THE NEW GENESEE FARMER 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



M. B. BATEHAM, 



E. F. MARSH.ILL, Proprietors. 



VOL,. 1. 



ROCHESTEK, JUIiY, 1840. 



3VO. r. 



JOHN J. THOMAS, 

 M. B. BATEHAM, Editors. 



PUBIilSHED MO^THIiY 



IN CONNECTION WITH THE ROCHESTER SEED STORE AND AORl- 

 COLTURAL REPOSITORY. 



Terms— FIFTY CENTS, per year, payable always in ad- 

 vance. 



Post blasters, Agents, and others, sending money free of 

 postage, will receive secen copies for $3, — 'PictUe copies for 

 ©5, — Ttccnt'j-Jive copies for filO. 



Tht postage on this paper is only one cent to any place 

 within this slate, and one and a half cent to any par tof 

 tbe United States. 



CONTEIVTS OF THIS NU9IBER. 



Genesee Agricultural ^^ociety Notice 97 



Hoeing Rata Ba^a. Packing Butter 97 



Sunflower Seed Oil. Kcvolving Horse Rake. Bad Seeds. .97 



Culture of Fruit. Tuscanv Wheat 9!- 



A Protective TaritT. A Durable Cider Press 9S 



Heaves in Horses. Hoof .\il, or Foot Kot 99 



Experiments in .Sub-Soil Ploughing. Agricultural Papers 



and Warehouses. Instructions to Young Mowers. . . .99 



Child, on Beet .Sugar 100 



Rust, or Black Blight on Wheat 100 



Importance of -Agricultural Experiments 101 



Notes on L^uropean .-Vgricullure lO'i 



Native Varieties of Ajiples 103 



Brief Hints for the Month. Turnip Fly 104 



Lightning Bods. Electricity, is. 0:ik Tree 104 



The Flowers of Spring 104 



Improved Plough CIcvice. Slugs on Fruit Trees. Silk 



Business 105 



Caterpillars The Striped Bug. Views of the Grasses. .100 



Fire Blight. Annual Fairs and Intelligence Olfice 106 



Influence of the Sloon. Sunflower Seed Oil 106 



The Slug. Reeling Silk. Silk Bounties 107 



Agriculture in L'jiper Canada. Breaking Steers 10? 



Scalding See.is. Garset — Heaves lOS 



Cure for Fistula on Horses. Hoof -Ail and Foot Rot.. . .109 

 Ejccrescences on Cherry Trees. Sulphur Showers. Mis- 



educatiouof Fanners' Daughters 109 



Dialogue on Cultivation 110 



Notes on European -Agriculture. The Boons (Poetry). .111 

 The Crops and the Season. Early Piemium Vegetables. .11*2 



Kducation of Farmers' Sons. A Large Calf. 11*2 



Transplanting .Annuals. Advertisements, &.C. 112 



Genesee Agricnltiiral Society Notice. 



Circulars containing the Conetittition of the Socie- 

 ciety, &c. have been sent by mail to the different 

 Post Masters, and to many known friends of agricul- 

 ture in several counties in Western New York, with a 

 request that they will use their exertions to obtain the 

 signatures of members, and report the same to the 

 Secretary of the Society as soon as the 20tli of the 

 presentmonth. It is hoped that every friend of im- 

 provement will give the subject prompt attention; as 

 the E.xeculive Committee desire to make early and 

 liberal arrangements for the coming Fair; and in 

 order to make oat a list of premiums, &c., it is ncces- 

 aary to know about what number of members can be 

 obtained. Any person who can obtain signatures, or 

 who wishes to sign, and who has not seen or received 

 a circular, can apply to the nearest Post Master foronc; 

 or to the Secretary of the Society, or to the New 

 Genesee Farmer Office, and the Rochester Seed 

 Store. H. M. WARD, Sec'y. 



Koehcster, July 1 , 1840. 



Cr The Executive Co.mmittee of the Gtenesee 

 Agricultural Society will meet for the transaction of 

 important business, on Tuesday, the 28th inst., at 11 

 o'clock, A. M., nt the Arcade House, Rochester. 

 H. M. WARD, Secy. 



English Seed Wheat. 



One or two bushels each, of eight or ten of the finest 

 new kinds of English Wheat, have just arrived from 

 England, and will be distributed to the members of the 

 Genesee Agricultural Socisif previous to next fall's 

 sowing. 



Hoeing Ruta Baga. 



An ine.xperienced cultivator of the ruta baga, may 

 commonly be known by his leaving the plants about 

 four times as thickly together as they ought to stand. 

 On ground of any tolerable degree of fertility, the 

 distance of one foot at least should be allowed between 

 the roots, e.\ccpt they be in drills three feet asunder, 

 when they may be suffered to stand n little nearer. If 

 sown broadcast, eighteen inches square should be al- 

 lowed to each root. If the land is rich enough, they 

 will be so much larger in consequence of this increased 

 space, as considerably to increase the amount of the 

 crop, and greatly to diminish the labor of harvesting. 



