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THE GENESEE FAEMER. 



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



CONTBNTS OP THIS NUMBER. 



An English View of American Agriculture 283 



John Johnston's Wheat Crop — Salt as a Manure 235 



A Day in Wheatland 236 



Suggested Items— No. 23 237 



Notes for the Month, by S. W 238 



Feeding out Corn Stalks 230 



Fermented Manure — Composts 240 



Bean Straw as Feed for Sheep 240 



How Farmers Lose Money. Cost of Rail Fences 241 



Plow Deeper. Cultivation of Beans 242 



Thin Seeding and Hoeing Wheat 242 



Diseases of the Horse. Hoven in Cattle. Kicking Cows. . . . 243 



Foot Rot in Sheep 244 



Mules w. Horses. Cure for Founder. Fattening Sheep 245 



Interesting Letters from Indiana and Nebraska 246 



A Missouri Farm. To Prevent Sheep from Scouring 247 



Profits of Farming. To make F.irming profitable 248 



Barey's Method o? Horse-Taming 248 



Working on the Road. Shows for Seed Wheat 249 



A Bov's Thought's on some Farmers' Practices 249 



The Barometer 249 



Guessing. Rust on Oats in Kentucky. Fattening Sheep.... 250 

 Judge Buel's Appeal to Young Men 251) 



HORTICtTLTUBAL DEPARTMENT. 



Failure of the Fruit Crops 251 



Fruit Growers' Society of Western New York 253 



Laying out a Garden and Ornamental Grounds 254 



Peach Growing. Sheep vs. Hogs in Orchards 256 



Dwarf Pear Culture. The Apple Tree CaterpiUar 257 



ladies' cbpartment. 

 Original Domestic Eeceipta. 257 



BDITOU'S TABLE. 



state Fairs for 1858 258 



To our Agents and Friends everywhere 2.')S 



What is said of the Genesee Farmer 258 



American Pomological Society 259 



Illinois Miiy or June Wheat Wheat Midgo in Canada 260 



Intjuiries and Answers 260 



Notices of Books. Pamphlets, <fcc 260 



Seymour's Grain Drill. It is not too late to subscribe 260 



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