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Artilrsjs M. U. BATKH.\M or H. COLMA,\, Rochester. 



METEOROLOGIC At OBSERVATIONS, 



4DE At THE ROClTESTi'K COLLKGIATE IN.STITUTK BY 

 L. 1TETHERELL, MAY, 1843. 



3Silean temperature 



43.16S.W, 

 41,83'w. 

 43,16 w. 

 53 5 |s.w. 



45, |w. 



46, |w. 

 46 66jw. 

 46.66;w. 

 52,lij,iv. 

 51, w. 



47, kr. 

 46,66 w. 

 43, kv. 

 64,33'w. 

 51,66 w. 

 51,66 w. 

 45,S3|w. 

 |47,5 [w. 

 51,66 a.w- 

 5S,66 s.w. 

 65,S3 s.w. 



m, ,9. 



48,16 N.w 

 '43,5 N. 

 55,5 s. 

 55,331 s. 

 ]56,5 [N.w 

 57,5 js.w. 

 152,33 w. 

 of April, 



s.w. rain cl'ily 



vari'able 



cl'dy fair 



fair I fair 



air I fail' 



s.w. 



N.w. 



cl'dy 

 fair 

 fair 

 fair 



ram 

 fair 

 fair 

 fair 



fair 1 fair 

 fMLT J fair 

 fair I fair 

 vari able 

 fair 1 fair 

 fair I fair 

 fair cl'Jy 

 fair fair 

 cl'dy I fair 

 fair i fair 

 s.w.jcl'dy icl'dy 

 s.E. fair fair 

 s.w. fair 'cl'dy 

 w.| fair |Cl'dy 

 raiujcl'dy 

 N.E.I fair fair 

 s.E. fair 'cl'dy 

 E. I rain cl'dy 

 In.w I rain cl'dy 

 jw. cl'dy I rain 

 |w. I fair I fair 

 1812, 45. 85 

 1841, 39. 87 

 1840, 47. 80 



Rain Gage, April 36th, to May 35th, 1842, 1-91 in. 



« " 1841, 2.61 " 



" " " 1840, 5.04 " 



The Weather of the past Month. 



The month commencing April 26th and ending May 

 35th, has been cool and frosty, and also very dry 

 down to May the 18th, when there was a very fine 

 shower with thunder, — a little more rain the 19th ; a 

 plentiful rain the 22d and 23d ; a little more tlie 34th 

 Wheat has suffered in clay soil on account of the 

 drought in this region. It docs not look quite as prom- 

 ising as it did early in the .spring. I judge from what 

 I have seen in the vicinity of Rochester. Farmers, 

 am I right 1 



Vegetation was considered very forward April 25th, 



but since that time, its progress has l>cen very much 

 retarded in consequence of cold and dry weather, and 

 is now Utile in advance of the corresponding day last 

 year. 



Apple tree in blossom May 4th ; Lilac do. tjie 10th ; 

 Butternut, 14th I Q,uince, 17th; Horse-Chestnut, the 

 22nd. 



Last year, A^^ple in blossom May 27th; Glulnco and 

 Horse-Cheslnut, 28th ; Lilac, 2Gth. 



CoM.MON R.iiN GaC.e. — "In explanation of the 

 principles on which the rain gage is constructed, and 

 in answer to various inquiries which have been made 

 on the subject, it is proper to observe, that the area of 

 the funnel at the top of the cylinder, in its widest part, 

 being eight times the area of the cylinder below, one 

 inch in depth of rain falling in the open air, and re- 

 ceived through the widest part of the funnel, will fill 

 eight inches in depth of the cylinder; and consequent- 

 ly, the moveable rod in the cylinder, being attached to 

 a hollow, floating bulb, will be raised eight inches 

 above the crossbar at the top of the funnel. This space 

 of eight inches is divided into 100 equal parts, or small 

 divisions, so that each part or division above the cross- 

 bar will indicate the one-hundredth part of an inch of 

 rain fallen ; and iOO of those parts or divisions, cover- 

 ing eight inches on the rod, will indicate one inch qf 

 I fallen and must be regii'tered at-cordingly." 



State of Trade, Prospect.sof Prices for our A g- 

 ricaltural Products. 



