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THE NEW GENESEE FARMER, 



Vol. 2. 



ROCIII::S¥EK, AUGITST, 1841. 



Apologies and Promiscb. 



Th« alisence of the ninnngiiig editor ilnring the 

 past raonih, must serve oe nn excuse for nny defects 

 ihat inny sppear in this numbcrof our popcr. For the 

 •ame reason we have not yet completed the new ar- 

 rangements alluded to in our last. We can assure 

 onr reoders, however, that such measures are in pro- 

 gress as cannot (nil to give them increased satisfaction. 

 A new Power Press will be procured expressly for 

 this wjrk, and a better quality of paper will be ob- 

 tained, sc OS to improve its oppearance and secure 

 punctuality. More attention will be paid to the edi- 

 torial departxeuiiban heretofore, and more aid is ex- 

 pected from valuable oorreapondents — so much for 

 this time. iS'ovy haye poiienee with us readers; and 

 tee if we do not perform all that we have promised, and 

 iD'jre too, before many months. 



'^5 There sli.ill bean .nonual meeting of the Society on 

 the ad WcJiicsday anfl TJiurtdny foUovviiifr in October, at 

 Auburn, (or at such pl.-ice :is llic Board ot" Managers shall 

 dircrt) for ihciiurpose nt' holiltngtlic (Ciiular f.Jr :i.nd e\lii- 

 bition ofdoniestic animals, innnutacturcs, and articit^, the 

 [iroJuo'of llic farm. 



The officers of the Society are requested to meet at the 

 .American Hotel, at Auburn, on the 13th day of August, at 11 

 o'clock, A.M. 



ISeueca County. 



An Agricultural Socir-ty for this county was formed at 

 Fayette on II. e29:h nf June, Ull. TUe following persons 

 were .-ippcinted utliccrs : 



Prkbidext. — G. V Siicketl, Seneca Falls. 



A'iCE i*nE5iDE?sT3.— Ur. John li. Kas'nian, Lodi ; Oeorgt 

 Woodwonh, Uovcrl; Andrew Duril.-.p. jr. Oviil; i;iij:ai 

 Detilon, Romulus; Tbcaiaa Burroughs, Varickj Dr. Oak- 

 ley, Fa>elle; Joel \\'. Uacon, Waterloo; fc'ilas Vander- 

 luark, Junius; Jason ^^mith, Tyre; L'eming lioardnian, 

 :*eneca I-'alls. 



Utx-ORDINO Sf.cretart —A. B. Dunl.Tp, Ovid 



CoRREspoNDiNo Secrltary.— ^^nniucl U'jIUajus, Waterloo. 



Treasirer.— Jiiiin L>. Coc, Uomulus. 



i'ow.v Committees.— Dr. Folwcll. G. .Miller, Johp f^eSerls, 

 Lodi ; Judge Woodworth, Trumr.n Bo;'.rdlitan, Jetco'iah 

 Kappleye, Covert ; Urn. K. Schuyler, Ali.nson \Vo.ldwor.h, 

 James Slarrett, Ovid ; C.J Sutton. John Kinnc. Col. Fol- 

 wcll, linmulus; Tunis Day, Jidm .A. Ch.'islopher, Or:.ngc 

 \V. Wilkinson, Varick ; Jolin King, .Augustus Reading, 



The Fair nt Syracuse. 



Our readers will not forget the State .Agricultural Fair to 

 t>« held at Syracuse on the aSlh and 3Utli of ne.lt month 

 <Sept ) The place eelecteil Ls a good one, and arthlesfor 

 exhibition can be transportc.l tbere with little risk or ex- 

 pense We trust the farmers of tVes-ujrn Kcw York will 

 do themselves credit on the occisjon. For list oj' premiums, 

 &c. sc« last month— further particulars hereafter. 



Honros County Agricultural .Society Notice. 



The Officers and Town Committees of this Society will 

 please remember the meeting on tlie 2rth August. The 

 town Comniitlces are expected to make their reports at that 

 lime, and arrangements are to be made for the couun" ei- 

 liibitiou. 



