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THE CULTIVATOR. 
with about a peck of bran mixed with a bushel of he 
ruta bagas. When it had been fed on this food 58 days,, 
it was weighed and found to have gained 60 pounds.-— 
I afterwards, during the winter, fed the same pig and 
other hogs, for a few days, with ruta bagas boiled d 
mixed with bran, the mixture allowed to get pretty s< ur; 
and they increased in weight very slowly. I then fed 
the same animals with sugar beets boiled and m xed 
with bran as were the ruta bagas, and allowed to siur; 
they ate considerable of it, but did not devour it gree. i- 
]y. After feeding them with this food a few day s, I 
perceived they lost flesh, and probably would have i ied, 
if the same food had been continued; yet I have no 
doubt either of these roots will fatten hogs very well if 
fed before they sour. The principal part of the nutri- 
cious properties of these roots consists of sugar, and 
consequently the first fermentation changes it to alcohol 
and carbonic acid gas. 
S. W. FOSTER, 
of Scio, Michigan. 
Albany, Nov. 20,1839. 
EXTRACTS, 
[From the Genesee Farmer, Nov. 30.] 
Caution to Postmasters. 
We find it necessary to republish our exposition of 
the conduct of J. E. Force, as we learn that he is flood¬ 
ing the country with his spurious Prospectuses, in the 
hope, probably, that they will fall into the hands of 
many persons who will not see our statement, and he 
thereby be enabled to obtain advance payments on the 
credit and reputation of the genuine Genesee Farmer. 
It therefore becomes necessary to give our expose a 
more extensive circulation, that the friends of the Gene¬ 
see Farmer, and the public generally, may be on their 
guard against the gross imposition attempted to be prac¬ 
tised upon them, in thus sending out (with my papers 
in some instances) a Prospectus purporting to come 
from my office. As a specimen of the views taken of 
the matter, by those who understand it, we publish the 
following extract of a letter from one of the most dis¬ 
tinguished advocates of the Agricultural interest in 
Western New-York. He says:—'“What an infamous 
scheme your letter has exposed. I am glad they start¬ 
ed so early, as I think your exposure will put on the 
cold water effectually for a time. The project will pro¬ 
bably revive again in some form, but hardly, I imagine, 
in one so rascally. You may use my name in any way 
you think best, to counteract the scheme. I should 
have expected nothing different from Goodsell; and 
Force, I think, could have been only a tool. I have 
read your expose, and, though pointed, I do not think 
the language any too strong to properly characterize 
such conduct. ‘Connected with the Genesee Farmei 
for a year,’ Force says. Some years since, at a show 
in New-York, a company of gentlemen and ladies were 
admiring a beautiful volume—its printing, binding, &c. 
when a miserable fellow came up and claimed the cre¬ 
dit of its execution. The assertion was doubted, and 
when pressed to tell what part of its execution belong¬ 
ed to him, he stammered forth at last,—‘I made the 
paste!’ Such is pretty much the part Force has per¬ 
formed in the office of the Genesee Farmer.” 
Gross Imposition. 
I have just seen a Prospectus, headed “ Genesee Far¬ 
mer Extra, 1839,” for what purports to be a “ new se¬ 
ries” of the “ Genesee Farmer,”—■“ N. Goodsell and J. 
E. Force, editors, and J. E. Force, proprietor,”—a large 
number of which, I am informed, have been printed in 
this city for circulation abroad. Justice to the public, 
as well as a regard to the good name of myself and pa¬ 
per, seem to render it obligatory on me to caution the 
public against this spurious Prospectus, which has been 
got up by a young man not yet of age, who has been 
employed in my office, for a year past, to keep my ac¬ 
counts and mail my papers. Had not Force and Good¬ 
sell, however, placed the name of the Genesee Farmer 
at the head of their Prospectus, thus giving it the cha¬ 
racter of an Extra issued from my office, and made state¬ 
ments which are altogether destitute of truth, I should 
not probably have deemed it necessary to have noticed 
their efforts, nothwithstanding the dishonesty manifested 
in filching the name of my paper, and the perpetrator at 
the same time appropriating to himself the confidential 
knowledge of my business, books and correspondence, 
while yet in my employ. A simple statement of facts 
will serve to show whether the public will be likely to 
receive in return for their money, a paper of the high 
character of the present Genesee Farmer, or even any 
paper at all for any length of time. J. E. Force, who 
represents himself as proprietor, claims “a year’s con¬ 
nection with the Genesee Farmer,” from which the pub¬ 
lic might infer that he was or had been either one of its 
editors or proprietors. It is proper, therefore, to state 
the extent of his “connection with the Genesee Far¬ 
mer,” which consisted in his being employed in the 
office the last year to pack and carry the papers to the 
Post-Office at a salary of five dollars and a half a week. 
This Mr. Force, in an introductory note to the prospec¬ 
tus, which he acknowledges was not written by himself, 
is made to say that “ he has engaged the editorial as¬ 
sistance of those who were formerly its editors, to¬ 
gether with a number of its contributors.” And the 
same thing is said in the body of the Prospectus in still 
Stronger language, as follows:—“The new series of 
he Genesee Farmer will have the editorial powers of 
gentlemen already distinguished in this cause, and long 
engaged in the editorial department of the old series, 
and thus offer the best security in return for the patron¬ 
age of the public.” 
