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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



(£^itox's ^Rhit, 



New AdvertisementB tliis Month. 



Dowaing's Truiis aisd Fruit Trees of America. — Wiley &, Ilal- 

 atM. New York. 



Albany Tile W.«-ks— C. i W. M'Cammon, Albany, N. Y, 



Fruit Trees anri Fruit.— T. G. Yeomans, Walworth, N. Y. 



The Ma.ssac'h«setts Whi^te Grape. — B. M. Watson, Plytnouth, 

 Mass. 



New noehelle Blackberry. — J. C. Teas. Ray«ville, Ind. 



YoKiig Men., Foros a Book Clab. — D. M. Dewey, Rochester. N.Y. 



iforgau Horse for Sale. — Eliab Yeomaas, Walworth, N. Y. 



Blackberry I'laRts by Mail. — C. P. Bissell, Eocheater, N. Y. 



Family Sewing Machiaes.— Grover & Baker, New Y'ork. 



Faie of xnii Unitkd Statks Agricultural Society. 

 The Fifth Annual Fair of the United States AgricuJtural 

 Sucietj was held at Louisville, K}., Sept. 1 — G. The at- 

 t nuiance was very large, the arrangeraents excellent, and 

 tilt? receipfsovor $20,000. The show of Short-horns was not 

 large, but there were severaJ excellent herds represented. 

 There was also a fine show of Herefords. Of Devons, 

 Ayrshires and AldernejB few were exhibited, and tJiose few 

 possessed no very particular excellence. There was a small 

 show of Coarse Wooled Sheep of fair quality, and a few 

 SiKOtts. The show of Pigs was not what might be ex- 

 pectei at a National Exhibition in th« heart of the great 

 We^t. Of Poultry there was no show worth the name. 

 The exhibition of Horses was exceedingly good. The 

 show of Fiutt, Vegetables, Seeiis, and Agricultural Im- 

 plements was rather meagre. On the whole, the show 

 was decidedly i feiior to those at Philadelphia and Boston. 



The following awards have been decreed by the Judges 

 for Implements exhibited at Syracuse ia July Jast ; 



AWARD FOR REAPERS. 



FirsX Prermum — To C H. McCorniick, of Chicago, 111., 

 a gold medal and diploma. 



Second Premium — ^T"o Walter A. Wood, of Hoosick 

 Falls, N. Y., Manny's patent, a silver medal. 



Third /rentium — To Warder. Brokaw & Child, of 

 Springfield, Oliio, a bronze cedal. 



Diploma — To Jonathan Haines, of Pekin, 111., for Illi- 

 nois Harvester — a diploma. 



AWARDS TO COMBINED MACHINES. • 



First Premium— To Walter A. Wood, of Hoosick Falls, 

 N Y., Manriy'.s Patent, a gold medal and diploma. 



Second Premium — To D. M. Osborne, of Buffalo, N. 

 y., a silver medal. 



Third Premium— To Warder, Brokaw & Child, of 

 Springfi.eJ'i. Ohio, a bronr.e meda?. 



HAY OR CO'ITO.N PKESS. 



First Premium — To Win. Deering & Co., of Albanv, N. 

 Y.. for a Stationary Para'lel Hay Press — a silver uiedal 

 and dijtlcmia. 



First Premium — To Wm. Deering & Co . of Albany, N. 

 y., for a Portable Pa.-allcl Hay Press — a silver medai aad 

 diploma. 



OKAIK CSADLE^g. 



First Premium — To H. Robinson, of Lafayette Square, 

 Oata io Co., N. Y. — a bronze medal. 



SCYTHE SNATHS. 



First Premium — To Frost, Burke & Co., «f Springfield, 

 Vt — a bronae medai. 



HAY RAKKS.' 



To John llateli & Cook, of New Yoisrk, for wiperior Hay 

 Ra'ces — a certificate of merit. 



The comaiittee on mowers have not jet agreed upon 

 their verdict. 



Potato Rot. — Potatoes have rotted badly in many 

 parts of the country. David Siglek, of Lime Mills, 

 Crawford Co., Penn., says potatoes are rotting very hadly 

 in that section, especially on those farms where the pame 

 seed has been planted for some years. He has foi j-teen 

 varieties, and there are no signs of rot, except on t-he old 

 Irish grey, and Pinkeyes. Two years ago be raised 10^ 

 bushels of potatoes on 44 square rods of ground, say 3&'i 

 bushels per acre. He has planted the same ground eight 

 years in succession, and has never been troubled with tLe 

 rot, except one season. He applies plenty of line manure 

 on the land in the fall, and plows 14 inches deep, with a 

 double plow. He also applies a larg-e table spoonful of 

 plaster and a tea spoonful of salt in each hill. The soil is 

 a gravelly clay loam, with a hard cJay eubsoii. 



Mr. S. also states that a neighbor of his this spriRg 

 planted potatoes and corn in alternate rows on seven aere» 

 of rich grareJly land, thinking this practice a preventive 

 of the potato rot. The result, however, does not come up 

 to his expectations, as the potatoes tu-e rotted badly, and 

 the corn is only half eared. 



Will Wheat turn to Chess? — Commonications on 

 this " vexed question" flow in upon us from all quarter*. 

 We can see no good object to be gained by their publica- 

 tion. Not one of them contains anything new — not a sin- 

 gle fact that affords }>ositive proof. One gentleman who 

 has no doubt that wheat will turn to chess, urges '• the 

 readers of the Genesee Farmer to make experiments for 

 themselves, and they will then be convinced," We are in 

 favor of this jiroposition, but would ask leave to amend, 

 in one particular. Let the object of the experiments be 

 to turn chess to whecU. It is a poor rule that will not 

 work both ways. If chess is "degenerated wheat," ij is 

 not improbable that good culture wo«l<i restore it back to 

 its original condition. This is an object worthy the am- 

 bition of our readers. One hundred dollars has been 

 offered for a process of turning wheat into chess. We 

 will be one often gentlemen to offer One Thousand Dol- 

 lars for a cheap and simple process for turning chess iato 

 wheat. Let the experiments be commenced this fall. 



Undeedkaining Clay Land. — In the summer of 185€, 

 Mr. Charles Meiks, of Mercer Co., Penn., underdrained 

 eight acres of clay land as follows : The drains were dug 

 parallel with each other, twenty-seven feet apart, thirty 

 inches deep, and about twelve inches wide. Being una- 

 ble to procure drain tiles, they carted sandstone to the 

 trenches, broken to a proper size, and filled in about 

 twelve inches, and wherever there was a low spot, tbey 

 cut a cross drain. After it was finished, it was sown to 

 white wheat, and the average yield this liarvest was forty- 

 three bushel* per acre, and in wejghiog, it overran two 

 pounds and a half per bushel. Other farmers «n the 

 neighborhood think they have a very good crop if they 

 get twenty busheis per acre, while with many it does not 



exceed fifteen per acre. 



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Carbonic Acid in the Soil.— The air found in the 



interstices of arable soils has been analyzed by Bow«sin<j- 



aolt and Levy, and found to contain from 22 to 23 times 



as muck carbonic aeid as the atmosphere, and when thej 



had been reeently moisieaed, 215 times &a mucii. 



