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GENESEE FARMER.. 



Dec. 



MARKET INTELLIGENCE. 



Rochester PioducelMarket— Wholesale. 



Wheat, 



Corn, 



Barley, 



Oats, 



Flour, 



Beans, 



Apples, bushel. 



Potatoes. 



Clover Seed, 



Timothy, 



Hay, ton, 



Wood, cord,.. 

 Salt, bbl,...- 

 Hams, lb,.... 



90 



38 



38 



30 



4,2-5 



87.J 



10 



31 



4,00 



1,00 



7,50 



2,00 



1,12 



44 



5,00 

 1.25 

 9,00 

 4,00 



9 



Pork, bbl 10,00 11,00 



Pork.cwt, 3.00 



Beef, cwt, 2.50 



Lard, lb ■ 7 



Butter, lb, 10 



Cheese, new lb., 5 



Eggs,doz, 14 



Poultry 5 



Tallow. 6 



Maple Supar, .. 6 



Sheep Skms, 33 



Green Hides, lb 3j 

 Dry •• .... t 

 Calfskins,.... { 



3.50 

 3,00 



8 

 14 



6 



fi 

 6i 

 77 

 50 



[Bi/ Magnetic Telegraph.'] 



New York, JVov. 28.-8 P. M. 



The market for Flour was not very active. Sak^s being 

 about 6000 or 7000 bbls., including 2000 Brooklyn Mills, at 

 $.5,25. The quotations to-day have been $5,18"a $5,25 for 

 Michigan and Genesee, and .f 5,31 for Genesee in Store ; 

 $5,37.J being universally asked. There is not a great deal 

 arriving, but the quantity piled up on dock is large. Some 

 large receivers a.sk $5,50. 



In (Jrnin the movement has been small ; a parcel of 2500 

 busli. miied wheat was sold at $1,02, and 2000 do. fair 

 $1,06. 



Corn is dull and I hear of nothing done in good parcel.?. 

 A lot of Southern new sold at 60 cts.; good yellow North- 

 ern is worth perhaps 73 or 75 cts. 



Sales 15.000 bu«h. Rye at 76i cts. in the slip, and 79 a 80 

 cts. delivered. Oats tend upward. Canal are worth 38 a 

 38i. Sales 2400 bush. Barley for c.\porton private terms. 



Pork is $8 a $9,T5. The sales both of Beef and Pork are 

 Tery limited. A small sale Utica prime mess Beef was 

 made at $15,50. 



Tallow i« in good demand, but the supply is light. Prime 

 is9i a9i. 



Cotton is rather firmer to-day in consequence of Southei;!! 

 frosts. 



The operations in heavy produce are much hampered by 

 the high freights. 



The Cash System— 1847. 



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Monro* County As?ricultural Society. 



The Annual Meeting will be held at the Rochester Seed 

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 at 10 o'clock, A. M. 



This Meeting will award the Premiums on Field Crops, 

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 JOHN H. ROBINSON, 



DKtmber, 1846. Pre^idtnt. 



1847.] VOLUME VIII. [1847. 



GENESEE FARMER, 



A MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL; 

 Illustrated with tmrnerous engravings of 



Improved Implements, Farm Buildings, Domestic 

 Animals, Fruil.s, &e. &c. 



The Proprietor of the Farmer gratefully acknowledges 

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NovEMSER, 1846. Publisher, Rochester, N. Y. 



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Contents of this Number. 



Close of the Volume, 271 



WheatCultMre 972 



Sheep Husbandry on the Prairies ; Useful to the La- 

 dies ; Cough in Horses, 273 



Study of Agriculture, 374-5-6 



The Farmer's Agricultural Chemistry, 277 



Steep for Wheat ; Miuutes of Meeting of N. Y. State 



Ag. Society ; Large Calf; New Year's Cake, .. 278 



To Corrcspandents ; Hints to Farmers ; To Preserve 

 Eggs ; Remedy for Scours in Horses ; Polish Honey ; 

 Water Proof Blacking ; " Honor to whom Honor.". 279 



Letter from S. W.; J. J. Thomas' Prize Essay, 880 



Cattle, (with three illustrations,) 381 



Potato Cholera, J82 



The Farmer, his position, duties, &c., 282-3 



To the ('ultivators of the Soil in Western New York ; 

 Encouragement, 234 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



The Strawberry Question ; Osband's Summer Pear,.. 285 



V^an Zandt's .Superb Peach ; Duration of varieties of 

 Fruit ; Swan's Oraixge or Onondaga Seedling Pear, 286 



Outline aad Description of two fine Autumn Apples, 

 (Dyer and St. Lawrence ;) Northern Spy Apple,... 287 



Splendid Plants from China ; Acknowledgments ; Hor- 

 ticulture in Mississippi ; Yellow Newtown Pippin, 283 



Removal. 



The Farmer Ofiice has been removed to Talman Block, 

 i:n Buffalo street, nearly opposite the entrance to Arcade 

 Hall. Our new location is central, and convenient to those 

 baring business to transact with the establishment. 



