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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



suffer from partial government, and on all the 

 means of economizing food and labor. 



If they will only read the pages* of this Jour 

 nal, as it appears monthly, for a few months, we 

 will '■ trj-," according to our poor abilities, to 

 amuse them into a habit of thinking on their 

 condition, and on the means of meliorating it ; 

 and if, with this habit of reading and iuquirj', 

 the}- could once in everj- few j'ears mount the. 

 back of a good honest horse, (two friends trav- 

 eling together with one pair of saddle-bags be- 

 tween them,) and take a ride leisurely of some 

 hundreds of miles over the country, keeping 

 their ej-es smd ears open — he must be of the 

 Rip Van Winkle family indeed, who would 

 not find his account in it. 



Reader ! these hasty thoughts are strung to- 

 gether and put on paper for what they are 

 worth, before sunrise, in the midst of a popula- 

 tion of near 400,000 people — all of whom, judg- 

 ing from the quietness of the streets, are yet un- 

 der the influence of the " leaden sceptre," but, 

 in two hours, what a change will have come 

 over their dreams ! The.se 400,000 consumers 

 will have risen and broken their fast on your 

 products, and will swarm everj- street, so that 

 yon can scarcely elbow your way along, like so 

 many bees winging their way, each to gather 

 what he can ! Is it not, then, agriculturists, 

 your clear and obvious interest that these town- 

 consumers of your products should be as numer- 

 ous and as prosperous as possible ? — that they 

 should have good health, good appetites, and 

 pockets fall of money ? — but not at your cost ! 

 Nor will it happen at your cost, but by a partial 

 and vicious course of legislation ; and that w ill 

 not occur, if you will take care that a system of 

 education be established th roughotU the country 

 that shall qualify your sons to prosecute Agri- 

 culture with a knowledge of the principles that 

 properly belong to it as an intellectual pursuit, 

 and that shall, at the same time, endow them 

 with capacity to perform that most important of 

 all duties — the duty of making their own laws ! 

 No, farmers ! with the.se precautions for your 

 own protection, it is to 50ur interest that these 

 consuming communities should become in your 

 vicinity as numerous as the sands on the sea- 

 shore, and as prosperous as industry and fair 

 legislatiop can make them. 



" To fix the happiness and virtue of a nation 

 on a solid foundation," says a celebrated philos- 

 opher, '• they mu.st rest on a reciprocal depend- 

 ence between all the orders of citizens.' — But 

 we had like to have forgotten the Rochester 

 Milk Company. 



Farmers may see and profit by this case, how 

 readily men in towns lay their heads togetiier to 

 achieve, by concert and a combination ot intelli- 

 gence and capital, what cannot be eft'ected when 

 intelligence and sapital act and operate a.s they 

 (1240) 



do among farmers, who so rarely, and with so 

 little perseverance, confederate for the pi-otec- 

 tion of their own interests — the elevation and 

 advancement of their own pursuits. The profits 

 of this Milk Company will consist in the interest 

 yielded on a money capital employed between 

 the hay and corn a7id milk producing farmer, 

 in the country, and the milk consumers in town 

 — and. at first view, might seem to be injurious 

 to the farming interest, by the amount of the 

 saving of the cost of milk to the towns'-people ; 

 but does not that very saving enable them to 

 consume an increased quantity of milk, or to lay 

 out the amount saved for a freer indulgence in 

 the use and enjoyment of other things produced 

 in the country by Agriculture and Horticulture ? 

 If the mechanic or the artisan can get two quarts 

 of milk for what he had to give for one, he can 

 supply his young children with a diet almost in- 

 dispensable to their existence in hot weather ; 

 or if saving in the cost does not lead, invariably, 

 to increased consumption of that particular com- 

 modity, does it not leave the amount of the sav- 

 ing to be laid out in other commodities — neces- 

 saries or luxuries — products of the dairy, the 

 field, or the garden ? — in butter, in melons, in 

 ripe fruit, in green corn, strawberries, or other 

 things? This reciprocal dependence of the dif- 

 ferent orders of Society is, in fact, one of the 

 most admirable orders of Divine Providence — 

 inviting us to be grateful for and to emulate the 

 benevolence it evinces. 



But we must stop now to break our own fast, 

 promising, some of these days, a chapter on the 

 tendency and value of labor-saving machinery 

 and capital to create demand for manual labor 

 and agricultural products. 



P. S. The Rochester City Milk Company 

 furnishes the citizens of Rochester with pure 

 and wholesome milk, at the following low tariS" 

 of prices : 



Daily Avrragein 

 One Month. 



36 qts. and over, 



12 " under 36, 



2 " " 12 



1 •' " 2,' 



From 1st June to 

 Ist October. 



2 cents per quart. 

 2i " 



From \st October 

 to \st June. 



21 cts. per quart 

 3" " 

 3J- " 

 4" " 



To find the average, add the quantity taken 

 in one month, and divide by the days in the 

 month. [Albany Cultivator. 



Cement. — In the New-England Farmer, vol. 

 xii. No. 3, page 21, we find the following state- 

 ment : 



'' The late conquest of Algiers by the French 

 has made known a new cement, used in the 

 public works of that city. It is composed of 

 two parts of ashes, three of claj', and one of 

 sand. This composition — called, by the Moors, 

 fnbhi — being mixed with oil, resists the inclem- 

 encies of the weather effectually." 



