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THE GENESEE FARMER 



BOOKS FOR THE rAEMERS! 



FTTRXISHED BY THE PROPRIETOR OF GENESEE FARlfER. 



Itorton's Cyclopedia of Agriculture. Two volumes ^beautifully 

 bound iu Morocco. Price $'2'2. 



Morton's Cyclopedia of Agriculture, bound in cloth, $18. 



Wilson's Rural Encyclopedia. Four yols. (second hand; $16. 



Rhind's Vegetable kingdom, with colored plates. Price $6. 



The Farmer's Guide. By James Webb. Piice 87.^ cents. 



How to Choose a Milch Cow. Price 62}i cts. 



Smith on the Construction of Cottages. Price $1. 



The Farm Engineer. ' By Ritchie. Price $3. 



Gunn's Domestic .Medicine. Price $3. 



The Cow, Dairy Husbandry, and Cattle Breeding. Price 25 cts. 



Every Lady her own Flower Gardener. Price 25 oente. 



T'he American Kitchen Gardener. Price 25 cents. 



The American Rose Culturer. Price 25 ceutij. 



Prize Essay on Manures. By S. L. Dana. Price 25 eentfl. 

 ^ Skinner's Elements of Agriculture. Price 25 cents. 



The Pestfi of the Farm, with directions for extixpauon. Price 25 

 cents. 



Horses— their Varieties, Breeding, Management, &c. Price 25 

 ceirta. 



T'le Hive and Honey Bee — their Diseases and Remedies. Price 

 ^ cents. 



The Hog — ^its Diseases and Management. Price 25 cente. 



The American Bird Fancier — BreerUng, Raising, &o. 25 cts. 



Domestic Fowls an.i Ornamental Poultry. Price 25 cents. 



Chemistry made E:i*.-y for the Use of Farmers. Price 25 ats. 



The American Poultry Yard. The cheapest and best book pub- 

 lished. Price SI. 



The American Field Book of Manures. Bhnbraeing all the Fer- 

 tilizers known, with direction.s for use. By Browns. $1.26. 



Baist's Kitchen C^rdener. Price 75 cents. 



Stockh.trf s Chemical Field Lectures. Price $1. ' i 



Wil'on on the Oultiv?tion of Flax. Price 25 cents. 



The F.irraer's CvdopeiJa. By Blake. Price $1.25. 



All'ju's Rural Architecture. Price $1.25. 



Phelij»'s Bee Keeper's Chart. Illustrated. Prico 2.^ rents. 



Johnston's Lectures on Practical Agriculture. Paper, price 25 

 -jents. 



Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry. Price $1.25. 



Johnston's Elements of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. 

 Price .SI. 

 ~-R;v.id,ill'3 Sheep Husbandry. Price $1.25. 



Miner's American Bee-Keeper's Manual. Price $1. 



Dadd's American Cattle Doctor. Complete. Price $1. 

 " Fe^senden's Complete Farmer and Gardener. 1vol. Price $1.25. 

 ■■^Allen's Treatise on the Culture of the Grape. Price .?1. 



Youatt on the Breeds and Management of Sheep. Price 75 «ts. 



Youatt on the Hog. Complete. Price 60 cents. 



Youatt and Martin on Cattle. By Stevens. Price $1.25. 



The Shepherd's own Book. Edited by Youatt, Skinner and Ran- 

 dall. Price $2. 



Stephen.s's Book of the Farm; or Farmer's Guide. Edited by 

 Skinner. Price $4. 



Allen's American Farm Book. Price .$1. ' ''a 



The American Florist's Guide. Price 75 cents. 



The Cottage and Farm Bee-Keeper. Price 50'cent8. 



Hoare on the Culture of the Grape. Price 50 centa. 



Country Dwellings; or the American Architect. Price $8. 



Lindley's Guide to the Orchard. Price $1.25. 



Gunn's Domestic Medicine. A book for every married BiAn and 

 woman. Price $3. 



Na-sh's Progressive Farmer. A book for every boy in the noun- 

 trr. Price 50 cents. 



Allen's Diseases of Domestic Animals. Price 75 cents.' 



Saxton's Rural Hand-books. 2 vols. Price $2.50. 



Brattle's Southern Agriculture. Price $\. 



Smith's Landscape Gardening. Containing hints on arranging 

 Parks, Pleasure Grounds, &c. Edited by Lewis F. Allen. Price 

 $1.2.5. 



