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M. B. BATEHAM, Proprietor. | VOL.. 3. KOCHESTER, AUGUST, 1842. NO. 8. | HENRY COLMAN, Editor. 



PUBIilSHEO MO:VTHIiY. 



TERMS, 



FIFTY CENTS, per year, p.iytilile nlways in nrtvancc. 



Post .Masters, Agents, and others, sending current mon- 

 '7 free of postage, will recciveceotn copies for $3,— Twelve 

 jples for 85.— 7>«n(y.Jfre copies forSlO. 



TA<-/»oi(tf^e of tills pairar is only one cent to anyplace 

 vithiii tliis state, and one and a half e&nt^ to anypartof 

 he rnitfd St.ates. 



Address M. B. BATEHAM or H. COLMAN, Rochester 



METEOKOLOGICAIi OBSERVATIONS, 



MADE AT THE ROCHESTER COLLEOIATE INSTITUTE BV 

 L. -WKTIIERELL, Jfl.Y, 184'3. 



Range of thermometer for the month, 45 degrees. 



Mean temperature of June 1842, 60-6G " 

 " " " 1841, 67.62 " 



" " " 1840, 63.81 " 



Rain Gunge, Juno 26, to July 25, 1842, 3.12 inches. 

 " " " " 1841, 2.77 " 



" " <' " 1340, 3.55 " 



Remarks on the weather and progress of vegetation, 

 commencing June i&th and ending July '25th. 



June 26th, shower at 2 o'clock, P.M., with thun- 

 der and wind; 27 ih, thunder this morning at 6; 

 29th, thunder showers in the evening: 30th, showers 

 with thunder at 5 o'clock, P, M. 



July, the seventh month of the year, so called from 

 Julius, the surname of Caius Cesar, who was born in 

 this month. Before that time, this month was called 

 Qtiintilis, or the fifth month from March. 



July 1st, rain ; 2d, rain in ihe forenoon, dear in the 



afternoon ; 3d, a shower with thunder at 6, P. M., 

 Aurora Borealis this evening; 4ih, fair; river high ; 

 7ch, farmers have commenced haying ; Cth, thunder 

 showers at 1 and 2J o'clock, P. M- ; 9lh, very rainy 

 Inst night; clears ofT this nficrnoon; 14th, a little 

 sprinkle; no rain from the 15th tothe24ih; 24th, 

 thunder showers in the morning. 



Corn is small, but has grown very fast for the last 

 10 days ; corn in silk the 16th ; last year it was in 

 silk much earlier. |'armev3 commenced harvesting 

 about the 20ih ; green corn in market last year the 

 16ih of July. Whortleberries were in market the 13th. 

 Chestnut trees in blossom the 5th. Tomatoes were 

 ripe the 26th. J have seen no green corn, nor whor- 

 tleberries, nor tomatoes in market yst. 



Chestnut trees in blossom the SOth, much later than 

 last year. 



Note. — Venus ispow the evening star, and may be 

 seen in the west a little after sunset. Jupiter and 

 Saturn may also be seen ; they come to the meridian 

 about 11 o'clock in the evening;. Jupiter shines with 

 a white light and is very brilliant. Saturn ie of a dim 

 reddish color and comes to the meridian a little before 

 Jupiter. 



Roya^ Agricultural Society of England. 



"At a meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society 

 of England, on the 18th of May, in London, on mo- 

 tion of the Duke of Richmond, seconded by Earl 

 Spencer, Prof. Justus Liebig of Giessen, Germany, 

 and Mr. Henry Colman, Agricultural Commissioner 

 of Massachusetts, were unanimously elected honorary 

 members of this Society." 



Mr. Colman gratefully appreciates this distinguish- 

 ed honor ; an hor.or much higher than any to which 

 his ambition had ever aspired ; and the more highly 

 valued on account of the eminent friends of agri- 

 culture at vvlioae instance it has been confeiied. 

 Viewed aright, it can serve only as a new stimulus 

 to render oneself deserving of it ; and quicken ef- 

 forts, however humble, to be useful in a cause deep- 

 ly and inseperably connected with the physical com- 

 fort and the moral welfare of mankind. 



