THE NEW GENESEE FARMER, 



Vol. 2. 



ROCHESTER, M\V, 1811. 



lUonroe Co. A|;ricnltaral Society Meeting. 



A meeting of the Monroe County Agricultural So- 

 ciety will be held according to previous notice, on 

 Wednesday the 5th instant, at 10 o'clock, A. M., in 

 the long room, 3d story. Arcade Building. 



It is uarticulorly desired that all who feel an interest 

 in the objects of the Society will be present, as very 

 important business is to be transacted. 



Legislative Aid. 



The bill for the encouragement of Agricultural So- 

 cielies, has passed the Assembly and to a third reading 

 in the Senate. It will doubtless become a law be- 

 fore many of our readers receive this paper. (We stop 

 the press to announce its final passage.) 



Corrections. — The bill appropriates $8,000 per an- 

 num—not §7,000 as stated last month. We also 

 stated that the report was made to the Assembly be- 

 fore the petitions from Western New York were re- 

 ceived. We should have said before ma7ty of them 

 weie received. 



We will, next month, publish an abstract of this 

 bill, and also the one for the encouragement of Silk 

 Culture, if passed, 



Oigaiiize the Societies I 



As the law for the encouragement of agricul- 

 ture has passed, every County in the Stale should 

 organize a Society, and adopt efficient measures to 

 carry out the purposes of the appropriation. We hope 

 at least to hear that oil the Counties in the Western 

 part of the Slate have done so, and it will give ue plea- 

 sure to receive a list of the officers of each Society for 

 publication. 



Horticultural Meeting. 



An adjourned mcsting of the friends of Horticulture 

 will be held on Thursday next, Way 6ih, at 2 o'clock, 

 P. M., in the Lecture Room of the Young Men's As- 

 sociation, for the purpose of organizing a Horticultural 

 Society. 



The committee appointed to prepare a constitution 

 will lay their report belore the meeting. As most peo- 

 ple at tills season feel interested more or less in gar- 

 dening, it is to be expected there will be a numerous 

 attendance. 



The Season and the Crops. 



The severe frosts of last month have done consider- 

 ble injury to the late sown wheat in this vicinfty, es- 

 pecially on light soils, which heare by frost. Some 

 pieces we have seen, are entirely destroyed. 



We ibserve accounts from nearly all parts of the 

 country respecting the backwardness of the season, 

 and the scarcity of feed for cattle. One would think 

 n few such lessons would convince every farmer of the 

 neceesily and advantage of raising more rout crops. 



A paper from Onekia Co., states, that "seldom has 

 60 cold a spring been known, even in this part of the 

 country, so near as we are to the region of perpetual 

 snows. The winter has been so long and severe, that 

 the farmers in the north part of tins county have fed 

 out all their liny, and most of the coarse grains and 

 forage are exceedingly scarce. In snuc pnrts, cattle 

 are dying for the want of food, and some farmers are 

 »Ili»g their caillo at auction, having found it iirpoesi- 



ble to furnish the necessary keeping, both on account 

 of its scarcity, and for the want of means to purchase 

 at the present high price of hay. The prospect still 

 is far from afibrding any encouragement that vegeta- 

 tion will relieve their sutferings. On the hills north, 

 the snow is yet very deep over the entire surface of 

 the country." 



The Troy Whig of the 24th April, soys, " we Icarn 

 by a gentleman from Platisburgh, that loaded teams 

 crossed Lake Champlnin at that place on the ice, on 

 Friday last. 



"There are three feet of snow only ten miles west 

 of the Lake. The farmers are nearly all out of hay, 

 and their cattle in a starving condition." 



IXQIIRIES. 



tarvoe or Ul'ub:^> in Cattle. 



Messrs. Editors — Will some of your correepond- 

 enls please give the public the benefit of their observa- 

 tions concerning griilis in the hack and sides of cattle ? 

 They seem mostly to be found In these animals while 

 low in flesh, in winter and spring, and to vary greatly, 

 both in number and frequency, in diflercnt seasons. 

 It is presumable that they are the larvse of some insect; 

 yet in the absence of proof this must be mere pre- 

 sumption. From our own small experience, we know 

 them to create great annoyance and irritation, fever 

 and emaciation, to cattle, if nothing more. 



It is desirable that something be known in regard to 

 their origin and character in natural history, the 

 means of prevention, and what is of still more impor- 

 tance, the means of best obviating the evils resulting 

 from them to our stock. 



JAMES n. C. JIILLER. 



Jackson co. O., Fch. 17, 1841. 



Poultry. 



Messrs. EniTons — I vvisU to ask through your val- 

 uable paper, the following questions, hoping that some 

 of your correspondents will rejily to ihern. 



Ist. ^Vill hens lay as well when confined as other- 

 wise 1 



2d. Will they lay as well without the male 1 



3d. What kind of fowl will lay best ? 



4th. Will hens pay better in eggs than in rearing 

 chickens ? 



