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With tlie present number our volume for 1851 is closed. 

 Every number \vc hope has reaclieil every subscriber, ami 

 has been carefully prescrveil (or binding. Few of our read- 

 ers, who thus preserve them, would bo willing to part with 

 their old numbers for their original cost. If any one h:is 

 lost numbers, or through any cause failed to receive them, it 

 will allbrd us pleasure to supply them without charge. We 

 take the utmost care in mailing the Farmer, but in sending 

 through the mail 480,000 numbers during the year, it would 

 be surprising if no accident should occur to prevent some of 

 this large number reaching their destination. All we can 

 do is to send again in case of failure, which we are always 

 willing to do. 



That we have succeeded in making the Farmer, the pres- 

 ent year, what it should be, we can hardly hope, but we 

 feel confident that we have furnished each subscriber with a 

 paper of lour times the value of the few shillings it cost him. 

 Our ilbisttatious have not been given merely for pictures, 

 but for illustration, intended to throw light on the subject 

 discussed, nnd many of them have been cosily, and from 

 original designs. It is not to be supposed that all the com- 

 munications we publish contain reliable information, on 

 wiiich the farmer should risk much. But, in these articles, 

 facts are presented to the farmer's consideration, and infer- 

 ences drawn from these facts. These inferences the farmer 

 can discuss with his wife, his sons, and daughters, and 

 neighbors. Thus light is obtained, and the theory is con- 

 firmed or rejected. 



The nkxt Voldme, which will commence on the First of 

 January, but which we shall have ready for delivery a week 

 or two previous, we shall enlarge by the addition of Eight 

 more pages, and shall otherwise materially improve the ap- 

 pearance of our journal, and if we are not altogether disap- 

 pointed in our calculations, the Genesee Farmer for 1852 will 

 be the most beautiful Agricultural paper printed in America. 



Although we liave published the Farmer for many years, 

 we have not yet heard of the man who thought he expended 

 his money foolishly in subscribing for the Genesee Farmer. 

 This being the case, we confidently hope to retain all our 

 old subscribers another year, and to make a still farther in- 

 crease. To do this we depend upon the voluntarj' exertions 

 of our friends everywhere. We have no paid agents, and 

 intend to have none. Instead of paying agents a commis- 

 sion, as is common, we prefer to give our paper to the farmer 

 at the v.f:ry l)west pri'-e, and but for our exceedingly large 

 circulation, each volume would cost us more tha-n the club 

 price. The increased size of our Journal will enable us to 

 add interest to every department, and we shall give every 

 month a page of extracts from the best European Agricultural 

 Journals. 



To our friends who have voluntarily acted as agents the 

 past year, we return our thanks. We acknowledge our in- 

 debtedness, and feel anxious to increase it another year. 

 We hope none of our friends will be satisfied to forward a 

 less number for 1852 than for '51. 



Western New York Agricoltural Society. — The 

 subject of organizing a Western iVew York Agricultural So- 

 ciety is being pretty freely discussed at the present time, 

 and the opinions we have heard expressed ore favorable to 

 the movement. We presume a call for a meeting of the ag- 

 riculturists of Western New York, to discuss this question, 

 and to organize the Saciety if it should be deemed expedient 

 lo form one, will be issued in n few days. 



AnvERTisEME.NTs, to secure insertion in the Farmer, mu.<!i 

 be received as early as the 10th of the previous month, and 

 be of such a character as to be of interest to farmers. We 

 publi.'jh no other. Terms — $2.00 for every hundred wonls, 

 each insertion, paid iii adeaiice. 



The "Prepared Gi'ano" Fraud. — The evidence of 

 fraud in the "Prepared Guano" business is thickening — 

 growing darker and darker, and blacker and blacker. A 

 gentleman well known to the agricultural world as nn author 

 of repute, and who states that through misrcprcsenliitions he 

 was induced to engage in the manufacture of the worthless 

 article, writes us Nov. 5th : 



" The article is not worth drawing two miles, if it could 

 be had gratis. I found out that to make money by the bu- 

 siness would be by deception, and I sold out after having 

 been in the business only three months. 1 know what 

 ever!/ article is in the compound, as I bought everything my- 

 se/f. You were right in your calculations. The Gas lio.use 

 did furnish about one-half — the commons i\iC other. The 

 actual cost was only six caUs per barrel I'' 



How does this compare with the declaration of Mr. Kent- 

 ish, that "My prepared Guano does NOT contain an atom of 

 anything from Gas \Vorks. notwithstanding your coarse imin- 

 ualions and assertions to the contrary." Wo hear nothing 

 more of the libel suit, although we are quite prepared to 

 prove all that we have said, and a great deal that we have 

 not said. We are surprised that such a system of fraud 

 should have been so long continued without the slightest 

 notice from tiie agricultural press. If the Genesee i'armer 

 had been published as near the seat of operations as some 

 other agricultural papers, this fraud would have been ex- 

 posed long ago. 



Rural Homes, or Sketches of Houses suited to American Country 

 Life ; with original Plans, Designs, &c. By Gervase Wheeler. 

 New York, Charles Scribker. Price $1.25. 



A handsome book with about 300 pages, bearing the above 

 title, has just appeared, and we acknowledge the receipt of 

 a copy. We shall notice this work in our nest, and give 

 some extracts, with engravings. 



Lessuns in Modern Farming, or Agriculture kof 

 Schools, is a neat work of some 400 pages, received from 

 the author, J. L. Blake, D. D. It is an excellent school 

 reading book, and we recommend its use in our commuu 

 schools. It might be read with profit in the family. 



To those who Form Clubs for 1852. — We do not ask 

 that all the members of a club should receive their papers at 

 one oOice. We are willing to send to as many I'ost Oilices 

 as there are raerabcrs of the club, if necessary for the conve- 

 nience of subscribers. But where it is practicable, Tost 

 Masters would accommodate us by keeping a list of the sub- 

 scribers at their office, and allowing us to send the whole 

 nunil'er to their own address. This saves us the trouble of 

 writing on all the papers. Many have done this the pres 

 ent year. 



Agricultural Books and Libraries. — We refer all to 

 our oOer of Agricultural Books. We know of no better way 

 in which a young man could obtain a few good agricultural 

 books, than by obtaining subscribers to the Genesee Farmer. 

 The winter months aflbrd leisure, and the price of the Far- 

 mer is 80 low, and its merits so well appreciated, that few 

 will refuse to subscribe if solicited. We will send specimen 

 numbers and show bills to all who apply. 



To OUR Canadian Friends. — We shall continue to fur- 

 nish the F'armer to our Canadian subscribers free of Ameri- 

 can Postage. Some premiums dlie in Canada we have not 

 f irwarded, on account of complainLs we have received of the 

 high rates of postage. We can forward by express to almost 

 any port in Canada, and will send by moil if desirable. 



Monroe County Agricvltural Society. — The Annual 

 Meeting of the Monroe County Agricultural Society will be 

 held at the City Hall, in Rochester, on the 14th day of De- 

 cember. A general attendance of members is requested. 

 James Vick, Jr., Secretary. 



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