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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



New York State Fair 829 



rroviiicial A gricultural Exhibition 831 



Penn.sylvania State Fair 882 



Indiana State Fair 833 



Salt in Feeding Cattle 883 



Cooking Food for Hogs 384 



Letter from .John .Johnston 885 



What England Pays in One Year for Manure 835 



Spanish Merino Sheep 3-36 



Large Breed ot Hogs 337 



Mexican Spring Wheat 338 



Curing Pork and Hams 835 



The Cliine,se Potato &3S 



Notes for the Month, bv 3. W 3;39 



Wintering Stock 340 



Winter Shelter for Stock 341 



An Aged Mare 841 



Wintering Pigs 342 



Eural Noles from Maine 342 



How Farmers Lose Money 843 



Sheep in New York in Old Times 34:3 



Farm House 314 



Bad Cows made Profitable 844 



Management of Bees 34ei 



Fretful Farmers S45 



Construction of Ice-Houses 845 



On Curing Corn Fodder 840 



How to Conquer Vicious Cows and Ilorsea 846 



Hay Ricks 346 



The Harvest of 1858 346 



HOETICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Are we to have Plums ? 347 



Blackberries in Iowa 847 



Winter Protection of Fruit Trees 345 



Lawns 348 



Fruit Trees on the Roadside 349 



A Large Pear Tree 349 



Hyacinths in Glasses 349 



I)e]»th for Setting Trees 349 



Foreign Garden Memoranda 850 



Apples and Pears for Boston Market 350 



Fruits and the Chinese Sugar Cane in France 851 



Profits of Dwarf Pear Trees 351 



Mr. Glasse's Gardening Book 352 



EDITORS TABLE. 



The next Volume of the Genesee Farmer 854 



Subjects for Prize Essays 855 



A Word about Fairs 356 



A Grape Growers' Association 356 



Annual Sale of Sheep and Pigs -356 



The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory for 1859 357 



Agricultural Impleme:its in England 357 



To our Friends Everywhere 857 



The Iri.sh Potato 357 



Inquiries and Answers 857 



Notices of Books, Pamphlets, &c 358 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Galloway Ox S-32 



Group of Spanish Merino Rams 830 



Sow and Pigs of the Large Breed 337 



Farm House 844 



Ground and Chamber plans of do 344 



Ice-House 345 



Hyaciaths in Glasses 349 



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