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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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Preserve your Numbers. — Kind reader, we are 



iniishing you a paper each month tliiit is well 



rth preserving. Set a few stitches through the 



:u.k, cut the leaves, and then you are ready to 



read a number comfortably. As soon as all have 



read it, lay it aside carefully for binding at the 



.11(1 of the year. If you don't live within a hun- 



iivd miles of a book-bindery, stitch them together. 



Ill this, and we modestly think tlus-t you will 



have a book at the end of the year, that no sane 



man would sell for a dollar. 



The Trial of Implements by the N. Y. State 

 Au'iicultural Society, will take place near Geneva 

 ■ luring harvest. The day is not yet determined, 

 i ut will be published in season, in the local pa- 

 [ ill's. Grain Reapers, Mowing Machines, Seed 

 1 Mills, <tc., are then to be tested. A mechanical 

 rxliibition is to take place at the same time, in 

 li ■ueva, under the direction of its citizens. It 

 w ill be an interestiua; exhibition. 



PouL'jRY Exhibition in Rochester. — The Monroe 

 County Agricultural Society have determined to 

 hold a Poultry Exhibition in connection with the 

 next County Fair, (Sept, 29th and 30th,) to be 

 open to the State. The premium list is liberal, 

 and we anticipate a fine display. 



Toe Musical World and Journal of the Fine 

 Arts. — We have received this Journal for the last 

 two or three months, and recommend it to all 

 who would keep pace with the times in respect 

 to mu^^ical intelligence. Terms, $1.50 per annum, 

 in advance. Published on the 1st and 15tli of 

 each mouth, by Oliver Dyer, No. 257 Broadway, 



New York. 



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Saxton's Rural Hand-Bcsks. — C. M. Saxton, of 

 New York, is publishing a series of small books, 

 at 25 cents each, after the style of a series pub- 

 lished in Dublin. We shall notice these and other 

 books in our next. 



Plantation and Farm Instrhction, Eegci.ation Eec- 

 OED, Inventoky, and ACCOUNT BciOK : B}- a Soutliern 

 Planter. Published by J. \V. I! andolpii, Eichmond, Va. 



The above book was handed us by our friend 



Erastus Darrow, Bookseller, Rochester, N. Y. 



Advertisements, to secure insertion in the Far- 

 mer, must be received as early as the lOlh of the 

 previous month, and be of such a character as to 

 be of interest to farmers. We i^ublish no other. 

 Terms — 1^2.00 for every hundred words, each in- 

 sertion, paid in advance. 



Exchange Papers have laid us under many 

 obligations for their friendly notices. 



Agricultural Fairs. — Below we publish all the 

 agricultural Fairs to be held this fall tiuit have 

 come to our knowledge. The officers of any that 

 have been omitted will please notify us, giving 

 time and place. Those sending notices in papers, 

 will i)lease mark them, or they may escape our 

 notice. 



STATK yAlRS. 



New York, at Utica, Sept. 7, 8, 9, 10 



Ohio, al Cleveland " 10,10,17 



Michigan, at Detroit, " 22, 23, 2-t 



Canada West, at Toronto « 21, 22, 23, 24 



Vermont, at Eutlaiid, " 1, 2, 3 



Pennsylvania Oct. 20, 21, 22 



Wisconsin, at MUwaiikie, " 6, 7, S 



Georttia, " 18 to 23 



Maryland, at BaUimore, " 2C, 27, 28, 29 



American Pomoliigical Congress, at 



Philadelphia, " 13 



American Institute, at New York, '• 5 



Exhib. or Stock,.. " 19,20,21 

 Ehode Island Society ol' Improvement, 



at Providence....' .* Sept. 15,10, 17 



New England Society for Improvement 



of Poultry, at Boston, •' 7, 8, 9,10 



COUNTY FAIR-S. 



Saratoga, at MechaniesvlUe, Sept. 15,16,17 



Kensselaer, at Troy, " 22, 23, 24 



Clinton, at KeeseviUe, " 22, 23, 24 



Essex, " , 20,21,22 



Sufifolk, at Huntingdon, " 22 



Otsego, at IMorris " 22,23 



Jefft-rson, at Watertown, " 10, 17 



Cortland, " 15, 16 



Herkimer, at Herkimer, " 28, 29 



Ontario, at Canandaigua, " 29, 30 



Monroe, at liochester, " 29, 30 



Wyoming, at Warsaw, " 22, 23 



Seneca, at Waterloo, Oct, 14. 15 



Genesee, " 6, 7 



Cayuga, at Auburn, " 6, 7 



Putnam, at Carnitl, " 5, 



TOWN FAIRS. 



East Bloorofield, Sept. 22 



Galen, at Clyde, July 3, 4 



Scab, and Grub in the Head of SirsEP. — Is the Scab 

 of Sheep contagious? Is it confined to the skin? and what 

 is the best remedy? Also, for the Grub in the head? An 

 answer would oblige myself, and many other of your sub- 

 scribers in this section. A. C. — Wancaiida, Fd. 



The scab in sheep is caused by a parasitical in- 

 sect, the acari, and is exceedingly contagious, so 

 much 80, indeed, that it seldom makes its appear- 

 ance in a flock without affecting the whole. The 

 cause of contamination, however, is not so much 

 from a sound sheep coming in direct contact with 

 a diseased one, as by rubbing themselves on the 

 same posts, (fee. As soon as it is discovered, all the 

 affected sheep should be immediately removed 

 from the flock, and the sound ones turned into 

 fresh pastures or folds, whei'e they should be well 

 watched, and any that may show symptoms of the 

 disease be instantly taken away. 



The best and surest remedy, if applied with 

 care, is the common unguentum diluted with five 

 times its weight of lard. Rub a little on the 

 sheep, and then open a furrow along the back and 

 with llie finger apply a little and rttb it well in ; 



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