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THE NEW GENESEE FARMER, 



Vol. 2. 



held at an enrly day next Spring, Bomewhere in the 

 State of Ohio; at which the proper policy to be pur- 

 sued ill promotion of the wheat interest, ehould be 

 matured, and further measures to render that poliey 

 effectual, shoidd be originated. 



Our Trade with France. 



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

 Herald — a paper which strongly advocates free trade — 

 that there was imported into the United Slates from 

 France alone, in the year 1839, $32,124,405 worth of 

 articles free of duty — nearly one half of this amount 

 was in silk goods. The articles imported from the 

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

 year, amounted to little more than ten millions of dol- 

 lars. 

 Grand total of imports from France, in American 



and foreign vessels, for the year 1839, $32,531,321 

 Grand total of exports to France from 



the U. S., in American and foreign 



vessels, the same year, 13,338,854 



§14,192,467 

 Thus leaving a balance of imports over our exports 

 against us, with France alone of more than fourteen 

 millions of dollars in one year, or about one million 

 more than the whole export of cotton to P'rance the 

 same year. 



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

 trade argue thot 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 France, than we export to France. So much 

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

 creased. If this debt is not secured by the Venetian 

 bond of old — the pound of flesh — Slate stocks — the 

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

 France and England, ti pay all this excess of impor- 

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

 ported to bolster up the United Stales Bank, or to 

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

 lessons of experience, prefers a fevered end sickly ad- 

 olescnce to the simplicity of a healthy childhood — the 

 sad precursor of both moral blight, andpbye'cal imbe- 

 cility and dec.iy. S. W. 



New Agricultural Papers. 



Within a few months past, we have received o'cont 

 half a dozen new agricultural papers, most of them 

 published in the Westent States. We rejoice to see 

 ttis evidence of the increased taste for such reading, 

 and expect the time will soon come when no . res- 

 pectable farmer will be willing to live without on agri- 

 cultural paper. We hope these new papers will all be 

 well sustained; but we apprehend that some of them 

 will seriously interfere with each others success. 



" The Western Farmer," is the title of a small semi- 

 monthly paper published at Detroit, Michigan,by Josiah 

 gnow — §1 per year. The first number was issued 

 January 1, and contains a large amount of statistical 

 and other usefid information relating to agriculture 

 and horticulture, mostly original, (but some borrowed 

 from our columns, and the credit accidentally omit- 

 ted.) We think friend Snow should have chosen 

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

 pers with the same or a similar name 



'• Tlie Union Agriculturist," is an excellent new 

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

 Union Agricultural Society. It is neatly executed 

 and appears to be ably conducted, -^Tcrms, $1 per 

 year— semi-monthly. 



" The Western Farmer Sf Gardener," is a continu- 

 ation of the Western Farmer, at Cincinnati, Ohio. — 

 The 2d vol. commenced lost October, and appeared in 

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

 ticulture as co-editor. It is published monthly, in 

 pamphlet form, 24 pages, stitched with a cover — ,f 1 

 per year. 



" Tlie Agriculturist," is the title of a large month- 

 ly paper commenced January 1, at Nashville, Ten- 

 nessee. It is the organ of the State Agricultural So- 

 ciety; is edited by three gentlemen, and gives evi- 

 dence of a good degree of talent. — Terms, $9 per 

 year, 24 pages, monthly. 



" The Indiana Farmer," is a small but viseful pa- 

 per, published at Indianapolis, by our friend, J. S. 

 Willets, formerly of this State — monthly, 5U cents 

 per year. 



" The Practical Farmer JJ- iS(7A: Cultivator," pub- 

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

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

 In one number of hie, we observed three arucles 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. 



" The Yankee Farmer," published at Boston, Mass. 

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

 most interesting weekly agricultural papers extant. — 

 The new vol. commenced January 1, much improved 

 in appearance and substance. Arrangements hove 

 been mode for obtaining monthly agricultural reports 

 from different sections of the country, respecting the 

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



" The Neic England 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 slated that some change has 

 lately 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 efTect has been.) 



Sore Throat in Hogs. 



MrssRS. Editors — Can any of your correspondents 

 furnish a cure for sore throat in hogs 7 A number 

 were lost by myself and others lost summer; ond all 

 remedies used were inefTectuol. The throat and head 

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

 cight hours from the commencement, grunter would 

 grunt his la?l. SAMUEL DOUGLASS. 



Whitehall, Ohio. 



Causes of the deicsty of Turnips. 



Mkssrs. Thomas & Batehaji — The following is 

 submiited to the opinion of all that are interested in 

 the inquiry made in the first number of the present 

 volume of the New Genesee Farmer, which is for the 

 cause of the decay of Rula Baga Turnips. 



