Rochester. N. T.-For the Week Ending Saturday, September 14,1861
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Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection 1 TWO DOLLARS A. YEAR.] "PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT. [STNGKL.E NO. B^OTJR CENTS. VOL XH. NO. 37.} ROCHESTER. N. T.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,1861. {WHOLE NO. 609. in June for the first time in the second year. The mitted to grow. All weeds that have commenced RETURN-TABLE APPLE PAEEE. MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, best plan is to turn on your stock when the seed flowering should be collected together in a pile, dried AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY. ripens in June. Graze off the grass, then allow the and burned. If gathered before flowers are formed AMONG all the inventions AGBICUITURAL, LUEKARY ANB FAMILY JOURNAL. fall growth, and graze all winter, taking care never to they may be placed upon the compost heap and for paring apples which have feed the grass closely at any time.1' mixed with fermenting manures. CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, come under our observation The number of seeds produced by our common With an Abie Corps of Assistants and Contributors, Canada Thistles. of late years, the "Return- weeds is really astonishing to those who have no Table Apple Parer," recent- CHAS. D. BKASDON1, Western Corresponding Editor. SOME years since, in our investigations among studied the matter. A good plant of dock will ripen ly patented lay WHITTEMORE the flowers and weeds, we found what was new to us from twelve to fifteen thousand seeds, burdock over BROTHERS, Worcester, Mass., — a Canada thistle with white flowers. In the twenty thousand, and pig-weed some ten thousand. THE RURAL NEW-YORKER is designed to be unsurpassed in is the most novel and com- Value, Purity, Usefulness and Variety of Contents, and unique locality where we discovered this, there were a few To destroy a plant before seeding, therefore, is a plete. For paring only we and beautiful in Appearance. Its Conductor devotes his per- among the pink variety, but in no other place did work of no small importance. think it just the thing, and sonal attention to the supervision of its various departments, we find them. Having searched all the botanical likely to give entire satisfac- and earnestly labors to render the RURAL an eminently works within our reach, and not finding the white Reliable Guide on all the important Practical, Scientific and WESTERN EDITORIAL NOTES. tion. In the language of the other Subjects intimately connected with the business of those variety described, we made inquiry of some of our inventors, "it embraces some whose interests it zealously advocates. As a FAMILY JOURNAL best botanists, and found they were ignorant of its WAYSIDE JOTTINGS. of the priaciples of former it is eminently Instructive and Entertaining—being so con existence. Since then we have watched -its increase, ducted that it can be safely taken to the Hearts and Homes of " SPENDS most of his time in the garden." Such patents, but the principle of people of intelligence, taste and discrimination. It embraces and now a few can be found in almost all places in giving the knife motion this section of the country where Canada thistles are was the closing sentence of the hasty history of a more Agricultural, Horticultural, Scientific, Educational, man of whom I had heard something in the neighbor around the apple, and caus- Literary and News Matter, interspersed with appropriate and permitted to grow. About five weeks since, in ing its return, is entirely new, beautiful Engravings, than any other journal,—rendering giving some notes made among farmers and in the hood—whose Bon was called an excellent farmer, &c, it the most coraptete AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY I determined to call upon this man; for I desired to and a patent has been al- NEWSPAPER in America. harvest field, we playfully remarked:—"The Canada lowed upon it. It takes thistle is a pretty flower, very fragrant, and we have study his composition—to learn something of th personal character of one who could "find time" to three turns of the crank to discovered a white variety; but we hardly think it pare the apple and bring the worth while to grow seeds on a large scale, for the give to such a novelty as a good garden—for outside the " corporation limits" of the town, I have failed knife back in its place, with- demand will not be great nor the price remunerative. out the use of a spring, and We would therefore advise farmers to cut down their to find a real good kitchen garden, I am sorry to say The two " boys " are cutting bats, and the " father; in the neatest and most quiet thistles." This simple remark brought the following manner imaginable; while INQUIRIES AND NOTES. letter, and we judge its author, from the desperate is away yonder salting the cattle, and picking up the fallen fence. He is coming, and I wait to se< no machine leaves so little effort he makes at sharp writing, has not only labored paring upon the apple." Kentucky Sine Grass. him. The reader knows, as well as the writer, tha among the thistles but suffered from their sharp It can be seen at the store of EDS. RURAL NEW-YORKER:—Will you be kind enough to having heard something of the character of a man, points: N. B. PHELPS, NO. 3 Buffalo give me some information, through the columns of your associate with it certain physical features or peculiar! paper, or otherwise, in relation to Blue Grass, stating what St., who is agent for Roches- EDS. RURAL NEW-YORKBR:—A short time since, I chanced ties, which we are very sure to find in some form kind or kinds of soil are adapted to it, time of sowing, quan- ter and vicinity. in my rambles, to pick up a copy of the RURAL, and in glan- Here he comes, a straight, wide-awake old man, neat, tity of seed per acre, &c. ? Do you consider it preferable for cing over an article which I supposed was editorial, I dis- meadow or pasture to timothy?—W. F. GREER, Painesvitte, thoughtful^ careful of the comfort and well-being o covered the writer, among other items, gave a thrust at the j Lake Go., O..X1861. poor "Canada Thistle," and among his remarks he says " we all about him, whether brute or being. We are no Our correspondent, we suppose, refers to the Ken- have cHsoovered a white variety." Well, said I, here is anotherdisappointed in his composition. And we are led a when thus fed, though the writer has seen it asserted determined by trial. The object is to bring the tucky Blue Grass, which is commonly called here evidence that there is progress—surely, as GALLILEO once once to the garden, which is plainly his pride an< that it does. cheese in from 40 to 60 minutes. The milk iB kept June Grass, Poa pratensis, and not the true Blue said, " the world moves;" for in this year of grace 1861, with pet. It is not unlike other good gardens. Apricots! Here, on the bottom lands of the Dei cool during the night by filling the water chamber of the war for slavery upon us, and among all the new things Plaines, we are invited by Mr. J. L. GILBERT, to sit the vat with cold water—sometimes changing it late Grass, or Wire •Grass, Poa compressa. The former is We notice he has a late crop of dwarf peas grow the favorite pasture grass of Kentucky, where it is which are happening under the sun, some one who is con- under his trees and refresh ourselves with apricots— in the evening. After the morning's milk is added, nected with the RURAL, who writes the editorial "we," has ing, and ask the kind. "The Strawberry Pea,—the Dubois' Golden Apricot. He jars the tree and down if necessary, a little fire is built in the furnace, and known as Blue Orass, and hence the reason that it is discovered a "white variety of the Canada Thistle." best I know of. It is early and productive—occupie comes a shower of golden fruit—pleasant to taste an known so generally as the Kentucky Blue Grass- but little room. You see this is a late crop, the milk heated until "milk warm;" the rennet is Now, Mr. Editor, I am not considered or called a very talk about! It is grown here on the wild plum stock, "Various opinions are entertained in regard to its planted them about the last week in June, for seed then added and the whole stands 40 to 50 or 60 Bmart man. I was raised in the woods in Monroe county, N. The curculio troubles them some, but vigilance u value, and while some think it the most valuable of T., and have livedon this revolving earth a full half cen- I find the crop that matures from a late seeding are minutes. The curd is then cut with the steel dairy all the grasses in our pastures, others regard it as tury. I have been familiar with Canada Thistles full forty never buggy, as the earlier crop is almost sure to be. the price of safety; and their safety, it is proven, maj knife above described, and at the same time heated to far inferior to others, and comparatively worthless. years, have worked among them many a day, have tried Here are black currants, and I may say here, thai be Becured by paying this price. There are als 110° Fah.