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THE GEOTESEE EAEMEK. 



Our Cherry trees are dying in this vicinity ; they become 

 filled with black excrescences, similar to the Plum. (1.) 



I have noticed for three seasons past, that when the tree 

 arrives at its full vigor in the summer, the leaves become 

 infested by myriads of small green flies, or bugs, on the 

 under side, causing them to curl up and decay. Please 

 state the manner oif treatment to get rid of the evil. (2.) 



The land is a gravelly loam,' with clay subsoil ; trees 

 common Cherry. Our Plum trees flourish a few ye^^s and 

 then decay. Pear and Apple trees thrive, and live to a 

 good old age. J. A. Q. South. — Fuliancille. 



(1) Cut out these excrescences as sooa as tliey 

 appear. We have never seen them on any cheiTy 

 except the comnaon sort called the "pie" cherry. 



(2) Those are aphides. Easily destroyed by 

 syringing the trees freely with a pretty strong 

 solution of tobacco mixed with soap suds. 



New York State Agricultural CoUegO. 

 THIS Institution was chartered by the Legislature of the 

 State of New York, for the purpose of presenting to Agri- 

 culturists the means for acquiring a knowledge of the Arts 

 and Science appropriate to their vocation ; to prepare Stu- 

 dents for practical active labor, by training the mind in a 

 system which shall inculcate an intimate acquaintance with 

 the sciences essential to agriculturalieuccess. 



To insure the development of principles and their appli- 

 cation to the soil, the Legislature has required the purchase 

 of not less than three hundred acres of land. 



The Trustees, having accepted the trust confided to them 

 by the Legislature, organized the State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, by tlie following appointments : 



JOHN DELAFIELD, President of the College. 

 Hon. John A. Kino, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. 

 Joel W. Bacon, Secretary. 

 N. B. Kidder, Treasurer. 



At a meeting of the Board, on the 4th of June, a Report 

 was presented by B. P. Johnson, from a special committee 

 on the Location of the College, declaring " that after an 

 examination of the Oaklands If'arm in Seneca county, thoy 

 are entirely satisfied that the price asked for it, is its fair 

 value in the market, for farming purposfs ; that it is, by 

 previous preparation, by position dnd variety of soil, in 

 every respect adapted to the objects of the Institution ; that 

 the title is perfect, and recommend that the chain of title be 

 entered at large on the minutes of the Board," &c. This 

 farm is situated mid-way between the market towns of Wa- 

 terloo and Geneva, in full view of the Seneca Lake, and 

 overlooking the village of Geneva ; elevated about 125 feel 

 above the level of the Lake, it is free from causes disturbing 

 health ; its soil varies from a strong clay to a sandy loam, 

 presenting varieties sufficient for testing by experiment 

 every doubtful question in relation to soils, and to exhibit 

 the most approved system of cultivation. 



The Trustees are prepared to receive from farmers and 

 friends of agriculture, proposals for the Capital Stock of 

 the Institution, which will be distributed in shares of fitly 

 dollars each, payable 

 • 10 per cent, on subscribing. 



40 " 1st July. 



50 « 1st October. 



The Trustees may be addressed (post paid) at their re- 

 spective residences, as follows : 



lion. John A. Kinq, Jamaica, Queens county. 

 Henry Wagek, Westernville, Oneida county. 

 B. P. Johnson, Agricultural llooms, Albany. 

 Wm. Kki.lt, Ehinebeck, Duchess county. 

 N. B. Kidder, Geneva, Ontario county. 

 Joel W. Bacon, Waterloo, Seneca county. 

 Tallmadge Delafield, Geneva, Ontario county. 

 Wm. Buel, Rochester, Monroe county. 

 John Delafied, OakJands, Seneca county. 

 The Officers of the College will endeavor to present sub- 

 scription books in each county, that the College, so entirely 

 agricultural and peculiarly the Farmer's institution, may 

 find its support widely difl'used throughout the State. 



The President wiU, upon application to him, give all 

 needful information in relation to the ordinances, rules and 

 regulations of the College, and the course of instruction to 

 be pursued. 



By order ol the Board of Tnistces. 



JOEL W. BACON, Secretary. 



Another Eeview erf the Geneva Trial of Horse 



Powers, &c. 

 I HEREBY make my statement in relation to the GeneT« 

 Trial of Machines. 



