B. BATE HAM, Proprietor. \ 



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KOCHESTKK, UECEillBER, 1619. 



' HENRY COLMAN, Editor. 



I9IFOKTANT ANNOtTNCaMENT ! 

 the Faruters, the SiilHoribers and Friends 

 to the New Senesee Farnier> 



The world is full of cbangcs. nnd in tlio language 

 the old play; " we know what wa are, but we do 

 know wbat wc shnll be." Tbo prnprietoreliip of 

 ipapcr has now paeeed into the hands of C. F. 

 isman of the Hachester Seed Stote, well known 

 hia punctaality, nprighliiess, and interest in agri- 

 lurnl improvements, to this oommiuiity, nnd of E. 

 ipnrd, an experienced and rcepectabU; publisher in 

 ] oily, of •eiabliehed character. The reasons for 

 charge will be given below, and the subscriber 

 8 a strong confidence that its good character will 

 fully maintained, and his hopes are as strong that 

 usefulnees will be extended. 



will be ssen from on advertisement in another 

 t of this sheet, that he contemplates a Tour in 

 rope for the purpose of looking at the agriculture 

 I the ngricnltural inetituiions and schools of the 

 I world, to ascertain what is worthy to be 

 .ulated to the \cw. The prneticability of the pro- 

 was not ascertained until since the last number of 

 N. G. Farmer was issued. It ia now determined, 

 vidence permitting, that the subscriber leaves for 

 rope in the ensuing spring. It is ctpected, nn- 

 present nrrnngemen-s, that Mr. Colmnn will con- 

 !e to editc it for the first third of (be year ; and re 

 in afterwards a regular contributor to its columns 

 be close of this volume ; nnd that when it passes 

 n hiseupervis'on. whether it be sooner or later, it 

 Ibeediled by such as are pcrfoclly competent to 

 ke the paper all that its best friends can desire it 

 uld be. No part of that which will go into hio eg- 

 iltural Tour will appear in this paper, for this 

 uld be unjust to his subscribers ; but there will be 

 ny other valuable topics of conversation nnd in- 

 ry In which he promises himself the pleaenrn of 

 eting them ; so as to keep the chain of friendship 

 ght and unbroken. 



Se strongly h»pea that their patronage will be 

 lerfully coniinued ; nnd that every gnbscriber will 

 erest himself to procure others, so that the list, ne 

 Jiight to be, may be doubled. 

 The price will be one dollar. Itcn?'.not be afTord- 

 for less, nnd remunerate or save from loss those 

 10 edite nnd publish it. Whore twenty copies 

 ■ taken, iho year's subscription will not exceed 

 •'enty-five' cents. What is ibis compared with 

 ! equivalent in useful instruction to be ob- 

 aedfromii? This i.-! not two cents a week for 

 teen pages of closely printed matter per month, 

 king, if it were published in the common form, a 

 go duodecimo volume. Let us look at other illue- 

 tiona of the case , for when nny object to paying 

 Jollar or eeveniy cents for the Paper, we cannot 

 nk ihal tUey lofk et the matter in a fair light. A 

 3hel of wheat ordinarily pays for the year's sub- 

 iption. Is this aiiylhing compared with the intrin- 

 value of a paper, which may in many cnses, im- 

 Tc your cultivation by hundredi of dollars ? Fur- 



ther, 1 have withm the Inst year been often struck 

 with one fact. In going into a public house or hotel 

 in mo^t parts of the country, we arc charged hnlt a 

 dollar for a single meal, bieakfasi, dinner or supper, 

 nnd the same for lodging ; so that whenever I took a 

 nienl at any such place, I was compelled to say to my- 

 self as soon ns I opened my mouth, down goes one 

 subscriber for the N. G. Farmer ; and if my business 

 or convenience required me to stay iv/o or three days, 

 why llien I eit them by dozens, like a hungry man 

 making a meal of small fish, or of ground sparrows 

 or snowbirds. 1 was oAcn led to reflect, docs n 

 whole year's paper come to no more than this 1 Look 

 again at the ouse — I cannot go into my office or trav- 

 erse the streets of this go.idly city without being fu- 

 migated with tobacco smoke, and without meeting 

 coniinnally with people who, 1 think, ought to be in- 

 dictsd under the statute ns pablio nuisances, who go 

 abont smoking themsefves and smoking others with 

 odious segare. I dare say this may be very pleasant 

 to them and is deemed a precious luxury ; I do not 

 wish to detract from the happiness of any man, but 

 how infinitely higher are all plensmes connected with 

 the mind, than this low, sensual and selfish gtntifica- 

 t'on ; yet the saving only of one segnr a week, think 

 of it, would give them the New Genesee Farmer a 

 whole year even at its increased price; and nioie than 

 this. Now, I have often said to myself, can it be that 

 this is all that is asked for such a boon ? Then again 

 if really puffing is so deliclouo a pleasure, why let 

 them honestly leave off smoking nnd become subscri- 

 bers to the Farmer ; and we will promise to give them 

 such a puffing in our columns ss shall do them good 

 all the days of th2ir lives, and be redolent with the 

 most precious odors which taste and skill can com- 

 pound ; odors as different from those with which they 

 compliment iheir unofTending neighbors, as the per^ 

 fumes of Eden are superior to the snipiiureiied hydro- 

 gen of a pig stye. 



