BATEHAai & COLMAN,^^^^ I VOIi. 3. KOCHESTER, MARCH, 1842. NO. 3. | HENRY COLMAN, Ed-W. 



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, ILf For Contents see last paffe. 



PUBLISHERS NOTICES. 



Dj" Can't Take It! verily these are iroubloKetimes. 

 The Currency of the country is in a state of confound- 

 ed ^inl'iieiDii, otxi we are compelled to inform our dis- 

 tantfriends iha-t for the present, we cannot consent to 

 receive the promises to pay of the Bonks in Pennsyl- 

 vania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The Brokers re- 

 fuse to purchnse them, and we have no means of us- 

 ing them. These circumstances will of course affect 

 our circulation in those Stales for the present, but we 

 hope this panic will not last many months. As soon 

 as the Banks resume payment their bills will be re- 

 ceived. 



To our friends in tlih State and Neio England, 

 we would say our dependence is upon you. Our 

 Western patronage is now mostly cut .off and we must 

 rely upon you to make up the deficiency, from those 

 States where the Currency is not so deranged. — Our 

 incieased expenses require, and we trust deserve, an 

 increase of revenue. 



AeknoicUdgements. — We cannot write letters of 

 thanks to the numerous kind friends who have thus 

 far nobly adided ns, but we hope they will not on 

 that account do us the injustice to suppose that we 

 (ire ungrateful or that their favors are forgotten. With- 

 out their aid this paper could not exie), and therefore 

 the country is indebted to them for whatever beneQts 

 result from its circulation. 



A Meeting of the Mouroe Co. Agricnitural 

 Society, 



Will be held at the Arcadfi, Rochester on Thurs- 

 day the 17th inst.at lOo'clk for the purpose of making 

 out a list of premiums oi\d appointing Awarding Com- 

 mittees for the next Annual Fair. This is a very 

 important meeting and it is hoped (bat all who feel 

 an interest in the Society, and especially all the of- 

 ficers, managers and town-committee men will be 

 present. (Sec the list in another column.) 



A Farmer's Dinner will be provided at the Arcade 

 House — price 25 cents. 



CORRESPONDENtE. 



We cannot but feel highly gratified with the many 

 kind letters which we have received, of which the fol- 

 lowing isan example, from one of the most intelligent 

 and public spirited formers in Western New Yoik. — 

 He will pardon us for omitting a portion more strictly 

 personal. Tbese letters proffer us a cordial welcome 

 to AVestern New York, and invitations to visit the 

 homes of the farmers who write them. For the wel- 

 come we are heartily thankful, and the inviiations we 

 accept with an equal pleasure. We desire no higher 

 honor in this world than to be accounted the Farmers' 

 Friend ; and we can ask to render no highcV service 

 to our fellow men than to contribute what ive can in 

 inducing the farmers to form a just appreciation of the 

 usefulness and dignity of their profession, to enjoy with 

 a higher zest, its pure and honest satisfactions ; and 

 to improve and increase to their utmost capacity, its 

 great, but as yet, not half explored advantages. 



Letter 1, Agricultural Improvement. 



Mu. CuLlHAN : — 



Bs assured, Dear Sir, that you arc not alone in the 

 "pleasure" V'hich you experience, " that the Editor 

 is at home in Roohecter," yet not so " at home in 

 Rochester" it is hoped, that other parts of Western 

 New York wiil ngt receive his visits ; even farther 

 West than Monroe County. For the " hospitalities" 

 of " Niagara" will donblleeebe as warm and as spon- 

 taneous, as those of " Wheatland" even. I am glad 

 he " does not intend to stand much upon ceremony," 

 for whether the "banns'' be published or not, is of 

 very little consequence, as that is not, in this state, a 

 pre-requisite to the " nuptials." 



It ia to be hoped, however, that when the Editor 

 goes abroad among our agricultural community ; he 

 will bear iu mind that he is not in the " Old Bny 

 State" where the Jands have been cultivated more 

 than two hundred years, and thai too, with much skill 

 and industry; but that he is in the "Genesee coun- 

 try," where for three fourths of that period, this whole 

 region was inhabited, only by the red men of the 

 forest. We arc emphatically, in our agricultural 

 youth, for^ as a community, w* have for the most part 

 been able barely to pay the e.Torbitant price for our 

 lands, — clear them of the unbroken and heavy forests, - 

 and support our families. As fo the motler of orna- 

 mental improvements which so greatly obound in your 

 native State, very little can be seen in this region ; 

 although some few are beginning to feel a little com- 

 fortable in their circumstances. But the grent majori- 

 ty of us are, OT pretend we are, too poor, and too much 

 in debt, even, to pay fifty cents a year for an agricul- 

 tural paper : and of course, you will not expect to find 

 us very far advanced in scientific husbandry. 



