VOLUME 1. J- 
ROCHESTER, N. Y.-THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1850 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOREER, 
PUBLISHED WEKKiDY. 
Office in Bums’ Block, comer of Buffiilo and State 
streets, (entrance on State,) .Rochester. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. ilOOEE. 
(iMte PMisJier and Associale Editor Gen. Farmer.) 
L. B, LANGWORTHY, Associate Editor. 
and worthy citizens of their adopted coun- 
tr}'-. The farmer under whom they have 
served this 
PROFIT OF BEES.-PEACH GROWING, 
Thorndike Village, 
apprenticeship will not only have 
j benefited his ignorant fellows, but has made 
their labor profitable to himself—has applied 
his own experience in practical operations 
and has added to the wealth and pros¬ 
perity of the nation. 
In “ farming for profit” the right thing 
must be done in the right place, in the right 
time and in the right way. True economy 
must be practiced, but not that which 
“saves at the spigot to waste at the bung- 
hole”—neglecting to make those improve¬ 
ments, and to give that thoroughness to 
every operation wdiich pays so well in farm- 
ing—or to see that in preparing the soil— 
-in the seed—in the cultiva- 
Palmer, Mass., Aug. 5, 1850. J 
We have been vifsiting an old friend in 
this village, now engaged in trade, whose 
success with bees has been somewhat re¬ 
markable. Six years ago he procured a 
swarm which has multiplied until he now 
has 23, and has lost three in the mean time. 
He has sold a large quantity of honey, 
which was taken from time to time from 
the hives. He showed us one swarm that 
came out last May that has already gather¬ 
ed about 60 pounds of honey. It has been 
said that if you take boxes of honey from 
the hive, that the bees within will not 
ijooK ai an inaividual case. Here is a 
farmer with one hundred and fifty acres of 
land, with a large family dependent upon 
Its products for support, who, with himself 
and one hand through the year, and anoth¬ 
er for haying and harvest, carries it on after 
a fashion. Keeping considerable stock he 
has an opportunity for increasing liis ma¬ 
nure heap almost at pleasure, and the fa¬ 
cilities, had he the labor and capital at com¬ 
mand, for many profitable improvements._ 
But, by the time his spring crops are hur¬ 
ried in, hoeing comes on—before hoeing is 
concluded the harvest arrives,—the summer 
! follow is not properly prepared, and he must 
either really cultivate but a portion of his 
farm, or skim the Avhole over with a com¬ 
paratively profitless result He cannot find 
time or means for the improvements he sees 
so necessary, and hiring labor at a high 
price, as such men generally do, which con¬ 
sumes the surplus products, it is no wonder 
that, though seemingly wealthy, yet really 
hard-pressed and poor, he should think a 
farmer’s life 
Ckwresponding Editors: 
ELON COMSTOCK and T. C. PETERS. 
Educational Department by L. VVETH1®EI..L. 
[CP For Terms, &c. 
PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT. 
S FARMING FOR PROFIT. 
) The object for which the former toils— 
^ for which he plows his land, and sows his 
)’ seed, and endures the sultry labors of the 
i harvest time—is mainly the profit which 
I is expected as a result The same object in- 
^ fluences all classes of society, and it is prop- 
> er that it sliould ever be considered—that 
I in all undertakings this ultimate end be held 
) steadily before us. In the important con- 
J cems of religion we are called upon to take 
) this view of the subject—to ponder the sol- 
emn question, “Whatshall it profit a man 
j if he gain the whole world yet lose his own 
^ soul?”—and we may consider in all cases, 
^ profit in the shape of good—of wealth, lion- 
J or, and enjoyment—the legitimate reward 
J of man’s labor, bodily and mental, if wisely 
) directed and employed for the furtherance 
) of the objects of his existence. 
