THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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GENESEE FARMER 



F OTi. 1859. 



En'oouraged by the liberal patronage accorded the Genesee 

 Farmer during the present year, we have determined to spare 

 uo labor or expense in improving the contents and appearance 

 of the volume for 1S59, 



Our practice of offering a prize of a dollar boolc for the best 

 essay on any subject suggested by our reader*, has called out 

 much valuable information on a variety of topics interesting to 

 every farmer and fruit-grower. We shall continue this practice 

 80 long as our readers suggest subjects ; and, if need be, increase 

 the value of the prize. In the November number, we gave a 

 list of sixty-one subjects on which prizes were offered for the 

 best essays sent in by the fifth of December. These Prize Essays 

 ■wfll be published in the January number for 1859. They alone 

 will be worth the price of the Farmer for a year. 



It is our intention to give a number of excellent designs for 

 Farm-Houses, Cottages, Barns, &c., together with correct esti- 

 mates of cost, working plans, &c. These, we are confident, will 

 prove valuable to all about to build. 



We have made arrangements by which the HoRxicuLirRAL 

 Depaetmext of the paper wiU be much improved. As a horti- 

 cultural paper, the Genesee Farmer has always taken a high 

 rank. It will be our aim not only to make it worthy of its high 

 reputation, but to extend its influence and usefulness in this too 

 much neglected department of rural economy. 



The Ladies' Department, during the present year, has con- 

 tained nearly a hundred valuable Domestic Eeceipts, written 

 eacpressly for our pages, by farmer's wives and daughters. We 

 shall use our best efforts to obtain a continuance of their favors. 



We intend to devote a page or two, each month, to articles 

 adapted to the young. We hope to make the Tourn's Depart- 

 iiEST alike interesting and instructive. 



At the urgent solicitation of numerous subscribers, we shall 

 devote more space to reports of the prices of Farm Products, 

 Cattle, Pigs, &c., in the principal eastern and western markets. 

 This matter will be placed in the hands of a competent and reli- 

 able man, and his Monthly Review op tue Markets will be 

 a new and valuable feature in the " Farmer's own Papep_" 



We contemplate other improvements, but they are not suffi- 

 ciently matured to be definitely announced. We are determined 

 to make the Gksksee Farmer the best farmers' paper in the 

 world. 



In saying this, wc rely on the cordial co-operation and assist- 

 ance of our agents, correspondents, and friends generally. We 

 gpeak confidently, because we feel that we have their sympathy. 

 They have stood by us so long — have done so nobly during the 

 present period of pecuniary embarrassment and distress, that we 

 are certain they will not desert us now we are determined to 

 put forth redoubled efforts to make the Genesee Farmer still 

 more worthy of their patronage. 



During the past year, though we have paid a liigher price than 

 ever before, the quality of the paper used for tlie Fakmep. has 

 not been as good as we could wish. Our paper-makers have 

 now made arrangements for the manufacture of the very best 

 quality of paper, and we are assured that for the future we shall 

 be furnished with a very superior article. We are warranted in 

 saying, therefore, that, with our extra facilities for illustration, 

 the appearance of the Genesee Farmer for lSi)9 will be such 

 as its most fastidious friends can desire. 



The Genesee Farmer is not made up from a weekly paper. 

 Every line is set up for it alone. This, we believe, is true of no 

 other fifty-cent paper published in the United States. A few 

 years ago, stimulated by the success of the Genesee Farmer, 

 several fifty-cent papers were started, but every one of them 

 HAVE r>EEN GIVEN UP. At the present time, we Ijolieve, there is 

 but one fifty-eent agricultural paper, beside the Genbsbb Farmks, 



published in the United States, and that is made up from s 

 weekly, and is not furnished to clubs for thirty-seven and a hall 

 cents, as is the Genesee Farmer. We repeat again, the Oen^ 

 ESBB Farmer is the cheapest agricultural journal in thi 

 WORLD. WUl our fnends hear this in mind, and ask iheit 

 neighbors to help sustain itt 



Below will be found a List of Premiums for the greatest num 

 ber of subscribers sent in by the fifteenth of January, as well a; 

 a liberal list of specific premiums for a given number of sub 

 scribers. Please read them, and see what you can do for us 

 Very few persons compete for the January Premiums, and 

 little effort will certainly secure one. They are worth trying foi 

 If there is no agent in your town, will you, sir, be kind cnougi 

 to act as agent for us in your neighborhood? We will giadl 

 send you large Show-bills, Specimen Copies, &c. By showing 

 copy of the p.iper to your friends, they will cheerfully subseribt 

 In this way you can take one of the large Cash Premiums, an 

 your neighbors will thank you for inducing them to subscrib 

 for an agricultural paper, while tee shall feel particularly gratefi 

 for this practical evidence of your good will and kind wishes. 



LIST OF PREMIUMS FOB 1859. 



The terms of the Genesee Farmer are: Single Subscriber 

 Fifty Cents a year, in advance ; Five Copies for Two Dollars 

 Eight Copies for Three Dollars ; and any larger number at tt 

 same rate. All subscriptions to commence with the year. 



In addition to this reduction of one-fourth, we offer the follov 

 ing List of Specific Premiums as an extra inducement for oi 

 friends to form Clubs. It will be seen that they are more liberi 

 than ever before. 



SPECIFIC PREMIUMS. 



1. To every person who sends us Eight Subscribers, {al oh 

 lowest terms of ihirty-seveti and a half ants each,) we wi 

 send, postage paid, a copy of our beautiful twenty-five cent bool 

 the Rural Atmual for 1359. 



L. 1*0 every person who sends us Sixteen subscribers, {, 

 onr lowest club terms of thirty'seten and a half cents lacJt 

 we will send one extra copy of the Genesee Farmer and or 

 copy of the Rural Annual, pre-paid, by mall. 



3. To every person sending us Twentt-Four subscribers, : 

 above, we will send two extra copies of the Farmer, or tw 

 copies of the Rural Annual and one extra copy of the Farme 

 or any agricultural work valued at fifty cents, postage paid. 



4. To any person ordering Thirty-Two copies of the Farme 

 as above, we will send three extra copies of the Farmer, or thrt 

 copies of the Rural Annual and one extra copy of the Farme 

 or any agricultural work valued at seventy-five cents, postage pai< 



5. For Forty, four extra copies of the Farmer, or four copif 

 of the Rural Annual and one extra copy of the Farm-er, or at 

 agricultural book valued at one dollar, postage paid. 



For larger numliers, books or papers will be given in tho «an; 

 proportion, unless, as is most probable, they take one of our larj 

 Cash Premiums for the greatest number of subscribers. 



|^°° To save expense to our friends, we pay the postage c 

 all these works, and persons who are entitled will state wh; 

 they wish sent, and make their selections when they send order? 

 or, if their list is not complete, if wished, we will delay sendin 

 until the club is full. 



JANUAEY CASH PREMIUMS 

 For the Greatest Number of Subscribers. 



Thousands of our readers delay sending ia their subscriptior 

 till several of the numbers of the new volume are out. In ordt 

 to correct this practice as much as possible, we have conclude 

 to offer a liberal and very numerous list of Cash Premiums ft 

 the greatest number of subscribers sent in by the fifteenth < 

 January. The names of the suceessfiil competitors, together wit 



