THE GENESEE FARMER. 



April 



COWTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



The Analysis and Study of Grasses, 81 



S. W.'s Notes for the Month 82 



Salt and Arsenic 83 



WHEiT HusBANDRv— Sniutin Wheat and the cause of it, 83 



Corn vs. Wheat— again 85 



Benefits of Deep Flowing, 86 



Economy in Raising Wheat 86 



A Troublesome Weed 66 



Ar*swrn3 to Inquiries— Application Of Bones as Manure,. . . . 87 



Wheat Fly or Weevil. 87 



Insects on the Roots of Com 87 



Culture of Beans, 88 



Application of Leached A.she8. &c 88 



The Milch Cow-S."W. and Mr. Wright, 88 



Imported Short Horns— Bates' Stock 80 



Douglas' Patent Suction and Force Pump 90 



Meteorological Report for 1848 9 91 



A Large f alf 91 



Hedges and Hedge Plants, 92 



Fowls, Fowl Books, Fowl Houses, &c 93 



Ladies' Depahtment— A word for the Flowers 98 



YoiTH's DrPAaTiiENT— Agriculture. No. 3 99 



A Family Scene ; April 99 



EoiToEs' TABLF.-Notices. &c. 100 



A few Hints on Pruning trees at the time of Transplanting ... 94 



The Oswego Beurre Pear 95 



Sweet Apples 95 



Tyson Pear 96 



Bourasia Apple 06 



Remedy for the Curculio, 97 



Answers to Correspondents. 97 



ILLUSTR.\TIONS. 



Douglas' Patent Suction and Force Pump, 90 



Buckthorn Hedge 92 



The Dorking Fowl 93 



Fowl House 93 



Peach tree one year from bud 94 



Standard Cherry Tree, (two years old,) 94 



Dwarf Pears 95 



Tyson Pear, 98 



Bouraspa Apple Sfl 



Nemophila Maculata 9S 



Figure illustrating the Root. &c 99 



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duery^s Albany Seed Planter, for Hand or Horse 

 Po^vcr. 



TmS is acknowledged lo be tbo best Soed and Corn Planter 

 in uso. This is the fourth si-a?on they have been made, and 

 upwards of two hundred and tifiy have been ordered already for 

 the coming epring use As thi'y are all warranted, and haying 

 been thoroughly tested and pretty generally introduced, the 

 farmer desiring to plant the amount of half an acre of root crops 

 or fifteen acres of corn, can well afford to purchase, and risk 

 nothing in trying one Price $14. For description, ficc-. eee cata- 

 logue of Albany Agricultural Warehouse and Seedatore. No 369. 

 and 371 Broadway, Albany. H. L. EMERY. 



The Morgan Tlorse I^IaJor GlfTord 



WiLI. stand the en.'^uiPg season, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and 

 Wednesdays, at the stable of K. W. Sbeldon. Sennett : on 

 Thursdays and Krid.iys at the stable of S B. Rowe. Camillue ; and 

 on Saturdays at the stable of Johu C Munro. Bellisle 



Major Gifford is seven years old this spring : hia color ia a beauti- 

 ful chestnut. He was sired by the Gifford Morgan, his dam a pure 

 Mtrgau. Breeders of good horses are invited to call and sec him. 



TKHMS-Ten dollars to insuie. Pasturage furnished. Acci- 

 dents and escapes at the risk of the owners. 



April l.lSoO. [4-at*] MASON & CO. 



Yoimtj Morgan Ti^er and Samson Chief 



WILL be k.'pt the ensuiriK season as follows :-On Mondays, 

 Tuesdays. Wednepdnys. and Thursdays, at the stable of 

 the subscriber, two mil< s south.':i>it of Clyde ; on Fridays and Sat- 

 urdays, at the stable of J. Landon, in Lyons, 



PFTdIGREE— Young Morg:m Tiger was sired by the cebbrated 

 horae Morgan Tiger, formerly owned by Dr. Wm. May of Palmyra 

 Samson (.'liiefwus hired by th-- imported Sumsou. imported by John 

 Robinson of Palmyra 



TERMS— Eight dollars to insure a foal. All persons parting 

 with their marcs before foaling time will be held respousiblt- for 

 the insurance money. Good pasture will bo furnished for mares 

 from a distance at two shillings and six pence per week. All 

 e.-icapes and accidents at the ri>k of the owner 



Breeders of good hordes are invited to caU.-ind see them ami their 

 stock. Q(^ Young Morgan is a bright bay, coming five years old. 

 Bixtcen hands high, and well proportioned. He waw awarded the 

 first premium at the Wayne County Fair held at Rose Valley in 

 October, 1849. Samson was awarded th« first premium as being 

 the best throe years old stallion exhibited, at the same place and 

 timj. 1S.\AC M. (JILLETT. 



