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THE NEW GENESEE FARxMER, 



held «l an early day ne.Tt Spring; eomewher« in the 

 Sinie of Ohid; dt Whicll ibe proper policy to be piir- 

 Bued in promotion of ihe«hcnt interest, fhould be 

 matured, and further iiicneiiroa to render that policy 

 efl'eciual, Ehould be originated. 



Our T(*rade with Prance. 



It appears from a recent table, published in the N. Y. 

 iJerald— a paper which strongly advocates free trade- 

 that there was imported into the United Stales frotn 

 France alone, in the year 1839, $32,124,^05 worth of 

 irtifleo ftct of rfwiy—nearly 6ne half of this amount 

 ^vas in eilk goods. The articles imported fr.)ni the 

 same conntry, on which a duty was paid, the same 

 year, amonntcd to little more thati ten million^ gf dul- 

 lard. 



tiiani total of •'- 



....ports from France^ ;„ American 



...a loreign vessels, for the ^^jj 1339^ $33,.531,321 

 Crand total of ex;;:,rts to France from 



the U. 5., In American and foreign 



veespli, the enme year, 18,338,854 



$14,132,467 

 Thus leaving a balance of imports over our exports 

 against us, with France alone of more than fourteen 

 tuilliuns of dollars in one year, or about one million 

 more than the whole export of cotton to Fiance the 

 came year. 



Yet, strange as it may seem, the advocates of free 

 irade argue that this same unshackled commerce with 

 France must be continued, lest France should take it 

 into her head to go to India or Egypt for the supply of 

 cotton. The same paper which gives the above statis- 

 tics, urges, as an argument in favor of this free trade, 

 the fact that we import more of the precious metals 

 from Franee, than we export to France. So much 

 the worse for us, because our debt is thereby only in- 

 creased. It this debt is not secured by the Venetian 

 bond of old^-the pound of flesh — State sleeks — the 

 life's blood of children yet unborn — are sold in 

 France and England, \n pny all this excess of impor- 

 tations, no less than for the trifling sums in coin im- 

 ported to bolster up the United States Bank, or to 

 help ruin a new State, who, mocking all the precious 

 lessons of experience, prefers a fevered and sickly ad- 

 olesence to the simplicity of a healthy childhood — the 

 sad precursor of both moral blight, and physical imbe- 

 cility and decay. y. W. 



Vol. 



New Agricultural Papers. 



Within a few months past, we have received .nboul 

 half a dozen new agricultural papers, most of them 

 published in the Weetern Slates. We rejoice to see 

 this evidence of the increngcd taste fur such reading, 

 and expect the time will soon come whon no res- 

 pectable farmer will be willing to live without an agri- 

 cultural pnper. We hope these new papers will ali be 

 well sustained; but wc apprehend that some of them 

 will seriously interfere with each others success. 



" The V/estrrn Farmer," is the title of a small semi- 

 monthly paper published at Detroit, Michigan, by Josiah 

 Snow — igl per year. The first number was issued 

 January 1, and contains a large amount of statistical 

 tind other uf=eful information relating to agriculture 

 and horticulture, mostly original, (but some borrowed 

 from our columns, and the. credit accidenially omit- 

 ted.) We think friend Snow should have chosen 

 some other title, as there was already one or more pa- 

 pers with the aome or a similar name 



'• TU Union Agriculturist," is an excellent new 

 papcT, published at Chicago, 111., as the organ of the 

 Union Agricultural Society. It is neatly executed 

 nnd appears to be ably conducted. — Terms, $1 per 

 yest— stini-monthly. 



" The li'estern Fanner ^ GdrJe^ier," is a continu- i 'he summer in this section, and that warm, dry weatfe 

 atlon of the Western Former, at Cincinnati, Ohio.— i er is enuitlly injirioas to baih. Thcrerore the time 1 '' 

 The 2d vol. commenced last October, and appeared in : towing should be delayed as long as possible, and ha =: 



them mature before the winter too nearly appioach« m 

 unless some is wanted for early uee. W. 11. 



