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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



iv to Restore a Worn-out Farm, 41 



ratable Soup (or j»iiis, 42 



s— What is a Breed? Breaking in Mules for the Army,.. 43 



rit of the Agricultural Press, 44 



Hessian Fly. Good Hogs. Beans from one Seed, 44 



Food fur Caged Seed-Eating Birds, 44 



Get your Seed for Spring. Take Care of your Harness,.. 44 



The Chinch, Bug and Deep Plowing, 44 



An American Apple in Europe, 44 



Carrots for Horses better than Medicine, 45 



To Stop Ble.'diug. Grafting the Tomato on the Potato,. 45 



Ferrets. Clover and Grasses Enrich the Soil, 4o 



Mice and Fruit Trees. Agriculture in 1900 45 



Sorghum Syrup. A Heavy Hog. Large Heifer 4(i 



Prolific Seeds. Preserving Game, 46 



Oilcake VS. < tats and Barley, 46 



Weight of Prize Grain in Ireland. Large Eci; 46 



Prince Albert on Agricultural Papers, 46 



The Osage Orange as a Hcd. e Plant in England, 46 



Buying Horses for the French Cavalry, 46 



A Fortune from a Sheep, 46 



How to Preserve Potatoes at Sea, 46 



n.agement of Honey Bees. Keeping Eggs in Ashes, 41 



tu;e of Wheat in Monroe County, 48 



'alk about the Weather, 4S 



! Farmer is King. Flax and Linen Trade of Ireland, 49 



es on Fields and Cattle, 50 



iws of Fat Stock. Sorghum Syrup, 51 



tivation of Flax. Horse Disease in California, 52 



tat shall I do with my Pig? Notes from Maine, 53 



Drive Away Pats, 53 



at it Costs to send Seed Corn from New York to Liverpool, 54 



;ar Cane at the West. Garget in Cows, 54 



5 Potato Disease— Karly Digging Again. Tight Barns, .. . 54 



:inium Turnip Crops in Canada, 54 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



nsactions of the Massachusetts Hort. Society 55 



lit Growers' Society of Western New York 56 



sv much can be Raised from a Little Plot of Ground, 61 



ifiinsr the Grape Vine. Fruit Trees in Hedges 61 



ipters from my Correspondence. Pruning the Peach 62 



ig of the Pumpkins. Home Beauty Apple 62 



ladies' department. 



!lan Corn Bread 65 



ginal Domestic Receipts 63 



miscellaneous. 



b Dutchman's Hen : or Female Perversity 64 



ctors' Fees. American Education. Doubling-up a Judge.. 54 



editor's table. 



tes on the Weather, 66 



ms, Notices. &c 65, 66, 67, 68 



juiries and Answers, 67 



erary Notices 68 



illustrations. 

 rarf Apple Tree on the Paradise Stock, 56 



Great Premiums ! Great Premiums !— On the last page 

 the Farmer, this month, will be found an extraordinary 

 t of specific premiums to be paid to those who obtain 

 bscribers to the present volume of the Genesee Farmer. 

 lese premiums are offered to everybody. There are no 

 strictions whatever. Every one who sends the name of 

 subscriber, whether his own name or that of one of his 

 lighbors or friends, whether at his own Post Office or 

 sewhere, will reeeive a premium, sent postage paid, by 

 turn mail. Read over the list, and then let each reader 

 e what he can do for us. 



January Premiums. — Below will be found the names of 

 the successful competitors for our January Cash Prizes. 

 Our friends can draw on us at sight for the amount, or 

 we will send the money by mail, or in any other way they 

 may designate. It will be seen that our circulation is 

 steadily increasing. Thus, in 1858 the First Prize was 

 taken for a club of 107; in 1859 for 116 ; in I860 for 166 ; 

 in 1861 for 211, and in 1862 for 319 ! Last year, the whole 

 number sent in by the fourteen successful competitors 

 was 1347 ; this year it is 1504. These results are certain- 

 ly most gratifying. Notwithstanding the disturbance 

 caused by the war, our friends have stood nobly by us, 

 and the prospects of the Genesee Farmer were never 

 brighter than at this moment. It has a strong hold on 

 the affections of the thousands of intelligent farmers who 

 have perused its pages for the last thirty years, and who 

 by exertiug their influence to extend its circulation among 

 their friends, as well as communicating their experience 

 through its pages, have done much towards placing it in 

 the front rank of American Agricultural journals. We 

 rely with confidence on such long tried friends, andean 

 promise them that nothing shall be wanting on our part 

 to render the Genesee Farmer more and more worthy of 

 their good will and patronage: 



1. Joseph B. Bowman, Blair, C. W., $50 for 319 subs. 



2. Thomas Atkinson, Ailsacraig, C.W., 30 " 170 " 



3. Charles Howard, Hamilton., C. W., 20 



4. Henry White, Charing Cross, C. W., 15 



5. A. Overholt, Rainham Centre, C. W., 10 



6. John McAskin, Prescott, C. W., 



7. G. Patterson, Crowland, C. W., 



8. L. B. Brainard, Waupaca, Wis., 



9. John Dorr, Scottsville, N. Y., 



10. R. W. Sawtell, Woodstock, C. W., 



11. I. W. Briggs, Macedon, N. Y., 



12. W. McNair, King, C. W., 



13. John Haskell, Clarkson, 



14. J. S. Shattuck, Aurora, Ind., 



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Monthly vs. Weekly' Agricultural Papers. — The 

 Michigan Farmer, which has for a few years past been 

 published as a weekly, is again changed to a semi-monthly. 

 The publisher says : " It may not be amiss to state that 

 when the paper was a monthly it had three times as large 

 a circulation — and probably paid five times as well — as 

 when we recently purchased it. Making it a weekly 

 proved almost its ruin." 



The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory 

 for 1862.— This number of the Rural Annual is highly 

 commended by the Press. It is conceded to be the best 

 number yet issued. It will be sent prepaid by return 

 mail, to any address, on receipt of 25 cents. 



If any of our agents and friends who are entitled to the 

 Rural Annual have failed to receive it, they will oblige 

 us by notifying us of the fact, and it will be cheerfully 

 sent. Or if any errors of any kind have occurred in the 

 hurry of mailing at this busy season, they will be imme- 

 diate! v corrected. 



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Club the Farmer and Rural Annual Together. — 

 We still send the Rural Annual and Horticultural Direc- 

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