•THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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£re<-k"s Book of Fl-oicerg. A thorough work, with 

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Treatise on the ConMniotion, Reatin^, and Ventila- 

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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



The Cultivation of Fish 201 



Wool Growing in the Argentine Provinces, 203 



Artificial Manures, 205 



Agricultural Journalism, 208 



The Farm as a Manufactorv, 209 



Milk, Butter, and Cheese,.." 211 



Classification of Animals, 212 



Corn Culture, 213 



Cutting Wheat Prematurely 214 



Cheese Imported into Great Britain in 1852, 214 



French Merino Sheep 215 



To I'revcfit liahbits or Mice fi-om Barking Fruit Trees, 117 



EoiTor.s' Taiili-— 221 



Monroe County Plowing Match, 221 



Clover Seed,. .". 221 



Notices of Books, Ac., 221 



Draining Tiles 222 



Inquiries and Answers, 222 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Raising Fruits from Seed, 218 



The Peach Worm 220 



The Fruit Crop— Weather, &c., 220 



Answers to Correspondents, 224 



Atkins' Self-raking Keaper. 

 THIS machine is now offered to the public, and warranted 

 to be a good self-raking reaper. It is also believed to be a 

 good mower, but not yet having been suflScieutly tested in 

 grass (though it soon will be), is not warranted to be equal 

 to a machine made mainly or wholly to mow. 



The raking apparatus is of novel and very simple con- 

 struction, and not liable to derangement, and every farmer 

 who has seen it in the harvest field, says it performs the 

 raking better than a man can possibly do it. 



Price of machines at Chicago, $175, of which $75 must 

 be paid on giving the order, $.")(! upon successful trial, and 

 $50 in note payable 1st December. 



The machines are mo.s~t thoroughly built and warranted. 



1^^ Descriptive circulars, with cnt.s, sent to post-paid 

 applications. J. S. WRIGHT. 



" Prairie Farmer" Warehouse, Chicago, July,*lS53. — 8t 



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Farm Buildings, Domestic Animals, Implements, &c. 



VOLUME XIV, FOR 1851 



DANTEL LEE, JAMES VICK, Jr., <fe JOSEPH 



HARRIS, Editors. 



P. BARRY, Conductor of Horticultural Department. 



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November, 1852. liochenter, N. Y. 



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