Fralonia, January 11, 1841. 



a new and improved form, with an able writer on hor 

 ticulturc as co-edilor. It is published monthly, in 

 ' •■ '' \rtlh a cover — '^■i 

 pamphlet form, 24 pages, smvu,, , 

 per yfiir. " '*'" 



" -i-hc AsriaiUuiisl," is the title of a large month- 

 l.v paper commenced January J, at Nashville, Ten- 

 It IS the organ of the Slate Agricultural So- 





. ^ gives evi- 

 Ude-;.._Terms, §.-2, per 



nessee. 



eiety; is edited by three eentlemen, 

 deuce of a good degree of ude-- 

 year, 24 pages, monthi- 



per, publj-jyj,, jij Indianapolis, by our friend, J. S. 

 VViilcts, formerly cf this State — monthly, 5U cents 

 per year. 



" Tlic Prartieal Farmer if SilhC'alticator" pub- 

 lished at Ilarrisburgh, Pa., might be a pretty good pa- 

 per, if the editor was a little more careful or courteous. 

 In one number of his, we observed three ar»icles in 

 succession, borrowed from the New Genesee ■Farmer 

 without one word of credit. 



" The Farmers' Gazette," is a good little weekly 

 sheet — commenced last September at New Haven, Ct. 

 — $1 per year. 



" TheYanket Farmer," published at Boston, Mass. 

 by C. P. Boseon — S. W. Cole, editor, is one of the 

 must interesting weekly agricultural papers extant. — 

 The new vol. commenced January 1 , much improved 

 in appearance and substance. Arrangements have 

 been made for obtaining monthly agriciilturiil reports 

 from different sections of the country, respecting the 

 crops and the markets, &c — Terms, $2 per year. 



'* The New Kitgland Farmer," is one of the oldest 

 and most respectable agricultural papers in the Union. 

 It is published weekly, at Boston, Mass. — $2 per 

 year. (We have seen it stated that some change has 

 lotely taken place in the editorial management: but as 

 the paper has failed to reach us for some weeks past, 

 and we cannot tell what the effect has been.) 



Sore Tliroat iu Hogs. 



Mi ssRS. Editors — Can any of your correspondents 

 furnish a cure for sore throat in hogs? A number 

 were lost by myself and others last summer; and all 

 remedies used were ineffectual. The throat and head 

 were swollen, food was refused, and in about forty- 

 eight hours from the commencement, grunter would 

 grmit his last. SA.MUEL DOUGLASS. 



Whitehall, Ohio. 



Causes of the decay of Turnips. 



Messrs. Thohas &. BATKttAM — The following ie 

 submitted to the opinion of all that ore interested in 

 the inquiry made in the first number of the present 

 volume of the Xcw Genesee.Fariner, which is for the 

 cause of the decay of Rma.Baga Turnips. 



I have come to the conclusion that early sowing in 

 warm seasons, will load to the true cause. When 

 turnips are forward in the scoson, they fail for want 

 of sutiicicnt moisture during the extreme warm and 

 dry weather, which effects the heart or centre of the 

 turnip and commences the decoy, which first appears 

 by the top turning yellow when the outside appears 

 sound and heiilihy. This effect is produced on large 

 turnips when small ones will escape. Another cause 

 may sonietimcs he observed. After the turnip is 

 nearly mouircd, wet weather will produce a new life 

 and cause them to crack open, and during warm 

 weather, water standing in the crevice will cause the 

 decoy. 



It maybe well to state that the turnip and cabbage 

 tribes, flourish best in a climate eonie:hingcoolei than I is of any value, v. ill be weak enough to argue 1^ 



TJte Serlingtou Silk Worm Frame." 



