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inr Slatislics of Monroe Co., next month. 



Decay of Kuta Bagas— luquiry, 



Messrs. Thomas & Batkham — When I harvested 

 my ruta bag/is this fall, I found nearly one third of 

 them were spoiled by the rotting of the upper part of 

 the roots, and ns they had not been exposed to frost or 

 much wet, I nni at a loss to account for t' eir decay. 

 They were harvested about the Inst ol September, and 

 appeared sound and good, (except that the leaves were 

 yellow,) but on taking hold of the leaves to pull them 

 up, the tops came off, and showed that the necks 

 were rotten. 



Many of my roots were more or less injured by 

 grubs, but I could not perceive that this caused their 

 decoy. If any of the readers of the Farmer can ex- 

 plain it, I should be pleased if they would do so. 

 Yours, &.Q. 



SILAS PRATT. 



Chili, Dee. 1840. 



In addition to the above, there was raised m this 

 eountv, in the same year, 8r.,83-2 bushels of barley^ 

 691,672 bushels of oats, 4,69!) bushels of rye, 19,24/ 

 bushels ofbuck-wheat, 231,576 bushels of Indian corn 

 4,520 pounds of hops. 21,4.52 pounds of hemp and 

 flnx, 180 pounds of cocoons, and 1288 pounds oj wax. 



The number of cords of wood sold, wns 2.<,.).ib.— 

 The amount of pot and pearl ash manufactured m the 



county, wns 30j tons. The value of poultry |;24, 

 Of the population of the county, 11~ are free 



sons of color, viz: 67 males, and 50 females, 



were residents of the county on the first day of J 



last. 



There were also resident in the county on the 



day of June last, 135 Revolutionary and Invalid j 



sioners. 



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The Fruit Garden. 



In our last volume we tieated of several particnlon 

 respecting the Fruit Garden; and we now continue 

 our remarks for the purpose of calling the attention of 

 independent farmers to the subject. In so favorable n 

 soil ond so fme a climate as that of the Genesee coun- 

 try, it has often been a cause of regret to us, that so 

 many hundreds — yes thousands — of wealthy freehold- 

 ers should be destitute of the delicious fruits that such 

 a garden can supply. A few years ago, a friend of 

 ours from a distant land, came to join us in n journey 

 ol three hundred miles. It wns in the lost month of 

 summer, when the Fruit Garden yields its simple lux- 

 uries in abundance, and he was delighted with the 

 treat. We remarked to him however, before we sei 

 out, " Now is the time to feast — notliing of the kind 

 can be expected tillour return." Did it turn out so? 

 perhaps some of our readers would nsk. E.xnctly — to 

 the letter. There wos fine fruit without doubt, iia the 



district through which we passed, but we saw it 

 though we shared the hospitality of many nobIefri< '"" 

 :n ensy circumstances. 



When we planted our Fruit Garden, we had no 

 reeled our ottcntion to ihe posilioji in which the di 

 ent kinds of trees could be most advantageously pie 

 nit we soon discovered that the nectarine, the pi 

 ind the apricot, ought to have been set os near to 

 iiog-trough as possible, on account of the Cure 

 We have already remarked thot in the remoter I 

 f the inclosure the fruit was more injured by thii 

 sect, though we may add that in a small gorden 

 arrangement will be of less importance. 



The j>osition for particular, trees will be four 

 great consequence however, on another account wb 

 er the gorden be large or small. Until our eour 

 men generally acquire a higher-toned morality; 

 shall consider robbing a garden as mean as to ri 

 hen-roost, it will be safer to set the late peais or <M^^ 



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