In the first place, I have a few words to say in relation to 

 the report, and also the course of the committee. I would 

 here state, that there were only three men that constituted 

 the examining committee on Threshing Machines; they 

 were J. S. Gould, J. E. Holmes, and Gen. Harmon. The 

 report of the committee was not according to the record as 

 taken at the trial, and kept by Mr. J. S. Gould. Tbey make 

 a reduction of more than 30 per cent, in the operation of 

 my machine from the record as they kept it at the time; 

 and this was the only experiment, excepting the tlireshinii, 

 that had any merits in it. Mr. Gould told me, just asl 

 started to leave Geneva, that in looking over his minutes, 

 he thought they had made a mistake, as his account gave me 

 more power than in some other experiments, and placed 

 my machine ahead of the others. I wrote to him after- 

 ward, and proposed to have the experiment tried over again 

 at the State Fair at Utica, which he assented to, and I be- 

 lieve that the notice of the same was given to the others. 



I took my machine to the Fair as agreed, and the others 

 were brought there also. When the'" committee came to 

 make the trial, they took an entire different course from 

 what they had done at Geneva, and I could not prevail 

 upon them to try the Geneva experiment over again, to see 

 whether they had made the blunder that they i-eport was 

 made, (or the one that was made by their report.) It 

 seemed as if they now knew what course was necessary 

 (from the Geneva trial) to take to make the experiinsnt ap- 

 pear favorable to the Emery power ; in this they were some 

 disappointed, as their plan placed Badger's ahead ; but this 

 they got around by saying that Emery's w as made in a su- 

 perior manner, which they could not say of mine. 



Their correction of the minutes as kept at Geneva, made 

 it into an error, as was manifest to any observing person. 

 Taking it as they reported, it would only require'a move- 

 ment of the platform of 1 % of a mile per hour ; the persons 

 ou the power, and others looking on. could plainly see that 

 they were walking much faster than that. 



There is another thing in relation to one of the committee 

 (Mr. Holmes), that was not right in appearance, and that 

 is, he said or stated, at the State Fair, that Emery was to 

 exhibit his machines (the Dick anti-friction presses) at the 

 Ohio State Fair the next week; this showed such a combi- 

 nation of interest, that there was some danger of having 

 his judgment biased in making up hrs report; to say the 

 least of it, it made him liable to suspicion of partiality. 



After the committee had concluded upon their report, 

 and one of them, Mr. Gould, had left, as I was informed, I 

 called upon the other two, (not as a committee,) to come 

 and see if they had been justified in making the error (by 

 correcting one as they said) in the report of the Geneva 

 trial. One of them declined, the other promised to re-ex- 

 amine, but failed to do so for some cause or other. Thus 

 much for the committee and their report 



I will now examine the experiments made at Geneva. — 

 In the first place, I will state that the machines under re- 

 view—that is, mine, Emery's and Badger's— were all new, 

 and had not been used before. Emer>"8 had some thrags 

 about it to please the eye of some lookers-on, and perhaps 

 some of the committee, such, for instance, as the turning of 

 a bolt and nut, all of no practical use, and rarely, if ever, 

 done by any threshing machine buiMer. Emery obtained 

 some advantage over the rest by having a team (belonging 

 to one of the committee, as I was informed) employed for 

 the week, which enabled him to keep experimenting with 

 his machine, and to learn when it was ready for use, and 

 thereby smoothing up his machine to his advantage in the 

 experiments to be^made with it. He altered and repaired 

 and experimented until Thursday afternoon, when he 

 threshed his 100 sheaves under th^ direction of the commit- 

 tee ; this took him 17 minutes, with his concave raised 

 three-fourths of an inch — consequently he did not thresh 

 his grain clean from the straw, as I learned the next day, 

 by putting some of his straw through my machine. 



The next morning I obtained a team to make my experi- 

 ment in threshing. This team had never been on such a 

 power before ; when they came, I put them on to see if my 

 power would work, not knowing anything of Its operation 

 only from appearance, as it was the first one of the kind 

 that had ever been put in operation. To try it, I got some 

 of the straw threshed by Emery the day before, and put it 

 through my machine. I left my concave close to the cylin- 

 der, seeing th.at Emery did not thresh his clean with his up. 



The committee now determined to have the grain 

 weighed in making the experiments. They allotted to me 



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