COirSTTy AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



Notices of the formation of a goodly number of county so- 

 eielioa h.ive appeared during tlie past month, but .hiving 

 been absent till almost our day o.'"publicatioj\ we are unable 

 to give them that attention we could- wish, and some must 

 b« deferred entirely till next month. Weintcudto publish 

 a complete list of the societies in the .«;ale, and give the 

 names of the officer, and time of holding the fairs, in the 

 western and central counties. 



Cayuga Conntr. 



This society was organized at -Auburn, July 52, 1841. A 

 eonstitution was adopted and the foUow Ing persons nppoint- 

 .«! oftlcers of t]ie society ; 



President- Humphrey Howland, I.«'lv.vJ. 



y ici: I'REsiDE.-irs- John ftl. f-herwoo"d. Auburn ; Lorin» 

 Willnrd, Aurelius; Isaac Bell, Brutus; L. .M. llollister" 

 Calo; Levi Colviu, Coniiuest ; 1). O. Uurkee, Ira; Wni' 

 F. Tompkins, Flemming; iMaihi.is ljulchii;soo, Genoa' 

 Wing Talior, Moravia; Samuel Bell, ,Men,z; Isaac Sjsson, 

 Locke ; Geo. K. Brinkcrholf, Oiv:i6co ; Jonathan Richmond' 

 L^dyard; .Mr. Fuller, Sempriinius; John W. .McFnd len 

 Sterling; K. A. Huwiand, Venice; :Ma'thias Vanderhvdeii' 

 Victory; John iSitser, .-iennett ; U. F. Doubleday, Sc'ipio- 

 Luther Fuller. Niles ; Henry Crane. Sprlngport; .Alartin 

 Birber, Suniinerhill. 



/Jecobdi.voSecretarv.— Wm. Richardson, Auburn 



roRui-ai'ONDiNo S.ORETARY-Wm. C, Bcardsley, Aubum. 



fREASi-RER— John II. Dill, Auburn. 



ElEruTlv. Committee— Ira Hopkins, Auburn; Thomas 

 Bell, Aureliiie: Moses lliioii, Drulus; Silas Dudley c.ato- 

 Kiios Wiihcrill, Comjuesl; Samuel I'helus, Ira: 'Eliialj 

 Sheld.m, Heming; Wilhaui Wilbur. Genoa; Isaac C.-idv 

 Moravia; Joseph Osbu.n, Mcnlz; .Mr. .-hcrman, Lociic- 

 John Au»tin, Owasco ; David White, l.elvard; Josiah 

 W.lcox, .Seinpronius; George Cooiier, Sterling; William 

 Bennett, \enice; I'etcr BoKart, Victory; Win. Webster 

 Sennctt; Joseph I'ettit, Scipio ; John l{,>ok< Niles- Peter 

 Yawger, Spriiigport; A. J. Vanarsdale. s?unimcrhill. 

 Erlracli /ram the Coiislilulioii. 



i 8. nvery person desirous of cnnnectiii; himself with 

 this Society. sh.-iJl pay to th> Tre.asurer hliv cents at the 

 time of his becoming a menilier. and one dollar annually 

 thereiifier on the second Wo IncMlav aud Thursday lull„w'- 

 Ing In October, during his continuance as a mcinbcr .Any 

 person p.iyinrfivc dollars on aihiilssion niav bec.ime a inem- 

 tier lor bvc years. Any member wishing ib withdraw from 

 hp Soco^ty imist pay all dues ami g.ve a written nolkc to 



rayeiie: \\ iiiiam s. ucll, Sliepard ( 

 James SlevtUBon. jr., Waterloo ; Climon Perry, George 

 Van Cleef, Henry Powers, Seneca Falls: Thomas McGee, 

 Kbeuezer Mun.^on, Ale.xander H. Xicholls, Tyre; Israel 

 Lisk, OrrinSouthwick, -Abel Birdsey, Junius. 



.4rr. //. (of the CunetiUttion,) Any person may become a 

 itieniber of this society, by p.iying into its treasury fifty 

 cents on admission, and fifty cents annually there.Tf'er, on 

 or before the annual meeting, during his continuance as a 

 meuiber. Any persrm p.aying five dollars on lulmission m.ay 

 beccuiie a member for five yeura. 



