THE GENESEE FARAfER. 



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JDifoi*'3 lijbie. 



AciEXCT i-v New York. — C. M. Saxton, Agricultural Book Pub- 

 li-^her, No. 152 Fulton street. New York, is agent for the Ge.vesek 

 Fasmkr, and subscribers iu that city who apply to liim can have 

 their papers delivered regularly at their houses. 



OuFi contemporaries, the American Agriculturist and 

 Country Gentleman, have commented on our remarks on 

 " the Genesee Farmer, the child of Western New York," 

 in the January number ; and between them blunders have 

 been committed, which our friend Mr. Tucker wrongly 

 ascribes to "Dr. Lee." Mr. T. says: "The Americmi 

 Agriculturist copies from the Genesee Farmer the claim 

 of the latter paper to the paternity of several of our best 

 rural periodicals, and among the rest, that of the Albany 

 Cultivator itself." 



The Farmer made no " claim to paternity," whatever. 

 This is what it said : " The patronage which it received, 

 encouraged Judge Buel to start, some years after, the 

 Albany Cultivator, at twenty-five cents a year." 



There is no " claim of paternity" in the above statement, 

 while its truth is not denied. Again we said : " The Gen- 

 esee Farmer enabled Mr. Tucker to go to Albany with 

 sufficient reputation and funds to run an honorable and 

 successful career as the conductor of the Cultivator." 



Nor is the truth of this statement questioned. On the 

 contrary. j\Ir. Tucker says truly that he originated and 

 published the Farmer nine years before going to Albany ; 

 "and afterward, upon the death of Judge Buel, merged 

 it in the Cultivator, started at a later day." Now, the 

 " merging" referred to, consisted simply in discontinuing 

 the Farmer, and asking its patrons to take the Cultivator 

 in place of it. As the Farmer was the property of Mr. 

 Tucker, he had a right to suppress it ; but he could not 

 prevent the farmers of Western New York from having a 

 local agricultural journal, as a medium through which 

 they could profitably " teach one another." Tlie friends 

 and supporters of the pioneer work, unwilling to adopt 

 the Albany Cultivator as a substitute for their favorite, 

 the old Genesee Farmer, called the New Genesee 

 Farmer into existence. The same intelligent community 

 that gave vitality and strength ,to the Farmer, as con- 

 ducted by Mr. Tucker, resuscitated the paper after he 

 left, and still make the Genesee Farmer what it is. It 

 is their work. So warmly did the present conductor sym- 

 pathise with the farmers of Western New York in this 

 matter, that he wrote a whole year for this journal for 

 four dollars — a sum barely sufficient to pay postage on the 

 correspondence. No matter how many other weekly and 

 monthly agricultural papers Western New Yorkers and 

 others may read, there is not one of them that does or can 

 fill the place of this old, standard work. What paper in 

 the United States gave from official and other reliable 

 sources, the quantity of wheat and rye grown in tioenty- 

 eight of the principal nations of Europe, in 18.51 ? The 

 January number of the Farmer for 1852, contained this 

 important information ; and no other journal in the Re- 

 public furnished these valuable statistics. The same num- 

 ber of the Genesee Farmer gave the number of horses, 



cattle, sheep, hogs, goats, asses and mules in seventeen of 

 the largest or most populous countries in Europe ; and no 

 other paper in the United States has given the informa- 

 tion. No other paper has given more than a third of the 

 agricultural returns of the last U. S. Census, that have 

 been published in the Farmer. ^\ ho but the Fakmeb 

 has studied the rural industry of the country so closely as 

 to know and proclaim the fact, that Jlonroe county (in 

 which it has been published a quarter of a century), now 

 produces a half million bushels of wheat more than any 

 other in the whole Union ? Not one reader in a thousand 

 appreciates the amount of severe labor bestowed to arrive 

 at the truths contained in this cheap periodical. We de- 

 livered at least one hundred free lectures on the subject, 

 before the farmers and the Legislature of this State conid 

 be persuaded to count all the cows actually milked in 1845, 

 in the commonwealth, which was done, and the basis laid 

 for the most instructive comparisons iu 1850, and hereafter. 

 Next year another State census is to be taken ; and New 

 York farmers appear to be fast asleep. It is the purpose 

 of the Farmer to wake them up, by dealing largely in the 

 great facts of tillage and husbandry, whose importance 

 cannot diminish so long as the earth is cultivated. 



A Hint for Evert Reader. — An esteemed corres- 

 pondent, of Somerset county, Pa., says : " After receiving 

 the five copies of your Genesee Farmer which I had 

 ordered for myself, on showing them to several men, they 

 became so eager to have them, that thej' took them all 

 from me ; so I have none for myself. You will please send 

 me three copies more for this month, if you stiU have them 

 in reserve," &e. What Mr. Josiah Snyder has done to 

 promote the reading of the oldest, and we believe the 

 most reliable, agricultural journal in the State of New 

 York, at least ten thousand other subscribers may each 

 easily accomplish. We pay fifty per cent, more for setting 

 up the type on this volume than any one before has cost, 

 because it contains fifty per cent, more " ems," or compo- 

 sition. The paper on which it is printed costs a quarter 

 more than that of any previous volume. Add to these 

 large expenses that of stitching and trimming every num- 

 ber of the work, and the reader wiU see that our profits 

 are next to nothing, on the Genesee Farmer. In noticing 

 it, our friend Bateham, of the Ohio Cultivator, says : 

 " The Genesee Farmer promises to continue at the too 

 low price of fifty cents a year, under the able management 

 of Dr. Lee, whose talents ought to command a larger sum 

 in these prosperous times, or at least secure for the paper 

 an immense circulation." 



The latter is what we desire to see — not as a matter of 

 personal gain, for we shall expend the profits in premiums, 

 chemical apparatus, and other means needful to advance 

 the rural knowledge of the United States. With one-fourth 

 the circulation that our paper now has, if sold at the same 

 price of most monthlies, our net profits would be ten times 

 larger than at present. The Farmer ought to have a mil- 

 lion of subscribers, and five millions of readers, in a nation 

 that contains a population of twenty-six millions, three- 

 fourths of whom look to the farm and the garden for their 

 support. A volume of the Farmer will cost club subscri- 