April 1, 1850. (4-2t'] 



Kmery^s Cylinder Dynamometer. 



THE subscriber having long been interested in the manufac- 

 turing and vending of plows, and having attended annually 

 several plowing matches, as well as trials of plows, both in Massa- 

 . ^ chusetts and N. York, 



EIAI. .— for the last uino years, 



he has as often seen the 

 difficulties in d< ciding 

 and determining the 

 relative merits of the 

 competitor's plows, and 

 he has as often declined 

 entering in a test trial 

 of plows. Andtoooften 

 the one item of easf op 

 DRAFT has been consid- 

 ered the greatest excel- 

 lence in a plow, and 

 that usually determin- 

 ed by a spring instrument, with a vibrating indei ra,nging from 1 

 pound to 1000 pounds, and affected by every variation in speed of 

 team nnd obstructions met in its progress. He has long endeav- 

 ored to construct an instrument for this purpose, and at consider- 

 able expense and time has succeeded in producing one, which if 

 not perfect, is as nearly so as can be desired by the most particu- 

 lar In the above cut. figure 1 represents the instrument complete. 

 Figure 2 represents the piston ditached. showing the popet valve, 

 orifice for the fluid, and graduations on the piston rod. 



Agricultural societies and manufacturers of plows, and others, 

 wishing one of these instruments, can obtain them by addressing 

 H. L. EMKRY, Albany Agricultural Warehouse. 



Nos. 369 aud 371 Broadway. Albany. N. Y. 



Patent SMdlci^s Kailroad Horse Power and over 

 Shot Threshinar Machine and Seperator. 



NO THRESHING ^L\CHINE ever invented has met with eo 

 rapid an introduction or given so general satisfaction as this. 

 Four years since less than a dozen setts were sold in this State, 

 where last season upwards of three hundred were made and sold, 

 beside many in the Western States, without supplying the demand. 

 With increased facilities for manufacturing, and progress 

 already made on them, we will be enabled to turn out in season for 

 the coming harvest five hundred setts. Those farmers desiring to 

 avoid the trouble, expense, and inconvenience attending the em- 

 ployment of the ordinary large lever powers and threshers, by pur- 

 cha;'.ing and using one of their own machines, and with the 

 help usually about their farms, are requested to examine thi.<; 

 m:'chinc. terms of sale, warranty. Sic., &c . before purcha-sing else 

 wh>re. For further particulars, see Catalogue of Albany -Agri- 

 cultural Warehouse and Seedstore. gratis on application. Noe. 369 

 and 371, Broadway, Albany, N. Y,. or the agricultural papers and 

 reports of Agricultural Societies, for three years past. Address 

 HORACE L. EMERY, Albany, N. Y. 



Farmers Please Take Notice. 



I AM now Manufacturing a iSTfii, Sferf I>i-i7/. Patented Nov. 6, 1949 

 at TaBten.GeBupSt Co.'s Machine Shop. Palmyra. Wayno Co. 

 N. v.. and shall be prepared to supply all orders. 



My new improved Drill will cost from $S0 to f85 at the factory. 

 My fifty dollar Drill will be simple and durable, with seven tubes 

 aud warrented. Agents are wanted to sell Drills and territory. 

 A more full Notice and Discription with cut will soon be Published- 

 1 ask FarmiTs to see my Drill before they purchase. 



(tij' All cummunications (post-paid ) will receive prompt atten- 

 tion. Direct to me at Ontario. Wayue.-Co. N. Y. 



[4-lt] J. W. SHl'.RMAN. 



/vr.v/ m Bmiity and Value— Cheapest and Most V.'pular. 

 THE GENESEE FARMER, 



A MONTHLY JOl'R!fAL OF 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, 



Farm Buildings, Domestic Animals, Implotnonls, Fruits, k.c 

 VOLUME XI, FOR 1850. 



DANIEL LEE fc JAMES VICK, Jr., Editoks. 



p. BAHRY, Conductor of Horticultural Department 

 Fifty Cents a Year, In Advance. 



KivK Copie.'^ fpr $2 : Eight Copies for $3, nnd any iar<;e 

 numbrr nt thefsomo rnto. 



03"' All buhscriiUioiiH to commrnre with Ihe yonr, nnd 

 the entire volume siipplioil to nil subscribers. 



tSQ^ ro9i-MASTEns. Aof-Nrs, and all friend.s of improvement, ara 

 respectfully solicited to obtain aud forward subscriptions. 



Subscription money, if properly enclosed, may bo sent (post- 

 paid or freiv) at the risk of the Publisher. Addri-.«s to 



DANIBIi E,EB. 



Decembor, 1849. Rochester, New York 



STKREOTYPED DV JKWrfT, THOMAS AND CO., BUFPAUI. N. V. 



