Excerpt from The New Genesee Farmer and Gardener's Journal, Vol. 1: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to the Improvement of Agriculture and Horticulture and to Rural and Domestic Economy Amid this hurrying forward to perfection of almost every calling amongst us, we would not say that our agriculture remains where it stood fifty years ago, for we believe it has advanced within that period - but we find it creeping on at a pace, na assisted, ia a great measure, by art or science, and harrassed by the same impediments, that hampered it in the days of our fathers. We speak, of course, of the general state of American farming, as manifested throughout the country, and would not include those exceptions in districts and individuals, that, from their rarity, do us the more honor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.