Vol. 8. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. — AUGUST, 1847. 



No. 8. 



THE GENESEE FARMER : 



M^sued the first of each month, m Rochester. N. Y.. hy 



D. D. T. MOORE, PROPRIETOR. 

 DANIEL LEE. EDITOR. 



p. BARRY, Conductor of the Horticultural Department. 



To Correspondents. 



DtTRiNG the past month communic-ations have been re- 

 ceived from C. N. Bement, D. A. Ogden, W. U. Dickinson, 

 B. Densmore, H., *, C. L. Buswell, A Lockite, J. W. Fal- 

 ley, S. W., S. Davison, C. Robinson, Wm. Jcniiison, T. 

 R. Stackhouse, R. B. Warren, and A. Willson. 



Notices of Agricultural Books, &i'. 



TRANSACTIONS OF THE N. Y. STATE AGRICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY, for 1846. 



We had designed to give an extended notice of this vol- 

 ume in the August number of the Farmer ; but the claims 

 of our numerous and valuable correspondents upon our col- 

 umns prevent. 



There is much in the Transactions that deserves commen- 

 dation, and several errors of fact, and blunders in proof 

 reading, which ought to be pointed out, that the like may 

 be avoided in succeeding volumes. 



The sentiments advanced by the late President of the So- 

 ciety, in the annual address expected from that officer, in 

 favor of educating farmers in the most thorough manner, 

 meet our hearty concurrence. The Report of the commitee 

 on Agriculture in the House is open to just criticism. Had 

 the author taken the trouble to examine the Comptroller's 

 reports each year since 1841, he would have found that in- 

 stead of the State annually giving $8,000 for the benefit of 

 Agriculture, as he informs the public, the sum will average 

 only a little over two-thirds that amount since the passage 

 of the law. We tried two or three winters to induce the 

 Legislature to bestow the balance in the Treasury that 

 rightfully belongs to the farming interest in some way that 

 would promote the objects of the law — but in vain. 

 i On page 303 Mr. R. L. Pell is made to say : " By anal- 



A DICTIONARY OF MODERN GARDENING, by Geo. 



William Johnson, Esq., (S:c., &.i\. with 180 wood cuts. 



Edited by D. Landreth, of Pliiladelphia. Lea and 



Blanchard. 



The above is the title of a handsome volume of 635 pages 

 or; Gardening, giving all recent improvements in this most 



useful and delightful art, as now practiced in the vicinity I ■'"'" '," '" '"""">•; ;• ""■■=- —r/^""" """r''"',".:^" '"^,~:,':'" 

 of London and Philadelphia, with such addiiional informa-™"" '^^To'.^'^ obtanis from it 5/0 parts of soluble nutritive 



tion as may be obtained from hooks on the subject. It great- ">^",?^ ^f ^^'\'^''''lHl,l' 'Tf ' Tlim ?- P^n^ & 

 - -.--•'- . J p ten. That IS, he gets 1 0!)9 parts from 1000. "l-romlOOO 



ly facilitates reference to any peculiar plant, or other matter 

 discussed in the book, to have all its contents arranged in 

 the alphabetical order of a dictionary. 



Mr. Johnson, of London, lias enjoyed the best opportuni- 

 ties to be well informed on horlicuUural subjects, and has 

 evidently brought to his task a large fund of practical knowl- 

 edge. The directions which he gives for destroying insects 

 injarious to vegetables and fruits are w^orth more than the 

 price of a copy of the work. It should be in the hands of 

 every one that has a garden, or land on which to make one. 



THE PIG: A Treatise on the Breeds, Management, Feed- 

 ing, and Medical treatment of swine, with directions for 

 salting Pork, and curing Bacon and Hams, by William 

 You ATT. V. T., &c., &c., illustrated with engravings 

 drawn from life, by William Harvey, Esq. Lea and 

 Blanchard. 



Among all breeders of domestic animals, the reputation 

 of YouATT is sufficient commendation for any work from 

 his pen, relating to this department of rural affairs. The 

 rearing of swine and the making of pork are very important 

 branches of American husbandry. Messrs. Lea and Blanch- 

 ard have done the farming community an essential service 

 in republishing this stan<)ard English work. 



Both of the above works can be had at S. Hamilton's 

 Boolistore, State street, Rochester. 



FARMER'S LIBRARY.— The July number of this 

 monthly, edited by the veteran agricultural vvriur, John B. 

 Skinner, commences the third year of its existence. It is 

 profusely illustrated, abounds in useful matter, and deserves 

 a place in any farmer's librarj- — giving two volui.ies of 600 

 pagOB each per annum, for five dollars. 



gets lU'jy parts i 

 parts of oats he obtains 743 parts of soluble nutritive matter, 

 641 of starch or mucilage, 15 of saccharine matter or sugar, 

 and 87 parts of gluten or albumen," &c. Here 1000 lbs. of 

 oats give 1486 lbs. of matter, making of course 486 out of 

 nothing ! No one can make tlie necessary corrections to 

 these, and a host of similar blunders, without the copy. 



The Legislature pays almost as much for printing this an- 

 nual volume as all the agricultural societies, including the 

 !g700 given to the State Society besides, receive from the 

 public treasury. The State has paid for the binding as well 

 as printing of the present volume of 716 pages, which, judg- 

 ing from past bills of this character, has cost some $6,000. 

 Of course we do not object to the appropriation; but we sub- 

 mit that, more attention and time should be devoted in ma- 

 king the volume free from glaring defects. While the Leg- 

 islature generously foots the printer's and binder's bills, and' 

 the Society is investing its thousands in stocks, its annual' 

 volume of Transactions should not be what it is. 



FARMERS' SOUVENIR.— This is the appropriate title 

 given by Mr. Franklin Knight to a beautiful quarto edition 

 of the Agricultural Correspondence of the illustrious Far- 

 mer of Mount Vernon. The volume contains 200 pages, 

 printed and bound in a style worthy of its great subject — 

 Agriculture— and of the immortal name— Washington. 



As an illustration of the accurate manner in which the 

 "Father of his Country" kept his farm accounts, independ- 

 ently of the system and wisdom displayed in his writmgs, 

 the book deserves to be in the hands of every agriculturist 

 in the Union. It is admirably ad3pted to be offered as pre- 

 miums in lieu of money by all agricultural societies, for 

 which purpose we recommend it. 



