U. B. BATEHAM, Proprietor. \ VOIi. 3. ROCHESTER, IVOVEMBER, 1849. NO. 11. | HENRY COLMAN, Edittr, 



I'UISIilSHED MONTHIiY. 



TERMS, 



FFFT V CEVTS, per ye;ir, puvtthle nlways in advance. 



Post Masiere, Agents, and otiicrs, seniling current mon- 

 / freo of .lostagc, will receive feoencopie!' fat 9i,— Tvxlvt 



pies for 85,^7V<n(y-jSi« copies for «10. 



The postage of x\\\s paper is only one cent to anyplace 



Ilfiin this stale, and one and a half cents to anypartof 

 he United Stales. 



Address M. U. UATEHAM nr H. COLMAN, Rochester 



PROSPECTUS, 



Tbe subscriber announced bimecif in ibelaet num- 

 ber ol the New Genesee Farmer as tbe sole proprietor 

 and editor of tbis paper, after the firet of January en- 

 suing. He renews tbis announcement ; and asks 

 ibe aid of liis friends and tbe agricultural community 

 in •uataining'ibe paper as far as tbey can conscien- 

 tiously render that aid ; and be will respectfully and 

 gratefu'ly acknowledge every siicb service. 



Tbe paper will be eo iiewhat enlarged ; and if suit- 

 nble encouragement is given, in alt respects esscn 

 tially improved. He has made arrangemenla to en- 

 large his corrosiioiidcnce extensively at home and 

 abroad ; and pledges himself that no pains shall be 

 spared to render the paper worthy of support in its 

 matter and execution. He can promise no more than 

 tbis. 



The price of the psper will be one dollar in advance 

 by the year. Six copies will be sent for every five 

 dollars ; tan copies for eight dollars, and fifty copies 

 for thirty-seven and a bulf dollars, paid in good 

 current money. Gentlemen who have hereto, 

 fore acted as agents are requested to continue their 

 agency. Postmasters are universally found courteous 

 enough to transmit names and subscription money 

 free of expense. Other arrangements as soon as com- 

 pleted and tbe names of special ngenU will be an- 

 nounced in the December number. It is earnestly 

 requested that returns should be made ettrly, that the 

 nvmher of copies to be printed may he ascertained.--' 

 Tbe universal complaint is that tbe times are bard ; 

