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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Western- Cokx in this State. — Our esteemed corres- 

 pondent, Samuel Williams, of Waterloo, N. Y., sends us 

 a sample of Dent corn, grown by Joseph Weight of that 

 village, and says: ''I send you the corn from one of Jos. 

 Weight's large ears of dent corn; it. was 22 rowed, with a 

 red cob ; some were 27 rowed, but not as large kernel nor 

 as heavy ears as the sample. If you will procure the largest 

 ear of flint corn grown with yon, you will find, as I did, 

 that it weighs, shelled, one-third less than the dent ear, 

 while the cob of flint, 8 or 12 rowed, is still heavier. One 

 peculiarity of the dent corn is the very small stem that 

 holds the ear to the stalk, and the ear is filled around the 

 butt to the stem, while the flint corn has a stem so large 

 that no corn can grow around even the edge of the butt 

 end. There can be no doubt but that with seed fresh 

 from the West, this dent corn will yield one-third more 

 on the same acre than any variety of Northern corn; and 

 it never fails to ripen here if planted early on extra rich 

 drained soil. Hence I consider it a desideratum for every 

 farmer, who has plenty of manure and but little land, to 

 plaut this corn. Joseph Wright's seed was from Illinois. 

 J. J. Thomas measured the corn, and found it from 13 to 

 15 feet high, and about one-third more corn to the acre 

 than the 8 rowed planted on the same soil. 



I planted two rows in my garden, of the same variety, 

 but the seed was grown by Wright last year; it was in 

 drills 4 feet apart, and only 6 inches in the drill ; every 

 stalk had one ear, and some two; but the kernel was 

 smaller, and the stalks 2 feet # shorter than Wright's from 

 fresh Illinois seed. Next year I shall plant from Wright's 

 grown here this season, and shall thin to 8 inches apart, 

 in order to get larger ears, and more with two on a stalk. 

 It bears no suckers; every year was fully ripe by the 1st 

 of October, and every ear full at both ends of the cob, 

 leaving a space of about § of an inch for the stem. I am 

 positive that the yield was over 120 bush, of shelled corn 

 to the acre. You can, after weighing this corn, calculate 

 what the yield would be 4 feet by 8, or say y inches 

 apart, counting only one ear to the stalk. Wright cuts 

 all the stalks tine by horse power, and his bright wheat 

 straw is untouched by his stock as long as cut stalks are 

 in the manger. They are cut and stacked as soon as the 

 corn glazes." 



Death of Prince Albert.. — In alluding to the death 

 of Prince Albert, the Journal of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society says : " He has held a very important 

 position in the English nation. He was the President 

 elect of the Royal Agricultural Society, and took a very 

 deep interest in the welfare of the Society. The Great 

 Exhibition of 1851 was originated by the Prince, and 

 owed much of its success to him, and be was actively 

 engaged in forwarding the approaching Exhibition for 

 1862. The Americans who were present at the Exhibition 

 in 1851 will long remember his Highuess for his unweari- 

 ed efforts to have the exhibition in the American division 

 properly brought before the public, and his kind greetings 

 to us after the trial and success of the American reapers, 

 plows, and other implements, when he visited our di- 

 vision with Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, will not be for- 

 gotten ; and his parting shake of the hand as be left us 

 after the examination, shows that even Princes can ap- 

 preciate the efforts of others, and can give their aid when 

 most needed to those who have no special claims upon 

 U»»m." 



Pure Seeds. — The importance 1 of sowing clean see 

 can not be over-estimated. Saxfoki> Adams; of BostB 

 MSsS.', lias invented a very simple and efficacious nsachio 

 for the purpose. The New England Fainter 1 says: 



"We have seen his machines, andjfound his sifting pre 

 cesses truly wonderful, lie Iira broiigtit them to sue 

 perfection, and will furnish the means of doiug the .-a-m 

 so cheaply, that t|iere is no necessity fpr the farmer ajj 

 longer to sow' foul seeds, and thus entail upon himself an! 

 posterity a perpetual plague and loss. 



" What struck us as the most surprising in Mr. Adams 

 apparatus, is the great simplicity with which tje accorl 

 plishes so much. He not only separates products of di! 

 i'eient sizes and shapes, but by the application of screw 

 to fan mills, he does so by their specific gravity-'' 



More Pork. — I have just returned from a visit to m; 

 friends in Schaghticoke and Easton — called at Nathan G 

 Akins', in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer Co., in the after nodi 

 of the 4th of February. He had just finished dressiuj 

 six hogs. One, two years old, weighed 865 Lbs., aud fiv 

 yearliugs weighed severally as follows : 767 lbs., 1142 lbs. 

 572 lbs., 538 lbs., 530 lbs. They were fine-boned, of th 

 breed familiarly known with us as the " Wagman " breed 

 in Saratoga County. 



Orren Bewel, of Easton, Washington Co., dressed oi 



the 3d in6t. six fine-bone pigs, nine months aud fourteei 



days old, which weighed as follows : 412 lbs., 44S lbs., 45 



lbSy 41» .lbs., 372 lbs., 380 lbs.— Abnee Devol, Gansi 



voort, j¥. Y. 



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What is Said of the Genesee Farmer and Rural Annua 



Never have we received so many encouraging notice 

 of the Genesee Farmer and of the Rural Annual and Hoi 

 Hcultwal Directory as during the present year. We giv 

 below a sample of the many hundred notices receutl 

 received. 



The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory fo: 

 1862. — For the last five years we have had occasion t 

 speak of this work, as the successive volumes have bee: 

 received. All have been good, and the present one, fror 

 the glance we have given it, seems not inferior to the pre 

 ceding. The price is twenty-five cents per cop}-, whic 

 makes it a very cheap source of information. — Boston Oui 

 tinitor. 



The Rur\l Annual and Horticultural Directory. - 

 Such is the title of a little book published at the com 

 mencement of each year by the editor of the Genesee Fat 

 7/ier. The volume for 1862 is received. It is a work whic! 

 can not be too extensively circulated among all interested 

 in rural pursuits. The six previous volumes receive 

 very general commendation, and that for lsfi2 will b 

 found fully equal to any ot the series. — Maine Farmer. 



The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory 

 for lSfiii. — This is the seventh annual publication of thi 

 very useful and popular Annual, the high character o 

 which is fully sustained by the present volume. It is, a 

 several of our readers are aware, published by Mr. Jos 

 Harris, at the office of the Genesee Farmer, at Rochester 

 in the State of New York, from whence it can be obtain 

 ed by mail, by remitting the price, only 25 cents ! Thi 

 small sum will appear extraordinary when it is considers 

 that the work is very neatly printed, and illustrated b; 

 numerous wood cuts. Publications of this nature can no 

 fail to ensure a highly beneficial influence on the practie> 

 of agriculture, and the minds of all that are in any wa; 

 engaged in country pursuits. — Canadian Agriculturist. 



The Genesee Farmer. — This excellent and extraordi 

 narily cheap agricultural paper has now obtained a stand 

 inm (if more than thirty years, and a circulation surpass 

 ing most of the agricultural publications of the presen 

 day. The Genesee Farmer .is truly the "Farmer's owi 

 paper," aud cannot fail to interest and please, as well ai 



