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THE NEW GENESEE FARMER, 



Vol. 



Rhyme and ReasoM— Political Economy set 

 to Music. 



However dry some may conaider Poliiical Econo 

 my, a rliymater eastward shows that rhyme may be 

 readily manufactured from some branches of that use- 

 ful science. Only think of the statistics of cot- 

 ton I interwoven with the flowers of rhyme! If peo- 

 ple will not study Political Economy more thoroughly 

 in its simple form, some rhymster mi^ht render him- 

 self a public benefactor by rendering the great truths 

 of th«t science familiar to our cars through the aid 

 of rhyme. 



From the Norlhem Light. 



COTTON STATISTICS. 



BY nsifBY WHITINO. 



Egyptian, Greek, nor Roin.iii ever knew 

 Tliat such a plant aa cotton grew ; 



Or, if 'twer* fcnown, 

 *Twa9 only as a common, useless wee,!, 

 AVhSch idly sprung up, fiourlsh'il, we.it to BceJ, 



By no one sown. 

 Tlio eastern Indies grew it, spun, and wove ; 

 But, wanting "gins," and steam their looms to move. 



The trade was small, 

 Their hales, torn up as rags among mnnklml, 

 ■Would scarcely serve Its hleedln^ wounds to Ijind, 



Muslins .-Hid all. 

 A century since 'twas thus. The distaff, and 

 The shutiio, nimbly thrown from hand to hand, 



Kxhaustei art. 

 Spindle and power-loom !!i«ir rac« began 

 When England brought to light those ** f^ri^ltt*» of nian," 



Her Jrb. and Cart,* 

 ■What now ? Why lake the thread by England spun 

 In one short je^r, ard to and from the sun, 



In course sublime, 

 Trail it through spheres of planet bright and star, 

 'Twould stretch, siil! stretch through all those journies l"cr 



The JiflUth timet 

 Or, take the web her looms, of ftinnt strength. 

 In the same time send out— what is its length ? 



As girdle bound, 

 Twould span the earth's enormous waist. 

 Where longituJ* its longesti line haitr.ic'd. 



And are these webs, which thus could swathe the globe. 

 Sent out that man alone may be lorcb'd ? 



'Tis even so. 

 It is the age of cotton. Fold on fold 

 Of its smooth texture clothes the young and old, 



T)w high and low. 

 And whence the raw n8ai,;.-:W which suppliea 

 T.'ie^c countless spindles 7 t\ hlch forever plies^ 



Th»se giant looms ? 

 From the war.m South. 'Tla tlicr* the jcnial earth 

 With cotton teems— 'tis there it springs to birth— 



'Tis there it blooms. 



But 'tis not England only that uplifts 



The age with steam. That power with Empire shifts. 



New-Euglani long 

 H.as felt the mighty Impulse. Soon will she 

 Weave for the world — old England's rival be. 



As rich, as strong. 

 Then let the North and South In union live. 

 Nature and art to this their sanction give, 



Join'd hand in hand. 

 Producers and consumers, mingled. cItUm 

 A common parentage, a common fame, 



A common land. 

 Pilalka, East Florida, Jnhj, 15 U. 



Asriciiltiire and Education. 



These things shoni'i go hand in hand everywhere. 

 The Fariut!'- who neglects to improve t'ue minds of 

 his children, givesiueia.icholy proof ti.at he himself 

 is unfitted to ranlizo the blessings which Heaven has 

 liberally showered up»n the land. See to the schools 

 in your neighborhood— visit them frequently— en- 

 courage the teachers and the scholars with your pre- 

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



vl^i ?!*7'^ Arkwrigbt invented the spi„dte ; the Key. 

 Edmund Cartwnghf invented the power-loom 

 lJ.7-,'"'^ ""■".""J- ''°*"'=''' fictions, but malhemntical caleu- 

 UsjicT ^ statistical reiords, which have been pub- 



results will soon be manifested by signs that will cheer 

 you onward to greater ctertiona in the cause of Edu- 

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

 dren — and in discliarging the duty to them, you will 

 hove the consciousness of incidentally benefitting your 

 whole neighborhood. 



ICr Wives, mothers, sisters! Your influence may 

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

 ciety in this way. How can you allow your children 

 or other young relatives to pass through the schools, 

 uncheored by tha encouraging visits and influence 

 which you might reasonably be e.tpected to bestow 

 on the schools that exert such powerful influence 

 "for 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 neghbor- 

 hood — manifest becoming interest in the progress of 

 education — and their exertions, like heaven-born 

 Charity, will be " twice-bleat " — blest to the reci- 

 pient «a well as the bonefactor — repaying all toil with 

 hundred-fold gratification to those who benevolenily 

 engage in tbe blessed work. 



For tilt J^'eto Genesee Fanner. 

 Scraps. 



Messrs. Editors — Having been a reader of the old 

 and New Genesee Farmer, I h«ve taken note of a 

 number of facta that hive fallen under my observa- 

 tion ns a i)ractical farmer, and am willing to contribute 

 my mite in compliance with your oft repeated re- 

 quest. 



Saliva im the Hobse — Can bo cured by mixing 

 a table spoonful of flour sulphur in the salt that is giv- 

 en them. 



Milk Spreading — May be remsdied by pressing 

 the teet full of milk against a stone and rubbing it 

 •martly. 



GitAFTiNG — Can be done by any person by cutting 

 the shoots before warm weather, and keeping them 

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

 till the hark peels ; then cut oiTthe limb, take a twig 

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

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

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

 stock v.riih yuur knife and insert the graft — the bark 

 side next the bark. Apply salve enough to exclude 

 the air, and the process is completed. 



