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IV. Tlie American Rose Culturer. Price 26 cent,-!. 



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vm Horses— their Varieties, Breeding, Management, &c. Price 

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XIII. Chemistry made Easy for the Use of Farmers. Price 25 

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XIV. The American Poultry Yard. The cheapest and best book 

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XV. The American Field Book of Manures. Embracing all the 

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XIX. The Farmer's Cyclopedia. Bv Blake. Price $1.25. 



XX. Allen's Rural Architecture. Price 81.25. 



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RECENTLY PUBLISHED. , 



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KOCHESTEB COMMEECIAL MUKSEEIES. 



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DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE PIPE MACHINE. 



CHAR.NOLK'.S PATENT. 



BY this Machine, Drainage and Sewerage Pipes of all descrip 

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 &c., are molded with the greatest facility and precision. 



A man and three boys can turn out from 5,000 to 10,000 feet of 

 pipes per day, according to sizes ; and if worked by horse, steam 

 or water povver, a proportionate increase will be obtained. 



This Machine is in e.Uensive operation in England, where, in 

 addition to the teatimonv of numerous Tile Makers, as well as that 

 of some of the first Machinists of the day, the following Prizes 

 have been awarded to it : 

 By the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, at its annual 

 meeting, 1845, as the Hrst Tile Machine with a con- 

 tinuous motion, - -- i^5 



By the same Society, the following year, as the best 



Machine of the day, - 10 



By the Lancashire Agricultural Society, at its annual 



meeting, 1845 - SUver Medal. 



Bv the Highland Agricultural Society, at its annual 



'meeting in 1846, as the best Machine, 5 



At the meeting of the New York State Agricultural Society, at 

 Sanatopa (1H53), a Working Model of this Machine was awarded 

 the SILVER MEDAL AND DIPLOMA; and at the Fall Exhibi- 

 tions the same vear of Lower and Upper Canada, held respectively 

 at Montreal and Hamilton, the same Model was awarded a DIPLO- 

 MA FROM EACH SOCIETY. It was awarded the FIRST PRIZE 

 AND DIPLOMA Ht the recent Exhibition in London, C. W. 



The price of the Machine is £50 (half cash and remainder at six 

 months), with live Dies for Pipes. Brick and other Dies at a mod- 

 erate charge. „,„„ 

 ti^ THE PATENTEE GUARANTEES THE EFFECTIVE 

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JOHN H. CHARNOCK, 

 Drainage Engineer, Hamilton, C. W., the Patentee. 

 January 1, 1856. — tf 



August 1, 1856. 



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 Eai>t Avenue, corner Goodman St. 



THE GENESEE FARMER, 



A Mn\TULV JOURNAL OF 



A-GBICULTUR K & HOR TICULTURE. 



Volume XVI, Seooni Series, 1855 

 DANIEL I.KE AND JAMES VICK, EDITORS. 



JOSEPH FROST, HORTICULTUUAL EDITOR. 



EACH NUIOJER CONTAINS 32 ROYAL OCTAVO PAGES, IN 



DOUBLE COLUMNS, AND TWELVE NUMBERS FORM 



A VOLUME OF 384 PAGES IN A YEAR. 



Tttnus* 



Single Copy, S0.50 



Five Copies, --J^ 



Eight Copies, 3.0C 



And at the same rate for any larger number. 



JAMES VICK. 

 Ptihlisher and Prnpr inirr. Roc.he.tttr. N. Y. 



([Donttnte of rtts Numttr. 



Principles of Improving Domestic Animals 26! 



J. B. Lawesand Justus Von Liebig 26; 



Useful Hints •■ 2^; 



Root Crops— The He'sian Fly and the Wheat-Head Fly 2(.' 



To Relieve Choked Cattle 2'; 



Big Head— Evaporation and Filtration,. 2i, 



The Crops and*the Prices 27! 



Make Farm Life Attractive 2(i 



Freedom from Danger in Descending Wella ..-.28( 



Stump Puller— Seeding to Grass in Autumn— Corn and Pork.. 281 



HORTICnLTDRAL DEPART.MENT, 



Ripening of Apples and Fears 28; 



Summer Houses— Fruit— Vegetable Physiology 28, 



The Yuccas as Hardy Ornamental Plants 28' 



Botanical Gardens 2S< 



LADIES* DKPARTMEKT. 



The Luxuries of the'Garden 28| 



The Ivy asa Parlor Plant ^ 



"*"" " TOCTH'S DEPARTMENT. 



The Two Farmer Boys -^'• 



KDITOK'a TABLE. 



Editor's Table ^S! 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Stump Puller - 28 



Summer Houses - ;?' 



Adam's Needle, or Yucca Gloriosa - ^j; 



Giant Ivy '"' 



