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THE GEWESEE FARMER 



ROCHESTER INSTITUTE— No. 3. 



Manual Labour, is in some minds associated 

 with poverty, dependence and coarseness. The 

 honours of American industry, have well nigh 

 broken the neck of this pride: but our Colleges 

 originally of European importation, have not yet 

 cast off this badge of Royally. Students are a- 

 shamed to promote their health, by any exercise 

 that is profitable. The childish sports of the 

 Gymnasium, have been recently imported, at no 

 small expense. To be ashamed of labour, belongs 

 to a Turk. The Saviour of the world, the model 

 of every perfection, laboured as a mechanic, till 

 he began to be about thirty years of age, and in 

 three years preached the Gospel to a whole Na- 

 tion. Paul used manual labour, while preaching 

 the gospel to the refined and learned. Moses, 

 combined learning and useful industry. Truly 

 the man that would separate them, contributes to 

 bring back the African slave, and to compel the 

 rich master to mirS'> his child in the bosom of cor- 

 ruption. The union of labour with study, accords 

 with the most exalted views of rank, freedom,and 

 refinement. It is the American policy. It is es- 

 sential to the preservation of Health. The aspi- 

 ring student, unwilling to climb or swing in the 

 Gymnasium, grows languid, studies on his couch, 

 breaks his constitution, and sinks to the grave a 

 sacrifice to literary pride. The American Eudca- 

 tion Society, solicitous to patronize the highest 

 order of talent and worth j have recently buried 

 thirty young men, martyrs to the separation of 

 learning from labour. A student entered this In- 

 stitute, at first unable to study half a day ; but by 

 labour he has gained strength to pursue learning 

 with the least prospect of spending five or six 

 years in gaining a thorough Education. Younj 

 men from active occupations, commence a course 

 of studies for a profession at the peril of life, un 

 less connected with hours of manual labour. 



It produces no loss ok time from study. — 

 The Student rises at four in the morning, from 

 which, till nine P. M. is seventeen hours. Let 

 one hour be assigned for meals, one for private de 

 votion, one for personal attention, one for inter- 

 ruptions, three for labour, and ten hours remain 

 for study, with mind and body fitted for vigorous 

 effort. 



As A MEANS FOR DIMINISHING EXPENSE, it is 



important to the rich, and essential to those who 

 are not. The expense at an Academy when the 

 Student goes from home, is seldom less than a 

 hundred dollars a year; and while at College, 

 one hundred and fifty besides necessary clothing. 

 How few Farmers, or men in good business with 

 a family, are willing to pay six hundred dollars 

 fo educate a son for four years. To prevent the 

 churches from becoming vacant of Pastors, to oc- 

 cupy the expanded west, to qualify men for public 

 life, has become the work of charity. One Agent 

 for the American Education Society from Boston, 

 one from N. York, and one from Philadelphia, 

 have in rapid succession, visited Rochester to 

 raise some thousands of dollars to do for the 

 country, what the parent will not do for the child. 

 We must not however expect too much from the 

 student. It was never intended that three hours 

 labour should pay all their expenses, and in addi- 

 tion, purchase lands, erect houses and shops, and 

 austain all the departments of labour, board and 

 instruction. The most successful experiment yet 

 made in our country, is sustained by public con- 



tribution, and enn only enable its students to pay 

 board, having thirty three dollars increased by the 

 expenses of every unfair day, and the entire ex- 

 pense during winter, to be paid in money. Some 

 ardent friends, and uninformed students, expecting 

 three hours labour while learning a trade, to su- 

 percede the use of money, are requested to com- 

 pare the price of learning wjth its value. The 

 following results of two months experience will 

 be gratifying to the community, especially to 

 those who can calculate. 1st That no laboureron 

 afarm.and no mechanical work going on in Roch- 

 ester, winter and summer, can realize as much for 

 three hours of a students time, as the making of 

 Flour barrels 2d. Students of mechanical skill, 

 can in six or eight weeks learn this art, and du- 

 ring that term earn ninety cents a week, while 

 others can earn from fifty to seventy-five. After- 

 wards, the former earn one dollar and ninety 

 cents, the latter from $1 ,20 to $1,75. 3d. The 

 expenses charged to the students, do not exceed 

 one dollar and seventy-five cents. It will be seen 

 that while learning the trade, their labour will ma- 

 terially lessen the expenses, and afterwards in 

 most cases pay the whole ; in a few, only the 

 board : in others furnish money for Books or clo- 

 thing. During the recent vacation many earned 

 from six shillings to a dollar per day. Those 

 skilled in printing and joiners work, have made 

 their earnings much exceed their expenses. 



The expense of the Institute to the Pub- 

 lic. — It is the expectation during the first year to 

 increase the number of students gradually to one 

 hundred. The expense for rents, shop, tools, fur- 

 niture and some apparatus, and salaries, is esti- 

 mated at three thousand dollars. At the end of 

 the year, much of this will be property on hand. 

