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THE NEW GExNESEE FARMER, 



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Cr Statistics of Monroe Co., next momh. 



Decay of Kuta Bagas— ■Iiujujiy, 



Messks. Tiio.iiAS & Bateham — When I hnrveeted 

 my ruta bagns this lall, I found nearly one third of 

 them were spoiled by the rotting of the upper port of 

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

 much wet, 1 am at a loss to account for t' eir decay. 

 They were harvested about the last of September, and 

 appeared sound and good, (except that the leaves weie 

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

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

 were rotten. 



Many of my roots were more or lees injured by 

 grubs, but I could not perceive that this caused their 

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

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

 Yours, &c. 



SILAS PRATT. 

 ChiU, Di'c. 1810. 



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In addition to the above, there was raised in ihie 

 county, in ihs snine year. .-'.''),P32 bushels of barley. 

 691,672 bushels of oats, 4,()9i) bushels of rye, 19,247 

 bushels nlbuck-wheat, 231,576 bushels oflndian corn, 

 4,520 pounds of hops. 21,452 pounds of hemp and 

 flax, 180 pounds of cocoons, and 1288 pounds of wax 



The nuiiiber of cords of wood sold, was 23, 538.— 



county, was 30j tons. The value of poultry $24,6f5. 

 Of the population of the county, 117 are free per- 

 sons of color, viz: 07 males, and 50 females, who 

 were residents of the county on the first day of June 



The amount of pot and pearl aeh manufactured in the sioners 



last. 



There were also resident in the county on the first 

 day of June last, 135 Revolutionary and Invalid Pen- 



Tlke Fruit Gavt!en. 



In our last volume we treated of several particular 

 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 and so fine a climate as that of the Genesee conn 

 try, it hns often been a cause of regret to us, that si 

 many hundreds — yes- thousands — of wealthy fieehold 

 era should be destitute of the delicious fruits that sucl- 

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

 ours from a distant land, came to join Ud in a journcv 

 of threohunJred miles. It was in the last month of 

 cummer, when the Fruit Garden yields its simple Inx- 

 uries in abundance, and he was delighted with the 

 treat. We remarked to him however, before wo sc: 

 out, "\ow is the time to feast — nothing of the kind 

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

 perhaps some of our readers would ask. Exactly — tn 

 the loiter. Tlie.ro was fine fruit without d ubt, in the 



listrict through which we passed, but we saw it not, 

 though we shored thehospitolity of many noble friends 



n easy circumstances. 



When we planted our Fruit Garden, we had not di- 

 rected our attention to the po^ilion in which the differ- 

 ^•nt kinds of trees could be most advantageously placed; 



ut we soon discovered that the nectarine, the plum, 



nd the apricot, ought to have been set as near to the 



og-trough OS possible, on account of the Curculio. 

 We have already remarked that in the remoter parts 

 ll the inclosurc the fruit was more injured by this in- 



ect, though we may odd that in a small garden this 

 irrongement will be of less importance. 



The position for partieulor, trees will be (inind of 

 Treat consequence however, on another account wheth- 

 er the garden be large or small. Until our country- 

 men generally acquire a higher-toned morality; and 

 shall consider robbing a garden as mean os to rob a 

 'ten roost, it will be safer to wl the Inte I'eais or quin- 



