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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



(gHt0r's ®aHe. 



Hew AdvertiBements this Month. 



'' Pratt's Automaton Apple Slicer. — A. M. Collins & Co., Fhila- 

 delphia. 



Auction Sale of Imported Stock.— W. S. G. Knowles, Guelpb, CW. 



Clover Hulling and Cleaning Machines. —Mansfield & Whiting, 

 Ashland, Ohio. 



Agents Wanted. — Robert Sears, New York. 



First-class Family Journals. — Fowler & Wells, New York. * 



To Lyceums, Literary and Agricultural Societies. — J. 0. Miller, 

 Jr., Montgomery, N. Y. 



New Work on the Chinese Sugar Cane — C. M. Saxton &Co.,N. Y. 



New Eochelle Blackberry.— C. P. Bissell, Rochester, N. Y. 

 ' Virginia Lands for Sale. — B. H. Robinson, Lancaster C. H , Va. 



State Fairs for 1857. 



Ohio, ..Cincinnati, September 15— 18. 



Canada East, ^..Montreal, September 16 — 18. 



Illinois, Peoria, September21 — 26. 



Pennsylyania, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. 



Wisconsin, Janesville, ...Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. 



New Jersey, New Brunswick, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. 



Canada West^ Brantford, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. 



Vermont, Montpelier, Sept. 30 to Oct. 2. 



United States, Louisville, Ky., October 1 — 6. 



Indiana, . Indianapolis, October 4 — 10. 



New York, Buffalo, October 6 — 9. 



Iowa, Muscatine, .. October 6—9. 



Michigan, Detroit. 



New Hampshire, Concord, October 7 — 9. 



Kentucky, Henderson, October 12 — 16. 



Connecticut, Bridgeport, ..October 13 — 16. 



East Tennessee, Knoxville, .October 20 — 23. 



Massachusetts, Boston, October 20 — 24. 



Maryland, Baltimore, October 21 — 25. 



"West Tennessee, ..Jackson, October 27 — 30. 



Alabama, Montgomery, October 27 — 30. 



Virginia, October 28— 31. 



The Rural New Yorker — Once More. — After our 

 July number was issued, the Rural New Yorker attempted 

 to reply to the serious accusations we were compelled to 

 make against it in the June number of the Genesee Far- 

 mer. It will be recollected that our charges were distinct 

 and definite, as follows : 



1. That the Rural had clandestinely obtained possession 

 of three of our latest and best cuts, and had, without our 

 knowledge or consent, inserted them in its columns. To 

 this grave charge, the Rural attempts no reply whatever 1 



2. That the assertion that the cuts in a certain number 

 of the Rural cost nearly $50 was untrue — that they did 

 not cost $5. To this charge, also, the Rural makes no 

 reply. 



3. That the greater proportion of the engravings with 

 which the Rural man had been embellishing his paper for 

 the past few months, were old cast-off cuts of the Genesee 

 Farmer. To this the Rural replies as follows : 



" Now, the simple but stubborn facts are, that of the 

 fourteen engravings named, twelve were got up by the 

 conductor of the Horticultural Department of thisjournal." 



If we are to infer from this that they were " got up " 

 for the Rural A'ew Yorker — as is the evident intention — 

 the assertion is utterly untrue. They were engraved for 

 the Genesee Farmer and Rural Annual, and, as can be 

 easily proved, were given in our volumes for 1852, '3, '4, 

 '3 and '6, on the several pages named in our June number. 

 "We did not wish to do the Rural injustice, and distinctly 

 tated that " we do not say that the Rural did not come 



honestly by these engiavings. As cast-off cuts, it may 

 have paid a small sum for them," &c. The Rural seema 

 to suppose that we intended to accuse it of stealing these 

 old cuts. We did not intend to convey any such idea, as 

 the language above quoted shows. It was the cuts of the 

 Dwarf Pear Tree, the American Arbor Vitae and the 

 Sweet "William that we accused it of appropriating with- 

 out our knowledge or consent. The others it may have 

 purchased from some of the former publishers of the 

 Farmer. Our object in alluding to them, was merely to 

 show that it was " a new derelopment of the law of 

 ' Progress and Improvement ' — of which the Ru> at boasts 

 so much — to give these cuts as though they were original." 

 The Rural man cannot deny the fact that he has taken 

 three of our newest and most valuable cuts that he has 

 not the shadow of a right to, and has also given some fif^ 

 teen or sixteen of our old, cast-off cuts in the Rural of 

 the present year. If we should take twenty-five dollars* 

 worth of his property, wc think he would deem it an inju- 

 ry, and could hardly be blamed for asking his readers and 

 contemporaries if such conduct was " reputable and hon- 

 est." And yet he seems surprised that we have felt ag- 

 grieved at similar conduct in him 1 



i. We incidentally alluded to the fact that the Rural 

 had charged eight dollars for inserting, in its editorial 

 columns, a cut of " Hallock's Cross-cut and Circular 

 Saw Mill." This the Rural denies, and says : " It is a fool- 

 ish fib, as we [the Rural] neither charged nor were ever 

 paid a farthing therefor." Now, our information was de- 

 rived from Mr. Hallock. himself. He agreed to pay this 

 sum ; and if it was not charged in the bill, he has to thank 

 the timely expose of the Genesee Farmer. It is very 

 " foolish " in the Rural to accuse us of fibbing, as, from 

 fifteen months' editorial connection with the Rural, we are 

 too well acquainted with its practices to be thus silenced. 

 When the writer was the agricultural editor of the Ru^al, 

 we know that its publisher and pseudo-e6.itoT did not scru- 

 ple to take money for the insertion of cuts and descriptions 

 of patent machines, &c., in its leading editorial columns. 

 That he has not abandoned this practice, we have abun- 

 dant and unquestionable evidence. For instance : In the 

 Rural New Yorker of January 31, 1857, there is, on the 

 first page, in the leading editorial columns, a drawing and 

 description of " Burnett's Improved Portable Field 

 Fence," for the insertion of which we have, now lying be- 

 fore us, the written authority of Mr. Burnett himself for 

 saying that the Rural charged and was paid fifly-tvoa 

 dollars and fifty cents. 



In the Rural of March 14, 1857, a cut and description 

 of the same fence is again given in the leading editorial 

 columns, for which Mr. B. obligingly informs ns, in the 

 same letter, he paid the Rural man sixty-six dollars and 

 twenty-five cents. 



In the Rural of May 23, 1857, there is, on the first page, 

 in the leading editorial columns, a cut and description of 

 " Hildreth's Iron Gang Plow," for which the manufao- 

 turers, Messrs. Hildreth & Charles, of Lockport, N. 

 Y., paid the Rural, as they themselves state, in a letter 

 now before us, thirty-three dollars. 



In the Rural of June 20, 1857, there is, in the editorial 

 columns, a cut and description of " Vandemaek's Self- 

 fastening Portable or Field Fence," for which the Rural 