Setting grafts on this plan supersedes the necessity 

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

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

 end of ihc stock should be painted with common pnint; 

 it is hotter than wax. 



Yellow Water. — The yellow v/ater can be cured 

 by the following process : — First bleed the horse ; 

 secondly, give him one teaepoonful saltpetre by dis- 

 solving it in a pail of water ; the horse must bo consi- 

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

 one table spoonful of rosin pounded fine and mi.ied 

 with bran or meal ; let one day intorveno bstween 

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

 cessary. 



Disorder itf Hoos.— The writer has had a number 

 of hogs that have become lame gei'.ernlly 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 uiflicnity they could move at all— lose flesh 

 rapidly, ar.d if they got better in the fall, fat but poor- 

 ly ; the cause and cure is respectfully called for. 



Politics — S. W. is treating political eco..omy after 

 the manner of a master. But is it not dangerous 

 ground for you to tread upon ? I doubt your getting 

 a groat ways without trending on some one's toes. 



Canada Thistles —This scourge of all scourges 

 is making rapid progress in onr country. Twenty 

 years ago it scarcely ever seeded, but it appcnra to 



have become acclimated and now seeds very heavil 

 They con be killed by turning the land to pasture, n 

 pulling them as often as they make their appei 

 a nee. 



DiiAGLOG. — This instrument can be made the eaaj' 

 est by splitting a log eight feet long and eighteen oj 

 twenty inches through, and cutting again across thj 

 middle of one hall, say four inches wide and thn 

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

 made lighter by hollowing out the ends. It is ver; 

 useful in smoothing newly ploughed B-,tnrd. 



West Nilcs, April, 1841. W. R 



Life in the Country Contrasted with City '■ , (n 

 liife. , ,1 ' 



The discontented farmer, who sighs for city liGaL iiiot 

 may beediHed by the picture of crowded towns pro-i *' 

 sented in the anne.ted sketch, from the pen ofJoHi 

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

 The fidelity of the picture is wofuUy realized by thos 

 of us who are surfeited and smothered by the heat and ^^'^ 

 dust and other accompaniments of city life under ar"'"' 

 roasting temperature of ninety-six to a hundiedj(,,u 

 There is "more truth than poetry" in the sketch, a^ ii 

 the doubting farmer may discover to his cost, if h^ 

 forsakes the free air of tlie farm fjr the glitter of even 

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

 valuable paper now edited by General Dix, has never 

 been embellished with a more vivid picture than thii 

 from tlie pen of its gifted editor. 



Town and Country. 



EY JOHN A. DIS. 



At the very moment when cities put on their worst 

 aspect, and the country its fairest and most attractive,, *"' 

 it may not seem aliogcther consistent with impaitial ^'• 

 justice to setup a comparison between them. An| "- 

 yet it will not be difficult, we apprehend, to hold thS ""' 

 balance even. That cities possess some superioritieij '"' 

 over the country, particularly at less genial seasons oj ^'l 

 the year, will not be disputed. When our friends im '*'^- 

 the interior are blocked up by mountains of snow, and r 

 the intercommunications of pleasure and business ^ 

 among them are difBcult, if not inypracliccblu, each T' 

 man among us shovels oflhis twenty-five feet from ol I- 

 sidewalk, under nii enlivening sense of the fine for '' 

 neglect thereof, and wo pass from one estreniity oi ? 

 tlie city to the other, with as little obstruction as ini|"' 

 the heat of summer. But cities have some superioriiif"' 

 ties over the country at all scosone. They coniain,Jk 

 in a more concentrated shape, the means of intcllec- H 

 tual improvement. E.xtensive libraries, rending-roome ,. 

 and bookstores are there to be found, furnishing in- ': 

 formation on almost all subjects, and in olinosr all ; 

 languages. The perpetual contact and collision into :i 

 which mind is brought with mind, quickens the intel- i: 

 lect and keeps it in conjinnt preparation for conflict, i 

 Men are, aa it were, always within pistol-phot ol ;, 

 each other, walking the streets and lying down at u 

 night with their intellectual weapons sharpened and i: 

 their harness buckled to their backs. Yet we must ; 

 concede that the country has some advantage over ue , 

 in certain departments of mental labor, hs thcdcs, \,. 

 its tranquility, and its repose are peculiarly adapted I 

 to meditation. He, who would penetrate the deptliBi.| 

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

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

 with all its bustle and its ^tumult to distract higkCk 

 thoughts and disturb his processes of investigation. 



But assuming for the city some superiority in thef 

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

 parison when sve turn to the other views of the eub- 

 jcc;! Let us look about us, and see what is our con- 

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

 middle of the sign Leo; and the " dog-star rages.'" 



Let us look at the thermometer 02 deureee in thei 



shade! What a suflbcating heat, and no escape from 

 it! The rich man did not lung for n drop of water' 

 from the finger of Lazarus more eagerly than we for' 

 a mouthful of fresh oir from the towering Catskill or 

 the martial Helderbeigh, which we see in the dis- 

 tance. We close our windows and blinds and thtit 

 out the light of day, under the suggestion ol^n philo- 

 sophical friend that light and heat are in some dcgteo. 

 inseparable, and if v.'C exclude the one we get rid of 

 a portion of the other. We sit down in this artificial 

 twilight of our dwellings, and find life insupportable. 

 But business calls us out. We must be at our count. 

 ing-rooiLS, our olTicee, and our workshops: we have 