i might give other illuBtratione. One year's pro- 

 duct of a good Hive of bees, which demands little 

 more trouble than that of t&king out the honey, will 

 in many eases pay nt once five years subscription to 

 the Farmer, and this intolleotual hive we promise to 

 store with honey gathered from the flowers of every 

 clime, ns nutritious to the mind as it is delicious to 

 the taste. Pardon me if I say further, that there is 

 nots farmer in the country, though so pooitlhat'his 

 whole live slock amounts only to a single pai^^barn 

 yard fowls, who demand nothing for ibeif support 

 bnt chaff and worms and graeslioppers, who will not 

 find these humble friend.^, if ha will only allow them 

 to go to housekeeping and rear their family in a sober 

 and regular way, like nil respeclnble people, ready in 

 all probability, to pay more than two years' ?ubscripiion 

 for the paper in a singb? season. What shall we think 

 then of a farmer, who, under snch circii.mstonces, 

 will presiime to say that ho is too poor to take 

 this paper? So a single sheep, mutton head- 

 ed as this amiable class of beings are, nnd never eus- 



ns their skins may be converted into parchments for 

 writing, or leather for the covering of books, may 

 at once become a subscriber to this new paper ; 

 and in her wool or her lamb, will be ready to honor at 

 sight the printer's draft. 



Now THKN in BKPLY TO A RESPECTED CORRESPON- 

 DENT AT Wheatland, we have pointed out six 



DIFFERENT WAYS OF PAVING FOR THE N. G. FaRMKR. 



First, by one bushel of wheat token out of your 

 five hundred, to bo charged to the account of seed 

 sown, from which yon ore to reap fifty fold. 



Second, by saving two mools at a public house in 

 the course of the year j in which case a good deal 

 more is often soved than the coat of the meals. 



Third, by limiting yourself to nineteen segare in- 

 stead of twenty in the course of the week, by which 

 means likewise, there would be something saved to 

 your health, to your good manners, to yonr neighbor's 

 comfort; and to your counliy's reputation, if Mr. 

 Boz should come this way again. Ol the Dickens, 

 you'll say. 



Fourth, by raising n hive of Bees, v/hose twenty 

 or forty pounds of honey and a swarm to sell, may 

 pay several years subscription, besides the beautiful 

 example of industry, which these little folks will ex- 

 hibit to the other little folks of the family ; and the 

 pattern of a well oidered community, so instruetiTB to 

 yoursell as the citizen of a republic. 



Fifth, by the suitable encouragement of one Mr. 

 Cockerel nnd his spouse, who, enjoying your protac- 

 tion but demanding nothing from your purss, will 

 jointly produce cgga and chickens enough in the sea- 

 son to make the editor crow sa loud as ever one Chap- 

 man (we think tljat is the name, though wo are no 

 politicians) ever crowed in n log-cabin campaign. 



Sixthly, by setting aside one sheep in your flock 

 of hundreds, who is to be considered in the family ns 

 the patron of agrieultnral literature; nnd consequently 

 to be trenled with nil the respect and kindness due to 

 so useful a personage. 



We might point out one hundred other ways on 

 the farm in which the iwiper may be paid for without 

 a consciousness of its expense ; nnd with a hundred 

 uer cent, profit in the exertion : for there is scarcely 

 a chilli five years old. in. (i farmer's well ordered fam- 

 ily, who may not poy for the Farmer with a week's 

 knitting, nnd with nil ndvantage to their own educa- 

 tion. 



The publishers of the N, G. Former enengo . 

 to present it with the commencement of the New \ 

 Year, in a new and handsome dress. They promise 

 in itu prepnrntion the best services which they can 

 prneiire. The pleasure nnd profit which it will bring 

 to the. farmer's family and children they believe will 

 be worth fifty times its cost. On public as well as 

 private grounds, they hope the farmers will eneonr- 

 age it. The press is the most powerful engine, which 

 art presents or human ingenuity can devise, for ibo 

 e.ivancement of any good cause. What former then, 

 deserving a place in '.hat most honorable cliifs, will 

 withold hi.? aid on nny occnsiun from the advancement 

 of agriculture, a cause among the most innocent and 

 the most nsefnl, the veiy foundation of human sub- 

 sistence, the spring of some of the pure.st pleosurcs 

 which the heart can take in, the guardian nnd pro- 

 moter of good mornb;, the great instrumsrt of civili- 

 zation nnd the pioneer of religion. 



HENRY COLMA.V 



peeted of beinc the patrons of literature, excepting I i?ccAss(cr, D«c. 14//r, 1P4?. 