The list of premiums, &e., will ba pnl.lished in the 

 "Ovid Bee " 



Erie County. 

 A meeting was held at Butfalo, on the 20il of July, to or- 

 ganize an Agricultural Society — Henry Johnson o( Lancas- 

 ter, in the chair, and Aaron Riley, of Aurora. Secretary, 

 Horace S. Turner, Benj. Hodge, jr. Alex. Hitcilcnck. John 

 Webster, and Palmer Bowen, x^ ere appointed a Committee 

 to report a Constitution and Bye-Laws, at the next meet- 

 ing, to lie held at the Court House in Butfalo, on Saturday, 

 August Utij, CT Atlcnd, yannera ! 



Niagara County. 

 This society waa orgaaized at Lockport, June — . The 

 oflicers are — 

 William ParsonSj FrttideM. 

 John Gould, jr., C. H Skeel?, Viie Praidentx 

 D. S. Crandall, Recording Secretary. 

 Joel McCoIlujn, Carretpuitdiiiff Secretary. 

 Wdi. O. Brown, Treasurer. 

 Otlier particulars not at hand, 



Livingston County. 

 A meeting was held at Geneseo, and a Society formed 

 about a month since, but the particulars have been mislaid 

 in our absence— will give them next month. We cgain re- 

 peat our request th.it the Secretaries will send us accounts 

 of the formation and proceedings of .Societies. 



nor What is doing in Wayne, Orleans, ( hatauqne. and 

 several other coujitiei in Western New York, not heard 

 tVom ? 



experiment of the kind, some 20 yeors since, hne been 

 tried and proved a failure; bccni.se the prtsentjin- 

 niencea untier much more favorable auspices. The 

 liberal bounty of the State, the incienscd wealth and 

 enterprise of iheagiiculiurists of the County at the pre- 

 sent lime are sure guarantees of its success. 



The advcntages to be derived f,om this Society, 

 will be increased weclih, nuiltiplied produce of the 

 .soil, a vast imprcivcnKiit to all kinds of stock, en- 

 hanced beouiy ond cairifurt fioni fii'.it \ ards and orna- 

 mental shrubbery, ond a new iiiij:ul£e to moral ond 

 intellectual improvenunt, ond the meetings of the 

 Society, the nddretses delivered on such occasione, 

 the awarding of premiums, and the novelty and bustle 

 ot Ihe annual fairs will be sources o{ rational amuse- 

 ment, hippily calculated to take the piece of other 

 amusemenla of amoie danftercius eharoeier. 



\V.M. RICHARDSON, 

 Auburn, July 26, 1811. Rec. Sec'y of C. A. S. 



To the Oiiicers of the Cayuga County Acri- 

 .cultural Society. 



Gentlemeh — It will he seen by referej;co to the 

 proceedings of the meeting held on the '2Sd inst., for 

 the purpose ol organizing an Agricultural Society for 

 the county of Cayuga, that by Resolution, notice was 

 given that B meeting of the Officers of the Sucietv 

 will be held on the 13th day of August next, to carr^ 

 out the objects of the Society. 



At this meeting all necessary Bye-Laws, Rules nnd 

 Regulations will he t'ronicd and adopted to carry into 

 full ctfect the design of the Association. It will be 

 the imperative duty o'' every Ofiiccr, President, Vice 

 President and Committee man, to be punctually pre- 

 sent at this meeting. Too much pains cannot be ta- 

 ken in laying the foundation of the Society, fir on this 

 depend the durability ond usefulness of the superstruc- 

 ture. 



All the officers residing in the several towns in the 

 county, should immediately make individual eH'orts to 

 obtain members of the society, and if nny such sbouM 

 be olitained, their names should be handed to the Re- 

 cording Secretary, and the amount of their subsciip 

 tions should be deposited in the hands ol the Tren.sur. 

 er, nt the above incn.ioned meetin^of the Oflicers. 



