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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



THE GENESEE FARMER FOR 1863. 

 To Oar Agents and Friends. 



We have not yet prepared our List of Premiums for 

 1868 ; but this much we can safely say— they will be fully 

 equal to any oS'ered in previous years. In the mean 

 time, we would suggest to our friends that the present 

 season of Fairs is a proper tune to speak a good word 

 for the Genesee Farmer. Put a pencil in your pocket, and 

 take down the name of any one who is willing to sub- 

 scribe for 1SG3, and say to him that by subscribing at this 

 feme he can have the last three numbers of this year for 

 nothing ! 



For fifty cents wc will send the October, November and 

 December numbers of this year and the wholo volume for 

 1863 to all who subscribe during the present month of 

 October. 



To those of our friends who design competing for next 

 year's Premiums this will afford a good opportunity to 

 commence canvassing. We sfall keep an accurate ac- 

 count of all names of subscribers sent in now, and give 

 credit for them in awarding the Premiums. 



We think our readers will admit that the Genesee 

 Farmer was never more useful and interesting than at 

 present ; certainly never has so much labor been bestow- 

 ed upon it, or so much money expended in illustrations 

 It is our firm determination and constant endeavor to 

 make it more and more worthy of that extensive patron- 

 age it has so long enjoyed. 



Tell Your Neighbors— That by subscribing for the 

 Genesee Farmer for 1S63 at this time, they will get the 

 last three numbers of 1862 for nothing. 



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Why Wool Increases in Weight by Keeping. A cor- 

 respondent ot the American Stock Journal thinks that 

 wool packed up in the summer will weigh more the next 

 winter became the warm, light air ivhich permeates it ivhen 

 put up is displaced by the cool, heavy air of winter. In other 

 words, that the air which it contains, and not the wool 

 weighs more in summer than in winter. Now, while it is 

 true that the air is heavier in cold than in warm weather 

 yet as applied to the case under consideration this fact 

 has no influence whatever, because the air in which the 

 wool is weighed is as heavy as that contained in the wool. 

 A bag which will hold a pound of atmospheric' air, will 

 weigh no more when it is full of air than when it is folded 

 up and empty, because the atmosphere in which it is 

 weighed is as heavy as that in the bag. So of the wool. 

 If it is heavier in winter than in summer, it cannot be 

 owing to the heavier air which it contains. The air 

 weighs nothing either in summer or winter. A pound of 

 water surrounded by water of the same temperature, 



Notes on the Weather from August 15th to Septem 

 ber 16th, 1862.— The weather has continued fine to the 

 end of August. The temperature of the first half waa 

 72.9°, or 2.5° above the mean for twenty-five rears. The 

 last half was cooler, being 66.7°, or 0.8° below the averag 

 The mean of the month was 69.7°, or 1.2 C above the 

 average. 



The hottest noon was 88° on the 26th, which was also 

 the hottest day, 75.7°. The coldest morning at 7, was 4'J 

 on the 30th, which was the coldest day, 57.7° ; but the 

 coldest noon was 65°, on the 24th. The heat and cold 

 the month is much like that of August of last year. 



The rain of the month was only 2.22 inches; several 

 thunder showers. On the 22d and 26th, very heavy 

 showers, with. almost constant lightning for two hours, 

 passed north ot us, and were followed with great fall of 

 temperature. 



The harvest of wheat was great and finely secured. 

 Apples and pears became plenty, and plums were fine; 

 apricots had disappeared, and were followed by peaches 

 from our own vicinity, many of which were sent away in 

 the last week. Peaches are a fortnight later than two 

 years ago. All vegetables of the finest quality a 

 abundant in their season. A very fine month of August. 

 September began with heavy thunder and rain at 2} a. 

 m. of the first, and in the day a great rain fell of 1.71 

 inches. At Buffalo the storm began at 11 p. m. the even- 

 ing before, with high wind, but not so much wind lure, 

 so that the storm was three hours in coming from BuflH 

 here— the velocity less than twenty miles an hour. Very 

 cool days were the 2d and 3d. Though the heat was onlj 

 43° at 7 a. M. of the 3d, very little frost was seen aboui 

 us. These were cold days. More frost on the 14th, which 

 touched in low places the tenderer leaves. Euin on th 

 12th was 0.22 inches, and on the 15th was 0.17 inches, 

 being 2.10 inches for the half month, or very nearly equal 

 to all the rain of August. The storm of the first of the 

 month moved from west to east, and began at Marquette, 

 on Lake Superior, at 9 p. m. of August 31st, two hours 

 earlier than at Butfalo. 



Some frost occurred on the 3d ot the month, doing lit- 

 tle injury, and more on the 14th, still injuring plants but 

 little. The first frost ot last year was in October, and 

 very severe. 



The season has been fine; fruits have matured. Peaches 

 now abound, and of the finest quality, at moderate prices. 



The cold change at the beginning of the mouth est] 

 ed from Lake Superior eastward over this State and 

 New England. 



The comet, which appeared with little show before tl 

 loth of August, was nearest the earth on August 26tl 

 and disappeared some days ago, not having been disposet 

 to make a display. 



The temperature of this half was 64.2°, only 0.3 above 

 the mean for twenty-five years. The heat was at noon of 

 the 6th 86°, and the coldest morning was 43°, on the 3d. 





The Genesee Farmer.— We have been favored with 

 this valuable agricultural monthly for September. As a 

 friend recently remarked, we do not understand how Mr. 



weighs nothing ; so a pound of air, surrounded 'by air of ^T pub ! i8he8 1 s ° S ood R monthl y for the sma » *»*- 

 the «p tn ,„™r»t„r„ L^ 1- SUrrouuaeffl b ? air 01 senp ion price asked, unless the Farmer has an enormous 

 the same temperature, weighs nothing. ] «rculation.-Za/*«- County (Mich.) Bepublican. 



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