sold a few weeks 

 since at 11(70 per acre. There are 65 acres of wheat 

 on the farm, and 10 acres of which are reserved in 

 the sale, which at least is worth S200. The expense 

 in making improvements during the time, will not 

 exceed $150. 



The occupant's net profits from the farm for the 

 whole period, after deducting all ex])enses, amount to 

 $6,300; which pay an interest of fifteen per cent on 

 the capital invested, including $700 of capital for 

 money invested in teams, utensils &.c. 



If I have not been sufficiently minute in a detailed 

 history of the management of the farm referred to and 

 in order to satisfy or remove the doubts of "Incred- 

 ulous," I will make another efTort, if requested. — 

 Catedimia, Liv. Oo., JV. Y., Dec, 1849. 



IMPOHTED CATTLE-BATES' STCCK^ 



The August nnmber of the "Farmer,'" for 1849, con- 

 tains an article on the "recent importation of short 

 horns," which does not entirely coincide with my 

 views. Tlie writer, referring to the bull, 3d Duke 

 of Cambridge, which he had the honor of importing, 

 says: "Breeders, desiring the blood of Mr, Hates, 

 can no wnereelsein this country, procure it wilk siu:h 

 high characteristics of style, quality, symmetry, and 

 substance^ 



Allow me here, before discussing this paragraph, to 

 remark, that honorable competition in breeding domes- 

 tic animals, cannot lail to be a fruitful source of 

 improvement, and should be countenanced and encour- 

 aged by every individual who desires to see the stock 

 of our country raised to that high standard which its 

 importance so justly merits and demands. The indi- 

 vidual, however, who enters upon this enterprise with 

 a desire and a determination to excel, will soon find 

 himself surrounded with perplexities and prejudices, 

 which he little anticipated; and, hov\ ever desirous he 

 may be to avoid controversy, circumstances may 

 occur, where justice, both to himself and the public, 

 demands that he should no longer remain silent. 

 Experience will also sooner or later prove, that there 

 is neither honor or profit to be acquired, by resorting 

 to the frail support of either directly, or Indirectly, 

 assailing, or endeavoring to disparage the stock of 

 others, by the assumption of high sounding preten- 

 sions, which cannot bear the test of truth and 

 scrutiny. 



But to the point. We presume no one will deny, 

 that any one animal from any herd, to possess the 

 power of imparting to his produce, ^^highcr charac- 

 teristics of style, quality, symmetry, and substance," 

 than any other animal from the same herd mu&i 

 possess more of the choicest blood of that particular 

 herd. To doubt this, is at once questioning the efficacy 

 of blood animaJs. The most natural inquiry, there- 

 fore, which would arise from a perusal of the paragraph 

 quoted, would be — " What is the particular strain 

 of blood, in the late Mr. Bates' herd, which is superior 

 to all other, and which gave him such a deservedly 

 widespread fame and reputation as a breeder?" — 

 Now let this simple fact be clearly defined, and if 3d 

 Duke of Cambridge possesses more of such blood, 

 than any other animal in this country, then he may 

 be fairly entitled to his claimed position of superiority. 

 This is a point of the greatest importance to brce<lors 

 of Short-horns in this country, and particularly so, to 

 "all who wish to procure the blood of the late Mr. 

 Bates' herd." 



In order, therefore, to prove to the public conclu- 

 sively, and to place the matter beyond the ])ossibility 

 of a doubt, that the choicest blood of Mr. Bates' herd 

 consisted in his pure, unalloyed Duchess tribe, wo 

 quote his own opinion, from a communication 

 addressed to tiie publishers of the print of his bull, 



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