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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



uldishers' Notices. Hints for the AKonth. Damp St 



hies 



lie Sponge Apple. The Napoleo.i Pear. Vat or Uox 

 for boiling Sap. Wa'ering places— Hoof Ail 



f Ail— its cause ahd cure. Period of Gestation in 

 nvs. Our wheat i.ntecest. A public meeting. ..... 19 



trade \Vith France. New Agricullur.il Papers. Soar 

 Throat in Hogs. Causes of the decay of Turnips The 

 Burling:on Silk Worm Frames The No-Clcnnin 



System 



am Cellars — protection for cattle, &?. Scraps 21 



evlew— Jnurn,al of the Am. Silk Society. Lightning 



Rod.4, Snow drifts and Meadow .Mi.;e . . 



pring Wheat Successful culture of Silk. CI 

 Orch,arda Roots ami Root Culture. .«aUii 

 Butter Fattening Poultry 

 crkshire Hogs. Col. Sawyer's Pigs (with cuts.) liees 



and Honey _^ ...... 21 



'itish Corn I>awa Fjirm transact 

 Pork Making. Plan of T C. Pe 

 Logs . t ^ . 



;say on making Compost Heaps 



ihlic Lands— Hmigr.ints. Riches of the West Riches 



>f Ohio Apple Molasses. Horticulture. Beauty. . . 

 jnsus and Statistics of Monroe Co. Agricultural Soci''- 

 tties — Legisi.itive atfl. IloofAil Market for Cocoon 



Inquiry, 



lie Mag.azine of Horticulture. Horticulture in Western 

 New York. Books never make Farmer?. Unli 

 M&hannocks. , Stabling Milch Cows. How to keep 

 (Tillage cow Hats 



BtcHes of r'aVBl— Rhode Island. Gardening for Ladies 30 



Rrmers' Homes, Wives and Daughters Educat 

 ■'emales. Sonnet 



lucation of Farmers' Children. Englibh Mnrkei 

 York Markets. Rochester Prices Current. 32 



The Edilors. 



In order thnt our renders mny understand who arc 

 ispons ble for the dilTercnt editorial articles appenrin 



this paper, we mention that tbose marked thiia * art 



•itten by .1. J. Thom.vs, Mncedon, and those mark 

 lUB t by David Thosias, Aiiiora. M. B. Date 

 AH, Rochester, is the publithhig editor, and 



msiblc for the selections, notices, and all articles not 



arked. 



KOt;iIESTER, FEBKUAUY, 1811. IVO. 3. 



.lOHiN J. 'riKIMAS. 



M. B. BATEHAM, Edilors. 



To Correspnndeuts. 

 Otir acknowledgements are due to several new and 

 tillable correspondents whom we shall be happy 

 hear from frequently. At the same, ^ime we hope 

 tr old friends will not forsake us. We are glad to 

 id our correspondents generally willing tosign their 

 imes in fall. Shou'd esteem it n favor if they 

 ould all do so, especially when relating facts or ex- 

 :rimcnt3. 



The First Volume. 



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Our Success, 



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XJucnrreiit Money. 



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 BATEHAM &. CROSMAN. 



The Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Society 

 occurs to-moiTow, bi;t it is thought that nothing more 

 will be done than to elect ofiiceis. The arrangements 

 for the coming season will be deferred till it is decided 

 whether the Legislature will grant any aid. 



Hints for the ]>:o:ith. 



Every farmer knows, thai any suggestions for work 

 at one timS during winter, are generally applicable at 

 any other time. We believe, therefore, that the best 

 him wo can now give, is, jtist to turn beck to the two 

 last numbers of our paper, and read again what is 

 there written. We do not of course e.'cpeet you will 

 find any thing new, especially if you are good farmers, 

 (as we hope all our renders are, or sonn will be.) but 

 good fa.-ming, remember, does not depend so very 

 much in finding out new ihingi, as in making a good 

 use ot what we already know. So then, gentlemen, 

 we hope you w.U excuse us, if wo teil you pretty ol- 

 len some of these old things, if \vc can only help yov. 

 to prnfiics thonr. 



Just remember w hat we said, 



1. About feeding cattle rcgtUartij, so as to prevent 

 their fretting their flesh away; 



2. Of giving them n sufficiency at nil times, for the 

 same reason; 



3. Of providing good shelter for them ; 



4. Of supplying them constantly with good water; 



5. Of keeping them rubbed clean, and plenty of 

 good warm ciean litter under their feel; 



6. Of feeding them very often with salt; 



7. Of cutting their fodder with a straw-cutter; 



8. Of mi.\ing their dry food with roots; and 



9. Of keeping their stables Ventilated, but c.tclit- 

 ding the cold wind from entering at the smallest crack. 



Lei pigs, sheep, and all other animals, he fed very 

 much in the same way, (except that the sheep need 

 not be rubbed or curried, nor the pigs kept in stables, 

 though we think there is commonly a very great 

 waste, both iit the feed and the flesh of pigs, by suf- 

 fering them to be so much e.iposed to the weather ea 

 they usually are.) 



There a few other things we wish to remind our 

 friends of during this month, such as trimming their 

 thick-topped apple trees — procuring grafts of the very 

 best fruit they can find, for such will grow quite as 

 well as poorer — making their grafting plasters — pru- 

 ning their hardy grapevines, before the bleeding sea- 

 son commences, — the sooner the better — treading 

 snow around young fruit trees, to prevent the mice 

 from eating the bark, and destroying them. Also, cut- ■ 

 ting up the wood for seasoning, and for summer use; 

 repairing tools, &.c. , as hoes, ploughs, rakes, wagon 

 racks, harrows, cultivators, forks, shovels, rollers, as 

 well as repairing and oiling harness; lookingover ap- 

 ples in cellars, and removing the partly decayed: and 

 keeping their eyes open to all things which need do- 

 ing, and both hands ready at all times to do them. 



And now, one thing more, and that is, let every far- 

 mer resolve, and resolve efTtctually, to conduct his 

 farming operations a little (at least) better this year 

 than be has ever done before. Cannot he do it ? It 

 is well worth trying, at all events, and if gone about 

 n earnest, will bo pretty sure of csuccess. * 



Damp Stables. 



A correspondent of the Farmers' Ctibinot stntes, 

 that on taking possession of a newly purchased 

 farm, his horses became poor, diseased, and incapa- 

 ble of labor ; his cows became sickly, their milk 

 eiminishcd, their butter became bad, four lost their 

 calves, two died of scours in spring, with other aU 

 tendant evils. The dampness of the stable, which 

 was built under large trees in a low situation and 

 with a northern a.spoct. It was immediately torn 

 down, and another erected on a drier situat on, when, 

 as was expected, all these evils vanished at once. — 

 Stables made of stone, are more liable to this diffi- 

 cull)-. , 



Cheese aro preservod from the fly by a coating of 

 pyr')'.i£;-.eoua acid. 



