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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



vorth nearly or quite as muth per ton as the aver- 1 

 age of hay. Last winter hay was worth at the barn 

 twenty ilollurs per ton. Allowing my corn fodder 

 to have I.een worth twelve dollars, and the value 

 •would have been over a hundred and lifty dollars 

 to the acre. 1 have no doubt the half acre of corn 

 saved nie more than seventy-five dollars' worth of 

 hay. Mv faiili in the value of the crop is so strong 

 thiit I have another lialf acre this year ol nearly 

 as good growth as that of last year, from which 

 am now feeding. 



Curing, 

 I cut it with common corn cutter, throwing it in 

 bunches the right size for a bundle, and when well 

 wilted bind it up. I then stand the bundles by the 

 side of the fence, or any where so that the air will 

 draw through them. In good weather they will 

 dry very fast. On the appearance of rain, put in 

 barn, and stand tJie bundles in an upright position 

 around on tiie hay loft, agai; st the walls, against 

 the galdes, against the roof, the beams or against 

 poles laid from beam to beam ; around the floors, 

 the empty stalls; into the sheds and out-buildings 

 — anywhere that a bundle will stand in an upright 

 position. No matter if only wilted when taken in, 

 it will dry if kept upright. It is almost impossible 

 to dry surticiently to mow away or even to lay down 

 if only to the depth of one bundle. 



THE -WADS WORTHS OP NE^W YORK. 



Some of our earliest recollections are of neigh- 

 boring farmers packing up their goods and emi- 

 grating to the "Genesee Country,"— the "Far West" 

 of our boyhood. Associated with reports from 

 that distant country was frequent mention of land 

 agents by the name of Wadsworth. These recol- 

 lections were revived by the accounts which were 

 published of Gen. James S. Wadsworth, who left 

 his great property to defend the government of his 

 country, and fell in the first battle of the Wilder- 

 ness. 



Hence we have read with interest a notice of the 

 "Wadsworth Estates" recently published in the 

 Rochester Eural Home, and think some of our 

 older readers will thank us for a brief abstract of 

 the article alluded to. 



Eighty-one years ago last June, James and Wil- 

 liam Wadsworth, then young men, who were en- 

 trusted with agencies for the sale of large tracts of 

 wild land, arrived in the then wilderness of the 

 Genesee country, after a journey of several weeks, 

 from their home in Connecticut. William died a 

 bachelor in 1833. They were intelligent, cultivated 

 men, and with a wise forethought, gave tone and 

 impulse to the style of husbandry ever since popu- 

 lar in that section, by introducing improved varie- 

 ties of horses, sheep and swine. Much of the 

 beauty and park-like scenery of the valley is due 

 to the fine taste and esthetic judgment of James, 

 the younger Inother, whose plans of improvement 

 were broad, comprehensive and thoroughly prac- 

 tical. 



Gen. James S., the son of James, succeeded to 

 the chief supervision of the estates some time be- 

 fore the deatli of his uncle and father. He left 

 three sons, Charles F., Craig W., and James W., 

 each of whom are still large land owners. 



The estates of W. W. Wadsworth, one-fourth of 

 the whole, are managed by agents, and are situated 

 in what are now the counties of Livingston, Mon- 

 roe, Genesee, Erie, Orleans and Niagara. These 

 farms are let yearly, but so satisfactory are the 

 terms to tenants that most of them have occupied 

 the f\irms for a long term of years. The lease 

 made out each year under the advice of the farm, 

 or out-door agent, specifies how much and what 

 lots shall be ploughed and what crops shall be put 

 on them. Repairs, improvements, &c., are also 

 stipulated. 



Chas. F. Wadsworth, the oldest son of Gen. 

 James S., was not bred a farmer, but has recently 

 purchased a farm of 800 acres, and enters upon 

 farming with all the enthusiasm of his brothers. 

 He makes the breeding of Short-horn cattle a 

 specialty. 



Craig W. the second son, resides on the old 

 homestead, the same that his grandfather occu- 

 pied. The old mansion is beautifully located at 

 the head of and facing the principal streets of the 

 village. It is surrounded by grounds, ahuost en- 

 tirely ornamental, consisting of 150 acres. The 

 view from all parts of these grounds is very fiue 

 overlooking the valley and cultivated upland for 

 miles away. He was educated a farmer, and has a 

 decided taste for and enjoyment in the pursuit. 

 His farm contains 1800 acres, mostly on "the fiats." 

 He has sixty head of thoroughbred t>hort-]iorns. 

 He gives their breeding his personal attention, and 

 takes great pride in producing fine animals, treat- 

 ing them as tenderl}', and talking to them as lov- 

 ingly as an indulgent father to his children. 



He is grazing about 350 head of stock cattle. 

 He buys steers in the spring, not less than four 

 years old, and turns them to pasture, to graze for 

 five or six months. On this luxuriant feed they 

 gain from 350 to 400 pounds, when they are sent to 

 the butcher. He is also making a point of breed- 

 ing fine horses, and has fifty valuable horses be- 

 sides those employed to do the work of the farm. 

 His stables arc perfect models, and worth a long 

 journey to see. 



James W. Wadsworth, the youngest of the three 

 brothers, is not only an extensive but an enthusi- 

 astic and successful farmer and stock breeder. He 

 has a fine farm of 1300 acres in the town of Grove- 

 land, devoted exclusively to grazing, a sheep farm 

 of 1500 acres in Caledonia, and one at Geneseo, of 

 275 acres. On the latter farm he keeps his thor- 

 oughbreds, of which he has about lifty. Here, Mr. 

 Wadsworth has just completed two fine stock bams, 

 horse barn, corn house and herd-keeper's house, at 

 an expense of |fl2,000. 



— The Louisville Farmers' Home Journal says 

 that the third annual fair of the colored pcoj)le of 

 that place and vicinity was largely attended every 

 day, notwithstanding the weather was quite chilly 

 a portion of the time. The displays in the various 

 rings are highly spoken of also. 



