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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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



^CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Experimsnts with Artificial Fertiliiers on Potatoes. 105 



LeUuce and Cut-Worms... 106 



Cutting Totatoes for Planting 107 



Cultivation of the Sweet Potato 107 



Cultivation df Flax 108 



Harrowing Wheat in the Spring 108 



Americao Agricultural iSooks— No. 1 109 



Improvement of ImpovorUhed Land 110 



Hay Caps and Stack C-overs 110 



Suggested Items — No. 19 112 



Crops after Buckwheat 11* 



Simple but Essential. 112 



Notes for the Month, by 8. W 118 



Destroying Canada TliiKtle<i 114 



Cutting Grass or Grain by Machinery 115 



P^pe— Its Uses 1 16 



Ashes as a Manure 116 



Milking Young Cows 116 



Lice on Calves, 116 



Notes for the G«nosoe Farmer 117 



Salt your Stock 1 1' 



Corn Stalk Fodder Rack 11" 



Fixtures for Feeding Hog? 117 



A Western Now York Barn 1 IS 



*' Troubles,'' and their Remedy US 



Reflections on Poor Roads — No. 2 119 



Fancied Facte— No. 1 119 



Choice of Fanning as a Profession for Life 120 



Castor Beans and Ground Moles 120 



Btalk of Com 131 



HOttTICULTURAL DKPARTMEXT. 



The Farmer's Tegetable Garden 121 



fihrubs for the Lawn 122 



Report of the Fruit Committee of the Mass. Hort. Society 123 



Pears— Preparing for Market 128 



New Varieties 128 



Apples 12-1 



Blackberries 124 



Gooseberries 124 



Grapes— 124 



Open Culture 124 



Raspberries 126 



8lrawl>errie8 127 



Grape Mildew 127 



Dwarf Peara— Shelter for Orchards 127 



Experiments on Hedging with the Osage Orange 123 



LADIES DEPARTMENT. 



Domestic Receipte 129 



A Word to Farmers' Wives about Chickens 129 



EDITOU S TABLE. 



April Premiums ISO 



Genesee Valley Horticultural Society ISO 



Summer-Fallowing an Old Sod lor Wheat. 180 



Orchards in Exposfd Situations VtVi 



Verben.is by Mail l!JO 



The Wheat Crop 180 



Subjects for Prize Essays 181 



Circulating Library 181 



Grub in an Egg 131 



A Fine Calf '. 181 



Inquiries and Answers LSI 



Notices of Books, Pamphlets, &c 181 " 



ILLCSTRATIOXS. 



Sweet Potato Plant lOS 



Flax Plant IdS 



Corn Stalk Fodder Rack 1 17 



Fixtures for Feeding llniie 117 



Wi'.'itorn New York Barn 118 



Ground Plan of ditto 118 



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