ROCHESTER, N. Y.-THURSDAY, DECEMBER U, 1850 
mencement of the work, and every indica- 
FAEMEE.’ S ACCOXmTS. 
The year is closing fast, and many bal¬ 
ance sheets will be drawn, showing how 
those whose names may head them stand 
in regard to the matter of pecnniary profit 
and loss, on the last day of the year. This 
is a very necessary operation, and an im¬ 
perative rule with all commercial and busi¬ 
ness men; yet how few of our farming 
friends know how they stand, or what they 
have gained or lost the past year. How 
few have kept an accurate account of cash 
receipts and expenditures, even—without 
entering into the nicety of the profits of par¬ 
ticular crops, or animals. 
Would not the knowledge of the actual 
cost in cash and its equivalent labor, of each 
crop or animal, raised and disposed of the 
past few years, as well as the amount re-, 
ceived therefrom enable one to make the 
wisest calculations as to future investments ? 
Would it not tell one what to avoid as unsuit¬ 
able to hie circumstances, soil or market, 
and be of ten times the value generally, 
which the actual keeping of such an account 
would cost ? Would it not prevent many 
losses, which have been no one’s gain, and 
thus add largely to the wealth and prosper¬ 
ity of the country ? 
Let young farmers, then, pardeularly, 
keep a journal of the daily operations of 
tliemselves and assistants, from which to 
obtain data for the best application of their 
j capital, and the experienoe they are acquir- 
ry-idy 
field and animal, or flock rmd herd of ani¬ 
mals, some designation by which they may 
be refeiTed to, and then noting the amount 
each costs and produces,—in the case of the 
field for instance—the work done, the seed 
sown, the interest of its value per acre, &c., 
and per contra the produce returned at fair 
market rates,—and all of which would be 
the ground-work for the balance sheet, show¬ 
ing the result of the Farmer’s year of toil, 
—and we trust of profit 
Who will begin the New Year with open¬ 
ing his Farm Journal for 1861 ? A half 
quire of paper stitched into a cover, with 
pens and ink, are all the materials required 
to commence operations. 
FODDERING FRAMES. 
There is a great want of economy with 
a large majority of our farmers, in the man¬ 
ner in which hay, and other fodder is fed 
out to animals in the yard, during the win¬ 
ter months. After gathering and clearing 
the meadows with great care, and avoiding 
storms and rains and winds, and using every 
exertion to fill the barn with hay in the very 
best order, it seems preposterous to see it 
slathered out on the bare ground, by the 
sides of the barn and fences—especially 
during wet and thawy weather—in the utter 
disdainment of all rules of propriety and 
economy. The master animals drive the 
underlings over and through the material 
fed out, with their foul and muddy feet, to 
the entire ruin of one half of the whole food; 
and perhaps to add to this miserable opera¬ 
tion, a dozen store hogs are allowed to muss 
and drabble every fork full thrown out. 
HOG PENS-MAXING COMPOST, fka. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker; —Permit me 
to suggest to your readers the propriety 
and advantage of constructing suitable pens 
for their swine; and at the same time to 
invite them to consider on the hmts thrown 
out, and see, after weighing the matter well, 
if there is not great advantage in having 
some systeih in their erection, 
In the first place, the pen should be large 
and airy, as a close pen is injurious to their 
health. The pen should be divided into 
three parts,—one for store shoats, and the 
other two for the hogs—one part to be cov¬ 
ered close so that they can be protected 
from the inclement weather, as well as to 
be able to shut it up while fattening just 
before killing time, in order to keep the fowls 
from the corn. This portion should, also 
have a good floor on it, and should be 
cleaned out eveiy week. The other por¬ 
tion of the pen should be open to the weath¬ 
er, and dug down one or two feet below the 
surface of the ground. 
My reasons for this areIt you wisb. to 
make a quantity ol most excellent manure, 
in the fall or spring of the year, set your 
hands to work in hauling forest leaves from 
the woods, and throw a quantity in, and 
the hogs with the assistance of the weath¬ 
er will soon work it up into excellent com¬ 
post. When your pen gets too full, throw 
it out and fill in with leaves again. We 
generally make a practice, in the fall to 
take our horse aiul .^art and a quanti¬ 
ty aomo, and throw sona; ia ncn occa¬ 
sionally during the winter. Lsohade. 
PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 
Office in Bums’ Block, corner of Buffalo and State 
streets, (entrance on State,) Rochester. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE. 
(Late Publisher and Associate Editor Gen. Farmer.) 
ceed the promises made in our prospectus— 
and as evidence of the manner in which 
former pledges have been redeemed, we re¬ 
fer to the volume of the New-Yorker just 
completed. 
We have secured such permanent assist¬ 
ance in the management of the paper as 
will, it is believed, increase its popularity 
and usefulness. Its pi*esent editors, except 
Messrs. Langworthy and Comstock will 
continue their contributions. The latter 
gentlemen have been unable, in conse¬ 
quence of official and busine,ss engagements 
to contribute regularly for some time past 
—and now withdraw for those reasons.— 
We have the assurance, however, that Mr. 
