THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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Agricultural Items. — France, Ireland, Italy and Por- 



gal still want grain, and the Mark Lane Express says 



It will be well if the producing countries of Europe, as 

 lirell as America, can meet the heavy demands certain to 

 Be made." 



In the new Museum in Kew Gardens, England, there is 

 \ specimen of cotton, 600 hanks, weighing only a pound; 

 pun so fine, tbey measure more than 500,000 yards, or 

 250 miles in length. 



The last crop of English grown clover seed is of poor 

 Iquality, and the yield was not good. 



A " gentleman of veracity " asserts that he saw a horse's 

 nose frozen in, while drinking at a trough, at Portland, 

 Maine, a few days ago. 



The wheat crop in England looks favorable. The plants 

 were never better. 



Dallas, in his Animal Kingdom, tells us that he was 

 informed by a Scottish minister that on his first going to 

 his parish in Morayshire, he had seen a cow, a sow, and 

 two young horses yoked together, and drawing a plough 

 in a light, sandy soil, and that the sow was the best 

 drawer of the four. 



The Artificial Cattle Foods, which are so extensively 

 advertised in England, are universally denounced by the 

 scientific men. They are worth only about one-fourth 

 what is charged for them. 



The Courrier of Odessa states that that town and the 

 surrounding district have had a general invasion made 

 on them by mice, and the cats have become so fat with 

 the number they have eaten, that they are no longer ca- 

 pable of performing their duty. 



M. Boussi-ngault, the great experimental farmer and 

 chemist, has been chosen Vice President of the Central 

 Agricultural Society of France. 



Great eflorts are being made to repeal the hop duty in 

 England. 



E. Cornell, of Tompkins Co., has been elected Presi- 

 dent of the New York State Agricultural Society, for 

 1862. A better man could not have been chosen. 



Restoring a Worn Out Farm. — H. J. Collins, Esq., 

 of Collinsville, Ct., writes us that he raised last year 70 

 bushels of shelled corn per acre, all sound, from land 

 which a few years ago would not keep a cow alive. He 

 toils his cattle in summer, and feeds them in winter on 

 steamed corn-stalks, with oil-cake meal, bran, etc. He 

 composts his manure with muck, and saves all the liquid 

 from the house, etc. This system enabled him to keep 

 30 head of cattle on a farm that formerly would keep only 

 6 or 8 head. He makes 750 loads of manure a year, and 

 expects soon to make 1,000. He adds: "I take all the 

 best agricultural papers, and the Genesee Farmer is a little 

 the best one of all. The Albany Cultivator comes next, 

 and close on your heels. You will not consider this faint 

 praise." We certainly do not. 



The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory 

 for 1862.— The first edition of the Rural Annual is nearly 

 exhausted and we are now printing a second edition. It 

 will be sent prepaid by return mail to any address on re- 

 ceipt of 25 cents. The volumes for 1856, '57, '58, '59, '60, 

 '61, and '62, will be sent prepaid to any adlress tor $1.40, 

 or 20 cents each. There is no cheaper or better work 

 published. 



The Markets. — Under the influence of the pacific ter- 

 mination of the " American difficulty," the grain markets 

 of Europe manifested a declining tendency for a few days. 

 The last Mark Lane Express, however, says " the wheat 

 trade has partly recovered from the late depression, 

 the average gain in value being about Is. per quarter" 

 [3 cents per bushel.] This high authority estimates that 

 England will require before next harvest forty-four mil- 

 lion buslieU of wheat. Others estimate it much higher. 



Hogs still continue very low, but there is a slight ten- 

 dency to advance. The price in New York ranges from 

 4Jc. to 5£c. for the dead weight, or from 3 to 4c. live 

 weight. 



Hay in New York is in demand for shipment in bales 

 at $15a$17 per ton. 



Coarse wool is somewhat lower, while fine maintains 

 its price. 



There is little change in the grain market. 



At the last cattle market in New York, the supply of 

 beef cattle was light, and prices advanced one cent per 

 lb. A I Durham white steer, 7 year old, and weighing 

 at home 3,240 lbs., sold for $250. 14 head of Ohio Dur- 

 hams, estimated at 13 cwt. each, sold for $115 per head. 

 Milch cows are looking up. The rrnge of price is from 

 $30 to $45 for cows with young calves. The veal that is 

 offered in market, the Tribune says, " is undoubtedly 

 tender, as they are often killed at two or three days old." 



Sheep brings 5a5|c. per lb. live weight. 



Game in England. — An English farmer once told us 

 that the hares destroyed wheat, barley, turnips, and other 

 crops on his farm to the value of $500 per annum. The 

 abundance of game, and the high price it commands, 

 render poaching very common, and to check it as far as 

 possible, it is now proposed to make those who sell game 

 attach a ticket to it stating from whom it was purchased. 

 The Mark Lane Exp>ress suggests a ticket after the fashion 

 of the Smithfield Club card, that the butcher so carefully 

 carries off' with him for display in his shop windows. 

 The sarcasm is admirable: 



CLASS I. 

 FAT HARES OF ANT AGE. 



J/'irSt yriit to the breeder, the Right Honor- 

 able the Earl of Wholesale , of Slaughterers, 

 , Bagsheer. 



Fed by Mr. Veake Tims, of the Open 

 House Form, upon young wheat, tur- 

 nips, swedes, carrots, and other roots. 

 Purchased by Fur <£ Feather, of the Market Place, 



Buy shot. 

 Copper Medal to the Feeder. — Mr. Veake Tims. 



Seeds by Mul. — The new law allowing seeds, plants, 

 etc., to be sent by mail at one cent per ounce, affords an 

 excellent opportunity for obtaining choice varieties at 

 cheap rates. Several reliable parties offer valuable seeds 

 in our advertising columns. Our readers may send to 

 them with confidence. If desired, we will attend to any 

 orders for seeds, plants, etc., that our friends need. 



Bound Volumes of the Genesee Farmer. — We can 

 furnish any of the back volumes of the . Genesee Farmer 

 for 1856, '57, '58, '59, '60 and '61, handsomely bound in 

 cloth, at One Dollar, sent prepaid by return mail. The 

 six volumes will oeseut by express for $5.00. 



