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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Dec. 



know] our power. This is doing- no 



the oppor- 

 3 some will, the fault will be 



I that oft 1 



i 

 e calling of the Am 

 ality with any other, for high 

 . This alone will secure : 



e numbers in the State and 

 il will not do, in this go-ahead, 

 I 



and look back." 

 "Onward and upward'* should be our motto. 1 1 



ultural 



[f you have not Hitchcock's Ge> 

 : Boussing 

 .-.: nor the 



can not do 

 If and 

 h $1000 si 

 ■ rth 

 li $2000, . :• a well selected library 



worth 



■ 

 children in\ ;s for intel- 



show, or some f infini oment 



lucation. 1 



iety will certainly find it out. 

 ss our means for improvement. 

 Ever-. 



We 

 should igns of the times, and 



the day la: 



PATENT OFFICE .AG-RICOIiTURAL REPORT. 



The senior editor of this paper has consented to 

 charge of the Agricultural matters in the Patent 

 Office, grass at its ap- 



ion. To . undertaking he 



tnation on all topics appro - 

 t, and particularly In refer- 

 e inland commerce of the country. • The 

 products on lal 

 canals, and r..ii is a i abject of interest to ail in- 



ent farmers and business men. 

 Crude guessing in regard to the quantity of j 

 and other crops grown in the current year, can pos- 

 . alue a few months in advance of the 

 U. S. Census, so soon to be taken. Improvement in 



■nee of agricul- 

 ture are objects of great moment at this particular 

 The public mind is now more engaged in the 

 work of im nds, and educating young men 



not less thoroughly to be farmers than doctors or 

 lawyers are professionally educated, than at any ear- 

 lier period. Th predate the fact 

 that, no li ce of earth can possibly contain 

 an unlimited quantity of the atoms necessary to form 

 I crops of grain, cotton, tobacco or potatoes. 

 The elements of bread and meat in any given soil or 

 being quit thewasteofi tnents, 

 over many millions of acres, bee 

 a matter of paramount national importance. That 

 the quantity of atoms in every cubic foot of soil or 



earth which can be 'transformed into wheat. ' 



. If this v soils 



Diffi of varying fertility, | [ually 



nounts of th 



i gall crops is really i 

 any man ever be at the trou 

 ing n 



The use of fertiii: 

 story — that the elements of bread an 

 used up — wasted — utterly 

 and the world. How mm 



. v since the beginning 



Great com ph. 

 to the American navy of the defective i 

 which beef, pork am! butter i 

 sumption in tropical climates in 

 ean nations are 

 perishable commodities in a con 

 .- much longer and bi 



. '. 

 table to American skill in 

 . Nor is the ; i 



rmation on these and other subjects is sought 

 not only at home, but from foreign na 



iplomatic ii 

 course. The collection and diffusion • now- 



in the chi sible form, are labors in 



• participate. 

 Should not the young men of America bi 

 of their duty in thi lion? Look on the I 



mark the millio 



at the is axe. The 



continued toil of from the \ 



earth nearly the whole v, >untry. If 



no damage had been done to the lands under culti- 

 liration of the industry, enterprise 

 and success with which they have been plowed, hoed 

 and harvested, would be unmingled wit 

 But, unfortunately, many millio:. 

 can soil have suffered incalculable, if not irr< 



jury. The economical renovation o 

 exhausted fields: ana the cheap improvement i 

 farming lands that need it, ar i < I jectsto which i 



and study may be profitably devoted. 



A Word to Subscriber': and !" The 



publication of the Go ; J 



at the old office, in Talman B 



To 

 prevent mistakes, all persons wishing to : 

 subscription, or do any busini 

 should be careful to address: "Dam 

 Usher of the Genesee Fanner, Roc; 



Garlick. — To eradicate Garlick < 

 Mr. Bkckwith writi 

 the following effect : — "I have 

 summi say, one 



next oats, with clover vily, 



and plastering the clover. Let i 

 repeat the same course. 1 ha I a field very full which 

 I treated as above mentioned, and at the 

 second year the plant had entirely disappeared." 



