1846. 



GENESEE FARMER, 



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present however, we must go back to our text. 

 Timber should be felled when there are no leaves 

 oa the trees (except ever greens,) and should be 

 seasoned under cover. If it is to be placed un- 

 der water at once, then it may as well be cut in 

 June as at any other season. Soaking timber in 

 etrong brine, constantly adding salt as it pene- 

 trates the wood, and the brine becomes weaken- 

 ed, is a practice older than Venice. 



Hionan Progress and Elevation. 



We invite attention to the extract of an Ad- 

 dress before the Farmer's Club in Junius by our 

 valuable correspondent "S. W.," which stands 

 for Samuel Williams of Waterloo. 



Commend us to a man that has a living faith 

 in the goodness of Providence, and the ability of 

 the human race to improve alike, as physical, in- 

 tellectual, and moral beings. To suppose that 

 there is any necessity for cultivating a million 

 acres in this state, and using nearly two millions 

 of bushels of seed wheat, to produce less than 

 fourteen millions of grain, is to assume that the 

 culture of wheat must soon be abandoned in this 

 country. And if we can exhaust the soil for the 

 growth of wheat, the same bad system will ren- 

 der the earth barren in regard to other vegetables 

 used as food for man. Every body knows that 

 by unwise tillage a farmer may so impair the fer- 

 tility of his fields as to make his crops cost him 

 twice as much manure and labor as they need to 

 cost. Hence it is that so many counties in New 

 York are fast losing their rural population. 



This system of depopulating rural districts, is 

 now only beginning to be felt in this portion of 

 the state. It will gradually increase for fifty 

 years to come, unless we can make a common 

 and successful effort to render agricultural labor 

 quite as productive and valuable here, as it is in 

 any new country west of us. It is only by the 

 proper cultivation of the Intellect that controls 

 and directs all farming operations in Western 

 New York, that we can hope to produce all our 

 crops at the least possible expense, and at the 

 same time improve the soil on which they grow., 

 God has made it our duty, and greatly for our in- 

 terest to study the immutable laws by which He, 

 through the sweat of the husbandman, changes 

 crude earth, air and water into bread, meat, milk, 

 wool and flax for the comfortable support of his 

 rational beings on this planet. 



Farmer's Clubs. 



Du. Lee — Dear 8ir : Although personally 

 unacquainted with you, yet having become a 

 subscriber to the " Genesee Farmer," and wish- 

 ing all success as well to your journal, as to the 

 cause of agriculture throughout the land, I ven- 

 ture to address you at this time, mainly for the 

 purpose of requesting you again to press the sub- 

 ject of forming " Town Clubs" — a subject to 

 which you adverted in the number for the pres- 



ent month, in a leading article under the heading 

 " Teach one Another." This is an important 

 subject, and {)robably more so than will strike 

 the minds of many of your readers, but wlui, 

 having their minds again, or often, directed to it, 

 especially at this season of the year, may give 

 their attention at first, and finally be led to ao- 

 tion. I simply suggest the subject to you, not 

 knowing whether you intended referring to it 

 again or not. 



I hope, however, that, should you see no in>- 

 mediate good effects resulting from your advice 

 and suggestions in said article, you will not dee- 

 pair, but persevere in a good and noble cause. 

 Yours truly, AGnicoLA- 



West Bloom/ield, Jan., 1840. 



Mr. Editor : — We have organized in thi« 

 town a Farmer's Club, for the purpose of collec- 

 ting and disseminating facts connected with prac- 

 tical agriculture ; and also to induce our work- 

 ing farmers to turn their attention to the im- 

 provement of the mind as well as the soil. Aa 

 a means of accomplishing this, our first step is 

 to procure a supply of Agricultural papera for 

 general circulation and perusal; and I now send 

 you with this, the cash for 60 copies of the cur- 

 rent volume of your valuable " Genesee Far- 

 mer" for that purpose. 



We also have regular v/eekly meetings of our 

 Club, at which subjects are discussed having a 

 direct bearing upon the great business in which 

 we are engaged. The meetings are well atten- 

 ded, and much interest is excited ; and we are 

 not without hopes that great good will be the re- 

 sult. Yours, &c., J. L. HOSFOUD, 



Castile, Wyoming Co., N. Y. 



We are grateful to our friend Mr. Hosforu 

 for the interest he takes in extending the circula- 

 tion of the only Agricultural Journal published 

 in Western New York ; and in promoting the 

 organization of Town Agricultural Clubs. 1 here 

 is not a town in the state west of Utica that 

 should not receive at least 100 copies. To com- 

 panies of eight or more, a work suitable for bin- 

 ding, of 300 pages, with illustrations, can behati 

 at three York shillings. If the Editors and Cor- 

 respondents do not make each of the twelve num- 

 bers worth the price of a year's subscription, 

 they will fail to meet the just expectations of 

 many friends, who have spoken of the Farmer. 



Shall we not have the pleasure to announce in 

 our next paper the formation of many new asso- 

 ciations for mutual instruction, the advancement 

 of agriculture, and the elevation of those that 

 till the earth ? Farmers must act together before 

 they can accomplish the great work of placing 

 their noble profession at the head of all the learn- 

 ed and scientific pursuits which are studied, and 

 practiced in civilized life. That knowledge is 

 power, and the lack of it weakness, are truths 

 too apparent to gain anything by ai'guraent 



