New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-01
TRAVELS IN NORTHERN NEW YORK.
UNDER THE ROARIN BOREAS.
Corr. pondepce OF Tho N. Y. Tribune.
FRANKLIN House, geneva LAT. 43 north /,

Core. pondepce of Tho N. Y Tribune
FRANKLS House, geneva (lat. 430 northl,}
April 20, 1857.
Begging Dir. Bsysrd Tsylors pardon for the above
copy of his captions / should like to ask you what
does this weather mean! IL not the almanac mis-
taken in asserting, in the face of such proofs as lie
outside the door, that we are just about crossing the
threshold of May May, beautiful May when sun
shine comes down from her Winters sleep and
breathes upon the landscape to cover it with its Sum-
mer robes Of green and flowers when the young lambs
are skipping about full of life and plsyfulness, when
the cothe themselves in their leaf garments the
birds build their nests and sing to each other the
sprays and the husbandman consgns his seed to the
warm, mellow earth Faith, abiding faith alone
ables one this 2lst day of April to believe in the
possibility of the existence Of such delights for As we
came into town last evening the air darkened by
fall of such as have not surpassed this
Winter, and this morning it is lying the ground to
a depth of eighteen inches on level. The tnkle Of
sleigh bells sounds strangely, unreasonable that
/ confess to something of bewilderment. More than
four weeks ago passed from Louisville TO Cincinnati
through the central portion Of Kentucky and all along
the line Of the railroad the fields were green with
wheat, rye aud bluegrass; the cattle out TO
pasture in many places, and the farmers planting
potatoes and early corn. On every side the
welcome indications of Spring, and l could but hope
that the same pleasure might be experienced at home.
But all the country from Utica to Geneva, adjacent to
the Central Railroad, is covered with mantle of snow
in places TO the depth of and even two feet
in Others but slightly. Gentlemen who have come in
town this morning tell US they have measured twenty
four inches of the roads and in the fields II
certainly IL very remarkable STORM and should have
page 10 itself in The TRIBUNE ALMANAC. As for
doing Spring work the farms about here for less
than fortnight TO come it is out of the question The
Spring crops will be much delayed and thus the sup
ply for the farmers table will come in so early as
usual, but this fall Of will have beneficial
effect upon Winter grain. The last Autumn was very
hot and dry, and the wheat did get fair start and
but little rain has fallen throughout the Spring; 80 il is
decided benefit to Winter crops that this immense
BODY OF warm snow-water should be applied TO their
growth.
Owing to the persistent depredations of the insect
me wheat crop Is becoming and more precarous
ana the large farmers throughout the Genesee Valley
are entering largely into the culture of barley Thirty
70 'hity-tve bushels are considered average crop
he market price last year was 81 Is Der bushel.
Numbers Of fields of thirty fifty and even as high AZ
SIXTY acres, are grown in this neghborhooa The red
Mediterranean wheat is much liked because of its
npeniDg much earlier than the usual varieties and IL
To- great degree free from the attacks of the eeyI
Farming is conducted a grand scale the farms
containing one or more hundred acres each the major
proportion being over hundred and ffty Tooe,6sr
with this extent Of domain, there naturally snrnys mn
an extent OF ideas as to what farming Ia and whp
should be called farmers. The night before La, I
sald at the house OF one Of the most influential gentle
men OF Western Sew-York; he holds a respousibIe ma
ssion under the State Government and farms .ev.raI
b'pd'ea acres On HE estate, and IN eonversaton