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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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The New York State Fair. — The Great Fair of the 

 New York State Agricultural Society is to commence at 

 Rochester, on the 16th of September, nnJ continue four days. 

 The premium list will be found in the April and May num- 

 bers of iho Farmer. We are pleased to inform our readers 

 that the arrangements are perfecting as speedily as possible. 

 under the direction of the President of the Society and the 

 Executive Committee, aided as they are by the well wishes 

 and labor of the citizens of Rochester. The ground is now 

 being drained and leveled, and placed in the very best con- 

 dition. The place selected is about a mile and a half from 

 the center of tke city, and commands a fine view of the sur- 

 rounding country, the river, and the city. Every thing looks 

 favorable ; and judging from present appearances, we flatter 

 ourselves that the Fair of 1851 will be far ahead of any pre- 

 vious one. The committee of citizens are taking especial 

 pains to provide for the comfort of visitors. 



The President has received instructions from the Govern- 

 ment, whereby all animals and articles intended for exhibi- 

 tion at the Fair, are to be admitted from foreign places free 

 from duty, to be entered according to the provisions of the 

 Warehouse act ; and the Fair Grounds at Rochester are to 

 be deemed constructive warehouses, where all animals and 

 articles from abroad, duly entered, shall be under the super- 

 vision and custody of the officers of the Customs. 



The steamboats on Lake Ontario, and the railroads gen- 

 erally, have agreed to carry passengers at half price, and 

 stock, (fcc, for exhibition, free, as usual. 



The foUovv'ing are the superintendents of the different de- 

 partments of the Fair Grc|inds : 



Cattle— \Wm. H. Sotham, Black Rock. 



Horses — J. B. Burnett, Syracuse. 



Sheep — Lyman Sherwood, Auburn. 



Hwine — R. Harmon. Wheatland. 



J'ouliry—h. H. Haddock, Bufliilo. 



Floral Hall — L. A. Ward, Rochester. 



Dairy Hall — Israel Denio, Rome. 



Manufacturers Hall and Machinery — L. B. Langworthy, 

 Rochester. 



General Superintendeni of tlie Grounds and Charge of the 

 Entrances — Henry VV'ager. Utica. 



Mechanic d Motive Power for Moving Machinery — Wm. 

 Kidd, Ro' nester. 



Jam£s p. Fogg has been appointed Local Secretary, who 

 will give all dcpired information, and to whom articles for 

 exhibition may be consigned by persons who cannot accom- 

 pany them. 



The monthly meeting of the Board for August, will be 

 held at Rochester on the 7th of the month, at 3 o'clock P. M., 

 at the Eagle Hotel. 



The President has addressed the following circular to 

 Presidents of County Agricultural Societies. We hope it 

 will receive attention. 



Oakland, near Geneva, N. Y., ) 

 June 16th, 1851. S 

 Dear Sir, — The application of science to our vocation as 

 farmers, is producing results, both interesting and important. 

 Alihoiicfh the benefits are yet limited in extent, they are suf- 

 ficient to excite our zeal, and induce us to seize every oppor- 

 tunity to extend directly and indirectly the many advantages 

 duo and appropriate to our profession. 



Allow me to call your attention to a branch of inquiry 

 which I am induced to believe will be advantngeous to the 

 farmers of your county ; I allude to the changes which have 

 from time to time taken place in the organic and inorganic 

 substances of your soils, and the intluences which such 

 changes seem to have exerted ; this inquiry needs lime and 

 examination, yet the movement will I hope lead agricultur- 

 ists into a train of observation useful and profitable. As one 

 step connected with the inquiry, and which may be made at 

 once Useful to your county, and indirectly beneficial to the 

 farmer, I would sugccst that spccin'iens of any and every 

 mineral existing within your limits be collected , also of all 

 e.irths or clays of more than ordinary character, and which 



are needed in the various arts and manufactures ; let them 

 be arranged and displayed neatly in cases, with the name 

 of the county conspicuously dii-played on each case, and 

 sent to the approaching fair at Rochester in Seplemlier. — 

 Such exhibits will attract the attention of men of science, 

 of artists and artisans, and tend to give proper notoriety to 

 localities vv'hich at present are little known. 



