THE GENESEE FAR]»IER. 



361 



LIME AND WHEAT. 



George II. Chase, an enterprising young fanner 

 of Union Springs, N. Y., has tried an experiment 

 the present season with salt, ashes, and lime, on 

 wheat. An acre each was selected for the three 

 experiments. About two barrels of salt were 

 applied to one, two two-horse loads of ashes to a 

 second, and a hundred bushels of lime to the third 

 acre. The result, has not been measured as yet, but 

 the effects of eacli are very visible. The salt 

 proved least useful ; the ashes more so ; and the 

 lime most so of all. The line of superiority mark- 

 ing the boundaries of the limed portion was as 

 distinct as a line fence. Tlje increase of the crop 

 by liming, over the portions not dressed with any- 

 thing, is at least ten bushels per acre. 



The question occurs whether a smaller quantity 

 of lime would not have produced an equal result. 

 This will receive the test of another trial. The 

 land is a strong or clayey loam ; and, what is 

 worthy of notice, is in the midst of a limestone 

 region, where the country is underlaid by the rocks 

 of the coruiferous limestone, which is abundantly 

 scattered over the surface. But acids do not show 

 carbonate of lime in the surface soil. — Co. Gent. 



SUGGESTIONS ,0N MENTAL AND PHYSICAL LABOE. 



If theory and practice are inseparably dependent 

 on each other fur success, why do we hnd so many 

 men denouncing the theoretical? If your ueighbor 

 has success in lolluwing the idea of his new jjlan^ 

 as you terra it, why will you not leave your time- 

 worn practice, and take advantage of expensive 

 experiments? 



The order of things must change in proportion 

 to the cliange of things themselves. The farm in 

 its vii-giu state needed but shght cultivation to 

 produce ;is much or even more than it will now by 

 force of application. If I can crop successfully 

 by api'lying a theory that has proved adaptable to 

 to a cei-iaiu section, why should I be opprobriously 

 termed a book-farmer? As fur me, I love to scan 

 and sort the ideas of others, and apply them so far 

 as 1 am conscious ot their practical utility. 



If the scientific man tinds it imperative to develop 

 both the mental and pliysical, has not the farmer 

 the same functions? Is he not more .intimately 

 connected witli nature — organic and inorganic'' 

 That which a man sees every day should be famil- 

 iar; and it is not oidy a privilege, but a duty, that 

 we should extend our knowledge to our fehow men. 

 Others taught you; why not teach them? thereby 

 com[)lyiug with the design of human nature, and 

 feeling satisfied that you have benefited one or 

 more of the human family. There are none so 

 illiterate as not to liave their own influence. 



The mind can comprehend more in a moment of 

 time than the hands can perform in months or 

 years — an invaluable agent. If calculation is econ- 

 omy, why not exercise its power and enlarge its 

 basis? How many extra steps it might have saved 

 had I only had my wits about me, says one; if I 

 had only thought to have put a bolt, small screw, 

 piece of rope or string, or even a nail, in my pocket 

 this morning; but the accident requires it, and olf 

 we must go to get a supply. Time to the farmer is 

 precious, especially at certain seasons; and here is 

 labor for the mind. Man determines the amount 



to be done and the time to do it in, and his perfeci 

 calculation will make the two meet. 



He that is capable of performing much, let hin. 

 perform much, and he little, perform little. Thert- 

 are many men that can accomplish more with the 

 brain than half a dozen with their hands, and derive 

 as much profit. Why is it? If calculation is 

 applicable to every action, why can not some per 

 sons, when conducting one piece of labor, conduct 

 more at the same time, and not get some of "their 

 irons burnt." 



Many workmen commence without thinking how 

 long they are to be employed. This should not be. 

 Cause the mind to perform a part; study into all 

 the ingenious contrivances of the day and age, and 

 apply them; devise for yourselves. If the farmer 

 is not to be a thinking man, who is? Who has a 

 greater number of questions and ideas to perplex 

 the brain? w. 



Penfield^N. Y. 



SHOULD SEED WHEAT BE BKOUGHT EKOM THE 

 SOUTH OK NORTH? 



Eds. Genesee Farmer : — I perceive from the re- 

 marks of N. S. N., in July number of the Farmer., 

 thpt the mooted question of " Whether wheat for 

 early ripening should be brought from the North 

 or South," is yet unsettled. 



Near the city of Edinburgh, in Scotland, is a 

 tract of land cultivated by intelligent, scientific 

 farmers. These practical men, every two or three 

 years, import their seed wheat from the London 

 market, three or four hundred miles south of them, 

 and it pays well, as they gain two weeks or more 

 in that cool, dripping climate — where I recollect 

 the papers stating, one wet season, tliey had not 

 been able to gather their oats yet in December. 



For corn, the very reverse of this should be the 

 rule. If it is important to have corn to ripen early, 

 bring it from the North, where it must mature 

 early or be caught by the frosts. I have raised 

 corn. Gourd seed, from the rich Miami bottoms 

 near Cincinnati ; it grew large and very promising, 

 but its habit of late ripening exposed it to frost in 

 the last of September, and but few sound ears 

 could be found in a ten-acre field. o. p. 



Mwnxfield, 0. 



JOHN WALTON'S FARM. 



" Hadn't you better subscribe for it?" 



"I tell you, no. I haint got the money to spare; 

 and, if I had, I haint got the time to waste over 

 newspapers," said Eben Sawyer, with some em- 

 phasis. 



"■ But you will gain much information from it in 

 the course of the year, sir," pursued John Walton. 



"I tell you, I don't want it!" 



" Well, what do you say, Mr. Grummet? Shan't 

 I have your name?" 



"•No, sir!" This was spoken so flatly and blunt- 

 ly, that Walton said no more; but iolded up the 

 prospectus of a periodical which he had with him, 

 and then turned away. 



Eben Sawyer and Ben Grummet were two old 

 fiirmers — that is, old at the business, though they 

 had only reached the middle age of life: and after 

 their young neighbor had gone, they expressed 

 their opinion concerning him. 



" He'll never make a farmer," said Sawyer, with 



