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THE NEW GENESEE FARMER, 



ROCHESTER, OCTOBER, 1842. 



Apologr»Disappointineut. 



This number of the Farmer has been delayed near- 

 ly a week, in expectation of giving some account of 

 the Fair at Albany. The editor attended the Fair 

 and was to have sent home a report thereof nt the 

 close— but nothing has boen received from him, and 

 we conclude that he sent a communication by private 

 hands and it has miscarried. We can delay the press 

 no longer, and our readers must submit to the disap- 

 pointment, with our promise to make amends next 

 month — Publisher. 



Important IVotice. 



Postponement.— The Monroe County Agricultural 

 Society Show and Fair, to be holden at Rochester 

 notified for the 14th and I5th Oct., instant, is post- 

 poned to Tuesday and Wednesday, 25th and 26th of 

 October. 



The preparatory meeting is to be holden at the 

 Arcade on the 15th inst. by adjournment, attendance 

 upon whi ch is porticularly requested. 

 To the Frieuds of the Agricultural Press and 

 the Subscribers to the New Genesee Farmer. 

 ihe subscriber respectfully announces that he bos 

 become the sole proprietor, after the first of January 

 ne.xt, of the New Genesee Farmer, Mr. Bateham 

 the former proprietor, having, through ill health re' 

 tired from the concern. At the same time, he will 

 continue the editorship as heretofore. He regrets to 

 state likewise, that hereafter the annual subscription 

 for the paper must be one dollar, payable in advance 

 as heretofore. Yet his regret is not unmingled with 

 Bai.efaction in the assurance, which he has already re- 

 ceived from a great many of the readers of the Far- 

 mer, an assurance in almost every case volunteered, 

 that such an alteration would be deemed by them 

 equitable and would meet their active approbation. 

 Possibly the approbation may bo universal, and then 

 he will be happy to learn that his regret was uncalled 

 for. This would be a little too good to expect in a 

 world where opinions are so various , where one of 

 the strongest passions in operation in society, among 

 men as well as the kinder sex, seems to be to get a 

 thing cheap, and where the fact is too much overlook- 

 ed, implied in a remark of the celebrated Madame 

 Koland, that "she always heard with pain of any 

 one's making a good bargain, because she knew in 

 that case that same other person must have made a 

 poor one." 



This remark is but too applicable to the proprietor 

 and editor of this paper, for to our subscribers, the 

 New Genesee Farmer has certainly been worth fifty 

 cents a year, to the farmers for wrappers and to their 

 wives and daughtera for curling papers, if such pro- 

 fane witchery in the vanities of this world has ever 

 crept, nto their premises, while to the editor and pro- 

 prietor, at 50 cents, its publication has been a serious 

 loss. V/ide as our circulation has been, that sum has 

 not the present year covered the expenses ; and 

 without the subscription be increased as is proposed, 

 the paper must go out ; for no righteous master will 

 require us " to work for nothing ond find ourselves " 

 We respectfully ask our friends to look at the case 

 ^ylth an eye of candor ; and to sustain us, if we de- 

 serve to be sustained. We promise to do all that we 

 can to merit their good will and their substantial 



kindness ; and we ask in return little more than the 

 means of saving us from coming upon the county 

 and being cost upon the tender mercies of Mistress 

 Bumble. 



We intend that our paper, on th« first of January, 

 shall be enlarged, and printed on fairer paper and 

 with clearer type ; that it shall contain more miscella- 

 neous intelligence of an ngriculturol nature than it 

 has hitherto done; more information in regard to 

 foreign and domestic markets ; a greater variety of 

 lubjecte connected with rural life and condition ; the 

 contributions of some of the best writers in the coun- 

 try whoso aid is olready engaged, and whose aid we 

 need an increased subscription to secure by some just 

 compensation, withoutwhicb, we have not the face to 

 ask nor the humility to accept, unless in our greatest 

 straits ; and wc will spore no pains to make our hum- 

 ble sheet a welcome visiter in every farm house where 

 it ispermitted to enter ; ond that it shall not be re- 

 garded as an intruder even in n city parlor. We 

 mean that it shall be, to a certain extent, the com 

 panion of the gardener as well as the farmer. We 

 promise that the most delicate hands shall not be soil- 

 ed by its touch, nor the hardest hand find occasion to 

 costitby indisdoin. Wherever there are fruits and 

 flowers, there we shall try to bring our baskets full 

 decorated with the fairest wreaths which we can en- 

 twine. We will speak of the plants of the field, 

 from the cedar that waves his proud head upon Mount 

 Lebanon to the hyssop that climbs upon the wall. 

 " Our talk likewise will be of cattle." We will gath- 

 er around us the lowing herds and spread out the 

 fleeces of gold. We will go forth in the spring to 

 sow the precious seeds; and rejoice wiih the farmer 

 at harvest home, when, by the blessing of the Lord 

 of the Harvest, he returns in triumph, bringing his 

 sheaves with him ; and if, in doing this, wc can sow 

 the infinitely more precious seeds of truth and virtue, 

 and show the dignity of honest labor, oftentimes far 

 outshining even in the shade the Imperial purple, and 

 inspire and quicken the love of rural pursuits and ru- 

 ral pleasures ; and open men's eyes and hearts to the 

 beauties and glories of God's visible creation, to the 

 abundance, the variety and the ceaselessness of his 

 bounty, we shall be but too happy in the delicious 

 consciousness that we have not labored altogether in 

 vain. 



