-No. 3. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



37 



.1 'iM S. ilari, Hopewell, second best do. $3. 



Iiiiii Bradley, E. Bloomricld, for llic best field of 

 I 't?, $5. Sl>i biisheU per ncre. 



Mvroji Adams, E. Bloomfield, second do. $3. — 

 '''.>.]-2 biisbrls. 



.Ki3cpb lilodgot, Goilinm, for the best acre of 

 'tis. $5. 47.;!o bushels. 



\Vm. Brynnt, Mancbester, for tbe best field of 

 ' tiuoes, ^'r). 109 bushels on balf an nure. 

 1 '!>ns. B. Meek. Cannndaignn, for best Rutn Bagn, 

 - '. — 30 tons. Same, !J3 for second best, 2'3 tons. 



i lie. $r>, lor best Mangel V/unsol — 15 tons on 



•'■' r.'ds. 

 • iias. Godfrey, Scnecn, for best yoke of Fat O.xen, 



T. MiTon Adams, EaslBloomlicild, for the beet iat- 



1 I Cow, jj.^). 

 T 1 I : o. Cay ward, Seneca, for second best do. $3. 

 T. I icsier Osborn, G.irhnni, third do. $2. 



' ron Adams, E. Bloomlield, for best fat Steer, 



11. Greenlcnf, Canandaigua, second do §3. 

 I ' 1 iins B. Meek, do third do. $2 



T' A. .M. Bush, Hopewell, for the best fat Heifer, 



T.> .lolin B>idler, Canandaigua, for best si-i; Fatted 

 Sheep, ;Ji5. 



Mr. Godfrey's fat oxen, a cross wiiU the Devon, 

 ind 5Ir. Myron Adams' steer and cow, of Devon 



lood, would have done honor to any show. Mr. 

 Cayward's cow was a very fat and heavy animal with- 

 Dutany pretensions to aristocratic blood, and certainly 



one to symmetry or beauty. 



Monroe County Agricultitral Society. 



At a meeting ol the Monroe County Agricultural 

 Society, held al the Arcade, in the city of Rochester, 

 in the 19tb day of February, 1842. 



Tho meeting was organized and proceeded to the 



slectiou of officers for the ensuing year, when the 



following persons were elected ; 



For President, 



HENRY COliMAN, Rochester. 



For J 'ice Prcsiilcnis, 

 William Gvrbutt, Wheatland, 

 LvMAN B. L.VNGwoRTHV, Greece, 

 WiLi.iiM C. Cornell, Henri^^tto. 

 Hr.sRT M. Waku, Recording Secretary. 

 M. B. Bateham, Corresponding Secretary. 

 For Managers, 

 Uawson Harmon, Wheatland, 

 Nathaniel Haywan), Brighton, 

 Asa Rowe, Gre.ce. 

 Caleb K. Hobble, trondequoii. 

 B>. H. Barnard, Mendon, 

 Jacob Strawn, Chili, 

 Gideon Ramsdell, Perinton, 

 Miles Lawson, Ogdcn, 

 .lohn H. Robinson, Henrietta, 

 Alfred Fitcb, Riga, 

 Abel Baldwin, Clarks.:)n, 

 F. T. Root, Sweden, 

 David M. Smith, Rush. 



For Town Committees, 

 WlieatlanU. — Jirah Blackmir, George BhefTer, 

 Samuel Wood. 



CliUi. — William Pixley, John K. Balentine, John 

 (Tnller. 



Riga. Dennis Church, Charles Tenney, John 



Rowe. 



OgiUn. — Oliver Day, Mjdad P. Parker, Jesse 

 Harroun. 



Siocdcn.—S. D. Baldwin, George Allen, Hum- 

 phrey Palmer. 



Clarkson. —Hiy'ii. Forsyth, Frederick F. Church, 

 Abel Baldw n. 



'anna. — L. W. Metcalf, Roswell Atchinson, 

 Abner Darling. 



Greece. — Hali Colby, Nicholas Reed, John Moxon. 

 dates. — Lyman Potter, Moses Dyer, Matthias 

 Garrctl. 



