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subject in the clearest manner and beyond a cavil or doubt ? If I dis- 

 cover a valuable fact in the rotation of crops or in the application of 

 manures, or produce a new and valuable grain, vegetables or fruits, 

 and discover it only to my immediate neighbors, there perhaps it dies; 

 but disseminated by means of the press, with its hundred thousand 

 wings, to the four winds of heaven, it becomes a recorded fact, more 

 durable than the sculptured marble, or the monuments of a nation's 

 history, accessible and free to all alike. Who with the least public 

 spirit or private enterprise can forego that greatest earthly pleasure 

 we possess, the glorious privilege of reading and conversing with the 

 great, the good and the wise of all time past — settling within our- 

 selves a well grounded system of religion, morals, theories of gov- 

 ernment, and the best plans for pursuing our daily avocations of life? 

 We are not one of those, and from our heart we pity the man who is 

 deprived of this privilege, or who possessing it, is devoid of this taste 

 and pleasure. If the exertions of the press are worth nothing to the 

 agricultural community, the grumblers are right, and reason is a bub- 

 ble. Let chaos come again and universal darkness reign supreme. 



We humbly conceive that a contrary opinion will prevail. 



A well conducted agricultural paper, with its editorial, its commu- 

 nications and selections, embracing the whole talent of the country, 

 are so many individuals arrayed with their arguments ready for 

 combat with any antagonist; and the reader may compare, discuss, 

 digest, or refute, in his own mind, or with his pen, as with so many 

 friends and neighbors; and among some of his paper opponents he 

 may find his equal and even his superior, from whom it would be no 

 disparagement to be instructed. 



We trust that the civilized community in the nineteenth century 

 are too well informed, to need the wear and tear of much quill tim- 

 ber, to convince them of the value of Agricultural Literature. 



We desire to remind the farming interest that the State fair for 

 1843, is to be held in this county, at the city of Rochester, and that 

 it will require no little exertion and liberality so to conduct, and 

 bring out the resources of the country, as not to disgrace the far- 

 famed Western District. It is not the county of Monroe alone, to 

 whom this appeal will be made, but to the whole western popula- 

 tion. The premiums offered will be on a scale commensurate with 

 the ability and resources of the State; and yet probably the laboring 

 oar will be put upon us both as to funds and the materielle to make 

 the exhibition respectable. It is proposed to merge our County So- 

 ciety, its funds and members, in the State Society, and to declare no 

 county premiums, allowing every member to compete for the larger 

 bonus of the State Society. 



Unless the farming, mechanical and commercial interests come for- 

 ward freely and liberally, we have some fears of the ability of the 

 managers to do the thing in a style and order that shall be noted in 

 after times, as the Banner Agricultural Fair of the West. 



L. B. Langworthy, Cor. Sec'y. 



