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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



April 



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(fbitor's 2[able. 



Acknowledgements. — Our friends hnve placed lis under 

 so manyoblignlions, in the way of liooks, pamphle'j, reports, 

 &.C., that we fear tlieir very kindness will cause on our part 

 apparent neglect. It would be impossible for us publicly to 

 acknowledge the receipt of the mass of communications, tScc, 

 with which we are. favored. We are particularly indebted 

 to B. P. JoHNsos, Esq., for Prof. JoH.-iSTO.s's Lectures — 

 some friend in i3oston, for the Report of the Fowl Conven- 

 tion — Patent Office, Washington, for a valuable package of 

 seeds — John W. Lincoln, Mass., for Transactions of Wor- 

 cester .\gricultural Society. 



HOVEV'S M\GAZINE OF HORTICULTURE .4Nri Rl'R.\L .AF- 

 FAIRS. — This journal commences its sixteenth volume at the 

 low price of $2 per annum. $3 being the former price, and 

 the work is much better at this moment ihaH it has ever 

 been. For thirteen years we have looked to it monthly for 

 useful and interesting information on gardening matters ; it 

 is only natural therefore that we rejoice in its success. We 

 recommend it heartily to all who are seeking horticultural 

 information, and its low price renders it accessible to all 

 classes. D. M. Dewey is the agent in Rochester. 



Durham Stock — Mr. Bates' Herd. — We reluctantly 

 admitted the article of Mr. Stevens on this subject, as we 

 think we can fill our columns with matter of more general 

 interest than the discussion of these nice points. We think 

 the experiments and experience of their brother farmers 

 would be far more acce[aable and profitable to our readers. 

 Mr. S., hovi'ever, considered his remarks misunderstood, and 

 wished to make the correction : at the same lime staling his 

 intention, if he considered anything further should be neces- 

 sary on the subject, to publish it in pamphlet form. 



We are glad to see that the political editors throughout 

 the country are introducing Affricnlti/rul Departments into 

 their respective papers. In tl:^ way agricultural informa- 

 tion is placed before thousands of farmers who will not take 

 an agricultural paper. .4nd we are not the less pleased that 

 these papers copy cohimn after column from the Farmer, 

 although many do it without giving us a word o[ credit. 



.Agricultural Bookstore. — It will be seen by an 

 advertisement in this number, that Mr. Chas. B. Norton 

 has opened an Agricultural Bookstore in New York. Those 

 wishing agricultural books can depend upon the honor and 

 integrity of Mr. .Norton. 



Weather at the West. — Powell Howland, of Indian- 

 apolis, Ind., write?, Feb. 24th., as follows: — ■' Our winter 

 has fairly vanished, and the weather has not been cold 

 enough this winter to freeze the streams of t^\o to six rods 

 wide so as to bear a man. unless in some mill-pond. The 

 ground is fairly seltlcd. Wheat looks as fine as it can. On 

 the -^ih of February we had a sharp freeze that may hurt 

 peaches.'' Henry G. Watkins, of Reed's Grove, Illinois, 

 says : "We have h.ad a very mild, open wiater, with but 

 little snow. Pigeons were seen on the first instant, and 

 blue-birds to-day. The California fever is raging here to an 

 alarming extent, and many of our citizens will be carried 

 away by it." 



In a Dilemma. — A correspondent says he is in a dilemma. 

 He has bought a sub-soil plow, but is afraid to use it unless 

 his land wag drained, and he is too poor to drain, and asks 

 our advice. Don't fear — use the plow. To satisfy your- 

 self, sub-soil one half of a field and plow the other half in 

 the ordinary way, treat it alike in every respect, and see its 

 effi'ct. and next year yon will be giving instead of asking 

 advice, .As soon as you can raise the means, thoroughly drain 

 a small piece, and see for yourself the cfTects of draining. 



MoNBOc Co. Agricultural Society. — A meeting of the 

 K.xecutive Committee was held at oyr office, March I'Jth, 

 when it was determined to make increased exertions to ren- 

 der the Society more eflicient. and particularly to make the 

 fair of the present year one worthy of the Society and the 

 County. The (.'ommittee ask the co-operation of their brother 

 farmers, and all frjends of progress. The next meeting of 

 the Society will be held in May. 



The Prairie Farmer for February contains the following 

 paragraph : 



Thf Genkste Farmer.— This paper has cbftDged bands onco 

 more. Its old proprietor, Dr. Damf.i. Lee. having become tired of 

 going to .Athens in Georgia to make an .Agriculturiil paper, has 

 returned, and .ucceeds Mr. Moore as the publiEher of the farmer. 