Brighton. — Timothy Wallace, Romania Hart, 

 Oliver Culver. 



Mniriel.tn. — Matthias L. Angle, James Sperry, 

 Stephen Leaget'. 



Hush. — Tnonias Wright, William M. Molt, Chas. 

 Chamberlin. ^ 



Msndon. — Abner Cole, Benjamin Biraaall, Jr., 

 Thomas Wilco.T. 



/'i«s/or(/.— Alexander Voorbees, Ira Bellows, Eb- 

 et\ei^: SuiberlanJ. 



Pcrinton. — Zcror Burr, A. Goodell, Elieha Ram- 

 Pcnfield. — Eliaa Boach, Daniel Fuller, Samuel 



Mil 



Webster Bryan Woodhull, William Holl, Alphc- 



us Crocker. 



Irondc'ptoit. — Benjamin King, H. N. Lnngworthy, 

 -^— — Cuminings. 



liodiestir. — Alonzo Frost, E. Darwin Smith, Na- 

 thajiiel Draper, Ansel Frost, George Whitney, Alex- 

 ander Kclsey, Patrick Barry. 



On motion, it was Resolved, That measures be 

 taken by this Society for establishing an Agricultural 

 Museuin in the city of Rnchesler, and that a commit- 

 tee of five be appointed to make inquiry respecting a 

 room for tho purpose, and to send a petition to the 

 Guvernor and Legislature for a set of the specimens 

 of Natural History colloeted by the Geological Sur- 

 veyors, and to report at the next meeting of this Soci- 

 ety. 



On motion of E. Darwin Smith, Resolved, That 

 the thanks of this Society be tendered to Lyman B. 

 Langworlhy, for the able, diligent, and faithful atten- 

 tion to the duties of the office of President of this 

 Society for the last two years, during which he has 

 officiated as such. 



Adjourned to meet at the same place on the ITth of 

 March next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. 



HENRY M. WARD. Re e. Sec. 



The First Effects ol the Bankrupt I.aw. 



We are told by the New York papers that since 

 the operation of the Bankrupt Law, numbers in 

 that city have come forward to compromise with 

 their creditors who for years past have made no 

 effort to pay their debts. They now evidently 

 dread the searching operations of that Law. 



The doctrine that when a man fails, he has more 

 money to expend in show and amusement, seems 

 now to be on the eve of an explosion. With pru- 

 dence and economy — hard times can neither affect 

 a farmer's independence, nor retard his mental 

 culture and intellectual pleasures. 



In some of my former brief articles, I have en- 

 deavored to impress my rural friends, with the ne- 

 cessity of thoir predicating their futm'e expendi- 

 tures and habits of living, upon that economical 

 scale, which the approaching low prices of agri- 

 cultural productions would soon render impera- 

 tively necessary to their comfort and independence. 

