ROCHESTER, N. Y.-THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1851 
•j WHOLE NO. 80 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO 
Agriculture, Horticulture, Mechanic Arts and Sci¬ 
ence, Education, Rural and Domestic Economy, 
General Intelligence, the Markets, &c., &c. 
ing and repairing all the necessary imple¬ 
ments and rigging for the grand onset. If 
you have the best tools, secure careful and 
active men, and commence right, the battle 
Yvill be half won at the outset These things 
are of the greatest importance—for it will 
set your work back somedeal.and amazingly 
interfere with your system, if you have any, 
to be obliged every day or two to look for 
better help or get new or repair old and 
broken implements. 
Begin cutting w 
we felt a little curious to make the experi¬ 
ment. The result was entirely satisfactory. 
Perhaps some of your readers will wish 
to know how green the wheat was ? The 
greenest was about as hard as dough,— 
just filled, and out of the milk. The wheat 
was permitted to stand when cut and shock¬ 
ed, until thoroughly cured, and when 
threshed it proved to be of the finest qual¬ 
ity. Its weight was 63 lbs. to the bushel. 
Since that time I have generally harvest¬ 
ed all kinds of grain early. But this, like 
almost everything else, has its advantages, 
and also its disadvantages, and of the latter 
we will first speak. It is heavier to handle, 
and it takes longer to cure it sufficiently for 
the barn or stack, and consequently must 
be longer exposed to storm and damage.— 
but the workmen may remedy or evade all 
these difficulties in part by cradling it down 
in the forenoon and then commencing to 
rake and bind at noon where he began 
cutting in the morning. This will give 
the wheat half a day in the swath to cure. 
The advantages of early cutting, are that 
the wheat will be better, and tire straw 
much superior to that which has been per¬ 
mitted to stand in the field until so dry that 
with difficulty it can be bound. Again a 
farmer can do his harvesting with a less 
uruoie or rur. rb. marks, contained in your 
paper of June 5th, I regret to see your com¬ 
plimentary editorial notice of Gen. Gifford 
ungenerously ascribed to mercenary mo¬ 
tives. The illustration of my horse in Der¬ 
by & Miller’s edition of Youatt’s Treatise 
on the Horse hires no better,—although it 
was there inserted without consulting me 
at all until it was decided on, which fact I 
stated in my communication published in 
the Rural of April 24th. 
My invitation to Mr. Marks, to submit 
the relative merits of our horses to a com¬ 
parison at the next State Fail-, I under¬ 
stand him to virtually decline; and that he 
has nothing to say of the qualities of his 
horse, but that there are other Morgan hor¬ 
ses which judges consider equal to mine. 
There are good ones, undoubtedly. The 
Morgans would never have been so justly 
and widely celebrated if there were not 
very many good ones of the stock; but I 
challenge the production of the now living 
entirely Morgan horse that shall be, taking 
all things into consideration, superior to Gen. 
Gifford,—from any quarter whatever. 
In regard to Gen. Gifford’s descent from 
a Morgan mare, I am neither mistaken nor 
misinformed. I know what Mr. Mason in¬ 
formed me on that point, and also what 
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heat before it is quite 
ripe—especially if you have no grain reap¬ 
er, and depend upon the cradle exclusively. 
Experiments have settled the question pret¬ 
ty satisfactorily in favor of early harvesting, 
and no arguments are here necessary. This 
and other late numbers of the Rural con¬ 
tain the result of experiments, and good 
logic, on the point,—to which we refer all 
who entertain doubts on the subject. 
Having made ready, and provided 
against contingencies, enter resolutely upon 
the campaign, determined to cut and secure 
your grain in the best manner and condi¬ 
tion. Watch the sky or barometer, be ac¬ 
tive, and witlial temperate — keeping the 
bottle out of the harvest field. Better com¬ 
mute with those who want liquor by paying 
a shilling a day extra;—or furnish them 
with home-brewed beer, ginger and water 
or a kettle of coffee, with bread and cheese’ 
cakes, &c. But pure cold water, after all* 
is the stuff to supply sensible and insensible 
perspiration, and keep one’s physical and 
mental faculties in the best working and 
PKCMJllESS AND OXPUOVEITXEIVT. 
> HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS. 
) - 
| . The present is so busy a season with far- 
; mers that we may be excused for reminding 
> them of a few important items, some of 
) which might otherwise be forgotten. We 
! do this in no dictatorial spirit—but merely 
) drop a few hints end suggestions, to be 
> acted upon if found timely and orthodox. 
’ Farmers, as well as other people, need a 
> little jogging, now and then, concerning 
> present duties; and of not a few cultivators, 
^ it may be truly said, concerning many mat- 
^ ters that demand their attention, that 
) “ They know the right, and they approve it too, 
\ Condemn the wrong and still the wrong pursue.” 
> 1 he “ Glorious Fourth” is past—the men> 
i and boys too, have had a good time—and 
J now is the season to prove that Jack is not 
j a dull boy. There is much to do on every 
\ farm, this month, but “ where there’s a will 
\ there’s a way”—and if you go about the 
) work in a determined and systematic man- 
: ner, it will be accomplished. Finish up 
! your having in short metre, if alreadv he- ! 
