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THE GENESEE FAKMER. 



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The Monroe County Plowing Match took 

 place at Churchville, June 4th, and was -well at- 

 tended, there being at least one thousand persons 

 on the ground. Nineteen plows were entered, 

 five of them by boys under eighteen years of age. 

 The whole of the plowing was good ; that of the 

 boj's first i"ate, and all five of them took pre- 

 miums. One, a boy under fifteen years of ^ge, 

 plowed the quarter acre in sixty-three minutes, 

 and was awarded a special premium. As a gen- 

 eral rule, however, we think skill and not speed 

 is specially to be commended at plowing matches. 

 The following extract from the report is all that 

 our space permits us to give: 



"Compared with former years the committee are of 

 the opinion that a fair improvement has been made, both 

 in the skill of the plowmen and in the superiority of the 

 plows used. And yet in a county rich in agricultural re- 

 sources as our own, and with a wheat soil unsurpassed by 

 that of any other in the State, we ought, and with suitable 

 encouragements might do better than we were permitted 

 to witness on the present occasion. For the encourage- 

 ment of thi-8 important branch of farm labor, tlie commit- 

 tee would recommend that great attention In future be paid 

 to the selection of a uniform plot of ground — that the So- 

 ciety, if possible, increase its premiums — and that the 

 award be divided equally between the plowman and the 

 entering competitor." 



The last remark refers to a much needed re- 

 form ; for though no true gentleman would think 

 for a moment of appropriating the praise or pock- 

 eting the money won by the skill of his hired 

 help — yet, it would be best to. award the pre- 

 miums in the name of the plowman, and pay 

 them to him in person. 



Clover Seed. — Every farmer should make it a 

 point to grow clover seed. U'ever be under the 

 necessity of purchasing. If you have to pay a 

 brother farmer or a city seedsman $4 or $5 per 

 bushel for seed, you will probably be too sparing 

 of it : you will not sow enough to the acre, noi" 

 sow so many acres as thot^h you grew it your- 

 self. It is a fact consistent alike with practical 

 experience and theoretical science, that, other 

 things being equal, the acreage yield of wheat, 

 corn, oats, and barley, will be in proportion to 

 the amount of clover grown and plowed under 

 or consumed by stock on the farm. If possible, 

 never sow a field to wheat or barley without 

 seeding it down with 10 or 12 lbs. of red clover 

 per acre. To do this, you must grow your own 

 seed. Select a few acres of your cleanest land, 

 say a piece that was seeded down with wheat 

 after summer fallow. A dry, rather heavy loam 

 is, perhaps, best. The first crop should be mown 



early. If cut in showery weather, the hay may 

 be injured, but the clover for seed will grow 

 strong and ripen the seed together. K dry hot 

 weather follows the first culting, the crop of seed 

 ripens at different periods, and is generally very 

 inferior, both in quantity and quality. Four 

 bushels per acre is an average good crop. Frosts 

 do not injure the seed. It may, therefore, be 

 allowed to remain in the field late in the fall. 



"We have received from the publishers, Messrs. 

 Crosby, Nicnoi^s & Co., of Boston, through Eras- 

 Tus Darrow, and Sage & Bro., of this city, by 

 whom they are for sale, the following works: 

 Discourses on the Unity of God, and otheb Subjects. 



Tliis volume contains about a dozen Sermons 

 upon topics of interest. They are written by 

 Rev. Wm. G. Eliot, Jr., of St. Louis. 

 Eegenekation. By Edmund H. Sears. 



This work is divide^ into three parts : The .^ 

 Natural Man ; 'The Spiritual Nature ; The New 

 Man ; and is a fine work upon the subject dis- 

 cussed, and covers the Unitarian side of the 

 argument. 

 Guild's Matins and Vespers. By a Motuee. 



This little book is filled with prayers, for child- 

 ren, for morning and evening, running through 

 a month ; added to which are the Command- 

 ments and comments upon them — also a series of 

 verses from the Bible, and a number of jjrayers. 

 It is a very pretty present for a child. 



The Prophets and Kincs or the Old Testament : A 

 series of Sermons preached in the Chapel of Lincoln's 

 Inn. By Eev. T. I). Maukice, Professor in King's Col- 

 lege, London. 



We have hardly had time to look over this 

 volume, but a cursory examination makes us sus- 

 picious that it is a work of real and positive 

 merit. We commend it to clergymen and lovers 

 of religious literature. 

 Eclipse of Faith ; or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic. 



Reason and Faith. By Henbt Rogers, Author of 

 '' Eclipse of Faith." 



Adventures in the Ozark Mountains op Missouri and 



Arkansas. By Henry E. Schoolcraft. 



A work full of interest and instruction. Pub- 

 lished by LiPPiNCOTT, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia. 

 For sale by Darrow. 



Elementary Treatise on Book-Keeping. Containing 

 four sets of books by Single Entry, and six sets by Double 

 Entry. By J. M. Crittenden. 



In this work principles are taught in a manner 



concise, simple, and complete. Published by E. 



C. <fe J. BiDDLE : Philadelphia. 



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