YoH will doubtless find, Mr. Editor, in the greater 

 part of Western New York, that although we possess 

 one of the most desirable agricnitural districts ii\ the 

 world ; yet, we cultivate our lands, notas science and 

 wisdom would dictate. 



One of the greatest errors of our practice, ia the 

 indifferent and slovenly manner in which we manage 

 our crops. 



A very general stupidity in regard to the idea of im- 

 prevements in husbandry, prevails among us. If we 

 raise from 15 to 20 bushels of wheat, 30 ^o 40 of corn, 

 100 or 180 of potatoes per acre, v/e are tolerobly well 

 satisfied, and trudge along in the old track of our fa- 

 thers. And when we, perchance, hear that "some- 

 where dawn east," crops of grain are raised, double 

 or triple to ours, we discredit the stoiy, instead of 

 enquiring how it was done. 



But enough for the present, lest the Editor should 

 feel discouraged, without even a visit to his new friend 

 NIAGARA. 



Thorn Hill, February, 1842. 



We subjoin extracts from the kind letter of another 

 correspondent, showing the most substantial proofs of 

 bis good will. We can only thank him, and promise 

 1 to do our best to jastify his good opinions, and make 



our paper worthy of his exertions. The exertions of 

 our friends Cook and Horscfield remind us of a kind- 

 hearted Frenchman. A poor fellow had been burnt 

 out and lost a large amount of property. A crowd of 

 friends the ensiling morning were round him com- 

 miserating his misfortune, and saying very kindly 

 that they pitied him. The Frenchman heard them 

 with sonic little impatience. Oh ! said he, my good 

 friend, you nil say you pity this poor man ver much, 

 but you no say how much. Now I pity him one piece 

 linen ; and gave the poor fellow a piece of linen. — 

 This was real kindness ; and if it did not savor too 

 much of the shop, we should call this showing one's 

 faiih by one's works, a very commendable kind of re- 

 ligion in the apostle's time. Wo say nothing of 

 modern improvements in this matter. 



LETTER n. 



A Friend in need, a Friend indeed. 



Mb. Epitor : — In looking over the contents of the 

 last Farmer, I was much pleased with a communica- 

 tion from your correspondent J. Horscfield, in which 

 he calls upon all the readers of the Farmer to "tako 

 this No. and go through their neighborhood and call 

 upon every man to Bubecribe." Well, agreeably to 

 his plan, I took the paper and started, and in a short 

 time I obtained ten subscribers, and in no case was I 

 under the necessity of urging them or " talking to 

 them like Book,'' but on e.xainining the paper and 

 learr\ing the terms, they very willingly paid over to 

 me fifty cents, with the request to have it forwarded 

 immediately. 



Your coriespondent proposes that every one of the 

 present subscribers should obtaiti five new ones. Now 

 I most earnestly hope this request will be complied 

 with ; but I would not limit the number to five. I 

 would say to every one, get alt you can. If you can- 

 not get but one, get that ; and it you can get five, ten 

 or twenty, so mUch the better. I have already obtain- 

 ed ten, and I do not intend to stop here, but hope I 

 shall soon be able to send you another list of names. 

 If I could make my voice be heard by every Farmer in 

 Western New York, I would say to them, take the 

 Genesee Farmer, and not only take it but read it. — 

 The benefits to be derived from it are very great, and 

 its cost very small. It is our own paper, and we ought 

 to uee all our influence to sustain it. 



I hope the subscription list for this volume will show 

 that the farmers of Western New York give our new 

 Editor a hearty welcome. 



I am glad to learn that he is at home in Rochester, 

 where I intend soon to give him a call and talk over 

 matters and things ; should it be consistent with his 

 other engagements, I should be happy to have a call 

 from him on my farm in Byron, Genesee County. 

 Very respectfully, Yours, IRA COOK. 

 Agricultural Chemistry. 



The premiums of the New York Slate Agricultu- 

 ral Society for 16-12, will appear in our next. They 

 offer n premium of 100 dollars for the best Essay on 

 Agricultural Chemistry, of which we hope our East- 

 ern friends, S. L. D., and J. E. T., and C. F. J., and 

 J. W. W., will take ^uc notice, and govern them- 

 selvcs accordingly. 



