1848. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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EDITOR'S TABLE, 



To CoRiiESPo.vDENTS. — Communications have been re- 

 ceived, during tlie past month, from C. Tliompson, Reed 

 Burritt, S. W., *, E. Dagge, J. Storrs, jr., Fredric Wil- 

 liams, L., G. S. Gilbert, Walter Bovvcn, C. L. Morgan, W. 

 B. Bowern, S., and A Subscriber and Young Farmer. 



The Monrok County Fair, held in this city on the 

 -Itli and 5th of Ociober, was numerously attended. The 

 exhibition was much larger than any preceding one for 

 several years — giving evidence of progress, and reflecting 

 credit upon the farmers of the county. The show of Stock 

 was very excellent — superior in some departments to that 

 at the State Fair. The award of premiums, iSic. have 

 been published in the weekly papers. B. P. Johnson, 

 Esq., of Albany, delivered a truly able and practical ad- 

 dress, which was listened to v\ith much attention by a 

 large audience. 



It affords us pleasure to state that, so far as we have re- 

 ceived information, the Fairs held during the past two 

 months throughout the State, have been better attended 

 than formerly. The zeal manifested in sustaining the 

 various Societies, and contributing to their annual shows, 

 betokens the onward march of improvement among the 

 agricultural population of the Empire Stale. 



State Ag. Society. — The next Annual Meeting of this 

 Society is to be held in Albany, on the 17th of January en- 

 suing. See notice, page 284. 



We are requested to state that persons in this vicinity, 

 who are entitled to Premiums, &lc., from the State Society, 

 can obtain ihera on application to the assistant Secretary, 

 Joseph Alleyn, Esq., of this city. 



V^ERMiKST State Agricolturist. — This istlie title of a 

 new monthly journal commenced in July, several numbers 

 of which we have just received. The numbers before us 

 are well filled with appropriate matter, and we wish the en- 

 terprise abundant success. C4.SPER T.Hopkins, Editor. 

 Published by Hopkins &, Clarke, BurlingtoJi, Vt., 16 quar- 

 to pages, at $1 per annum. 



Pennsylvania Cultivator. — We have received one 

 number of a new periodical bearing this title, but as it has 

 lx!en lost or mislaid we cannot notice it particularly. It is 

 the same size as this journal ; and, we think, published at 

 Harrisburgh, Pa., at $1 per annum. 



S. W. Cole, Esq., has recently retired from the editorial 

 management of the Boston Cultivator. We understand 

 the old New England Farmer is to be revived under his aus- 

 pices, fllr. C. is a good editor, and we are happy to know 

 that his services in that capacity are still to be devoted to 

 the interests of the agricultural community. 



Fair at Cobourg, C. W. — The committee appointed to 

 examine and award premiums to foreign articles exhibited 

 at the Fair at Cobourg, recommended that Diplomas be 

 awarded as follows : 



1. To Horace L. Emery, of Albany, N. Y., for Wheel- 

 er's Patent Horse Power and Threshing Machine. 



2. To the same party, for a very large and superior col- 

 lection of Agricultural Implements. 



3. To Rapalje & Briggs, of Rochester, N. Y., who also 

 exhibited a fine coUectton of Agricultural Implements. 



4. To the same parties, for a Patent Pennock's Seed Drill 

 exhibited by them. 



5. To B. F. Smith, of Rochester. N. ¥., for a Sash Ma- 

 c!»ine, two Morticing Machines and two Straw Cutters. 



6. To Martin Briggs, of Rochester, N. Y., for a Scale 

 Beam and Weights for Wheat, presented by Joseph Alleyn, 

 Esq., of Rochester. 



7. To George Lundy, of Rochester, N. Y., for a Force 

 Pump. 



Wheeler's Horse Power and Thrasher. — These 

 machines were exhibited in operation at the State Fair, at 

 Buffalo, and also at the recent Fair in this city, and attract- 

 ed much attention from the farmers and others present. 

 They work well, and are cheap and durable — ^just the thing 

 for farmers who do not grow grain extensively, but still 

 have use for a power and thrasher. We are pleased to 

 learn that the manufacturer — Mr. H. L. Emery, proprietor 

 of the Albany Agricultural Warehouse — is about to open a 

 store inVhis city for the sale of these machines. It wil) 

 afford our Western New York farmers an opportunity to ex- 

 amine and obtain them more readily than heretofore. 



