THE GENESEE FARMER. 



New York State Agricultural Society. — At the 

 annual meeting, held at Albany in the second week in Feb- 

 ruary, the following named gentlemen were elected officers 

 for the ensuing year : 



President — William Kelly, Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co. 



\'ice Presidents — J. C. Jacrson, New York ; A. B. 

 CoNGKR, Rockland; Geo. Vail, Rensselaer; Le Roy 

 MowiiY, ^Vashillgton ; J. C.Woodruff, Onondaga; J. 

 Barber, Cortland ; D. H. Abell, Livingston ; S. M. 

 Burroughs, Orleans. 



Correspondinr Secretary — B. B. JoHNSON, Albany. 



Recording Secretary — E. CoRNiNG, Jr., Albany. 



Treasurer — B. B. Kirtland, Rensselaer. 



Executive Committee — EuGAR C. Dibble, Genesee; 

 Elon Comstock, Oneida ; Chas. Morkell, Tompkins ; 

 T. B. Arden, Putnam ; Ambrose Stevens, New York. 



The Society have resolved to hold their next annual fair 

 in the city of New York. 



Transactions of the Essex Agricultural Society. 

 — We have space left in this number barely to acknowledge 

 the receipt of the Transactions of this old and most useful 

 Society in Massachusetts, from the Hon. John W. Proc- 

 tor, who will please accept our thanks for the same. 



Owing to the crowded state of our columns, we are 

 coniijelled to forego the publication of a large number of 

 "Answers to Inquiries," and several editorial articles, 

 which we had prepared for this number of the Farmer, 

 until our next issue. 



ADVERTISEMENTS, 



To secure insertion in the Farmer, must be received as early as the 

 10th of the previous month, and be of such a character as to be 

 of interest to fanners. Terms — Two Dollars for every hundred 

 words, each insertion, paid in advance. 



OSAGE OaANGE SEEB, 



RECEIVED direct from Texa.s, and warranted good. Price, $20 

 per bushel — same rate jier peck — and a reduction to dealers. 

 Directions for culture, and management of the hedge, furnished to 

 all customers. (It is now a.sceiUiineil, by five years' experiment, 

 that this most excellent hedge plant will endure the winters as far 

 n^rth as Western New York, and wherever it has become known it 

 is rapidly finding favor.) M. B. BATEHAM, 



llarch 1, 1854. — it. Columbus, Ohio. 



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PEAS, SPRING WHEAT, &c. 



E have now in store, and offer to our customers, 

 100 bushels Spring Wheat, 

 400 " Peas, various kinds, 



50 " Vetches, 

 100 " Barley, 

 100 " Seed Com. 

 March 1, 1854.— tf J. RAPALJE & CO. 



CLOVER AND TIMOTHY SEED. 



E have now on hand, and for sale at the lowest cash prices, 

 200 bushels Clover Seed, 

 4U0 " Tuuothy Seed, 

 60 " KeJ Top Seed, 

 March 1, 1854.— tf J. RAPALJE & CO. 



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Field and Garden Seeda. 



SPRING WHEAT, Barley, O.its, Grass Seed, Clover. 

 Fresh P^ay (ini.<s, Luceru, White Clover, just imported. 

 Excelsior Potato's, a new and improved variety. 

 Belgian Carrot, Sugar Beet, Sc. 

 Garden Seed-s of all kinds, including Flower Seeds. 



K. I,. ALLEN. 

 March 1, 1854.— 3t 189 ami 191 Water street. New York. 



THE PEOPL.E>S PATENT OFFICE. 



THIS well-known establishment is still carried on under the per- 

 son.al superintendence of its founder, ALFRED E. BEACH, 

 by whom all the necessary diawings, specifications, and documenta, 

 for Patents, Caveats, &c., are prepared with the utmost fidelity and 

 dispatch. 



Persons wishing for information or advice relative to Patents or 

 Inventions, may at all times consult the undersigned withmt charge, 

 cither personally at his office, or by letter. To tlinse living at a 

 distance he would stnte, that all the steps necessary to secure a 

 Patent, can he arranged by letter just as well as if the party were 

 present, and the expense of a journey be thus saved. All consul- 

 tations strictly private and confidential. When parties wish to be 

 informed aa to the probability of being enabled to obliiin Patents, 

 it will be necessary for them to forward by mail a rough outline 

 sketch and description of the invention. No fee or charge is made 

 for such examinations. 



