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THE GENESEE FARMER 



Der ember 17, 1831. 



NATIONAL PR (SPERITY. 



Extract from the President's Message, Dec. 6. 

 rne representation of the people has been re- 

 newed for the twenty second time since the consti- 

 tution they formed has been in force, for near 

 halt' a century, the chief magistrates, who have 

 been successively chosen have made their annual 

 communications of the state olthe nation to its re- 

 presentatives. Generally, these communications 

 have been of the most gratifying nature, testifying 

 an advance of all the improvements of social, and 

 all the securities nl political life. But frequently. 

 an I justly, as you have been called on to be grate- 

 ful for the bounties of Providence, at few periods 

 have they been more abun antly or extensively 

 bestowed than at the present: rarely, if ever, have 

 we had greater reason to congratulate each other 

 on the continued and increasing prosperity of our 

 h'loved country. 



Agriculture, the first and most important occu 

 pation of man, has compensated the labors of the 

 husbandman with plentiful crops of ail the varied 

 products of our extensive country. Manufacto- 

 ries have been estaolished, in which the funds of 

 the capitalist find a profitable investment, and 

 woich give employment and subsistence to a nu- 

 merous and increasing body of industrious and 

 dexterous mechanics. The laborer is rewarded 

 by high wages, in the construction of works of in- 

 ternal improvement ; which arc extending with 

 unprecedented rapidity. Science is steadily pen- 

 etrating the recesses of nature and disclosing her 

 secrets, w lile the ingenuity of free min is is sub- 

 jecting the elements to the power of man, and 

 making each new coiquest auxiliary to his com- 

 fort. r3y our mails, whose speed is regularly in- 

 cre sed, and whose routes are every year extend- 

 ed, the communication of public intelligei.ee and 

 priv ite business is rendered frequent and safe — the 

 i iti • mrse between distant cities, which it former- 

 ly :• 'quired weeks to accomplish, is now effected in 



> lays; md in the construction of railroads, 



a" I the application of steam power, we havearea- 

 so i ible prospect that the extreme parts of our 

 coil ury wilt tie so much approximated, and those 

 most isolated by tile obstacles of nature, rendered 

 so to, sessible as to remove an apprehension some- 

 ti nes entertained, that the great extent of the Un- 

 ion would endanger its permanent existence. 



If, from the satisfactory view of our agriculture, 

 manufactures, an I internal improvements, we turn 

 to'th state of our navigation and trade wi h foreign 

 n itions and between the States, we shall scarcely 

 fin ' less cause for gratulation. A beneficent pro- 

 vid nee ins provided, for their exercise and en- 

 couragement, an extensive coast, indented by ca- 

 pacious bays, noble rivers, inlin-l se is, withacoun 

 tr: productive of ever,' material for ship building 

 ami every commodity for gainful commerce, and 

 filled yvith a population, activi . intelligent, wellin- 

 for.ned, arid fearless of danger. 1'hese advantag- 

 es are not neglected , and an impulse has lately 

 In en given to commercial enterprize, which fills 

 out- ship yards yvith rieyv constructions, encourages 

 all tile arts an I branches of industry connected 

 with them crowds the wharves of our cities with 

 vessels, and covers the most distant seas with our 

 canvass. 



"Let us be grateful for these blessings to the be- 

 neficent Being who has conferred them, and who 

 suffers U6 to indulge a reasonable hope of their 

 continuance and extension, while we neglect nol 

 the me ins bv which they may be preserved If 

 we may dare to judge of His future designs, by 

 the n inner in which his past favors have been be- 

 stow I, he has made our national prosperity todc- 

 pend on the preservation of our liberties ; our no 

 tional force on our federal union, and our individu 

 al Happiness on the maintenance of our State 

 tnd wise institutions. If we are prosperous 

 at home, and respected abroad, it is because we 

 are free nulled, industrious, and obedient to the 

 laws. While we continue so, we shall, by the 

 blessing of Heaven, goon in the happy career we 

 liave begun, and which, has brought us, in the 

 short period of our political existence, from a pop- 

 ulation of three to thirteen millions; from thirteen 

 separate colonics to twenty-four United States : 

 from weakness to strength : from a rank scarcely 

 marked in the scale ef ruit,i«ns to a high place in 

 their respecj. 



Stuck feeding in Ohio. — A correspondent li rpfiE GENES 

 of the Scioia [Ohio*) Gazette, lias sent to , JL ER ' S j 0URS 

 the editor of that paper some facts relative 

 to •' Stock feeding," which is extensively 

 carried on in the Sciota Valley. From 

 these ii a| pears that the first stock or store 

 cattle were driven to an Eastern market in 

 the year 1801, and the trade continued sue 

 cessfully for three ye.irs. It was soon found 

 that theie was no market at home for the 

 surplus grain raised iu Ohio, and the dis- 

 tance too gi eat to send it to the Eastward 

 for sale ; in consequc;.. e of which a citi- 

 zen of Clullicothe determined to try the ex- 

 periment of fatting c.ittle at home. Sixty 

 head were fed in the year 1804, and the 

 owner drove them to Baltimore, ihe nearest 

 market, and to Ins great astonishment the 

 project proved profitable. The succeeding 

 year from two to three hundred weie driven 

 to the same market. In 1808, a drove was 

 sent to Philadelphia, and subsequently oth- 

 ers to New- Yoi k and Boston ; and the num- 

 ber now exported from the Valley alone 

 amounts to ten thousand head per annum. 



