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TIIE GENESEE FAEMEE. 



Enterprise in Farming. — In no other pursuit 

 are enterprise and sound business energy better 

 rewarded than in agi-iculture. " Slow coaches " 

 in farming, like the old stage coaclies in competi- 

 tion with railways and loeoraolivcs, don't pay. 

 Time is every thing in turning capital in tillage 

 and husbandry. Instead of keeping a pig till 

 he is two years old before you pocket the cash for 

 the food he eats, turn his brfead and butter into 

 money every six months, at least. In this way 

 you will turn your labor into gold four times 

 over, with a good profit each time, where your 

 father and grandfather did once, with a small 

 profit. The same principle applies to the pro- 

 duction of beef, and every branch of husbandry. 



Enterprise in farming is the order of the day ; 

 and such as cling to the effete notions of the past, 

 refuse to read agricultural papers, and oppose all 

 progress, will be lost and petrified as thoroughly 

 as Lot's wife. She was unwilling to look steadily 

 ahead, and many cultivators imitate her bad ex- 

 ample. Such a spirit of rebellion against advance- 

 ment is certainly punished, sooner or later. Blind, 

 headlong precipitancy, is equally to be avoided. 

 " Look before you leap" is a wise saw, venerable 

 for its antiquity. To look closely into rural affairs, 

 implies a good deal of thought and patient re- 

 search. Knowledge never comes without labor. 

 The most profitable study is itself nothing but 

 honest work. 



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Condensed Correspondence. — Mr. Ross, of Lon- 

 don, Canada West, writes that he has been a 

 keeper of bees for fifty years, and has had much 

 trouble in preventing moths from injuring and 

 destroying this valuable insect. He says that 

 moths seek for the pollen of flowers collected by 

 bees as suitable food for their young ; and that 

 he has trapped many of these depredators by 

 " placing a bol with its mouth open, and pieces 

 of comb with pollen (bee-bread) in it. After 

 sunset, as then is their time, I take a candle in 

 my hand, and have killed a dozen at once every 

 half hour in every trap I set. I have commenced 

 making my boxes with double heads. The upper 

 one*lift3 off at pleasure, to see if any moths are 

 there ; the under head rs full of holes, one-fourth 

 of an inch from the upper head, between which 

 they have a quiet retreat from the bees, where 

 they spin their web. Still, this is not sufficient. 

 The only way to prevent their entering bee- 

 hives is to see that there are no cracks or open- 

 ings, and to close the entrance for the bees every 

 night when they stop work. This is done by a 

 fine wire cloth which admits the air when the 

 entry is shut ; then remove the wire gauze in 



the morning, and the cure will be perfect." We 

 thank ^Ir. Ross for his instructive suggestions, 

 derived from long and successful experience. 



A friend in Washtenaw county, Miclygan, 

 writes us at some length on the subject of the 

 decrease in the number of sheep in this and other 

 States, and suggests that farmers petition Con- 

 gress on the subject of the present duty on im- 

 ported wool. He fears, and not without reason, 

 that the impost of 30 per cent, ad valorem may 

 be reduced to 20, perhaps. 15, at the next session. 

 At present the duty on wool is five per cent, 

 higlier than on broadcloths and coarse woolens, 

 of which manufacturers complain as a bounty 

 against their pursuit. The subject is of con- 

 siderable importance, but has two sides to it, and, 

 imfortunately, both are political. Farmers sel- 

 dom act earnestly and effectively together to ad- 

 vance their own interests, as manufacturers and 

 merchants do to promote theirs. 



Our correspondent adds in a postscript that 

 autumn sown wheat "looks slim, owing to the 

 dry weather." His last crop averaged twenty- 

 seven bushels per acre, which we regard as an 

 evidence of good farming. Clover, seeded last 

 spring, and oats were poor crops ; hay and corn 

 about a fair average. 



High Price of Whe.\t. — Rochester millers are 

 now (November 11) paying $1.52 a bushel for 

 wheat, aud grinding thirty-seven thousand bush- 

 els a day at that. Our farmers are literally coin- 

 ing money, and we rejoice at their prosperity. 

 Let every one subscribe promptly for the Gentsee 

 Farmer, and, our word for it, they will thank us 

 at the close of the year for the vast fund of use- 

 ful information which it has furnished them, at a 

 mere nominal price. 



Wheat-culture has been our special study for a 

 quarter of a century, and we have facts in rela- 

 tion to this branch of tillage to communicate, 

 never yet given to the public. 



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Tue Scientific American says that Dr. James K. 

 Davis, who went out to Turkey seven or eight 

 years ago, on invitation of the Sultan, to attempt 

 the cultivation of cotton, failed in tliat enterprise, 

 but brought back some Persian goats, which pro- 

 duce the cashmere wool, and from which he is 

 raising up a flock of goats that promise to be a 

 valuable addition to the stock of the country. 



A Great Wheat Crop.— The Le Roy (N. Y.) 

 Democrat says that Hon. A. S. Upuam, of that 

 village, from a field of one hundred acres, has 

 raised and gathered, in good order, three thousand 

 six hundred bushels of wheat the present season. / r 



