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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NXTMBER. 



Oar Cause and Ourselves, 



The Study of Agriculture 



Composition of BoneB and Guano, 



Organic Acids— Parasitic Plants— Minerals; &c., 



•'Jumping at ConclufiionB" —again. 



Agricultural Education, 



Salt as a Manure, 



A bit of Practical Fanning, 



Human Progress, 



Seymour & Morgan's Reaping Machine, 



Care of Stock, 



Arnold's Patent Sash Lock, 



Value of Annealed Wire for yences, 



Wonderful Invention— Centrifugal Pomp,. . .. 



Cultivation of the Sweet Potato in N. Y., 



Arsenic lor the Wire-Worm 



Fowl Convention at Boston, 



Cochiu-China Fowls, 



Black Poland Fowls 



Extirpation of Canada Thistles 



Spirit of the Pbkss- Fattening Animals; Suhsoil Plowing; 

 Starch from Indian Corn ; Houses of Unbumt Bricks ; Hes- 

 sian Fly ; Flax Culture ; Large crop of Beets. Sic, &c 



Editors' Table -Monroe Co. Ag. Society ; Scene at our Office; 

 Town Clubs. &c..8ic 



January— Notes, 21 



Notice of Address by M. P. Wilder, 21 



The Magnolia 22 



Northern Sweeting Apple 24 



The CanaodaiguaPear,. . 24 



The Fall Pippin, 25 



Answers to Correspondents, 26 



Sally Sly and Jenny McKean'a Butter,. 

 House and Home, 



Advantages enjoyed by the youth of the country, 27 



Hints ; Love of Vame, 27 



Country Girls, 27 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Reaping Machine, 16 1 The Magnolia 22 



Arnold's Sash Lock, 17 | Northern Sweeting Apple. 24 



( ochin-China Fowls 19 I Canandaigua Pear 25. 



Black Poland Fowls 20 I 



Premiums for 1850! 



THREE SPLENDID AGRICULTURAL LIBRARIES ! ! 



With a view to psteud the circulation and increase the useful- 

 ness of the Genesee Farmer, the Proprietor offer.'! the following 

 liberal premiums to the friends of Rural Improvement, who may 

 interest themselves in procuring Subscribers to the work. The 

 LIBRARIES will be composed of the best Books published on 

 ^Agricultural Cheinish-y. Gtology, Botany. Horticulture. Gardening: 

 Rural ^^rchilt ctur e~in -^hort, just such works as arc needed by 

 every Farmer— a complete Library of Agriculture and its kindred 

 sciences. Any one entitled to Premiums, and desiring any par- 

 ticular work that can be obtained either in this country or Europe, 

 shall be accommodated. By this course we hope not only to aid 

 the circulation of the Farmer, but to scatter Good I^ooks broad- 

 cast over the land. 



l.=t. A well selected .Agricultural Library put up in a handsome 

 case, {the bwks .-ilone worth thirty dollars.) to the person that 

 shall send in the largest number of subscribers, at the club prices, 

 before the 15th day of April next, so that we may announce the 

 snccesfful competitors in the May Number. 



2d. A well selected Library handsomely put up in a case, (the 

 books alone worth twenty-five dollars.) to the person who shall 

 Bend us the second highest list, as above. 



3d. A well selected Library, in a handsome Ca-se, (the books 

 alone worth twenty dollars.) to the person who shall send us the 

 third highest list, as above. 



4th. To the one who procures the fourth highest, the Transac- 

 tions of the New York State Agricultural Society, ftom 1843 to 

 1850 inclusive. 



5th. Such books as the receiver thereof may designate, worth 

 ten dollars, to the fifth highest. 



6th To the person obtaining the next (sixth) greatest number, 

 five dollars, in Agricultural Books, on like conditions. 



7th To F.KCH of the four persons sending the next (7th, 8th. 

 9th and 10th greatest numbers, we wiU give volumes 0. 7. 8. 9. and 

 10 of the Farmer, bound together in boards with leather baeks, or 

 separuto in marble paper, as may be preferred, worth $2,50. 



BACK VOLUMES of the Farmer will be furnished, if desired' 

 and counted the same as new subscribers 



(J(J- That all Post-Masters, Local Agents, and Subscribers, 

 wherever the Farmer circulates, may have a fair and equal chance 



to obtain the Premiums, traveling agents, post-rtders. residenls nf 

 Rochester and a// ct(i/ 6oofcse//f7s a»e not included in our offer. 



