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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



(Ebitor's Sable. 



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Thk Geneskk Farmer commenced the year with the 

 most flattering prospects, and thns fer our anticipations arc 

 more tlmn realized. Tlie old subscribers are fast renewing 

 their subscriptions, and we are receiving tliousands of new 

 subscribers from places where the Farmer never before 

 circulated. Our friends who are exerting themselves to ex- 

 tend our circulation will accept our thanks — more than this, 

 our pledge to spare neither labor or means to make the 

 Farmer — a welcome and valuable monthly vinilor — the 



FIRST — the BEST. 



Life Subscribers. — We have received many letters ask- 

 ing us to consider iho writers life subscribers for the Farmer. 

 May it be long before Death shall erase their names from 

 our books, and deprive the world of the benefit of their 

 influence and example. Bent. IIoiige, of Buftalo, writes: " 1 

 cannot aflcird to lose a single number of your paper, and 

 you may consider me a subscriber for life." 



One way to do it. — We received a letter from a friend, 

 a short time since, giving an account of the formation o[ an 

 '^AgrlcuUnral, Horticidtural. and Mechanical Associafio?!,'* 

 m a certain town in this State. The writer says ; " By our 

 Cotistitutimt, the necessary qualification for a jierson to 

 become a member for oyie year, is to pay the club price of 

 three shillmgs, and receive and read the Genesee Farmer for 

 185«." 



Young Farmers. — The youth are beginning to turn their 

 attention to agriculture, wi^i their characteristic spirit and 

 enthusiasm. We should be pleased to publish some of the 

 letters we have received from our young friends during the 

 past month, but space forbids. One in Chautauque Co., 

 N. Y., 14 years of age, writes us that his father is a lawyer, 

 but has consented that he should be a farmer. He forwarded 

 his subscription to the Farmer for two years. We hope he 

 has received, and will study carefully, the book we sent him. 

 It will lay the right foundation for scientific nnd successful 

 farming. We refer all such to our Youth's Department. 



Our roRRESPONDENTS must bear with us a little, if 

 they do not receive that attention to which they are entitled 

 as early as could be wished. We are in the daily receipt of 

 from lorty to fifty letters, some of them requiring written 

 answers ; and many asking information as to the price of 

 stock, &.C., to obtain which, we have to write to those hav- 

 ing them in their possession, w'hich in some cases causes 

 considerable delay. We sliail do all justice, and as speedily 

 as possible. 



Glass Water Pipe. — Many object to the use of Icatf 

 pipes as conductors of water, from the impurities they im- 

 p.art to the water. W. T. De Guvler, of Schenectady, has 

 invented a glass pipe, which is highly spoken of where used. 

 It has been in use over one year at Union College, 8che- 

 nentidy. Rapalje &. Briggs, of the Genesee Hped Store, 

 in this city, are the exclusive agen'.s for the counties of 

 Ontario, Livingston, Monroe, Genesee, Erie, Wayne and 

 Orleans, in this State. 



Cauliflower in Winter. — We were presented by J. P. 

 Fogg, F.sq., of this city, with a beautiful head of Cauliflower 

 for our New-Year's dinner. Mr. F. took from his garden 

 about one hundred that had not headed, and placed them in 

 his cellar, where they headed beautifully. By this means 

 a good supply of this delicious vegetable can be obtained for 

 winter use. Though this plan is not new to experienced 

 gardeners, we presume it will be new and valuable to many 

 of our readers. 



Canada Thistles. — We have a host of communications 

 on the best means of destroying the Canada Thistle. We 

 shall attend to them in our next. We think the thistles may 

 consider themselves " used up." 



We are indebted to Wm. P. Fogg, of the Patent Office, 

 Washington, for valuable translations from the foreign Ag- 

 ricultural Journals. These translations will be a valuable 

 feature in our paper the present year. 



B. P. Johnson, Esii., of .'Vlbany, will accept our thanks 

 for a most beautiful pamphlet copy of Johnston's address, at 

 the late State Fair. 



Waoenek Apple. — It will be seen by Mr. Watts' 

 advertisement that he has scions of this celebrated apple for 

 sail 



Postage of the Farmer. — The Farmer is subject to 

 newspaper postage only. A few postmasters, particularly at 

 the West, have occasionally given our subscribers trouble, 

 by attempting to collect the same rates of postage as on pam- 

 phlets. To save oi:r friends any further annoyance, ami 

 set the matter forever at rest, we h;»ve taken the pains lo lay 

 the subject before the PostOflice Department. The fili-.nv- 

 ing is the very satisfactory decision. 