 It is believed that the community will prefer 

 raising twenty thousand dollars during the first 

 year, and erecting all the requisite buildings for 

 reciving two hundred students and give this Col- 

 legiate Institute a rural location near town. The 

 amount of money saved by the manual labour of 

 two hundred students, exceeds an interest of fifty 

 pr. ct. on all the money to be raised. Suppose 

 the two hundred students able to pay their whole 

 expense at the medium College rate of one hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars a year: then thirty thousand 

 dollars each year, must be drawn from the profit 

 of agriculture, trade and manufactures. The la- 

 bour of the Institute saves this thirty thousand. — 

 Suppose the two hundred to be supported by Ed- 

 ucation Societies at seventy-five dollars in addi 

 tion to what other friends, and funds could do. — 

 This would cost fifteen thousand to be raised by 

 subscription. This sum would be saved to the 

 cause of education. 



The building of one church, often costs more 

 than the funds needed to save $30,000 yearly to 

 the rich ; or $15,000 of public subscriptions. — 

 Fourteen students from Rochester if at College, 

 would draw away about three thousand dollars a 

 year, and the sum would rent buildings, and sus- 

 tain the whole expense of two hundred. The In- 

 stitute with two hundred students, wilh professors, 

 with its own rural scenery and industry, will be 

 a source of wealth and worthy praise. It will be 

 an honour to lay its corner stone, to be among the 

 list of its patrons. 



Rochester has a thousand parlors furnished in 

 princely style, and not a school of science or lit- 

 erature that docs not blush to receive a visitor,— 



September 10, 1831 



The fame of its enterprise, and some si°nal in 

 stances of christian liberality, have rendered 

 Rochester conspicuous in the eyes of a great 

 nation. The existence of its Institute is noticed 

 in newspapers and literary journals. The suc- 

 cess of its mechanical operations above agricul- 

 ture, is already controling the calculations of other 

 literary institutions. Its success is important to 

 the dearest interests of our country. 



ROSES, DAHLIAS, STRAWBI RRIES, 

 and Quicks. 



THE proprietors of the Albany Nursery have 

 printed a classification of 140 of their finest 

 Roses, according to color, to enable purchasers to 

 select a variety with certainty and economy, with 

 characters indicating the size of the flower and 

 habit, and the prices annexed. This may be seen 

 at the office of the Genesee Farmer. 



They have imported and propagated many var- 

 ieties of the finest double Dahlias, which may be 

 selected by the flowers, at the Nursery, until th« 

 frosts of Autumn. 



They will have for sale from this time forward 

 plants of the Methven Strawberry, at $2 50 per 

 hundred. Forty-seven of these berries have weigh- 

 ed a pound. They are good bearers and of tine 

 flavor. Also, most of the other esteemed varieties. 

 See catalogue. 



The.y have likewise for sale, 50,000 plants of 

 the three thomed Locust, ( Glcditschia triacanth 

 us) two years old, and of good size to be planted 

 for hedges, at $5. per 1000. 



Orders for any articles from the Nurrcry, may 

 be sent by mail, or addressed to the care of L 

 Tucker, Rochester. BUEL& WILSON. 



Albany Nursery, July 16 f4t 



ZINC HOLLOW WARE, 



MANUFACTURED by John Wcstfield & 

 Co. No. 163 Mott st N. York. 



The prices of this ware will, upon examination, 

 be found not to vary materially from that ot Tin. 

 and Iron, yet as durable as iron, easily cleansed, 

 not subject to rust, giving the article cooked or 

 kept in it no unpleasant taste, and containing in it-* 

 self no poison as do copper, brass and lead. 



Zinc Kettles will be found to cook rice, hominy, 

 and all kinds of sweat meats, better than any oth- 

 er kind of metal, neither discoloring nor varying 

 the flavor of the substance cooked ; and for these 

 purposes, it will ere long be substituted for brass 

 and copper, to avoid the poisonous corrosions of 

 these metals. 



Zinc pans for the dairy will be found by the dai- 

 ryman an object of his immediate attention, from 

 these considerations— that they will greatly out- 

 last any other pans — that the same size will pro- 

 duce one-sixth more cream or butter, and of a su- 

 perior flavor — that they are more easily cleansed, 

 and will keep milk sweet longer by a number ot 

 hours. Zinc tubs and fukins will keep butter 

 sweet several days longer in hot weather, than 

 those of wood or other kinds of metal. This has 

 been a subject of experiment, and the results safe- 

 ly warrant the statement. Hence families who 

 prefer sweet butter to rancid, will do well to avail 

 themselves of these tubs, for keeping their butter 

 sweet and retaining its flavor. 



Zinc ware is cleansed by rubbing it with brown 

 brick dust, dry without the use of soap. The a- 

 bove are indisputable facts in regard to Zinc ware, 

 which are subject to experimental proof by any in 

 dividual, who will lake the trouble to experimenl 

 fairly on the use of the articles. For sale by , 

 ROBSITER cf KNOX, 

 sep 3 ar Buffalo st Rochester 



ESSAYS ON AMERICAN SILK, 



WITH Directions to farmers for raising Si 

 Worms — by J. D. Homergue and J' 

 Duponceau. Also, 



rhc American Gardener, 



Deane's New-England Farmer, and 



Butler's Farmer's Manual, for sale by 



HOYT, PORTER & CO 

 Prince sn the Vine, a lew copies for sale :.• 

 above. Jul; 



