THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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Progress and Emancipation — the " lifting of all the 

 races of men up to a higher and higher condition" — 

 are the leading ideas advanced in the Address, and 

 deliberately adopted by a large association of wealthy 

 cotton, rice and sugar planters. Common school edu- 

 cation, and above all, the pure, the comprehensive, 

 and the humanizing influences of Christianity, are 

 brought prominently forward as powerful agencies in 

 working out the high aspirations of southern farmera. 

 Had public opinion been as far advanced in Georgia 

 18 years ago as it now is, her shai-e of the surplus 



revenue distributed under Mr. Yax Buren's adounis- 

 tration, would not have been squandered, but applied 

 as we applied ours in the State of New Tork, to the 

 support of Common Schools, and to other educational 

 purposes. But Georgia at that time had no agricul- 

 tural papers, as she now has, wholly independent of 

 politics and politicians, to enlighten public opinion, 

 and point out freely and earnestly the true interests 

 of the people. Agricultural journals have become 

 one of the most useful and influential institutions of 

 the rising republic. 



ATKINS' AUTOMATON, OR SELI -RAKING REAPER AND MOWCR. 



Axxiors to encourage improvements in farm im- 

 plements and agi'icultural machinery of every kind, 

 we give in connection with this article an illustration 

 of one of the most interesting, but perhaps too com- 

 plex, reapers ever invented. An "Automaton Eeap- 

 er" sounds very much like an automaton farmer — a 

 thing more curious than useful; but it is only by con- 

 stant efforts to attain perfection in mechanism that 

 any really valuable improvements are achieved. Of 

 the precise merits of this self-raking reaper we are not 

 sufficiently informed to express an opinion. It re- 

 ceived a silver medal of the American Institute, and 

 has been honored with several premiums from County 

 and State Agricultural Societies. Mr. Johnson, Sec- 

 retary of the N. Y. State Agi-icultural Society, speaks 

 of it in a letter to a friend in England as an inven- 

 tion which " is destined to effect a great change in 

 the agricultural labor of the world." 



Mr. J. S. Wright, editor of the Chicago Prairie 

 Farmer, is the proprietor and manufacturer of this 



reaper. 



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TVe learn that the Central Railroad has over twen- 

 ty-six miles of freight cars, in constant use. Yet 

 even this does not accommodate the vast business 

 that ofTere itself, and new cars ai'e constantly in pro- 

 gress. 



At the Yirginia State Fair $39,000 were liberally 

 subscribed for the benefit of the State Agricultural 

 Society. 



Benefit of Gcano on Wheat. — Mr. Cairo soya 

 in the Agriculture Gazette : Last autumn, ii] sowin"' 

 a large iield, exactly one hundred acres, I directed the 

 person who was lajing on the guano to pass over an 

 acre in the center of the field, all the rest of which re- 

 ceived 2 cwt. per acre, at the time the wheat was 

 sown. The produce of this and the adjoining acre 

 were cut and kept separate from each other, and from 

 the rest of the field, and were threshed last week, 

 yielding as follows: 



One acre, with 2 cwt. guano.. 44 bush., and straw 40 cwt. 

 One acre, without guano ..35 " " 30 " 



Increase of Wheat... 9 « " 10 " 



The cost of the guano (Peruvian) on the field was 

 10s. per cwt., or £1 per acre, so that I have nine 

 bushels of wheat for £\. The acre selected for the 

 experiment was an average of the field, and I have 

 no reason to doubt that for an expenditm-e of £100 

 in guano on that field last autumn I have now reaped 

 an increased produce of 900 bushels of wheat. This 

 tallies very closely with the experience of Mr. Lawes, 

 in Hertfordshire, where 2 cwt. of guano gives an in- 

 crease of eight bushels of wheat The land on which 

 the above experiment was made is a strong wheat soil 

 of good quality, thoroughly tile-drained, sown in good 

 order after a bare fallow, on the 20th of September, 

 and reaped on the 10th of August. 



A WORD of kindness. It is a seed which, even 

 when dropped by chance, is sure to spring up a flower. 



