Vol. 8. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. — APRIL, 1847. 



No. 4. 



THE CiENESEE FARMER : 



Issued the first of each month, in Rochester, N. Y., 



D. D. T. MOORE, PROPRIETOR. 



DANIEL LEE, EDITOR. 



p. BARRY, Conductor of the Horticultural Department, 



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The Pmspe^it. 



At no period within our remembrance has the prospect 

 of the American Farmer been so full of promise as at 

 present. The facts that there are so many thousands of 

 liuraan beings in Western Europe, almost entirely depend- 

 ent on the potato plant for their ordinary mean? of sub- 

 sistence — and that there is no cheaper article of fo)d down 

 to which Avarice can force Humanity, but thes^fnil lions 

 of our race must be brought up to the the daily consump- 

 tion of maize, and other cereal plants — are destined to 

 exert a most powerful influence on the foreign demand 

 for American bread-stuffs. Although the present suffering 

 of the destitute in Europe is awful to contemplate, yet it 

 f.s consoling to believe that this fearful dispensation of 

 Providence is to be made the extreme of human depres- 

 sion — the turning poiut from which Man is to commence 

 rising in his daily physical comfort, and in the enjoyment 

 of that just care and consideration which are due from 

 one accountable being to another. A higher standard of 

 comfort for the laboring millions of Europe, and especitlly 

 of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, is inevitable. 

 These four United Kingdoms are now annually adding 

 some 400,000 souls to their previous numbers. Consider 

 for a moment the vast quantity of food which an army 

 of 400,000 persons will consume in a year. Then con- 

 template the yearly addition of such an army to the home 

 islands of the British Crown. Then recollect the pro- 

 Sreas of Civilizition, the extension of that Christian,! hat 



(iod-like maxim "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and you 

 will see that the demand for our surplus food must be 

 great, in all time to come. 



While each year adds scores of millions to the mouths 

 to be fed on this planet, it adds nothing to the surface 

 of soil for cultivation. How important, then, that infor- 

 mation in tillage, in rural knowledge, and true science, 

 be widely diffused among the farmers of the United 

 States ? To scatter broad-cast over the land the practical 

 wisdom of the best agriculturists in America, some hun- 

 dreds of whom honor this journal with their correspond- 

 ence, there is no other agricultural paper so cheap as the 

 Genesee Farmer. Only three shillings a year, where 

 eight copies are taken together — a large octavo volume of 

 about 300 pages, with original engravings, &c., at thirtj. 

 seven and a half cents ! The very liberal Publisher has 

 rJOOO extra copies which must be sold before they can fulfil 

 their high mission. As a Horticultural journal the Farmer 

 is worth five times its cost to subscribers. Who will not 

 lend a hand to extend its circulation and usefulness? — 

 The expense of the publisher is large, and he richly de- 

 serves a mammoth subscription list. 



Farmers, teach one another. Is not the united experi- 

 ence of 20,000 tillers of the soil worth something to each 

 man that shall avail himself of their practical knowledge? 

 Peruse this number of our journal carefully, and see if it 

 is not indeed a most useful medium through which a 

 score of practical agriculturists instruct thirty thousand of 

 their fellow farmers, while they learn from others ninety- 

 nine ons-hundredths of all that they themselves know? 

 Again we say, Farmers and Gardeners teach one another ; 

 and all aid the publisher in extending the circulation of hi.s 

 very cheap periodical. Think for a moment how much 

 good might easily be done if each subscriber would only 

 add one more to the list in his neighborhood. Does any 

 one who knows the Editor doubt that his whole heart ia 

 devoted to the advancement of Agriculture, and the ele- 

 vation of those that till the earth ? His hope of useful- 

 ness lies mainly in the extensive circulation of the Farmer. 

 The many errors we all commit, afford proof positive that 

 all have much to learn. Let us then, one and all, faith- 

 fully study our noble profession, that we may attairi true 

 agricultural knowledge. 



As THE New Post Office Law limits the pnvilege of 

 publishers, relative to sending specimen numbers, pros- 

 pectuses, &,c., to individuals, we request subscribers to 

 introduce the Farmer to the notice of their agricultural 

 friends — particularly in those sections where it is not gen- 

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