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T 11 E N E W G E N E S E E FARMER 



V.«.. 1 



x^IISCEIiliA-XEOl S* AOTICES. 



To Manaffc a Kcar'in^ Horse— In prelcrcnce to the 

 tlaif"ernu8 cApeiiuiciitol piilliiig ii rearing burec bock- 

 wnrTl, I recoiiiincnd the ad.iptioii of lire tollowing me- 

 thod:— Whenever you perceive the hor^o's iiieUnatK'n 

 to roar, Bci)arnte vour rcina and prepare for him; the 

 inetaiit he is about to riee sinckcit one hand and bend 

 or twist his head with the other, keeping your hands 

 low. This bending compels him to move a hind leg, 

 and of necessity brings his lore feet down. Instantly 

 twist him completely round two or three times, which 

 will confii.^e him very much, and complciely throw 

 him oH' his guard. The moment you have linishcd 

 twisting him round, place hi< head in the direction 

 vou wieh him to procccil, apply the sjnir sharply, and 

 lie will not fail to go forward: if the situation be con- 

 venient, press him into a gallop, and apply the spur, 

 and whip two or three times (but not more) severely. 

 The horse will, perhaps, not be quite tatislied with 

 the lirst defeat, but may feel disposed to try again for 

 the mnnlcry. Should this be the case, you have only 

 to twist him, iSx. as before, and you will tind that in 

 ibc second struggle he will be more easily subdued 

 than on the first occasion — in fact, you will perceive 

 him quail under the operation. It rarely happens that 

 n rearing horse, after having becm trciiied in the way 

 described, will resort to his tricks a third time. But 

 on going into other hands, and having another rider, 

 he will "be very likely to have recourse to rearing. — 

 X//« Sportsman. 



IVIiiinsical Calaihtion. — What a noisy creature 

 would man be, were his voice, in proportion to his 

 ■weight, as powerful as that of the graeslioppcr, which 

 may be heard at the distance of one-si.xteenth of a mile. 

 Tne kolibri weighs about half an ounce, so that a nifin 

 of ordinary size weighs about as much as 4II0U koli- 

 bris. One kolibri must weigh at least as much as four 

 grasshoppers. Assuming, then, that a man weighs as 

 much as 16,000 grasshoppers, and that the voice of one 

 of there may be heard at the distance of one-si.xteenth 

 of a mile, that of a man, were it in projiorlion to his 

 weight, would be audible at the (rmance of 1000 

 miles; and when he sneezed he would run the risk of 

 bringing the hou'^e about his ears, like the walls of Je- 

 richo at the sound of the trumpets. Assuming, far- 

 ther, that a flea weighs a grain, which is something 

 more than its real weight, and that it is able to clear 

 one inch and a half at a spring, a man of 150 pounds 

 weight would, by the same rule, be able to make a 

 spring over a space of 1^,800 miles, and consequently 

 le.ip with ease from New York to Cochin China. Aris- 

 tophanes represents Socrates and his pupils occupied 

 in a similar computation. They are exhibited calcu- 

 lating the weight of a flea's leg in proportion to that of 

 its body. The ironical calculation of Aristophanes, 

 however, falls far short of that of the New York Hun. 



Corn Puzzle. — The following " puzzle for the cu- 

 rious" appears in the Worcester Jourmil. — If a person 

 were to take a single wheat corn in his pocket to mar- 

 ket on New Year's day, and double the same ever>' 