The representation here distinctly made is that the 
spurious Genesee Farmer is to be conducted by the edi¬ 
tors of the present Genesee Farmer. Indeed the pledge 
that it is to be under their control is given as “security” 
to the public that the paper will be worthy of their pa¬ 
tronage. The public can judge of the value of this 
“security,” when they are informed that the statement 
is entirely destitute of truth —and that no person con¬ 
nected in any way with the editorial department of the 
Farmer for the last six years, has been or can be enga¬ 
ged to aid the proposed dishonorable attempt to trans¬ 
fer to an irresponsible concern the reputation or patron¬ 
age obtained by nine years indefatigable service in the 
cause of Agriculture by the present conductors of the 
Genesee Farmer. It is, however, proper to say that 
the “N. Goodsell,” whose name figures in the Prospec¬ 
tus with that of J. E. Force, was employed as a writer 
for the weekly Farmer during the first years of its exis¬ 
tence ; but he six years ago, without a moment’s notice, 
or a word of difficulty occuring between us, broke off 
his engagement, and started an opposition paper called 
“ Goodsell’s Genesee Farmer,” which proved an entire 
failure, as he did not succeed in withdrawing from my 
paper either its reputation, correspondents, friends or 
patronage: and the base attempt, as it was considered 
by all familiar with the circumstances at the time, pro¬ 
ved an utter abortion, the paper having never completed 
its first volume. The public will be able to judge from 
this statement of facts in relation to “N. Goodsell and 
J. E. Force,” whether their Prospectus is worthy of cre¬ 
dence, and whether they will be likely to receive a paper 
worthy of their patronage, or even any paper at all for 
any great length of time, for such payments as may 
be remitted in advance for the counterfeit Genesee Far¬ 
mer. 
The contemplated union of the Genesee Farmer and 
Cultivator, (occasioned by the lamented death of Judge 
Buel,) has, so far as has come to our knowledge, re¬ 
ceived the warm approbation of the friends of both pa¬ 
pers. It may, however, not be amiss to caution the 
public against any other attempt which may be made 
to build up a spurious paper on the reputation and cha¬ 
racter of the Genesee Farmer, and thus defraud and dis¬ 
appoint the public, as we learn that there are other per¬ 
sons in this city who are prepared to make the attempt 
in case of the failure of the above named persons. 
LUTHER TUCKER. 
Postscript. 
Since the above was written, I have learnt that Force 
has sent off to the West large numbers of these Pros¬ 
pectuses with the November No. of ..the monthly Gene¬ 
see, Farmer, the mailing of which lie has delay ed proba¬ 
bly for that very purpose. Postmasters and others should 
therefore be on their guard against the Prospectus of 
Force and Goodsell, as it is not unlikely that they may 
find some of them done up in. my papers. It may be 
proper also to state, that Force now assures me that he 
shall not issue the proposed paper, which I presume will 
prove true, as he must have relied upon anticipated ad¬ 
vance payments for the means necessary to go on with it. 
Second Postscript. 
Force, who mailed a part of the November Monthly 
Farmer, was directed to put into each parcel a Pros¬ 
pectus for the Cultivator, but we have great reason to 
fear, from the following letter, that instead of sending 
our Prospectus, he sent his own, with such of the Far¬ 
mers as he mailed: . 
“ Milan, O. Nov. 26, 1839. 
“Mr. Tucker —In your last No. of the Farmer you 
state that you will forward with each package a Pros¬ 
pectus of the united paper of Farmer and Cultivator.— 
As yet I have received none, but have received one of 
the Genesee Farmer to be conducted by Messrs. Force 
& Co. Now this work is new entirely to me, and I 
know nothing about its proprietors, and cannot speak in 
favor of it. I wish therefore you would, on the receipt 
of this, send me immediately two prospectusesfor the uni¬ 
ted paper, so that I can solicit subscribers for it, and 
oblige yours, &c.” 
[j From the Farmers' Register .] 
On Fattening Hogs, by cold-soaked and ferment¬ 
ed food. 
You complain very justly, I think, that many of your 
first contributors have grown weary in well doing; in 
other words, that their communications have greatly 
fallen off in point of numbers. Although I myself am 
unconscious of being one of the culprits, I determined 
immediately upon reading your remarks, to act as if I 
really was one, and felt anxious to evince my repentance 
by forthwith inditing to you an epistle of some kind 
or other; but could think of nothing, at first, that ap¬ 
peared worth communicating; luckily, however, in the 
midst of this quandary, I picked up at second hand, 
from a friend, something in regard to the mode of fat¬ 
tening hogs, which seems to be well worthy of notice. 
