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THE AEW GENESEE FARMER, 



Vol. 2. 



Rhrme and Reason—Political Economr set 

 to Mnsic, 



However dry some may consider Poliiical Econo- 

 my, a rbymsler eastward shows tbr.t rhyme may be 

 readily manufactured from 5ome branches of that nse- 

 ful science. Ojily think of the statistics of cot- 

 ton I interwoven Willi the flowers of rhyme! If peo. 

 pie will not study Political Economy more thoroughly 

 in its simple form, s ime rhyrastcr mi^ht render him- 

 self a public benefactor by rendering the great truths 

 of that science familiar to our cars through the aid 

 of rhyme. 



From (Ac Xorthcm Lt^H. 



COTTOX STATISTICS. 

 BY iiESP.y wiiinso. 

 Egyptian, Greek, nor Roman ever knew 

 That Bucli a pli-.iil ns cotton grew ; 



Or, if 'twere known, 

 'Twasonly an a coiumnn, useless wceJ, 

 "Wlikii i'lly sprung up, fiouriah'd, went to seed. 



By no one sown. 

 Tlie eastern Inilica grew it, spun, and wove ; 

 But, wanting "gins," anil su^am their loo.iis to move, 



TliR trade was small, 

 Their hales, torn up as racs among mankhid. 

 Would scarcely serve its Ueeiling wounds to hind, 



Muslins and all. 

 A century since 'twas thus. The distr.ff, and 

 The shuttle, ninilily thrown from hand to hand, 



Eshaiistcl art. * 

 Spindle and powcr-'oom their race began 

 When England hrouglit to light those "ITriglu'sol man," 



Her Jrk. and Car*.* 

 What now? Why tak5 the thread hy England spuu 

 In one short year, and to and from the sun, 



In course sublime. 

 Trail it through spheres of planet bright and star, 

 •Twould s!rc'j-,h, sllll stretch through all those journies far 



The fiftieti lime.t 

 Or, take the wi:'i her looms, of giant strength. 

 In thc3 im:^ time send out— what is its length? 



As girdle bound, 

 T'.vould span the earth's enormous waist. 

 Where longitude its longest line hastr.ac'd. 



Ten tiniest around. 

 And arc these v.'ebs, which thus could swathe the globe, 

 (3 -at out that man alojie m.ay be inrob'J ? 



'Tis even so. 

 It is the age of cotton. Fold on fold 

 Of its smooth tc.vturi- dollies the young and old, 



Ttie higii and low. 

 And whence the raic ntate'iut wiiich supplies 

 These countless spind'es ? Vl'hich forever jiiics,, 



Thu33 giant looms ? 

 From the warm South, 'Tls there th." genial earth 

 AVitli cotton teems— 'tis there It springs to birth— 

 'Tis \hcre it blooms. 



But 'tis not England only tliat uplifts 



Tile age with steam. That power with Empire shifts. 



New-England long 

 Has felt the mighty impulse. Soon will ehe 

 ^V'eave for the world — old England's rival be. 



As rich, as strong. 

 Then let the Xorth and So-.ith in union live. 

 Nature and art to this their sanction give, 



JjiuM hand in hand, 

 Prodvicers and consumers, mingled, claim 

 A common parentage, a common fame, 



A common hand. 

 PUalJcz, Eiut Floridu, Julij, ISU. 



Agriculture und Edacatioii. 



These things should go hand in ham! everywhere. 

 The Farmer who neglects to improve the minds of 

 his children, gives melancholy proof that he himaclf 

 is unfitted to renUz3 the blessings which Heaven has 

 liberally showered upan the l.ind. See to the schools 

 in your neighborhood — visit them frequently — cn- 

 eiurage the teachers and the scholars with your pre- 

 eencs, even for a few minutes in a week — and the 



* Sir Iti-'hard Arkwright Invcntci the spiudU ; the Uev. 

 Ed.r.iin J Cartwright invented the poirer-tinjiu. 



