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THE GENESEE FAEMER. 



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The Genesee Farmer for 1854. — The proprietor 

 of the Genesee Farmer, encouraged by the liberal 

 support long extended to this journal by its friends 

 and patrons, announces that the Fibteentu Volume 

 of the present series, to commence in January, 1854, 

 will contain a quarter more reading matter than 

 any of its predecessors, and be otherwise much 

 improved, without any increase in price. 



Since the undersigned began his labors to foster 

 a taste for agricultural reading in the United 

 States, at least fifty journals devoted to rural 

 affairs have been started to meet the demand for 

 such information as they might be able to supply. 

 Instead of harboring unkind feelings toward 

 these numerous competitors, we have rejoiced at 

 their success, knowing that there must be room 

 for fifty more agricultural papers long before 

 one farmer in ten will be a reading as well as a 

 working cultivator of the soil. To increase the 

 usefulness by extending the circulation of the 

 Genesee Farmer, the undersigned will pay the 

 following premiums on subscriptions to his next 

 volume : 



Fifty dollars to the person who shall procure 

 the largest number of subscribers in any county 

 or district in the United States or Canadas; forty 

 dollars to the one wlio shall procure the second 

 largest list of subscribers aa above ; thirty dollars 

 to the one procuring the third largest list ; twenty 

 dollars to the one procuring the fourth largest 

 list ; and ten dollars to the one procuring the fifth 

 largest list, at any time before the first of April, 

 1854, when the ])remiums will be paid in cash. 

 Subscriptions to be received at the lowest club 

 prices. The volume for 1854 will be printed on 

 good paper, with new type, bought expressly for 

 it A gentlemen, graduate of the University 

 of Vienna, who is familiar with the languages of 

 those nations in which the science of agriculture 

 is most cultivated, will aid us in translating for 

 the Fanner wliatever can instruct or interest its 

 readers. This gentleman is by profession a civil 

 engineer and architect — branches of knowledge 

 intimately connected with the progress of rural 

 arts and sciences. The general character of our 

 paper is tlius pithily stated by the lion. Marshall 

 P. Wilder, Prosident of the Massachusetts Board 

 of Agriculture, and of the United States Horti- 

 cultural and Agricidtural Societies, in a letter now 

 on our table, which closes as follows. 



" I have always had the Geiteseb Farmbk. H is, ic^.tK- 

 out favor or affectaiioix, tlie best paper in tlis country. 

 Marshall V. Wilder." 



As our club price to each subscriber is only 

 thirty-seven cents a year, no matter how many 

 other agricultural journals one may take, to pat- 

 ronise the Farmer cannot impoverisli him. 



Daniel Lee, 



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The Study of Insects. — Almost every mail 

 brings us papers which show the lamentable want 

 of more knowledge among farmers of the natu- 

 ral history of insects. A correspondent in the 

 September number of the Pennsylvania Farm 

 Journal recommends the use of lime and brine in 

 the preparation of seed wheat, to prevent the 

 attacks of the Hessian fly. Now, Pennsylvania 

 returned more wheat, by about a million of 

 bushels, at the last census than any other State 

 in the Union, and her cultivators of this imports 

 ant staple ought to be well posted up in all that 

 relates to it. "With due respect for the writer (for 

 we are all liable to err), we beg to inform him and 

 his readers, should they see this article, that he is 

 wrong in two important particulars. First, In 

 kcreping his wheat so long in brine as to "swell 

 the seed considerably" before he limes it, as the 

 salt will kill the germs of many good seeds so 

 soon as the brine penetrates them sufficiently to 

 make them swell. Secondly, Neither the eggs nor 

 young of Hessian flies are on wheat at the time 

 it is sown. The insect always deposits its eggs 

 on the leaves of the plant, either in autumn or 

 in the spring. It is a good practice to wash seed 

 wheat in strong brine, and dry it at once in 

 recently slaked lime, to destroy the sporules or 

 seeds of smut, not insects. As suggested by the 

 writer in the Farm Journal, salt and lime tend to 

 produce bright, firm culms, or straw, in wheat; 

 and for this purpose some of the best wheat- 

 growers in Western New York sow, at the time 

 of seeding, from three to five bushels of salt, and 

 from five to ten of lime, per acre. On good Lime- 

 stone land, salt alone is used. 



Domestic Culture of the GR.\rr. — Tlie Charles- 

 ton Mereury states that !Mr. McDonald, residing 

 near Aiken (S. C), has devoted himself to the 

 culture of tlie grape with a success that promises 

 to naturalize this branch of agriculture in the 

 State. He lijis an extensive vineyard, in which 

 may be found the best varieties of foreign and . • 



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