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GENESEE FARMER. 



JULT, 



P. Seymour's Patent Broad-cast Sowing Machine. 



Seymour's Sowing I;Iachine. 



The above engraving gives a perspective 

 view of P. Seymou7'''s Patent Broad-cast Smv- 

 ing Machine. Although we have not seen it in 

 operation, we are inclined to believe, judging 

 from the testimony of a large number of practi- 

 cal farmers who have tested its merits, that the 

 implement is wortliy of the attention of farmers 

 generally. 



The inventor states that "this machine will 

 sow correctly (and any quantity desired per acre,) 

 all kinds of grain, &c., which the farmer may 

 wish to sow upon his fields. It will also sow 

 plaster, lime, ashes, limed wheat, &c., as they 

 should be, and better than can be sown by hand — 

 thereby saving time, seed, and "the sweat of the 

 brow," and securing greater crops than can be 

 obtained by uneven sowing. It is drawn by one 

 horse, and may be managed by any boy who can 

 ride in the seat and guide the horse." 



For certificates, &c., tlie reader is referred 

 to an advertisement on page 171. m. 



To Correspondents. 



Communications have been received since 

 our last from S. W., E. C. M., Agricola, J. L. 

 H., J. B. N., Reed Burritt, A Dairy Woman of 

 Wayne Co., Mary P., R. D. Palmer, Inquirer, 

 Wayne. 



Wk are indebted to Hon. E. Burke, Com.mis- 

 sioner of Patents, for a copy of his valuable 

 Report. It is a mammoth document, consisting 

 of 1376 pages, and embracing much information 

 on the agriculture of the country. 



We are indebted to an unknown friend for a 

 copy of the Address of John S. Skinner, Esq., 

 before the Queens County Agricultural Society. 



To E. C. Miller for Premium List of Wayne 

 Co. Agricultural Society. Also for a copy of 

 the Louisville Weekly Journal, containing a 

 valuable treatise on the Culture i>f Silk. 



Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and 

 Ggolcgy. 



The Principal of the Western New York Ag- 

 ricultural School will commence a course of Lee- 

 tures on Agricultural Chimistry and Geology on 

 the first day of October next, to continue through 

 the month, one each day, Sundays excepted. — 

 This course is given a^ the suggestion and par- 

 ticular request of many Teachers of Common 

 Schools, who are desirous of qualifying them- 

 selves to instruct the older classes in their re- 

 spective schools in these most interesting and 

 important branches of Natural Science. Good 

 board in this vicinity can be had at $1.25 a week 

 during the term. Lecture fees, $6. The class 

 will be daily drilled on all the subjects discussed 

 in the lectures, whicli will be fully illustrated 

 by practical demonstrations, specimens, draw- 

 ings, &c. 



It is respectfully suggested to the friends of 

 intellectual and agricultural improvement, that a 

 public service may be rendered, by urging the 

 teachers of common shools to attend this course 

 of lectures — intimating to them, what is true, that 

 higher icages will reward more extended attain- 

 ments. 



The Proprietors of tlie Agricultural School are 

 happy to inform its friends that the Institution is 

 as well patronized as they anticipated, and that 

 they have secured the services of a gentleman of 

 liberal education to aid in teaching the higher 

 branches of the mathematics and the languages. 

 Arrangements are making to receive a few more 

 pupils, who will be charged nothing extra for 

 the consumption of chemicals in the laboratory, 

 and lecture fees. 



In addition to the ancient languages, French 

 and (Tcrman will be taught. 



Persons wishing soils, or mineral waters anal- 

 3'zed, are informed that the charge will be no 

 more than to cover the cost of the ingredients 

 consumed, and to keep good the apparatus. The 



