THE NEW GENESEE FARMER 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



W. B. BATEHAM, f wr^- , 



E- F. MARSHALL, Propru^tors J V"*^' *• 



ROCHESTER, AUGUST, 1840. 



NO. 8. I 



JOHN J. THOMAS, 

 M. B. BATEHAM, Editors. 



PUBIiISHEI> MONTHliY 



M CONNECTION WITH THE ROCHESTER SEED STORE AND AQRI" 

 CDLTURAL REP03IT0RV. 



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

 vance. 



P. 1st Masters, Agents, and others, sending money free o 

 :i^p, will receive seven copies for $3, — Twelve copies for 

 -,:.--Ttceuty-jive copies for ©lu. 



The postage on tliis paper is only one cent to any place 

 rittilii tliis Htate, and one and a half cent to any par tof 

 he United folates. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



..: lishers Notices to Agents, &c 113 



I'll.- Revolving Diagonal'Harrow 113 



V\\c Agricultural Fail at Rochester. Legislative aid to 



VsrlciiUure 113 



iPhe Weatlier, the Crops, and the Harvest 113 



lemarks on Cherries. The Canada Tliistle 114 



_ 'Voles on European Agriculture, Wheat, &c 114 



jrowlli of Potatoes, Species and varieties of Beets. . .115 

 VgricuUure of Upper Canada, hy Hon. A, Ferguson,. . .116 



JCo the Directors of Agricultural Societies in U. C 117 



nquiries aliout Clover See^l. Waking Cheese, and cut- 

 ting Grafts 117 



mportance of the Education of Farmers. Noxiousweeds 118 

 growing evils — Can.ida Thistles. F.-irmcrs' Sons. . . .118 



rrigalion. Farmers' Daughters, by Lubin 119 



>ur own Husbandry, A Cargo Grape Vine ,. , .119 



Agricultural Fair at Rochester, list of premiums, ifcc. . .120 

 To tlie friends of the Genesee Agricultural Society, New 



Agricultural Societies 120 



in Appeal from the Publishers to the Readers of this pa- 

 per 120 



i Voice from Michigan, Hints for the Month 121 



ad Seeds— again. By J, .indM. B. B 121 



*The Golden Rule." The Curculio. White Cabbage 



Le.tves 122 



■'arjners devote too much time to labor 122 



Pile Farmers liifc, by H. Coleman 122 



)warf Fruit Trees, Science and Agriculture 12;J 



To protect Cabbage Plants from W^ornis 123 



To prevent the destruction of Corn by Crows 12:3 



The Flowers of Sunnner, Burnt Earth as >Ianurc. . . ,124 

 ^ilk business in Rochester, &c. New kinds of Wheat. .,125 



Ljurge Calves. The Cberry Slug 125 



On the Rotation of Crops. Dialogue on Cultivation. . .126 



blinders upon Horses. Preserving Green Peas 127 



tain. Rural Melodies (Poetry,) 127 



teply to Annette, by Fannv. .' 12^ 



?he Horse Tliistle. Breaking Steers 123 



idverlisements. Prices Current, &c 123 



(EF* To all ichom, it may concern — There is a large 

 »,mount of money yet due us from Post Masters and 

 \gents, consisting mostly of small sums, but not too 

 mall to be needed these times. We hope all who 

 re indebted to us will remit the amount by mail, 

 r otherwise, free of expense, in as current funds as 

 lossible, without further delay. If New York or 

 lastern bills cannot be obtained, Ohio, Illinois, or Up- 

 per Canada may be sent. Bj" Where the amount is 

 iOt even dollars it can be made so by obtaining an ad- 

 itional subscriber. Do you take ? 



Complaints of inaccuracies or omissions in the 

 nailing of our paper, are often made tons, but in most 

 lases they are found to have been regularly and pro- 

 lerly mailed. We have abundant excuse to ofTer, 

 lowever, for any delay in attending to letters or send- 

 ng papers during a few weeks past. Our clerk, J. E. 

 Torce, has taken him a wife and left our employ; one 

 if the publishers, E, F. Marshall, has been confined at 

 lome by sickness; and the other publisher, M. B. 

 Bateham, has been most of the time travelling. We 

 lave got matters righted again, hoTvever, and hope to 

 teep them so. Any subscribers who have not receiv- 

 icir papers correctly are requested to mention it to 

 lieir Post Masters and ask them to notify us. 



B. &M. 





THE REVOIiVIIVti DIAOO.XAIi IIAUKOAV. 



We give below a description of a Harrow and Roller, which appears to us to be a most efScient and va- 

 lauble implement of husbandry. On clayey lond during dry weather, when the soil breaks up in hard lumps, 

 as is often the case in wheat sowing, such a machine must be of great advantage. 



We wish some one of our readers who has seen the operation of this harrow would give us a more parti- 

 cular account ot it. The following we copy from the Farmers' Cabinet. 



