THE CULTIVATOR. 
183 
DUTCHESS AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE. 
T HE summer session of this institution commences the first 
week in April, under direction of the subscriber, at the Wil¬ 
kinson Premium Farm , in the Western Valley of Union Vale, 12 
miles east of Poughkeepsie. 
The course of studies in this institution is such as to give every 
facility for acquiring a most thorough knowledge of scientific and 
practical agriculture, with the use of the best modern improved im¬ 
plements. Instruction in physics, with lectures on those natural 
sciences requisite to constitute a perfect agricultural education, 
will be under the care of teachers amply qualified, and of tried 
experience. A select Farmer's Library with numerous agricultu¬ 
ral papers and periodicals is also provided for the general benefit. 
The labor performed by the students is under the immediate super¬ 
vision of the principal who superintends all farm operations. 
A course of lectures will be delivered on each of the Domestic 
Animals, commencing with the Horse, during which a perfect 
skeleton will be at hand. 
The farm contains 220 acres of land, embracing a great variety 
of soil. The location is pleasant and healthful. The buildings 
are extensive and commodious, for such an institution ; the house 
106 by 30 feet. 
A conveyance runs regularly to and from Poughkeepsie, on 
Wednesdays and Saturdays, for the mail and passengers, and the 
general convenience of the institution. 
Students attend church at such places as their parents or guar¬ 
dians may direct. 
Students received during the whole season of farm work, the 
year reckoning in each case from the day of arrival. No student 
received for less than one year. Fee for the year $200, which in¬ 
cludes tuition, board, with beds and bedding, washing, and ordi¬ 
nary mending, fuel and lights. 
This Institution is under the patronage of the American Agri¬ 
cultural Association, the Farmers’ Club of the American Institute, 
and the Agricultural Society of Dutchess. 
For further particulars address the Principal and Director of 
Farm operations, Poughkeepsie Post Office, Dutchess County, 
New-York. JOHN WILKINSON. 
REFERENCES. 
Board of American Institute ; 
Board of the American Agricultural Association; 
Rev. L. M. Vincent, New-York; 
John L. Mason, Esq., “ “ 
Prof. Cyrns Mason, “ “ 
John Van Wyck, New Hamburg, Dutchess County; 
Rev. Abraham Polhemus, Hopewell, a <l 
Charles Bartlett, A. M., Principal Collegiate School Pough¬ 
keepsie ; 
Rev. H. G. Ludlow, Poughkeepsie ; 
Gen. Thos. L. Davies, President of the Bank of Po’keepsie; 
Wm. A. Davies, Esq., Pres, of Farmers’ and Manuf’s Bank; 
Henry S. Richards, Esq , Poughkeepsie ; 
Rev. S. Mandeville, La Grange. 
April 1—-2t. 
ORANGE COUNTY SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL 
AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE. 
T HE design of this Institute is to afford the most efficient means 
for the acquisition of a combined scientific and practical 
knowledge of Agriculture. 
A number of farmers residing in the same neighborhood in the 
town of Montgomery, from 7 to 9 miles west of Newburgh, having 
united under a written contract one with the other to become in¬ 
structors to such pupils as may be committed to their care, through 
the undersigned, their officers, present the Institute to the atten¬ 
tion of the public. 
Each pupil will be under the practical instruction of the member 
of the association with whom he may reside. 
The Scientific instruction will be under the care of Mr. James 
Darrach, a graduate of Yale College, a gentleman of scientific 
attainments and in common with his associates, the holder of his 
own plow. 
This part of the institution will embrace most of the academic 
studies, Natural History, and principles of Agricultural Eco¬ 
nomy. 
The peculiarity of this Institute, which recommends it to pa¬ 
rents, is, that the practical instruction will be given by practical 
farmers whose duty and interest compel them to attend to the eco¬ 
nomy as well as the general management of a farm. 
It presents also the following features: family discipline and 
care; constant companionship with the instructors; varied hus¬ 
bandry and soil which the pupils will be constantly directed to 
observe and compare. In the neighborhood are places of worship 
■within convenient distance for all to attend, Episcopalian, Presby¬ 
terian, Reformed Dutch, Scotch Presbyterian, and Methodist. 
Terms —$125 per annum for tuition and board, payable semi¬ 
annually in advance. 
Mail and other stages that pass over the Newburgh and Cehoe- 
ton Turnpike connect our places daily with Newburgh. 
This Institute will open for the reception of pupils on the 18th 
April. 
Enquiries and applications may be addressed to either of the 
undersigned at Coldenham, Orange,county, N. Y. 
LINDLEY MURRAY FERRIS, Prest 
Samuel Wait, Jr., Secretary. 
References .—Frederick J. Betts, Esq., President of the Orange 
County Agricultural Society, John Caldwell, Esq , Salisbury, 
Orange Co., A. B. Allen, Esq., Editor of the American Agricultu¬ 
rist, William Partridge, Merchant, New-York. 
April L 1S46. 
TREATISE ON MILCH COWS. 
P UBLISHED on the first day of April, 1846, a Treatise on Milch 
Cows, whereby the quality and quantity of milk which any 
cow will give may be accurately determined by observing Natu¬ 
ral Marks or External Indications alone ; the length of time she 
will continue to give Milk, &c., &c. By M. Francis Guenon, of 
Liborne, France. Translated for the Farmers’ Library, from the 
French, by N. P. Trist, Esq , late U. S. Consul at Havana, 
with Introductory Remarks and Observations on the 
COW AND THE DAIRY, 
by John S. Skinner, Editor of the Farmers’ Library, illustrated 
with numerous engravings. 
