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;THE GENESEE FARMER. 



of the Society. Life Membership, twenty dollars ; Bien- 

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Packages cf Fruits may be addressed to Wm. S. Car- 

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MARSHALL P. WILDER, President, 

 Boston, Mass. 

 P. Barry, Secretary, Rochester, N. F, 

 July 1, 1858. 



Illinois Mat or June Wheat. — John Z. Reed, Esq., o 

 Avon, N. Y., brought a variety of bald wheat last year 

 from Southern Illinois, and sowed half an acre with it 

 Mr. Dorr, of Scottsville writes us that it proves to be 

 " four or five days earlier than the Meditcnxinean, and 

 equal in quality to the Soules, but not so productive. In 

 Southern Illinois it yields from 20 to 80 biishels per acre, 

 on land that would yield 30 to 40 bushels of Sotdes." The 

 half acre sown by Mr. Reed escaped, tlie midge almost 

 ■entirely, and he is so well pleased with it that he has sent 

 .to Illinois for 100 sacks. It is called tiie May or Juue 

 wheat. There appears to be two kinds — the red and the 

 white chatf. It was sown the 20th of September. Do 

 .any of our readers know anything in regard to it. 



It is not too Late to Subscribe. — Our friends have 

 responded most nobly to our request to obtain subscribers 

 to the present half volume of the Farmer. Many have 

 sent in large clubs, and several hundred have got up clubs 

 of five and eight. We trust our friends will not cease 

 their efforts. Never was there a better time for them to 

 introduce the jjaper. Thousands of farmers are now 

 taking no agricultural paper, and none are so poor as to 

 •be unable to raise twenty-five cents. Speak to them at 

 once. It is not too late. Harvest is pretty much over, 

 and the leisure season is rapidly approaching. Farmers 

 will have more time to read, and they will not regret if 

 you persuade them to try the " Farmers' Own Paper" for 

 sis months. See terms in another column. 



Wheat Midge in Canada. — Our correspondent, Mr. S. 

 King, informs us that in the Niagara District, and near 

 Loudon, C. W., the midge has so affected the wheat that 

 many farmers have cut it for fodder. 



OuK friends who have sent us one dollar for five copies 



of the present half volume of the Farmer, can have three 



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Seymour's Grain Drill. — We would call particular at- 

 tention to the advertisement of this valuable grain drill. 

 We believe there is no better drill manufactured in this 

 countiT. 



Inquiries and Answers. 



1. How IS the Verbena impregnated? 2. Is there any 

 particular method of impregnating the Carnation, to make 

 it seed well ? Lewis J. Elliott. — Kewanee, III. 



1. By itself. 



2. The following method of raising Carnation seed is 

 recommended by Maddock : — " Those flowers which have 

 but few petals, or, as it is more commonly expressed, are 

 thin of leaf, generally produce most seed ; but they should 

 be possessed of the best properties in other respects, viz : 

 their petals should be large, broad, substantial, and per- 

 fectly entire at the edge, and their colors rich and regu- 

 larly distributed, and in due proportion, throughout the 



whole blossom. The plants should be selected from the 

 rest, and their pots should stand upon a stage, defended 

 from earwigs, in an open part of the garden, in which 

 situation they should remain during bloom, and until the 

 seed is perfectly matured ; their Ijlossoms should be de- 

 fended from rain, by having glass, paper, or tin covers 

 suspended over them, in such a manner as to admit a free- 

 circulation of air ; the pots should neither be kept very 

 wet nor very dry ; nor will it be proper to cut and mutil- 

 ate the plants, either for their layers or pipings, till the- 

 seed becomes ripe, because it would certainly weaken 

 them, and consequently injure, if not destroy, their seed. 

 When the bloom is over, and the petals become withered 

 and dry, they should be carefully drawn out of the pod or 

 cah'x, being apt to retain a degree of moisture at their 

 base, endangering a mouldiness and decay in that part, 

 which will destrov the seed." 



Cherries from Seed. — 1. Can yoo, or som* of your nu- 

 merous correspondents, inform me, through the columns 

 of the Genesee Far7ner, how to raise Cherry trees from the 

 seed V I planted seed for several years, but none came up. 

 2. Will trees raised from the seed produce the same kind 

 of Cherries as does the parent stock ? Particulars on this 

 subject would be thankfully received by several of your 

 subscribers. Daniel Dull! — Gehharts, Pa.. 



1. Plant the seeds when ripe, or keep them in moist 

 sand and plant in the fall, in light land. 



2. No. Varieties of fruit trees cannot be perpetuated 

 by seed. 



Can you, or any of the subscribers of the Farmer, in- 

 form me what is the best mode to make an underdrain 

 with brushwood? Also, the proportion of lime to gravel, 

 &c., used in building a stable with grout? J. W. — €am- 

 de7i, iV" J. 



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We have read this work with great pleasure, and can 

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In speaking thus highly of " The Farm," we would not 

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 well established facts. Sometimes, too, though the facts 

 are correctly stated, the principles deduced from them are 

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"The manure of any animal is richer than the food 

 given to it, because it contains, in addition to the residium 



