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THE GENESEE FARAffiR. 



New Advertisements this Month. — A. Gordon & 

 Co., of the Rochester Agricultural Works, manufacture 

 Pitt's justly celebrated Horse Powers and Threshing Ma- 

 chines, with the latest improvements, as well as IItde & 

 Wright's Horse Hoe and Cultivator Plow, the Roches- 

 ter Cutting Box, Hildketh's Gang Plow, &c. Farmers 

 in want of any of these articles would do well to give 

 them a call. 



James M. Thorbuen & Co., of New York, offer a 

 Taried assortment of Agricultural Seeds, as well as of the 

 Northern Sugar Cane Seed. 



Saxton & Co., of New York, the Agricultural Book 

 Publishers, offer a number of valuable and seasonable 

 Books, which they will send by mail, free of postage. 



John S. Dye, of New York, offers his Weekly Bank 

 Note Detector, for one dollar a year. 



JnquirUs anU ^ns^txe. 



(A Subscriber.) We know of no certain remedy 

 against the turnip fly. The best method is to sow them 

 Tery thick, say one or two pounds of seed per acre, and thin 

 out the plants when they are in the rough leaf and out of the 

 reach of the fly. Anything that will stimulate the growth 

 of the young plants can be used to advantage. Plaster 

 will probably be of some benefit ; but superphosphate of 

 lime sown in drills with the seed is the best of all man- 

 ures for turnips, and will push them forward so rapidly 

 that the fly cannot hurt them. We have never seen a crop 

 hurt when sufficient seed was sown along with superphos- 

 phate. 



(A Farmer, Corinth, N. Y.) We know from actual ex- 

 periment that sheep will not fat as fast when they are not 

 permitted to drink all the water they wish. For an ac- 

 count of this experiment see Genesee Farmer for 1852, 

 page 383. 



(A Young Farmer.) Plant the Chinese sugar cane as 

 you would corn. Asparagus beds, if not already done, 

 should be forked over and raked smooth, being careful not 

 to hurt the crowns of the plants. 



(A. I. P.) We have had no experience with unleached 

 ashes as manure for broom corn, but think they would be 

 ■beneficial. See prize essay on the cultivation of broom 

 corn in this number, page 145. 



(C. A. F., Newburgh, N. Y.) Your plums fall off the 

 tree because they have been stung with the curculio. 



The top branches of my cherry trees are affected with 

 bla.'k accumulations having a grub ii:side. 1 should be 

 gla 1 if your corrcs[)ondents would inform me of a remedy. 

 R. ¥.— Trenton, C. W. 



Information Wanted. — I am naturally a little inqui- 

 sitive, and sometimes charged wifii asking foolish questions 

 and being diffii'ult to satisfy. If at present you thirik my 

 que=itions foolish, you may answer me according to my folly 

 or not answer me at all. 



1st. If it is so (as many believe) that buckwheat » ill kill 

 hogs and give old hoys the scr.atches ; whv is it? and 

 woul i it remedy the evil to grind it or ciok it ? 



21 Last fill] whde husUing my corn I found several well 

 formed cobs almost entirely without corn, three of them 

 eontaining about as follows : No. 1, one grain ; No. 2, two 



grains ; No. 3, twelve grains. If there is a natural cau^ 

 for every thing, why is it that cobs are generally covered 

 with corn, while some few grow with none or very little ? 



3d. Why is it that the rows of grain on corn-cobs ar» 

 sometimes crooked, while as a general rule they aix 

 straight? 



L;ist fall I found a middling sized ear on which the TO\t% 

 made a complete circuit of the cob, both ends being oti 

 one side, and the middle on the opposite side. 1 intend tB 

 f)lant a few grains from this twisty ear to see if it will pr(^ 

 duce twisty corn. ' J. H. Hamilton. — Mercer Co., Pa. 



ADVERTISEMENTS, 



To secure insertion in the Farmer, must be received a.'' early as tiU 

 10th of the previous month, s-ad be of such „ character as to l» 

 of interest to farmers. Terms - Two Dollars Icr everj hundred 

 words, each insertion, paid in advance. 



