VOL. VI. 



ROCPIESTER, NEW YORK. FEBRUARY, 1845. 



NO. 2. 



PUBLISHED MOXTHLY. 



BY B. f. SMITH Si, CO, PROPRIETORS, 



At the Seed Store, JS'o. 4, Front Street, near Buffalo St. 



DANIEL LEE, EDITOR. 



Among the Correspondents are — L. B. Langwor- 

 THY, N. GooDSEM,, Prof. C. Dewey, T. C. Peters, 

 L. Wetiierex>l, p. Barry, and T. H. Hyatt. 



FIFTY CENTS A YEAR: 



Five copies for Two Dollars; Eight copies foi- Three Dollars. 

 All payiiients to be made in advance. Bloncy and subscriptions, 

 by a ro^iiltttion of the pottmastcr general, may be remitted by 

 post masters free of e.tpeuse. 'SZT Address B. F. Smith & Co. 



MONROE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A regular meeting of this society will be held at 

 the Farmer Office, No. 4, Front-street, Rochester, 

 on Tuesday, the 11th day of February, at 11 o'clock 

 A.M., for the purpose of making out a list of premi- 

 ums, and determining the course of proceeding for 

 the coming year. 



It is desirable that the friehds of the society be 

 punctual in their attendance, as it is important that 

 the list of premiums be revised and corrected. 



JOHN H. ROBINSON, President. 



No. 3 of Mr. Colman's Agricultural Reports in 

 Europe will contain an article upon Guano and other 

 manures, prepared with great care by Mr. C. It is 

 expected, that in the month of February this No. 

 will appear. 



Mr. Williams' Essay on Manures, read before 

 the Seneca Co. Ag, Society, in October, will be 

 published in the next Farmer. 



Mr. John Christie, St. Catharines, Ca. Yours 

 of January 17th is received, shall be happy to receive 

 the comnuinication mentioned. Please be as con- 

 cise as possible. 



The communication of Myron Arams, Esq. of 

 East Bloomfield, on the subject of raising corn fod- 

 der, will be published in our next. 



" Peuficld" is received, and will be published, or 

 the information wanted given in the Farmer. 



Mr. B. H. of North Fairfield, Ohio, will accept 

 our thanks for the long list of names sent, as well 

 as for the interest manifested in our behalf. 



The city of Boston appropriated $200,000 for the 

 support of her schools in 18-14. 



TO THE FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE. 



Kind REAt'*ER— An arrangement has just been 

 made by which I have assumed the task of editing 

 this paper. This responsibility has been taken, not 

 without the hope that my services may be useful in 

 collecting the most valuable information upon all 

 subjects pertaining to rural pursuits, and scattering 

 it broadcast over the land among all that will con- 

 sent to pay the trifle of fifty cents a year for the 

 cream of agricultural knowledge. 



The state of New York probably contains not far 

 from £'00,000 practical farmers. Of these, not more 

 than one-fifth read any agricultural paper whatever. 

 This neglect arises not from the circumstance that 

 four-fifths of our rural population have taken and 

 duly weighed the value of these prints, and found 

 them worthless ; but from the fact that they have 

 never read them at all, and know nothing of their 

 true value. How are these people to be reached ? 

 To a part of them, I trust, this humble sheet will 

 find access. 



In that portion of the Empire State which I regard 

 as Western New York, there are 700,000 souls. To 

 50,000 families of these I desire the privilege of 

 talking on matters that involve, in an eminent de- 

 gree, their prosperity and happiness. Why should 

 they be unwilling to hear once a month what a 

 friend and neighbor may have to say on the science 

 of agriculture, and the practice of good husbandry ? 

 I have resided among you for twenty years. We 

 all have a common interest ; which is, to produce 

 by our better-directed labor a plenty of all the com- 

 forts of life. When we have dug from the bounti- 

 ful earth the little property which we really need, 

 that each of us may " provide well for his own 

 household," we should be glad to know quite as well 

 how to keep and enjoy the good things that rig-ht- 

 fuUy belong to us, as all the sharpers and non-pro- 

 ducers shall know how to obtain the rich fruits of 

 our toil without giving us a full and fair equivalent. 

 The important science of keeping and making a 

 good use of what their labor gives them, is too much 

 neglected by the producing classes in all countries. 

 As a general rule, that information which enables 

 one to render his muscular strength and mental pow- 

 ers productive in the highest degree, will be suffi- 

 cient to secure him from parting with the fruits of 

 his industry on terms much to his disadvantage. 

 But the majority of working men labor under the 

 double misfortune of not knowing how to work to 

 the best advantage, so far as the results of their 

 physical toil are concerned, and of not understanding 



