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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Cultivation of the Beet for Sugar, 78 



Coffee in Illinois Where England gets her Timber, 74 



Eats — How to Destroy them, 74 



Digging Potatoes, again. Good Cows, 75 



Spirit of the Agricultural Press 76 



Fat Cow. Barn-yards and Manure, 75 



Prolitieness of Sows, 76 



Underdraining. Good Hogs, 77 



Harnessing Arrangement. Leached Ashes, 77 



Cutting off the Tops to Prevent Potato Rot, 77 



Warts on Cattle. Cabbages every Year, 77 



Sowing Peas, 77 



Yorkshire Pigs. Sorreland other Weeds, 78 



Top-Dressing Grass-Lands in the Spriug, 78 



Management of Honey Bees, 79 



The Carrot — Its Value, Productiveness, etc., 80 



Horses and the War 81 



Mysteries of the Poultry Yarn, 82 



Rye to bring Light Soils into Condition to Prodnce Wneat,. .. 83 



A Useful Implement, 84 



Cultivation and Use of Willows, 85 



Making Maple Sugar 86 



The Old and New Order of Panning in England, 86 



Hungarian Grass, , S7 



Why does she Kick the Milk over? 88 



Mechanical Tools for Farmers, 88 



Test of the Value of Manure, 88 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



The Aster Family, 89 



A Method of Utilizing Subterranean Fires. A large Pear,... 90 



The Apples of New England, 90 



Strawberry Convention. Profits of Fruit Growing, 91 



A Prolific Pear Tree, 91 



Roses, 92 



Osage Orange Hedge a Failure, and why, 93 



LADIES DEPARTMENT. 



Original Domestic Receipts 94 



Fashions for Ladies' Dress, 94 



Washington Irving on Woman's Love, 94 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Descent of the Eagle. Elephantine Actor. Pat's Ready Wit, 95 



Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Husbands, 95 



Good fcr Everybody. A Familiar Illustration, etc., 95 



editor's table. 



Notes on the Weather, 96 



Agricultural Items, 97 



The Markets, \\\\ 97 



Items, Notices, Ac, 96, 97, 9S 99 



Inquiries and Answers, 99 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Side-hill Barn with Sheds, 76 



Giant Emperor Aster Plant in full Flower, 89 



Lion des Combats Rose, 92 



General de Brea l;ose, .' . ..'..'. 93 



To Our Friends.— On the last page of this number of 

 the Genesee Farmer will be found a remarkable list of 

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 old or new, for this year, Never were more liberal Pre- 

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 There is not one of our readers who can not send us from 

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 The Farmer is so cheap that no one can object to take it 

 on account of the hard times. The back numbers from 

 January will be sent iu all cases. 



Notes on the Weather from January 15th to Fk 

 ruary 15th, 1802. — The weather continued pleasant 

 the end of January. The snow, hail and rain of the 15' 

 prepared us for good sleighing on the 16th, which co 

 tinued through the last half. For snow fell often in smi 

 quantity so as to compensate for a little melting and ml 

 wearing out of paths. 



The temperature of the last half exceeds the averag 

 by near 2^, being 26.5° ; and of the whole month w 

 nearly one degree below the average, being 24.7". T 

 lowest was one degree on January 5, and 6° on the 14t 

 and the lowest in the last half was 11° on the 16th ai 

 27th, while 41° was the highest on the 29th, and the hig 

 est mean, 38°, was on the same day. 



The quantity of water in the month was 3.51 inches. 



The great storm of the month began on the 24th ou t 

 coast of North Carolina from the N. E., and moved nort 

 wards, reaching New York at 9 p. m., and extending : 

 snow and rain and wind over much of the 25th; began 

 Boston late on the 24th, and gave much snow and rain 

 the 25th ; and began in Belfast, Maine, at lOj a. m. on t 

 25th. Of course, the change of wind to the west folio 

 ed the same regular course, being at New York on t 

 25th p. m., and extending to the north. The railroa 

 were blocked up by snow on the Hudson, from the Hig 

 lands northwards, and over Vermont and west of N< 

 England. The storm did not reach west of the Allega 

 Mountains, in New York, though 3 or 4 inches of snow 

 the vicinity of Rochester and more further east withe 

 any considerable wind. In this storm, the Rev. H. C. 

 Dwight, Missionary at Constantinople, and on a visit 

 this country, was instantly killed by the overturning 

 the car at 9 j a. m., a few miles north of Bennington, V 

 on its route northwards, by the great violence of the 

 E. wind on the 25th. There was a heavy gale on Che: 

 peake Bay, and along the coast, and the tide was ve 

 high in New York on the 25th, as well as at Boston. 



At Washington, and on the Potomac, the weather w 

 unpleasant for the month ; at Philadelphia also ; at N< 

 York, and west into New Jersey; but in this vicinity, a: 

 even west of this State, the weather has been pleasant 

 ever, with moderate temperature, and we have on t 

 ground a foot or more of snow and ice. 



February has so far been pleasant, slight thawing 

 snow once or twice, with enough of snow to continue t 

 sleighing very good. Two or three inches of snow f 

 in the last few days. The highest temperature was 4 

 on the 6th, and the lowest was 11° 011 the 14th, 13* on t 

 2d and 8d and 5th, and only 14° on the 10th and lit 

 The good sleighing, with slight drifting, has made bo 

 business and pleasure easy. The mean heat was 24. £ 

 or 1.4° below the average for 25 years. The range 1 

 the average for this half of February in a few years, h 

 been from 15.9° in 1856, to 29.1° in 1857. The cold h 

 not yet been down to zero this winter. 



A Great Fruit Year.— The winter has been high 

 favorable for fruit trees in this section. The buds are v, 

 safe, and the prospects now are that we shall have a r 

 markably productive year. The fine weather last fa 

 ripened the wood perfectly; the failure of the fruit la 

 season imparted increased vigor to the trees, and ever' 

 thing is favorable for an immense crop. 



