Vol. 6. 



GENESEE PARMER, 



MONROE COUNTY. 



The annnnal meeting of the Monroe County Ag- 

 ricultural Society was held at the Rochester Seed 

 ■Store, on Wednesday, Dec. 11th. 



Owing to some misunderstanding as to the hour 

 of meeting, the number present was not so large as 

 usual. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers 

 for 1845 : 



President, 

 John H. Robinson, of Henrietta. 



• Vice-Presidents, 

 Elisha Harmon, Wheatland, 

 Caleb K. Hobbie, Irondequoit, 

 Frederick P. Root, Sweden. 

 James P. Fogg, Trensm'e)'. 

 Henry M. Ward, Recording Secretary. 

 Thomas H. Hyatt, Corresponding Secretary. 



TOWN COMMITTEES. 



JVheatland — Jira Blackmer, Wm. Garbutt, Geo. 

 Sheffei". Chili — Wm. Pixley, Jacob Strahan, John 

 K. Ballentine. Riga — James R, Flinn, Aretus 

 Adams, Alfred Fitch. Ogden — Miles Landon, 

 Marcus Adams, Jesse Harroun. Sweden — W. E. 

 Skidmore, Seth P. Staples, Asa Row'e. Clarksan 

 — Dr. A. Baldwin, Frederick S. Church, David For- 

 syth. Parma — -Isaac Chase, Roswell Atchinson, J. 

 M. Webster. Greece— Geo. C. Latta, Robert H. 

 Brown, Hall Colby. Gcrtes — Matthias Garrett, Wm. 

 Buel, Wm. Otis. Brighton — Romanta Hart, C. F. 

 Crosman, Nathaniel Hayward. Henrietta — W. C. 

 Cornell, Geo. L. Beckwith, Elihu Kirby. Rush — 

 Thomas Wright, Gay Markham, John B. Steel. 

 Mendon — Abraham Cole, Ezra Davis, E. H. Barnard. 

 Piltsford — E. Sutherland, Luther Bushnell, Marvin 

 Hopkins. Perinton — Gideon Ramsdell, Zerah Burr, 

 John Ayrault. Penfield — Samuel Miller, Elias 

 Beach, Jonathan Baker. Webster — Byron Wood- 

 hull, Wm. Holt, Al;)heus Crocker. Irondequoit — 

 H. N. Langworthy, John McGonagal, Benj. Wing. 

 Rochester— E. Darwin Smith, J. M. Whitney, J. H. 

 Watis, E. B. Strong, E. Wolcott, Samuel Miller, 

 John Longmieur, B. F. Smith, Amos Sawyer, P. 

 Barry, Thomas Weddle, Wm. Kidd, Jas. P. Fogg. 



A very interesting report was read by L. B. Lang- 

 worthy, Esq., from the Committee on Farms. 



A committee of three were appointed to obtain 

 and publish the excellent address of Dr. Lee, deliv- 

 ered before the society, with the report of the com- 

 mittee on Farms, and the proceeding of the society. 



After it was made known that Wm. Garbutt, Esq, 

 of Wheatland had obtained the premium for the sec- 

 ond best farm, it was announced, that he had dii'ected 

 the premium of $8 to be added to the funds of the 

 society. 



Wherefore, it was resolved, 1'hat the thanks of 

 the society be tendered to Mr. Garbutt for his gene- 

 I'ous donation ; with the hope that his honorable ex- 

 ample may find a response from others — thereby 

 increasing the funds for further usefulness, 



James H. Watts, Esq., offered the following reso- 

 lutions, which were passed unanmiously : 



The members of the Monroe Agricultural Soci- 

 ety present, having learned that M. B. Bateham, 

 Esq., long a devoted friend to the cause of agricul- 

 ture amongst us, had removed to Cohmibus, Ohio, 



It was resolved, That we, as members engaged in 

 the sam'5 cause in which Mr. Eateham has so long 

 acted with us, and as editor of the New Genesee 

 Farmer, also an officer of this society from its com- 



mencement — regret his removal from amongst us; 

 but at the same time wish him God speed in his new 

 undertaking at Columbus, Ohio, where he has gono 

 for the ]5urpose of conducting an agricultural paper. 

 Resolved, That the President of the society sign 

 the above resolution, and that a copy be forwarded to 

 Mr. Bateham, after its publication in the Genesee 

 Farmer. 



Report of the Committee on Field Craps. 

 At a meeting of the executive and special commit- 

 tees, on the 1 1th December, the following crops were 

 offered for premiums: 



The committee cannot but regret that the applica- 

 tions were so few, especially after having experienc- 

 ed so fruitful a year in almost every department of 

 agricultural labor. It seems as though the wits of 

 all men had gone a " wool-gathering'' to Texas, Or- 

 egon, or some other region except their farms, if 

 we are to judge by the meagre number who have 

 made known their success in their farming opera- 

 tions, for the past year, to this committee, and they 

 were unable to assign any reasons for the backward- 

 ness or neglect, except that the recent political cam- 

 paign, with its excitements and call upon the time 

 and attention of all classes, has obliterated all re- 

 membrance of the necessity of taking the proper 

 measures to com].ly with the law, to enable them 

 to enter their crops for premiums ; for it is perfectly 

 within the knowledge of many members of this com- 

 mittee, that several large and important crops were 

 made by members of this society, who through neg- 

 lect of measuring and certifying the same, were ex- 

 cluded from entering for competition. 



To John McGonagal, of Irondequoit, they award 

 the second premium (there being no competitor) for 

 the best two acres of wheat, of 45 16-60 bushels per 

 acre, of the Red Chafl" Bald variety, $7. 



Statement of Mr. McGonegaV s Wheat Crop. 

 The kind of soil on which my crop of wheat 

 was grown, is a sandy !oam. The previous crop 

 was wheat, which I harvested two years before and 

 seeded with clover in the spring before harvesting. 

 The next summer, after the clover began to head, I 

 turned in my cattle, and soon after commenced plow- 

 ing the lot which has about fifty acres in it ; that 

 part measured off was plowed about the middle of 

 June. About the first of August harrowed over 

 well ; cross plowed the last of August ; plowed 

 again the second week in September, and sowed the 

 11th and 12th of September. There has not been 

 any manure drawn on for ten years, except plaster, 

 which I sowed on the clover in the spring before 

 plowing. I sowed about one bushel and eight qte. 

 per acre of the Red Chaff Bald variety ; limed be- 

 fore sowing. Harvested some of the last days ia 

 August, which was cut with a sickle, bound and put 

 up in three or four days, and^lrawn into the barn and 

 thrashed the fore part of September, and measured. 

 The expense I cannot come at very exactly, as it 

 was plowed with the rest of the field each time. 

 Plowing three times, . . . $5 25 

 Harrowing, . . . . . 2 63 



2^ bushels of Seed, ... 2 25 



Reaping, binding and setting up, . 4 00 



Drawing in, . . . . . 2 50 

 Thrashing and cleaning, . . . 7 00 



Whole expense, .... $23 63 

 I certify that the above is a true and correct state- 

 ment according to the best of my knowledge. 



JOHN McGONEGAL. 



