THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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Agejjct nf New York. — C. il. Saxtos, Agricultnral Book Pub- 

 tisher, No. 152 Fulton street, New York, is agent for the Gen-esee 

 Farmer, and subscribers in that citr who apply to him can have 

 their papers delivered regularly at their houses. 



Queer Logic fob ak Editor. — Uuder the above 

 heading the Country Gentleman of August 17th devotes 

 something over a column to comments on our remarks on 

 what its correspondent, Mr. S. W. Johxson, said about 

 the worthlessness of soil analyses for practical purposes. 

 "We copied two consecutive paragraphs from Mr. J.'s arti- 

 cle that no injustice should be done to him by a misstate- 

 ment of his views — allowing him to state his facts and 

 opinions in his own words, to all our readers. 



The Conntry Gentleman has treated us with no such 

 fairness. It denies both its readers and " Dr. Lee" the 

 benefit of seeing in that print so much as one whole sen- 

 tence of what we did say. Such conduct is generally re- 

 garded as dishonorable in editorial discussions. Nothing 

 that we said is disproved; nor is the palpable self-contrac- 

 tion by Mr. Johnson explained so as to make his article 

 consistent with itself. "We are well aware of the existence 

 of much humbug and error in the analyses of soils and 

 manures; but this fact no more detracts from the true 

 merit and value of such chemical researches than the ex- 

 istence of hypocrites in churches detracts from the impor- 

 tance of true piety and genuine Christianity. To condemn 

 a whole religious society en masse for the offence of one of 

 its members is as illogical as it is unjust. Let every thing 

 that is erroneous and wrong in soil analyses he exposed 

 and corrected; but do not hastily condemn and repudiate 

 all investigations of this character. The Country Gen- 

 tlemari says: "A young farmer lately informed us that he 

 had lost seven hundred dollars by /aisf expectations held 

 out to him through the teachings of the Ge.«vESee Farmer 

 under the auspices of Dr. Lee." 



"Will the C. G. be so good as to give us the name and 

 residence of this unfortunate " young farmer," that we 

 may learn the exact language in this Journal on which he 

 based his " false expectations?" It may turn out that he 

 was over-sanguine — that a lack of experience and sound 

 judgment was the true source of his loss — not '• the teach- 

 ings of the Genesee Farmer." ^Yhe^e one imprudent 

 man has suffered loss by following its advice, a thousand 

 wise men acknowledge tliemselves gainers bv so doing. 



in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, or Iowa. 

 They may have fat land — pork and tallow land — but not 

 land adapted to the production of butter I This nice dis- 

 tinction reminds us of a meeting at the Court House in 

 Buffalo, at the time the State Fair was held in that city, at 

 which the Hon. A. H. Tracy presided, and Prof. Norton, 

 of Yale College, delivered by request a very instructive 

 lecture on the principles of agriculture. Every one ap- 

 peared to like the clear and sound teachings of the college 

 gentleman but Mr. A. B. Dickinson, who assailed !Mr. 

 Norton in a rude and most offensive manner. Instead 

 of understanding the subjects which he undertook to dis- 

 cuss, it was a marvel to all who heard him how it was 

 possible for any man in this State to accumulate, in one 

 short life time, such a mass of unadulterated ignorance as 

 he displayed on that public occasion. Norton, Tract 

 and others used him up, so that we have heard nothing of 

 him since, in an agricultural way, till the address above 

 referred to was delivered and printed. 



Speaking of "the very best quality of butter," Mr. D, 

 savs : 



" You have here all the elements for making just that 

 kind of butter. To begin with, you must have in your 

 pastures timothy, white clover, blue grass, red top, or foul 

 meadow grass, which I think is one and the same thing, 

 only differing as it grows on different soils, pure soft wa- 

 ter, and a rolling or hilly country. All these things you 

 have, or may have, as these different grasses will all grow 

 well, if sowed and properly cared for : and I have never 

 seen the first pound of good butter made where the cow 

 did not feed on some or all of these grasses ; and it can- 

 not be made from these until they have been sown long 

 enough to have the soil swarded over, to protect it from 

 tlie sun, frost and diouth." 



More theory again. Hundreds of our best dairymen 

 get the first quality of butter when feeding their cows on 

 sreen corn forage, grown by sowing the seed broadcast, 

 on purpose to extract butter from " butter land." 



"What is Butter Land ? — An agricultural address de- 

 livered by the Hon. A. B. Dickinson, of Corning, N. T.. 

 before the Tioga County Agricultural Society, has been 

 much praised for its practical good sense, and exemption 

 from theories, ilr. D. says: 



•• The first quality of butter land is confined to portions 

 of the New England States, New Jersey, Pennsylvnuia 

 and New York, while cheese can be made and sheep 

 grown wherever grass grows." 



Here tlie agricultural public is favored, by a professed 

 theory-hater, with a somewhat greasy theory about "but- 

 ter land." It exists in portions of New England, but not 



University of Georgia. — The following is an extract 

 from the minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Univer- 

 sity of Georgia, in session August 2, 1S54: 



" Resolved, That there be now established in Franklin 

 College a new Professorship, with the endowment of t}ce7t- 

 ty thousand dollars, now presented in Bonds of the State 

 of GeorEjia by Dr. "William Terrell, of Hancock coun- 

 tv, to the support of which the interest arising thereon 

 annually shall be exclusively applied — to be known and 

 designated as the 'Terrell Professorship of Agri- 

 culture.' wherein instruction shall be given, as hereinaf- 

 ter provided, in the branches of knowledge designated by 

 the Donor. 



" Resolved, That in accordance with the suggestion of 

 the Donor, Dr. Daniel Lee. of the State of New Ycrk, 

 be and he is hereby una>iimo7isly appointed to fill the 

 ■ Terrell Professorship of Agriculture,' to enter upon his 

 duties on the fifteenth day of January, 1955." 



The University of Georgia has the first liberally endow- 

 ed Chair of Agriculture that has been established in the 

 United States. Mr. Norton g-ave $5000 for a similar 

 purpose to Yale College, and thereby provided an honora- 

 ble and useful place for his son, who was appointed to the 

 Professorship created by the liberality of his father. No 

 other man before Dr. Terrell Las given so much as Mr. 

 Norton to promote agricultnral science in this great na- 

 tion of farmers. Dr. Terrell's noble example can hard- 



