VOL. VI. 



ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. MARCH, 1845. 



NO. 3. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



BY B. F. SMITH &, CO, PROPRIETORS, 



At the Seed Store, No. 4, Front Street, near Bujf'ilo St. 



DANIEL LEE, EDITOR. 



Anwng the Correspondents are — L. B. Langwou- 

 THY, N. GooDSEi,!,, Prof. C. Dewey, T. C. Peters, 

 L. Wetherell, p. Barry, and T. H. Hyatt. 



FIFTY CENTS A YEAR: 



Five copies for Two Dollars ; Eight copies for Three Dollarb. 

 All payiiieuls to be maije in advaiice. Money and subscriptions, 

 by a i-pgiilatiou of the pottmastcr general, may be remitted by 

 post masters free of expense, mr Address B. F. Smith <fc Co. 



To Correspondents. — We have received a large number of 

 Coc.munications during tlic last month, wiiich will be published as 

 Koou as %ve can find room. Correspondents will please be as concise 

 as possible. The Farmer is only half as la-ge as we wish it was, 

 for their accommodation. Several articles are on file for the April 

 number. Among them one from N. Goodsell, Esq. on the " Disease 

 of Potatoes," one from one of the best farmers in Sweden, on" Li- 

 quid Manures," and " 11" on the " Dest Breeds of Cuttle." E. C. 

 of Salina, A. W. of East Bloomfield, and W. S. T. of Cayuga Coun- 

 ty, are under consi(Ier:ition. S. Williams' Essay oh iWauures is 

 in typo, but necessarily crowded out this month. 



Our correspondent at Perry Centre, is referred to the advertiee- 

 ments of J. W. Bissel! & Co. and Eilwangir & Barry, for " North- 

 ern Spy" grafts. They can bo depended upon as geniiine. 



Our eorrespondput at Reserve, Inda. is informed that Lucerne 

 can ba had at tii^ Roehester Seed Store, and that Madder seed can 

 be had of Br. Julian X. Chabert, No. 336 Froi;t street, New York. 



Chdick Se'.ds. — We have received from the Hon. H. L. ELLS- 

 WORTH, of thr. Patent Om-je, a great variety of choice seeds: 

 thoy will bo di.stributod to tiinGe who desire to tesf their qualities, 



Our Thanks are due to Inst Alasters, (fn :;i whom we have re- 

 csived m;iiiy favors,) and to many kind friends, who have exerted 

 tUe'n^elvi's so successfully to extend the circulation of the Tarmer. 

 We com:n3nced the year with an edition of six thousand. This 

 number is already nearly exhausted. We shai! continue to supply 

 tlia back numbers to naw suhscrihsrs as long as they last. From 

 present indications we shill be obliged to re-print the first two 

 numbers of this year. Send in your names immod lately. 



The Indiana Farmer .^md Gardner. — We have received two 

 numbers of this paper, published at Iiidianiipolis, by S. V. B. Noel 

 & Co. twice a month for $1 a year. Henry W. Beechrr, Editor. 

 The editor comes into the fiold like one well acquainted with the 

 liusiness. Instead of bfing discouraged by the number of now Ag- 

 ficnllural papers, starting up all over the west, he says — 



'•There is already a lino of agricultural papers e.vtending from 

 Maine to Missouri, and from Missouri to Florida. Every year adds 

 to the number. Every year gives them better support. Papers 

 create readers — tiie supplij creates a dei ■and. New ))apers are, like 

 new settlers in a pioneer village, not riv^ils, but welcome liefpers — 

 the more the better, within c>'rtain limns. The time is coming 

 when every good farmer would as soon be without a plow, as with- 

 out an able agricultural paper. There are nearly a million of peo- 

 ple in Indiana, and only one agricultural paper." 



Wo have been in the habit of sending quite a large number of 

 packages of our Fanner, to Indiana. We welcome the' Fanner and 

 Gardener' into the field : there is room enough and to spare. We 

 shall expect a great Jucreaso to oui- suhscripiibu list from Indiana? j 



AGRICULTURE IN COMMON SCHOOLS. 



We are surprised to find the following remarks in 

 the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, which may be 

 found on page 47 : 



" Looking at our common schools as they now 

 are, and are likely to remain for years to corne, not- 

 withstanding all the efforts to elevate them, we can- 

 not but deem the plan above mentioned [the introduc- 

 tion of the study of agriculture into common 

 schools] as loorse than foolish ; for the result can be 

 nothing else than the imparting of that ' 1 ttle 

 knowledge" which is always a dangerous thing" (!) 



The whole educational acquirements of 99 in ev- 

 ery 100 children that now attend common schools in 

 this state, can only be regarded as " imparting" to 

 them a "little knowledge," If this "little know- 

 ledge" be " always a dangerous thing," then the 

 whole common school system should be aboiifhed. 

 If the acquisition of a " little knowledge" of the 

 science of agriculture will be injurious to the sons 

 and daughters of the farmers of New York, should 

 the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture be allowed to 

 circulate among them ? Who knows but that some 

 of the more inquisitive of the rising generation, 

 now attending our com/aion schools, may extract 

 from its ample pages that " little^'' information, 

 which the learned professors pronounce " a danger- 

 ous thing ?" 



Mr. Pope was a man of genius, and an admirabia 

 poet ; but he had no more idea of the condition of 

 society in this state in the middle of the 1 9th cen- 

 tury, and of the wants of our children, and their du- 

 ties in after lile, than did " the blind ha-d of Scio." 



To read attentively good books on practical and 

 scientific agriculture, pupib in common schools need 

 not learn any the less of other elementary studies. 

 No one proprc^-es that they shall neglect orthogra- 

 phy, writing, arithmetic, reading, grammar, or any 

 other branch of useful knowledge. Without aba- 

 ting one jot or tittle of their ordinary acquirements 

 in literary pursuits, they may add thereto much val- 

 uable information iu regard to the uniform and uner- 

 ring laws of nature, which fertilize the earth, and 

 enable it to feed all that live. 



American Hotel, No. 190 Stale Street, Albany. Havingbeen 

 for two months the guest of Mr. C. N. Bkment, the well known 

 keeper of the aliove named establishment, we deem it no more than 

 an act of simple justice to the farming comaiusnty, to say that, abet- 

 ter public house for thrm to stop at cannot be found in this, or any 

 city. The t\merinaii Hotel is Agricultural Head Qnartnrs ; and 

 well it may be. Go where you will about this csta'dishment, and 

 you recognise at once that good order, good ta'ite, and good sense, 

 so agreeable to everv intrliigent farmer. Mr. B. is master of every 

 thiog pertaining to the word com0Jt, D, L, 