Langworthy, who has contributed largely 
and efficiently to our 
PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT, 
CLOSE OF THE YEAR AND VOLUME. 
The close of the year, and with it the 
initial volume of the Rural New-Yorker, 
furnishes a fitting opportunity for a review 
of the past and an allusion to the future.— 
Yet, appropriate as a somewhat extended 
essay might be—fruitful and suggestive as 
is the theme—the limited space in which 
this article must appear, admonishes us to 
beware of prolixity. We can therefore 
merely notice a few of the many matters 
pertinent to the season and occasion. And 
if our remarks seem personal, and include 
business affairs, the kind reader, “into whose 
eyes we are now looking”—and to whom 
we trust our fifty-two visits have been both 
welcome and entertaining — will bear in 
mind that the present is the most suitable 
time for posting up accounts and striking a 
balance sheet with the world and mankind. 
Attentive reader, the first volume of the 
Rural New-Yorker is completed—and 
you are the most competent umpire, to de¬ 
cide in regard to its merits. Whether our 
efforts to fulfil the pledges made in the out- 
have proTcd'succcsrsful n r;d- 
you can best determine. Guided, as we 
trust, by a more worthy motive than mere 
personal gain, we have not only endeavored 
faithfully to redeem those promises, but to 
discharge the duty in such a manner as 
would redound to the present benefit and 
future well-being of all our readers. You 
may perhaps remember reading, among 
others, this sentence in our first number:— 
“ Our aim is to furnish a reliable and unex¬ 
ceptionable Family Paper, for both Town 
and Country—one which shall interest and 
instruct the young, and prove a valuable 
assistant to those more advanced in years 
and experience.” To acomplisb this object 
pages during the past 
year, will continue his valuable assistance as 
a correspondent. We also have the pleas¬ 
ure of announcing that Mr. Jasper H. Bix- 
BY, of Niagara County, will hereafter assist 
us in the editorial management, devoting 
his entire time to the paper. Mr. Bixby is 
not unknown as a writer, having been for 
some years an able contributor to several of 
the best literary magazines and other jour¬ 
nals in the country. Over the signatures of 
“B.” “H-’j aud “.i. II. B.,” he has writ- 
ten Ullldl >VCil lOl tlic 
of the New-Yorker. Dr. M. M. Rodgers, 
author of “Rodgers’s Scientific Afrricnl- 
mducement for animals to deposit their 
droppings under cover, where they are pro¬ 
tected from the leachings of the rains, and 
are in a situation to undergo the putrefac¬ 
tion necessary to decompose the woody 
fibre of the beddings of straw arrd refuse 
hay. 
Where this process is not convenient— 
and in a great many cases, there is not shed 
room enough to convene the whnlA niimlAov 
CROPS OF SENECA COUNTY FOE 1860. 
1 Acres No. Bu. pe 
1 Cultivated, acre raised. 
Whole 
Quantity. 
Products. 
Wheat, 
Barley,. 
Oats,. 
Buckwheat,. 
Indian Corn, 
Grass Seed,. 
Rye,. 
Flax,. 
Potatoes,... 
Hay,. 
nave neither been misplaced nor unre- 
w.arded. 
The paper has been far better received 
and supported, than we anticipated in the 
beginning—and given, so far as we are en¬ 
abled to judge, general if not universal satis¬ 
faction. Indeed, in the latter particular we 
have just cause of gratulation, for we have 
unmistakable evidence that the New- 
Yorker is not only highly approved, but 
preferred to many journals of greater pre¬ 
tensions. And yet we are not satisfied.— 
Our ideal of what a Rural and Family Pa¬ 
per should be is not yet attained, though 
we trust a good beginning has been made 
— an approximation at least towards what 
wc hope ere long to attain. In the man-1 
agement and publication of the paper, we 
shall strive to present each year some 
The above Table was received some time 
since, but we have delayed publishing it 
with the expectation of getting like statis¬ 
tics from other counties. We give it now, 
regretting that they have not been furnish¬ 
ed, for such could not fail to be of high val¬ 
ue both to producer and purchaser. 
This table was furnished by W. K Wyck- 
OFp, Esq., being made up from information 
furnished by the Vice Presidents of the 
county Society. It embraces all the towns 
in Seneca Co. except that of Waterloo, and 
shows most conclusively the wealth and fer¬ 
tility of that section of the Empire State. 
Deferred' —The Index, &c., occupies so 
much of this number that ■we are compelled 
to defer several valuable articles from cor¬ 
respondents. IVc sball endeavor to give 
them in tlie next and following number._ 
The favors alluded to are particularly ac¬ 
ceptable, and we hope to receive others 
from the same sources. 
For the reason already mentioned we can 
not of course give much variety, this week. 
