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BATEHAxM &, COLMAiV, 



Pro^^^ors. I vol/. 3. ROCHESTER, FJEBKUAUY, 1812. NO. 2. 5 HENRY COLMAN, fJi/or. 



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O" For Contents see last page 



PUBLISHERS NOTR'i;. 



Our Success.— The hWnia uf tliis pi.pcr will lie 

 gratified to learn tliat its success ibua far tliis year 

 equals oiir expectations, notwithstanding the severe 

 embarrassments ol the times. Our cash system ap- 

 pears to meet general approbation, and our clerks are 

 kept busily engaged enrolling the names of our old 

 friends (with many new ones) on our new subscrip- 

 tion books. 



Post ilaitcrs are entilled to our warmest thanks for 

 their kindness in franking remittances. The late 1'. 

 O. circular allows all posimaaters to frank letters with 

 remitt.Tnces from subscribers to publishers of papers.if 

 signed by themselves ; so that our friends should write 

 the 'elters and hand them, with the money, to their 

 pootnmsters, who will aign and frank them'. 



Send us Good Money. — We entreat our f/iends to 

 send us the beet money they can obtain. Bills of a 

 number of the Banks in Ohio, Fenn. and other Stotee 

 are quite nnsaleable, and we daily have to return them 

 from whence they came. 



Binding tUe I'olamcs. — All subscribers who have a 

 complete set of vol. 1 & o should have them bound 

 together. Those who can send them to this office 

 may have it neatly done for 37 1-2 cts. Those who 

 have vol. 3 only should by all means procure vol 1 so 

 as to preserve the work eomplce. It will always be 

 worth more than lirs: cost. Vol. 1 & 2 are stiUVurn- 

 ahed at the subscription price — stiched in paper cov- 

 ers— postagejhe^simieaaonnewspape.-s. 



To t!ie FviciBds of tlie T\ew OeucKce 

 Farinei*. 



The Editor has the pleasure of announcing to his 

 friends, the Farmers in Western New York, that he 

 is 'at /tome in Rochester, where it will give him 

 pleasure at all times to see them. His respected cor- 

 respondent at Whca-.Iaiid tenders him the hospitali- 

 tios of that region. These, and all other such frank- 

 hoarted invitations, he will be moet happy to accept 

 at the earliest mutual convenience. He does not in- 

 tend'to stand much upon ceremony. A; his period of 

 life there is no time for a long courtship ; and the 

 banns having been regularly published, and no one 

 forbidding them, the nuptials may take place at once. 

 Some of the happiest houre ofhis life have been spent 

 in his intercourse with the farmers at their own hos- 

 pitable firesides ; for no class of men has he more re- 

 spect than for those in every department of life, who 

 cam their bread by honest and virtuous industry ; and 

 for nothing has he labored with more zeal through 

 life than the advancement of iho condition of the ag- 

 ricultural classes, the improvement of their art, and 

 the improvement of thembelves. In this cause he 

 has had no misgivings, and no regrets e.xcepting re- 

 grets that he could do no more ; and to this, if so it 

 please God. the remnant rf his life will be devoted. 



An agricultural paper o( course, comes under the 

 head of book-farming, and has all the prejudices to 



encounter which kindle at those words. These pre- 

 judices, however, ore nearly burnt out, and it is now 

 dillicuit to find a man who is not ashamed to add fuel 

 to the flame. These prejudices have not always been 

 without reason ; but with no more reason than in re- 

 spect to nil the practical arts of life, book-manufac- 

 turing or book-trading. If by book-farming is ineant 

 following mere theories, or prescribing rules of prac- 

 tice in the art without any experience, it should have 

 no more weight than the authority of a man who 

 should undertake to manage a vessel in a voyage 

 across the Atlantic without understanding the princi- 

 ples of navigation, or knowing even a rope in the 

 ship. But who pretends to this 1 No one within our 

 knowledge. Agriculture may be especially termed a 

 science of facts. We go for facts ; plain, determined, 

 well authenticated facts ; and we go for theories just 

 as I'ar as they are based upon facts, and clearly c'edu- 

 cible from them. Types and poper furnish the beet 

 record for these ficte ; the best record, because it is a 

 record open and to remain open to e.xamination ; 

 where the facts stated can be reviewed and scrutinized, 

 and all the circumstances connected with them tried. 

 But it would be ridiculous to pretend that there are 

 no settled principles in agriculture ; and that after the 

 accumulation of facts for years, we may say centu- 

 ries, that no principles are determined, and that the 

 first letters of the alphabet in agriculture are yet to be 

 learned. It would be unworthy of ns likewise, if we 

 would deserve the character of intelligent and inquis- 

 itive men, to rest satisfied with the mere knowledge 

 of facts in any science or art, if we can find out the 

 reasons of those facts. Discussion, therefore, ond 

 inquiry, or what some men choose to call mere theo- 

 rising, is equally our duly as the ascertaining of facts, 

 if thereby, we can come at a solution of the conceal- 

 ed operations of noture ; if it should answer no other 

 purpose, it will at least stimulate and sharpen our 

 powers of observation ond inquiry. 



