Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-10-17

FARMING IN New YoRK-Hon. Lewis F. Allen, OF
Buffalo, nj, agricultural writer Of Soule rcpute de-
lyered 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 cultivation, attends
to them better than he who has too many. By con-
centrating our attention and skill to one or two art-
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 our thriftcst 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
Yorn 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 marx
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 off on elevated hlands, where rains fall plente-
ously and the heritage is fresh hocks Of sheep and
extensive dairies are kept with comparatively little
labor, and large productions. ~Otsego and Madison
grow millions of hops. Our Northern group and
our Southern tier Of counties are world-renowned
for their great diaries. Orange which has been
celebrated for hundred years, even as tar 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-ln
llUuSduuS vi tOlS, Is luduC all tlc way hiohSo HohA
the Schomanguite Mountains to the western confines
of Cattaraugus and Chautauqua. Oneida, Herkim-
cr, Lewis jefferson and ST. Lawrence. where the
farmers can scarce raise wheat, corn fruit with
certaintY-where the snow lies four feet on 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-
pcnsable among your products they have all the
rewards Of their labor which they desire, and are
surrounded with all the comforts which well-direct
ed industry can bcstow. 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 can but turn their attention. for their
soil and climate 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 aborers and beasts of draught which bearing
the illimtable harvests of our interior States for
ward to the scaboard.
So has a kind Providence wisely adapted our diff
fercnt soils and climates to the cultivation and
growth of diversified products; and We Of New
York are gradually adapting our husbandry to en-
brace them, each in its appropriate place and man
ner."