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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



May 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Production and Consumption of Mold in Soils, 105 



Dairy Business. 106 



Economy of Farming. 107 



Bone Meal for Cows 1°° 



The Plow — its history and improvements. 109 



The Principles of Breeding 110 



Selecting Corn for Seed • ■ ■ ■ HO 



Harrowing Wheat in Spring ; Salting Stock, Ill 



Feeding Barley to Pigs and Ewes, Ill 



Culture of Field Beans ; Carrots, 112 



Keep the Swinish Multitude at Home 112 



Plaster — Plowing under Clover, 113 



Black Leg among Cattle, 113 



Art of Health ; To drive away Rats. . . 113 



Letter from the Sandwich Islands, 114 



Culture of Indian Corn — a Premium Crop, 115 



Milking Cows ; Farmer's Laboratory, 115 



Niagara Falls — its past, present, and prospective condition,. 116 



The Potato Disease 117 



Meteorology — Climatology, 118 



Washing Sheep ; Scare Crows ; Fence Posts, 119 



Marking Sheep ; Chinese Hemp ; The Striped Bug ; Grafting 



Chisel; Sowing Clover Seed with Buckwheat, 119 



Editor's Table — Notices, &c, 124 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Tree Planting. Pruning, &c 120 



Hints for May ; The Season, 121 



Vegetation in Mississippi 121 



Summer Bon Chretien Pear, 121 



Paxton's Magazine of Botany 122 



North American Pomclogical Convention, 122 



The Plum ; Native Wine. 122 



Descriptive notices of 50 rare or new Pears, 123 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Side Hill Plow 109 I View of Niagara Falls.. . . 116 



Self Sharpening Plow, 109 Grafting Chisel 119 



Sub-Soil Plow, 109 ' 



[In consequence of the continued absence of our engraver we 

 are unable to give several illustrations intended for this number.] 



Market Prices of Agricultural Products. 



New York, April 27—7 P. M. 



Flour & Meal — Foreign news had a favorable effect upon the 

 market for Western flour and the sales in most instances were at 

 at an advance of 6^[c. per bbl.; the range is 4.75 a 5.12 for com- 

 mon to good brands of State and mixed to very good Western. 

 Pure Uenesee 5.62 a 75. sales 4.000 bb!s. Included in sa'es were 

 1.000 good Ohio at 5.18 and 1100 do. common State, part Troy at 

 4 7."/ Rye flour steady. Sales 400 bbls. at 2.75u2.81. Meal firmer. 

 SOU bbls. Jersey sold at 2.18 afloat. 



Grain— Fair milling demand for wheat; prices below the views 

 of holders. Sales 400 bu. Geuesee at 1.25. 1.000 Ohio on private 

 terms and 6.000 white Pa. at 1.18. Sale of 7000 bu. Rye at 57 de- 

 liver ;d. Barley- sales 4 000 bu. prime two-rowed, part on private 

 terms rind part at 63%- Corn about 2c better. Some 20,000 bu. 

 sold at 00c. for heated N. O.. 54 a 56 for mixed to a very good 

 white southern. Oats without change. 



Provisions— Pork dull and heavy. Sales 400 bbls. at $10.12 a 

 $10.18 for mess, and >s 25 for prime. 500 bbls. sour sold at £9.25 

 and $7.25 for mess :n:d prime. Beef, no change, with small sales. 

 Lara is in fair inquiry. Sales 500 bbls. aud tierces at 5% a 6% — 

 the latter for strictly prime. Butter and cheese dull, and without 

 change. 



UocUestci', April 27. 1849. 



In Flour there is hardly any thiug doing. One or two sales of 

 2 or three hundred bbls. have been made during the past week 

 at $5. 



Grain— Wheat $1.08. Corn 44c. Rye 53. Oats 29. 



Seeds— Clover $3.75 a $5. Timothy $1.50 a $2. 25. Flax $1. 



Provisions.— Pork (mess) $12 per bbl. Beef $4 to $5 per cwt.— 

 mess $7 a $8 per bbl Batter 10 al2 cts. Cheese 6c. Eggs 9c. 



In Albany. April 27. flour was quoted at $4.75 a $5 for common 

 to good State and Western— and $5 50 a 5.75 for pure Gepesce. 

 Oats 36 a 37 cts. 



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