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. B. BATEHAM. Propnctor, ^ VOI/. 2. ROCIISSTEB, DECEMBER, 1841. NO. 13. \ a?"b^ bATKW AM.\ 



Editors, 



I'UBLISIIEO illOATlIliY. 



TERMS, 



FIFT V CENTS, per yenr, payable nhvays in advance. 



CONTEXTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Publishers Notice-*, Slc. H. Colinan'a Card.. 177 



Applet. To mark namos on fruii. Kipeiiing of Win- 

 tt*r IVars. TliP Meiiieranean Wheat. Review — 

 ■ ■ The ^rcUanl." 178 



Sii.tll Ag. SiiciecicH he BustnincJ? Love of Birds... 179 



Purtraii iif J. .M. ,:!herwocMl'8 Buil "Archer." Alle- 

 gany Co. A«ricuUural Society. Wayne Co. Fair 

 tuiJ Cattle Show. Murrain in Cattle 180 



Culmrrofihe Premium Crops— Ruta Baga— Carrots. 

 Culture of Silk in Faiiiilies. Agricultural Fairs. 

 —The Right Spirit revivinsj 191 



I/iviussvonCo. Fair and CatileShtnv Niagara Co. do. 18*2 



Th(^ Farmer. Items— Great Heifer— India Cotton— 

 I'arriagp Sprin!i3 made of Air— Corn Oil— Trees- 

 Cheap Roofs — Bud liU2 Roses— To remove old putty 

 --Traneplanting Evergreens. Germinating sec'ls 

 under colored glass. How to have good peaches. 1S3 



Ol Is Corn Pl.in'er. Report of the Conimitteeon Silk. 

 N. Y. State Agricultural Society. Premiums to be 

 awarded in January • • • • 1S4 



ILnis for the .Month. Dry Feet, Lend us a Hand. 

 Make Home Happy 165 



Oil the Diffsrent Brecls of Cattle. On the Importance 

 and Uiiiityof the Dissemination of Knowledge among 

 I'arnier.H ISiJ 



Annual E:chibition of the Mass. Hort Soc. TheSh»trt 

 Morns as Milkers — 187 



Publishers Notices. Comptimentary Notices of II. 

 Cohnan. Prospectus of Vol. 3, New Genesee Far- 

 mer. Rochester Prices Current, &.e 18? 



THE CASH SYSTEM. 



Subscribers ar* reminded that this paper is published 

 HI the CASH SYSTEM, and this number completes 

 he volume. Those who have not paid for the next 

 .olume, are required to remit payment before any more 

 japers will be sent them, (Correspondents excepted.) 

 ^ Hand the half-dollar to your Post Master when 

 ,ou get this No. trom ihe ofliee. See terms, &c., on 

 ist page. 



New \rrangemeut"New rdltoT. 



It is with fcehngs of no onlinary degree of satisfac- 



ion that I announce to the pubKc, that HENRY 

 rOLMAN, of Massachusetts, has consented to re- 

 Tiovc to Rochester, and take the editorial charge of this 

 uppr. As an agricultural writer and orator, Mr. CoL- 

 ii IN is so well known to the public, that nothing more 

 lecd be said at this time on that subject. The readers 

 )!" this paper, and the friends of agriculture in tliis State 

 ■specially, have reason to congratulate themselves on 

 .his arrangement; and Western New York may well 

 eel proud of the honor conferred upon her. Mr. CoL- 

 vi.vN will advo?ate the interests of the whole country, 

 .vlthout sectional prejudice or partiality; but (it the 

 iime ti!nc,the district in which he resides wHl of course 

 L'rive the greatest benefit from his influence, and 

 should make the most e.xertioi^ to 



Give Iliin a Hearty Welcome ! 

 Mr. CoLMAN has been a.ssured that the friends of 

 ijriculture in Western New York and the Great 

 Wkst would lend him their co-operation and support; 

 Inl through the medium of the Genesee Farmer, he 

 •ould hold monthly converse with a Vast Ho.st of the 

 illers of the soil, and that the profits of the publication 

 .vould afford him a liberal compensation. Q- Let 

 MM NOT BE Di.SAPPoiNTED. Take your horse and 

 ■all on your neighbors— get them all to subscribe, and 

 hoy will thank you for it hereafter. 



Agricultural Societies 



should make especial ofTorts to circulate the paper in 

 their districts or coimtics. Experience proves that 

 THIS IS THE O.VLY WAV to have Useful and spirited as- 

 sociations. Farmers who do not read such papers 

 never make good members of agricultural societies. — 

 Their minds are not interested in the subject, and they 

 do not rightly appreciate their profession. Let the 

 friends of the cause in the Empire State remember tliis, 

 and act accordingly ; and the spirit of improvement 

 which began to manifest itself so gencra)ly the past 

 season, will soon produce most glorious results. 



M. B. BATEHAM. 



To Correspondents. 



Several conimur.icationa were received loo Inte for 

 insertion in this number, and various motters requir- 

 ing editorial otteniion are unavoida'ily deferred. 



