THE GENESEE FARMER. 



CONTENTS or THIS NXJMBER. 



A Few Days in Connecticut, 265 

 Attraclious of Agricullure,. 268 

 Mistakes in Judging Land, 26s 



Government Horses, 269 



Proper Depth of Under- 

 draining 269 



Potatoes, 271 



Pointa of Fat Cattle, . ...... 276 



Marking Sheep, 277 



Steam Cultivation, 278 



Best Time to Cut Timber,.. 279 



Lamp:is in Horses, 279 



A Dttvon Steer, '.'..'. 280 



Larjre Crops of Corn, 280 



To Cure Sheep from Jump- 



„ ing. 280 



Spirit of the Agricultural 

 Press 2S1 



Walks and Talks in the 



Garden— No. 5 282 



Marking Trees, 284 



Currants, .' 2S5 



A Japanese Grape, 285 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Soap Suds for Carrota, 286 



Preserving Fruil, 286 



Protection from the Cut- 



Worm 286 



Big Pears and Pnmpkins,.. 286 



The Markets 290 



A Talk about 'Wheat 291 



Ag. Exhibitions for 1863,.. 291 



International Wheat Show, 292 



Letter from Jolin Johnston, 292 



editor's table. 



292 

 292 

 293 

 293 

 293 



i'llustrations. 



Pwnts of Cattle 286 I Marking Trees, 284 



ADeron Steer, 280 1 e ' • <" 



Fair of the Eoral Ag. So.. , 



Wool, .,.' 



Fresh Drink 



Inquiries and Answers,.'.!! 

 Down on Ag. Papers, 



THE GEWESEE FAEMER FOR 1864. 



Wk design to make great improvements in the Genesee 

 Farmer for 1864. We have made arrangements for a 

 supply of paper of much better quality, and shall use 

 new type throughout. The amount of reading matter 

 will also be increased. We are determined to make the 

 Genesee Farmer worthy of the extensive patronage it 

 has so long enjoyed. 



The subscription price, paid strictly in advance, will be 

 seventy-five cents. 



Those subscribing at this time for 1864 will receive the 

 three last numbers of this year, together with the whole 

 volume fori 8 04. In other words, they will receive three 

 numbers for nothing. Will not our friends attending 

 the Fairs take a copy of the Farmer with them and call 

 the attention of their friends to this liberal offer. All 

 such favors will be appreciated. 



PEEMIUMS. 

 1. To any person sending us two subscribers for 1864, we 

 will send a copy of the Rural Annual and Horticultural 

 Directory for 1863. Price, 25 cents. 

 2i For five subscribers we will send a copy of the J/anwa? 

 of Agriculture. Price, 75 cents. [This work should 

 be in the hands of every young farmer in America.] 

 3* For six subscribers we will send a copy of Mrs. 



HKLt's Modern Cookery Book. Price, |1. 



4« For seven subscribers we will send a copy of Evtry- 



body"! Laicyer, or the Hortt andJii* Disenjiei. Price, $1.25. 



6> For ten subscribers we will send a complete set of the 



Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory, handsomely 



bound in two volumes. Price, t2.r.o. 



The aboTe works will be sent postage paid by return 



mail. 



The Markets. -The reports from Europe 

 continue on the whole favorable as to the yield ol 

 present harvest. In England frosts occur'red on 

 mornings of the 18th and 19th of July, which did i 

 damage to the late wheat. But the bulk of the crop 

 too far advanced to suffer materially. 



Future prices will depend a good deal on the soli 

 of the "Polish question." Russia is making gig, 

 preparations for a possible war with the three great 

 ers. If diplomacy fails to settle the question, we 5 

 have a war that will shake all Europe, and the price of 

 duce will materially advance. 



The reports of the harvest in this country are gene) 

 favorable. We shall doubtless have a large surph 

 grain to export. The price in New York will be d. 

 mined by the price in Europe, and the premium on g 

 In the interior another element comes in to affect pric 

 the cost of freight. Freights are now lower than 1 

 have been for some time, and the western farmer or de 

 reaps the benefit. 



Gold the first of July was at a premium of 45 per c 

 Our victories brought it down to 22 per cent. It t 

 rallied a little and has remained pretty constantly 

 some time at about 27 per cent. 



The latest papers we have received from England qt 

 wheat in Liverpool as follows : « English white 9s. 6d 

 10s. 3d., red 9s. to 9s. 6d.; American, white 9s. 6d. to ] 

 3d., red 8s. 8d. to 93. 3d.; Canadian, white 9s. to 10s. ( 

 red 8s. 4d. to 8s. 9d.," per cental of 100 lbs. Our read 

 can easily ascertain the price of a bushel of 60 lbs. Tuk; 

 red wheat at an average of 98. (or |2.16,) per cental, : 

 price would be a fraction less than $1 30 per bushel. Ti 

 is in gold. With gold at a premium of 27 per cent, ti 

 11.30 is worth $1.65. This, therefore, is the price' o; 

 bushel of American red wheat in Liverpool. 



We know a gentleman in this city who has just shipp 

 14,000 bushels of red winter wheat to Liverpool. It c( 

 him in store in New York $1.27. He had it recleant 

 blowing out about 80 bushels, and this and the expens 

 of getting it to the vessel brought up the price to $1.8 

 The cost of sending it to Liverpool, including freight, i 

 surance, dockage, primage, duty and commission, wi 

 amount to about 32 cents per bushel. In other word 

 the wheat will cost him in Liverpool $1.62. This leaves 

 profit of 3 cents per bushel ! This is certainly not vei 

 large, and if gold should decline to 20 per cent the prof 

 would be on the other side of the ledger. 



If there should be no war in Europe, and the crop 

 prove as good as reported, there is little probability tha 

 wheat will advance in England. If we should return t 

 specie, what would be the price of wheat m New York 

 If the expense of shipping it across the ocean should b 

 the same as now, it is easy to answer this question frou 

 the above figures. It is now worth in Liverpool $1.3. 

 per bushel. It costs 82 cents to send it from New Yorl 

 to Liverpool. It would, therefore, be worth 93 cents ii 

 New York. What would it be worth in Chicago ; wha 

 in Iowa? We expect to see very •' hard times," the mo 

 ment we return to specie, especially in the West. 



The midge is said to have injured the wheat in tb« 

 Lake Counties of Canada very seriously. 