Post Okfke Dr.PARTilr.M. ) 

 Appointraeiit Office. Dfc. 13. 1849. • 

 Sir :— In reply to your"s of this flats. I hart; to inform you llitit 

 the '■ Gonescc Karmer-' pubUshed at Kochi-stfr, -New > ork. is 

 regarded as a newspaper, and fhoulrt be rated witll cue cent 

 postage when carried iu the nialLii over one hundred miles, or any 

 distance within the State : iinJ if carried orer out hundred 

 miles, and out of the State in which they arc mailed. ou>! and a 

 hdjf cents postage. 



I have the honor to I.e. Very respectfully &.c.. 



I-ITZ HF.NKV W.tlUiK.V. 

 Second Assistant Post .Master General. 

 Dr. Danui. Lee, Washington. D. C. 



State Agricultural Society. — The following ore the 



Officers appointed lor the ensuing year, at the annual meet- 

 ing, held on the 17ih inst., at Albany: 



President.— E. P. Prentice, .Ubany. 



Vice Presidents.— Ambrose Stevens, X. York ; Lewis G Morris 

 Westchester ; Anthony Van Bergen. Greene; Z. C. Piatt. IHn- 

 ton ; J.B.Burnett, Onoudaga: E. C. Krost, Chemung; Oliver 

 Phelps. Ontario : .Nelson Van Ness. Chautauqui . 



Cor. Secretary.— B. P. Johnson. 



Rec. Secretary.-J McD, Mclntyre. 



Treasurer,— Luther Tucker. 



Executive Committee— B. B. Kirtland.J, J, Viele. H. Wendell, 

 A. Thompson. Henry Wager. 



The next Fair is to be held at Albany. The Society 

 unanimously adopted a resolution, requesting Congress to 

 establish a National Agricultural Bureau, 



Bukritt's Chbistia.v Citizen.— We refer our readers to 

 the advertisement of this paper. .'Mr. Burkitt, the learned 

 blacksmith, is too well and loo favorably known to need 

 our praise. He has given up making horse shoes, and is 

 endeavoring to forge " swords into plow shares, and spc-nrs 

 into pruning hooks." May success attend his benevolent 

 labors until the arts of civilization shall supplant the barbar- 

 ous arts of other days — peace and plenty make the hearts of 

 millions rejoice — man no longer oppress his broilier man — 

 and the '* nations learn war no more." 



Hijlden's Dollar Magazine. — We arc indebted to the 

 Agent of this city, D. M. Dew ey, for the January number 

 of this valuable monthly. It contains an iateresling story 

 of the life and death of Charles W. Holukn, the l.ito pro- 

 prietor and the projector of the Magazine — a beautiful trib- 

 ute to his memory. The portrait accompanying the ski^lch 

 is a \ ery fair likeness. -Mr. H. left New Vork for t^nliforniii 

 on the 17th of January, and died on the .'lOth of June. Like 

 many others, who left their friends and homes with high 

 aniuupaiions and golden dreams, he breathed bi.« lost under 

 the shade of a trte, on tho shores of tho Sacramento. 



New Papers.— .Woore'j Rural Sew Y'orker is a neat nnd 

 vahiablo weekly paper just commenced in this city, devoted 

 to Agriculture, Horticulture, the Mechanic .\rts. IMucation. 

 &c., by D. D. T. Moore. 



T\\e Family IVjiVor, of Cleveland, Ohio, is another new 

 weekly, rhe principal editor is Prof. }. I'. Kirti and, one 

 of the mnst scientifi<* men, and perhaps the best Horlicuhu- 

 rist of the West. 



The .Vgriculturai. Press. — Tho Albany Cultivator for 

 January comes to us with its usual amount of valuable 

 matter, .\ccompanying it is a pictorial number, interesting 

 at least lo the juveniles. 



The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil, by the veteran 

 Skinner, bids fair to sustain and increase ius high reputation. 



Tho American Agriculturist, tho Prairie Farmer, the 

 American Farmer, the Wisconsin Farmer, the IVew Fnglrvtd 

 Farmer, nnd the other .Agricultnml monthlies have been 

 ieccived. We wish them the success they merit. 



Mr. T. B. Garrs, of May ville. Chautauque County. .\. Y., 

 sends us an account of a native Cow, that was dried otV in 

 e last and fatted on gniss exclusively, and slaughtered 

 on the 10th of December, 18-10. The n-at weight of wliicll 

 was, beef, hide, and tallow 86:i lbs., and dividrs. beef 628, 

 hide 70, and tallow, tried nnd refined. l(;:i. Considering the 

 light weight of beef willi the heavy weight of tallow, wc 

 think it cannot be beaten. 



