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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Aug. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER, 



Improvement— The Duty of Farmers. 177 



Editorial Correspondence of the Farmer, 178 



Agricultural Education, 179 



The Season, Fruit, Crops. Insects, &c; The Wheat Crop,. . . 180 



Improved Well and Cistern Pumps, 181 



Woodbury's Horse Power and Separator, 181 



Short-horn and Native Cattle 182 



Itecent Importation of Short-horns 183 



is „"k-skiuned Barley; Grape Culture in Ohio, 184 



i.ut-i Tom Fairfax Co., Va.; Breaking Steers 185 



T-) 1 1 ■ ■•Vool Growers of the U. S., 185 



i! ! II'..-- to Villagers.— Cabbage Plants, Onions, Beans, 8cc.,. . . 186 



];'■'•- and Shrubs; Thorn Hodges, 186 



Wool Growing — Large Fleeces; A Cheap Bee-Hive 187 



'mproved Short-horn Bull ' Buena Vista;" The Short-horns. 188 



The Morgan Stallion " Morgan Hunter." 189 



Making Butter; Suggestions to Agricultural Clubs, 190 



Tasternsof the Horse; Guano 190 



New Mode of Building; Smoking Potatoes for the Rot, 191 



Fowls; To Have fine Mutton; Arabian Cattle, 191 



New Cure for Bots; New Gate; Power of the Soil to absorb 



Odors; American Oranges; Advice for Summer, 191 



To prevent the Cholera. 191 



Annual Fairs of State and County Ag. Societies ; Drought, 197 

 Gigantic Hemp; Georgia Burr Stone, 197 



HORTICULTURAL. DEPARTMENT. 



Seedling Strawberries— Production of Seedlings, 192 



Progress of Fruit Culture, 192 



The Plumbago Larpentie 193 



Grafting the Grape; The Melon Apple 193 



The New York and Buffalo Fruit Conventions, 194 



Transplanting Fruit Trees, 194 



Trees, Insects, Wire Fences, &c, 195 



Report on New Seedling Strawberries, 195 



The Reine Hortenso Cherry. 196 



A Few Hints for August, 196 



Foreign Market Fruits, 197 



ladies' department. 



To Preserve Tomatoes; Mulled Wine, 198 



Who is this Fair Lady; Home, . 198 



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ILLUSTRATIONS. 



i istern Pump. 181 I Stallion '• Morgan Hunter." 189 



Well Pump 181 | Yoke for Breaking Steers . . 185 



Short-horn Bull " Buena I The Plumbago Larpentre.. 193 



Vista," 188 I Reine Ilortense Cherry,. .' . 196 



Market Prices of Agricultural Products. 



New York, Saturday, July 21. 



Ashes— Arc 5 62>£a5 09 for Pots, and $C for Pearls, with sales 

 125 bbls. 



Flour and Meal.- -The market is again easier for the low grades 

 of flour, but good and sound parcels are firm, with rather an up- 

 ward tendency. The supplies of low Flour is large, and sales are 

 making at a decliue. The transactions add up 7.500 obis, inclu- 

 ding 1,800 bbls. fine, and sour at $4a4 25 for sour, and 4 12'^a 

 4 :;r., for fine. The amount of fine on the way is considerable. 

 The quotations are 4 75a4 87.^ for common State. 4 62}£<z4 75 for 

 common Western, 4 S7H.'a4 94 for good and strait Western, 5a5 

 12M for good Ohio and favorite Indiana. 5 06a5 12Ji for pure Gen- 

 esee, 5 25aa5 50 for fancy Western. A sale of 2.000 Canadian 

 was made at 4 50 in bond. The export sales are 4,000 bbls. In 

 Southern, the market is firm, with sales 400 or 500 bbls. at 5 12,'^a 

 6 25 for common and good brands, and 5 50 for new Brandywine 

 A sale of 300 or 400 bbls extra Southern made at 5 02',£. Meal is 

 dull at 2 94 for Jersey, with sales 200 bbls. Sales 200 bbls. rye 

 Flour at $3. 



Grain.— The market for wheat is rather more active, but gene- 

 rally prices are heavy. A cargo of new Southern is on the mar- 

 ket. Sales 8,800 bushels prime Ohio at 110c Corn is held at 

 previous prices, with moderate supplies. The foreign news has 

 had no effect. The sales are 65,000 bushels at 52c. for damaged, 

 55a56>£c. for mixed, 57c. for yellow, 65c. for round mixed, 69a59H> 

 for round yellow. Sales of 2,000 bushels Rye at 57c. delivered.— 

 Oats are plenty and dull. Sales at 34a35>^ of 20.000 bushels. 