'^Yf lisve received three numbers of the " Burlin^ 

 ton Silk Record," a small paper, "issued month 

 "'.inoui charge, to all persons interested in the adk b 

 siness, for the purpose of opening a cheap channel 

 communication, to extend omong them a knowledi '. 

 of the Burlington Silk Worm Frame, of the Burlin 

 ton Filature, and of the Editor's having made it 1: 

 business to raise and keep for sole the choicest kii 

 of Silk Worm Eggs, as well as to stimulate oiid fc 

 icr the extension of the Silk Culture in the Unit 

 States. It will be sent by mail to such as write for 

 free of postage. Address, EDMUND MORRI. 

 Burlington, N. J." 



We copy the following article from the Record, El 

 ting forth the advantages of these Frames. We tv 

 give some description of them next month. 



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The ]Vo-Cleauing System. 



We believe that all silk culuirists have found 1 

 business of producing eilk perfectly certain and ma 

 ngenble, up to the fourth moulting of ihe woriiie. 

 After the fourth moulting, they increase so enormoi 

 ly in size, end discharge so groat an amount of exci lllc 

 mcnt, that in a large establishment it seems impos i|l( 

 ble to preserve the proper degree of cleanliness, ev 

 when many hands ere employed at cleanijig, as 1 

 operation must be performed every three or lour do 

 This great discharge of excrement, added to the si 

 plus foliage which will accumulate more or less, 

 mixed in with the bodies of the dead worms, spcec 

 genernles puircfaction. which c-auses the deaih of th' 

 sands more, from the fatal impurity of the air whici 

 constantly rising up from below. The books of Eu 

 pcan writers are filled with cures for diseases thus g< 

 crated, while not one has thought of suggesting i 

 other preventive than that of cleaning. They hi 

 none of them thought of going bock and mnkini 

 fresh start from the beginning, by using such fixtu 

 as will remove the cau^c of these diseases. FJer 

 we believe the grand mistake has lieen mode, ant 

 remains fur American ingenuity and perseverance 

 demonstrate that the whole system of feeding imist 

 changed, in order to accomplish any good results w 

 ihe least approach to absolute cerlainiy. 



On ihe Burlington Frame, the worms are jdacet 

 the difficult period between the third mouliing 1 

 spinning, in such a manner that all these thicet 

 nienta of putrefaction, the excrement, the chippii j.., 

 of the foliage, and the sick and dead worms, ore cc 

 plelely got rid of by being riddled out at the bTlton 

 the frame. ^Vhatever proportion of these three d 

 not fall through, is exposed to a continual currenl 

 air passing upward, which evaporates so large o poit 

 of the moisture remaining in thein, that the li 

 which is left is too smoll to be iujuiious. Tbe ac 

 racy of this has been proved by repeated trial, and 

 diflcrent gentlemen who have used tbe frame, Ind 

 the construction of the frame demonstrates it 

 tried and proved it ourselves, .on crop which pro 

 ced five bushels of beautiful cocoons, without los 

 three per cent, of the worms; and a friend in > 

 York, who fed on the same priuciple, did not I 

 even three per cent., and from twoouncco of cgg3 

 ihcred twenly-eix bushels of cocoons. J-Ie did 

 clenn his wormsoiice after beingplaced on the fran 

 between the third and fourth moulting, nor did wt 

 The saving of labor and expense was very great, 

 tbe lives of all our worms were insured, and the 

 ihc great point — that we shall succeed in making! 

 ry worm spin a cocoon. 



To ascertain the e.xoct quantity discharged I 

 worm after the fourth moulting, we collected 

 weighed the droppings, and found that 1000 worm 

 24 hours discborged two ounces of clear exercm 

 which fell tbrough the frame to the roof below, 

 considerable quantity was intercepted by the straw^ 

 ing sprend too thick on the fronie. 'This lugkABi 

 wcigbt from 8000 to be one pound; from fcO,000 

 pounds; and from 800,000 one hundred pounds, 

 for ten days, half a ton 1) So person whose opil| 



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