First, however, I must tell you, that having, fora year 
or two past, enrolled myself in the fraternity of root- 
steamers for stock, (horses and sheep excepted,) my 
own experience is not yet sufficient to report to you any 
result of trials made by myself. I must farther confess 
that, as a novice in the steaming business, I still retain 
somewhat of that incredulity which I always feel rela¬ 
tive to the benefits of any practice, when they appear 
to me so exaggerated as those do that are generally as¬ 
cribed to the steaming process. But being open to con¬ 
viction, and utterly condemning the old and common 
wasteful method of fattening our hogs, I was much gra¬ 
tified to hear the account which I will now give you of 
the mode practised by some gentleman, whose name I 
forget, in King & Queen or King William. 
One or more casks or tubs are nearly filled with alter¬ 
native layers of chopped cabbages or roots, and broken 
ears of corn. Enough boiling water is then poured into 
the vessels, to cover the food. This is suffered to stand 
about twenty-four hours before it is given to the hogs, 
by which time some fermentation takes place, if the fat¬ 
tening process is commenced as early in the season as 
he commences it, which I understand he does long be¬ 
fore frost. A constant supply of this food is given un¬ 
til a very short time previous to the hogs being killed, 
during which they have corn alone, which is generally 
deemed necessary to harden their fat. 
By this method we may save the expense of steaming 
apparatus of every kind, such as have been heretofore 
recommended in our agricultural papers. It is true that 
some of these cost very little compared to the advanta¬ 
ges derived from them; but this little, even in the cheap¬ 
est that I have seen mentioned, is worth saving, if it 
can be done by some contrivance still cheaper, and pre¬ 
ferable on other accounts, as the one which I have just 
described, appears to be. 
I am gratified that I have it in my power to give you 
the foregoing information at this particular time; for I 
have long been convinced that we should probably save 
at least half the expense of fattening our pork, if we 
would commence doing it by the first of September, 01 - 
even sooner, and give much less corn than we generally 
do. To postpone putting up our hogs for the sake of 
the acorns and chinkapins that they may be able to find 
by incessant travelling, about in search of them, is as 
complete an illustration as I have ever known of the 
old proverb,—“ penny wise and pound foolish:” since to 
say nothing of the notorious fact, that hogs especially, 
fatten much faster in warm weather than in cold, and 
when they can fill their bellies without having to travel 
miles for the wherewithal, (being the laziest animals 
upon earth, except the gluttonous man, and his proto¬ 
type, the quadruped called the sloth,) more of them are 
lost by theft, if suffered to run at large, during the nut 
and acorn season, than would pay, twice over, the whole 
expense of feeding them in pens with food that cost us 
little or nothing, except the labor of collecting and pre¬ 
paring it. Even that portion of this stock which we 
call “ out hogs ” could probably be kept much more 
economically, if not suffered to run almost wild for half 
the year; and were supplied with food by their owners, 
instead of being left to supply themselves. As they are 
commonly managed, we may truly estimate the annual 
loss, in most cases, at nearly or quite half of the whole 
number; for many are killed for trespassing on our 
crops—starvation during three-fourths of the year, hav¬ 
ing taught them to be thieves; whilst a still greater 
number are stolen in the fall, after they get a little flesh 
on their bones, for a reason which I once heard alleged 
by an old negro in extenuation of the practice of steal¬ 
ing them, that “ hog meat was so miserable sweet his 
fellow sarvants could not help stealing it.” 
Hoping that you will deem this new process for fat¬ 
tening hogs worth publishing, I remain, dear sir, 
Yours very sincerely, 
JAMES M. GARNETT. 
August 31st, 1839. 
Chinch Bug. 
To the Editor of the American Farmer: 
In the last Farmers’ Register there is an extract from 
the Genesee Farmer, in which the “ Chinch Bug is de¬ 
scribed as peculiarly a southern pest originating in the 
woods, from which it spreads in every direction, attack¬ 
ing indiscriminately wheat, corn, and indeed the most of 
the cultivated grains and grasses.” 
The writer of this communication is correct in some 
of his position ; in others he is not. 
The Chinch Bug has invariably first made its appear¬ 
ance in the wheat crops in this section of the country, 
and in all others that I have heard from. From this fact 
some of the most intelligent farmers in this section of 
the state have come to the conclusion that the Chinch 
Bug originates from the Hessian Fly, as you always dis¬ 
cover them in our wheat fields near the ground where 
the Hessian Fly first makes a deposite of its egg. 
The farmers, some thirty years since, in Orange coun¬ 
ty, in this state, had to abandon the seeding of wheat 
for two years, which I consider a conclusive fact, that 
the Chinch Bug must originate from the Hessian Fly, 
as all those who are acquainted with the history of the 
former, must know that the mere abandoning of the 
seeding of wheat would not have prevented the reap¬ 
pearance of the bug unless they originated from the fly. 
The bug was never known to make its appearance in 
any other than the wheat crop ; it was never seen in this 
section of country until the Hessian Fly made its ap¬ 
pearance in our wheat fields, which is another fact 
showing conclusively that they must originate from that 
insect. The rye crop is the only grain which is exempt 
from its ravages, at least my experience bears me out 
in the assertion. I seeded a field in oats, wheat and rye, 
the last season, the oats and wheat were injured by the 
bug, but they did not molest the rye; they would march 
around it, but would not molest it. 
The same writer says, “ though provided with wings, 