Below will be found a synopsis of the 
sale, the price each animal brought, togeth¬ 
er with the name of the purchaser. 
COWS AND HEIFERS. 
Name. 
Calved. 
Price 
Purchaser. 
Gen. Cadwallader. 
II Wells, Cayuga co. 
Geu Cadwallader. 
do. do. 
H Wells. 
April, ’49 75 Gen Cadwallader 
July, 1841 160 do do. 
Aug. 1843 125 J Osborn, Oneida co 
- 1848 220 Gen Cadwallader. 
Feb. 1851 5.5 do do. 
- 1844 ‘230 S P Chapman. 
- 1849 150 Gen Cadwallader. 
- 1849 95 do do. 
May,1847 90 H Wells. 
- 1847 175 Gen Cadwallader. 
Sept 1849 80 Wm Osborn. 
Aug. 1850 105 Gen Cadwallader. 
June 1849 110 do do. 
- 1837 90 do do. 
Aug. 1849 125 H Wells. 
April, ’51 75 Gen Cadwallader. 
- 1851 90 Wm Osborn. 
- 1851 60 Gen Cadwallader. 
!- 1850 90lJ B Wilson, Wis. 
AT PRIVATE SALE TWO BATES HIEFERS. 
Lady Barrington 5tli] - 18491 $ 3,501 vi r Remmington, Pa 
Hilpa 4tli.|- 185l| 300|S P Chapman. 
BULLS AND BULL CALVES. 
Duke of Wellingtonf Oct. 1839 ; 
Meteor]:.July,1841 i 
Bippo 3d.Sept. ’48 140 Dr. Richmond, C. W 
Leopold.Oct. 1849 50'Mr Cameron, “ 
Grand Duke.Feb, 1850 95 Win Osborn. 
Falcon.Sept., ’59 90 Dr Richmond. 
Marquis.Aug. 1849 60 do 
While Prince.April, ’51 55 F Yales. 
Fashion. 1851 30.Gen Cadwallader. 
Lilly 2d. 
“ 3d. 
“ 4th. 
“ 5th. 
Fun. 
Dahlia 5th 
Eunice 2d.. . . 
“ 3d. 
Wilddame 4th. 
“ 5 tli*. 
Daisy 3d. 
“ 5th. 
Fill-Pail 5th. . 
Victoria 4th. . . 
Rosette 2d. 
“ 3d. 
“ 4th 
Yellow Ekin. . 
Willey. 
Profitable 2d.. . 
Victoria 5th. . . 
Beauty. 
Red Lady. 
Fill Pail 6th. . . 
acre. 
5 extra “aid and comtort” you can spare to 
' bring it to maturity in season—so don’t 
mind any labor, plaster or ashes that can 
be afforded. 
Don’t forget the fruit orchard and kitchen 
v garden. Pick all the fallen fruit under 
j your peach and plum trees, and put it in 
■ some place to destroy the pesky curculios. 
; An extensive grower near this city, who has 
. tried various experiments, says the best plan 
!> is to put the fallen fruit in the highway._ 
^ The “ varmints” that would otherwise ema- 
} nate from the fruit will be most essentially 
\ headed and used up,—every passing team 
. and vehicle aiding in their destruction. If 
S not done already, set out cabbage plants 
’ now, wet or dry—it matters little, provided 
> you use proper care. If you dip the roots 
average per head 
S. P. C. 
THE TIME TO HARVEST GRAIN CROPS 
Messrs. Editors : — As experience is the 
best teacher we can have—at least in some 
things,—and as much is learned from the 
experience of others, all should throw in 
their mite of information to increase the 
common stock. This opinion induces me to 
give a little of my own experience. 
I once owned a share in a field of wheat 
with three others—each man to harvest his 
own share. Accordingly a day was fixed 
upon for cutting said field—the time came 
and all hands with cradles and rakes were 
J cannot say. He may not have told Mr. 
Marks, and may not then have known all 
that Mr. Blodget knew on the subject — 
and Mr. Blodget may not then have taken 
pains to ascertain—-but as I have conversed 
on the subject with Judge Blodget, I feel 
as competent to speak on that point as Mr. 
Marks. It was from Judge Blodget him¬ 
self that I learned the horse was from 
a Morgan dam. And in regard to Mr. 
Wier, the fact I presume simply is, that he 
knew nothing of the origin of the General’s 
dam, and if he made an effort, failed to dis¬ 
cover that she was Morgan—or at any rate 
did not discover that she was that unadul¬ 
terated pure Morgan that Mr. Marks says 
The Seventeen Year Locusts.— While 
in Michigan, a few weeks since, I learned 
that it was the year for the return of the 
periodical locusts, and curiosity led me to 
search for them. In some part of the open¬ 
ings, the bushes were covered with these 
insects, which had just emerged from the 
chrysalis state—leaving their shells or cov¬ 
erings to be found in all directions. They 
were not sufficiently large to fly far, or to 
sing their monotonous chant I have not 
heard of their appearance elsewhere, and 
but few had noticed them here. f. w. l. 
