Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-10-13

FARMING IN NEW YoRK-Hon. Lewis f. Allen, of
Buffalo, an agricultural writer of some repute, de-
yered an address at the close Of the Fair in Rensse
laer county, from which we extract the following:
!" Our own everyday experience shows us that
one who has but few objects Of cultvation attends
: to them better than he who has many. By con-
centrating our attention and skill to two arti-
cles chiefly we excel in them, and make them more
profitable than when our abors are divided between
several which are diverse in their treatment Thus
We find thriftest farmers are getting INTO those
products which yield the best returns from their
soils with the least expense. The farmers of the
Valley Of the Hudson, with the great city of New
York and its million of inhabitants IN and around
it and lined all along its banks with towns and vii
lagos, adopt mixed husbandry because their mark
ct is at or almost at their own DOORS So do farm
ers located on other warm and active soils, where
markets are near and access to them cheap. Furth-
er Oft on elevated hands, where rains fall plente-
ously and the heritage is fresh, hocks of sheep and
extensive dairies kept with comparatively little
labor, and large productions. 0tsego and Madison
grow millions of hops. Our Northern group and
our Southern tier of counties are world.renowned
for their great dairies. Orange, which has been
celebrated for hundred years, even far distant
as the Cape Of Good Hope, for her unrivalled but
ter, in common with the other river counties, now
sends her milk to New York unchurned; while Or
ange county butter.-the genuine article itself-in
thousands Of tons, is made all the way along from
the Schomanguite Mountains to the western confines
Of Cattaraugus and Chautauqua. Oneida, Herkm-
er, Lewis Jefferson and ST. Lawrence where the
farmers can scarce raise wheat corn fruit with
certainty-where the snow lies four feet level
for several months in the year. and fodderng holds
from early November almost into June in many
seasons abounds in the finest of grasses and in
marvellous quantities. Their cheese, of the richest
quality, goes in ship loads to the Southern States
TO South America and to Europe and although their
climate be severe and their soils unyieding to what
many of you of Rensselaer, would consider indis-
pensa6le among your products they have all the
rewards of their labor which they DESIRE and are
surrounded with all the comforts which welldirect
ed industry can bestow. Our fertile central and
western counties abound in wheat and the other
cereal grans-in Indian corn, in fruits and in wool.
To these they but turn their attention. for their
soil and climate are perfectly adapted to their
growth. Of these they produce some; of butter
not half Of what their towns and villages consume,
but they inundate you with apples, they feed you
with their wheat they fill your breweries with their
barley, send You their pork, supply your factories
with wool, and feed at home along the lines of your
Ere Canal and Great Central Railroad, the armies
Of labOrers and beasts of draught which are bearing
the imitable harveSts of our interior States for
ward to the seaboard.
So has kind Providence wisely adapted our diff
ferent soils and climates to the cultivation and
growth of diversified products; and of New
York are gradually adapting our husbandry to EN-
brace them, each in its appropriate place and man.
ner"