GENESEE FARMER, 



Oct. 



Instead of issuing a few tickets at a dollar a plished before the toiliiig masses in your ranks 

 piece, to a public dinner eaten at midnight in will all be able to earn good homes, and know 

 the dining room of a hotel, tables should have ' how to keep and enjoy them. To produce 

 been set under one of the large tents for one or , vvealtb like an ox or a machine, and not know- 

 two thousand farmers, with a plain substantial I how to keep it, is to occupy a low position in 

 repast, and tickets sold at 25 cents each. This i human society. To own the truth, we desire 

 lAinch might be called a "breakfast," as in that the Legislature of our native State and its 

 England, or a " barbecue," as at the South. It I most useful agricultural associations, shall do 



would have brought an immense number of 

 the yeomanry of the country into pleasant jux- 

 taposition, with comfortable seats, and a good 

 supply of boiled ham, corned beef, tongue, 

 cold roast fresh meats, bread, butter, cheese, pies 

 and pure water — and been participated in by 

 thousands of the bone and sinew of the land, 

 whose feelings we can never see outraged with- 

 out a word of censure in the Genesee Farmer. 

 The editor of this paper was favored with a 

 ticket, and personallly has no cause of complaint. 

 In conducting an independent journal, no 

 one can say that we ever puffed or censured 

 any man or society from jjerso/iaZ considerations- 

 Last year we thought the annual address written 

 by the lamented Silas Wright, was wrong in 



more to elevate the poor laboring families, now 

 so numerous in this great commonwealth. Whilst 

 some six thousand dollars were paid out at the 

 Fair to encourage the improvement of brutes 

 and lifeless tools and implements, we saw many 

 of our own race that needed skilful culture far 

 more than do pigs, calves and colts. There 

 were no premiums offered to encourage the 

 scientific education of poor boys, in the arts of 

 tillage and husbandry. As these boys are little 

 able to speak for themselves, it is not less our 

 duty than our pleasure to speak for them. What 

 the Society has done is well ; let it do something 

 more in addition. 



It is but simple justice to the citizens of Buffalo 

 to say that, tiiey generously subscribed about 



the free trade, political aspect which it bore upon $4000 toffit up in a suitable manner the enclo 



almost every page. That of John C. 



sures and temporary buildings required for the 



Esq., delivered at Bufialo, is justly obnoxious to ■ convenience of the show and fair. The ease 

 a like censure, for taking the opposite, or Whig'! and facility with which some 50,000 visitors 

 side of the tarifT question. As a politician we were provided for, speaks volumes for the ca- 

 fully concur with the views set forth by the dis-j pacify of that young and most flourishing city, 

 tinguished lawyer from Albany ; but they were j The Gas Works for lighting it, now in process 



sadly out of place, in our judgment. As we 

 hope to speak the honest sentiments of the 200,- 

 000 farmers in New York, of all parties, are 

 we wrong in pointing to the reflection on the 

 ability of any of these to write and deliver a 

 decent agricultural address before the State So- 

 ciety, implied in ever getting a professional law- 

 yer or politician to do the job 1 If the profes- 

 sional education of practical agriculturists has 

 been so unwisely and very generally neglected, 

 as the fact alluded to implies, is it not time to 

 make a common effort, and place the profession 

 o^ agriculture in the Empire State on a par with 

 those of law and medicine ! God forbid that 

 we should seek to degrade the latter. No, we 

 would elevate the former to a position that will 

 give the men who follow the plow and till their 

 paternal acres, a just claim in point of learning 

 and scientific attainments, to fill the highest 

 cfBces in the gift of a nation of republican far- 

 mers. Do this, and you will have fewer gam.- 

 bling politicians, purer legislation, smaller taxes, 

 and no aggressive wars, nor bitter sectional con- 

 troversies. 



The pride and insatiable selfishness of public 

 men of all parties, need the salutary restraint 

 of a more enlightened and conservative public 

 opinion. This sovereign power is fortunately 

 lodged in the will of a majority of the people, 

 who are cultivators of the earth. You have 

 done Uiuch : but far more remains to lie accom- 



of erection by a company of which Samuel 

 Pratt, Esq., is President, excited our especial 

 admiration. Rochester has also improved much 

 during the year that we have spent at the South. 



The farmers of Western New York appear 

 to us like men trying ta cultivate more land than 

 they have capital to manage well. This defect 

 has impressed us very forcibly in traveling 

 through the State. A small and well improved 

 farm, with neat and comfortable buildings, good 

 fences, choice fruit and fine stock, with a select 

 agricultural library, and out of debt, are objects 

 to be aimed at, rather than seek to ov> n a large 

 share of all creation, and probably fail in the 

 avaricious attempt. If no man was permitted 

 to hold more land than he had cultivated in a 

 skilful and successful manner for the good of the 

 community, as well as for himself and family, 

 the insane craving for large plantations and 

 many farms, would soon be abated. This in- 

 tense desire for many acres is truly a disease, 

 and exceedingly contagious withal. Give rural 

 science fair play, and it will cure this malady, 

 beside some others that might be nan;ed. 



Interesting sketches of the proceedings of the 

 Pomological Convention, and of the Horticultu- 

 ral Exhibition at the Fair, will be found in the 

 appropriate department of this number. A list 

 of the principal and most important premiums 

 awarded, is also given in other pages. 



