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THE GENESEE FAEMER. 



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



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



A Long Island Prize Farm, 201 



Do Cereals destroy Nitrogen? 202 



Suggested Items— No. 22 205 



Notes for the Month, by S. W 205 



Management of Permanent Grass Land 205 



The Good sells the Bad 206 



Gras.s Culture 206 



Applying Artificial Manure to Corn 207 



Hoed Crops— Clean Culture 207 



Cultivation of Sweet Potatoes 20S 



Stirring the Soil and turning Manure 208 



To protect Cucumbers and Melons from the Striped Bug 208 



1?eoding Corn Fields to Grass 209 



Com Grubs ■. 209 



Harrowing Turnips 209 



Cure for Bots in Horses 209 



Advantages of Mowing Machines— once more 210 



How to sow Grass Seed 210 



Management of Bees 211 



Farming in Texas— A happy Editor 211 



To keep Tires tight on Wheels 211 



GENESEE FARMER PRIZE ESSAYS. 



Adorning and Beautifying Farmers' Homes 212 



On the Duty of Kindness to Domestic Animals 212 



Stock for a hundred acre Farm 213 



Buildings and Fixtures for a hundred acre Farm 218 



Tools and Implements for a hundred acre Farm 214 



Butter Making 214 



Raising and picking Geese 214 



Feeding Cora Stalks to Cattle 214 



Mules i\i. Horses 215 



On the Construction and Arrangement of Bara-Tards 215 



Cutting and steaming Food for Stock 215 



On the best Substitute for Hay in feeding Stock 216 



On stacking and feeding out Straw 216 



On the Importance of providing Shelter for all kinds of Stock 216 



Keeping Cattle in Sheds the whole Tear. 21 T 



Would it be prudent for Farmers to adopt the Ten Hour 



System ? 21 ( 



Removing small Stones 218 



Bean Straw as Feed for Sheep 218 



Should Cows be milked more than once a day in Winter?. . . 218 



On the Cultivation of Hops 219 



Does it injure Butter to color it? 219 



Cellar fur a Farm House 219 



Harrows .and Harrowing 219 



Pasturing Sheep in Orchards 220 



On stealing Fruit 220 



Transplanting Trees ooi 



On Uic best Method of using Liquid Manure for Gardens 221 



HORTICtrLTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Summer Exhibition of the Genesee Valley Hort. Society 222 



The Gooseberry and Currant Caterpillar. 223 



Horticultural Notes from Iowa 224 



Pears for Market 234 



Notes from Oregon 225 



EDITOR S TABLE. 



To our Agents and Friends everywhere 226 



State Fairs for 1858 226 



Success of the Genesee Farmer 226 



Clover Seed Harvester 226 



Underdraining 226 



The Genesee Farmer in Oregon 226 



Diseases of Horses — Correction 226 



Corn for Fodder 22T 



Inquiries and Answers 22T 



Sowing Wheat after Wheat 227 



Grafts from Dwarf Pear Trees, &c ^ 22T 



Best Varieties of Dwarf Pears for a small Garden 228 



Italian Eye-Grass 228 



Notices of Books, Pamphlets, &c 228 



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