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GENESEE FARMER. 



Dec. 1845 



OUR VOLUIfflS FOR 1846. 



With this number will close the fifteenth volume 

 of the old and new Genesee Farmer, and the sixth 

 of the New Series. The Editor trusts that he has 

 commenced an acquaintance with its readers, which 

 will continue for many years, and contribute not a 

 little to the prosperity and happiness of both parties. 

 Hitherto, owing to other, and not very congenial 

 pursuits, the conductor of this paper has not been 

 able to devote that attention to its reading matter, 

 correcting proof, Sec. Sic, which the best interest 

 of the Farmer, and his own reputation, alike de- 

 manded. Hence he has deemed it due to himself, as 

 well as to the friends of Agricultural Improvement, 

 either to resign the Chair-Editorial to one who could 

 devote more time and attention to its many duties, 

 or endeavor to discharge such duties in a manner 

 more worthy of the great Agricultural Interest of 

 the Country. The latter alternative has been chosen. 

 With wheat worth over a dollar a bushel, and cheese 

 eight cents a pound, we do not believe that a well 

 co.Tjuctcd agricultural journal, at fifty cents a year, 

 need to die, in Western New York, surrounded by 

 fifty thousand intelligent and independent farmers. 

 These greatly need a paper that is wholly devoted 

 to the advocacy of their interests, in all matters of 

 a public and professional character. The fact is not 

 to be disguised that party politics has engrossed too 

 much of the attention of the tillers of the soil, to 

 the neglect of what would lessen the present ex- 

 pense of raising 100 bushels of grain, or of making 

 100 pounds of pork, beef, butter and wool. It is 

 only by diminishing the cost of producing what the 

 farmer makes to sell, in Western New York, that 

 he can hope to compete on advantageous terms, with 

 the avalanche of western agricultural products, soon 

 to meet him in every market. This saving in the 

 cost of a bushel of wheat, to the producer, can only 

 be realized by a knowledge of the things I hat com- 

 bine to form this grain — and of the laws that govern 

 the combinations of these things, under all ordinary 

 circumstances. 



To acquire this practical and scientific knowledge, 

 nnd to scatter it broad-cast over the land, is the 

 great ambition of my life. It was to persuade the 

 Legislature to assist a little, in a common efTort, to 

 render Agricultural Labor better rewarded in the 

 Empire State, than it then was, that the Editor occu- 

 pied a seat for two sessions in one branch of that 

 body. Alth(jugh unsuccessful, the hope of success 

 is not yet extinguished. The time will come when 

 the claims of Honest Industry will be listened to in 

 the capitol of New York. The rapid concentration 

 of wealth into/cu-, and fewer hands among us, will 

 eventually work a cure for a disease, now in its in- 

 cipient stages, which every consideration of patriot- 

 ism, of justice, and of the inalienable rights of hu- 

 manity, require that it should be timely and wisely 

 removed. The laboring people of all classes, nuist 

 be taught how to keep, as well as how to toil and 

 create property. It is alike unsafe and unnecessary, 

 to manufacture paupers, and criminals, a great deal 

 faster than our population increrses. The evils of 

 this system will fall, one of tliese days, with fearful 

 weight on the owners of the soil in New York. — 

 Land that is visible, can no more escape taxes here 

 than in England, where $30,000,000 are annually 

 •expended to feed sufi'ering men, women and children. 

 Every child in this State should be learned some 

 branch of productive industry, that when an adult, 

 he shall neither beg, steal, nor starve. He should 



also learn how to keep the entire proceeds of his 

 muscular or mental toil, that he need never become 

 a public pauper, and a severe tax upon the labor of 

 others. 



The art of creating wealth by s'nllful rural labor, 

 and the science of keeping it after one has fairly call- 

 ed it into existence, will be calmly and plainly dis- 

 cussed in our next volume. 



For particulars see the Publisher's Prospectus. 



DANIEL LEE. 



TO SUBSCRIBERS. 



The January number of the Farmer will be sent 

 to all subscribers to this volume. As we are deter- 

 mined to do all in our power to merit support, we 

 trust no one will discontinue the paper until it proves 

 unworthy of his patronage — an event which, extra- 

 ordinaries excepted, we shall try, for some years, 

 to forefend. VVe confidently ask those who like the 

 Farmer, to renew their subscriptions, and solicit 

 their friends to become its readers and patrons. The 

 unusually low price at which we offer the enlarged 

 volume of the Farmer, must give it preference to 

 m.any other similar publications — though we hope 

 that every good agricultural paper may be welt sup- 

 ported . 



(H/^ We are now sending out a Prospectus, in cir- 

 cular form, for the forthcoming volume. Gentle- 

 men, will those of you who receive a copy of such 

 Prospectus, obtain and forward subscriptions for the 

 Farmer ? Those who may not get a circular copy, 

 will oblige us by showing this number of the Far- 

 mer to their neighbors, and sohciting them to sub- 

 scribe. For this, or any similar aid which you can 

 consistently and conveniently render, we shall feel 

 truly grateful. Publisher. 



STATE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. 



The Cortland Democrat has an excellent article 

 recommending a State Agricultural School, and des- 

 ignates Monroe County, or Rochester, as the most 

 suitable place for its establishment. We have only 

 room for the concluding paragraph, which is as fol- 

 lows : 



'* We hope the next Legislature will take early 

 action upon the subject, and adopt such measures as 

 may be necessary to procure land, erect buildings, 

 and establish and permanently endow an institution 

 which will do credit to the Agricultural interest of 

 the State. 



Rochester would be a capital location for such an 

 institution. Utica has the Lunatic Asylum; Syra- 

 cuse expects, and should have the Capitol: Auburn 

 has the Prison; Geneva the Colleges; and Roches- 

 ter should be the place for an Agricultural School. 

 The citizens of that county and city should bestir 

 themselves in favor of the measure, and the whole 

 agricultural interest of the State should petition the 

 Legislature to establish the school." 



What say the " citizens" of Monroe County, and 

 of this enterprising and wealthy City, to this propo- 

 sition ? Such an Institution would be liberally en- 

 dowed by the State, and a great ornament to the 

 place, as well as of incalculable utility to this sec- 

 tion of country. Will not the property holders, mil- 

 lers, merchants, and farmers, make a little effort in 

 favor of a State Agricultural School ? 



We shall wait with some anxiety to see how much 

 interest is felt in this important matter. 