 We obaorve little in the paper that won'.d mark the change, except 

 that it talks rather more of making mud and turf into bones and 

 talTbw. and so on. We have no doubt that having got the hang of 

 the thing. Dr. Lee wiU m.ike the Farmer a lir.-t rate paper. The 

 price of it is only 50 cents ; but if the editor chooses to work for 

 nothing, which he must do at that rate, iti-s none of our ba.'.ineis. 

 .Mr. Barry still edits the Horticultural Department. 



Our friend of the P. F. is in error in the above statements. 

 'I Dr. Daniel Lfe," the 'old proprietor" of the Ueneset! 

 Farmer, never sold to Mr. Moore, nor to any other person, 

 the interest which he has held in the paper since 184.5, and 

 purchased of Mr. Fogg. The remark, "This paper haa 

 changed hands once more,'' and what is said about the 

 editor's " working for nothing," seem to imply that there is 

 a screw loose somewhere out Wt=-t. 



Now, we plead guilty to the offence, if it be one, of being 

 willing to perform a great deal of labor for a little pay, for 

 the hope of doing .some good through the medium of the 

 cheapest agricultural journal in the world. There are some 

 millions of farmers in the I'nited States, who read no hook 

 nor periodical designed to illustrate the principles of tillage 

 and farnr economy. To reach these is an object of incalcu- 

 lable moment : and experience has demonstrated the fact, that 

 a larger number will take a fifty cent than a dollar paper. 

 Undoubtedly ihe editor and proprielor of this journal could 

 make more money for himself" by raising its price to that of 

 ihe Prairie Farmer, than to keep it where it is : but so long 

 as the friends of the Genesee Fanner will stand by it as they 

 have done, it shall go for the cause and not for money. 

 Reader ! see that this, your old companion, has a circulation 

 which will cover its current expenses, and it will neither be 

 discontinued nor have its price rai^,ed. One who is willing 

 to work twelve hours every day, in this country, ia not 

 likely to beg his bread. 



It is extremely desirable to give the Farmer a circulation 

 of 100,000 copies ; not because it will benefit its proprietor, 

 but for the good that will accrue to the great Agricultural 

 Interest of the I'nion. Let it break the ice of prejudice 

 against rural literature and rural science, and then the one, 

 two, and three dollar journals will have easier sailing with 

 the popular current created by our little pioneer craft that 

 has gone ahead. 



The Peach Crop. — Wo learn by the Ohio (Cultivator, 

 that tlio destruclicm of the peach buds by the winter is very 

 extensive at the west. Here, everything in the fruit way 

 looks well — not a bud or branch of anything we call hardy 

 has been in the least ellected. 



-Emery's Cylindi-k Dynomomkteb. — \\'e have barely 

 space to refer our readers to the advertisement of this useful 

 instrument. An article v\iih descri|ilion; 4c., prepared for 

 this number, we are compelled to defer till our next. 



To Competitors for odr Premiums. — The competi- 

 tors for our Premiums stood as follows, on our books, on tho 

 IStli of March — arranged according to the numbers sent, 

 commencing with the highest : — 



Joseph Watson, Clyde. N. Y.: E. C. Bliss, Weslfield, N. 

 Y.: F. Ilowiand, Mrchanicsville, N. Y.; J. H. Stanley, Le 

 Roy, N. Y.i Orrin llishop, Dundee, N. Y.; John Davis, 

 Kirminphnm, Mich.; Moses Eames, Rutland, N. Y. ; Wm. 

 Knox, Waterloo, N. Y.. John L. Dolsen, Chatham. H. W.; 

 .Mien Hale, Fast Smithficld, Pa.; ls.iac Minard. Hume, N. 

 Y.; James Eraser. York, N. Y.; R. A. Woodcock, Oxford. 

 ('. W.: John Row, Riga, N. Y.. Silsby & Keeler. Seneca 

 Falls; B. Coddinglon. Jr.. Beinon, N. Y.; Dr. Dow, Marion, 

 .N. Y.; O. (.'. Comsiock. .Marshall, Mich.; J. Wykoff. Rom- 

 ulus. N. Y.; A. Franklin, lloncoye, N. Y.; W. U. Patti- 

 son. Saline, Mich.; Apollos Kent, Amboy, Ohio; M. Beadle, 

 Mnrongo. N. Y. ; Lyman Strobridge, Trumansburgh. N. Y. , 

 L. L. Pratt. Fredonia, N. Y., C. Hubbard, .Adams Center, 

 N. Y.; R. Craig, PortcrsviUe, Pa.; T. S. Cowles, Springfield 

 X Roads, Pa.; Jas. C. Robinson, Penn Yun, N. Y., Jas. 

 Maromber, Farinington, N. Y.; Peter Himrod, Lodi, N. Y.; 

 J. 11. Bailey. Perry, N. Y.; 



\l"p Competitors must hear in mind that additions to their 

 lists must be mailed so as lo reach us by the I.'ilh of April, as 

 at that time we shall reakc out our report for the iMay number. 



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