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THE GENESEE FAKMEK. 



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Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural 

 Society. — We are indebted to B. P. Joiixson, Esq., 

 the able and courteous Secretary of the Society, 

 for the eleyenth volume of its Transactions. It 

 contains abo«t 1000 pages, and is filled with 

 matter interesting and valuable to all engaged in 

 the noble occupation of cultivating the soil, and 

 is a work which no farmer can peruse without 

 much benefit. It contains, as usual, the doings 

 of the State Society, valuable reports from the 

 several County Agricultural Societies, the detail- 

 ed management of the premium farms, prize 

 essays on superphosphate of lime and on the 

 management of soils, essays on the potato disease 

 and the Ayrshire breed of cattle, with other mat- 

 ters of interest. An appendix to the Ti'ansac- 

 tions, of 193 pages, contains the Secretary's report 

 of the Great Exhibition in London, and is a work 

 of great value and general interest. 



We have read the "general view and agricul- 

 tural survey of the County of Madison" with 

 pleasure and profit. It is a paper of much 

 labor and merit. The labor and money expended 

 on the thirty analyses of soils given in this essay, 

 must alone have been considerable. When we 

 know more of the actual requirements of plants, 

 the form in which they take up* their constitu- 

 ents, and the relative proportions in which the 

 various crops require their available food to exist 

 in the soil, <fec., these analyses may be of great 

 value. At present, with our limited knowledge, 

 we have been able to obtain but little additional 

 information from their study and comparison. 



Professor Comstock. — We have on hand several 

 communications on Professor C'omstock's wonder- 

 ful discoveries. In our next, we shall publish 

 some of these, and divulge the secret, bo far as we 

 have been able to learn it after patiently listening 

 to the Professor for four or five hours. In the 

 meantime we advise our readers, if they do not 

 wish to be humbugged, to keep their dollars and let 

 the Professor keep his secret. 



Clubs. — Additions to clubs can be made at any 

 time, a-t the lowest club rates. Those who have 

 ordered fve can increase their clubs to eight, by 

 forwarding One Dollar. 



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Our Ladies' Department, which is unavoidably 

 omitted, will be resumed in the next number, and 

 continued, with illustrations. 



The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural 

 Art and Rural Taste. — Tlie January number of 

 of this journal has been one month before the 

 public, and the press and the people are unani- 

 mous in its praise. In beauty it is not excelled 

 by any journal in the country, and, in the opin- 

 ion of our contemporaries, its matter equals its 

 appearance. To this verdict we heartily assent. 

 The February number is just issued. 



Published by James Vick, Jr., Rochester, K Y. 

 Price, $2 per year. 



New York State Ag. Society. — The annual 

 meeting of this Society will be held at Albany on 

 the second Wednesday (9th,) of February. Tlie 

 The exhibition of Fat Cattle, Grain, Seeds, Dairy 

 products, <fcc, will be held at Wolford's, Bull's 

 Head, on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of February. — 

 The exhibition of Fruits and Field crops, at the 

 Society's rooms, old State House. 



Our friends ordering the Farmer will be partic- 

 ular in giving the name of the Post Ofiice, County 

 and State ; also, in writing names plain, as by this 

 much pei-plexity may be avoided to ourselves and 

 subscribers. 



Terms — Fifty Cents a year for single copies; 

 five copies for $2, being/or<^ cents each ; and eight 

 copies for $3, being thirty-seven cents each, and any 

 greater number at the same rate. 



Advertisements, to secure insertion in the Farm- 

 er, must be received as early as the 10th of the 

 previous month, and be of such a character as to 

 be of interest to farmers. We publish no other. 

 Terms — $2.00 for every hundred words, each in- 

 sertion, paid in advance. 



Inquiries anlr ^Tlnsuicrg. 



(John Slittenbaugo, Leesbnrgh, Pa.) Plaster 

 ox Wiie.\t. — ^There is much difference of opinion 

 on this subject; some. think that plaster sown on 

 wheat in the fall strengthens materially the young 

 plant and enables it better to stand the winter. 

 It is said, too, that plaster sown on wheat in the 

 spring causes too luxuriant a growth of straw, to 

 the damage of the crop, which is not the case 

 when sown in the fall. Many good fai-mers prefer 

 to sow it in the spring. Aside from practice, theory 

 would indicate the fall as the best time for sowing 

 plaster on wheat. 



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