1850. 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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(fftritor's ®able. 



Wk thiak none ot our subscribers will complain of either 

 the contents or the appearance of this number, although we 

 have not made it as good as we shall make the succeeding 

 number. We hope oor friends will make an earnest effort to 

 ineroase our circulation in their respective neighborhoods. 

 Show the paper to your brother farmers — form a club — collect 

 the three shillings and forward with the names. 



Scene at ouk Office. — An intelligent looking, and appar- 

 ently '* well off" farmer of this county entered our office^ 

 when the following dialogue occurred. 



Parmer — I want the December number of your paper. 



Editor — You will perceive that this is the last number of 

 the present year — I suppose you will renew your subscrip- 

 tion for the next year. 



Fanner — I merely called to get Mr. 's paper I don't take 



the Farmer myself. 



Editor — Don't you think it would be to your advantage to 

 tike the Farmer, and read it. 



Farmer — I think I can plow and raise wheat as well as my 

 neighbors who read the Fanner and sometimes I think better 

 than most of them. 



Editor — Suppose I grant that you can raise wheat belter 

 than aril/ of your neighbors — I suppose you have some plan — 

 some good method for doing so not known to them. Now 

 don't you consider it your duty ns a good cilizen and neigh- 

 bor to make this successful plan known. 



Farmer — I am always willing to give my neighbors the 

 bencrit of my experience' — indeed I consider it a duty, and I 

 flatter myself I have done not a little good in this way. 



Editor — I am glad you acUuwledge your duty in this re- 

 spect. Now if it is your duty to give the few you daily come 

 in contact with the benefit of your experience, and you can 

 do good in this way, how much greater is the duty to throw 

 the light of your experience before the one hundred thousand 

 readers of the Farmer; and how much greater will be the 

 amount of good you can do in this way. 



Farmer — I never wrote a line for a paper in my life, but I 

 believe I will take the paper any way. 



Editor — You must write, too, — give us the facLs, no matter 

 how, and we will put them in sliape. 



Farmed' — I beleive ril'try. 



MoNROK County Ag; Society. — The annual meeting of 

 the Monroe County Agricultural Society was held at the 

 Court House in Rochester on the 11th of December. Pre- 

 miums on field crops were awarded as follows: to Henry 

 B. Moore, Brighton, first premium on corn; Ira Apthorp, 

 Riga, second. L. B, Langworthy, Greece, first premium on 

 carrots, 



E. K. Hobbio, of Irondecjuoit, was elected President ; N. 

 Haywood. Brighton. 1st Vice President ; F. P. Root, Swe- 

 den, 2d Vice President ; John Row, Riga, 3d Vice President ; 

 Joseph AUeyn. Recording Secretary ; James Vick, Jr., Cor. 

 Secretary ; and John Rapalje, Treasurer : EHsha Harmon, 

 D. D. T. Moore, and John Rapalje, delegates to attend the 

 annual meeting of the State Society at Albany. 



An Agricultural Club has been formed in the town of Rush, 

 in this county, of which Joseph Sibley is President. A club 

 has also been in existence some time in the town of Webster. 

 This is right. We think town clubs essential to the efficiency 

 of County Societies. Our plan is for each County Society 

 in which there are no town clubs, to take means to establish 

 them in each town . uxiliary to the County Society, making 

 the President of each an ex-q^icio member of the County 

 Executive Committee. The interests of town and county 

 Societies would thus become one, as their objects are one. 

 We make this suggestion for tiie consideration of those who 

 are endeavoring to form or sustain agricultural associations. 



Our Office. — We shall be happy at all times to see our 

 friends and subscribers at our office. We keep files of all the 

 Agricultural and Horticultural publications of this country, 

 and many European works. They are always ceady for the 

 inspection and perusal of our freinds. We hope those who 

 can make it convenient will make us a call, as we are always 

 "at home". We will give any information, and reiyler any 

 service in our power, in procuring seeds, implements &c., or 

 in any way in which we can advance the cause in whicii we 

 are engaged. 



