THE GENESEE FARMEE. 



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istruct its numerous readers. No one who has had the 

 rivUege of reading the Fanner the past two years will 

 e willing to do without it. In fact, he can not afford to 

 o without it. Many of the numbers are worth the Whole 

 bet of the vear's subscription; Published monthly, at 

 Rochester, N. V., by Joseph Harris, at 60 cents per an- 

 um. Subscribe for it.— Jleposttory ani Hon. GaUnet. 



Genesee Farmer.— This old and really excellent month- 

 v has a very large circulation and has always been a 

 ; eneral favorite with the public. It is published at Kocn- 

 ster bv Joseph Harris, and costs only titty cents a year. 

 f any of our friends want a good paper for a very little 

 noneV, we advise them to make au investment of titty 

 ants with Mr. Harris. It will pay loo per cent.— 2^ 

 Dairy Farmer. 



The Rurvl Annual and Horticultural Directory 

 roa 1862.— This little, volume published by Mr. Harris, 

 he well-known editor of the Genesee Farmer, is designed 

 m a hand-book to those engaged in the culture of the soil, 

 whether in the raising of grain or fruit. It will be found 

 l0 contain much useful information respecting the culture 

 if wheat, rve, barley, oats, and Indian corn ; the plani- 

 ng and culture of fruit trees, and especially ot dwart 

 ind standard pears; cider-making; culture of grapes; 

 implication of manures, and many other practical articles 

 >f value to the farmer and the horticulturist. A large 

 number of engravings illustrate these articles, and yet 

 the volume is offered at the small charge of twenty-hve 

 :ents. — New York Evangelist. 



The Genesee Farmer. — We know of no production 

 which has tended to impart so much agricultural infor- 

 mation to its readers as the Genesee Farmer. If our sturdy 

 sons of the soil would more generally subscribe to this 

 practical manual, they would fiud themselves not only 

 more wise and better operatives, but richer men. Every 

 monthly issue develops something new and useful to 

 farmers— and lately the public has been surprised by an 

 excellent work from the Genesee Farmer office, which every 

 fto-riculturist and horticulturist should have upon his 

 table. The cost of the Genesee farmer is nominal. The 

 cost of the Rural Annual, containing infinite instruction, 

 (and among other things, the method of wine-making,) is 

 25 cents. — Gleuwood, Iowa, Times. 



The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directort 



Inquiries and Answers. 

 Pedigree Wheat.— (L. P. Stoughton.) We have no 

 seed of this wheat for sale, and do not know where it cab 

 be obtained in this country. Mr. Hallett, the originator, 

 resides at Brighton, England. 



Orchard Grass.— (J. Cuppage, Orillia, C. W.) The 

 specimen of grass you send is the Orchard grass of this 

 country, or the Cocksfoot grass of England tlJactylis ylom- 

 erta). It is a well known and useful grass. 



Milking.— (A Young Milker.) An old milker can get 

 along with a one-legged stool, but one with three legs is 

 better. Do not put the pail on the ground, or stick your 

 head into the flank of the cow. Sit up straight, aud close 

 to the cow, and hold the pail between your legs. There 

 is then very little danger of the cow kicking over the 

 milk. After the milk begins to flow freely, do not stop 

 till you are through. Milk steadily, and do not speak a 

 work, except some soothing expressions to the cow. 

 Strip clean. This is very important. A poor milker, 

 and one that leaves milk in the udder, will dry up the 

 cow. The stoppings are far the richest milk. Ten cows 

 an hour is good work. We have milked six, except strip- 

 ping, in half an hour, but they were all easy milkers. 



Scab in Sheep. — Can some of your experienced corres- 

 pondents give me a remedy for scab in sheep?— H. A., 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Sweet Potatoes.— I would be very glad if you or some 

 of the valued contributors to the Farmer would write an 

 article on cultivating aud preserving sweet potatoes.— 

 Young Farmer, KManing, Fa. 