5th. What quantity of feed for n given number, and 

 what kind is best to moke them loy 1 



Gth. Is there any work written on this subject, and 

 what is it 1 — the best, I mean. S. H. CLARK. 



Mattituck, N. Y. April, 1811. 



Culture of Hemp. — A correspondent in Canoda 

 asks for information respecting the culture and piepar- 

 otion of hemp. 



Culture of Tobacco. — Another asks the same res- 

 pecting tobocco, in this climate. 



Wild Rice.— Mr. P. Hunt of Milfoid, Mass., has 

 obtained and sown some wild rice, and he requests 

 some reader of the Farmer in Canada or elsewhere, to 

 give information respecting the growth and use of this 

 grain. 



Beet Sugar. — If any of our readers made any ex- 

 periments in the manufacture of sugar from beets the 

 past season, they will oblige us by giving an account 

 of the result. 



Will the Managers of the White Pigeon Beet Sugar 

 Co., inform us whether they made any further experi- 

 ments, and with what results ? — Eds. 



Cure for Bog i-'pavin. — A correspondent has a fine 

 young horse aficcted with bog (or wind) spavin of 2 

 or 3 month's duration, and asks what is the most sim- 

 ple and effectual remedy. 



Sy The inquirem respecting Silk and Silk Worms, 

 and Flowers and Shrubs, are referred to the numer- 

 ous articles on these subjects in our lost year's volume, 

 which, if net already posccsscd, can be obtained for 

 50 cte. 



Bounty on SiUc.—\V. B. B. is informed that the 

 State of New Y'ork has not yet passed any law to give 

 a bounty on silk. We only staled that a bill was re- 

 ported to the Assembly tor the purpose. 



Extracts from Corresjiondeuce. 



" A. G. S." ui Cayuga co. made, in the spring of 

 1839, five hundred and thirty pounds of maple sugar 

 from one huitdredand iwenty-fivc trees; and in 1840, 

 from one tree, thirteen pounds of sugar, and seven 

 pounds ten ounces of molasses. He decidedly prefers, 

 instead of making sugar into cakes, to boil it until it 

 will grain, so that the impurities will settle to the 

 bottom of the vessel, and the molasses remaining 

 gently poured off. 



"A Mtrcer county Farmer," (Pa.) saye, "My 

 crops for five years have been as follows : — Wheat, 15 

 to 27 bushels per acre; corn from 40 to 60; oats from , 

 40 to 50: potatoes generally 400 per acre. Our kinds 

 ore the Mississippi or Merinos, which will yield 500 

 bushels per acre, and the' NLshanorks, not Mesha- 

 nocl^, as this is the county where these potatoes were 

 first raised by James Gilkey, on ycshanock creek." 



Culture of Asparagus. 



This wholesome and delicious vegetable ought to be 

 cultivated by every family that possesses a few yorda 

 of ground. It is a dish that nearly all persons are 

 fond of, and it supplies the table during the most desti- 

 tute season of the year. A good bed will last fifteen 

 or twenty years, and will bear cutting some twen- 

 ty times in a season. It occupies but little space, and 

 the trouble and expense of culture is much less than 

 is generolly supposed. A bed, five feet by twenty, 

 will contain one hundred roots, and is large enough 

 for a moderate sized family. If good two-years old 

 roots are used, they will bear some cutting the next 

 year after planting. 



The following directions will enable any intelligent 

 laborer to form and plant the bed :-»- 



If there is any choice, select a wartn location, where 

 the soil is deep and rich, neither wet nor dry; mark 

 out the boundorics of the bed, and dig out the earth to 

 the depth of eighteen inches. (If the location is rather 

 wet, and the bottom hard, dig six inches deeper, and 

 put in six inches of oyster shells or loose stones.) If 

 the top soil is good, lay it on one side, but wheel the 

 poor earth away. Then take well rotted manure and 

 mix it with an equal portion of good earth, and fill up 

 the bed even with the surface; then rake it 

 smooth and place the roots on the top of the ground 

 twelve inches apart; spread the fibres and fix them in 

 their natural position with the hand; then cover the 

 whole with threcor four inches of the mixed compost, 

 smooth it off neatly, and the work is finished. 



Water the bed after planting, if dry weather suc- 

 ceeds, and keep it clear of weeds during summer. 

 Before selling in of winter, cut oil' the stalks, and 

 give an annual dressing of two or three inches of 

 manure. The roughest of this should be raked 

 off in the spring, and the surface of the bed loosened 

 with a manure fork. 



ID" Fine two-years old roots arc for sale at the Seed 

 Store. Price $1,50 per 100. 



Rhubarb, or Ple-Plaut. 



This is another of the earliest luxuries of the sea- 

 son, and deserves more generol cultivation. It is of 

 the easiest possible culture. Plant the roots about 

 three feet opart, in deep rich soil, well manured. A 

 warm border on the south side of a fence, is the best 

 place. 



The Early Red variety grows the quicker-t, ond in 

 using requires the least- sugar. One dozen roots is 

 sufficient lor a family. They are for sale at the Seed 

 Store. Price, 50 cts. per d<^z. 



