Vol. VI r. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY, 1846. 



No. 



THE GENESEE FARMEU s 

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D. D. T. MOORE, PROPRIETOR. 



DANIEL LEE, EDITOR. 



P. BAERY, Conductor of the Horticultural Department. 



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 the Farmer. Address D. D. T. Moore, Rochester, N. Y. 



Western BJew York Agricultural School. 



The Editor of the Farmer is now at Wheat- 

 land, making arrangements for opening this In- 

 stitution on the first Monday of the present month. 

 As the enterprise is an important one, we can- 

 not allow the occasion to pass unnoticed. Dr. 

 Lee, as is well known to many of our readers, 

 has directed his attention for several years to the 

 study of Agricultural Science, and made no little 

 effort for the establishment of Agricultural 

 Schools in this State. His associate in tlie enter- 

 prise. Gen. Dawson Harmon, is also well known 

 as one of the best practical farmers in the Union. 

 Gen. H. has been eminently successful in the 

 cultivation of wheat. He now has over fifty 

 distinct varieties of winter wheat growing upon 

 his excellent farm, where the School is located. 



With such men at its head — one thoroughly 

 acquainted with the Science, and the other well 

 experienced in the Practice of Agriculture — we 

 see no reason why this School should not receive, 

 as it will certainly merit, extensive patronage 

 and encouragement. The farniei-s of Western 

 New York should see to it that an institution of 

 this character, upon their own soil, is properly 

 sustained — for it will afford their sons a more 

 thorough and practical education than can be ob- 

 tained at any of our Academies or Colleges. — 

 And intelligent men of other occupations and 



professions will, we think, find in this School a 

 desideratum which their sons desire or ought to 

 possess — something more than a mere literary 

 education. The day is not distant when similar 

 schools, furnishing to pupils a correct knowl- 

 edge of the theory and practice of good hus- 

 bandry, will be established and su.stained in dif- 

 ferent sections of the country. The gentlemen 

 above named are the pioneers of the good work 

 in Western New York, and we trust their truly 

 laudable enterprise will receive cample encour- 

 agement and patronage. 



Among the many favorable notices which we 

 have observed in our exchanges, we copy the 

 sujoined : M. 



Western New York Agricultural School. — J)r, 

 Daniel Lee, of Buflaio, editor of the Genesee Farmer, has 

 made iiirangcments vvilh Goii. Rawson Harmon, to open an 

 Agricultural School at the residence of the latter in Wheat- 

 land, Monroe County, N. Y., on the 1st of May next, t« 

 teach the science and practice of ngricullure. The farm of 

 Gen. Harmon contains 200 acres of improved land, which 

 is under excellent cultivation in the various kinds of crops 

 suitable to the climate. 



From the well known cliaractors of (Jen. Harmon and 

 Dr. Lee, we have no doubt that tliey will keep an (•xcelleiJt 

 Agricultural School, and one highly deserving the patron- 

 age of the i)ublic. 'J'he pages of this periodical will bear 

 witness to the zeal witli which we have continually ;idvo- 

 cated them, and we are rejoiced to be able to announco 

 that one is at length to be established in this State. We hope 

 it may meet the patronage that it is sure to merit, and that 

 it may be followed by others throughout (he country. It is 

 high "time that farmers sons were taught tlieir business sci- 

 erUiJically as well as j>ra-tically. We are of opinion that, tea 

 years hence, [K-ople will look back with perfect wonder that 

 agricultural schools were not established at ihe first sotllc- 

 ment of the country. — Ampr. Agriculturist for February. 



AoRicuLi UR AL School. — We learn that Dr. D. Lee, wHi 

 is now editor of the Genesee Farmer, in connexion with 

 (icn. Rawson Harmon, have formed arrangements for 

 op-^ning a .school for the study of scientific and practical ag- 

 ricultui-e. It is to be loeaied on Gen. H."s farm, in Wheat- 

 land, about sixteen miles from Rochester. We have not 

 yet s.>en a plan of this school, but we presume a leading 

 object will be to test theories by pr-aclical and careful exper- 

 iment in field riiltiire : and in doing this, in a proper man- 

 ner, it cannot fail to be liighly useful. Dr. Lef. has devo- 

 ted much study to the science of agriculture, and we believo 

 has had considerable experience in tlie capacity of a teacher. 

 Gen. Harmon is considered one of the best practical farmers 

 in the State — in wheat culture, in particular, he has beea 

 quite eminent; and the community are under large obliga- 

 tions to him for his numerous and v.'cll-conducted experi- 

 ments to test the relative value of a great many kinds of 

 wheat. We wish the school success. — All/. CuUiuator, 



