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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Cultivation of Barley 105 



Coffee Substitutes — Cultivation of Chicory 106 



Canada. Cull. vation of Spring Wheat 107 



Sowing Clover Seed. Planter for Potatoes. How to Sow! .. 1(8 



Lord Pal merston on Underdrainin'g, 10!) 



Remunerative Patents. Cows— Kicking— Cause for It li 9 



Spirit of the Agricultural Press 110 



Horse Radish for Cattle. Large Hog Ho 



Hogs Packed n the West. Application of Manure 110 



A Thousand Flow Patents. Questions for Farmers 11(1 



Superphosphate of Lime for Turnips. Save the Manure 110 



Sitting liens. Sawdust as a Manurial Absorbent 110 



Lice on Cattle. Underdraining. Flax ill 



Farmers Seldom Fail Ill 



Sandy Soils can be Stirred too Much m 



"What Branch of Agriculture will Pay?" Ill 



Now is the Tim« to Buy Fruit Trees Ill 



Improved Horse Stalls. Loss of Cattle in California... Ill 

 When tQ Plant Sorghum. Draught Horses in the West 111 



Management of Honey Bees 112 



Italian Bees '. , U3 



Ducks and their Management 114 



Farming Now and Then 115 



Carrots' and other Root Crops. Cutivation of Potatoes 116 



Removing Manure from Stables 117 



Thoughts on Reading the January No. of the Farmer 117 



Chaffing Hay and Corn Stalks Economy 117 



Geese US 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Grape Growing and Native Grapes 119 



Glass Cases for Parlor Gardening 122 



How, much Seed shall I Require for my Garden? 124 



A Common Mistake in Raising Bulbs 126 



LADIES DEPARTMENT. 



Original Domestic Receipts 126 



American Women. 126 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Small Potatoes. Over-prayed Himself. A Salutary Thought. 127 

 Purchasing a Husband. Love of the Beautiful, &c.. &c 127 



EDITOR S TABLE. 



Notes on the Weather, 12S 



Inquiries and Answers, ]2y 



The Markets, . ..'. 129 



Items, Notices, &c 12S 129 HO 



Record relating to Birds, Plants, &c ' 'l30 



How to Prepare Feathers for Beds 131 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Common Chicory Plant 107 



Mallard or Wild Duck. A Duck House .' "... 114 



Common Goose : 118 



The Diana Grape 121 



Glass Case for Parlor Plants. Zinc Cone 122 



Eleven Specimens of Ferns, &c, for Parlor Gardening. 123, 124 



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Notes on the Weather from February 14th, to M 

 16th, 1862.— February had a quite uniform tempen 

 not very low or very high for this month. The avi 

 of the last half was 24.7°, or 2.5° below the mean f 

 years; and the average of the month was 24.7°, 01 

 below that of the month for those years. The cc 

 was 4° on the 25th, and the mean of the day was 1 

 the next warmer was 5° on the 15th', which was 

 coldest day of the month, 12.3°, and the 16th onlj 

 degree higher. Still, the heat of February, 1861, T 

 or 4 degrees higher than this. 



The hottest noon was 49° on the 23d, and on the 

 day was the great storm of the month. It began 

 the E. or S. E., on the coast of North Carolina, was s! 

 at Washington, and extended as a N. E. storm to M 

 pouring down rain, and then snow at New York, Be 

 Portsmouth, and northwards on the coast. The wi] 

 Washington was S., and rain began at 10| a. m., and i 

 11 the wind changed to a tornado from N. of W., an 

 steeple of a church fell before it. The storm, less se 

 continued into the night. The barometer was at 

 inches before the storm on the 21st, fell to 29.25 ii 

 as the rain began, and had risen on the next day to 

 at 11 a. m. At New York the wind chauged, and 

 violently at 3 p. m. from the west. At Rochester, I 

 at 2 p. m., the change from the west ; at Barnstable, J 

 the change was at 8 p. m. ; at Belfast, Me., the cl 

 from the west was at 9 p. m. ; and at Quebec the gah 

 storm was severe at 11 p. m., changed then to N. 0; 

 and continued to 2 a. m. of the 25th. At evening, a 

 der storm extended from Maine along the coast to 

 Island sound, and to some extent into the int 

 Here, the thermometer fell all the 24th to 4° on the 

 morning, the lowest in the month. The storm was 

 violent, as well as very rapid in its motion northw 

 and the telegraph line was strongly affected all alon 

 coast. In Western Massachusetts the violent W. 

 came on about 7 p. m,, and the cold fell below zero. 



The water fallen was 2.82 inches. 



The sleighing was fine all the month, as well as o 

 last half of January— six weeks of good sleighing 

 successive days. The month was fine for the opera 

 of business. A great quantity of snow has fallen 

 the eastern part of this State and over New England 



March began with cool, pleasant weather, and th< 

 sleighing was not materially affected by the rain 0: 

 3d. On the 8th and 9th, the snow melted under 

 warmth, and the rain of the 10th, and its temperatu 

 noon of 46°, perished the sleighing for the present, 

 fields, however, abound in snow. The Genesee hegf 

 rise, and on the 12th at 11 a. m., the ice of the Get 