O" We hope our friends will improve these long 

 evenings and stormy days, so ns to send us accounts o£ 

 their past season's apperations. 



The Syracuse Houl. — ^We have received a letter 

 from Mr. Rust, proprietor of the principal Hotel at 

 Syracuse, complaining of a communication in our 

 lost. It shall have a place next month, with explana- 

 tions. 



The Index and Title Page for Vol. 2, will be found 

 in the middle ot this number. Those two leaves 

 should be taken out, and ploced in front of the first 

 jiumber, then the whole volume stitched together. 

 Those who have the Ij't and 2d vols, should get both 

 bound in one. The first volume can still be furnished 

 if desired. 



Post Masters 



In this and the Western States, will receive pro- 

 spectus' and a specimen No. of the Farmer; they are 

 respectfuity solicilctl to remit names and payments to 

 us, (as allowed by law.) Our most sincere acknowl- 

 edgements are due for past favors of this kind. 

 Papers to Europe. 



Subscribers who wish to send the Farmer as a pres- 

 ent to their friends in Europe, arc iatbrmcd that we 

 send quite a number o£ copies every month. The 

 price is 75 ccnta per year. (This pays the American 

 [X)Gtagc.) 



A Card. 



At the desire of Mr. Bateiiam, the subscriber an- 

 nounces to the friends of the Ne-.v Genesee Farmer his 

 engagement to remove to Rochester, and take, on the 

 first of January ensuing, the exclusive editorship of 

 this work. It is not without a just diffidence that he 

 undertakes tliis enterprise; but, with honorable inten- 

 tions, he is persuaded that in the generosity and pubUc 

 spurit of the New York agricultural community, he shall 

 find a welcome. He leaves the good old Bay State, 

 the land of his natiWty and the sepulchre of his fathers, 

 not without many strong emotions ; but he does not 

 feel that in going to New York he is going from home. 

 He has been long acquainted with New York and her 

 citizens; and has taken always the deepest interest in 

 her enterprizcs and improvements. He has always 

 regarded her agricultural progress and success with 



admiration ; and now that in addition to the common 

 tics of friendship and political fraternity the two States 

 are to be linked together by iron bonds in the great 

 interests of internal trade and commerce, he deems hi« 

 removal much les,s a separation from home and the 

 friends of his youth. 



In going into New York, he feels that he is going 

 among old acquaintances. He had many years the 

 pleasure of an intimate friendship with the late lamen- 

 ted Buel ; and he is happy in standing in the same re- 

 lation of mutual respect and esteem with the present 

 enfightened and indefatigable editor of the Cultivator. 

 Her Aliens and Thomases, and Wadsworth and Gay- 

 lord, and Rotch and Vicfc, and Ball and Blydenburgh, 

 and Beekman and Grove, and Bemcnt and Hall, and 

 Walsh and Van Rensselaer, and Dunn and Coming, 

 seem to him Skc old and tried friends, united by a bond 

 too sacred to be polluted by any base and selfish inter- 

 est; the bond of a common devotion to the advance- 

 ment of an Improved Husbandry, and the social, ir.- 

 teUecVoal.and moral elevation of the rural and laboring 

 classes. 



He goes lo'Jfew York to continue the labors to which 

 forty years of his life have been devoted ; and to unite 

 his humblc^fforts more closely with theirs in this com- 

 mon cause, the cause of human comfort, of good mor- 

 als, of private and puWic good. He will be most happy 

 to be recognized as a joint laborer. He goes to New 

 York with no assumption of authority either to teach 

 or to lead. Nothing is farther fi-om liis thoughts. He 

 goes not to drive the team, but to draw in the team ; 

 and while he has wind enough left, he promises, with- 

 out goading or wliij^iing, to do his best to keep the 

 draft steady, and his end of the yoke square. He has 

 no higher earthly ambition than that it may be said of 

 him, when the bow is pulled from his neck, " he has 

 done a good day's work." 



The object of the present note, is merely to make hi* 

 bow to his New York friends ; and to say that he hope« 

 for their better acquaintance ; and that when he calls 

 again, somewhere about New Year, he shall, "if the 

 old folks are willing, respectfully ask leave to stay all 

 night." He has now just dropt in, and won't intrude 

 Respectfully, HENRY COUVIAN. 



Boston, 27th Nov., 1841. 



Premium Pitohfork. 



Wlicn at the Syracuse Fair, Col. H. S. Randall 

 presented us one of the Premium Pitchforks manu- 

 factured by Lewis Sanford of East Solon, Cortland 

 county, N. Y. For beauty of form and finish, and es- 

 pecially for the quaUty and temper of the'steel, we have 

 never seen its equal. It is quite a curiosity ; we wish 

 the maker would send a thousand this way— they 

 would sell rapidly. 



Hatch's lowing Machine. 



Mr. Hatch requests us to say, that in actnrdonee 

 with numerous requests, he is now engaged in manu- 

 facturing the Machines at this place, and will be able 

 t J supply orders in lime for spring sowing. 



If you wish to bo wise, it is wise to wish. 