0CP” Price for single copies, neatly done up in paper covers, 87 jf 
cents. Full bound in cloth and lettered, 62^ cents. The usual dis¬ 
count to Booksellers, Agents, Country Merchants, and Peddlers. * 
Farmers throughout the United States may receive the work 
through the mails. The postage on each copy Will be about 7 
cents. By remitting $2, free of postage, we will send seven 
copies of the work done up in paper covers. 
Country merchants visiting any of the cities can procure the 
work from Booksellers for those who may wish to obtain it. 
Please send on your orders. Address 
GREELEY & McELRATH, Publishers, 
April 1—3t Tribune Buildings, New-York. 
ROCHESTER SEED STORE AND WAREHOUSE 
FOR FARMING TOOLS, 
Nearly opposite the Market, Front-st., Rochester, N. Y. } 
BY JAMES P. FOGG. 
T HE co-partnership heretofore existing under the firm of B. F. 
Smith & Co., was dissolved on the first day of January, 1846. 
The subscriber having purchased the interest of Mr. Smith, will 
continue the business as heretofore, on his own account 
The subscriber is well aware of the important relation which 
the seedsman holds to the whole farming community, and that 
upon his honor and veracity the crop and profit of a season in some 
measure depend. The greatest care has been used in selecting 
the seeds offered at this establishment for the ensuing year, and 
they can be relied upon as pure and genuine, carefully selected 
and raised from the very best varieties, and properly cured. 
Many kinds were raised in the immediate, vicinity of this city, by 
Mr. C. F. Crosman, and under the inspection of the proprietor ; 
others were raised by experienced growers; while those varieties 
of foreigu growth, which experience has shown are the best, such 
as Cabbage, Cauliflowers, Brocoli, all the varieties of Garden and 
Field Turnep, Scarlet Short-Top Raddish, Scarlet and White Tur- 
nep Raddish, Dwarf and Early Peas, with twenty choice varie¬ 
ties of FLOWER SEEDS, have been imported by the subscri¬ 
ber from the long established house of R. WRENCH & SONS, 
of London. 
FIELD SEEDS. 
Red and White Clover, Timothy, Barley, Seed-Corn, Italian 
and Siberian Spring Wheat, Early June Potatoes, Marrowfat and 
other Field Peas, Rye-Grass, Orchard-Grass, Lucerne. &c., Sec. 
VEGETABLE GARDEN SEEDS. 
A choice and select variety of Peas, Beans, Cabbage, Cauli¬ 
flower, Celery, Beets, Cucumbers, Melons, Raddish, Squash, 
Herb-seeds, &c. 
FLOWER SEEDS. 
The collection of Annual aod Perennial Flower Seeds, contains 
many new and choice varieties. 
AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL TOOLS. 
At the Ware-Room, adjoining the Seed Store, may be found 
an extensive and complete assortment of Agricultural and Horti¬ 
cultural Implements, embracing almost every tool used in the cpl- 
tivation ot the Farm and Garden. 
SUPERIOR PLOWS. 
The celebrated Massachusetts Plows, of three sizes. Several hun¬ 
dred of these Plows, have been sold in Rochester, and vicinity, and 
have given entire satisfaction. Also, Delano’s Diamond plow, Sub¬ 
soil and Side-hill Plows—The Gang-Plows—Two. Horse Cultiva¬ 
tors, for working summer-fallows, and getting in wheat. Corn 
Cultivators, Root-Cutters, Corn-Planters, Drill-Barrows, Hoes. 
Shovels, Scythes and Snaths, Garden-Rakes, Corn-Shellers, Straw- 
Cutters, &c., &c. James p. fogg, 
of the late firm, and successor to B. F. Smith & Co. 
Agents for the sale of Rochester Seeds by the pound , $'c. 
Buffalo, W. & G. Bryant—Batavia, L. Seaver—Lockport, L. H 
Marks & Co.—Albion, Nicholson & Paine—Brockport, A. B, 
Bennett—LeRoy, Tompkins & Morgan—Scottsville, Garbutt & 
Co.—Mount Morris, R. Sleeper—Dansville, H. B. Williams Sc 
Son—Geneseo, L. Turner—Canandaigua, L. C. Cheney & Co.— 
Palmyra, Hoyt & May—Oswego, C. & E. Canfield—Geneva, 
Hemiup Sc Cone—Waterloo, T. McClintock—Auburn, Wm. 
Hughes—Syracuse, Foster & Nott—Utica, J. E. Warner & Co .4 
—Homer, Wm. Sherman & Son—Amsterdam, J. W. Sturtevant— 
Schenectady, D. L. Powell—Troy, J. Daggett & Co.—Ballston, 
E. W. Lee—Lansingburg, R. Harrison—Pittsfield. Mass., Isaac 
C. Cole—Springfield, Benj. R. Blight—Westfield, Jessup & Co.— 
Hudson, W. & G. Storrs. 
Rochester, April 1, 1846—2t. 
PLOWS. 
F OR list of Plows for sale at the ALBANY AG. WARE¬ 
HOUSE, 23 Dean-st., see Cultivator for Feb., 1846, page 72, 
Agricultural Implements of all kinds, for sale at the same place. 
March 1, 1846. E. COMSTOCK & Oo. 
