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GENESEE FARMER. 



Jan. 



Western New York Agricultural School. 



This Institution will be closed in Wheatland, 

 during the month of January instant, and opened 

 in a better location, and under more favorable 

 auspices, near Mount Hope, in the vicinity of 

 Rochester. In the study of Botany, Horticul- 

 ture, Arboriculture, &c., pupils will have the ben- 

 efit of Messrs. Ellwan( !:r & Barry's exten- 

 sive collection of Foreign and Indigenous Plants, 

 Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Gardens, &c. — 

 We shall have, what the School most needs, lar- 

 ger and better buildings, a plenty of land for 

 experiments, and the assistance of gentlemen of 

 skill and large experience. 



To purchase chemicals for the Laboratory, 

 and aid a little in diminishing the tax on the 

 Principal for the high rent for the premises, the 

 friends of Agricultural Science should contribute 

 $300 to the Institution for the coming year. If 

 we cannot place the School on a permanent basis 

 in that time, we shall abandon the enterprise. — 

 Hitherto, we have neither asked for, nor received 

 a dollar from the public in any form. Had we 

 started, as they have in Dutchess and Orange 

 counties, by charging $!200 a year, instead of 

 one half that sum, no public aid would be requir- 

 ed. But our object has not been to make money, 

 by founding an Institution for the exclusive ben- 

 efit of "the upper Ten Ttiousand." It has been 

 mainly, to place the great practical advantages 

 of a good Laboratory for making analyses with- 

 in the reach of yourg men of moderate means. 

 To do this we must have some assistance. The 

 friends of the Institution in the city of Roches- 

 ter will give $lbO. Will not the wealthy Far- 

 mers of Monroe county give as much more ? 



We shall keep a number of young men con- 

 stantly at work analyzing the rocks, waters, soils, 

 and all their products, of this and the adjoining 

 counties. We hope to be able to send out into 

 the community many competent teachers of Ag- 

 ricultural Chemistry and Geology ; and ultimate- 

 ly kindle the light of these modern sciences in 

 every School House in Western New York. — 

 Need we be ashamed to ask for a little aid in 

 suf;h a cause 1 Our sympathies are all with the 

 humble school house, and its inmates. If our 

 friends would give us their sympathies at their 

 school meetings, and contribute a little of the 

 needful, due credit will be given in the Farmer, 

 and the favor thankfully acknowledged. Every 

 town should have at least one chemist capable of 

 making an accurate analyses of soils, marls, and 

 other fertilizers. We can supply the apparatus, 

 as well as the instruction for that purpose. Per- 

 mit us to spr^ak plainly on this subject. Instead 

 of writing daily for a political journal, to defray 

 the expenses of our agricultural researches, our 

 time could be more usefully employed in ad- 

 -dressing associations of Farmers. 



Agricultural Chemistry is soon to become a 



distinct and most honorable profession in the 

 community. There is no humbug in the laws of 

 Nature ; and whoever will diligently study 

 them, will find much to invStruct, delight, and im- 

 prove him. The human mind is ever eager to 

 gain additional knowledge. It will push its in- 

 vestigations to the utmost limit of its ever ex- 

 panding capacity. It is in the study of the 

 works of the Creator that man's natural desire 

 for more, and brighter light, as his Intellect dis- 

 covers clearer, and stronger evidences of the 

 wisdom and goodness of its Maker, is to be ever 

 gratified, without the possibility of attaining to 

 the full comprehension of the Infinite. The true 

 way to extinguish the grovelling passions, and 

 sensual appetites that spring up so spontaneously 

 in the compound natures of our children, is to 

 furnish them with more agreeable, and exquisite 

 pleasures, as well as those of a purer and more 

 exalted character. 



Dr. Reynolds' Bee-Hive. — By reference to 

 our advertising pages, the reader will find some 

 information relative to a bee-hive invented and 

 no.v offered to the public by Dr. O. Reynolds, 

 of this county. We direct attention to Dr. R.'s 

 advertisement for testimony of the value and util- 

 ity of his hive. We shall cheerfully afford oth- 

 er inventors the same mode of communicating 

 with our numerous readers. m. 



Apples for England. — Elihu Burritt, whose 

 disinterested philanthropy is so widely known, 

 now in England, is making the most diligent 

 use of his observations in that country, and ofTer- 

 ing such hints to his countrymen at home, as 

 may be of the greatest utility to them. He " ur- 

 ges the people of Maine, an apple-growing 

 state, to turn their attention to the shipment of 

 apples to Gi-eat Britain. Apples, which in 

 Maine, are permitted to rot on the ground, or 

 made into cider, or fed to hogs, are worth Si the 

 bushel, in many of the British seaports." He 

 estimates the cost of sen ding them to England at 

 twenty cents per bushel. 



Florida Olives. — The editor of the St. Au- 

 gustine News has been presented with some fine 

 fresh olives — the growth of that place. The 

 soil and climate of that State are said to be well 

 adapted to the cultivation of this fruit, which, be- 

 sides being a delicious article of the table, is an 

 important staple of commerce. 



Acknowledgments. — Among other pood things which 

 have recently been presented us. we gratefully acknowl- 

 edge the receipt of a jar of very excellent Apple Sauce, 

 from Mrs. Jesse Harroun, of Ogden. It was •' done up" 

 according to tlie foshion (in by-gone years,) of our maternal 

 ancestor, in boiled cider, <fcc., — with the addition of a rich 

 quince flavor. 



We are likewise indebted to Mrs. H. N. Langwoethy, 

 of Irondequoit, for a jar of Tomato Pickles— than which, 

 we verily believe, none can he so near the rie pltis ultra of 

 perfection, in all pickle-dom. Our thanks for your tasteful 

 favors, ladies. M. 