J. Delafield. 



Farming Lands near the Federal Metropolis. — ^The 

 reader will find in our advertising columns, that M. D. W. 

 C. Lawrence desires to sell a furm of about 190 acres, near 

 the city of Washington, and refers to one of the Editors of tliis 

 paper in connection therewith. A skillful farmer and fruit- 

 grower who has means to pay for this property, we have no 

 doubt might do well in purchasing it. Hay rarely sells be- 

 low $17 a ton, for a good article, and often at $20, in Wash- 

 ington. One can contract all his butter at 25 cents a pound 

 the year round ; and he could pretty safely calculate on $1 

 abu.shel for potatoes. The land about Washington is not by 

 any means so fertile as in Western New York, but manure, 

 and particularly guano, operates with great success upon it. 

 200 lbs. of guano on a soil samiliar to that of Mr. Law- 

 rence, has giyen a crop of 30 bushels of wheat per acre 

 this season, on a forty acre field. (This is the estimate of 

 good judges, the grain is not yet measured.) J 



Hedges. — The following excellent remarks are from The 

 Family Visitor, Edited by Prof. Kirtland : 



In some recent expeditions into different sections of Ohio, 

 we have observed several unsuccessful attempts at hedging. 

 Our confidence in the Osage Orange'and the Buck Thorn 

 as materials for inclosing fiirms is increased rather than di- 

 minished by our late observations. The failures have arisen 

 from nn anxiety to grow a hedge in one or two years which 

 requires double or triple that amount of time. TJie line of 

 quicks, whether tlie Osage Orange or the Buck Thorn, 

 must be repeatedly cut back near to the ground, from year 

 to year, or even twice during a season until a basis is estab- 

 lished so thick, wide and firm that neither man, beast, or 

 bird can penetrate throu.gh it : then a top can be grown in 

 one or two seasons which will afi'ord a permanent and effect- 

 ual defence against all intrusion. Take this course and suc- 

 cess will attend your efforts, but haste will result in failure, 

 as some of our Cincinnati and Columbus friends cm testify. 



The regular old fashioned pruning shears are preferable to 

 all other implements for dressing hedges. 



L. G. Morris' Second Annual Sale. — Mr. M. has sent 

 us a detailed account of his sale, the amount obtained for the 

 different animals, names of purchasers, &c., for which we 

 can not find room. The following will be interesting : 



Eds. Gen. Farmer : — I send y-ju a correct statement of 

 my sale, for publication ; if you wish to insert it, do so. 



The thorough bred Short-Horns were very few, and such 

 as I could spare from my herd. Nos. 4 and 10 were starred 

 animals, and not recommended. Take those out of the lot, 

 and the cows, heifers, and heifer calves, ten in number, 

 averaged §101.121 per head. It will now l)e seen that I 

 have cleared all animals off my farm, except thorough breeds 

 of each kind, and I wish to be put on record as such here- 

 after. My thorough-bred bulls and bull calves, four in num- 

 ber, averaged $126.12^ per head. The improved dairy stock, 

 consisting of cows, heifers, and heifer calves, twenty in 

 number, averaged $78.87 per head. Grade bull calves, llireo 

 in number, averaged $30 per head. Siifiolk pigs, twenty- 

 three in number, dropped from the 7th to 10th of April last, 

 averaged as follows : — Nine pairs of pigs averaged ]>pr pair, 

 $27.23 ; five single boar pigs averaged $10.60 ; one sow in 

 pig, $30. Buck lambs, five in number, lambed from the 

 21st of March to 19th of April, averaged per hend $29. 



The sale was strictly a fair one as to bidding, without any 

 underhand arrangement for running up, or wliipping the 

 devil around the stump. Many of the animals sold for half 

 their value, but on the whole 1 was satisfied, as a second an- 

 nual sale. L. G. Morris. — Mt. Fnrdham, Jnne, 1851. 



Cou>TT Aonici.Ti-BAL Faib.— The offlccrg of County Agricultu- 

 ral Societies would oblige us by giving information in regard 

 to their Fairs, so that we can announce time and place in our 

 next number. 



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