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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



July 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER, 



153 



Wheat Culture 



Patent Office Report, Part II, lo4 



Hints for July 157 



Seymours's Grain Drill • loS 



Quinces on Thorn ; Fastening for an Ox cart 158 



Wheat Husbandry— Another word on the Cause and Cure of 



Smut in Wheat 159 



Smut 159 



Chess 160 



Elder ; Gapes, 160 



Devon Cattle 161 



S. W.'s Notes for the Month, 161 



A Remedy for Ignorance, 162 



Bees-No, 1, 163 



Swine, 163 



Ladies' Department— Flower GardeuP 170 



To Destroy Insects on House Plants, 170 



Fair and Flowers in Seneca County, ITl 



Youth's Department— The Analogy between Animal and 



Vegetable Life— No. 1 171 



Editors' Table— Notices, &c., 1"2 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Two fine flowering Shrubs, - • 165 



French Management of Pear Trees, 106 



Proceedings of the Second Congress of Fruit Growers, 167 



The Season. Crops, 8cc 168 



Munson'a Sweet, and Northern Sweeting Apples, 168 



Whitewashing a Remedy for the Curculio, 169 



The American Fomological Congress, 169 



Portraits of" Eminent Horticulturiets," 160 



Peonies ; Stanwiok Nectarine, 169 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Seymour's Grain Drill 1.58 



Devon Bull, Holkham 161 



Portraits of Swine, 164 



Lance-Leaved Spirasa 165 



Elm-Leaved Spirasa. 165 



Plan of Flower Garden, 170 



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Wheeler's Patent Iinpio^ed RnUwny Chain Horso 

 Poorer and 0*-ersliot ThresUer n»»cl Scptrntor. 



THEsubscribera. Proprietors of the Patent for these Machine!*, 

 and manufacturers of them, baring recently increased their 

 facilities for manufacturing, are now prepari-d to fill orders for 

 Machines, and to establish agencies, to any esti'ntthat may be 

 desired. 



These Machines are favorably known wherever they have been 

 used or exhibited. They havt; taken premiums at mauy different 

 State and County Fairs held in Massachusetts, New York. New 

 Jer.-<ey. Pt-nnsylvnuia. Ohio, and also in Canada, never having 

 competed for premiums without success and flatttring commend- 

 ations. 



As many as 2,000 of them are now in use, of which over 500 were 

 sold the past season. 



The accompanying cut gives a view of a two horse Machine at 

 work, with tlie hands nccescary to attend it. It will thresh from 

 125 to 200 bushels of wheat, or " 



The one horse or single Mach 

 as fast as the doubl 



These Horse Powers arc 31 

 light. With one end of the 

 ed in the annexed cut) //if » 

 cient power to thresh at lb- 

 and upright saws, or any 

 quiring propelling power. 



THK OVERSHOT THRKSHKR 

 takes the grain from a level feeding table or aprun, (of 



xtremely 

 ted (as represent- 

 !/on«' affords suffl- 

 r to drive ciicular 

 'd by fa 



height to allow the feeder to stand erect, and feed without annoy 

 ance from dust,) and passes it through a toothed or spiked con- 

 cave or bed. placed over the cylinder. A recent improvement ad- 

 mits of lowering the concave so as to bring it nearer the cylinder, 

 and at the same time so varying the inclination of the spikes as to 

 Ret the machine for threshing tough or damp grain, or short oats, 

 and re-setting it at pleasure, for long rye or wheat, or oats in good 

 order or for timothy grass or clover ; and all this is accomplished 

 without stopping the Machine, so simple is the process. By means 

 ol the Separator, the straw, as it comes from the Thresher, is effec- 

 tually separated from the grain. 



The Power. Thresher and Separator, complete, for either one or 

 two horses, is easily loaded on a common farm wagon ; but where 

 frequent moving is desired, the two horse machines are placed on 

 wheels in such a manner that when used for threshing, the for- 

 ward v.heela are removed, dropping that end of the power, and 

 leaving the opposite end elevated on the other axle, ready to re- 

 ceive the horses. By this arrangement, (which has been made 

 for the convenience of those who make tlircshing a business, and 

 for partnership machines,) two men can with ease set a two horse 

 machine ready for work in fifteen minutes, and re-load it for mov- 

 ing in the same tiihe. 



W., M. & Co., also manufacture Stalk, Hay. and Straw Cutters, 

 to be used with their horse powers ; and also Circular Saws, and 

 Benches, for cutting ordinary fire wood, and locomotive and other 

 fuel. 



F.veiy machine madelor sold by W.. ^1. & Co.. or their agents, 

 is WARRANTED to work to the satisfaction of the purchaser, or it 

 miy be returned to them, or to the Agent of whom it may hare 

 be^n purchased, within sixty days, and the purchase money [if 

 paid] will be refunded. 



These machines are so light, compact, and easily handled, as to 

 admit of transportation to any part of the country with trifling 

 expense. The weight of the two horse machine, complete, being 

 less than 2,000 lbs., and of the one horse, about 1,200. 



The manufacturers arc now establishing agencies in all parts of 

 the United States and Canada, where they are needed to facilitate 

 the sale of those machines. Good agents are wanted in the South 

 ern and Western States and the Canadas, to whom liberal commis- 

 sions will be allowed. 



Our agents, as far as definitely ascertained, are— Rapalje St 

 Briggs, Rochester; T. C. Peters & Brother. Buffalo; Peter R. 

 Sleight. Esq., Poughkeepsie ; F. F. Parker & Brother. Detroit : 

 John Melick, Trenton, N. J.; John BowslieW. Kirkland. Ohio; 

 F. R. Elliot, Cleveland, Ohio ; Janes Williams, Bakers Town, Al- 

 legany Co., Pa.; Spears. Case &. Co., Delphi, Indiana ; W, B. Ar- 

 nold, Franklin Centre. Iowa ; Ephraim Abbott, St. Louis. Mo. 



W. D. Bacon, Waukesha, is general agent for Wisconsin. 



These machines may also be had of John Mayher St Co.. New 

 Vorkcity. WHEELER, MELICK 8i CO.. 



Hamilton St.. corner of Liberty and Union sts.. Albany. N. Y.: 

 ;iiid ( hicasio. Illiuois. 



.May 1. 1«o0. 



ADner^s Bee Hive. 



Tins beautiful and highly valuable practical Hive, is unsur- 

 passed by any other in the United States. The Rights are 

 in pamphlet form, with full engravings, and ample directions to 

 make it, Pr;ce $2 only ; .•'ent by mail to any section of the coun- 

 try. This is positively the only Hive of reo/ merit to be had. 



Al.^o the AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER'S MANUAL. 350 pp, 

 Oj fine engravings; the most popular work ever published on the 

 culture of bees. Price 3>1 ; sout by mail also. Address to this 

 office, post-paid. 



Gen. Farmer Office. Rochester. June, 1850.. {6-tf] 



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/■'/■v.' ht B!'antij aud Value — Chfnppst and Most Popular. 

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