NEW YORK STATE AGBICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



PREMIUMS ON FARMS— 1857. 



Grain Farms, Premium $.50 and $39 



Dairy and Grazing, " 50 " 3d 



Competitors aie desired to give notice to the Secretary befoi» 

 the fir.it of July, so that the farms can be visited by a CommittjB^ 

 api oiiited for that puroo.se. 



FIKLD CROPS. — Competitors should obtain the Regulations cf 

 the Society, so as to have their statements properly prej ared. It 

 Greeley's Premium on one acre of Carrots is continued. Regul2»- 

 tions will be furnished on application to the Secretary, and also a 

 list of Premiums for 18'i7. B. P. JOHNSON, 



AoRicrLTURAL Rooms, Albany, March 2, 1857. Secretary. 



April 1.— 3t. 



TO LOVERS OF FLOWERS. 



BUIST'S FLOWER GAEDFN DIRECTORY, $1.25 

 BRECK'S BOOK OF FLOWERS 1.08 



Will give you the directions you need for selecting the rarest and 

 best flowers, and for their successful cultivation. These are ti<* 

 bi'gt hooks for amateurs. 



jj~^^ Sent free of postage on receipt of price. 



CM. S.\XfON & CO., 

 Agricultural Book Publishers, 

 May 1.— It. 140 Fulton street. New York- 



NORTHERN SUGAR CANE SEED- ^ 



HAVING purchased from Mr. Wray his importation of Chineige 

 Imphee or Sorgho Seed, grown in France, under his own im» 

 mediate inspection, (thereby insuring the utmost purity,) and d«- 

 scribed editorially by Mr. Greei.v.y. in the Tribune, we offer it for 

 sale in quantities, at ONE DOLLAR A POUNH. and in packeta^ 

 prepaid by mail, at 25 cents, £0 cents, and SI each. This seed,.** 

 superior to any othtr in market, can be procured oyily from 

 J. M. THORBLRN &- CO., 

 May 1. — It. 15 John street, New York. 



AGRICULTURAL SEEDS. ~~ 



g^^ THE subscribers offer the following seasonable Seeds |^j9| 

 ■S^i^the growth of last, year, and of unsurpassed qualitirs. Vv^ 

 .,^'L- Dealers and others requiting large quantities, will be-°>-«:^ 

 served at pries ronsideiaWy below the rates quoted : 



Best quality Red Top Turnip, 75 cts. per I{h 



Red Top Strap Le.nf do., 75 ." " 



Large White English Globe do £0 •' " 



" " " Norfolk do., 50 " " '. 



I,ong White Tankard do., 75 " " 



Yeihiw Stone do., 75 " " 



Yellow Aberdeen do., "5 " " 



Best American Improved Ruta Baga do , 75 " " 



Imported do. do. do., 50 " " ' 



" Purple Top do. do,, 60 " * , 



And twelve other varieties of Turnips, from 50c. to $\.C0 " 



Early Scarlet Short-horn Carrot 1.00 « 



Improver) Long Orange do. l.no " 



Long White do., 75 cts. " 



Wliite SuL'ar Beet, 50 " « s 



Yellow do 50 " " , 



L.-ng Red Mangel Wurzel do,,... .50 " « 



Yellow Globe do, do., 60 « " 



Fine Mixed French Grass Seed, for Lawn", $5.(0 perbushefc 



And other Mixtures for Lawns, at .f.3.00 and 4.fO " " 



Also, the finest, qualities of Red. White Dutih. Lucerne, and 

 other Clovers; Tlmo-hv. Red Top, Blue Grass, English aud Italian 

 ''av Grass, Oicbard, Sweet Scented Verr;il, the Figfiies, rvrd other 

 Grnssps: with a Ijirire and enmplete assortment of VEGETABLB, 

 FLOWER AND FIELD SEEDS of the best qualities, at reasoB»» 

 ble rntes. 



t^" Catalogues on application. 



JAMES M, TRORBURN k CO., 



May 1.— 2t. 15 John street. New YoA. 