The cattle, however, are not all raised in 

 Ohio; more than half of them are collected 

 from different parts of the Western States, 

 the difficulty and labor of which are exempli- 

 fied in the following paragraph from the let- 

 ter refened to : 



"Our cattle dealers think nothing of 

 mounting their horses and riding two, three, 

 tour, five, six and seven hundred miles in 

 search of stock, and when they procure and 

 collect a drove, following them for months 

 I through the wilderness, earning their pro- 

 visions. on pack horses, and encamping in 

 the woods and plain est! itil thev reach here; 

 [ then graze, or feed them, and proceed with 

 them to an Eastern maiket. Thus have 

 cattle been purchased at the Council Bluffs, 

 Up the Missouri, driven here and fed. an 

 then sent on foot to Philadelphia. New York, 

 ami Boston markets, and from thence ship- 

 ped to the >\ est Indies — the entiie opera- 

 tion of which consuming something like 

 three years." 



Taliacotian Operation — This operation 

 which his hitherto been so rare in this conn 

 try, having never, we believe, until a few 

 years ago introduced by Mr Liston. been 

 known in Scotland, seems likely to become 

 sufficiently common. VV ituin ihese few days 

 two patients fa man and a woman) have 

 been discharged from the Edinburgh In- 

 firmary, and another will short I \ be dis- 

 charged, in whom the olfactory organ has 



jbeen completely renovated. Another fe- 

 male, whose nose is almost en 1 1 1 el y lost, is at 

 present under treatment, and within the last 

 few months three more have had different 

 slighter repairs made upon their nasal pro- 



Itnberances. The materials for the new 

 nose, as our medical readers will be aware, 

 are derived from the forehead, and it s sur- 

 prising as it is pleasing toobserve how rap- 

 idly these, at fiist, flexible parts become con- 

 solidated and adapted to their new situation. 

 The whole of these cases have been under 

 the care of Mr. Liston, who, in this opera- 

 tion, as in many other departments of sur- 

 gery, has introduced considerable improve- 

 ments. Instead of taking the columna or 

 septum, as it is technically called, from the 

 furehead, he takes it, at a period subsequent 

 to the first operation, from the upper lip — a 

 practice which, we believe, surgeons, now 

 generally allow, has considerable advanta- 

 ges. — Edinburgh poprr. 



EE FARMER and Garden* 

 L. TUCKER & Co.. Pub. 

 lishers— N. GOODSELL, Editor. 



In issuing proposals for the second volume of 

 the Farmer, which will commence on die first of 

 January, 1832, the Publishers have the pleasure, of 

 stating that the work has met the decided appro- 

 bation of that class of the community for whom 

 it is intended, and has had the salutary effect of 

 calling out many writers, whose experience would 

 otherwise have been unavailable; and they are ah 

 so induced to believe it has been the means of a- 

 wakening many of our Farmers to the importance 

 of extending their information upon the subject of 

 their daily pursuits, and convincing them of the 

 utility and necessity of a paper devoted especially 

 to "the till* rs of the ground." The public pai ers, 

 and the judgment of many of our most enlight- 

 ened husbandmen, concur m the opinion that Mr 

 lioonsELi., the Editor, has fulfilled Ins duties widl 

 such ability, as, with the aid of his correspondents, 

 to have placed the Genesee Farmer on a level 

 with the best Agricultural journals of our coun- 

 try. It has, as yet, enlisted die good feelings and 

 contributions of but a small part of that portion of 

 our agriculturists who are well qualified to imparl 

 an interest and value to its columns. We shall, 

 therefore, commence the publication of the second 

 volume with tne hope and the assurance, that ma- 

 il, names will be added to the list of contributors 

 in .he course of another year, and we may ven- 

 ture to predict that the second volume will at least 

 equal, if it does not excel, the first. 



Its leading object has been, and will be, to impart 

 that information which will tend in the greatest, 

 degree to the improvement, of the Agriculture, 

 Horticulture, and Domestic Economy, of our conn, 

 try. 



The first volume can be supplied to all new sub 

 scribers, and bound in « neat uiannei to such 

 as desire it. In soliciting the patronage of the 

 public, and especially of Agricultural and Horti- 

 cultural Societies, we ask aid no further than an 

 intelligent farming public may think we desen 



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LUTHER TUCKER & CO. 



Rochester, Dec. 1831 



(£3f» Print) rs with whom we exchange are re. 

 quested to publish the above. 



Schuylkill county has sent upwaids ol 80« 

 00(K tons of coal to market— This quantity 

 would require, to be conven d on a turnpike, 

 111.000 wagons, 10. 000 nun and 160,000 

 horses, and Would load 2fi0 ships of 300 tons 

 burthen. All this coal was mined within a 

 circuit of eight miles round Pottsville. The 

 coal is worth in the ground, on the average, 

 bout 30 cents per ton, and was purchased by 

 the consumer at about (5 doll us per toil, 

 whidi would amount to 480,100 dollars.— 

 1 1 7i itnde/ph ia Chron t'efe. 



