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Yates and Ontario. The Ovid Landing is at the west end of the 

 farm, on the lake, about midway between Geneva and the Central 

 railroad at the north, and Jefferson on the Elmira and Canandai- 

 gua railroad at the south end, from each of which points a steam- 

 boat reaches the farm in two hours and a half, in connection with 

 the runs upon the roads. There are more than one hundred acres 

 of heavily timbered wood upon the farm. The private subscrip- 

 tions which are to be received in payment, it is expected will 

 cover the pui'chase within about five thousand dollars. Posses- 

 sion is to be taken of the farm on the first of April next, plans 

 and specifications are in preparation for college buildings, and 

 arrangements making to procure materials for their construction. 

 The means as yet within the reach of the trustees will not be 

 sufficient to meet the purchase of the land, th'? erection of proper 

 college edifices, farm buildings and fences, the purchase of farm 

 stock, teams and farm implements, college furniture, including 

 kitchen and laundry, philosophical apparatus, laboratory equip- 

 ments, &;c. But they intend to proceed as far as in their power, 

 using the means in their hands with the strictest economy and to 

 the best possible advantage, trusting that the same individual 

 liberality which has so conspicuously shown itself at Ovid will 

 at least to some extent, be found elsewhere, and that our Legis- 

 lature, bearing in mind that they are annually taking, by direct 

 taxation from the agricultural class alone, more than three-quar- 

 ters of a million of dollars to sustain the finances of the State, 

 that they may carry forward our public works to completion as 

 well as to uphold our public charities and higher institutions of 

 learning, will feel the justice of letting in the farmer-class to a 

 small participation in that fund to which it has so long and so 

 liberally contributed. 



Our legislators cannot but be aware that when, by direct taxa- 

 tion, they take the money from the farmers of their own State to 

 improve our canals, a large i)ortion is taken to cheapen the trans- 

 portation of the produce of the Western States in this direction, 

 and of course to increase the quantity brought upon our markets. 

 It is a law of trade, tluit an over su]»ply depresses the market. 

 Tliis increased su])j)ly enriclies the forwarder, tlic warehouse man, 

 the commission merchant, tlie buyer and seller, and tlie shipper, 

 and all connected with them, whilst with the farmer the direct 



