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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Nov. 





CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER, 



Agricultural Sock-tiea and Exhibitions, 249 



Analysis of the Apple 250 



The Kxpirif-nce of a Voung Farmer 251 



A Singular Freak of Nature 252 



How to Kill Eltlers, and Improve the Farm 254 



Wheat Husbandry— Chess and Wheat; Smut 254 



Smut in Wheat and the cau^c of it and Prevention, 254 



Wanted, a little more Kxplanation about ■■ Smut Bugs,'.. .255 



To Prevent Smut 255 



Answers to Inquiries.— To Raise Water by the Syphon,. . . .256 

 Bestmodu of Feeding Bran ; To Destroy the Wire Worm. 256 



Lame Hogs 256 



Poultry Statistics ; Fraud in Guano, 256 



S. W.'p Notes for the Month 257 



Preparation for Winter ; To Kill Rats 257 



llun.\L Architecture.— Country House, 259 



A Design for a Small Cottage, . , . , ' 260 



Prof JohD^4on'B Lectures, 261 



Bees— No. 4, 262 



Ladies' Departmknt— A good Garden essential togood living. 268 

 Editors' Table— Notices. &c., 269 



horticultural department. 



HobticuluralExhibitio.ns 263 



A ft'W Hints for November 265 



The Bloodgood Pe.ir 266 



The Summer Francreal Pear, o. .266 



Nicholas Longworth. of Cincinnati ; A Fruit Ladder, 266 



The Northern Spy Apple 267 



Acknowledgements ; The Season. 267 



Exhibition of Winter Fruits, 26' 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Wheat and Chess 254 



A Design for a Small Cottat^e, 260 



Portrait of Prof. Johoston, 261 



The Bloodgnod Pear 2G6 



Summer Fraucreal Pear, 266 



The Practical and Scientific Farn 



Own Paper, 



THE GE\S^EE FARMER 



A MONiflLY JOURSai. ... 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, 



PENFIELD -VITKSERY. 



THE Proprietors of the above Nursery, situated in the village 

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Penfield, Oct. 14. 1850. 



Postponed Sale of Full Rred Short Horoa and Im- 

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OWING to affliction in my family, 1 have po.stponed the An- 

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1 also decline selling any stock by private sale, so as to offer the 

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My new importations of Short Horns Devonfi,SDuth Down Sheep. 

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Timely catalogues, with full descriptions of each animal, will be 

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Farm Buildings, Domestic Animals, Implements, Pruits, &c. 

 VOLUME Xn, FOR 185L 



DANIEL LEE &l JAMES VICK, Jk., Editors. 



p. BARRY, Conductor of Horticultural Department 



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