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THE GEI?fESEE FARMER. 



Btate Fairs for 1858. 



C«31fcmla, Man'STille, August 23— CS. 



Alabama, Montgomery,. October IS — 23. 



CoEinecticut,. Hartford, October 12—15. 



New Jersey, Trenton, September 14—17- 



OJiio,. 6andusky, September 14r-lT. 



Vermont, Barllngton, September 14—17. 



Ehode Island, Providence, September 14—13. 



Illinois, ■ Centralla, September 14— IS. 



Kentucky, Loulsrille, Sept. 27— Oct. 1. 



Canada West, Toronta Sept 27— Oct. 1. 



Icma, Oscaloosa, Sept 2S— Oct 1. 



"VTisconsin, Madison, October 4—7. 



Indiana, Indianapolis,. October 4—9. 



Nor- York, Syracuse, October 5—8. 



New Ilamp&liire, Dover, October 6— S. 



Virginia, Petersburgh, October. 



Tennessee OcUiber. 



U. S. Ag. Society, Richmond, Va., October 35—80. 



To ouE Agknts and Friends Everywhere. — A3 there 

 ai'e thousands of farmers who have discontinued the high 

 priced papers on account of hard times, and who are not 

 now taking any agricultural journal, we have concluded 

 to take half-year subscriptions to the Gt-n^t^ee Farmer, and 

 we trust our friends will make an effort to send us in a 

 few thousand additional subscribers. We will send the 

 Farmer from July to December, inclusive, to single sub- 

 scribers, for 25 cents ; five copies for 81,00, with a Rund 

 Annual to the getter up of the club ; and eight copies for 

 SI. 50, with a Rural Annual to the person getting up the 

 club. All subscriptions must end with the year. We can 

 supply the back numbers if desired. 



OscAE T. Wheeler, Esq., of Columbus, Miss., sends us 

 tiwmty-thrM new subscribers for the present half year's 

 volume of the Farmer, and justly remarks, " If all your 

 m,nJjU subscribers can send you twenty-three names, you 

 will have a good list." We have over 1,500 single sub- 

 scribers. If each of them would do as Mr. K. has done, 

 they would add 84,500 to our already large circulation. 

 This we do not expect. We think, however, that there 

 are few of our friends who, by speaking to their neighbors, 

 could not send us a club of five or eight subscribers for 

 the present half volume. Many of them have alreadv 

 done so, and we feel under great obligations to them. We 

 hope others will do likewise. We shall print several 

 thousand extra copies of the July number, in order to bo 

 fully prepared for all orders. Now is the time to attend 

 to this good work. There are tens of thousands of farm- 

 ers who, on account of hard times, ar'c taking no agricul- 

 tural journal : to suoh the Genesee Farmer commends 

 itself on account of its low price, as well as by its gre^t 

 practical value. Surely, the Prize Essays in the present 

 cumber alone are worth much more than the small sum 

 we ask for the half year's volume. The Farmer need 

 int^^rfcre with no other paper. It occupies a field of its 



own ; and, thanks to our unrivalled corps of correspond- 

 ents, it 13 giving universal satisfaction. Thus, F. M. 

 Fenee, Esq., of Flat Rock, Ind., in sending five additional 

 subscribers to the present half volume, says : " I am now 

 taking, beside the Genesee Farmer, a two-dollar agrtcol- 

 tural paper ; but were the prices reversed, I should still 

 take the Gen^fce Farm<^ in preference." From such com- 

 plimentary letters, we are satisfied that our friends have 

 only to speak to their neighbors to induce them to sub- 

 scribe. Will each one of our friends see what they can do 

 for us ? Will you, reader ? 



— Since writing the above, several other good clubs 

 have been sent in, among them a club of twmty-eyjM new 

 subscribers from B. S. Godld, of Port Allegany, Pa. This 

 substantial method of expressing satisfaction with the 

 Qemsee Farmer is pleasing to us and complimentary to 

 our numerous and experienced correspondents, who are 

 doing so much to make the Farmer interesting and ih- 

 stnictive. Our friends must not cease their disinterested 

 labors till we have one hundred thousand subscribers. 

 They can get this number with ease, if they will only con- 

 tinue their efforts. We helU-ce they will do so. 

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Underdraixing. — As an evidence of the interest begin- 

 ning to be felt in the subject of underdraining, we may 

 mention the fact that our correspondent, John Jon>'STOX, 

 of Geneva, N. T., who on his own farm has clearly proved 

 that money spent in underdraining is a profitable invest- 

 ment, and who through the press has done so much to 

 direct the attention of his brother farmers to this and 

 other improvements, has received and answered, since the 

 20th of January last, s-kdy-four letters asking questions ia 

 regard to underdraining. 



Clover Seed Harvester. — We always hail with pleas- 

 ure everything which tends to chcnpen clover seed, be- 

 lieving that farmers cannot raise too much of this reno- 

 ! vating crop. The " Seed Harvester" of Mr. J. A. Wage- 

 neh, advertised in this number, greatly lessens the labor 

 and expense of gathering and threshing ciover seed, and 

 consequently commends itself to particular favor. Mr. 

 W. will send, gratis, circulars giving full information, to 



all applicants. 



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The Gexesee Farmer ix Oregox. — Our correspondent, 

 G. W. HrxT, of Sublimity, Oregon, writes as follows : 



" The Farmer is well liked here, although when I com- 

 menced ticking it my neighbors laughed at " book farm- 

 ing ;" but now the scales arc turned. I think, had I 

 leisure, I could send you a hundred subscribers. Some of 

 my friends are, at my suggestion, making up clubs. I 

 believe this country is goiiig to beat the world for fine 

 stock. There are parties aire-ady gone to the States for 

 pure blooded stock. ' 



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Diseases op Horses. — Correction. — In the recipe for 



the cure of big-head, &c., in horses, furnished by Mr. A. 



YocNG, and published in the Farmer for May, page 151, 



an error of considerable importance occurred. One of the 



ingredients was printed limeston-e, whereas it should have 



been brimstone. The mistake was probably detects by 



most of our readers. 



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We would call particular attention to the advertise- 

 ment of G. Westinghouse & Co., of Schenectady, N. Y. 

 Their one, two and three Horse Powers hare no superiors, 

 and all their machines and implements are STich as we can 

 cheerfullv recommend. 