I have come to the conclusion that early sowing in 

 warm seasons, will lead to the true cause. When 

 turnips are forward in the season, they fail for want 

 of BulFicient moisture during the extreme warm and 

 dry weather, which cfTects the heart or centre of the 

 turnip and commences the decay, which first appears 

 by the top turning yellow when the outside appears 

 sound and healthy. This effect is produced on large 

 turnips when small ones will escape. Another cause 

 may sometimes be observed. After the turnip is 

 nearly matured, wet weather will produce a new life 

 and cause them to crack open, ond during warm 

 weather, water standing in the crevice will cause the 

 decay. 



It maybe well to state that the turnip ond cabbage 

 tribes, flourish beat in a climate somc.hing coolei than 



the summer in this section, and thot worm, dry weath- 

 er is equally injurious to both. Therefore the time of 

 sowing ohonld be delayed os long as possible, and hove 

 them mature before the winter too nearly approaches, 

 unless some is wanted for early use. W. R. 



Fredonia, January 11, 1841. 



" The Burlington Silk Worm Frame." 



We have received three numbers of the " Burling- 

 ton Sdk Record," a small paper, "issued monthly 

 without charge, to all persons interested in the silk bu- 

 siness, for the purpose of opening a cheap channel of 

 communication, to extend omong them a knowledge 

 of the Burlington Silk Worm Frame, of the Burling- 

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

 business to raise and keep for sale the choicest kind 

 of Silk Worm Eggs, as well os to stimulate and fos- 

 ter the extension of the Silk Culture in the United 

 States. It will be sent by mail to such os write for it, 

 free of postage. Address, EDMUND MORRIS, 

 Burlington, N. J." 



We copy the following orticle from the Record, set- 

 ting forth the advantages of these Frames. We will 

 give some description of them next month. 



The No-CIeaniug System. 



We believe that all silk culturists have found the 

 business of producing silk perfectly certoin and mon- 

 ngeable, up to the fourth moulting of the worms.— 

 After the fourth moulting, they increote so enormous- 

 ly in size, and discharge so great an amount of excre- 

 ment, that in a large estabiiBhmcnt it seems impossi- 

 ble to preserve the proper degree of cleonliness, even 

 when many bonds ere employed at cleaning, os the 

 operation mnst be performed every three or four days. 

 This great discharge of excrement, added to the sur- 

 plus folioge which will accumulate more or less, all 

 mixed in with the bodies of the dead worms, speedily 

 generates putrefaction, which causes the death of thou- 

 sands more, from the fatal impurity of the air which is 

 constantly rising up from below. The books of Euro- 

 pean writers are filled with cures for diseases thus gen- 

 erated, while not one hos thought of suggesting any 

 other preventive than that of cleaning. Tbey have 

 none of them thought of going back and moking a 

 fresh start from the beginning, by using such fixtures 

 as will remove the cause of these diseases. Herein 

 we believe the grand mistake bos been made, ana it 

 remains for American ingenuity and jierseveronce to 

 demonstrate that the whole system of feeding must bo 

 changed, in order to accomplish any good results with 

 the leost opproach to absolute certainty. 



On the Burlington Frame, the worms are placed at 

 the difficult period between the third mouliing and 

 spinning, in such a maimer that all these thiee ele- 

 ments of^ putrefaction, the c.'^crement, the chippings 

 of the foliage, and the sick ond dead worms, are com- 

 pletely got rid of by being riddled out at the bottom of 

 the frame. Whatever proportion of these three does 

 not fall through, is exposed to a continual current of 

 air passing upward, which evaporates so large apnition 

 of the moisture remaining in them, that the little 

 which is left is too small to be injurious. The accu- 

 racy of this has been proved by repeated trial, and by 

 different gentlemen whohave used the frame. Indeed 

 the construction of the frame demonstrates it. We 

 tried and proved it ourselves, on a crop which produ- 

 ced five bushels of beautiful cocoons, without losing 

 three per cent, of the worms; ond a friend in New 

 York, who fed on the some principle, did not lose 

 even three per cent., ond from two ounceo of eggs ga- 

 thered twenty six bushels of cocoons. He did not 

 clean his worms once after beingplaced on the frames, 

 between the third and fourth moulting, nor did we. — 

 The saving of labor and expense was very great, and 

 the lives of all our worms were insured, and ihat is 

 the great point — that we shall succeed in making eve- 

 ry worm spin a cocoon. 



To ascertain the exact quantity discharged by a 

 worm after the fourth moulting, we collected and 

 weighed the droppings, and found that 1000 worms in 

 24 hours discharged two ounces of dear excrement, 

 which fell through the frame to the roof below. A 

 considerable quantity was intercepted by the straw he- 

 ina spread too thick on the frame. 'This mokes the 

 weight from SOilO to be one pound; from 80,000 ten 

 pounds; ond from 800,000 one hundred pounds, (or 

 for ten days, half a ton !) No person whose opinion 

 is of ony value, will be weak enough to nrguo for a 



