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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Prices of AgricTiltural Products at tlie Principal Markets in the United States, Canada and England, 



€;onttnt« of tfits Numitr. 



The Practical utility of Soil Analyses, 265 



Fair of the Royal Agricultural Society, 267 



Ten Esopntials to Good Farming, 26S 



Butter Making in MaBsachusetts, 268 



Items Suggested by the Ausust Number, 269 



Growth of tlie •' Sorgluim," 269 



Notes for the Month, by S. W., 270 



Convenient Pig-Sty, 270 



Yell"w Dock (Rumex crispus), 271 



How much Corn, or Hav, is required to produce One Pound of 



Meat? 271 



P.eflections on Poor Roads. — No. 1, 272 



Lime a' a Manure, 272 



Taste and Thrift in Iowa, 273 



Turnips among Corn — Butter from Praii'ie Grass — Draining,&c., 274 



Advantages of Forethought in Farming, 274 



How to Clean and Keep Farming Tools Bright, 275 



Great Fecundity of Wheat, 275 



Chess and Cockle, 275 



One Word More on the Milking Question, 276 



Breaking the Prairie, - 276 



Sound Corn — Again, 276 



Farmer's Clubs, 276 



Farming Going Up, -77 



Searcity of Fodder at the West, 277 



Draining without Tiles, 278 



Digging and Preserving Potatoes, 278 



Notes from MinnesofA, 278 



Buckwheat to Kill Wire-worms, 278 



Drilling in Wheat, 278 



Bakewell's Aneodnte, 279 



How it may be Easier for a Machine to Work than to do 



Nothing, 279 



Browne's Poultry-house, 280 



New York Premium Butter, 281 



A Boy's Corn Crop, 2.';i 



Slosges, - 2S1 



HO'?TI0ULTtTRAL PEPARTKENT. 



Location as it affects Temperature and Vegetation, 2^2 



Horticultural Operations for September, 



Strir 



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2S3 



Cultivation of Grapes in the Open Air, . 284 



In " My New Gard-en " — No. 2, 2-^5 



TheCurculio, 2S6 



Notes on Strawberries, 286 



Cultivation of Strawterries, 287 



Angle-worms, 28T 



Ciimp.ai-alive Backwardness of the Season, ..,-. 2S7 



Onifling Pears on White Thorn, 287 



Set dut Strawberry Plants this Month, 288 



Gatliering and Ripening Fruit 288 



Transplanting Evorgreens in EtirLy A.utumn, 288 



Why Weeds Grow Apace, 288 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



Women on Committees at Horticultural Exhibitiou?, 289 



Original Domestic Receipts, 889 



leaxn to Cook, ^ 289 



EDITOR'S lABUE. 



Does Wheat Turn to Chess? 290 



Great Price for a South- don-n Ram, 2^0 



■rrait Growers' Soeiety of Western New York, 290 



Sulphur for Rose Bugs, 890 



"Tile FvUial Annual and Horticultural Diieetory for 1S53, 219 



The Dioscorea Batatis, 291 



Corrections, 291 



Great Sale of Imported Stock, 291 



County Agricultural Fairs, 281 



The Ohio Pomological Society, 281 



Prize Essays. 291 



Notices of New Books, Periodicals, &c., 291 



Inquiries and Answers, 233 



State Fairs for 1857, 292 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Convenient Pig-sty, . . 270 



PerspectiveView and Ground Plan of Browne's Poultry-house, 280 

 Transverse Section of " " 281 



Spirffia Callosa, 2S3 



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