THE GENESEE FARMER FOR 1853. 



One more number completes the present 

 volume. To those who have read the 

 Farmer the present year, we need not say 

 that we have spared neither labor nor ex- 

 pense to make our paper interesting and 

 valuable. But for our large and almost 

 unparalleled circulation, every volume we 

 print would cost us more than the price 

 charged to subscribers. To our friends 

 and agents everywhere, we tender our 

 acknowledgements for past favors, and hope 

 to increase our indebtedness another year. 

 Let every subscriber spend an hour in 

 calling the attention of his friends and 

 neighbors to the claims of the Genesee 

 Farmer, and we shall more than double 

 our circulation the coming year. Let all 

 engage in this work, and form clubs early. 



The Practical and Scientific Farmer's own Paper. 

 THK GENBSGK FAUMER, 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, 



ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS OF 



Farm Buildings, Domestic Animals, Implements, &c. 



VOLUME XIV, FOR 1853. 



DANIEL LEE, JAMES VICE, Jr., &, JOSEPH 



HARRIS, Editors. 



P. BARRY, Conductor of Horticultural Department 



IN issuing a Prospectus for the Foukteenth Volume of 

 the Gen-osee Farmtr, the Publisher flatters himself that it 

 is too widely known, too extensively circulated, and too 

 well read, t(> render it necessary to state the design of the 

 worli. Those who read the Farmer are the best judges of 

 its value, and those unacquainted with it are invited to ex- 

 amine its pages. 



The Fourteenth Volume will commence on the 1st of 

 January, and will be issuc<l regularly on the 1st of each 

 month during the year. It will be printed on new type and 

 superior paper, each number containing THIRTY -TW\) 

 PAGKS, and making at the end of the year a Volume of 

 3S4 pages, with title page, index. &c., suitable for binding. 

 The work is appropriately illustrated with lH>autiful and 

 really valuabli' engravings of Farm Buildiniri. Iniplernents, 

 Domestic Animals, (.'lioiee Fruits, Flowers, Shrubs, &c. — 

 The Volume for \<rl. when bouml, will make the most val- 

 uable Volume on Agriculture yet published in this country. 

 The Volume for 1>53 we design still farther to imi>rove, and 

 hope to be sustained in our efforts by the farmers of the 

 country. 



We number among our Contributors, hundreds of the best 

 Practical Farmers in the country, and our rea<lers have 

 thmugh our pases, the benefit of their wisdom and experi- 

 ence. No thinking man can read any number we issue, 

 without receiving some useful hint in regard to the man- 

 agement of crops, stock, or the orchard, of more value than 

 the price of the volume. The Genesee Fifmer is by far 

 the Cheapest Agricultural Journal published in America. — 

 Our FORTY THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS place us 



abend of all other Agricultural Journals, and enable us to 

 furnish a pai>er for tlie trifling sum of Three or Four Shil- 

 lings, equal to any, both in value and beauty. It.s position 

 as the (Vienpe^t, and at least one of the J?**? Agri<:iiH)iral 

 Journals in the country, is fully established, and we confi- 

 dently ask for it that support which it merits from the Far- 

 niers. Gardeners, and Fruit Cult\irisfs of the United States. 

 We invite all who feel the importance of sust;iining this 

 work, and extending its usefulness, not only to subscribe 

 themselves, but to introduce it to the patronage of their 

 friends. 



Fifty Cents a Year, In Advance. 



Five Copies for .$2 — Fight Copies for $3, and any larger 

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t^Sf" All subscriptions to commence with the year, and 

 the entire volume supplied to all subscribers. 



^^"Post-Masters, Far.mers, and all friends of improve- 

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Subscription money, if properly enclosed, may be sent 

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 DANIEL. LEE, 



November, 1852. Jiochenier, K. Y. 



Postage Law. — By the new Postage Law, 

 which took effect on the 1st of Sejitemberlast, the 

 postage on the Gcnaee Farmer for one year is as 

 follows,— when paid quarterly in advance : 



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.Seeds. 



FOUL MEADOW GRASS SEED, Genuine ; Fine 

 Lawn Grass; English and Italian Ray Grass; White Clo- 

 ver, &c., for sale by R.\LPH & CO., 



Union Ag. Warehouse and Seed Store, 23 Fulton St., 

 New York. [ll-2t] 



French Zlnn Paint. 



THIS new and beautiful article of Paint is now oflfered to 

 the trade and public, ground in prepared linseed oil, for the 

 first time in this cotintry. It has been used successfully in 

 France for tho last five years, where it has superseded w hite 

 Lead as a paint. 



The French Zinc -when properly prepared and used, 

 makes the most brilliant ami durable white in use, and is 

 entirely free from all poisonous qualities. 



The French Zinc is not more expensive than white le.ad, 

 and is prepared in such a manner that it requires no far- 

 ther preparation fir use, than to thin it with Turpentine or 

 raw Oil to the consistency of white lead paint. 



The French Zinc is very much whiter, and has a better 

 body, than the New .Jersey Zinc. 



The French Zinc is offered dry, and prepared as above, 

 in quantities to suit purchasers, at the Manufacturer's De- 

 pot, No. 17 Buffalo St., Rochester, N. Y. 



July, 1S52, M. F. REYNOLDS. 



Alonroe Nursery. 



TO those who have purchased trees of me, at the Monroe 

 Nursery, it is unnecessary to say anything here; but the 

 public generally 1 would recommend to call and examine 

 my stock of trees, for they are, without doubt, the must 

 thrifty and stocky that can lie f lund in any nursery around. 

 It is true, I can not boast of IdivhiO of one kimi, ioiyidd of 

 another, .5i>,ii()() of another, &c. ; but this I can say, that I 

 have 40,00(1 fine, thrifty, well grown apple trees, three and 

 f lur years old, all of the best leading varieties, ready for 

 delivery this fall. Also, cherries, pears, peaches, Ac, in 

 like proportion, all of which are offered low, and very low 

 to wiiolesale jobbers. 



My facilities for obtaining buds and scions from bearing 

 trees, are likewise unsurpassed by any other nursery, hav- 

 ing, since I have owned and carried on the nursery, (now 

 going on ten years,) set out new standards of all the best 

 leading varieties, all of which are in bearins: condition. 

 CHARLES POWIS. 



Greece, Ridge Plank Road, Oct., 1850. 



