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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 few Words on the Cultivation of Wheat 



A Scotchman's views on Wheat Culture in America 



Cultivation of Wuiter Barley 



Winter Wheat in New Hampshire 



Top Dressing Wheat at the time of Sowing 



The Wheat Midge — A Suggestion 



Fair of the Eoj'al Agricultural Society of England 



Ashes for Corn 



Mules vs. Horses 273, 



Suggested Items — No. 24 



Bots in Horses 



South Downs for California 



Yield of Sugar from Maple Trees 



Notes for the Month, by S. W 



Eye and its Culture 



Stacliing and Feeding out Straw 



Keeping Cattle in Sheds and Stables the whole year 



We Plow too Much 



To prevent a Ditch caving in Sandy Land 



African Cattle. Four Calves in Eleven Months 



Hoed Crops— Clean Culture 



Preserving Cheese from Injury by Flies 



New Mediterranean Wheat 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Failure of the Fruit Crops 280 



Weeping or Drooping Trees 280 



Adorning and Beautifying Farmers' Homes 2S2 



Both Useful and Ornamental 284 



Gooseberry Mildew 284 



Failure of Nursery Trees 2S5 



About Spad'nor Garden Beds 2S5 



Orchards and Hogs 2S6 



Prevenliou of the Borer 286 



Transplanting Evergreens 286 



Fruit Stealing 287 



Covering Half-Hardy Plants 287 



Common Plants. Profitable Apple Tree 2S7 



ladies' department. 



Original Domestic Receipts 288 



American Farmers' Daughters 288 



EDITOR S TABLE. 



Our Advertising Department 289 



Inquiries and Answers 289 



Notices of Books, Pamphlets, &c 291 



National, State, and County Agricultaral Fairs 291 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Roots of Wheat and Barley 270 



The Wheat Midge 271 



South Down Rain " Ma.ster Pordham" 274 



European Weeping Ash 281 



Weeping Sophora 281 



Gooseberry Mildew '. .. ... 284 



Cover for Ualf-IIaray Plants 2S7 



CHERRY STONES. 



OF first rate quality, n per bushel. A limited stock selected 

 from young wild Mazzard Trees, $10 per bushel. 

 Catalogues of TRKE SKED'^. nnd crpnernl Niir^rrv '•'tof-1- "ratis 



THOMAS MEEHAN, Germnntown Nurseries, 

 September, 185S,— 2t near PhUadelphia, Pa. 



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KS° Send for a circular, and order early. Price from $90 to 

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September, 1868.— It* Ashland, Ohio. 



FIELD'S PEAR CULTURE. 



A TREATISE on the Propagation and Cultivation of the Pear 

 m America— a full catalogue and description of the differ- 

 ent varieties — their adaptation to Dwarfs and btandards— the best 

 modes of pruning with directions for ripening and preserving the 

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Agricultural Bofik Publisher, 

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The Practical and Scientific Farmer^s Own Paper. 

 THE GENESEE FARMER, 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE. 



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VOLUME XIX, FOE 1858. 



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