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GENESEE FARMER. 



Jan.. 



This will include instructions by Gen. H., as 

 well as tlie Editor's lecture fees. 



Gen. Har.^io.n's i'arm is regarded as admirably 

 adapted to the establishment of such an institu- 

 tion. He turns oil" some 1500 bushels of supe- 

 rior seed Wheat, every year, beside considera- 

 ble seed Corn, and between 45 and 50 fine wool- 

 ed bucks. As a breeder of Sheep, he has i'ew 

 equals in the country. His facilities for soiling, 

 or for keeping up sheep, cows and swine, can be 

 estimated by practical farmers when they are in- 

 formed that his basement rooms, walled in with 

 stone laid in lir;;e mortar, cover an area of 8916 

 square feet — or more than the whole basement 

 suri'ace of sci-cn 30 by 40 feet barns. 



The late census returns show that Monroe 

 County grows more Wheat than any other in the 

 S^tate, and more bushels per acre ; and that 

 Wheat-land produces more, per acre, than any 

 other town inthe County. 



There is a beautiiul natural pond, or lake, 

 partly on the farm, the outlet of which is suffi- 

 cient to drive a flouring mill. The shores of 

 this sheet of water are covered with shells and 

 shell marl, which are admirably adapted to bring 

 up the land, with a {ew other fertilizers, to a 

 high state of productiveness. 



Horticulture and Fruit Culture will not be 

 neglected at this school. 



Pupils should have a good Common School 

 Education before tliey enter the Institution. If 

 it shall be found desirable, competent tutors will 

 be employed to teach the Languages and Mathe- 

 matics. Assistants, if necessary, will also be 

 engaged to aid in teaching Geology, Chemistry, 

 Botany, Comparative x\n[.tomy, Physiology, and 

 Meteorology. It is contemplated to have but few 

 .students ; and to pay pai'ticular attention to their 

 attainments, morals and habits. But should the 

 Legislature ever deem it worth while to aid a 

 little in making scientific farmers as well as 

 scientific doctors, it is hopefl that under a charter 

 and board of Trustees, this may become a State 

 Agricultural School. 



To express our present views in brief, we 

 copy a resolution adopted unanimously by the 

 State Agricultural Society, which was offered, 

 some years since, by the undersigned : 



'^Resolved, That this Society regards the es- 

 tablishment of an Agricultural Institute and Pat- 

 tern Farm in this State, whei-e shall be taught, 

 thorausfh/y and alike, the Sciknck, the Practice 

 and tlie Profits of good husbandry, as an object 

 of great importance to the Productive Agricul- 

 ture of New York." Damkl Lee. 



What the Farmer, cannot afford to do 

 WITHOUT. — It is an agricultural journal. The 

 moment he drops th;it, he may expect to fall be- 

 hindhand, at least in the knowledge of the age 

 and all good improvements in agriculture. Can 

 the fiirmer afford to do this? No, he cannot. 



Teach One Another. , 



There is no class in the community that so 

 much neglect to instruct each other as do the cul- 

 tivators of the earth. It is true that their condi- 

 tion in life does not bring them into social con- 

 tact to the same extent enjoyed by mechanics and 

 artisans, who mostly reside in cities and villages. 

 The latter can more easily establish and keep up 

 their Mechanic's Association.^, Libraries, and oth- 

 er contrivances for mutual impi-ovement. They 

 can step into a public lecture room one or two 

 evenings each week, and hear the principles of 

 the mechanical arts discussed by the ablest in their 

 ranks, with little trouble, and signal advantage. 

 Can those that follow the noble pursuit of Agri- 

 culture do nothing in the way of teaching one 

 another '? Can not 20 or 30 farmers be found in 

 every town in the jState who are willing to unite 

 their efforts to advance the cause of Rural Indus- 

 try, by establishing an Agricultural Club for that 

 purpose ? Will a few hours once a month, or 

 even once a week, devoted to collecting and dif- 

 fusing knowledge on agricultural topics, be time 

 wasted, because all are too u'ise to learn any 

 thing from others l For what purpose was the 

 power of speech, the gifl; of reason, and the love 

 of social intercourse conferred on man by his 

 Maker? Suppose God had restricted the knowl- 

 edge of each human being to his own personal 

 experience in the world, what now would be the 

 condition of our race ? What riches can com- 

 pare with those of the Intellect, where the very 

 effort to give away what one possesses, increases 

 the treasure of the giver! A man may add ten 

 fold to his pwn knowledge, while laboring to im- 

 part wisdom to thousands of others. Teach one 

 another, and you will form habits of close obser- 

 vation, and become familiar with the operations 

 of Nature, in the production of plants and ani- 

 mals. Their multiplication and improvement 

 will be studied and understood. Let each mem- 

 ber of the Club pay fifty cents or a dollar, as an 

 initiatory fee ; and something more quarterly, to 

 build up a Library of standard works in the vari- 

 ous departments of Agricultural Literature. 



Should not a Nation of Farmers develope in- 

 tellect enough to have a literature of their own 1 

 What other pursuit in civilized life, is so admira- 

 bly adapted to foster clear and just thinking, pure 

 and noble impulses '? Where can be found a field 

 so broad, so rich, so inviting, so lovely in every 

 aspect, for the display of varied learning and 

 profound scientific attainments, as is now pre- 

 sented in the Agriculture of this extended Re- 

 public ? Blind is the intellect, and contracted 

 the ambition that now rejects all the advantages 

 of a good agricultujal education, for tlie cares, 

 the struggles, the contentions, and probable fail- 

 ure, whic'h will attend the young man that Ibrces 

 himself into the profession of Law or Medicine. 

 We would not speak disrespectfully of any pur- 

 suit or class in the community. But we know 



