THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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. — Please publish 4n your paper what twelve 

 Apples you consider the very best. — M. Hoopes, 

 lie, Fa. 



would be very difficult to do to suit any extensive 

 30untry ; our own experience enables us only to 

 this vicinity ; and for other localities we depend 

 jisions of the various pomological and horticul- 

 ties. For t-his neighborhood, we should consider 

 ing twelve among the most valuable for orchards: 

 »•— Golden Sweet, Red Astrachan, Early Harvest. 

 -Fall Pippin, Jersey Sweet,Gravenstein, Duchess 

 lurgh. Winter— BaXAwin, Rhode Island Green- 

 an Sweet, Roxbury Russset, King of Tompkin's 



alogue of fruits for general cultivation, adopted 

 lerican Pomological Society, is published in the 

 nual for 1859. 



ohliouse, Smith's Cider, Fornwalder, or Fald- 

 re spoken of by good authorities in difterent 

 "ennsylvania, as among the most valuable sorts 

 tion. 



)ort last year from Thomas M. Harvet, of Jen- 

 Chester Co., Pa., to the American Pomological 

 he following sorts are recommended for a col- 

 one hundred trees of twelve sorts : 

 [arvest, 2 ; Jeffries, 3 ; Rhode Island Greening, 

 m Stem, 10; Townsend, 4; Holland Pippin, 4; 

 10 ; Lady, 10 ; Summer Rose, 2 ; Smokehouse, 20 ; 

 Golden Russet, 10 ; Golden Russet of Mass., 10. 

 orchard of a thousand trees for marketing, he 

 mokehouse, 500 ; Smith's Cider, 100; Fornwalder 

 alder, 100 ; Lady, 100 ; Golden Russet of Mas- 

 9,100; American Summer Pearmain, 25; Maiden's 

 ; Townsend, 25 ; Early Red Streak, 25. 



t "Worm. — (H. R.) The insect you describe is 

 dly the canker-worm. Last year it was unusually 

 re to apple orchards in this vicinity. It rises 

 2 ground in the spring soon after the frost is out. 

 lies have no wings, and climb slowly up the 



the trees ; there they deposit their eggs in the 

 branches, and among the young twigs. They 

 I last of May, and the worms commence eating 

 :e. If numerous, they will destroy all the leaves 



few days, leaving the orchard as though it had 

 •ched by fire. The common mode of protecting 

 es from the canker-worm is to begirt the trunks 

 or six inches wide of canvass thickly smeared 

 It should be done immediately. 



s AND Clovers.— (M. P. B.) Clovers, and what 

 lonly called " artificial grasses," are not, strictly 

 , grasses, and have, in fact, no kind of resemblance 

 8 proper. The latter are, in all cases, plants with 

 iimple leaves, having a flat-blade, witii numerous 

 jlel veins, and a long sheath at the base, which 

 Is the leaf-stalk, and through which the s4,em seems 

 jPiants wanting these peculiarities are not grasses. 



Powers.— (A. McGillithat.) The horse powers 

 ured by G. Westinghouse, of Schenectady, N. Y., 

 e are in every way excellent. We are not pre- 

 say which is the best Horse-Power, Emery's or 

 Meliok & Co.'s. They are both good, and we 

 ;ive very general satisfaction. 



"Condition Powders." — (John G. Rain.) The best 

 condition powder we have ever given horses, was a com- 

 pound of equal weights of sulphur, antimony, salt-petre, 

 and powdered liquorice root. They were used by one of 

 the most successful veterinary surgeons in England. Give 

 a table-spoonful in meal or shorts every other day. Be 

 careful that the horses do not take coid. Wo have given 

 this compound to horses troubled with the heaves, with, 

 we thought, decided advantage. 



Growing Wheat Without Manure.— (G. B. Dear- 

 doff.) We will endeavor to comply with your request 

 for information in regard to Mr. Smith's method of grow- 

 ing wheat at Lois Weedon, in som« future number. We 

 published an article on the subject in the Genesee Furmer 

 for 1853. 



To Kill Ants. — (R. S. R.) Mix equal parts of moistened 

 loaf sugar and arsenic, and drop it on pieces of glass near 

 their runs. 



Information Wanted.— I wish to make some inquiries 

 through your paper to be answered by 3'our readers : 



Sheep. — What is the most profitable breed for wool 

 growers? Who ha.s them and at what price "? Who has 

 good Saxons, and will speak of their merits? Of Merinos, 

 which is the best kind? Of Spanish Merinos? At what 

 age .should ewes breed ; and with good care how long will 

 they live and breed well? How many ewes will a good, 

 strong, healthy buck serve, say during six weeks in the 

 fall, without injury to himself or his stock ? What is the 

 best way to manage that business and get the most use of 

 a buck? What is" the best average of 100 sheep, Spanish 

 Merinos or Saxons, to the fleece? What is a good average 

 for full-blood Spanish Merino or Saxon, with first-rate feed 

 and care ? 



Cattle. — Are not short-horned Durhams as a breed 

 tender and liable to degenerate ? Is there not a good deal 

 of humbug in pampering up these sboit-horns for fairs 

 and exhibitions, with the pretence thut tliese animals will 

 breed anything like themselves? "U'ill not the same 

 expense, care, feed, judicious eye and selection of our 

 common cattle bring us much profit to the country as 

 what is doing in short-horns ? I have always been favor- 

 able to these cattle, but prefer the truth to preconceived 

 ideas, if those ideas be erroneous, and I still thinjk that by 

 the right selection, and with great care in buying, they are 

 a splendid breed. But as matters are going, and in the 

 hands of common people, are they the best breed ? What 

 of the Devonshires? Are they not pre-eminently hardy 

 and likely to come out right and sure every time ? I have 

 always liked this breed, and the inclination of my mind is 

 to like them better than ever. At what age should heifers 

 be allowed to breed to create a first-rate herd ? Bulls ? 

 For common people without much experience and 

 opportunity of selection, is it not the best general 

 rule to breed from comparatively large cows, from com- 

 paratively small, low, compact, hardy, active bulls, with 

 good keep and care for the cows? Aie Guinon's rules for 

 the selection of milkers valuable and easily practicable? 

 If so, please give the substance of them, as we can not 

 easily get the book here m extreme Western Iowa. When 

 a cow has difCculty in cleaning, what is the vcrj best thing 

 known to give her? Is there any particular feed or fare 

 which is known or thought to induce this difiiculty ? At 

 what length of time, after calving, do cows come in 

 season? If they do not go to bull, then what are the suc- 

 ceeding periods ? And what is the best feed for wintering 

 calves ? 



Is there any horse in the world equal to the old blood- 

 horse, the best thorough-bred four mile racers of England 

 and America, to produce long-lived horses of active stride 

 andpower? At what age ought mares to breed to make 

 it best for them and colt, that is if you wanted to produce 

 the best possible horses in the long run? What is the 

 best feeds for colts the first winter ? 



In bitter cold weather in the winter is it any advantage 

 to temper cold water with a little which is warm for stock, 

 especially young animals? 



What is the most convenient arrangement for out-door 

 buildings, say corn-barn, grain-barn, stock-barn or sheds. 



