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GENESEE FARMER. • 



Dec. 



Extracts of Letters from the People. 



[[[J' The subjoined extracts from letters received since 

 the commencement of the present volume, show the esti- 

 timation in vihich the Gknesee Farmer is generally held. 

 We have received many similar evidences of approval and 

 Micouragement from almost every section of the Union : 



A Post-Master in Seneca County writes — "I am making 

 an eilbrt, in order to procure a respectable list of subscribers 

 for your paper in this town. Y'ou ought to be patronized 

 by every former in the land — yes, by every person who 

 only plants a Garden, in my estimation, Only the price of 

 one bushel of corn will pay for the ' Farjner' a year ; this 

 year it would have paid for it tivo years. It is astonishing 

 to me that every farmer does not possess himself of it. — 

 Only baud 50 cents to his Post-Master, who will cheerfully 

 forward it to the publisher in most cases, I presume, and 

 the work would be sent to him. I wish I had fifty dollars 

 to enclose to you, for subscribers in this town. I will do 

 all I can, by obtaining subscriptions and sending the money 

 to you." 



An influential farmer of Jefferson county, iu a letter re-; 

 mitting payment for 16 copies of the Farmer, says ;— " As 

 an individual I have been much pleased with the general 

 matter of the Farmer for the last year, and am gratified to 

 notice a large increase in the number of subscribers. I con- 

 sider the articles treated of by its able Editor an excellent 

 selection, and admirably discussed — and well adapted to in- 

 form the minds of the farming community on those subjects 

 in which their interests are most intimately connected." 



An esteemed friend and able correspondent of several ag- 

 ricultural journals, thus writes us : — "The Farmer has 

 also gained more within the last year in reputation, as a 

 scientific and literary paper, than most of its cotemporaries. 

 If farmers generally do not yet appreciate it, it is only be- 

 cause they can not. I trust it will not be so always, as 

 progress is busy with her wand, throughout our favored 

 land." 



A staunch friend at Romulus, N. Y., in a letter contain- 

 mg a remittance for 21 subscribers, thus speaks of the Far- 

 mer : — "I answer for myself that the last volume was 

 worth more than any previous one in my opinion. If I am 

 not mistaken I have been a subscriber to the Farmer for the 

 last IG years, and I am satisfied that it has had an influence 

 upon me, and from it I have derived many new ideas in the 

 science of agriculture. I believe if it had been read by 

 every farmer in Western New York, (though he might not 

 have more than two acres of land to cultivate,) the quanti- 

 ty »f produce would have been increased 20 per cent — and 

 the quality, as a general rule, would have been much im- 

 proved." 



In renewing his subscription, an able farmer, residing in 

 Geneseo, says : — " I wish to continue the Genesee Farmer 

 another year, considering it as I do the best Agricultural Pa- 

 per now extant. I am very much gratified to see the im- 

 provements which are being made in agriculture, (a busi- 

 ness which was considered of quite minor importance but a 

 few years ago,) and sincerely hope that it may attain the 

 highest rank in the land." 



An intelligent farmer of Truxton, Cortland county, in a 

 letter containing a remittance for 19 copies of the P'armer, 

 siys : — " 1 have obtained these within the last two weeks 

 without making any unusual effort, only asking my neigh- 

 bors when I saw them to take the Farmer— the paper re- 

 commending itself. I shall probably obtain more subscri- 

 bers, in the course of the winter, as I know of several who 

 have taken the last volume, who, if asked, will doubtless 

 take the present." 



Our Cortland friend takes the right course. If each of 

 our subscribers will show the Fanner to his neighbors, and ask 

 them to subscribe, the usefulness of the paper may soon be 

 greatly increased. In these days of low prices of printing, 

 and hi^h prices of produce, every farmer can afford to take 

 an agricultural paper. 



Monroe County Agricultural Society. 



The Annual Meeting of this Society, for the election of 

 Officers, &c., will be held at the Office of the Genesee Far- 

 mer, in Rochester, on the second 7\iesday (the 14th day) of 

 December next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. A punctual attend- 

 Miee is requested. 



