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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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point every four or fiveda3's. On the Eng-lish plows 

 they are case-hardened and wear well. The Messrs. 

 Howard describe the prize plow as follows: 



"The Prize Plow is made entirely of iron (prin- 

 cipally wrought.) and is so constructed, that it is suf- 

 ficiently strong for four horses, as well as being 

 easier in draught for a pair, than any plow ever test- 

 ed by the lloyal Agricultural Society. Its peculiar- 

 ities consist in the very taper and regular curve of 

 the cutting and moving parts, great attention having 

 been paid by the makers to the share and furrow 

 turner, (of which they have several patterns,) not 

 only with a view to reduce the drauglit, but to make 

 it suitable to as great a variety of soil as possible. — 

 A most simple method of instantly adjusting the 

 coulter is adopted, which is unusually secure when 

 Bet, so much so that no single instance of failure has 

 occurred, even on the strongest land, and for which 

 Hej' Majesty^s Royal Letters Patent have been ob- 

 tained : this plan prevents much loss of time, so fre- 

 quently complained of in the old method of fastening 

 tlie coulter by wedges. 



J. and F. H. consider the method of applying a 

 draught chain, far superior to any other ; inasmuch 

 as it removes all strain from the beam ; giving it in 

 hard work a steadiness of movement, not to be found 

 in plows which draw from the end of the beam ; the 

 line of draught is also much more direct, conse- 

 quently the power required must be reduced ; the 

 hinder part of the draught chain may be removed, 

 and attached to a hole in the centre of the beam, 

 when plowing stubbles, fee, where it drives up the 

 coulter. The handles and beam, which are of 

 wrought iron, are made throughout in a piece, pre- 

 venting them shaking loose, which is the case with 

 most other plows made of iron ; this latter im- 

 provement also prevents the accumulation of soil in 

 the hinder part of the plow. Every part is so ar- 

 ranged that a plowman can remove or replace the irons 

 subject to vrear or breakage in the fieUl, without the 

 assistance of a mechanic. It can be worked either 

 with or without wheels, or with one as required. A 

 broad sliare may be had with it for paring stubbles 

 or turf ; also a share for subsoiling and one of a 

 triangular form, to plow between the rows of beans 

 or root crops. 



It may be had with breasts or furrow-turners for 

 extra deep plowing. 



£ 5. d. 

 Price, fitted as a swing plow, 3 4 



" v\iih one wheel 10 run on the lund, 3 10 



'• vsitli two wheels, as used at the trials of the 



Royal Agricultural K-Jciety, 4 



" if fitted with skim coulter, .extra, 5 



Any of these implements can be had of Mr. 

 Thomas Whalley of Liverpool. 



S. W.'S NOTES FOR THE MONTH. 



The Crops. — Wheat and barley although in part 

 injured by the worm, will bean average crop; barley, 

 but for the worm, would have been a large crop, as it 

 is, the croakers say there will be little over half a 

 crop. Mediterranean Wheat not only escapes the 

 worm, but it has much improved in process of accli- 

 mation, both in color and plumpness. Hay is abun- 

 dant. Indian corn will be a large crop on all rich, 

 dry, well tilled soils; but the unusual moisture of the 

 season has been injurious to this cereal when at- 

 tempted to be grown on a flat, undrained field. One 

 farmer tells us that he has a large crop of flax on 

 a ten acre field for which he has contracted the seed 

 at ton shillings the bushel, and eight dollars the ton 

 for the rough, undressed flax. 



Wool a.-nd Woolens, — It is said that the State 

 of Ohio has sent to the New England States about 

 eight million pounds of wool this year, all of which 

 is sold at very remunerating prices. The prosperity 

 of our cotton mills having met with a check by the 

 great home competition, with true Yankee expedi- 

 ency our manufacturers are now going into the pro- 

 duction of mix'ed fabrics, mousseline de laincs, &,c., 

 on a large scale. It is said that the Bay State Mills 

 have made 280,000 fine woolen shawls within the 

 year. Waterloo Mills have credit in the statistical 

 tables for making only 22,000 shawls, which our su- 

 perintendent says is short of one half the number 

 actually made at these mills within the last twelve 

 months. 1 000 of those shawls have been sold to go to 

 Canada, where, after paying a duty of 10 jer cent., they 

 outsell the shawls of John "Bull in his own market. 



Barley, Oats, and Flax Seed. — Few crops in 

 this region pay so well as barley, oats, and flax seed ; 

 but farmers say barley is uncertain, and that oats 

 and flax seed " are very exhausting crops." It seems 

 odd to hear a farmer complain of an exhausting crop, 

 when he leaves his naked fallow to waste its ammo- 

 nia three long months in a summer sun. I know a 

 farmer who says that nothing exhausts the soil so 

 little, that pays so well in a dry season when hay ia 

 short, as oats cut in the milk for winter fodder, par- 

 ticularly for sheep. He stables his cows six months 

 in the year, and makes the most of his manure by 

 composting. Sic. Waterloo, Aug., 1851. 



To PREVENT Horses being teased by Flies. — 

 Take two or three handfuls of walnut leaves upon 

 which pour two or three quarts of cold water ; let it 

 infuse one night and pour the whole the next morn- 

 ing into a tea-kettle and let it boil a quarter of an 

 hour ; when cold it will be fit for use. To be put 

 on the parts most irritable, with a sponge. 



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