 week for .52 weeks, or till New Year's day agoin, it 

 would amount to more loads of wheat, SO bags each, 3 

 bushels to a bag, than it would take bank-notes to build 

 a Black 25 times higher than the top of St. Paul's, 

 L-indon (supposing a stack could be built), reckoning 

 the building 144 yards, and allowing 191) notes to an 

 inch. 2d, After this was deducted there would be 

 more loads left, 20 bags each, than any ten millers 

 ever bonght bags of wheat in t'aeir lives, allowing each 

 to buy weekly 2000 baa for eighty years. 3d, After 

 this deduction there would bo more loads, 20 bags 

 each, remaining than it wjiild take bank notes to co- 

 ver 109 square acres of ground, allowing each note to 

 measure inches by 4. 4th, After this deduction 

 there would be more loads left than the wheal of a 

 coach wjuld turn round times in a distance of 1200 

 miles, supposing the wheel to measure 17 feet in cir- 

 cumfcrc-nco. 5th, This wnulil leave more loads than 

 it wjuld take barley corns to reach from Worcester to 

 Alccner, a distance of 17 miles, allowing three barley 

 corns to an inch. Glh, This w luld leave more loads 

 than it wnild take tons of coar to supply the city of 

 Worcester for 30 years, allowing 81! barge or boat 

 loading to be brought every week for 30 years, and al- 

 lowing etch barge or boat to carry Gl) tons, which 

 w luld load 137,28;) boats or barges. Oil tons each. — 

 7th, After those deductions there would be more loads 

 left, 20 bags each, than it would take pi>unds to build 

 si.vteen county courts, all swing each to cost £.50,00(1. 

 8th, There wovdd be more loads remaining then than 

 jl would tako bags, three bushels each, to load 3000 

 barges, allowing each bargo to carry 500 bags. t)th, 

 After all these deductions there would be wheat cnongli 

 left to find 2500 persons in broad for fKi years, allow- 

 ing ewb person t9 «ut (innunllj' nine bags. AU the 



quantity of corn togeihcr would load l,I25it!)D t-hips, 

 1000 qu'irtcrs each. The amount of all the number 

 of corns ia 4,5ll3,.51)l),(i27,;>70,4y,5. Reckoning 500,- 

 000 corns to liU a bushel, is 9,007,199,254 bn-hcls.— 

 Number of bags, 3 bushSis each, 3,(X)2,:iS)9,751. — 

 Number oi loads, 20 bags each, 150,119,9«7. 



.M) A1J\ l_;i!'ll:rEMlJM'.S will we ir:Ecrtea in this I'aper, 

 e\ce;tl sticli as rc-ale to mal'er:^ eontiectei wi'h Agriculture 

 ami HofticuUurc ; and tliese w.Il not bp allowed more llifto 

 2 or 3 insertions. 



■%VI]VTER EVE.VIXGS. 



Long cheerful winter evenings. Theee constitute 

 one redeeming trait in our cold varying climate. Our 

 winter evenings arc euflicient to reconcile U8 to our 

 locality on tcrrufinna, so valuable are they as the sea- 

 son for fireside ainusemcnts and intellectual improve- 

 ments. What a pity it ia they are generally wasted. 

 We have known many an indolent mechanic who 

 would tumble into bed by eight o'clock, while bis 

 pains-taking spouse worked till eleven or twelve; and 

 many a farmer's wife wdl work till midnight, while 

 her husband dozes in the chimney corner. This do- 

 zing is a bad habit. If you need sleep, go to bed and 

 have it, ond then be wide awake when you get uj). — 

 Don't allow yourself to snore in the corner — it is ill- 

 bred and indolent. A man who will sleep like an an- 

 imal while his wife is hord at woik, don't deserve to 

 have a wife. Take a book or news!)aper, and icnd to 

 her these long winter evenings. It will be a mutual 

 benttit. It will dissipate much of the gloom and in- 

 quietude too often engendered by care and hard labor, 

 it will make you more happy, more useful, and more 

 respected. Our fanners are loo apt to mis-spend these 

 long winter evenings in idle grumblings at " Uard 

 times," high ta-xes, and modern degeneracy. Finding 

 fault wont mend the times. They must read, improve 

 themselves, and educate their children, that the next 

 generation may be wiser than their fathcis. Our far- 

 mers are but half acquainted wiih the rich resoujees ol 

 their soil. Were they familiar with the most improv- 

 ed system of husbondry, they might readily become so 

 by devoting these long winter evenings to the reading 

 of books wiiieh treat upon this subject, they would 

 have much less cause to complain of hard times. Some 

 of the greatest and best men of our country were sound 

 practiSal farmers. But they were not ignorant fiir 

 mors. They were men whom great energies called 

 from the seclusions of private life to take part in great 

 national affairs, and when the state of the country no 

 longer requiretl the exercise of their talents, they re- 

 turned again to the healthful and honorable labors of 

 the farm. When our fanners are better informed, and 

 not till then, may they hope to talis that rank, and ex- 

 ert that influence in society, to which the respectabili- 

 ty and importance of their occupation so justly entitled 

 them. We again say, let our iiirmers, our mechan- 

 ics, and our apprentices read — spend their winter eve- 

 nings in acquiring useful knowledge, tis the best reme- 

 dy (or hard times, and the beat preservative from folly 

 and dissipation. — Selected. 