Our next Volume.— The Publisher is making such ar- 

 rangements for issuing the ensuing volume of the Farmer 

 as cannot fail of enhancing its value, and gratifying its 

 numerous subscribers. It is to be printed upon new and 

 beautiful type, and so improved in other respects as will 

 probably render its typographical appearance unexception- 

 able. The additional aid promised from contributors, will 

 tend to make its contents equally acceptable and valuable. 

 The advertising cover will prol)ably be omitted, but the 

 volume will contain as much reading matter, and perhaps 

 more, than the present one. The attention of agents, and 

 others who desire to aid us in promoting the good cause by 

 extending the circulation of this journal, is directed to the 

 Publisher's notices on the first and last pages of our adver- 

 tising department. 



One of our subscribers who resides in Central N. York— 

 a warm-hearted and influential friend of improvement, and 

 a render and voluntary agent of many of the best agricul- 

 tural papers in the country — writes us as follows, in a letter 

 of recent date : — ^ 



" I feel that the prosperity of the Genesee Farmer is 

 intimately connected with the future progress of improve- 

 ments in Agriculture and Horticulture in a large portion of 

 the States, if not essential to success. Its too low price 

 —its sterling qualities— its able Editors and Correspondents 

 —demand, as they should receive, the aid of every friend 

 of the cause it advocates." 



Obituary. — We regret to notice, in the Ohio Cultivator 

 of Oct. 1, anannouncementof the decease of Jane LovF.LL, 

 wife of M. B. Bateham, Esq., editor of that journal. 

 Mrs. B. died on the 25lh of September, at Columbus. She 

 l|bd edited the Ladies' Department of the Cultivator for 

 several months past, and many of its readers will sincerely 

 deplore her early decease. Her husband, to whom she 

 had been united less than a year, is bereft of an intelligent 

 and amiable assistant and companion. He has the sym- 

 pathies of many friends in this city and vicinity. 



Godey's Lady's Book.— This superb magazine co'ntin- 

 ues its monthly visits with unfailing regularity. We con- 

 sider it the best periodical of its class pubhshed in this 

 country—and that is saying much in its favor. The No- 

 vember number already received, contains 40 engravings 

 and 24 extra pages of reading matter. To those who wish 

 a magazine of literature and fashion, we commend this as 

 one which embodies much valuable reading, and compara- 

 tively little trashy nonsense. Published by L. A. Godey, 

 Philadelphia, Pa., at $3 per annum, *n advance. 



An Item in Favor, of Shade Trees.— The Baltimore 

 Patriot says, the Shade trees which so thickly line the 

 streets of Brooklyn, did much to restrain the progiess of the 

 flames at the recent fire. The flames crossed the streets 

 except in the immediate direction of the wind. The pro- 

 tection from sparks and heat afforded by the trees not only 

 to houses near the fire, but to the firemen and others in the 

 streets, was so obvious, that it seems to us a sufficient rea- 

 son, if there were no other, for recommending their more 

 general cultivation in cities. 



The beef packing business of Illinois is just commen- 

 cing at Chicago. This year contracts have been made for 

 cattle of 600 lbs. at $3 25 per hundred. Cattle of lighter 

 weight in proportion are lower, and this season it is expect- 

 ed prices will be favorable to the speculator ; although as 

 to this there is nothing certain. 



Mr. Ezra Gorton, of West Greece, in this county, re- 

 cently presented us six onions of extra size and quality. 

 They weighed nine and one fourth pounds. One of them 

 measured 17 inches in circumference. Large and heavy 

 onions, them. 



Great Ohio Dairy.— Father Cist tells the follovying 

 "big one"' in his Advertiser, which we v.'ould not believe 

 if told by anybody else. What a host of " xMilk-Maids 

 the ' individual' must employ : 



" We have one individual who supplies Cincinnati with 

 cheese, who has a dairy at which he makes cheeses from 

 eleven hundred and fifty cows. As the cheese season lasts 

 seven months, this is a product of four hundred and nine- 

 ty-seven thousand pounds, which, at six cents per pound, 

 is worth almost thirty thousand dollars." 



Attention is directed to an advertisement relative to 

 the Agricultural Department of De Ruyter Institute, pub- 

 lished in this number. 