 but tbe productions of the press, even in times infinite- 

 ly harder than the present, were never bait' so cheap 

 aa now. Tbe farmer now gets his political paper and 

 two or three agricultural papers for less than what one 

 respectable political paper or general magazine used 

 to cost. Tbe times must indeed be hard, when the 

 farmer cannot afford the miserable pittance, which be 

 may save in innumerable ways, required to obtain 

 tbnl information, which may increose his products* 

 hundred fold ; to say nothing of the satisfaction and 

 improvement to himself and family from knowing 

 what others are about, and witnessing tbe general pro- 

 gress of knowledge and the arts. What the temperate 

 farmer now saves year after year in the expense of 

 rpirituous liquor only for his haying, to say nothing 

 of other expenses and losses connected with its use, to 

 which be was formerly subjected, will pay five times 

 over for bis agricultural paper, and leave enough to 

 buy eight or ten useful volumes besides for the Win- 

 er reading of bis wife and daughters. When we go 

 into our farmers' houses and see their loaded tables 

 and their comfortable and luxurious clothing and fur- 



niture, and bear theni talk of 1 ard times, we are con- 

 strained to ask ourselves whether this is tbe English 

 language which is spoken, for under what sky, in 

 what country, and at what period, were men ever in a 

 condition of more substantial comfort and independ 

 ence. If tbey are but just to themselves and to their 

 advantages, no change of times or of prices can seri- 

 ously eflect their prosperity. „ 



In truth we see but one single circumstance, thai 

 should hinder every farmer in the country from sub- 

 scribing at once for tbe Genesee Farmer ; and that is 

 Millers' doctrine that the world is to come to an 

 end n«xt summer. But even Millers' disciples are 

 very anxious to get subscribers at a dollar per head 

 for the " Second Advent Journal" which is now pub- 

 lished periodically in Boston, thu' we are quite at a 

 loss to know what they are to do with the money, un- 

 less as the Romans believed, there is some ferriage 

 to pay for themselves and other friends before tbey 

 can get into the Elysian fields. But besides we have 

 been informed by one of their Chief Priesta that it is 

 not settled that the prediction is certainly to be fulfill- 

 ed in April, but probably some time in the course of 

 tbe next year ; so that the farmers will stand a fair 

 chance of geting for their dollar six or eight months 

 good agricultural reading at any rale, besides the 

 aatisfaciion and merit of contributing to the good cause 

 of agriculture and of helping a poor Editor, who has 

 borne the heat and toil of more than forty years in 

 their service. 



Farmers I then we expect you to honor the noblest 

 of all arts, by which you live ; ani to give us a fair 

 and public-spirited support ; and we promise to do 

 our best to deserve it. " Do not muzzle the ox that 

 treadeth out the corn." Dj not be too impatient to 

 get a crown in one hand before you let a dollar go out 

 of the other. The welfare, character, and happiness 

 of millions yet unborn may depend on the efforts we 

 now make ; and your co-operation that those efforts 

 may be successful. L,H us early and late sow the 

 precious seeds of knowledge, wisdom, and virtue and 

 " tbe Lord of tbe Harvest will give tbe increase." 

 HENRY COLMAN. 

 Rochester, 1st Nov , 1842. 



N. B. Mr. M. B. Bateham proposes to pass the 

 winter in Ohio and the South Wes:ern States, and 

 will act as Agent for this paper — we anticipate 

 likewise tbe advantage and pleasure of his regular 

 correspondence for the paper. 



Mr. C. F. Croaman. of Rochester, ie an authori- 

 zed A?ent for tbis paper. Mr. C. having taken the 

 Seed Store in the Arcade, recently occupied by Mr. 

 Baiebam, designs to fender the Establishment com- 

 plete in all its departments. His skill in raising and 

 managing seeds is well known, and his honor and in- 

 tegrity undoubted. 



NOTICE. 

 The Address delivered before the Monroe County 

 Agricultural Society, by H. Col.-nan, together with 

 the Consiituiion and list of officers and members of 

 the Society, and the reports of the awarding commit- 

 tees, will be published in pamphlet form, for distri- 

 bution, as soon as they can be prepared. 



By order of the Executive Committee. 

 M. B. B. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, 



MADE AT THE ROCHESTER COLLEGIATE IS.STITLTE BY 

 h. WETIIEnEI.L, OCTOBER, 1842. 



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Rain Gauge for Sept., 1842, 5.19 inch. 

 " " •' 1841, 6.14 " 



" " " 1840, 2.81 " 



Mean Temperature of " 1842, 58,04 deg. 



" " " 1841, 26,90 " 



1' " " 1840, 57,44 " 



Remarlcs on the Weather from September 26th to 

 October 25th. 

 Sept. 28ih, rained a little at night ; fair to the end 

 of the month. 



October, from Oct. eighth ; the eighth month of 

 the primitive Roman year. The tenth month of the 

 year in our calendar. 



This month has been mild and pleasant. Mean 

 temperature first halt 51,13 degrees. Severe froat on 

 the morning of the 6th. 



Oct. I5tb, cloudy with little rain ; not much wind ; 

 but there was a severe gale on Lake Ontario, thro' 

 the day and evening. It has been remarked by those 

 who know, that the Lakes have been " uncommonly 

 rough" this season. 



It is remarked by observers, thai there are many 

 strong indications of a severe win'er. 



ID" There arrived at Buffalo on the 10th ult., seven 

 steamers, 5 brigs, 15 schooners, and 1 sloop. These 

 brought a large quantity of produce, among which 

 are 12,471 barrels of flour, and 51,8S6 bushels of 

 wheat. 



