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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Feb. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Principles of Agriculture 33 



Gypsum — Its Lleinents and Value 34 



To Destroy Canada Thistles, S5 



Hemlock .Soil; Simple Remedy, 35 



Husbiiudry in Belgium, 36 



Cultivation of Carrots iu France 37 



The ■• Good Time Coming." 38 



Corn r.f. Wheat— Drill Culture. &c., 38 



The Use of the Drill 39 



Seneca Co, Fair and Transactions, 40 



Drain Tile Machine, 41 



More Light Given 41 



Imported Cattle - Bates' Stock 42 



Jefferson Co. Ag. Fair, 43 



Pesign for a Suburban Residence 44 



Notea for the Month 45 



Products of Wayne County- N. V 45 



Ladirs' Departmknt —Jane and John, of FarmersvUle 51 



Our Homstead, 51 



YofTHs' DEPARTMErtT— Agriculture. 51 



A Word to Boys 51 



Editors- Table. -Life Subscribres ; One Way to do it; Gla.'^.s 



Water Pipe ; Postage of the Farmer, Sec, &c. 



Facta to be remembered in Pruning, 46 



Answers to Correspondents 46 



Profits on Pears ; M. P. Wilder, 46 



Pruning the Peach Tree, 47 



Dwarf Stocks ~ Inquiries 4tt 



Pear Blight ; Acknowledgements .- 49 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Tile Machine — Imported by J. Delafield, Esq., 41 



Design for a Suburban Residence, 44 



Peach Tree, Without Pruning, 47 



PeachTrec.'' Shortened-in." 47 



Three figures, illustrating pruning 48 



Retort, lamp, stand, &c 51 



To Fruit (irowers and Nnrserymen. 

 SPRING OF 1S50. 



THE SUBSCRIBERS invite the attention of tr-ie purchasers 

 to their stock now offered for sale. By large importr-ions 

 from Europe, and an extensive scale of propagation in their own 

 grounds, they arc enabled to offer one of the most exten.sive and 

 complete assortments, and on the most liberal conditions. 



Tlie well known health, hardiness, and vigor of the trees grown 

 here, and the undivided and scrupulous attention given to every 

 department by the proprietors in person, offer great induce- 

 ments to purchasers. 

 Standard Fruit Trees. 

 Pyramidal and Dwarf Fruit 7\-ees. 

 Gooseberries. Currants, Strawberries, ^. 

 Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. 

 Roses, Dahlias, S^c. 

 Hedge Plants, (including large quantities of Buckthorn 



and Osage Orange.) 

 Stocks for Standard and Divarf Trees. 

 And all other Nuraery Articles, besides a large collection of 

 Greenhousk. Bordkh and Bedding Plants. Wholesale priced 

 lists sent gratis to all post-paid anplicationa. A separate Cata- 

 logue for 1850. of Roses. Dahlias, and other new and rare articles 

 will be also furnished. 



ELLWANGER & BARRV. 

 Mount Hopo-Garden & Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. 



February Ist, 1850. 



Staw Ctttters. 



JUGGLES NOURSE 8t MA 



SON'S Celebrated Hay, 



^ Straw and Corn-Stalk Cutter. 



as awarded the 



f FIRST PREMIUM at the New 



ork State Agricultural Fair. 



Buffalo, on the 7th, 8th and 9th 



of September, 1848. 



It Is now gcneriilly conceded 

 that for cutting hay, straw and 

 stalks., thfcse Machines haviuf: 

 knives set upon the circumfe- 

 rence of a cylinder, and cutting 

 against a roller of ravf hide, are 

 the best yet introduced— the work is easily and rapidly performed 

 by simply turning a crank, and the machine is a perfect self-feed- 

 er without any extra and complicated fixture to perform thxt part 

 of the work. 



A full supply of 14 different sizes, varying in price fVom ?10 to 

 $28, consantly on band at the ''Genesee Seed Store and Agricul- 

 tural Warehouse." Irving Block, Buffalo street. Rochester. 



Wo have also on hand a good supply of t4ix other kinds, which 

 make our assortment the host of any to be found 



B} 



New Patent Churn. 



UNTIL the Churn above represented came to our notice, our 

 assortment has been mad» up of the Kendall's Cyllndck — 

 The Thermometer, and The Common Dash Chuhn, believing 

 them equal, if not superior, lo any of the multitude of new things 

 recently offered tbrourh the country, called churns. 



Our course has ever been to deal iu or recommend ocly such 

 articles to the farming public as wo have known from our long 

 experience in selling and manufacturing, to bo well vrorthy of the 

 recommendations given them through our adverti^om'-ntr*. 



The above cut represents the only new churn which, to our mind 

 has any advantiigta over the others above named among the 

 great number offnred. Although comparatively a new article, 

 it has during th*- past season been thoroughly tested by a good 

 number of darymen, in Chenango and Orange Counties, and 

 with unprecedented success Its construction is simple, having 

 four pairs of broad floats or blades, all confined together, as rep- 

 resented in our end view at (fig. '2.) which, when tmnedin the 

 direction of the arrow. C . causi-s the cream to be compressed, and 

 pass between the blades from A. to P. This process beiug con- 

 tinued until the butter gathers into himpstoo large to pass thro' 

 at A., then the motion to be reversed in direction of arrow D..the 

 whole mass is thrown by the action of the angle of the inm-r 

 blado, to the eentre. where the butter is gathered rapid y into 

 one solid roll and the separaiion b'-comes complete, There being 

 no rod running through the churn, the floats may bo iuitautly 

 removed, and the butter taken out. 



This form of float moves easily through the cream, and at the 

 same time is more effective in its operation tTiau any other*; we 

 have seen. 



The process of collceting and corapres?-ing of the particles 

 together, is not probably excelled by any previous inventions 



A silver medal was awarded to this churn at the American 

 Institute, in New York, in October \a^t. for the best churn offered 

 among almost an endle.ss variety t-f kinds in the same exhibition. 



'J'hey are offered for sale at about the same prices as Kkkpall's 

 Cvi.indeb Churn, according to sizes. 



They are warranted to give satis^ction. or they may be 

 returned and the (lurchasu money refunded 



Albany Agricultural Warehouse. No. 369 and 371 Broadway. 

 Albany. HORACE L. EMERY. 



Advkrtisements. — A limilod number of short and iippro- 

 priute advertisements .will bo given in the Farmer, at the nite 

 of $1,.'>0 per square or folio (ten lines or 100 words) for the 

 first insertion, and $1 for each subsequent publication- — is 

 ADVANCE. The circidalion of the Furmer is from fivk to 

 EIGHT thoutitind I.ARGEK than that of any other ngricultnral 

 journal published iu the United States. 



First in Beauty and Value — Clieapest mid Most Pojmlar. 

 THE GENESEE FARMER, 



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AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, 



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VOLtTME XL FOR 1850. 



DANIEL LEE &, JAMES VICK, .Ib., Editoks. 



p. BARRY, Oondnctor of Horticultural Depar.menL 

 Ptfty Cents a Vcnr, In Advance. 



Five Copies for $2 ; Eight Copirs for $;i, nnd any larger 

 number ftt llio same rate. 



(]j= .Ml .subscriptions to eolumcnre with tlie year, ami 

 the entire volume supplied to all subseribers. 



(^ Post-Mastkrs. .\i^.F..NT8. 8ini hU friontlfl of improveiDcnt. are 

 respectfully solicited to obtain .and forward subscriptions. 



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

 paid or free.) at the risk of the Publish- ' " '- 



December, 1849. 



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 DANIKI. I^GB. 



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