From the spirit manifested ot the meeting on the 

 2-Jd inst , and the high character ol the persons inter- 

 ested (myself out of the cpiestion,) I have not the least 

 doubt that this cause will be eminently succcsslnl. Let 

 iro rmin be disoouinaed cm *« 8''<""t<^ '!><" « foimcr 



New V'ork State Agricultural Society. 



The regular meeting of the Executive Coir.miitee 

 of the New York State Agricultural Society for 

 June, xvas held at the Troy House, in Troy, on the 

 16lh, — the President in the Chair 



Letters xvere read from Metsis. H. S. Randall, H. 

 Munson, John H. Beach, Charles F. Johr.son, A. 

 Bergen and Jabcz Burrows. 



New members were ailinilted to the Society. 

 Mr. Tucker introduced the following resolutions, 

 xyhich were unanimously adopted : 



1. Resolved, That the Corresponding Sfcrelaty 

 be authorized and requested to open correspondences 

 with such individuals as he may deem proper, in the 

 several counties of our Slate, for the purpose of elicit- 

 ing inforniaiion on the liillowing points : 



The present coT:dition of Agriculture in each 

 County, with such changes ns have already taken 

 place since the period of their first settlement — Aspect 

 of the county — Nature of the soil — What ore the 

 principal products '. — Where are the products market- 

 ed ? — What kinds of cultivation are in use? — What 

 are the favorite breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, 

 swine, &c. ? How are the stock generally fattened 

 for market 1 What ploughs, harrows, ond other ng- 

 ricnltural implements are in general use 1 What is 

 the general value of the land ? What kind of timber 

 generally prevails? What agricultural chonges ore 

 requisite to advance the prospeiity of the conmy ? 



2. Resolved, That the Corresponding Sfcreiary bo 

 authorised and requested to open correspondences 

 with such individuals ns be nioy deem proper, (or the 

 purpose of eliciting information o.n 



The most profitable breeds of cattle, sheep, horses, 

 swine, &.K., for our country. — the best ond most econ- 

 omical method of rearing them — Their diseases nnd 

 the method of treating them — The most profitable 

 varieties and the best method of culti\oting the several 

 varieties of grains ond root; — The best ond most pro- 

 fitable method of making butter ond cbceec — the 

 most economical meihod of fnticning domestic ani- 

 mals — The best and most economical method of win- 

 tering domestic onimnis— The cultivation of fruits — 

 Horticulture — the most profitable Grotees — Draining 

 — Rototion in crops — JlnniireE — Diseoses of plants, 

 and the remedies — Destruction of noxiotis weeds, &c. 

 — Construction and mnnagement of farm out build- 

 ings, yards, i&c. — Fences. 



3. Residved, That the Corresponding Secretary 

 be outhorizi.'d and requested to opencoircspondences 

 with such individuals ns be may deem pio|ier, in the 

 United States and Europe, for the purpose of eliciting 

 inlormation on such agricultural subjects oa may be of 

 value to the farmers of our State. 



4. licsolrcd, That the Finance Committee be re- 

 quested to addiess a Circular to the friends of Agri- 

 culture in this Stale, telling lorth the importance of 

 the objects for which the Nt^w York State Agricultu- 

 ral Society was formed — its inability to accomplish 

 those objects or any useful purpose, without the aid 

 nnd coopeintion of the farnieis and the friends of 

 agricultural improvements genernlly, and the coni?e- 

 quent neeesfciiy of an appeal to them to e.ttend their 

 Rid to the Society by connecting ihemsehes with it, 

 either as aiiiuinl or life member.'", or by contributions 

 in aid of ils funds. 



Mr. B. Bement laid before the Cominiitee n com- 

 munication from Solon Robinson, Esq., in relation to 

 a conventirn to be Leld at Washington, to form a 

 .\uliunid Asviciillurul Sochly; whereupon, 



Rcsulred, That the object is one of paramount im- 

 porianec, and the executive commif.ee earnestly re- 

 commend it to the friendly consideration ol tiie niem- 

 bcri of the Naw York Slate As«iniltnral Soeieiy. 



