1847. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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mission warrant him in saying that he could have will take ?^100 of the stock of the Association in 

 one hundred. We have pupils 16 years old, to each town, we are confident that the Legislature 

 whom you may give a soil that contains only o?te will give them as much more, or 810,000, to en- 

 part of gypsum in ffteen thousand, mixed by dow their institution. Union College has had 

 yourself, and unknown to the pupils, and they over $400,000 from the State; Hamilton $120,- 



will get it out and weigh it for you. 



The farmers in the vicinity of Edinburgh, 

 (Scotland,) give Prof. Johnston five hundred 

 pounds a year (some $2, .500,) to keep up a labora- 

 tory for tlie benefit of their sons, the analysis of 

 soils, fertilizers, &c. Permit us to state a few facts 

 by the way of contrast. While we have written 

 nights, when farmers were asleep, for political 

 papers, that our days might be devoted to the ad- 

 vancement of American Agriculture, we have 

 actually expended two dollars for every one that 

 we have ever received from the agricultural 

 community, in the purchase of chemicals, appa- 

 ratus, geological maps, specimens, &:c. 



These facts would not be mentioned only as 



000 : and the Medical Colleges have all had 

 large sums. , 



Young Men of Western Nev^ York ! a new 

 and glorious field is presented for the exercise of 

 your known talents, and for the easy develope- 

 ment of those ever enduring mental powers, 

 which a good Providence has kindly given you. 

 Become active, working members of this rural 

 ASSOCIATION, and tlie good you will do to man- 

 kind shall carry your names down to posterity, 

 on the brightest page of your country's history. 

 You should rejoice that something has been left 

 for you to do, worthy of being held in lasting re- 

 memberance. The tillage of the Earth is the 

 chosen pursuit appointed to man by his Maker. 



the last effort to procure the use of a little land, i^^ is for the young men who are soon to inherit, 

 and comfortable buildings, not for ourself, buti^^d cultivate the earth, to elevate this Heaven 

 for th03e that wish to investigate the laws of Na- ^PP^i^^^^J occupation as far above all others, in 

 ture, which must ever control the results of rural i!^^*'.^^^^'"^"^ ^"^ •'^^■^"^^ «^ ^^« members, as it is 



industry, that they may do so, without being com- 

 pelled to go to Edinburgh, or Giessen. it is to 

 the Young ME^^ of' Western New York that this 

 appeal is made. We will furnish 200 subscrip- 

 tion books to as many towns, in the hope that 

 some young man will undertake to raise -SlOO in 

 each town, making an aggregate of #20,000, with 

 which to purchase a farm and found an Institu- 

 tion to be owned and controlled by the stockhol- 

 ders, that shall be a lasting monument to their 

 honor, and their patriotism. 



We believe that valuable improvements can 

 yet be made in the acquisition of a sound, moral, 

 intellectual, and physical education. To com- 

 mand able teachers, and bring the cost of in- j 

 struction within the means of all, a large num- 

 ber of students must be collected within the four 

 walls of a single room, and witness at once the 

 most perfect demonstrations of Science. Har- 

 vard University, (the best in America,) has 600 

 pupils, and a force of 36 professors and tutors. — 

 The economy of having large classes far exceeds 

 all popular belief. A demonstration in any sci- 

 ence, a lecture on any branch of literature, can 

 be understood as well by 500, as by 5 auditors. 

 In a large institution, you can divide the labor of 

 teaching among many professors, and thus enable 

 each one greatly to excel in his favorite branch 

 of learning or science. We need a large Agri- 

 cultural Hall in Western New York, on a good 

 farm, where students can be boarded, or board 

 themselves, at the smallest expense. So far from 

 desiring any particular personal gain in this mat- 

 ter, we stand ready to give $500 toward the es- 

 tablishment of a public institution of the charac- 

 ter we have indicated. We disclaim all merce- 



in its greatness and importance in the economy 

 of civilized Society. To protect their own in- 

 terests, and advance the well being of the wi.ole 

 community, farmers should sit in their legislative 

 halls, in conventions to amend their constitution, 

 on the bench to adjudicate, and maintain the 

 dearest rights of their peers, at least the equals 

 in mental culture of the most favored in the land. 

 Is this now the case ? We pause for a reply. 



Agricultural Address, by S. B. Woolwortli, A. M. 



We have received from the Author a copy of 

 his address delivered before the Onondaga Ag- 

 ricultural Society at its last Annual Fair, which 

 is an able and well written production. Mr. W. 

 is Principal of the Cortland Academy, and 

 makes Agricultural Science a branch of study in 

 liis Institution. His efforts in this matter, we 

 are happy to know, have been most favorably re- 

 ceived by the enlightened farmers of Cortland 

 county. Nothing stimulates the exertions of 

 men of science to labor for the public good so 

 much, as to have the favorable regards of the 

 community in which they live. Mr. Wool- 

 worth is very fortunate in thisrespect, having full 

 classes, and the present of silver-plate as evi- 

 dence of the just appreciation of his services in 

 the cause of Agricultural Improvement. We 

 hope to live to s«e the time when every Acade- 

 my in the State will make Agricultural Chemis- 

 try both practically and theoretically a branch of 

 its regular instruction. 



Wheat. — Up'^-'.rds of 350 varieties of this 

 grain are krosvn to exist. Yet it is a factitiou." 

 nary considerations while laboring for the good I production, and indebted for its present excellen 

 of the Cause. If the young men of 100 towns |cy wholly to the power and skill of cultivation. 