Agricultural Papers, 



In noticing the American Agriculturist in our last 

 number, by an inadvertence we staled that each num- 

 ber consisted of 16 pages. We should have said 32 

 pages imperial octavo. We are happy to make the 

 correction, as it gives us another opportunity of com- 

 mending t» our readers'a puhlication ably conducted 

 and promising much advantage to the agricultural 

 community. |t is published monthly by Qeo, A. 

 Peters, New York, and edited joimly by A. iJ. Jt R. 

 L. Allen ; price one dollar per year. 



The cheapness of agricultural publications is a re- 

 markable feature of the times. The American Far- 

 mer, the noricultural pioneer, was published at Balti- 

 more for five dollars per year and liberally sustained. 

 Now a New York Farmer, without going out of the 

 State, to which, we hope he will not confine himself, 

 may have the Albany Cultivator, one of the best pa- 

 pere ever primed, the American Agricultufist ae 



above, the instructive Central Farmer from Rome, 

 and our own humble sheet, which we do our best to 

 make useful, for three dollars per year. To these ho 

 may add the excellent and highly useful paper the 

 Northern Light, printed at Albany monthly, and Unit- 

 ed States Farmers' Journal, printed in New York city, 

 under the able and experienced supervision of Fleet 

 & Blydcnburgh, for a trifle more. Few New York- 

 farmers, who have a hundfed acres of land, are ex- 

 CHsahle if they do not take all of them ; and if they 

 cannot read them themselves, circulate them among 

 their neighbors, in the public schools and reading 

 rooms. How can they do a better service for the cost I 

 Yet strange to say there are many who will not aid us 

 at all ; and there are others who threaten to with- 

 draw their patronage, if we happen to differ from them 

 in opinion. There are too, some patterns of liberality 

 and justice, who want to beat us down from 50 to 25 

 cents. E.xquisite magnanimity I men, a million of 

 whose souls could make together a somerset through 

 the eye of a fine cambric needle without bruising or 

 jostling or crowding. Out upon such meanness I 

 We remember one day, in Boston market, buying of 

 a farmer, who had come two hundred miles, some 

 lump butter as fine as could be made, when one of 

 these folks came up to inquire the price. The current 

 price at the time was from 17 to 20 cents. The reply 

 of the farmer was 12i cents. Why, said the man, 

 wishing to "beat him down," don't you think that's 

 high ? We could not restrain our indignation.— 

 "Throw it at him 1 throw it at him 1" said we, 

 "such a fellow ought to have his bread spread with 



wbeel-gr ense." 



A Liberal and Usefiil Movement. 

 The Livingston County Agriciiltiiral Society have 

 offered gO vols, of the Cultivator and 20 do. of the 

 New Genesee Farmer, to be given as gratuitous pre- 

 miums to the deserving. Allow us to gay this is 

 highly creditable to their good judgment. If we re- 

 collect aright, the I^hode Island Society for the en 

 couragement of Agriculture and Manufactures, have 

 been accustomed for years to take fifty copies of the 

 New En gland Farmer for this purpose. 

 Important Notice. 

 There is a large amount due us from Post Masters 

 and Agents in the Western States and elsewhere, 

 -mostly in small sums it is true, but our whole resour- 

 ces depend on such small sums, and therefore we hope 

 no one will delay sending on that account. 



\Cr One word to our friends. — We have a large 

 supply of back numbers of the current volume on 

 hand, which ought to be in the hands of subscribers. 

 Will you not hplp us— would you not be doing your 

 neighbors as well as ourselves a real kindness, by soli- 

 citing them to subscribe 1 The currency is now con- 

 siderably improved, and bills of most of the slates will 



answer for remittances Ppbl ishers. 



The Stupendous Temperance Reform.— Snch \e lYte 

 progress of this reform that the most credulous and 

 enthusiastic laborer in the cause, has bsen struck, 

 dumb by its all-sweeping progress ; while the more 

 sceptical looker on, is beard to exclaim, that God is 

 performing a miracle tor the cleansing of a leperoiis 



generation, 



S. W. 



