Vol. VII, 



ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL, 1846. 



No. 4. 



TIIK GE!¥ESEE FAR.IIER : 

 Issued the fr^t of eadi iitu?ith, at Ilochester, N. Y. , by 



D, D. T. MOORE, PROPRIETOR. 



DANIEL LEE, EDITOR, 



p. BABRY, Conductor of the Eorficultural Department. 



FIFTY CENTS A YEAR : 



Five copies for §2 — Eight copies for .$3. Subscription 

 money, by a regulation of the Post-Master General, may be 

 remitted by Post-Masters free of expense. ^^ All sub- 

 scriptions lo commence with the first number of tlie volume. 



Publication Office over the Rochester Seed Store 

 (2d story,) Front street, nearly opposite the Market. 



Post-Masters, and all other friends of Agricultural Jour- 

 nals, are requested to obtain and forward subscriptions for 

 the Farmer. Addi'ess D. D. T. Moore, Rochester, N. Y. 



Delay of this Number— Explanation. 



The publication of this number of the Farmer has been 

 unavoidably delayed until the middle of the month, in con- 

 sequence of the impossibility of procuring suitable paper at 

 an earlier period. The dam of the Paper Mill in this city 

 was swept away by the freshet in March — j-et we were 

 promised a supply of paper the first of April. But we were 

 again disappointed, — and finally obliged to send abroad in 

 order to obtain paper of a proper size and quality, and then 

 wait (until our patience and patriotism nearly evaporated,) 

 for it to be manufactured, &c. Every possible effort was 

 made to prevent the delay, but the elements proved deci- 

 dedly unproptiiious and inflexible. 



"This is the head and front of our oflfending," and we 

 trust our friends will not censure us for a delay which could 

 not be avoided. 



TO CLUBS. — Any Post Master or other person who has 

 sent us eight or more subscribers, will be furnished with 

 any additional number of copies at the club price — 37g cents 

 each. We hope our friends will bear this in mind, and for- 

 ward the subscriptions of those who want the Farmer. 



We occasionally send specimen numbers of the Farmer 

 to Post Masters and others who are not subscribers. Will 

 those who thus receive it, introduce the paper to the notice 

 of their friends and acquaintances, and obtain and forward 

 subscriptions according to our club terms ? We trust that 

 all who like the manner and matter of the Farmer will lend 

 their influence in extending its circulation and usefulness in 

 their respective vicinities. 



Lectures on Agricultnral Gismi/jtry. 



The Editor of this [)aj)er will be prepared to 

 deliver lectures on Agricultural Chemistry du- 

 ring the tnonth of April, unJ perhaps more or 

 less tfirougli the season, in various parts of West- 

 ern New York. In case he shall go out to lec- 

 ture, (having had the experience of last year to 

 guide him,) he thinks it best to be provided with 

 a Chemical Apparatus, and to spend two weeks 

 in a town, giving 8 or 10 lectures, and instruc- 

 tion in the practical details of analyzing soils, 

 the ashes of plants, &c. By this means, fifty or 

 one hundred persons can acquire, with the aid of 

 books, a familiarity with tlie elements of the sci- 

 ence, and tlie properties of the tests, and reagents 

 used to elicit important facts, which will be of 

 incalculable service in directing aright all theii 

 farming operations. 



The charge for going and spending two weeks 

 in a town, including the analysis of soils, will be 

 $50. If fifty or one hundred farmers think fa- 

 vorably of this matter, they have only to subscribe 

 fifty cents or a dollar each, and they, and their 

 sons and daughters, can have an opportunity of 

 attending tliese lectures at no great distance from 

 their own doors. 



Provided any lectures abroad, after the first of 

 May, shall interfere with his duties to his school, 

 none will be given. 



Procee-dings op the Clinton County Ag- 

 ricultural Society for 1845. — We have re- 

 ceived from WiLLETS Keese, Esq., a copy of 

 the proceedings of the Clinton County Agricul- 

 tural Society, for 1845, with a list of premiums 

 for 1846. We regret that tlie Society has found 

 it necessary to put the fee of membership at $'5, 

 in order to raise the necessary funds to sustain it. 

 This shows a lack of interest on the part of the 

 great mass of farmers, which should not exist. 



The crops of wheat and corn on which premi- 

 ums were awarded were grown at a good profit. 

 Seed corn soaked 12 hours in water, and rolled 

 in plaster. Corn treated to a dose of ashes and 

 plaster on the hill. 



