1848. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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EDITOR'S TABLE. 



To Correspondents. — Communications have been re- 

 ceived during the past month, from S. P. Chapman, Mrs. 

 James M. Ellis, *, J. Wilson Dickinson, H. S. Chase M. 

 D., S. VV., J. W. Sprague, Wm. Hanford, Jr., Lewis Skoke, 

 Elias Bacon, O. S. Granger. Wm. H. Smith, Allen Payne, 

 S. B., Thos. S. Bryan, S. M. Starling, Pliny L. Evans, 

 N. S. Smith, S. S. Crocker, Jas. Aldrich. and N. B. R. 



Acknowledgments. — We are indebted to Hon. Messrs. 

 E. B. HoLMZs, Dix, Dickinson, Palfrey, and other 

 members of Congress for valuable public documents. 



— To iM. B. Bateham, Esq., for a copy of the " Report 

 of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, for the year 1847." 

 From a hasty examination of its contents, we observe that 

 the Report contains much valuable and interesting infor- 

 mation. Many of the most enterprising farmers of Ohio 

 have put their shoulders to the wheel, and the car of Im- 

 provement is makitig good progress. 



— To unknown friends for valuable agricultural addresses, 

 pamphlets, &c. 



The Farmer and Mechanic is among the best of our 

 exchanges. It is ably edited by W. H. Starr, Esq., — and 

 devoted to Agriculture, the Mechanic Arts. Science, &,c. 

 It is worthy of extensive patronage. Published weekly — 

 8 pages quarto — at $2 per annum. Address the Editor, 

 New York City. 



Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture. — We have re- 

 ceived the two first numbers of Vol. 4, new series, of this 

 excellent Horticultural Journal. It has now entered on the 

 15th year of its existence, and shows in its style and matter, 

 a determination to sustain its well earned character. The 

 January number contains an interesting review of horticul- 

 tural progress during 1846 — a beautiful engraving o( Liliuin 

 Speciosum, in a pot, with full directions for the culture of 

 this charming tribe of plants — beside much interesting mis- 

 cellaneous matter. The February number contains several 

 notices of new fruits, and is otherwise well filled. C. M. 

 HovEy, Editor. Published monthly, at Boston, Mass., — 

 48 pages octavo — $3 per annum. 



The Ohio Cultivator. — The first four numbers of Vol. 

 4 are received, and give evidence that the editor has not 

 deteriorated since leaving bachelordom. Friend Bateham 

 calls for an increase of patronage, because he has assumed 

 the responsibility of a husband. If this is necessary now, 

 what appeals may be expected hereafter ? However, so 

 long as the spirit and interest of his excellent journal issus- 

 ained, we trust it will receive abundant support ; — and if 

 more substantial reasons can be assigned, we shall re- 

 joice, and certainly offer no objection I The Cultivator is 

 published semi-monthly — 8 pages quarto — at .f 1 per annum, 

 in advance. Address M. B. Bateham, Columbus, Ohio. 



Thf Prairie Farmer, published at Chicago, Illinois, 

 commences the new year and volume with its usual vigor. 

 The pages of the Farmer exhibit industry and talent on 

 the part of its editors and correspondents. Edited by J. H. 

 Wright and Ambrose Wight.. Monthly — 32 pages, oc- 

 tavo : $1 per annum. 



A Good Example. — J. A. Carpenter, Esq., of Wau- 

 kesha, Wisconsin, — through whose influence, directly and 

 indirectly, we have received from his vicinity, nearly a 

 hundred new subscribers, within a few weeks past — says : 

 "When I go from home, I put the latest number of the 

 Farmer in my pocket, and act the same as a constable 

 who is ordered to take every man he comes near, friend or 

 foe. I ask all my neighbors, friends and acquaintances to 

 subscribe. But you must depend principally upon Post 

 Masters and young farmers for the circulation of your val- 

 uable and interesting journal." Mr. C. is one of the most 

 efficient friends of the Farmer — and his systpm of obtaining 

 subscribers is worthy of imitition by all who desire to aid 

 in sustaining agricultural and other useful publications. 



Another Example. — In forwarding a number of sub- 

 scribers, a Tompkins county friend says : — " I think I am 

 doing my ncigiibors a kindness in persuading them to take 

 the Farmer, although I have not succeeded very well. I 

 am a now beginner at farming — last year being the first. 

 f do not know how I should have got along, if I had been 

 without the Farmer ; but as it was I raised, on poorer land, 

 as good crops as my neighbors, with the help of Ashes, 

 Plaster, Salt, &c." 



