Vol. 8. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. — MARCH, 1847. 



No. 3. 



THE GENESEE FAR3IER : 



Issued the first of each mo7itr. ??i Rochester, N. Y., by 



D. D. T. MOORE, PROPRIETOR. 

 DANIEL LEE, EDITOR. 



p. BAEKY, Conductor of the Horticultural Department. 



Fifty Cents a Year : 



Five copies for $2 — EifiHT copies for §3. Subscription 

 money, by a regulation of tlie Post-Master General, may be 

 remitted by Post-Masters ireo of expense. O" All sub- 

 scriptions to commence with the first number of the volume. 



Publication Office in Talman's Block, Buffalo street, 

 opposite Reynold's Arcade — where all subscriptions not 

 forwarded by mail should be ))aid. 



Post-Masters, and all other friends of Agricultural .Tour- 

 nals, are requested to obtain and forward subscriptions for 

 the Farmer. Address D. D. T. Mooue, Rochester, N. V. 



QT' The Farmer is subject to newspaper postage only. XII 



To Correspondents. 



Co.MMrNicATioxs have been received dufing 

 tlie past month from J. L. Randall, Solomon 

 Hitchcock, \Vm. Garbutt, M. M. Rodgers, M. D., 

 A. Huidekoper, L. Wetherell, B. P. Johnson. 

 John H. Robinson, P. A. Palmer, L. H. C, D., 

 W. E. Parmalee, John Kishlar, Joseph Wilson, 

 S. W., J. H. Wright. W. S. T., L. W., H. H., 

 A Friend to Improvement, Wm. H. Newton, 

 A Farmers' Wife, Enquirer, C. Pierpont. L.. 

 Wm. Brown, M. D., N. J. K., A. W., *, 

 J. F. G., N. Y. State Agricultural Society— and 

 also a number of articles, inquiries, &c., (in 

 letters containing remittances,) which have not 

 been particularly examined. 



We are greatly indebted to our friends for 

 their favors. The great number of communi- 

 nications now on hand compels us to defer many 

 valuable articles — but they will receive attention 

 as soon as space will permit. 



Books, Pamphlets, d:c. have been received 

 from various persons and sources. Those not 

 noticed in this number will receive attention 

 next month — among others an "Essay on the 

 Hessian Flv, by Asa Fjtch. M. D." 



AMKRICA.N AGRICULTURE: By R. L. Ai.len, Bufml... 

 Published by Saxon &; MtLEs, New York. 



We find on our table a handsomely bound, 

 neatly printed volume, of 437 pages, with the 

 above title. The work is mainly devoted to 

 practical agriculture, which is treated of in a 

 plain, brief, methodical, and satisfactory manner. 

 To large experience as a farmer, the author has 

 added extensive reading and research in all tliat 

 pertains to tillage, the breeding of domestic ani- 

 mals, and the improvement of rural economy in 

 this country. Although his work is not free 

 from defects, still it is unquestionably the best 

 production of the kind that has ever issued from 

 the American press. The few errors in the first 

 edition we hope to see corrected in the second, 

 and the work placed in each of the 11,000 school 

 libraries of this State. As it is, it will have an 

 extensive sale ; for it is not a re-hash of other 

 men's notions and books, but a lucid exposition 

 of the views and knowledge of the author on the 

 subject of '■^American,''' not European, "Agri- 

 culture." 



FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OHIO STATE 

 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. Columbus, Ohio. 



We are indebted to Mr. Bateham of Colum- 

 bus, Editor of the Ohio Cultivator, for a copy of 

 this truly interesting Report. We regret that 

 our little space left will not permit us to give it 

 an extended notice. As a beginning in a great 

 and noble enterprise, we hail its appearance 

 with unmingled pleasure. Whatever defects 

 there may be in the organization of the State 

 Board, experience will disclose and good sense 

 correct. Those who have so honorably embark- 

 ed in the good work of improving the agricul- 

 ture of Oliio, if they persevere in well doing, 

 will reap a rich harvest of enduring fame and 

 applause, throughout the Union. The Legisla- 

 ture can hardly fail to give the Board the $'.500 

 per annum asked for, in aid of its extensive and 

 important operations. 



If we mistake not, the editor and founder of 

 the Ohio Cultivator is entitled to no small share 

 r»f the credit of " setting this ball in motion." 