The first step, alw.ays, in securing a Patent in this country, is to 

 prepare a model, from which the necessary drawings are made. If 

 the undersigned is engaged to prosecute the apjilication and pre- 

 pare the various papers, the model must first be sent to the PEO- 

 PLE'S PATENT OFFICE, 86 Nassau street. New York, after which 

 it will be forwarded to Washington. 



Models from a distance may be sent by express or otherwise. 



For further information apply to or address, post-paid, 



ALFRED E BEACH, 

 Solicitor of American and Foreign Patents. 



People's Patent Oiiice, 8G Nassau street. New York. 



March 1, 1854.— It 



Atkins' SeLf-rakIng Reaper. 



i f\ OF these machines were used the last harvest in grass or 

 ^yj grain, or both, with almost uniformly good success, in nine 

 different States and Canada. 



TWENTY-SIX PREMIUMS, 

 including too at the Crystal Palace (silver and bronze medals), 

 were awarded it at the autumn exhibitions. I am building only 800, 

 which are being rapidly or dere d. Mr. .Joseph Hall, Rochester, N. 

 Y., will also build a few. [u^ Early orders necessary to insure a 

 Reaper. 



Price at Chicago §175 — $75 cash with order, note for $50, payable 

 when Reaper works successfully, and another for $50, payable first 

 December next, with interest ; or $160 cash in advance. War- 

 ranted to be a good Self-raking Reaper. 



^^ Agents, properly recommended, wanted throughout the 

 country. Experienced Agents preferred. It is important this year 

 to have the machines widely scattered. 



Descriptive circulars, with cuts, and giving impartially the diffi- 

 culties as well as successes of the Reaper, mailed to post-paid appli- 

 cations. .1. S. WRIGHT, 



March 1, 1854. — 3t "Prairie Farmer" Warehouse, Chicago. 



Garden Implements. 



HEDGE, Long Handle, and Sliding Pruning Shears ; Budding 

 and Edging Knives; Pruning Hatchets, Saws and Knives; 

 Pruning, Vine and Flower Scissors; Bill and Milton Hookf ; Lt.wn 

 and Garden P^akes; Garden Scufllers, Iloes of great variety. Shovels 

 and Spades; Hand Engines which throw water forty feet or more. 

 Syringes and Water Pots; Grafting Chisels, Tree Scr.ipers, and 

 Caterpillar Brushes; Transplanting Trowels, Reels; ILand Plow 

 and Cultivator, very useful to work between rows of vegetables; 

 together with a large assortment of other implements too numer- 

 ous to mention. R. L. ALLEN, 

 March 1, 1854.— 3t 189 and 191 Water street. New York. 



Plo^vs ! Plows I 



PROUTY & MEARS' Improved Center Draught Plows, of all 

 the various sizes. 

 Michig.an Sod and Subsoil Plow. 

 Rich's Iron Beam, of all the different patterns. 

 Massachusett.s Eagle. 

 Mapes' Improved Subsoil Plows. 



For sale at the State Agricultural Warehouse. 



LONGETT & GRIFFIXO, 

 March 1, 1854.— 2t No. 25 Cliff-st., New York. 



NeW and Improved Plo^ws, 



INCLUDING the Deep Tiller, Flat Furrow, Self Sharpener, Cen- 

 ter Draught, Side Hill, SubsoU, Double Mold Board, Potato, and 

 Cultivation Plows. 



Harrows, Rollers, Seed Sowers, Cultivators, and a large assort- 

 ment of all other Agricultural Implements. R. L. ALLEN, 



March 1, 1854.— 3t 189 and 191 Water street. New York. __ 



CORN SHEL.EERS. 



WE have now on hand, at the Genesee Seed Store, a large stock 

 of the various kinds of Corn Shcllers of the most approved 

 patterns now in use, all of which we offer for s.ale at the manufac- 

 tureis' prices, and warrant them to give satisfaction, or to )« re- 

 turned and the money refunded. J. RAPALJE & CO. 

 March 1, 1854.—* 