Our columns, therefore, will bo open to the record 

 of all valuable facts and the intelligent discussion of 

 all important principles in agriculture. We consider 

 some principles as much settled in agriculture as the 

 great truths of the Newtonian philosophy ; but we 

 consider nothing as so far settled and beyond all dis- 

 pute, which any intelligent mind chooses to debate, 

 that all further inquiry must be foreclosed; and in 

 respect to facts, we shall most scrupulously and re- 

 ligious y avoid the statement of ony thing ai fact, 

 which is not determined in our own minds by the ful- 

 lest evidence ; and whenever the evidence may itself 

 be questionable, wo shall honestly submit it to our 

 readers that they may judge for themselves. 



Premiums Crops in Monroe County "-8oiI, 

 Culture, &c. 



( Continued f 11 Dec. No.) 

 Wheatland. — Geo SurriR's Putatcs — 812 bushels 

 per acre — kinds round Pi-ikeye, and Rohan — Soil 

 Gensee flats, old Meadow, 30 loads manure applied 

 to the acre — ploughed well once and throughly har- 

 rowed—planted 29ih May in drills 3i feet a part— seta 

 10 inches apart in the rows. Cnliival^d once between 



the rows j hoed once and ploughed twice. Expense 

 of raising estimated at 6 cents per bushel. The po- 

 tatoes worth 15 cts. per bushel for feeding stock. 



Greece. — Mr. McGi'inK's Potatoes — 6 acres — 340 

 bushels per ncie, kinds ; Round Pinkeye, and Flesh 

 Colored — Soil, gravely loam; previous crops. Wheat, 

 after Meadow ; a light dressing of manure to the 

 Wheat, but noiic to the potatoes; ploughed once in fall 

 and twice in spring — I'liinted 14th &15th June, with 

 irhule potatotSf one large one or two small ones in hills 

 — about 3 feet apart each way — hoed once and plough- 

 ed once — no further care till harvest. 



Greece. — James Beatv's Wheal — G Acres — !i3 20- 

 60 bushels per acre. Soil rich gravely loam^-old 

 Meadow on which cattle had often been foddered in 

 winter — broken up in June — cross ploughed (only 

 once) about the last of Aug. — sowed about 12lh Sept. 

 1 J bushel seed per acre — kind, White Flint. 



Wheatland. — Gko. Sheffi:ii's Wheat — 7J acres — 

 40 bushels per acre — Soil Genesee Flats — after Corn 

 in '39 and Barley in '40 — gave 30 loads of maniiro 

 per acre for barley — ploughed only once after cutting 

 barley, harrowed twice — Sowed Wheot 27th Aug. IJ 

 bushel per acre — White Flint, rolled after sowing and 

 rolled again 4 weeks af'er— ^then fed off close with 

 Sheep— -tillered well — uninjured by winier. 



Castor Beau— t'asfor Oil Caudles 



This article of ctdture is not new to us. We have 

 seen it cultivated in Illinois. It is of easy culture, and 

 has yielded a good profit when grown for medicinal 

 purposes. The use of it referred to in the sub- 

 joined articles is new and we shall seek the earliest 

 information in respect to it. In the meantime we re- 

 quest to hear from any of our correspondents, who are 

 acquainted with the facts in the case. 



The Alton (111.) Telegraph says: " Fifteen- thou- 

 sand dollars and upwards have been paid out at Ed- 

 wardfiville in this county, for castor beans, during the 

 present iiill and winter. The market for them is steadi- 

 ly increasing ; and it is about as profitable a crop as 

 can be put upon the ground. 



Castor Oil Canhles. — We wer« pr«»ented bv 

 Mr. E. Maieh, of this city, with one of his candlea 

 manufac.ured from Castor Oil, and were induced to 

 test its qunlitios with a sperm candle. The experi- 

 ment resulted in the demonstration that the castor oil 

 lasted longer than the suerm candje, and the light of 

 the fornuT was decidedly more brilliant and extensiva 

 than that of the latter. We could not discover the 

 least unpleasant smell arising from burning the castor 

 oil candle ; and believe that they are well calculated 

 to supersede entirely the use of the sperm candle. 

 Mr. Marsh informs us they could be ofibrded by the 

 quantity at 2,5 cents per pound, about one half the ccst 

 of sperm candles." 



Portraits of Animals. — We intended to have stated 

 last month that Mr. Sherwood had informed us that 

 the portrait of his bull Archer, os given in the Dec. 

 number of this paper,is not correct and does not rio the 

 animal justice. Mr. S. has promised to furnish us a 

 correct engraving, and when he does so we will pub- 

 lish it with pleasure. 



Mr. Fuller's cow, in the Nov. number, was still 

 woise done ; if he will obtain n good drawing we will 

 see that it is correctly engraved and published. There 

 is no draughlsman in this vicinity who baihad stiflR- 

 cient experience in the dilTicultaft of taking portraits 

 of living nninia's. 



