VOL. VI. 



ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. MAY, 1845. 



NO. 5. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



BY B. F. SMITH & CO, PROPRIETORS, 



At the Seed Store, No. 4, Front Street, near Buffalo St. 



DANIEL LEE, EDITOR. 



Among the Cor respondents are — L. B. Langwor- 

 THT, N. GooDSEf.L, Prof. C. Dewey, T. C. Peters, 

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



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Mr. Johnson, of Holland, makes inquiry whether 

 an old man may, with any prospect of being- able to 

 see the fruit of his labors, attempt the cultivation of 

 the pear. This fruit has the reputation of requiring 

 great age before it will show fruit ; but our experi- 

 ence is to the contrary. Stocks of 5 or 6 years 

 growth will bear nearly as soon as the apple, if 

 grafted from the wood of a bearing tree. The pear 

 is very apt to throw up suckers from the root: these, 

 grafted as they stand, and taken up the next year, 

 make good trees . The surest way, however, is to 

 procure good-sized trees, from the nursery, of v/hich 

 plenty may be procured in this city, and in three or 

 four years they will show fruit, and in ten years be- 

 come large productive trees. — On the subject of the 

 sweet and sour apple, we acknowledge to scepticism, 

 when it is claimed as an artificial production ; and 

 when our correspondent will exhibit one, half red 

 and half green, both sweet and sour, we will cry pe- 

 cavi ! 



Hamilton Co. Ohio. — We have received the re- 

 port of the Agricultural Society of Hamilton Co. 

 Ohio. Their proceedings are spirited, with enlarged 

 views of the benefit of association and combination 

 for mutual and general improvement. 



The report of Messrs. Whittlesey and Randal, 

 appointed to make an. agricultural survey of that 

 county, contains much curious and valuable informa- 

 tion. It refers to 127 farms and locations of differ- 

 ent soils, aspects, and original timber, principally 

 with reference to their ability to produce wheat, no- 

 ting the period the land has been under cultivation, 

 the variety of wheat used, the greatest and the av- 

 erage crop produced ; with the prevailing diseases 

 and accidental causes of failures, and the insects 

 which infect that region. We regret our inability 



to publish the report, from its length, but shall avail 

 ourselves of many of its facts, for the benefit of our 

 readers. 



We commend the course taken by the Hamilton 

 County surveyors to the Committee on Farms for 

 Monroe County. Many important facts might be 

 elicited, and valuable statistics and information be 

 obtained. 



Hay-Rack. — We have received a drawing and de- 

 scription of a " down-east" hay rack. But as we 

 use no carts in this country, and the article is so 

 like the machine known here as a barrel-rack, used 

 to transport flour-barrels to the mills, that we fear 

 it would not come in competition with the neat and 

 capacious articles used " up west." 



We shall be happy to exhibit the drawing to all 

 inquirers, and to^hear from our correspondent from 

 Waldo, Maine, on other subjects. 



Virginia State Agricultural Society. — We 

 have received the proceedings of a meeting at Rich- 

 mond, in January last, at which was organized a 

 State Society, nearly on the plan of our own State 

 Society, but we think with some valuable improve- 

 ments, particularly in dividing the state into four 

 great districts, in which the annual fair is to be held 

 alternately ; and in creating, by individual donations 

 and state bounty, a permanent fund, the interest of 

 which shall produce means for ever, and beyond the 

 reach of contingencies. We rejoice that the Old 

 Dominion has waked up. Some of her people are 

 of the right genius to make such an undertaking go 

 off gloriously, and insure lasting benefits to her cit- 

 izens. 



T. N. D., of Wheatland, Loudon County, Vir- 

 ginia. — We were much interested and pleased with 

 his communication. His correct notions of farming, 

 and the means needed to bring up the worn-out land, 

 of the Old Dominion, would be a valuable medicine 

 for that part of the world, if it could be administered 

 to its inhabitants ; but as our ride does not extend 

 into those regions, having but few subscribers there, 

 and considering the length of his article, conclude 

 not to publish it, at present. 



Dr. Lee's Report. — Several slashing criticisms 

 have appeared in the New York papers, on the report 

 of Dr. Lee. Strange it is, that the moment an in- 

 dividual has the philanthropic boldness to advocate 

 the rights of the producing classes, the whole ken- 

 nel of those who hope to live by their wits, are out 

 upon him, " tray, blanch, and sweetheart." — Pub. 



W. S. T. Two communications received. 