1 These are .not poo'.i.-al fi^ilon^, biit tiiathem.-.tical c.ilcy- 

 l»t M.>| a pan of ratlftical re:o.-is, «{ilcS have been pub- 



IlillOj 



results will soon be nianifcsled by signs that will cheer 

 you onward to greater exertions in the cause of Edu- 

 cation. You owe at least this much to your own chil- 

 dren—and in dieeharging the duty to ihera, you will 

 hr.te the consciousness of incidentally benefitting your 

 whole neighborhood. 



ttj" Wives, mothers, sisters! Tour influence may 

 be made all-poworfnl in promoting the welfare of so- 

 ciety in this way. How caa you allow your children 

 or other young relatives to pass through the schools, 

 unc'jeered by the encouraging visits and influence 

 which you might reasonably be expected to bestow 

 on the schools that exert such powerful influence 

 "lor weal or for wo" over the immortal minds of the 



rising generation. 



Let any one person, lady or gentleman, try the ex- 

 periment — visit the school or schools in the ne ghbor- 

 hood — manifest becoming interest in the progress of 

 education — and their exartions. V\e hcavcn-born 

 Charity, will be " twiea-blest " — blest to the reci- 

 pient as well as the banefactor — repaying all toil with 

 hundred-fo'd gratification to those who benevolently 

 engage in the blessed work. 



For the Jfno Ctaun Fanner. 

 Scraps. 

 jMessus. Editors — Having been a reader of the old 

 and New Goncsce ITnruier, I h»vo l»kcn note of a 

 number of facts that have f»llen under my oljerra- 

 tion as a practical farmer, and am willing to eontribute 

 my mite in complionco with your oft repeated re- 

 quest. 



Sir.ivi IN- THE House — Can be cured by mixing 

 a ttiblo spoonful of flour sulphur in the ish that is giv- 

 en th»m. 



Win Spbeading— May be remsdicd by pressing 

 the tost full of milk ogainst a stone and rubbing it 

 siTiartly. 



GuAFTiNG — Can bo done by any person by cutting 

 the shoots before warm weather, and keeping them 

 in an iee house till the flowers fall, or in other words 

 till the bork peels ; then cut off the limb, take a twig 

 three or four inches long and bharpen it by cutting en- 

 tirely on one side, from one to two inches in length, 

 according to the size of the twig, raiao the bark on the 

 stock with your knife and insert the graft — the bark 

 side next the bark. Apply sclve enough to gicludc 

 the air, and the process is corople:ed. 



Setting graf's on this plan supersedes the necessity 

 of splinting the stock, they are much surer to grow, 

 and the labor is much less than the old way. The 

 end of the stock should bo painted with common paint; 

 it is better than wa.x. 



Yellow Water. — The yellow water can be cured 

 by the follov/ing process : — First bleed the horeo ; 

 secondly, give him one teaspoonful saltpetre by dis- 

 solving it in a pail of -.voter ; the horse must be consi- 

 derably dry before he will drink it ; thirdly, give him 

 one table s.ioonful of roiin pounded fine and mi-ved 

 with bran or ineal ; let one day in'.orvene between 

 each. A second portion of rosin can be given if ne- 

 cessary. 



Disorder in Hogs. — The writer has had a number 

 of hogs that have beconto lame generally in the hot 

 months of July or August. They were attacked in 

 the hind legs and became lamer and lamer, till it was 

 with much difi'icnlty they could move at all — lose flesh 

 rapidly, and if they get better in the fall, fat but poor- 

 ly ; the cause and cure is rospoctrully called lor. 



Politics S. W. is treating political economy after 



the manner of a master. But is it not dangerous 

 ground for you to tread upon ? I doubt your getting 

 a great ways without treading on sjme one's toes. 



Cahada Thistles. — This scourge of all scourges 

 is making rapid progress in our country. Twenty 

 years ago it ac.ircoly ever seeded, but it appears to 



have become acclimated and now seeds very heavily. 

 They can be killed by turning the land to posture, and 

 palling them as often as they make their appear- 

 ance. 



Dhaglog. — This instrument can be made the easi- 

 est by splitting a log eight feet long and eighteen or 

 twenty inches through, and cutting again acroEs the 

 middle of on« half, say four inches wide and three 

 deep ; in this pin the but end of a pole. It may be 

 made lighter by hollowing out the ends. It is very 

 useful in smooihing newly ploughed sward. 



