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THE GENESEE FAEMEE. 



Altar's €Mt. 



LiEBiG's Complete Wouks on Chemistet. Published by 



T. B. Peterson : PhUadelphia. 



The complete works of the great Liebig!— 

 What a treasure ! A library of chemistry in them- 

 selves ! Every intelligent farmer's son must de- 

 sire to possess them. Here they are, then, bound 

 neatly in one volune for $1,50. 



There is, however, in the publication of this 

 volume a species of charlatanry that we feel 

 bound to mention. They profess to be "from 

 the last London edition, much improved," and 

 in carrying out this idea the publisher has seen 

 fit to alter the dates of the author's introduc- 

 tion and the English editor's preface. Thus 

 the introduction to "Chemistry in its application 

 to Phvsiology and Pathology" is dated Giessen, 

 Sept. 1. 1852, and the preface is dated Primrose, 

 Nov. 22, 1852. They are both precisely the 

 same as 'those dated in the old editions, Giessen, 

 Sept. 1, 1840, and Primrose, Nov. 22, 1841. And 

 so it is in all the other works, the month and the 

 day of the month are the same as in the old 

 stereotyped editions, but the year is changed in 

 every case to 1852. 



The familiar letters are dated August, 1852. On 

 examining them, we found that they were the 

 old celebrated sixteen letters, published some ten 

 years ago. The last edition of these letters, pub- 

 lished in Louden in 1851, contains nine additional 

 letters, with many other alterations, corrections, 

 <frc., embodying "the results of Liebig's re- 

 searches during the last few years in agricultural 

 and physiological chemistry." 



ments : yet it contains much that is new to the 

 great mass of agriculturists, and which it would 

 be to their interest to know. For this reason we 



«i&h the Progressive Farmer an extensive circula- 

 Dn, feeling assured that he will do much good, 

 even though he should teach a little that is doubt- 

 ful in science and heteradox in practice. 



The Peogkessive Farsieb. By J. A. Nash, Principal of 

 Mount Pleasant Institute, Instructor of Agriculture m 

 Amherst CoUege. &c. Published by C. M. Saxton : New 

 York: 1853 



A scientific treatise on agricultural chemistry, 

 the geology of agriculture, on plants, animals, 

 manures, and soils, applied to practical agricul- 

 ture, of 254 pages, cannot be expected to go very 

 profoundly into each subject. Such a work, how- 

 ever, might give us some of the most important 

 facts in each of the series, and their relation to 

 practical agriculture. The author of the Pro- 

 gressive Farmer has attempted the task, and so far 

 as we can judge from a brief examination, he has 

 happily succeeded. 



One feature of the work is eminently charac- 

 teristic of this book-making age — it contains little, 

 if anything, that is new. It embodies no new 

 facts, nor details the results of recent experi- 



Peinciples ok Botant, as Exemplified in the Cryptogamia. 



By Harland Coultas. 



The subject of this little manual is well indica- 

 ted by its title, and the author we think has 

 successfully illustrated the laws of vegetable 

 growth and reproduction, by tracing these phe- 

 nomena in the lowest orders of the vegetable 

 kingdom. Published by Lindsay & Blakiston> 

 Philadelphia. For sale by D. M. Dewey, Roch- 

 ester, N. Y. ^ 



The New York State Fair will be held w 

 Saratoga Springs September 20, 21, 22 and 23, 

 1853. "We are indebted to the Secretary, B. P. 

 Johnson, Esq., for a list of premiums, regulations, 

 (fee. One of the requirements from poultry ex- 

 hibitors we donot fully understand : 



"The lot of poultry from which that on exhibition is 

 taken, must consist of not less than one hundred." 



Is it intended that each competitor for the pre- 

 mium on Dorking, Spanish, Shanghffi, Bantams, 

 tfec, (fee, must have at home a lot of not less than 

 one hundred of each particular breed from which 

 the lot was taken? Or does it mean that the ag- 

 gregate number of all the different breeds together 

 must be at least one hundred ? Or can a gentle- 

 man, having but one rooster and two hens of the 

 improved breeds, receive a premium for them if 

 he has one hundi-ed of the ccmmion breed at 



home? 



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CoL. Sherwood's Sale of Short-horned cattle, 

 &c., will take place at Auburn, N. Y., on the 8th 

 of June next. See advertisement^ which was ac- 

 cidentally omitted in our April number. Mr. 

 Sherwood's farm is about one mile from the rail- 

 way station. The sale wiU commence at 10 

 o'clock A. M. 



The New York "World's Fair." — Vfe under- 

 stand that the Agricultural Department of this 

 Fair is to be under the supervision of B. P. John- 

 son, Esq., of Albany, and that the Mechanical 

 Department is to be entrusted to Mr. Joseph E. 

 Holmes, of South Hadley, Mass. 



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