MOKUS ni i/ric vuLis for sale. 



TIIR Sn'isTil»er offe-s to those who would ciisa;:'' in the 

 >iik business, in Western New York, good size 1 and 

 lieritUiy trees, of last se;.son's (jrowtlr, and nie.isuring from 

 three Xojire feet in llei^iit, and nntriiNiiicd, (ni jis reasonal-ld 

 terms ii« any o'llcr person. All lc;"crs in relation tlicreto, 

 voet paid, will inL-ct with nronint attention 

 i" ^ ' v.. r. MARSHALL. 

 Corner of Bulfulo Jc Kit;h;uigc-sl9. 

 Rocliesltr. 1 mo 1. l°4n. , 



TO NTJK!SERVillE-V AKD OTHUllS. 



THE following seeds \Vere procure I in Kurope. espcciftlly 

 for Nurserymen. The sujiply is not large, and ;hus« whu 

 wish any of them should order soon : 



Kuropean s^ilver Fir, .\orway Sprtire.Lr.reh. 

 I-j|t^l;sh and Scoteh LaTiihurnuin. B'oom, Vurzc, 

 !*vr;:cj:nthn lierries, Cypress, Horse Cliesinuts. 

 Also, fi>r s::lc, au Uu^hels of line I'cii'th Stones. 

 A eorrespondeiit wishes 'o dispose of a few hundred young 

 thrif y :Monnt:.in Ash Trees. M. 13. BATEIIAM. 

 Jaiiuar) I, ISlCkj ^ 



AGE-VrS 



FOR THE ROCHESTER SEED-STORE AND 

 NFAV GEXESCE FAKMKR. 



THI3 following pe-sons will, in a lew weeks, rece'vo full 

 assortnienls^of scc.ls from the Ro.-Jicster Secd-S.ore.^ 

 Tliey will also receive subscriptions fur the Farmer. 



ButVilo \V. & G. Bry.",nt. 



bockport S- H. M.irks & Co, 



^Miion Kntli;,uM & Clark. 



'Urockport, Ceorge Alleu. 



Siotsvilie, .Xndrus &^ Carf'ul*. 



be Uoy, ... • 'i'umpklns &. .Morgan. 



Ba'avia, .I.V.I). Verpliinck, 



Artiea, I!. & N. Wells, 



iv.rrv, * I.. B. Parsons Jfi Son. 



Mount Morris, It- Slecicr. 



Gcncseo, I. F. & G. W. Wyman. 



Ciumnilaigui IB- Hr.yes, 



Geneva, J- ^' Bocert. 



Wa crioo Ahr.im Uue,l, 



Auburn, T. .■M.Huul. 



l>^,lmyra, Hoyt t M.iy. 



NeW'irk Doane & Co. 



Pvraeusi T. B. Fii.h & Co, 



Utiea, J- E- Warner. 



Oswego, M. a. Elson. 



aa- In answer to the numerous applications which are 

 made for see/ls to sell on coninjission, I would here state, thct 

 I do not furnish seeds in tlu-it w.-iy except to rrgular agen- 

 cies ; and 1 do not wish to inercise the number ul ihem at 

 present, especially at far distant places, or suioH vilhises. 



j\l. B. BA 1 fcjllAM. 

 liochalcr Scd-Hnri:. J^n. 1, IPIP. 



«ENmXE ROIiAN POTATOES. 



THESIS celebrate 1 potatoes are for sale at the Koches'e" 

 Secil-Store. at the following low prices :— ^ti per bushel 

 — j^j i)er barrel, (*2 1'2 luishets.) 



As the price will uiidonbteilly ndvaece in the sp'-ing. those 

 who wish to obtain them will do well to order them soon.— 

 Thcv will he safc'y kei>t till suring, if desic I. an I sent ac- 

 cor.fingio order. M. B. BATliU.V-M. 



January, 1, 1940. 



ROCHESTER SEED STOKE,-1810. 



Tril-i liberal support W'hich this establishment has re "Cived 

 for sever;d years p^'.st, jilibrds lla'ieringcvidence that ihe 

 P'oprietor possesses the conti.lciicc of the public, andthrc his 

 ert'orts to acconunodiite the community arc not unappreci.-ttc'i. 

