THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Our Terms. — The price of the Genesee Farmer is 60 

 cents a year for single subscribers, and in clubs of six 

 and upward 50 cents a year. 



The price of the Rural Annual is 25 cents a single copy, 

 or §2.00 per dozen. In clubs of six and upward the price 

 of the Farmer and Rural Annual together is 65 cents. 



The postage on the Farmer is 3 cents a year in the 

 State of New York, and in all other States 6 cents a year, 

 excepting California, Oregon, &c, where it is 12 cents. 

 The postage to Europe and other foreign countries, which 

 must be prepaid at this office, is 24 cents a year. We 

 prepay the postage on all papers sent to Canada and 

 other British Provinces without extra charge. 



A Cheap and Valuable Agricultural Library. — We 

 can furnish about a dozen complete sets of the Genesee 

 Farmer for 1855-6-7-8-9, '60, '61, and '62, handsomely 

 bound, with au index, title page, and everything com- 

 plete. Those who wish to get them should do so at once. 

 We will forward any single volume, prepaid, by mail for 

 $1, or the whole series of eight volumes, prepaid, by ex- 

 press, for S6.50. This will probably be the last opportu- 

 nity of getting a complete set, as we have not more than 

 a dozen copies of 1855 left. 



No Danger of Famine. — Our esteemed friend J. J. 

 Thomas, of Union Springs, Cayuga county, N. Y., in a 

 private note under date November 6, says : " We have 

 had a beautiful autumn, so far — no frost yet severe 

 enough to kill dahlias, potato stalks, <ic. Our cellars are 

 abounding with apples, pears and vegetables, and how- 

 ever 'hard' the times may be we do not seem to be in a 

 way to starve at present." No, we shall not starve. 

 Never was the product of our soil more abundant. How 

 often in the history of the world have Pestilence and 

 Famine been added to the horrors of War. Ours has been 

 a happier lot. Though cast down, we are not destroyed. 

 While we sympathize with the thousands who mourn the 

 loss of friends slain in battle, let us eat our Thanksgiving 

 dinner with grateful hearts to Him who has crowned the 

 year with plenty, and hope and pray that peace, unity 

 and fraternal love may soon extend throughout ali our 



borders. 



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Big Pumpkins. — Mr. Orangb Judd, of the American 

 Agriculturist, offered some prizes tor the biggest pump- 

 kins, squashes, etc. The show came off a few days since. 

 The prize pumpkin was raised by W. D. Hall, of Wal- 

 Ungford, Ct. It weighed 270J lbs. The second prize 

 was taken by a pumpkin weighing 221 J lbs., and the third 

 by one of Mr. Hall's, weighing 20S lbs. Mr. Hall also 

 took the prize for the largest yield from a single vine. 

 The vine bore 42 pumpkins, weighing in the aggregate 

 1,259 lbs., or an average of nearly 30 lbs. each. 



"The Best in Five Years." — We heard a farmer 

 make this remark the other day. "Best what?" we 

 asked. "The best year for farmers," he answered. — 

 " Crops have been good, and prices for everything except 

 fruit, beef and pork, are satisfactory." 



Pop Corn. — A Vermont correspondent of the Farm 

 writes: "Pop corn is one of the luxuries of the farn 

 Neither is it necessarily confined to the farm. Every oc 

 who owns or tills a half acre of land, can and should hav 

 his plot of pop corn. It is easily grown, and with u 

 doubly pays the cost. It is really a household necessity 

 almost as much so as ' popping the question ! ' Poppin 

 corn works in very advantageously during the long wit 

 ter evenings, to fill up the otherwise unimproved ' leisur 

 moments.' We have a relish for it, and we enjoy it.- 

 Give us pop corn ! What say the boys — and the girls V 



Satisfactory. — We have hot received a single letter 

 complaining of the small increase in the price of the 

 Farmer. 



Bound Volume of the Farmer for 1860. — A corres 



pondent justly considers this one of the best volumes o 



the Farmer yet published. It will be sent to any address 



prepaid, by mail, for $1. But we will tell any of ou 



young readers a better way to obtain it. Speak to fitt o 



your neighbors, and get them to give you 60 cents eacl 



for the Genesee Farmer for 1863. Send us the $3 and wi 



will forward yon, prepaid, by return mail, the Farmer to 



1860, handsomely bound, with a complete index, titlt 



page, etc. 



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John Haven, Esq., of Fort Washington, N. Y., writes 

 "I perceive that the price of the Farmer is advanced t< 

 sixty cents per year — little enough for so valuable J 

 sheet. I believe my remittance last year covered tw( 

 years' subscription ; nevertheless, I now inclose the ad 

 ditional ten cents." This is the right spirit, but it is 

 more than we ask. All who have subscribed for nexi 

 year previous to the advance in price, will of course re- 

 ceive their papers without additional charge. 



A Good Devon Cow. — J. W. Sanborn, of Lyndon, 

 Vermont, writes: "Please just say to your 'Durham' 

 friends, who denounce our Devons as too small to be profit- 

 able, that there was a Devon Cow exhibited at the lat« 

 ' Caledonia Farmers' Fair,' at Lyndon, Vt., whose lire 

 weight was 1,900 pounds." 



Big Beets. — The Rev. Geo. Freeman, of Parma, N. 



Y., informs us that he raised this season two beets of the 



Bassano variety, that weighed seventeen lbs. each. Two 



years ago he raised one of the same kind that weighed 



•2'Ji lbs. He also raised a blood beet this year weighing 



15 pounds. 



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Rural American. — We have received a copy of this 



semi monthly agricultural paper. It is a handsome sheet, 



and we wish it success. A private note from Mr. Miner, 



informs us that, owing to the advance in paper, he has 



been obliged to raise his lowest club rates to 75 cents a 



year. 



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Underdraining — Correction. — In our report of the 

 discussions at the late New York State Fair in the No- 

 vember number, page 336, the printers make J. J. Thomas 

 say that he digs his drains ten rods apart.- It should 

 have been two rods. 



Shinplastbrs. — We need hardly say to our friends that 

 " shinplasters," however good they may be in the district 

 where issued, are of no use to us. For fractional parts 

 of a dollar send, us Post-office stamps o.r U. S. currency. 