 Within the last few months wheat has fallen 

 from the price to which an infatuated speculation 

 had forced it, down to 87b cents per bushel. In 

 its fall it has carried with it most of the millers 

 and speculators, together with several banks ; so 

 that for some time to come farmers cannot expect 

 another inflation of prices, from a demand purely 

 speculative. Pork, which had last season touched 

 the lowest point in price ever before quoted in the 

 market, has now gone down so low as hardly to 

 cover the expense of barrel, salt, and freight from 

 the far West. Whiskey, owing in part to the 

 glorious temperance reform, has shared the same 

 fate. Indian Corn does better, owing to an im- 

 proved export demand for this grain. It would 

 seem that a kind providence has thus smiled upon 

 the legitimate uses of Indian corn, the moment 

 that man had ceased to pervert them, by '■ turn- 

 ing good to mischief!" Clover Seed, which was 

 supposed so be a very sliort crop, has, contrary to 

 all calculation, continued to decline in price until 

 its price has become merely nominal. Still, in the 

 midst of low prices, the independent farmer is 

 better off tlian most of the other classes of com- 

 munity. He has no rent to pay, no corporation 

 taxes to tease him weekly ; so far as he is the 

 consumer of his own products, the price is of no 

 importance to hinv ; in barter for cloth his wool is 

 worth as much as ever. Many of his other pro- 

 ducts are equally available in exchange for labor, 

 &c. He may not indulge in as many far fetched 

 luxuries, in all such imported fabrics a= fashion 



imposes ; but his intellectual pleasures need not 

 be abridged on that account ; as mental culture 

 depends on taste and enthusiasm, and not on mer- 

 itricious display, nor does it cost any thing but 

 time and study. The delightful study of nature's 

 laws, is in the way of the farmer's vocation and 

 daily calling ; let him then, instead of repining at 

 low prices, hard times, and a lack of money, re- 

 llect that such privations are the only means to 

 bring back the nation's long lost health ; that, al- 

 though the medicine is repulsive and exceeding 

 bitter, it is nevertheless indispensable to a perfect 

 convalesence, S. W. 



Waterloo, ScncQa Co. N. Y. 



Grafting Cherry Trees; 

 A practice which has hitherto been attended with 

 some difficulty, insomuch that inoculating has usu- 

 ally been substituted for it. In the spring ol 1841, 

 we engrafted a few small trees by the following 

 process. It was in March, and rather a cool day, 

 so much so that a furnace of coals was necessary 

 to warm the wax. After sawing off the head of 

 the tree to within about six inches of the ground, 

 we took a sharp pen-knife and made incisions in 

 the bark, designed to be parallel and over the cleft 

 of the wood. The wood was then split and the 

 scions set in the usual way ; after which I took a 

 fine piece of paper over which wax had been spread 

 and carefully applied over the wounded part. Over 

 this, wax may be again applied to keep it in place 

 and over the whole we placed a ligature of India 

 rubber cut entire to keep the parts from extending 

 by the frost. W. B. 



Monnt Osceola, Feb., 1842. 



A Treatise on Domestic Economy, 

 For tbe use of Young Ladies, at Home and at School. 

 By Miss Catharine E. Beeeher, — late Principal of 

 the Hartford Female Seminary. Boston : Marsh, 

 Cnpen, Lyon and Webb. — 1841. 

 This ia a capital book ; full of wise and UEeful ad- 

 vice, showing intelligent and exact observation, and 

 speaking often kom experience. The objection we 

 have to the booTt is, that it contains a great deal too 

 much, being a sort of Encyclopedia of Agriculture, 

 Gardening, Honsc-keeping, Health, Manners, &c. 

 It does not seem civil to complain of getting too much 

 for our money, but the book would be much more 

 read if it we-e smaller. We ore not quite satisfieJ 

 with the copious drafts, which Miss Beeeher makca 

 upon other and contemporary writers. If they were 

 books of many years atjo, out of print end unattaina- 

 ble, there might be reason for it ; but there is no jus- 

 tice in plundering the baskets of those who are in the 

 market with ourselves. Fair play is a jewel, and this 

 lady has no occasion to shine in borrowed dresses. 



Nor do we see the appropriateness in a book for 

 young ladies at school or at home, of treating of the 

 construction of barns and barn yard.', coio Icupirg 

 and horse keeping ; unless her book is specially de- 

 signed for some of the Dutch girls at the West, whom 

 we have seen more than once in the market driving 

 their teams loaded with wood. In New England we 

 have not yet quite got to that. 



The book, however, is a good one, and we shall 

 enrich our columns with some ueeful extracts from it. 

 It must, we think, however, unless the author is fire 

 proof, prove fatal to 3/iss Beeeher. We know half a 

 dozen good fellows who, if they kneiv what is good 

 lor themselves, would at least try ti» put such a house- 

 keeper into her proper sphere, and compel her to doff 

 her maiden plumee. ^^ 



Winter of 1841-2. 



Tbe winter just closed upon us, has been most re- 

 markable for us high temperalure and the small 

 imount of Snow, which has fallen. The \yheat, na 

 i'ar as we have seen it, looks well. It remains to he 

 icen what is the ultimate effect of such a season, upon 

 he crops <f grass and grain. There is lime lor soma 

 snow in Mnich. 



