THE GENESEE FARirER. 



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Thb Best at Half Price.— The Rural Annual and 

 horticultural Directory for 1860 wc regard as the best 

 lumber of the series. It contuins treatises on the planting 

 md management of Fruit Trees; Dwarf Trees for Gar- 

 lens, with six illustrations of actual specimens of dwarf 

 3Car trees, dwarf apples, dwarf cherries and dwarf plums, 

 Irawn and engraved expressly for the work. Alsoatrea- 

 ;ise on Ornamental Deciduous Trees, with some beautiful 

 llustrations, Also a treatises on Evergreen.s with three 

 llustrations. Nothing that has yet appeared in this 

 sountrv compares with these engravings. They were 

 irnwn by Hoc«sT«iN, from actual specimens grown in 

 ,his vicinity. These engravings are worth double the 

 jrice of the book. 



There are also treatises on the American Black Rasp- 

 jerry, with an engraving showing the method of training. 

 Uso a treatise on the Diseases of Hornes, Cattle, Sheep 

 uid Swine. Also on insects ii.jurious to grain, fruit and 

 :egetable.s, with twenty-eight engravings. A treatise on 

 Oomostic Pigeons, with fourteen illustrations, with other 

 natter of interest to every farmer and fruit grower. 



This beautiful little book we will sepd, prepaid, by return 

 nail, to any address for 12 cents in postage stamps. 



Ths Gbnesee Farmeu in Canada. — It will be seen that 

 Hir Canadian friends have taken all our Cash Prizes 

 jxcept two ! The first Prize of $50 is taken by a club of 

 live hundred and dxty-eigU subscribers. This is the 

 argest club ever raised for the Genesee Farmer. 



Canada money is now at such a high premium with us, 

 'although worth no more in Canada,) that for the next 

 jionth we will let our Canadian friends, who remit in 

 Canada bills or postage stamps, have the Farmer at the 

 M rates of fifty cents for single copies, and thirty -seven 

 »ad.a half cents in clubs. We will also prepay the American 

 postage. It is not too late to form clubs. The back 

 trumbers of this year can be supplied, and they are just 

 as good now as when issued. We also offer some un- 

 usually liberal premiums, which will be sent to Canada 

 for clubs at the reduced rates. 



Improved Agricultural Implements.— G. W. Massey, 

 of Gibson Co., Ind., writes us that he neglected to sub- 

 scribe for the Genesee Farmer last year and now sends for 

 the last volume and the one for 1863. He says: "lam 

 anxious to see the Farmer to see if there is anything 

 advertised that will help us to do the work on the farm. 

 I have bought several machines that I should have known 

 nothing about had it not have been for your paper." 



There will be a great demand this season for improved, 

 labor-saving agricultural implements, and those who have 

 such will do well to announce the fact through the adver- 

 tising columns of the agricultural papers. 

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Hired HKLP.—Farm laborers will be scarce the coming 

 season, and farmers would do well to engage their help 

 at once. In the city everything is so high that wages 

 must advance. In the country, where the men live in the 

 house, there will probably not be as much dift'erence in 



wages. 



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A CORRESPONDENT sends us a slip cut from an English 

 paper, giving an account of some " wheat grown from 

 oats and barley." We have seen the same or similar 

 ■tatements before, but are still incredulous. 



A Good Summer Dri.nk. — A farmer in this vicinitv in- 

 forms us that he takes one pound Tamarack bark, one 

 pound Wild Cherry bark, one pound White Ash bark, 

 and onepouud Poplar bark, and puts them into a jar with 

 whisky enough to cover them and let.s it stand for ten 

 days. Then pour it from the bark and put it into bottles, 

 and cork it up. Of this, if his stomach is out of oi der, 

 he takes a teaspoonful in the morning. It is an excellent 

 tonic. To make a beverage of it, put a teaspoonful of 

 the extract into a glass of water, sweetened with mo- 

 lasses, and a little acid of any kind to give it flavor. lie 

 thinks it the best summer drink in ,the world. 



Only One. — Cannot each reader of the F^ni-mer get us 

 one additional subscriber at this tinie? Will not yon, 

 kind reader, speak to your neighbor on the subject. We 

 will send him the back numbers of this year, and will 

 also send you for 3'our trouble, a copy of the Rural 

 Annual cfc Horticultural Directory for 1860, prepaid, by 

 return mail. We make the same offer to our friends in 

 Canada for one additional subscriber, at only fifty cents a 

 year. 



The Rural Cyclopedia. — We cnn furnish complete 

 sets of the Rural Annual (k Horticultura'l Directory {m the 

 years 1856-7-8-9-'60-'61-'62 and '63, handsomely 'bound 

 in two volumes, for |12,50. On receipt of the money the 

 books will be forwarded, prepaid, by return mail. The 

 eight volumes will be sent, prepaid, by return mail, bound 

 in paper, for $1,60, or the first seven volumes for ^1,40. 

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A Good Time to Buy Fruit Trees.— Nursery trees can 

 still be purchased at low prices, and there never was a 

 better time to buy. That they will not be as low again 

 for some years seems certain. 



Inqtiiries and Answers. 



Farm Taxes.— (B.) We cannot agree with you that 

 farmers are taxed higher than other classes. In fact we 

 think they are taxed less. It is true, as you say, that if a 

 man buys a farm worth $3,000 and pays only §1,000 

 down, he has to pay taxes on the $3,000, while in reality 

 he is worth only $1,000. He pays just as much tax as liis 

 wealthier neighbor who is out of debt. This seems un- 

 just, especially as the man owning the mortgage of $2,000 

 has to pay tax on that also, so that the farm worth $3,000 

 pays in reality ft tax on $5,000. But we suppose it is not 

 easy to obviate this difficulty, and it has one advantage, 

 it serves to check speculation in real estate. 



Bban-Plantrr— Vetches and Spurry.— Where can I 

 get a good Bean-Planter, and at what price? Will it pl.int 

 corn iiiso and at different distances? 



Also which is the best to .sow on a rather poor piece 

 of land for pasture or fodder— vetches or spuiry— and 

 where can I get the seed, and the cost? Cayuc.a. 



Whiteside, Barket & Co., of Brockport, N. Y., manu- 

 facfureacood Bean-planter, You can learn particulars 

 by addressing them. 



We doubt if spurry seed can be obtained in fhi.s country. 

 Vetches are grown to a considerable extent in Canada, 

 and doubtless you could get the seed from Fleming & Co., 

 .leedsmen, Toronto. They are not, however, raised for 

 pasture or fodder, but to cut green for soiling horses in 

 .summer. They are the best of all crops for this purpose, 

 where the climate is suitable. 