Engravings. — The beautiful engravings in our present 

 number were most of them designed and all executed by Mr. 

 E. Baldwin, of this city. His work will be a better recom- 

 mendation than any we can give. He is prepared to execute 

 drawing and engravings of implements, stock. &.c. 



Tea Culture.— The New York Tribune has late advices 

 from the tea plantation of Mr. Junius Smith, at Greenville, 

 S. C. His plants are in blossom, and as healthy and flour- 

 ishing as those of China at the same stage of growth. Eve- 

 ry thing looks favorable, and Mr. Smith feels ahund;inlly 

 encouraged. He expects to place fresh tea upon ihe tea- 

 tables of London and Paris in 20 days from his planLaiiuu. 



Mr. Smith is a sanguine man. We fear he will Inni that 

 labor is too high in this country to compete with the Chi- 

 neese any better in producing tea than in growing silk. If 

 cotton was down to four cents a pound instead of selling at 

 ten, as it now does, tea might be raised and put up in the old 

 planting States, The freight on a pound of tea from China 

 is not over one or two cents, at most; and it.s first cost is all 

 in the chc-apest kind of human labor. 



We are indebted to the author for a neat pamphlet contain- 

 ing an address delivered before the Buck's County (Pa.,) 

 Ag. Society, by J. S. Skinner, Editor of the " Plough, the 

 Loom and the Anvil." We extract one of tlie best passages 

 in the address. 



" Much better would Congress be employed in erecting a 

 monument to Washington, in the establishment oi a bureau 

 as recommended by him, to enlighten the government in re- 

 spect of its agricultural rescources and interests, than in rear- 

 ing perishable piles of stone and mortar, vain memorials, 

 when built in honour of one whose fame already extends to 

 the utmost verge of civilization, and will endure as long as 

 the love of liberty shall remain unextinguished in the hearts 

 of men. 



" At a meeting of the London Horticultural Society, Nov. 

 6th, a paper was read from H. Dobkee, Esq., of Beau Sigour 

 Gurnsey. It stated that at the last Gurnsey fruit show, a 

 Chaumontel Pear of perfect shape, and of the remarkable 

 weight of "2 lbs. 4^ oz. Engish weUght, was exhibited by his 

 neighbor, Mr. T. A. Corbin. 



" Some years ago Mr. Dobree transmitted a Chaumontel 

 Pear to the Society, of the weight of 1 lb. 13| oz. English 

 weight, being the heaviest which had hitherto been pro- 

 duced in the Channel islands. The pear produced by Mr. 

 CoRBiN, grew on a quince stock, and no artificial means were 

 employed to increase the weight of the fruit, of which there 

 was in addition a fair crop on the tree. The soil is a deep, 

 strong, brown loam, which is occasionally manured."— 

 Gard. Ckron. , Nov. 10. 



The Chaumontel Pear of the Channel islands, Jersey and 

 Guernsey, are famous all over Europe. Under ordinary 

 cultivation a pound is not an unusual weight, hut 21b3. 4joz., 

 is certainly extraordinary. Such an instance as this is useful 

 as showing what results may be obtained with certain varie- 

 ties, where stock soil and situation are all favorable, la this 

 country the Chaumontel is an early winter fruit of the first 

 quality, 



Elihu BuRRiTT, the Learned Blacksmith, and the able 

 champion of Peace, has just returned to the United States 

 from Europe. A public meeting was called for his reception 

 in Worcester, Mass., of which the Mayor was chairman. 

 On taking the chair he gave a brief address, from which we 

 take the following beautiful paragraph ■. 



"A few days since I stood by the monument which marks 

 the spot where the first enemy fell in the war of the Revo- 

 Intion. As I stood by that monument the question occurred, 

 when will monnraents be erected to commemorate the vic- 

 tories of Peace? And as I looked around me and saw each 

 hill-side covered with the fruits of civilization, each valley 

 filled with flocks and herds, each village with the cultivators 

 of the earth, and each city with its smiling inhabitants, I felt 

 that my answer was received, and that the monuments of 

 Peace were already erected." 



