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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Mar. 



MORGAN HORSE, GENERAL GIFFORD. 



MORCJAN HORSE, GEN. GIFFORD. 



Eds. Grv, Farmer : — The now edition of Youati 

 on (he Horse, alliuled to in your last number, con- 

 tains a defective cut of the Moroan horse, "General 

 GifFord." Althougfh the pub!i:*hers have fjiven this 

 horse the hicrh praise (after an examination of sev- 

 eral where perhaps a preference miirlit almost appear 

 invidisus,) of selecting him as the best livinir speci- 

 men of his race to illustrate their work, it is to be 

 regretted that a more truthful representation was not 

 obtained. As the horse himself appears as near per- 

 fect as any I ever saw, I have procured from his 

 present owner, Mr. Ingkrsoll, of Lodi, a stereotype 

 copy of a better cut, which I send you, tliinking vour 

 numerous readers may bo pleased by seeing jtln the 

 Farmer It was engraved by Messrs, Mili-er 8c 

 Mix, of your city, from a drawing by Mr. Wyckoff, 

 an artist of great merit at Lodi. Though no power 

 of the pencil can convey to paper the animated coun- 

 tenance or majestic strength and beauty of the origi- 

 nal, it is as near like to nature, perhaps, as a jticture 

 can be made, anrl the best of several drawino-s of the 

 same horse which has yet met my eye. The pro- 

 portions of the original are eminently graceful ; his 

 color a dark chestnut. lie weighs about 1100 lbs., 

 and possesses immen.se power for his inches. lie is 

 perfectly gentle, kind, and true, in all places, at 

 draught or otherwise ; a capital saddle-horse : and 

 was called by his former owner, Mr. Maso.n, now of; 

 Syracuse, a three minute horse, as I doubt not truly, I 

 from a specimen of his sneed which I then saw. ! 

 J. Dorr.— SeoUsville, FcVy, 1851. 



Charcoal in Ci.stf.rns, — Two gallons of fine' 

 charcoal will pnrify a dozen hogsheads (»f water, 

 when the smell is so unpleasant it cannot be used. 



S. W.'S NOTES FOR THE MONTH. 



The loading editorial article in the last Farmer con- 

 tains extracts from Mrchi's lecture before the Soci- 

 ety of Arts, which, with the accompanying editorial 

 remarks, are worth a life subscription to the Genesee 

 Farmer. The best mode of making and saving stable 

 manure is there shown : and its indispensable impor- 

 tance to every husband of the soil must be seen, felt, 

 and fully comprehended by the most obtuse reader ; 

 more particularly by those who have toiled half their 

 lives in exhausting their own God-given heritage. 



The great secret why China is enabled to feed 

 such a dense population, is, their superior art of 

 making, saving, and applying manm-es ; the maxi- 

 mum vegetable product is always attained there, be- 

 cause every element of vegetable nutrition is saved 

 and judiciously applied both to the soil and in top- 

 dres.^ing the growing crop. How much nitrogenous 

 matter is lost by our farmers, that might be saved 

 by the application of simple pulverized clay and a 

 little common salt, to fix the volatile ammonia. IIow 

 much labor is lost in loading, hauling, and spreading 

 manure, the most important part of which is lost, 

 either before or after feeding a single crop, Liebig 

 says that the "liquid maiuire of animals contains 

 nearly ail the nitrogen originally present in the food 

 consumed." JInw importeiit, then, for every farmer 

 to follow the plan indicated in Mecmi's lecture — the 

 "open floor and stable-cellar' — by the aid of which 

 every particle of azotised matter is saved. Well may 

 Mr. Lawes exclaim that manure may be made vastly 

 cheaper and better by keeping stock, than by buying 

 guano. 



Why is the Agriculttoal so far rEiiiNn the 

 Mechanic Arts ? Because, no matter how slovenly, 

 or awkward, or neglectful, the farmer, nature will 