Lightning Rods.— Will some of the experienced corres- 

 pondents of the Farmer give us some information in re- 

 gard to lightning rods— their construction, putting up, 

 etc I am building a new barn, and would like to know 

 .Jwe? hare received this'annnal, in the form of j if I can ventilate with board box conductors to an open- 

 e. duodecimo of one hundred pages, aud in relation to it ing in the peak of the root.— W., Delaware Co., Iowa. 

 we not hesitate to say that it contains a greater amount of 



interesting and instructive matter than any other work of 

 an equal number of pages tXat we ?iave had before us. It 

 contains an immense variety of agricultural and horticul- 

 tural matter, collected with judgment and good taste, and 

 well adapted to the intelligence of all classes of farmers, 

 while it must prove interesting to the genera', reader. It 

 is in quite a neat cover, and will prove in every way an 

 ornament to the parlor-table of the farmer's homestead. 

 It is published by Mr. Harris, editor of the Genesee 

 Farmer, Rochester, N. Y., from whom it may be procured, 

 free of postage, by remitting the price, twenty-five cents. 

 — Evans's Mural Economist. 



The Genesee Farmer in Canada.— John McAskin, of 

 Prescott, C. W., who sent us 102 subscribers for this vol- 

 ume of the Genesee Farmer, writes us under date of Feb. 

 «th, as follows: 



"Having received the February No. of your Farmer, I 

 have found that Canada has done something large in com- 

 petition this year, plainly proving that the more your 

 paper becomes circulated," the more it is appreciated and 

 sought after; not on account altogether of its cheapness, 

 but for its sterling merits and genuine usefulness. As I 

 said in my last letter to you, some of the subscribers had 

 never seen nor heard of the paper, and the .general im- 

 pression was in two or three weeks after they signed, that 

 the paper was nothing but a humbug; but when the Jan- 

 wary number came, it cast all this nonsense in the shade, 

 they having found it to surpass their most sanguine ex- 

 pectations, by treating ably on many subjects of which 

 before they were almost totally ignorant. I think it will 

 be quite easy to raise a pretty large club in this part for 

 next year, on account of its "being better known." 



Sowing Clover and Timothy.— I find trouble m sowing 

 timothv and clover seed by hand. Will you or some 

 brother farmer inform me through the Genesee larmer 

 where I can pm'cliase a machine that will do it up right, 

 and at what cost. Also, information with regard to the 

 quantity of seed per acre, aud in what proportion of clo- 

 ver to a gravelly soil ? After sowing, would you harrow 

 it or not? Will some practical man give his views, and 

 by so doing oblige— J. H. McCollum, Xeufane. 



Sod Fence, etc.— Can a permanent fence be made to 

 turn farm stock, by placing two parallel rows ot blue 

 gra^s or oilier sod on the edge, grass side up, filling in 

 with the earth from outside of base, carrying It up conic 

 slnpe 3 to ?,\ feet above the surface— the removing ot tue 

 earth to till in forming a ditch 1} feet deep on each side 

 of base? Will frost or drouth injure the sod m that ele- 

 vated position? .,,,.,■ . 



Also what is the best mode and season to irrigate 

 meadows? Will some of the readers of the Genesee 

 Farmer give their experience ?-T. H. P., lappan, Ohio. 



Drain Tiles.— Will some of your correspondents iu- 

 form me what size of tile I should lay 'for a mam dram 

 to drain twenty acres? There is no spnng— only the wa- 

 ter that falls on the surface. The soil is a heavy clay, and 

 quite lcel Will it do to have an open drain alongside 

 the main covered drain, to carry off the water behind the 

 niece I want to underdrain ? 



Will three feet be too deep to put 1he side drains, in a 

 soil so hard that I have to pick it after I get down eighteen 

 inches'' Will 33 feet be close enough to put the drains '. 

 Is it necessary to put straw on the tiles?— Wm. Frasee, 

 Esquessing, C. TV. 



