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ADVERTISEDENTS. 



TO FARMERS AND ALL OTHERS INTERESEED IN 

 AGRICULTTJRE, HORTICULTURE, &c. 



WILL Bli I'LULISHKD, IN OCTOBEK, 1855. 



THE YEAR BOOK OF AGRICULTURE; 



OR, 



The Annual of JgriailtuTol Progress and Discover}/, For 1855. 

 Exhibiting the most important discoveries and improvements in 

 AgriL-uliQnil MechaiUL-s. 

 Agricultural and Horticultural Botany. 

 Agriculturjil and Economic Geology. 

 Agricultural Zoology, Metercology, etc. 

 Together with 

 Statistics of American Growth and Production. 

 A hi-st of Recent Agricultural Publicationp. 

 Agri^Uural Patents, with Notes by the 

 Jiditor, on the Progress of American 

 and Foreign Agriculture, 

 for the Year 1855. 



BY DAVID A. WELLS, A. M. 



Member of the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 formerly Chemist to the Ohio State Board of 

 Agriculture; Editor of the Annuul of 

 Scientitic Discovery, Familiar Science, &c., &c. 

 it is eviuent that a puljUcation of this character, givining a com- 

 plete and condensed view of the Progress of every Department of 

 Agricultural Science, fiee from technical and unnecessarily scien- 

 titic descriptions, and B>stematic:flly arranged so as to i^resent at 

 one view all recent Agricultural Facts, Discoveries, Theories and 

 Applications, must he a most acceptable volume to every one inter- 

 ested in the Cultivation of the Soil, or the Diffusion of Useful 

 Knowledge. 



THE "YEAR BOOK OF AGRICULTURE" 

 will be published in a handsome octavo volume, comprising upwards 

 of 300 pages, and will contain au elegant Steel Portrait of a Dis- 

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 fiRicuLTL'iiAL MACHINES, STOCK, FutnT, &c., together wlth aseries 



of 



BEAUTIFULLY COLORED ENGRAVINGS. 



Although the publication of this work will be attended with very 

 heavy expenses, it will be issued at tke low price of $1,50, thereby 

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On receipt of the pubiiahed price it will be sent fiee per mail, to 

 any part of the .United States. As the sales will be very large, all 

 orders should be sent immediately. 



A LIBKKAL REDUCTIOX TO CLURS. 



Addres?, CHILDS & PETERSON, 124 Arch St., Philadelphia. 

 £[3^ -Agents wanted to sell the above valuable work. 

 September 1. 



^ROCHESTER COMMERCIAL NURSERIES. 



WE take pleasure in informing the public that we are still rais- 

 ing Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Grape Vines, Cur- 

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 ^We call especial attention to our 



Chekky Stocks, for Nurserymen. 

 Apple " " " 



Plum " which won't have the knots. 



Angers Quince, &e. &c., -and to the 

 NEW SEEDLING STRAWBERRY HOOKER. 

 This splendid fruit combines all the requisites of a first class 

 Strawberry in one variety, a thing not heretofore accomplished. 



Beautiful .shining dark color; 

 Unequaled excellence of flavor ; 

 Great producti7eneseand vigor; 

 A perfect flower, requiring no fertilizing. 

 Price $1 50 per dozen ; $5 per 100. 



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 East Avenue, corner Goodman St. 



wm. H. Looans, 



WHOLESA I,E and R..-tail df ;ilPr in Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 

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 a large collection; (Jreen House planj* can be furnished on ihe 

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 on hand, and fnr.sale at the lowest cash prices. Address (post- 

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March, 1855.— tf. WM. H. LOOMIS. 



MERINO SHEEP. 



THE subscriber will sell a few Spanish Merino Sheep — bucks anc 

 ewes— of undoubted purity of blood. He will also dispose o* 

 a part of his stock of imported FRKN(fH Merinos. 



Gentlemen imrrhising from this flock can have tKe sheep for 

 warded to the principal Western towns at my risk, 

 Sept. 1, 1854— tf R. J. JONES, CornwaU Vt. 



FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TBEES, SHRUBS, ROSES 

 VINES, &c., &c. 



THE subscribers would lespectfuUy call the attention of pei 

 coioraeuciog the i\ursery bii.-iness, dealers in Trees and Or- 

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Et^ Their Depot and Green Houses are on State street, within r 

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 purchases can be made on very advantageous terms. 



The Nurseries are located very conveniently for shipping to i 

 parts of the Stales and Canadas. * 



Orders by mail punctually attended to if addicssed to the sub 

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Rocliester and Charlotte Plank Road Nurseries, Rochester, N.Y 



Sept., lS65-2t. C. J. RYAN & CO. 



BULKLEY3 PATENT DRY KILNS, 



BY superiieated steam will dry Grain, Flour, and Meal withoui 

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 Oct— 3t* Kalamazoo, Mich 



THE GENESEE FARMER, 



AGRICULTUR E & HOR TICULTURE 



Volume XVI, Second Series, 1855 

 DAWlElj LKE AND JAMES ViCK, EDITORS. 



JOSEPH FROST, HORTICULTURAL EDITOR. 



SACn NTJSfBER CONT.\IKS 32 ROYAL OCTAVO PAGES, 12 

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 - Tei-ms. 



Single Copy, ^ ' SO.E 



Five Copies, _ 2.0 



eight Copies, 3.C 



And at the same rate for any larger number. 



JAMES VICK, 

 Publisher arid Proprietor, Rochester, N. T. 



S^ontfntfi of i\i8 Numttr. 



Prmciples of Improving Domestic Animals 2£ 



The Mismanagement of Woodland.. 25 



Important Fact in Agriculture... __ o( 



Agricultural Fairs and Cattle Shows 3i 



The Potato Rot 3^ 



1 Fari] 

 rby S. "W.. 



Grasses 



American Implements in France _ 3' 



Coltiige Building, Warming, 



Saving Flower Seeds 



youth's department. 



EDITOR'S TABLE. 



9?^ ILLD ST RATIONS. 



Skeleton of the Horse _ 



Sweet-scented Vernal Grass _ 



Cock'8-foot Glass 



Meadow Foxtail Grass _ 



Rcmgh-Stalked Meadow Grass 



Plan fir a Cheap Cottage _ _.. 



D.'sign f.ira Small Cottage... 



Magnolia Tripeiala „ _ 



Fruit and Flowers of the Magnolia Tiipetala _, 



Acaria Diffusa _ 3Ii 



Berheris Pallida... ZV> 



Half Lop-eared Rahbit 321 



Lop-eared Rabbit , 3Z) 



