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TOE GENESEE FARMEIi. 





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ANOTHER PRE3IIUM ! 



Miner's Domestic Poultry Book. 



We have purchased a thousand copies of this well-known 

 Poultry Book, aud propose to send a copy of it, prepaid 

 by mail, to anyone who will procure eight subscribers to 

 the Genesee Farmer for 1864, at our lowest club rates of lifty 

 cents each f The book contains two hundred and fifty-four 

 pages, and is illustrated with orer one hundred en- 

 gravings of the different varieties of fowls— geese, ducks, 

 turkeys, swans, peacocks, Guinea fowls, &c., &c. When 

 you send the club of eight, mention that j-ou wish the 

 Poultry Book, aud it shall be sent prepaid by return 

 mail. 



How You Can Help Us. 



Take a copy of the Genesee Farmer, show it to your 

 neighbors and ask them to subscribe for it. Is Ihere' one 

 of our friends who cannot get a club of six subscribers at 

 oO cents a year? We will cheerfully send a showbill, 

 subscription list, <fec., to all who will consent to act as 

 agents for the Farmer. 



"How Large a Club Must I Raise to Take a 

 Cash Prize?" 



We cannot tell. It will depend on the amount of com- 

 petition. If you get up the largest club you wiU get the 

 fifty dollars ; if the second largest you will get the thirty 

 dollars, and so on. All is fair and above board. We 

 publi.'^h the names of those who take the prizes, so that 

 there is no chance for favoritism. You stand just as good 

 a chance as any one. If you make an effort you are sure 

 of getting good pay for doing so. Mr. Bowman, who 

 took the first prize last year, will not be allowed to compete 

 this year, owing to some irregularity in his mode of can- 

 vassing. Leaving him out, the highest club last year 

 was 175. 



Postage. 



The Post.\ge cm the Genesee Farmer is 12 cents a 

 year; but when sent in packages to one address it is only 

 4 cents a year. To Canadia.n Subscribers, who remit 

 Canada Money or Postage Stamps, we prepny the Aineri- 

 cau postage without extra charge, 'if U. S. money is sent, 

 they must add 12 cents extra to pay postage. 



Club the Rural Annual with the Farmer. 



Every reader of the Genesee Farmer should have a copy 

 oi ihf Rural Annual iw 18G4. In clubs of six aud up- 

 wards it is sent prepaid with the Genessee Farmer for 15 

 cents. We hope all our agents will club -it with th« 



Farmer. 



The Apple Crop of Western New York.— The crop 

 of apples in Western New York the present season has 

 been unusually good, and owing to the scarcity of fruit in 

 -Xew England and part of the M'est, the demand has been 

 very brisk at good prices. The Orkaus Eejnihlivan, states 

 that27S,000 barrels of apples have been shipped from that 

 county the present season. The L'ochester Democrat from 

 caretul inquiry among tire dealers, e.stimates the apid« 

 crop of Monroe county at 525,000 barrels ! Over S75,(,niO 

 barrels have been shipped to New York, Philadelphia, 

 Montreal, and other large cities. 



Prices have ranged from $1.50 to 12.00 per barrel for 

 the fruit alone. 



Renew your Subscription at Once. 



Iht present number of the ■Qenetee Farmer terminates 

 our engagement with many thousand readers. Our rule 

 is to stop the paper as soon as the subscription expires, 

 but we do not wish to strike from our books the name of 

 a single subscriber. We trust all will renew promptly. 

 We have endeavored to make a useful paper during the 

 past year, bnt propose to do much better the year to 

 come. We think the Genesee Farmer for 18*54 will be the 

 handsomest and best volume we have yet published. 



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The Rural Annnal for 1864 

 Is now ready. To those acquainted with the previous 

 numbers we need s:iy nothing more than that it is fully 

 equal to anr of its predecessors. Every reader of the 

 Gujiefe' Fa/-mer should have a copy. Price 25 cents. 



In chibs with the Genexe* Farmer it is sent prepaid by 

 m.iil for ! -, cents. Lot every one of our agents club it with 

 tl.o Far-ner. It will give good satisfaction. It is the 

 cheapest work in the world. 



Putrid Sore Throat in Hogs.— S. Wtker, of Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, writes us that he has had great 

 success in curing this malignant disease in the following 

 manner: "Lay the hog on his back or side. Tdke a 

 woolen cloth, and put a stick in his mouth, so that he can 

 not bite. Piill out his tongue and with a pen-knife open 

 both veins on the under side of the tongue, near the root. 

 They bleed but little, and the cure is complete." Mr. W. 

 add.s, "as butchering time is approaching people may 

 look for the veins under the tongue and see how toyopen 

 them.", ' 



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Errors in Mailinc,.— Several of our subscribers havt) 

 wriftea us that the Farmer, has not been regularly re- 

 ceived the past year. We will see that the mailing is 

 more carefully attended to in future, and we trust our 

 friends will have no reason to complain the coming year. 

 We will most cheerfully supply copies of the paper that 

 have not been received. 



Mr. Siberia Ott, formerly of the firm of BoARnjiAM, 

 Grat a Co., of Albany, has established a general iig<<)cv 

 in NIw York city. We feel confident in recoinmeudin;j 

 Mr. Ott to any of our friends who may wish anvtbii'- . 

 his line. See advertisement in this uum' — 