Flour and corn now brng remunerating prices in 

 our Atlantic pons, pork is still by far too low, but 

 when the reduced duties in England take effect ae 

 per Sir Robl. Peel's* bill, we may e-tpect an export 

 ofbeef, pork, lard, bufer &c to England: even under 

 the late high tariff, it is said that our biuter would 

 havcsold at a good profit in England, if it had been 

 made as good as Irish butter. Strange as it may seem, 

 when good Orange Co. butter is selling in New. York 

 at twenty cents a pound by the firkin, our western 

 butter or rather our miserable imitation of butter, is 

 selling there in large quantities at eight cts. a pound, 

 and yet it takes as much milk to make the bad butler 

 as the good. Under the proposed reduction of the 

 duties on imports in England we may even export 

 apples there, to a profit. 



Thus while in the United States we are clamorous 

 for a prohibitory tariir, as the only antidote to that 

 ruin brought upon tlie country by the abuse of the 

 credit system, £ngland,sick unto death of prohibalory 

 restriction, is now adopting a plan, to encourage for- 

 eign trade, while it also increases the revenue of the 

 nation. 



I was about to admonish Farmers not to expect pre- 

 sent prices for wheat after the coming harvest, as 

 Russia, Prussia, and Germany will have their Grana. 

 ries filled, ready for every foreign market, and if Eng- 

 lond should be once more favoied with a good crop, 

 she will need no foreign corn until her crops again 

 fail; but we have now, 15th of May, every prospect of 



* This patriotic statesman has reduced his own rent roll 

 ■20 percent, in order to enable his tenants to live under the 

 rcquctioa In the duties on Imporieil provisions. 



another cold dry season which must seriously curtail 

 our summer crops ; this owing to a wise provision of 

 providence only increases and improves our wheat 

 crop, and its price for home use must increase in pro- 

 portion to the diminution of our summer crops. 



Butter and cheese are at fair prices with the proepect 

 of an increased demand for export, pork must improve 

 as less' will be mode and more exported, so that those 

 farmers who live out of the pale of the wheat growing 

 region need not be discouraged ; let them be true to 

 nature, and nature wdl reward them. 



Waterloo, May 15th, 1842. g. W. 



Fruit Trees in this vicinity have not suffered mate- 

 rially from frosts, and most kinds promise very abun- 

 dant crops, although we perceive that the curcniio is 

 thinning out the choice stone fruit as usual. 



The following letter from the Commissioner of Pat- 

 ents with the remarks annexed, were prepared for the 

 May number of the N. G. Farmer, but by an accident 

 did not seasonably reach their destination. We have 

 since read Mr. Smith and Mr. Ellsworth's letters in the 

 Cultivator for May, hut we see no reason therefore t» 

 qualify our remarks. Mr, Smith says that the amount 

 (of cocoons produced in Massachusetts,) set down in 

 the tables of 198,432 pounds, should luuioubtedly have 

 been 19,843 pounds ; and Mr. Ellsworth aaepts the 

 correction saying " the error was dmibtkss occasioned. 

 by reducing the two classes of products reported tq me, 

 thus giving one figure (the last) too much." Here, as 

 we conceive, is another beautiful example of guessing. 

 How should Mr. Smith know uiuioubiejly that it 

 should have been 19,843 pounds, when the actual 

 quantity returned to the Massachusetts Secretary's of- 

 fice under the bounty law for that year, was 27,219 lbs. ? 

 Our friend Smith, mdefatigable, disinterested and most 

 deserving as he has been to advance the silk-culture, 

 says " I have sech SO ilSUch mjury (to the silk interest 

 especially) fromeSdggerated statements and estimates of 

 results, that I am particularly sensitive on this point." 

 Under this excitement it may not be safe for us to have 

 approached him; but we do it, he knows, with all 

 goodwill and respect, and beg him above all things not 

 to put it down under the head of "ridicule." 



Patent Office, April 8, 1842. 



DkaIi Sir — 1 have just received and read your 

 paper, the New Genesee Farmer, in which you no- 

 tice my Report, and regret th:it you had not, before 

 you pubjisbgd your strictures, read the details of Mr. 

 W'ehb's experiments with the specifications for mak- 

 ing oil and stearine, published by the National Agri- 

 cultural Society, a copy of which hos probably before 

 this reached you. The public undoubtedly should be 

 guarded against extravagant statements ; still there 

 may be danger of encouraging scepticism and stifling 

 effort when experiments are needed, and which may 

 confer great benefits. 



As to the error respecting the amount of Silk in 

 Massachusetts, 1 have already written an explanation 

 to the editor of the Silk Agriculturalist, who, believing 

 from the context of my Report there must be a mis- 

 take, was so kind ai to write me snd inquire respeci- 