Chloride of Lime as a Manure. — Mr. H. Barker, 



in a late number of the Scientific American, — a very valu- 

 able paper published in New York, and devoted to the 

 Mechanic and Scientific Arts, — says that, from his trials of 

 this substance, it will supercede Guano, Poudrette, and all 

 the Sails and Acids, and that it can be afforded at .$30 per 

 ton, or 1^ cents per pound. It is a deliquescent sub-salt, 

 having a strong afifinity for water, and sparingly soluble. 

 He promises the particulars of his experiments, of which 

 we will advise our readers. 



The Iowa Farmer's Advocate is the title of an agri- 

 cultural journal commenced during the past year, at Bur- 

 lington. The numbers we have received give evidence of 

 enterprise, and we trust the paper will be well sustained. 

 Our Iowa friends should lend the aid of both pen and purse 

 to the Advocate, if they desire to have a journal which 

 shall be alike beneficial and creditable. H. Gates, Editor. 

 Monthly — 16 pages quarto — at $1 per annum. 



Who is it ? — Some one writes us from Cleveland, Ohio, 

 (dating Dec. 23, 1847,) as follows: " Enclosed is $1, in 

 payment for the Genesee Farmer for the years 1848 and 

 1849." The order has no name attached, and for that rea- 

 son we cannot forward the Farmer. Can any of our Cleve- 

 land subscribers enlighten us on the subject ? We don't 

 want the dollar unless we furnish an equivalent ; neither 

 do we wish to be supposed at fault by the person who neg- 

 lected to give us a very important item of information — his 

 name. 



Information Wanted. — A subscriber at Elba, N. Y., 

 writes us as follows: "Can there be a mill invented to 

 clean clover seed by hand, so that we common farmers can 

 afford to buy them ? I have some on hand, and there is 

 not a mill in town to clean it." 



We have inquiries of the same import from other sections. 

 Do any of our readers know where the desired article can 

 be obtained ? If not already invented, we presume the 

 demand for the article will soon be supplied by some in- 

 ventive genuis — who would certainly prove a benefactor 

 to the farming community. 



The Potato Rot Headed — -perhaps. — We have recently 

 received several communications on the subject of the po- 

 tato Disease, but they generally embrace no new facts or 

 arguments. Mr. Elias Bacon, of Gaines, Orleans Co., N. 

 Y., writes us as follows : 



' ' The Potato Rot is Headed .'—the cause is ascertained 1 

 A partial remedy is at hand, and the rot made a blessing, 

 or an advantage to me, instead of a curse. — That I have 

 raised good potatoes the past season is beyond doubt, as I 

 am able to bring as good men as there is in this county to 

 substantiate the fact. If I should live I can do it again. 

 Application will be made to some Government, for a small 

 remuneration of my services to the public, before the facts 

 are disclosed." 



On the same subject the P. M. at Gaines, (J. Hutchin- 

 son, Esq.,) says: "One thing you may depend on — Mr. 

 Bacon's potatoes are sound and good, whereas we have 

 lost most of ours by rot." 



Large Importation of Trees. — The Express of Wells 

 & Co., brought to this city a day or two since, for Ell- 

 WANGER & Barry, of the Mount Hope Gardens, eleven 

 immense packages of trees, weighing over eleven thou- 

 sand pounds. These trees were shipped from France and 

 England in January last, and are said to be in most perfect 

 order. Messrs. E. &- B. are making extensive preparations 

 for spring business, and will be found to have on hand 

 every thing in their line which can be procured at any sim- 

 ilar establishment in the state. — Rochester Daily Advertiser, 



Editors who notice the Farmer will oblige us by men- 

 tioning its location, in addition to size and terms. We are 

 under great obligations to our friends for their very favor- 

 able notices ; but we almost daily receive papers which 

 speak in high terms of the Farmer, without mentioning 

 Rochester, N. Y., as the place of publication. — Such 

 notices, particulary in papers published in distant sec- 

 tions of the Union, are of little or no benefit. In notic- 

 ing even the most popular journals, we always state the 

 proper address of the publishers. We can appreciate its 

 importance to others, from our own experience — as we fre- 

 quently receive orders for the Farmer which were first di- 

 rected to some other place. The name of our journal is 

 familiar to thousands who do not know where it is pub- 

 lished. Therefore, gentlemen, please give us a "local 

 habitation," as well as a name. 