) If “ he who makes two blades of grass 
i grow where but one grew before, is a bene- 
; factor of his race,” then all tlie knowledge 
' and skill which promote profitable farming 
. are most wisely applied; and his is neither 
^ a low ambition or a degrading vocation, who 
^. seeks by honorable means—by his own toil, 
> and skill in directing the paid labor of oth- 
! Cl’S—to make the most.money from the acres 
; he .occupies. Nor is his labor useless and 
; unworthy of reward, who seeks to give im¬ 
pulse and energy to this spirit in the mass 
of the agricultural community—who to the 
stirring music of profit, starts up the brisk 
march of proofress and imnrovement. 
swarm 
deterioration in the qualities of a given soil. as facts abundantly show. 
“ How then, such being the case, shall I ^ot every former keep bees?_ 
improve my farm, and restore, at the least ^ad attention, and are 
possible cash outlay, those elements which producers. 
are exhausted by my growing crops ? I ^ successful on the cultivation of 
will gladly do it, provided it don’t cost too ^ with his bees. We have 
much.” never seen, even in the Genesee Valley, so 
This query we propose to answer. luxuriant and prolific a lot of peach trees, as 
Guano—could it be obtained at this interior of the “ old Bay State.” 
point, pure, free from adulteration, and at a planted his trees an old farmer 
sufficiently low rate to authorize its use_ who had been a resident for a long time in 
undoubtedly contains more of the elements ^wn, laughed at the young man for his 
of fertility within itselt; than any other fer- attempting to cultivate the peach.— 
tilizer now before the public, but at present P®^^^ entertainments that the old far- 
it cannot here be so obtained. since enjoyed, have taught him 
Pulverized bones come next in order and 1^® had not learned all there was to be 
application, and the same objection holds ^’^^^wn concerning the culture of one of the 
true in like manner against them. choicest of fruits. 
Lime will conect many of th«i bau qual- satisfied that the foil- 
ities of a soil; but it cannot impart fertility peach and plum are to be at- 
to a soil where its elements are wanting. tnbuted either to ignorance or neglect_ 
Plaster is good—but only where the con- farmer in this 
Jitions necessary for its effects to be reali- desires to do so, can, if he will 
jed are present in the soil. The same may produce as many peaches and 
De said of many things which have at va- entirely satisfy him. Persons 
rious times been proposed for use. begin to lemark that the peach cannot be 
As a cheap fertilizer—as one that can be ®^^®®ssfully cultivated, much longer, in the 
ibtained in inexhaustible quantities —as one Valley. This maybe true with- 
ivailable, or which can be made so—I cultivation—with it, we believe . 
voukl propose the use of finely pulverized continue to grow and 
lituminous coal. From what is known of the Genesee River shall 
ts ultimate analysis, it promises to afford, to flow. As a country grows old 
it a cheaper rate than heretofore known,' knowledge of the art^f vegetable cul- 
he elements of fertility to soils, in a man- becomes necessarj^ Let this be tho- 
ler available to all, whether of large or diffused and practiced, and we shall 
mall means. With your leave, Mr. Edi- complaint of fiulures of any kind of 
or, I will enter into detail next week. when, in ordin- 
Yours truly, A. seasons, if a man fail to produce a good 
——- crop of whatever he plants or sows, it will 
SEASON AND CR OPS IN NEW ENGLAND, j be considered demonstrative evidence of his 
WARETMi., Aug. 6, 1850. w """ru® vegetable culture.- 
The season here, as with you, has been ^ ^ ^ rejoice to see that day. w. 
ery productive. The hay crop is abund- ‘^ke quince blight, the pear 
at—corn and potatoes look well anikbid ^ plum blight, Ac., be caused by 
the want of some element whir.L tUA I 
m manunng- 
tion, and in the use and marketing, all is at¬ 
tended to promptly, properly, and above all 
profitably. Let this be done, and we will 
vouch for the profit of farming. For the 
plejisantness of it, we need bring no argu¬ 
ment, if the first is insured. AVhatever is 
truely profiuible, has an odor of pleasant¬ 
ness about it—and no occupation can be 
more favorable to happiness than that of the 
cultivator of his own broad acres, in this 
fertile and prosperous country. b. 
a hard and profitless one. 