West Xiles, April, 164]. W. R. < 



liife in the Country Contrasted with City 

 Life. 



The discontented farmer, who sighs for city life, 

 may be edilied by the picture of crowded towns pro 

 eented in the annexed sketch, from the pen o! JotiK 

 A. Dix, late Secretary of the State of New York. 

 The fidelity of the picture is wofuUy realized by those , 

 of us who are surfeited and smothered by the heat and 

 dust and other accompaniments of city life under a 

 roasting temperature ot iiineiy.six to a huudicJ. 

 There is "more truth than poetry" in the sketcti, as 

 the doubling farmer may discover to his cost, it ho 

 forsakes the free air of the farm for the glitter of even 

 the best regulated city. The " Northern Light," tiio 

 valuable paper now edited by General Dix, has nev. r 

 been embellished with a more vivid picture than tuia 

 from the pen of its gifted editor. 



Town and Country. 



I!V JOHK A. DLX. 



At the very moment when cities put on their worst 

 aspect, and the country its fairest and most aliractive, 

 it may not seem altogether consistent with inipnrlinl 

 justice to set up a comparison between them. And 

 yet it will not be diflicuU, wo apprehend, to hold the 

 balance ever.. Tnat cities possess some superiuriiieu 

 over the country, particularly at less genial teasuns ot" 

 the year, will not be disputed. When our friends in 

 the interior are blocked up by mountains ot snow, and 

 the intercommunications of pleasure and business 

 among them are diiIi'".iU, if not impracticable, each 

 man among us shovels oflhis twenty-live feet front of 

 sidev/nlk, under an eniivcning sense o! the line for 

 neglect thereof, and we pass from one extremity of 

 the city to the other, with as Utile obstruction as iii 

 the heat of summer. But cities have some superiori- 

 ties over the country ot all seasons. They contain, 

 in a more concentrated shape, the means of intellec- 

 tual improvement. Extensive libraries, reading-rooms 

 end bookstores are there to be I'ound, famishing in- 

 formniion on almost oil subjects, rfmd in almost all 

 languBgos. The perpetual contoci and collision into 

 which mind is brought with mind, quickens the intel- 

 lect and keeps it in constant preparation for conflict. 

 Men are, as it were, oiv;nys within pistol-shot of 

 each other, walking the streets and lying down at 

 night with their intei'cctual weapons siiarpencd and 

 their harness buckled to their backs. Vet we must 

 concede that the country has some sdvantage o»er us 

 in certain departments cf mental labor. Its ihadce, 

 its tranquility, and i'.s repose are peculiarly adnpted 

 to ineditation. He, who would penetrate the depths 

 of a subject, will more readily attain his object in its 

 cool and quiet retrcals, than in the heart of a city, 

 with all i;s bustle and its ^turnult to distract his 

 thoughts niid disturb his processes of investigation. 



But nsBumIng for the city some superiority in the 

 particulars adverted to, how do we sink in the com- 

 pa.''ison when we turn to the other views of the eub- 

 jcctl Let us look about us, and see what is cur con-, 

 dition now. It is midsummer: we are in the very 

 middle of the sign Leo; and tlie "dig-star rages." 



Let us look at the thcrmoinotei 0'2 degrees in the 



shaJt! What a suffocating heat, and no esctqic from 

 it! The rich man did not long for a drop of wtfler 

 from the finger of Loznrfo more eagerly than we for 

 a mouthful of fresh air from the towering Catskill or 

 the martial llelderbergh, which we see in the din- 

 tonee. We close our windows and blinds and shut 

 out the light of (lay, uuiler the 8Ug;;estion ofophilo-_ 

 sophical friend that light and bent are in some degieo 

 inseparable, and if we exclude the one we get rid of 

 a poitionof the oihir. We sit down in this BitiiiciBl 

 twilight of^cur dwellings, and find life insiipportablo. 

 But business calls us out. Wc must be at onr count- 

 ing-roon s, our offices, and our workshops: wo have 



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