The Fanner's Land Mesuurer; or Pocket Companion. Prioe 

 50 cents. 



Buist's .Vmerican Flower Sarden Directory. Price $1.25. 



The American Fruit Grower's Guide in Orchard and G*r'Jen. jSe- 

 ins tlie most complete book ou the suUiect ever Dublialied. 



Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory, nice 20 oens. Do 

 in ch)th, 50 cents. 



The above will be fsent free upon reeeipt of price annexed. 



(S^onUnts of His NumScr. 



Shall we have to abandon Wheat Growing in West. N. York?.. 41 



Items suggested by the January number.. 4S 



The Number of Pounds in a Bushel 44 



Feed of Poultry 44 



Plowing Land for Corn . 49 



A Marsh and its Products 45 



Cultivation of Potatoes 48 



Potatoes on Glover Sod 4S 



Cultivation of Potatoes without use of the Hand Hoe 4? 



Wintering Calves , 47 



Agricultural Reading, 4? 



Winter Barley ^ 



Agricultural Papers, at.d the Duty of Farmers to Write for them 48 



Experiraenis with the Chinese Sugar Cane 48 



On Raising Onions 49 



Docking Horses a Barbarous Practice 49 



Piles in Pigs 49 



Another "Chapter from Experience." SO 



Productiveness of Headlands Sp 



Disease in the Feet of Cattle 80 



The Sheep Rack 60 



Care of i^tock in Winter 51 



Cultivation of Beans 51 



Racks for Feeding Sheep 61 



Headrnpes for Cattle 51 



Seed Corn £1 



Smithtield Club Cattle Show -61 



Experiments on Sowing a Mixture of Different Varieties of 



Wheat. 52 



Notes for the Month, by S. W - ^ 



Cheap Board Fence 5i 



A Cheap Fence -- SB 



Condition Powders for Horses 63 



Devon Bull Puritan - 64 



A Mark of Progress 54 



Quarter-Ill in Cattle 64 



To Keep Meat Fresh and Sweet 54 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Annual Meeting of the Western Kew York Fruit-Growers' 



Association . 



Tomato Plants 



Select Pears on the Quince Stock 



Re-Grafting old Apple Trees 



Horticultural Operations for February. 



A Question for Horticulturists 



A Simple Instrument for Laying out Curves. 



Rust and Cracking of the Pear 



A new Apple Tree Worm 



Tar on Fruit Trees 



The "Big Tree" of California 



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LADISS' DEPABTMBirr. 



Original Domestic Eeceipts 



editor's table. 



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CHIHESE NOSTHERN SUGAR-CANE. 



packets, at 12^2 cents each, ^^by mail, prepaid, 25 cts.) Or 76c 

 per pound, in quantity. 



Chufns, or E.'xrth Almonds, $1 per 100. 

 .Japan Peas, 50 cents a quait. 

 New Orange Water-Melon. 25 centu per ez, 

 Christiana Melon. King Philip Corn. 



Sweet German Turnip, &c., &e., with the largest and most 

 compreh'nsive assortment of Vegetable, Flower and Field Seeds 

 to be found in the United States. 



Catalogtios on appUcation, if by letter, encloxe 3 cent stamp for 

 return postsge. J. M. THORBURN & Co., 



feb— It 15 Johii St, New YoA. &^ 



January Premiums 



Premiums for Short Essays 



A slight Misconception 



Consumption of Meat 



Soaking Seed Previons to Planting , 



Feeding Hog.s, 



The Rural Annual for 1857 



Profits of Butter Making ., 



An Egg within an Egg 



Annual Meeting of the D. S. Agricultural Society., 



Bound Volumes of the Farmer 



Cheesy Butter 



O^age Orange Hedges at the West 



Thanks Kind Friends. 



Di signs for Cottages, Farm Houses, &c 



Spare Ihe Birds 



Cure for Warts on Cattle 



To Destroy Bats and Mice 



A Good Hint - 



The Connecticut Biddy Outdone 



To Secure Male or Female Progeny at Will 



Pot.ato Disease 



Rural Annual for 1856 --. 



Notices of New Books, he -■ 



Inquiries and Answers .- 



XLLUSTBATIOVO. 



Dwarf Pear Tree 



Instrument for Laying out Curves 



The "Big Tree" of California 



Devon Bull Puritan 



Ked Sf ider, Katural Siie and Maeuified., 



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