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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Prices of Agricultural Products at the Principal Mai'kets in the United States, Canada and England. 



Contittts of ttia Nuraitt. 



The British Breed.? of Cattle, 



The Practical Utility of Soil Analyses, 



Fair of the New York State Agricultural Society, 



Profincial Exhibition of Canada West, 



Items .Suggested by the October Number, 



Notes for the Mouth, by S. W., 



Crystali'ied Sugar from the Chinese Sugar Cane, 



Domestic Pigeons, ! 



Crops in Seneca County, &c., 



Topping vs. Cutting Up Corn, 



Notes from Indi.ana, 



On the Management of Corn for Feeding Cattle, 



Agriculture in Virginia, 



Experiments with the Cliinese Sugar Cane, ,. 



Laying Down Butter for Winter, 



Planting Sugar Cane instead of Seed, 



Good Management of Business Affairs — Buying, Selling, &c.,.. 



Mind your Business, 



Agriculture in Western New York, as described by an Intelli- 

 gent Scotch Farmer 



Improve your Stock of Fowls, 



English Country House, - 



HORTICULTURAL DKPARTMBNT. 



PropJire for Planting next Spring, 347 



Length of Pear Roots — Correction, 347 



Three (iood Raspberries, 84S 



Horticultural Operations for November, 349 



In my " New Garden." — No. 4,. 349 



Culture of Grapes in the Open Air, _ 350 



Rai.siag Peaches in Massachusetts, 351 



The Willow, 352 



Remedy for the Curculio, 3."i2 



Varieties of Fruit for the West, 3o2 



American Plums, - 352 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



Taste in Iowa — Once More, 363 



Original Domestic Receipts, 353 



EDITOR'S TABLE. 



The next Volume of the Genesee Farmer, 354 



What is said of the Genesee Parmer,... 354 



The Rural Annual for 1858, 355 



Premiums for Short Essays, 355 



" The .advantages of a Good Agricultural Ijibraiy, and the Best 



Means of Obtaining it," 356 



Ontario Pear, 356 



Delaware Grapes, 350 



Missing Numbers, . 356 



Our January Premiums, 356 



Oyer Three Hundred Dollars in Premiums for Subscribers to 



tlie Genesee Farmer, 3'ifi 



To our ,A,geuts, 358 



To our Friends Everywhere, ..- 356 



SUow-bilUs 356 



Incjuiries and Answers, 356 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Heads of West Highland Cattle, 329 



Galloway 

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Group pf Domestic Pigeons, 338 



Polish Top-knot Cock and Hen, 344 



Heads of Spanish Fowls, 344 



Dorking Cock and Hen, 344 



Dominique Cock, 344 



Game Cock aod Hen, 345 



Silver-penciled H.aniburgh Cock and Hen, 345 



Gold-penciled Hamburgh Cock and Hen, 345 



White Bantam Cock and Hen, 345 



Black Bantam Cock .and Ufa, 344 



View of Haves' Farm, Devonshire — the Birth-place of Sir 



Walter Raleigh, 346 



Brinkle's Orange Raspbeiry, 348 



Hudson River Antwerp •' 34S 



FastolfF " 348 



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