THE GENESEE FARMER. 



€Ht0r's faille 



The Rural New Yokkek. — For some time past we have 

 foietlj submitted to great injustice from our neighbor of 

 the Rural New Yorker, and know no better way of ob- 

 taining redress than to appeal to our readers — to the farm- 

 ers of the country — and fo our brethren of the Press. 

 We have written an article stating what we believe to be 

 the facts of the case ; but on consulting a legal friend he 

 advised us aot to publish it, for fear of an unpleasant libel 

 sait — for though we have no doubt as to the trutli of the 

 statement, yet it is one thing to knotc a fact, and another 

 to prove it. "We have concluded, therefore, to give such 

 facta only as admit of easy aad unmistakable proof, and 

 leave our readers to draw their own inference. 



Last year we expended several hundred dollars in pro- 

 earing original drawings and engravings of houses, plants, 

 trees, &e., having secured for that purpose the services of 

 &ae of the best draftsmen in the country. Some of these 

 cjigravings were given in the Rural Annual, and others in 

 fehe Genesee Farmer. We also allowed several of our 

 B«r8orymen te use them in illustrating their show-biJls, 

 be, and they have thus b?en rather loosely scattered around 

 tfae various printing establishments of the city. 



In the last issue of the Rural New Yorker, (May 23,) 

 there appears a beautiful cut of an American Arbor Vitae, 

 ta all respects a fac timilt of one we had drawn and en- 

 graved for our Rural Annual, from a specimen growing 

 iu the suburbs of this city. It will be found in the columns 

 eC the Farmer for this month. Those of our readers who 

 ittke the Rural can thus compare the two cuts, and see if 

 *hey can discover the least differe«ce. 



Iu the Rural of May 9 there is a cut of Sweet "William, 

 which is marvelously like a cut engraved for the Farmer, 

 and which appeared in our last volume, page ICl. The 

 Rural man has, apparently, taken his knife and cut ofiF the 

 engraver's name. Otherwise the cut is precisely the same, 

 *ad is given without a word of credit. 



In the Rural of May 2 the editor says : 



" A correspondent, after examining the engraving which 

 %ee gave in the last number of a Dwarf Fear Tree, asks if 

 dwarf trees always grow as straight limbed, and of so 

 beautiful and graceful a form," &c. 



Now, on turning to the " last number " of the Rural, 

 (Apiil 25,) it will be found that the cut which " w«" (the 

 Rterat) " gave," is none other than the cut which we (the 

 Genesee Farmer) gave in our February number. To dis^ 

 ^sise the cut as much as possible, however, the stem has 

 been shortened a little, at an expense, perhaps, of fifty cents, 

 whereas it cost us twelve dollars, having been drawn from 

 an actual epecimen with great accuracy, and engraved 

 with much care. 



Our file of the Rural is here incomplete, and we will 

 eoatinae our examiuatioa no further at this time. "We 

 wcmld ask if such conduct is reputable and honest T 



Oue word more. In the February number of the Far- 

 mer for last year, we alluded to an intimation in the Rural 

 iVei* Yorker of Jan. 26, that the cuts in a single number of 

 tti3.t paper cost nearly 850. "We showed conclusively that the 

 ijtota did sot cost the Rural one-tenth of that sum ; that in 

 fiWJt dia Rural %oai paid eight dollari for tasertiHg on« 



cut, or more than it paid for all the other cuta. To thi 

 article the Rural has made no reply. It could make nowi 

 "With all its boastful pretensions, the Rural notorious] i 

 expends next to nothing on agricultural and horticultun i 

 illustrations. It appears to be perfectly satisfied with an 

 old, cast-off cuts of the Genesee Farmer ; and the fr« i 

 quency with which these are inserted in ita pages, indJ 

 cates its high appreciation of the source from which th«: 

 are derived. Let us look over such of the papers of tliii 

 year as we now have on hand : i 



In the Rural of February 21, there are cnt8 of Ilovej"!: 

 Seedling, British Queen, and Elton strawberries. Thcill 

 will be found in the Genesee Farmer for 1852, pages 91 

 and 91. |» 



In the Rural of March 21, there is a cut of Phlox Drnaif \ 

 mondii, which wUl be found in the Farmer for 1852, pag. 

 159. 



In the Rural of March 28, is a cut of Golden Bartontl 

 which will be found in the Farmer for 1852, page 191. 



In the Rural of April 4, is a cut of Salpiglossis, wkk' 

 will be found in the Farmer for 1852, page 222. 



In the Rural of April 11, is a cut of Petimia, which yr. 

 be found in the Farmtr for 1851, page 75. W 



In the Rural of May 2, is a cut of a Gothic Farm Co 

 tage, which will be found in the Genesee Farmer for 185 

 page 249. 



In the Rural of May 2, is a cut of a Dwarf Pear Tut* 

 which will bo found in the Genesee Farmer for 1856, paj 

 351. Of this cut the Rural man says : " We give a very co 

 rect portrait of a tree growing near this city. Althoaj| 

 different from the engraving we gave last week, [also tahM 

 from the Farmtr without credit,] it is a beautiful tree," &| 



In the Rural of May 9, are cuts of a Dwarf Apple ai* 

 Dwarf Cherry, which will be found in the Farmer f 

 1855, page 351. 



"We do not say that the Rural did not come honestly 

 these engravings. As cast off cuts it may have paid 

 small sum for them ; but, be this as it may, it is certaii r 

 a new development of the law of " Progress and I 

 provement " — of which the Rural boasts so much — to gi ' 

 these cuts as though they were original. 



Thk fHends of the Gtn^esie Farmer will be glad to b« 

 that our circulation this year far exceeds our most eangrri 

 CTpectations. This nnlooked for success, though grateM 

 to our feelings, is attributable mainly to our numerous «< 

 respondents.and other friends who voluntarily act as ageo 

 Subscribers are still coming in freely ; — we have to-day j 

 ceived from N. J. Sloan, post master at FredericksbOT 

 C. "W., a club of one hundred and twelve ; and from Cfli 

 McGlabhaw, Esq., of Moore, C. "W., a club of one hon 

 red and nineteen subscribers ! 



Such has been the demand for back numbers that ^ 

 are entirely out of the .January number, and have b«« 

 compelled to send off these and many other orders \ 

 out it. "We are. however, havin? a new edition struck <r 

 and will forward this number in a few days. 



Dbtow Herd Book. — Sanfobd Howaiud, Esq., edBB j 

 of the Pottfm Cultivator, gives notice that the third vt 

 ume of tha Devon Herd Book, which he has be«n e | 

 g«ged la prcpAiiig, will be reftdjr for delivery in Jufy om [^ 



