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THE GENES.EE FARMER. 



Feb. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Agricultural Education 



Deep and Shallow Draining ; Pea Bugs, 



Analyses of five varieties of Cabbage, 



Golden Dreams— California Gold, &c, 



Prosperity of Fanners; Top Dressing; Fattening Beef and Pork, 



Butter and Butter Making, with notices of various Churns,. . 



" Labor well applied is productive of Pro5t, ;! 



"Wire Fence— How to Make, Cheapness, 8cc, 



Tower's Hay Cutter, 



Drill Husbandry, 



Description of Snow Flakes 



Review of the January No. of the Farmer, 



Artichokes ; Wire Fence ; Clover ; Wire- Worm, 



" What Cows should Farmers Keep ?" 



Lunar Influence— Again, 



Figure of Short Horn Ox, with description of points,. ..... 



Short Horn Cattle 



Poultry Feeding-Hopper ; Gutta Percha, 



To Ascertain the Weight of Live Cattle, 



Patent Safety Bridle ; Shearing or Clipping Horses, 



Rearing Lambs ; Over Feeding of Animals, 



Poultry ; Tea Plant in the U. S. ; Improved Road Scraper ; 

 New Cider Mill ; Improvements on Windmills ; Portable 

 Saw Mill; Big Sheep, 



Editor's Table— Notices, &c, 



N. Y. State Ag. Society— Premiums Awarded and Exhibition 

 of Fruit at Annual Meeting, 



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HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Remarks on the Progress of Horticultural Improvement,.... 49 



European Editorial Correspondence, 49 



Description of Apples— Bailey Sweet and Mackie's Clyde 



Beauty, 51 



The Eustis Apple ; Melon Apple, 52 



Preserving Buds and Grafts, 52 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



Botany— Fruit and Seed, 53 



Female Education ; A Good Daughter, 54 



Science in the Kitchen ; Corn Bread, 54 



BOTb' DEPARTMENT. 



A Word to Boys and Young Men 54 



Premium Arithmetical Questions, ■ 55 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Portrait of Short Horn Ox, 44 j 



Lactometer, 36 



Kendall's Churn, 37 I 



Gaulfs Churn 37 i 



Atmospheric Churn, 37 



Tower's Hay Cutter, 39 | 



Forms of Snow-flakes, 41 



Poultry Feeding-Hopper, ... 45 



Bailey Sweet Apple, 51 



Mackie's Clyde Beauty do. . 51 

 Four figures, representing 

 Pericarp, Fruit, &c, 53 



Market Prices of Agricultural Products. 



New York, Jan. 23, 1849. 



Flour j>nd Meal. — Fair business in flour. Transactions reach 

 4000 at $5,50 a 5,65, for common to desirable. Not easy to get 

 fair parcels below 6, 56— included were 500 bbls. New Orleans at 

 $5.50— pure sold at $5.87a6. Meal $3 for Jersey. Rye Flour $3.25 

 a3.37>2. 



Grain.— Nothing doing in wheat, except small parcels Long 

 Island at $1.08al,10. Corn in moderate demand— sales 15,000 bu. 

 at 57a58 for N. O. and new white— 69 for old, and 64a6a for yellow. 

 Oats 35a36. 



Provisions.— In Pork not much movement— Ohio is $12,50al3,50 

 —sales 400 bbls. state at $12.50al4 and 150 bbls city prime at 

 $1.3,50. Beef steady, with sales 300 bbls. at $12,50«13 for mess. 

 Lard 6%a7. Pickled meats quiet. Sales 20,000 pounds greese 

 Lard at 5}£- Dressed Hogs $6a6%. 



Tallow— sales 20.000 lbs. at S?.-f, cash. 



Ashes dull— small sales at $6,75 for Pots. Pearls $7,87)a. 



Cotton— business to fair exte'nt at steady prices, with sales 1600 

 bales. Fair upland 1?ja7}£— Orleans 7%o8. 



Rochester, Jan. 23, 1849. 



Flour $5.50. Wheat $1,15. Corn44cts. Oats 25 a 28. Rye 

 53c. Barley 50c. 



Provisions. — Pork in hog $5.25— mess $13al4. Beef, cwt. $3.50a 

 $4. Hams 7 cts. Butter 12ol5 cts. Cheese $a%\i eta. 



Seeds.— Clover $3,50a4. Timothy $1,25«2. Flax $1. 



Bound Volumes of the Farmer. 



THE NINTH VOLUME OF THE FARMER, for 1848, just 

 oompleted, and for sale bound or in numbers, as preferred. It 

 contains a larger amount of matter pertaining tu \gricult.ure and 

 Horticulture than any similar work of the same price ever pub- 

 lished — and is illustrated with over eighty engravings Price. 

 02% cents bound in boards and leather — or 50 cents in marble 

 paper, with cloth backs. 



Also — complete sets of the Farmer from its commencement, 

 (except the 2d volume.) substantially bound, which we will sell at 

 50 cents p«r volume. These volumes are not suitable for sending 

 by mall— but we have copies of vols. 6. 7. and 8, bound in paper 

 covers, which may be mailed. 



THE GENESEE FARMER, 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, 



ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS OF 

 Farm Buildings, Domestic Animals, Implements, Fruits, &c. 



The Tenth Volume of this Journal will commence on the 1st 

 of January, 1849. In making this announcement to his Agents 

 and the Farmers and Fruit Culturists of the country, and again 

 asking their support in behalf of the work, the Publisher has the 

 satisfaction of stating that the Genesee Farmer now has a circu- 

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The Genesee Farmer is, beyond dispute, the cheapest Agricul- 

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Competitors for our Premiums. 



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Silas H. Swetland, V. W. Sunderlin, E. C. Bliss, Apollos Kent, 

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Farmer Office, Rochester, Jan. 25, 1849. 



To Agents, Post-Masters and Subscribers. 



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 in mind that we offer Premiums amounting to OVER TWO 

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 to all who wish to compete. 



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THE GENESEE FARMER, 



Published on the first of each month, at Rochester, N. Y., by 

 D. D. T. MOORE, PROPRIETOR. 



DANIEL LEE & D. D. T. MOORE, Editors. 



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