Wc shall keep a correct account of the subscribers sent by each 

 person. In the March and April numbers of the Farmer we will 

 publish a list giving the names of thirty or forty of the most suc- 

 cessful c. Tipetitors. so that each may know his prospect of suc- 

 cess. an-J act accordingly. In the J\Iay number we thall announce 

 the suc'.essful competitors. 



Libraries and Books will be forwarded per order, immediately 

 after the announcement of the successful competitors in the May 

 number. 



(tQ^ Specimen niunbers. show bills. &c.. fcnt to ail post-paid 

 applicants All letters must be paid or free. Sub-cription money, 

 if properly enclosed, may be mailed at the risk of the publisher. 



A CHEAP WAY TO OBTAIN GOOD BOOKS 



No reasonable person can object to paying fifty cents for the 

 Farmer for 1850 . This being granted, any person who will send us 

 ten names and five dollars, shall have ten copies of the G. iicsee 

 Farmer for a year and Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry— a work 

 that cost $1.25 at the book-stores. 



If he will send ten dollars and twenty names, he shall have Bu- 

 singftult's Rural Economy in addition to Johnston's Chemij^try as 

 a present At this ru.te. a young man who has a little leisure may 

 easily obtain a good professional library by procuring subscribers 

 to the Farmer, he getting one-fifth or one-fourth of all the money 

 received, in good books! 



First in Beauty and Value — Cheapest mid Most Pi pular* 

 THE GENESEE FARMER, 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, 



ILLUaTHATED WITH Nll-MEROCS ENORAVl>-n3 OF 



Farm Buildings, Domestic Animals, Implements, Fruits, &c 

 VOLUME XI, FOR 1850. 



DANIEL LEE fc JAMES VICK, Jr., Editors. 



p. BARRY, Conductor of Horticultural Department. 



In issuing n Prospectus for the Eleventh Volume of the 

 Gknesef. Fakmer. tlie Publisher considers it uniiecessnry 

 to state ol length the design and objects of the work, or re- 

 peat former pledges as to its mnnngemonl. Those who read 

 the Farmer are the best judges of its value and character, 

 and can decide whether it is worthy of continued support — 

 and those who are unacquainted with it are invited to exum- 

 ine its pages. In popularity and usefulness it now ranks 

 first among the various monthly journaU of its class pub- 

 lished in America, and every proper eflbrl will he made to 

 sustain its high reputation as an earnest and valuable aid 

 to the Farmers and Fruit Ciilturists of the Country. 



The new volume will commence on the 1st of January, 

 1850. It will be publislied in the best style, as heretofore — 

 on handsome and clear type and superior paper. The 

 volume will be appropriately illultrated — containing 

 numerous and expensive Engravings oi Farm Buddings^ 

 Improved ItnplemeiUs, Domestic Animals, choice Fi^tiis, Floio- 

 ers, Shnil's, i^<c. Imleed, in typographical appearance, we 

 design to make the volume for 1350, whni the present ono 

 is pronounced, the most beautiful Farmer s Journal yet issued 

 in this country. Q^^Each number will conl;iin TWENTV- 

 FOUR ROY.VL OCTAVO PAGES! making a large and 

 handsome volume of about 300 pages, (with Title Page, In- 

 dex, (Sec., suitable for binding,) at the close of the year. 



Placinc its claims to support .upon its mkiuts alone, we 

 respectfully submit the work as eminently calculated to 

 promote the individual and collective interests of the Agri- 

 culturists and Horlioulturisis of the United Stjitrs. Grateful 

 for the unexampled patronage already extended to the Far- 

 mer, we solicit the aid and co-operation of nil its friends 

 and readers tc increase the circulation and thus augment the 

 usefulness of the cheapest and handsomest Agricultural Mag- 

 azine exer ofiered to the American Pnl)hc. 



Fifty Cents a Ycoi-, In Advance. 



Five Copies for $2 ; Eight Copies fur $U, and any larger 

 number at the same rate, 



\^ All subscriptions to commence with tlie year, and 

 the entire volume suppHcd to all subscribers. 



(f!^ Post-Mastkrs, Agents, and all friendflof improTc[ucnt,are 

 respectfully solicited to obtain and forward subscriptions. 



Subscription money, if properly enclosed, mixy be sent (post- 

 paid or free.) at tho risk of the Publisher. A.Mre; 



December, 1849. 

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