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THE GENESEE FAiMEE. 



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OuK January NtfMBER ia now before you, kind 

 reader, and it is a specimen of what we intend 

 our paper shall be each month during the year 

 1852; differing only in this respect^ that we de- 

 sign to make each number better than its pi-ede- 

 cessor. Already we have received largely in- 

 creased clubs from many places, and our friends 

 in all sections of the country are doing even more 

 perhaps, than we had a right to expect. ^Yith- 

 out such generous aid from the friends of Rural 

 Progress, we could not furnish the Genesee Farm- 

 er at such a low pj-ice; with it, we intend to 

 give our readers at least one of the best agri- 

 cultural papers in the world, for the small sura 

 of THREE smLLTNGS a year to clubs of eight or more. 



"We invite all to show this number to their 

 friends, and we will supply extra niimbers to 

 those who wish them. We often receive letters 

 inquiring on what conditions we send to clubs — 

 whether all are requu-ed to be sent to the same 

 office, &c Tlie onli/ rule we have, is to send our 

 Journal to clubs in such way and manner as will 

 best suit the convenience of our subscribers. 





Agricultural Report from the Patent Office, 

 FOR 1850. — ^This is a well filled volume of 579 

 pages, nearly all of which are occupied with 

 original communications from over one thousand 

 practical farmers residing in all the States of the 

 Union, with one excention. Eight thousand circu- 

 lar letters were sent out from the Agricultural 

 Department; and answers were received in return 

 enough to fill two volumes of 1000 pages each. 

 To re-write and condense this mass of generally 

 badly written manuscript, so as to ex])res3 its sub- 

 etauce in one-fourth the words, and print it on 500 

 pages, was a labor which but few can appreciate- 

 Under the circumstances of the case, it was impos- 

 sible to do full justice to so many correspondents ; 

 but whoever will carefully read the Report from 

 beginning to end, can hardly fail to find a great 

 deal to instruct and interest him. Congress has 

 ordered 130,000 copies to be printed and bound 

 for general distribution, and no one should indulge 

 the least hesitancy in writing to the representative 

 in Congress from his district for a copy. The 

 whole is already stereotyped, and if another 

 100,000 copies should be printed for gratuitous 

 distribution over oiu* thirty-one States and five 

 Territories, it would cost only $33,000 of ihe fifiij 

 millions now annualy expended by Congress. 

 The great farming interest shares less in the funds 



of the General Government than any other, be- 

 cause farmers ask for nothing whatever. How- 

 ever the fact may be regarded by our readers, 

 more than three-fourths of the fifty-two millions 

 which will be paid into the National Treasury 

 in tlie year 1851, will be dug from American soil, 

 and for more to its injury than isgenerally believed. 

 The Report for 1850 does not contain the agri- 

 cultural statistics of the U. S. Census of that year, 

 for they were not collated and ready for the press. 

 Among its essays is one of considerable length, on 

 "The Study of Soils," from the pen of the propri- 

 etor of this journal. Of the merits of this per- 

 formance it does not become us to speak ; but we 

 do not hositiite to commend a paper written by 

 Mr. J. J. Thomas, of Macedon, N. Y., on "Fruit 

 Culture," a valuable contribution to our popular 

 literature on that subject The aim in preparin"- 

 the document, has been to make it useful to plain, 

 practical farmers, and not one line has been inser- 

 ted for show. Farmers are its authors, and they 

 will know how to estimate its value. 



Our friends ordering the Farmer will be partic- 

 ular in giving the name of the Post Office, County, 

 and State ; also, in writing names plain, as by this 

 much perplexity may be avoided to ourselves and 

 subscribers. 



Terms — Fifty Cents a year for single copies; 

 five copies for $2, hems, forty cents each ; and eight 

 copies for $3, being three shillings each, and any 

 greater nmnber at the same rate. 



Many articles, some of them in type, we are 

 compelled to omit ; among them several answers 

 to inquiries, which will apjjear in our next 



Jnquirie0 an^ ^tistorrH. 



Cure for Garget in Cows. — Tour subscriber, 

 Mr. Greaves, inquires for a cure for Garget in 

 cows. For the benefit of Mr. G. and others, I 

 would say that a piece of poke root (or skoke root, 

 as it is sometimes called,) the size of a walnut, 

 given in a potato or apple occasionally, will cure. 

 Give three mornings, and skip three, until a cure 

 is efFecte(L 



For a preventative, give ywir cows a little salt- 

 petre with their salt say two pounds to a bushel 

 of salt Oneida Lake, Nov., 1851. 



A strong decoction of sma*'t weed applied to the 

 udder will assist in the cure. "We have received 

 nearly a score of letters in answer to the inquiry 

 on this subject, all nearly similar to the above. 



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