The ^^ Dialogues." — We give our readers a further 

 ipecimen of the amusing and instructive Dialogues, 

 vritten by the talented editor of the Farmers Cabinet. 

 We learn that they are published in book form, and we 

 Irish friend Pedder would tell his publisher to send on 

 I lot to our booksellers; some of our juvenile agricul- 



lists ara very nnximis to obtnin copies. 



Report of the Committee on Arts and Sciences, of the Mechanics' Institute, on the Revolving Diagonal 

 Harrow, Inj Moses G. Cass, Utica, N. K. 



C, C, C, C, are revolving cylinders working in the frame D, by means of gudgeons placed in the ends. 

 Each Cylinder is charged with teeth placed perpendicular to the axis, as seen in the drawing. G, is a tooth- 

 ed wheel intended to break up the ground that would otherwise be passed over untouched; being under the 

 lengthwise rail of the harrow. B, E, F, a moveable frame supporting the rollers A, A, which may be at- 

 tached to or disconnected from the harrow at pleasure. 



An examination of this machine, and a little reflection, will serve to show its superiority to the ordinary 

 harrow. In its passage over the ground the teeth enter the earth in all directions, breaking, removing, or tear- 

 ing up all slight obstructions; while if it meets with a large stone or any obstacle that wculd throw :he com- 

 mon harrow out, the cylinder, which in this machine encounters the obstruction, is enableil by a whole or 

 partial revolution to pass over it. 



An experienced farmer, who has for some time bad one of Mr. Cass's harrows in use, remarks that "by 

 attaching the seed sowers and rollers a most perfect finishing operation will be performed, and at a saving of 

 one-half if not three-fourths of the labor commonly required to do the same work." 



WILLIAM A. COX, Chairman. 



Mechanics Institute, February, 18th, 1840. 



The Agricultural Fair at Rochester. 



By a notice in another column, it will be seen that 

 the Annual Fair of the Genesee Agricultural Society, 

 is to be held at the same time as the great Fair of the 

 Mechanic's Asssociation. This we think is a good 

 arrangement. The many thousands who witnessed 

 the Mechanic's Exhibition last season, will need no 

 persuasion to induce them to attend again: and the in- 

 creased and combined attractions which will this year 

 be presented, cannot fail to draw a larger concourse of 

 spectators than ever before assembled on any similar 

 occasion in Western New York. 



We hope the farmers of " Old Genesee" will do 

 themselves credit; especially the farmers of Monroe 

 county, on whom the interests of the Fair must main- 

 ly depend. They can, if they will, get up an Exhibi- 

 tion which it would puzzle any other section of the 

 Union to equal. What say you, readers, will you 

 try? 



Legislative aid to Agriculture. 



Messrs. Editors. — I wish some one of your corres- 

 pondents, who possesses the requisite information, 

 would inform us what has been proposed or done by 

 the Legislature of this State during the two last ses- 

 sions, for the advancement of agriculture. I should 

 like to know whether we farmers, who constitute the 

 greater part of the community, produce the greater 

 part of the wealth, and pay most of the taxes of this 

 Stole, are olways to be overlooked, and our interests 

 disregarded by our very "humble serra7ils" at Albany, 

 whom we pay fat salaries out of our hard comings. — 

 Does not the embarrassed condition of our country ab- 

 solutely demond that something should be done by go- 

 vernment to foster and improve the agriculture of this 

 State t Will not the New Genesee Farmer speak out 

 on this subject t 'Who will snggaet the mode by which 



the State can best promote the cause of agriculture, 

 without large appropriations ? 

 Rochester. MONROE. 



The Weather, the Crops, and the IIarvest.1 



During the early part of the past month, the spring 

 crops in this section, especially the corn and potatoes, 

 suffered materially from drouth; but the seasonable 

 rains since have apparently quite recovered them, and 

 every thing now looks promising. 



The wheat crop is mostly secured, and accounts 

 from all quarters agree that it is more abundant in 

 quantity and better in quality, than it has been for ma- 

 ny years past. New wheat begins to appear in our 

 market, and finer samples we have never seen. We 

 have had frequent showers here of late, but hove not 

 learned that they have done any injury to the wheat. 



cr Cauadian jVgents. £11 



We find it necessary to repeat the notice that D. 

 .Smart, Esq., Post Master at Port Hope, is general 

 Agent for us, and we wish other Post Mosters 

 who remit to us by mail would do so through him, 

 and thereby save us the American postage. 



Mr. J. W. Brent, of Toronto; and Mr. Chas, HeotQ 

 and Mr. John Creighton of Kingston are local agents; 

 to whom payments or communications for us may be 

 made. 



inr All Post MoBters ore requested to act as local 

 agents. 



To Correspondents. — Several valuable communica- 

 tions received rather late ore unovoidably crowded out 

 in order to make room for the affairs of the agricul • 

 tural society. They will not spoil by keeping^ c^ 

 month. a 