Nov. 1, 1847. JAMES H. WATTS, Rec. Sec't,. 



MARKET INTELLIGENCE. 



Rochester Produce Market— Wholesale. 



Pork, bbl. mess 12 50 16 50 



Wheat, $1 1 



Corn, .- 



Barley, 



Oats, 



Flour, 



Beans, 



Apples, bush. 



Potatoes, 



Clover Seed,. 



Timothy, 



Hay, ton, 



Wood, cord,. 

 Salt, bbl,.... 



Hams, lb, 



Rochester, Nov. 29, 1847. 



New York MarUet. 



[By Magnetic Telegraph.^ 



New York, Nov. 27.-7 P. M. 



Ashes.— Sales of Pots made at $5,75 a $5,87K, and 50 bbls. Pearia 

 sold at $7.75 a 7.81>^. 



Beeswax was lower, and sales were made at 22 cts. for yellow. 



Flour.— The sales embraced about 1200 bbls. Oswego at $6, with 

 some lots Michigan at $6,12^. 1500 bbls. Genesee, deliverable 

 next month, sold at $6,25. 200 do. on the spot at $6,25. Sales of 

 good Ohio were made at $6,44. 



Wheat.— Sales 100 bush. Genesee at $1,36. 1000 Ohio white at 

 $1.31. 2700 Ohio at $1,29. and 3000 Delaware at $1,32 a $1,33. 



Corn.— Sales 1000 to 150.0 bush, including mixed at 73 cts. and 

 round yellow at 75 cts. 



jMe.il.— 300 bbls. New Jersey sold at $3,50, 300 do. Pennsylvania 

 at $3.44, and 500 do. Western at $3,25. 



Rye.— Sales 500 bu. at 87 cts. 



Provisions.— Sales 1000 bbls. mess Pork at $14,87>^. and SO do. 

 thin mess at $13,62. Butter and Cheese dull. 



Buffalo, Nov. 27. 



This day has been the coldest of the season, and it has been 

 snowing most of the day. Kvery thing in the market is dull and 

 the sales wore small. 



Flour.— The receipts are light, and there is no change in quota- 

 tions. 



Grain.— Wheat is firm but inactive. We quote Chicago at 87c. ; 

 Racine 98c. Corn is steady but not active, and prices have slight- 

 ly declined. 



Provisions.— Pork may be quoted at $13 a 14 for mess. 



Receipts for the last 24 hours were— Flour, 2500 barrels ; wheat 

 32.000 bushels. 



Contents of this Number. 



A Farmer's Library, 273 



Southern Agriculture ; Fattening Poultry, 274* 



Northern Rice ; A Remarkable Experiment ; Lime in 



Planting Trees ; A valuable Table, 275 



Hints for December ; Potato Rot, .- 276 



Meteorology and JMeteorological Observations ; To 



Correspondents; Densmore's Straw Cutter, 277 



True Farming— Great Farming on a Small Scale, 278 



Hydraulics for Farmers, (concluded,) 27« 



Saving and application of Manure ; Removing Sheep 



Manure, - - 280 



Ashes on Corn— An Experiment ; Shrinking of Pork,. 281 



Genesee County Fair ; Butter Making — Inquiries, 2*2 



Bloody Milk ; Curing Hams and Pork ; How to toast 



Cheese; Vinegar, 283 



Matters in Central N. Y. — Cheese Making ; Browse 



for Sheep ; Income from Poultry, 284 



Mode of Cleaning Wheat for Seed ; Animal Food for 



Swine ; Wool ; Harvests without previous Sowing ; 



Importance of Deep Tillage,. 285 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Insects; New American Seedling Cherries, 206 



The Washington Pear, 287 



Buffalo Hon. Society ; Red Canada Apple ; Answers 



to Correspondents, 288 



The Currant— May's Victoria, 2oS 



A Curious Flower, 289 



Banking Fruit Trees; Acknowledgments, 290 



ladies' department. 



Domestic Items ; Heated Rooms, 291 



To make good Butter in Winter ; How to Cook Green 

 Corn, 291 