We have observed, on the best soil, well manured 

 previous years, where the crop had been sowed broad- 

 cast, and two feet square allotted to each plant, roots 

 weighing from ten to fifteen potmde, and yielding 

 about fifteen hundred bushels an acre. 



If the soil bepoor,lhe above remarks will not of course 

 apply, and the roots must be much nearer together, as 

 they, cannot be made to grow large, and number must 

 be made to compensate, in a small degree thongkit be, 

 for a want of magnitude. * 



Packing Butter. 



The increased price of butter in autumn, as well as 

 its scarcity in winter, renders the beet mode of pack- 

 ing it a matter of some importance. There are seve- 

 ral particulars of min-^r importance to be attended to, 

 to which greater or less attention is given by good but- 

 ter makers; but the two leading requisites without 

 which there must be failure, and with which there can- 

 not easily be, are clean vessels, ond thorovghicorking. 



The importance of the former, in obtaining perfect- 

 ly sweet butter, must be evident to every one; hence 

 the necessity of washing vessels by scalding; and 

 where they become rusty from disease, of employing 

 chloride of lime. 



In order to keep the sweetness, it is indispensably 

 necessary that every particle of buttermilk be worked 

 out before packing down. This is ascertained when 

 none ceases to flow from it. Inexperienced butter ma- 

 kers generally perform this pan of the operation very 

 imperfectly. Work the butter four times as long as 

 you think necesssary, and then perhaps you will have 

 half completed it. When it is thoroughly worked, 

 pack it down, by beating, in a strong pot, cover the 

 top with an inch of very strong brine, and keep in the 

 coolest part of the cellar, and you need not fear its be- 

 coming injured by keeping before next winter. * 



SunfloAver Seed Oil. 



Messes. Editors — Wm Wood, an Oil manufactu- 

 rer here, has make 27 gallons of good oil from 19 

 bushels of Sunflower Seed, without hulling, with Wil. 

 liams & Finder's Hydraulic Press. He also made 2i 

 gallons of oil from 2J bushels of common Pnmpkin 

 Seed, 



The above was manufactured in the usual way of 

 managing flax seed, except that the crushed seed was 

 not subject to as much heat in the revolving cylinder, 

 before it was pressed. S. W. 



Waterloo, June 15, 1810. 



The Revolving Horse Rake. 



This is an implementof very great utility, especially 

 on large farms and smooth lands. The expedition 

 with which hay can be gathered with the revolving 

 rake renders it a great saving of labor ; and not un- 

 frequenily it enables the farmer to secure his hay in 

 good order, which otherwise would be damaged or do 

 stroyed by wet. They are fast coming into very gen- 

 eral use. 



In answer to several inquiries, we mention that these 

 rakes are for sale at the Seed Store in this city, and at 

 various other places in Western New York — price 

 from eight to ten dollars eoch. 



For Oit New Genesee Farmer. 



Bad Seeds. 



It not unfrequently happens that after bestowing 

 much labor upon the preparation of, and seeding his 

 ground, the farmer is sadly disappointed in finding too 

 scanty a growth of plants to ensure a sufficient crop. 

 With the field beet especially, failures so often occur, 

 that even an honest seedsman must expect occasionolly 

 to shoulder the reputation of "never having any old 

 stock on hand;" that is, of selling old seeds lor new. 



From a little experience, I have concluded that it is 

 best to have as much charity as possible, at least until 

 we have ascertained who the culprits are; and if it 

 should so happen that the mischief has occurred 

 through our own negligence or inexperience, why, 

 then, we may complain as loudly as we please. 



This spring I planted half an acre with two pounds 

 of Mangel Wurlzel, from the Rochester Seed Store. 

 In a few days, some scattering pjants made their ap- 

 pearance. I wailed patiently for some time after- 

 wards, when my friend, John Robinson, from Palmy- 

 ra, (who, by the way, is one of the best farmers in our 

 eetion,) called on me, and said that my success was 

 much belter than his; he did not expect one-tenth of 

 a crop; and inasmuch as our seed probably came from 

 the same hogshead, we unanimously came to the con- 

 clusion, that while it was certain that Bateham could 

 not be to blame, there were some men in London 

 who were no better than they should be. 



Well, accidentally, I could not work in the Man- 

 gels for nearly two weeks after; when I was surprised 

 to find a fair number of plants just peeping through; 

 and, from their weak and thin oppearonce, evidently 

 wearied with their long journey to the surface, which 

 they never could have reached, if the soil had not been 

 light. 



I resolved to be careful in future in what manner 

 my seed was planted. WM. R. SMITH, 



Macedon, 6 mo.. 20, 1840. 