 Wliile he expresses his jicknowlcilgcrocnls for the past, he is 

 hiippy to inform his fricnils, that lie is now IcL'er th;iii ever 

 pre]tared to serve them ■, and is contidciit that future trajis.ac- 

 tions, in his line, will be attended with incrcasci plcisurc to 

 himself a'lut.satlsf.u'tion to hiseustouiers SoiiiedilRcul'y li 

 been heretofore experienced in obtaining new seeds, of some 

 kinds, which it was tlesirablc to import. And, in order to 

 reme ly the evil, the projirietor went over to Kurope himself, 

 anil procured a supply fur this season; and nifde such ar- 

 rangements for the futre, as will prevent all difficulty in ob- 

 taining suiiplies from that country. 



The present stock of imported seeds is very e.xtensivc t 

 they were seV. 'ted with great care among the best growers of 

 Kngland anil Scotland. Among them are many improved va- 

 rieties, which will be gre;.t aciiuisitions to our gardens and 

 fields. Some account of thcni will be pnblishe I hereaf.er. 



The stor-k of Anierice.n seeds is also very large. They 

 w-cre raised the past season, in the most careful manner. 



With his present advantages, and experience in the busi- 

 ness, the proprie.or flatters himself th.at he wi!l le al>Ie to 

 guard against every source of complaint, and furnisli an 

 tibundant supply of superior seeds at very reasonable prices. 

 Any person wli'o htid seeds from llini which proved bad, lust 

 year, are refiues'.ed to nieutiou the circumstances to him, that 

 reparation iiuiy be made. 



New Ca'n'oEUCS will be published soon, and sent to all ap- 

 plicants, g'atis. M. B. BATEHA.M. 

 Rochester, .fiimiarif 1, IP-ID. 



PRINTED BY MARSHALL & WELLES, 



WRSLR OF BUJTIM.0 AUD EXCa(A>'6£-STS., RpCHESTEK. 



ROCHESTER PRICES CURRENT- 



COKRKCrKD FOR 



THE NEW GENESEE F.j\JlMER, JAN. 1, 1840. 



WHEAT, per bushel $ 75 a $ 78 



CORN " 



44 



barrel. 



OATS. 



BARLEY, 



PEAS, Common, . 

 BEANS, White,.. 

 POTATOES, .... 

 APPLES, Desert,. 



" Cooking, 



'• Dried,. 



CIDER 



FLOUR, Superfine, 



" Fine, " 



rORK,Meas, " 



" Prime,.... " 



" Hog lODIbb.;.. 



BEEF " 



MUTTON, Carcase, pound, . 



POULTRY, " .. 



BUTTER, Fresh, .... " . . 



" Firkin, " .. 



CHEESE, " .. 



LARD, " .i 



TALLOW, " .. 



HIDES, " .. 



SHEEP SKINS each... 



WOOL, pound.. 



PEARL ASHES, ..100 lbs. 

 POT, " ....". 



H.\Y ton,. 



GRASS SEED bushel,. 



CLOVER, " i " .. 



FLAX " " .. 



. 50 



. 75 



,'.'29' 



,. 63 



,. 50 



1,00 



1,75 



38.. 

 25.. 

 44.. 

 50.. 

 75.. 

 19.. 

 50.. 

 38.. 

 75.. 



4,50.. 

 , 4,00.. 



12,00 12,50 



8,.''.0 9,00 - 



4,00 4, ,50 



4,0;l-.i.. 4,50 



3 4 



6 8 



If) 18 



14 16 



6 8 



7 6 



10 i 



50 



38 



5.00 



4,.'>0 



7,00 



75 



6,00 ... 



63 

 50 



.5,00 - 



!),00 



•1,00 



7,no 



IjOO 



licmnrlis. — Owing to the extreme scarcity of money, htit 

 titl'e is at present done in the purchase or sale of produee; 

 and some of the above prices arc merely nominal, there be- 

 ing nothing done in the. articles. 



A\'e live in hopes of seeing better times, (at nil events, we 

 have no fears of seeing worse.) J^nd would .ad\'ise farmers tft 

 bring nothing to market at present, with the eTpectation of 

 obt.-iining money, with the exception of such things as are 

 particularly adapted to the season, and constitire ibe ne- 

 cessaries of life. Wc hope to give better cncoura;^eincnt in 

 our ncAt, 