! The best course in this case would be, 
1st at any rate to undertake no more than 
could be done well; 2d—to hire and teach 
the foreign laborers, wliich thi-ong our shores. 
A city paper wisely remarks—“Our for¬ 
mers nearly all cultivate their soil with too 
little labor—in other words, they don’t half 
cultivate it A very common excuse'is that 
labor is so scarce and so high that they 
cannot afford to have more of it. We be¬ 
lieve this a great mistake, yet there is some¬ 
thing in it The prices of American labor 
are often quite as high as our slovenly sys¬ 
tem of half-forming will justify. But if our 
ABILITY OF THE EAST TO GROW WHEAT. 
The gradual failure of the Eastern States, 
and a part of this State to produce wheat 
is an enigma of difficult solution. The 
State of Vermont even, with its Boreal cli¬ 
mate, once was a wheat growing region and 
continued to grow more or less, previous to 
the adv'ent of the Aveevil or grain worm; 
but it was nearly abandoned in most of the 
New England States, and in the eastern 
part of this State long before this period, 
as a reliable and profitable crop. 
The analysis of soils of the same appa¬ 
rent texture and composition, do not show 
any important difference in their constitu¬ 
ents. The diluvium—drift or soil that cov¬ 
ers this continent—was not created in iLp 
masses oi tne rocks covering a vast extent 
of country, and was distributed by currents 
and disturbances of the “ world of waters ” 
that once covered the whole globe, before 
the “ waters were gathered together.” 
Now, although the Western district is un¬ 
derlaid by a sedimentary, calcareous sub¬ 
stratum of rocks, yet the soil is not found 
by analysis to take any distinctive charac¬ 
ter from that peculiarity. It can hardly be 
climate that affects the Avheat plant, as we 
are in the same latitude as our middle, nor¬ 
thern and eastern counties, and yet with us 
it is a certain crop —the great reliance for 
profit by all the formers of this region and 
the great w’est. 
If lime, orpotash, which are admitted to be 
important constituents of wheat are lacking 
and they have been used up by cultivation, 
or if the soil lacks any other required pab¬ 
ulum of wheat, let them be artificially ap¬ 
plied; they are perfectly Avithin the reach 
and ability of the farmer. 
As the grain worm has ceased to exist at 
the east, simply from the want of the means 
to propagate itself, let the farmers commence 
Avheat husbandry again—clover, lime and 
ash their land—sow early that the plant 
may have strong roots to withstand the win¬ 
ter—and we feel persuaded that success 
would follow their efforts. There is no 
Rotation of Crofs.— Wheat may follow 
clover, beans, peas, and the hard crops, or 
an old turt, Avith decided advantage, as there 
is a change or rotation from one species of 
plant to a different one. Not so, however, 
when it follows Timothy, for here it is one 
grass following another, the wheat being 
classed by botanists in the order, “graminse” 
of which it is a true member. Wheat does 
not, therefore, appropriately succeed Tim- • 
othy, as it Avould not lierds’ grass, nor any 
other of the true grasses, imless first fully 
and properly dressed with appropriate ma- 
nures. Hundreds of farmers havp 
ing the soil 
If the Labeling Poor who crowd the 
cities and sea-ports, toiling, when they can 
find Avork, for a mere pittance, were scatter¬ 
ed over the land, and employed upon our 
fiirms it would be better for all concerned. 
An Irishman or German who on landing 
here stops in the city as a day laborer, or 
seeks employment on canals or railroads, will 
always be a laborer, dependent upon his 
wages and upon his success in finding con¬ 
stant employment—while he who hastens 
to the country and hires out upon a farm, 
will in a few years be able to purchase and 
stock a farm in the west, with skUl to work 
it profitably, and he and his children will 
rise in dignity and respect, and prove true , 
; it is 
stones. 