We ask our friends to aid us in this attempt. A 

 life not short has been given, as faros other obligations 

 would permit and justify, to the cause of an Improved 

 Agriculture, and especially to the elevation and im- 

 I provement of the agricullurol and rural classes. In 

 [ what we have done for this cause we have no regrets 

 and no misgivings. We believe it to be under the 

 blessing of Heaven the cause of human happiness, of 

 good morals, and of religion, and we rejoice in the 

 deeper and still deeper hold which it seems to be every 

 day taking in the public mind. 



We extend to all our coadjutors and brethren in the 

 aericultura! press the hand of cordial friendship. We 

 do not promise that our paper shall be better" than 

 theirs, or even as good as any of them ; but we prom- 

 ise only to do our beet to make it worthy of beingread. 

 Such is the cheapness of agricultural papcrs.ln for- 

 mer times altogether unexampled, that a subscription 

 to several of them would create no burdensome tax, 

 nor occasion an expense which any farmer would find 

 it difficult to save from many useless purposes upon 

 which it is now inconsiderately squandered. Devo 

 ted to this purpose, it can scarcely fail to do good 



We ask those of our subscribers, who purpose to 



continue their patronage, to make as early remittances 



as their convenience will allow. The post masters 



will kindly forward them. To those persons who will 



agents, we promise the most liberal terms. 



Vol. 3. 



Our arrangements, when fully completed, will be an- 

 nounced ill our next number. 

 Respecliully, 



HENRY COLMAN. 

 Rochester, 1st October, 184-2. 



Monroe County Agricultural Society Award- 

 ing Committees. 



The following is the list of Judges or Awarding 

 Committees, appointed for the Cattle Show and Fair 

 to be held at Rochester on Tuesday ond Wednesday, 

 the 25.h and 26th inst. It is earnestly desired that 

 the gentlemen will all consea! to attend to the duties 

 assigned them, and that they will be present at an 

 early hour on the day of exhibition. 



On Horses— Dr. F. F. Backus, Rochester, Abram 

 Voght, Victor, Wm. Reed, WheatTand, 



On Bvlls, Cows and Heifers— Wm. Garbutt, 

 Wheatland, J. Allen Frost, Rochester, Jirah Black- 

 mir, Wheatland. 



Ore Oxen and Steers— Wm. Pixley, Chili, Cor- 

 nelius De Witt, Gen. T. Brown Wheatland. ' 



On Sheep for Fleece— MiUs Landon, Ogden, Dan- 

 iel McNaughton, Wheatland, J. H. Robinson, Hen- 

 rietta. 



On Sheep for Carcase— Jacob Thorn Rochester, 

 H. Schenck, Brighton, Benj. Birdsall, jr., Mendon. 



On Swine— Jeasp Harroun, Ogden, Alfred Fitch 

 Riga, M. Parsons, Brighton. ' 



On Ploughing-l.. B. Langworthy, Greece, Jacob 

 Strawn, Chili, C. F. Crosman, Rochester. 



On Butter and Cheese, Sugar and Honey— C. M 

 Lee, Rochester, Elihu Kirby, Henrietta, M. Garrett' 

 Gates. ' 



OnSilh, Domestic Cloth, 4-c.— Lewis Brooks, Ro- 

 Chester, Kaleb K. Hobbie, Irondequoit, Henry Mar- 

 tin, Clarkson. 



On Horticultural Productions— N . Goodscll Ro- 

 chester, H. N. Langworthy, Irondequoit, J. H. 

 Watts, Rochester. 



On Non- Enumerated Articles— Alex. Kelsey, Ro- 

 chester, N. Haywood, Brighton, William Otis, 

 Gaies. 



CommiUe of Arrangements-L B. Longworthy, 

 H. M. Ward, M. B. Bateham, P. Barry. 

 CFor the Winter Meeting. J 

 On Grain and Grain Crops-L. B. Langworthy, 

 Greece, Abram Colt, Mendon, Henry Caiman, Ro- 

 chester. 



On Roots and Root Crops— Wm Garbutt, Wheat- 

 land, Stephen Legget, Henrietta, Zera Burr Per- 

 inton. ' 



At the last meeting of the Society, it was 

 Resolced, That the awarding committees on ani- 

 mals be instructed to require the competitors for pre- 

 miums, to give certificates of age, pedigree, food, 

 work, &c., according to the 4lh section of the Regu-' 

 lations published with the list of premiums. 



It was also Reaohed, That the President be request- 

 ed to deliver an address to the Society on the day of 

 the Fair. 



Also Resolved, That the time of holding the Fair 

 be on the 25th and 26th of October, instead of the 

 13th and 14ih. 



Further Resolved, That the officers of the Society 

 and members of Town Committees, and others, be 

 requested to meet at the Arcade Hall, Rochester, on 

 Saturday, the I5th October, at 11 o'clock, for the 

 purpose o f devising way s and means. 



Agricultural Addresses^ 

 This number of the Farmer is ia|[H]uring the 

 ibsence of the Editor, and the publiSSUes the re- 

 sponsibility of announcing, that, by the request of 

 the several Societies, Mr. Colman has agreed to de- 

 liver addresses at the approaching Fairs in the coun- 

 ties of Cayuga, Seneca, Ontario, Monroi?, Genesee 

 and Niagara,— and perhaps at one or two other places. 