Provisions.— Pork is held higher by the dealers, but buyers do 

 not come in freely. The sales are 400 or 500 bbls. in lots at 10 75 

 a10 81, anil $9 for Prime. Mess at the close was held at $11.— 

 About 200 bbls. beef sold at 11 50 for prime, $12 for railroad and 13 

 60u$14 for Mess. Within some three weeks about 1,600 tierces. 

 Prime mess, have been sold, including 500 previously reported at 

 16 50al7 25. The buyers repacked this beef, and sold it in bar- 

 rels. Lard is firm, with sales 100 tcs. and bbls. at (;'.,«7o. Cut 

 meats are firm, with sales 350 tierces at 6J£s7o. for pickled hams, 

 the latter a good parcel. Butter is doing better. Sales Ohio at 

 7ol lc. Western tubs 10al4c. Cheese is in fair demand at 2a6j . e( 3, 



Hemp.— American is now in pretty good supply, but the views of 

 hu ders are for the most part above those of buyers, and wo have 

 only to notice sales of 100 bales Dew rotted, in lots on private 

 terms; nothing done in Foreign. 



Strawberry Plants for Sale. 



Pistilate— Staminate— 



Burr's New Pine, Boston Tine. 



Rival Hudson, Ross' Phoenix. 



Columbus, Burr's Old pine. 



Black Prince, Swainstone Seedlinc-. 



Crimson Cone, Large Early Scarlet. 



Hovey's Seedling, 



Bishop's Orange. 



Having grown the above varieties of Strawberries for two or 

 three seasons past, and used much care, to keep them pure and 

 unmixed, all orders will be attended to, and genuine plants for- 

 warded — 



Burr's New Pine, is the best Strawberry ever grown, and the ear- 

 liest of all large berries.— The Rival Hudson, for its prolificness, 

 hardness of berry, and rich subacid flavor, is the best market ber- 

 ry I have grown. 



Pistilate plants are the best bearers; but they all require Stam- 

 inate plants near them for fertilizers. 



Prices of Plants.— Burr's New Tine, 50 cts. per dozen, or $3 

 per hundred. Hovey's SeedliBg, Burr's Old Pine, and Large Ear- 

 ly Scarlet, each 25 cts. per doxen, or $1 per hundred. All the 

 other varieties. 50 cts. per dozen, or $2 per hundred. 



Rochester, August 1, 1849. [8-2t.] M.G.WARNER. 



Sale of Hereford Cattle. 



THE MESSRS. BINGHAM, Brothers, of Vermont, will offer 

 for sale from ten to twenty head of HEREFORDS, 3 years 

 old and under— bulls and heifers. We purchased our herds of 

 Corning & Sothom— have given them a fair trial— have made up 

 our minds that, all things taken into consideration, they are the 

 best race of improved cattle extant, and are determined to push 

 ahead in the improvement of them. We shall sell at Public Auc- 

 tion, at the State Fair at Syracuse, and shall offer somo noble 

 samples of the race. 



Pure Merino Sheep. 



Also, at private sale, same time and place, a large lot of pure 

 bred MERINO SHEEP, from imported sires. Breeders of sheep 

 will do well to look over our flocks before purchasing elsewhere. 

 We shall offer no mongrels or grades, but our best blooded sheep, 

 at fair prices. [8— 2t. 



Peruvian Guano. 



JUST arrived, fresh from the Chinche Islands, 730 tons first 

 quality Peruvian Guano. Six years' experience in the use of 

 Guano., by our farmers and gardeners in the states bordering on 

 the Atlantic coast, has proved it far superior to any other, and the 

 cheapest manure they can purchase. It is particularly valuable 

 for wheat, grass, and all field crops; also fruits and garden veget- 

 ables. Inquire at the Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store, of 

 A. B. ALLEN & CO.. 

 [8—22.] 189 & 191, Water St.. New York. 



A Small Farm "Wanted. 



Letter addressed to C. S . Newport. N. Y., describing the 

 premises, and mentioning the terms, will receive attention. 

 August, 1849. [8— 3t*. 



A 



Morgan Colt for Sale. 



A Bright Bay Horse Colt, foaled April 26. 1848, of gr. at 

 promise, sired by Gen. Gifford. from a mare of unsur- 

 passed travelling qualities. Inquire at this office, or of 

 Scottsville. [7-lt»] 



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