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THE GENESEE FAEMER. 



Prices of Agricultaral Products at the Principal Markets in the United States, Canada and England. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Natural and Artificial Drainage 41 



Drauorht of Plowing at different depths 44 



The Analysis of Soil-Analyses 44 



Three- Horse Whiffle-Trees 49 



The Ferret — Destroying Rati 50 



Suggested Items — No. 17 50 



Notes for the Month, by S. W 51 



Variety of Farm Products 52 



Cure for Colic in Horses 52 



Sheep and Sheep-Ticks. 52 



" Notions" on i oddering Stock 53 



Agriculture in the AVest 53 



Fattening Cattle in Winter 53 



Stalls for Cows 54 



Who has the oldest Horse ? 54 



Muck applied unmixed to the Soil 55 



Artesian Wells 55 



Receipt for Founder in Horses 55 



Refu.se Leather for Manure 55 



Analysis of Soils 55 



Chinese Sugar Cane in Iowa 56 



Oxen vs. Horses 56 



Buckwheat for a Sod Crop on the Prairie 56 



Sow a variety of Grass Seeds 56 



Notes from Minnesota 56 



About Winter Butter 57 



Anti-Chess — An Offer 57 



AVheat turning to Chess — Once more 57 



Seeding to Timothy Grass 57 



The Wild Pigeon 5S 



The Genesee t'armer, and Agricultural Literature 59 



Pig Breeding 59 



Fattening Sheep in Winter 59 



The best Time for Cutting Timber 59 



What can Farmers do to elevate their Calling 60 



lyiities of Landlord and Tenant 60 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Western New York Fruit Growers' Association 61 



Best Soil for Apple Orchards 61 



Pruning 62 



C'ultivation of the Grape 63 



Best Soil for Pears 63 



Best Soil for the Peach and Cherry 64 



Pears on Pear Stocks 64 



Grapes best .adapted to Western New York 64 



Training Hedges 65 



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Making Hot-Beds 66 



The Woodpecker 



Profits of Fruit Culture. 



EDITOR S TABLE. 



Is the Genesee Farmer Twenty-seven Years old ? 67 



January Premiums 67 



Premiums for Short Essays 67 



Postage on the Rural Annual 67 



The Weather and Crops in Northern Illinois 67 



Food of Bees 67 



Pears in Oregon 67 



Cattle Poi.soned by Paint 67 



Crowded out 67 



The United States Agricultural Society 68 



Notices of the Genesee Farmer 68 



Inquiries and Answers 68 



List of New Advertisements. 69 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Sixteen Figures illustrating Drainage 



Three-Horse Whiffle-Trees — two figures . 



The Ferret 



The Wild Pigeon 



Specimen of a badly trained Hedge 



" " properly " '• 



Hot-Bed 



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A. LONGETT, 



No. 34 CLIFF STREET, NEW YORK, 



DEALER in Peruvian, Colombian and Mexican Guano, Super- 

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 November 1, 1857.— ly. 



ROCHESTER CENTRAL NURSERIES. 

 Setid for a Catalogue. 



CHINESE SUGAR CANE SEED.— A package of this Seed, 

 7 containing enough to plant half an acre of land, with jdnin 

 directions for planting, cultivating, harvesting, and alWr treatment 

 of the Cane, will be sent, postage paid, on the n-ceipt of One 

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February, lS5S.-4t Rochester, N. Y. 



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PEAR SEEDS AND SEEDLINGS. 



OOD, healthy Pear Seedlings, 1 year, .$S per 1,000, $75 per 



T 10,000: 2 years, S15 per 1,000, $140 per 1i),i 



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 February, 1S58.— 3t Plymouth, Mass. 



J. DONNELLAN & CO., 



OF TILE 



ROCHESTER AND LAKE AVENUE COMMERCIAL 

 NURSERIES, 



ROCHESTER, N. Y., 



WISH to inform their friends and customers that they have on 

 hand for Fall Sales the following select assortment of 

 Standard and Dwarf Fniit Trees, 

 Evergreen and Weeping " 

 Ornamental Deciduous and Climbing Shrubs, 

 A numerous variety of select French and Domestic Roses, 



Pasonies, Phloxes, &c. &c.. 

 Hardy Herbaceous and Hedge Plants. 

 Bulbous Roots, Double Dahlias, Ac, &c., 

 which they will sell in quantities to suit purchasers, and on moder- 

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 1011,000 3 and 4 year old Apple Trees, choicest kinds, 

 140,000 2 " " •' " " 



ISO 000 1 " « « « « 



10,000 2 " Peach " " " 



10,000 1 « UK " a 



with an average quantity of Pears Plums. Clierries, A:c. 

 We have also 100,000 Manetti Stocks for Kosi-s, first quality. 



5,000 1 and 2 year old Hi.rse Che.'tnut Seedl'g?. 

 100,000 assorted Appl(» Scions, from the most ap- 

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BTEEEOTYPED BY C. H. M'DONELL, K0CHE8TBK, N. Y. 



