1851. 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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cow gave milk so poor in fatty matter, as to be fit 

 only to sell by measure, to the gullible New Yorkers. 

 The character of still-fed cow's milk for hoalthy flesh 

 and bone forming elements, is established by this 

 analysis ; it being deficient, like Bloomingdale milk, 

 in butter only. It is true that still-slop made milk 

 fails in that flavor which is peculiar to grass made 

 milk ; but chemistry, says Boussingault, ever fails 

 to detect these volatile principles which give to but- 

 ter its agreeable flavor. 



Free Trade in Bread. — Since the great reduc- 

 tion in the duty on imported provisions, and the ab- 

 rogation of the corn laws in England, our export of 

 these articles to England, Ireland, and Scotland, has 

 been steadily increasing. Our export of flour to 

 Great Britain, since the 1st January, is about one 

 million and twenty thousand barrels, and nearly a 

 million bushels of wheat. It must be recollected 

 that this is only the half year's export. The pres- 

 ent low price of flour in our Atlantic ports, must give 

 a great impetus to the export of that article through- 

 out the year. Our export of Indian Corn to Great 

 Britain was 1,289,589 bushels, in 1850. This year 

 the export of corn, so far, has been much larger ; 

 but the shipment is limited at this time, by its gen- 

 erally heated condition. When competition on our 

 canals and railroads, and across the ocean, reduces 

 the price of transportation, Indian Corn will be ex- 

 ported in the ear ; but not till then can John Bull 

 eat a Johny-cake of the true nutty flavor, peculiar to 

 the corn bread of the south and the Johny-cake of 

 Yankee land. Methinks the day is coming when 

 the value of the cob in England, for bui'ning and its 

 ashes, will pay for its frieght across the Atlantic. 



Waste or MArvURE. — A distillery near Albany, 

 foi bidden to erect pens wherein to feed cattle and 

 hogs, discharges into the North River daily, the slop 

 of 400 bushels of grain. At Wallabout, near Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., the sweet fermented slop from a distillery 

 there, running 800 bushels of corn daily, is dischar- 

 ged into Wallabout creek. The Long Island far- 

 mers purchase leeched ashes in Western New York, 

 which are transported to Long Island at a great ex- 

 pense, when here, at their own doors, the phosphaten 

 of potash, soda, and lime, with nitrogen ad libituvi, 

 is spouted to waste in the briny deep ! But they 

 manage these things better in Oneida and Madison 

 counties ; there is made from still slop the best beef 

 sold in New York market — there not a shovelful of 

 the manure made by the cattle, is lost — it is all sold 

 at 25 cents the load, to the hop and corn growers of 

 that well farmed region. Waterloo, July, 1851. 



SHEEP THE BEST STOCK. 



Messrs. Editors : — I have been of the. opinion ten 

 or twelve years, that sheep were the most profitable 

 stock of the farmer. I have tried to got the best I 

 could, almost regardless of price. I first got the 

 Saxony Merino. Their wool was fincj but their 

 Jiccces light, averaging about two and a half pounds ; 

 besides, about one half of their lambs would die. I 

 felt dissatisfied, and bought some Bakewell Sheep. 

 Their wool was very coarse; their fleeces would av- 

 erage about four and a half pounds each ; their 

 lambs were fine for the market. They may be the 

 best sheep near some large city, but not for Western 

 New York. I next crossed my Bakewell Ewes with 

 a Saxony Buck ; this made the wool much finer, but 

 rather lessened the weight of the fleeces : they were 



better than the Bakewells. Last season I read a 

 statement in your valuable paper, made by Reed 

 BuRRiTT, of Burdett, of the weight of fleeces of his 

 sheep. I felt a little incredulous about it, but was 

 determined to try them ; so last fall I selected twenty 

 from his yearling ewes and one buck, which, he said, 

 sheared last June, a year, nine pounds, eleven oun- 

 ces, c»f washed wool. He thought he would shear 

 ten pounds, and the ewes five pounds, the next shear- 

 ing. He sheared a little short of nine pounds; but 

 he, with the twenty yearling ewes, averaged just six 

 pounds and a half each fleece. Mr. Burritt certi- 

 fied to me that they were full-blooded Pauler Merino 

 Sheep. I think they are so. Other farmers may 

 want better sheep, but, at present, I am satisfied with 

 the Pauler Merino Sheep. S. Hull. — Clyde, 1851. 



THE BEE MOTH. 



There is no enemy more destJ-uctive to bees than 

 the ivax moth. This insect is a small, light greyish 

 miller. Lying quiet by day and coming forth at 

 evening, she enters the hive and deposits her eggs, 

 which produce worms, that grow to the length of an 

 inch. These worms are what do the mischief. — 

 There is no danger if the hive is well filled with 

 bees, but at this season many families of bees have 

 become weak through too much swarming, and such 

 are liable to be destroyed. There is no way to pre- 

 vent [he miller entering. You can only watch your 

 hives, kill the millers as they rest by'uay on the out- 

 sides of the hives or wherever found, destroy the 

 worms when seen or when in their cocoon.s, and as 

 soon as you find a hive in danger, which is known 

 by large quantities of small brown particles of comb, 

 upon the bottom board, the bees should either be 

 driven out, or enough of the combs cut out to enable 

 the bees to defend themselves. You had better dis- 

 perse the bees among your other hives, although 

 many will be killed by bees of hives in which they 

 enter, rather than allow a myriad of worms to be 

 brought into existence, which will jeopardize your 

 other hives. I never have lost any families by this 

 insect, in consequence of systematic care in guarding 

 against this evil. When the millers become plenty, 

 I have a method of destroying them by the dozen in a 

 decoy trap, which soon clears them ofl". 



T. B. Miner. 



WIRE FENCE. 



Messrs. Editors : — In answer to H. G. Skinner's 

 inquiry concerning the construction of wire fences, 

 I would say, plow four rounds, leaving four feet un- 

 broken in the centre ; scrape, with a scraper six or 

 seven feet long, a high narrow dike ; repeat a sec- 

 ond time. Sharpen your posts, and drive eight feet 

 apart. Put two pine boards, six inches wide, at the 

 bottom, and three wires — first. No. 9 — second and 

 third. No. 10. Get nails made two inches long,with 

 flat heads ; punch holes through the heads, and 

 fasten to every other post — say sixteen feet apart — 

 this holds the wire firm, and also keeps it free from 

 the wood and prevents rust. I tried this method two 

 years ago last spring, and find it superior to anything 

 of the kind I have seen or read of elsewhere. I tried 

 wire of No. 12 and 13, but find it too light. N. R. 

 Jerome. — Huron Co., O., July, 1851. 



P. S. — I think this the best fence for prairie that 

 has yet been tried. 



