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ADVRRTISEMENTS. 



Genesee Farmer for 1856. 



One more number completes the present volume. 

 The uext volume will be priuted on new type, good 

 paper, and contain one-third more reading than at 

 present. The illustrations will also be more useful 

 as well as more beautiful and costly than any before 

 given. Our friends will please form clubs early. 



PREMIUMS_FOR 1856! 



We ask the attention of our friends everywhere to the Premiums 

 we olTer for the coming year. There is no better way to procure 

 good agricultural reading than by obtaining Bubscribers for the 

 Genesee Farmer. 



1. To every person who sends us a club of eight subscribers at 

 our regular terms, (Ihree shillings cock) we will give one copy of 

 the Rural Aimual for his trouble. 



2. To every person who sends us Sixteen subscribers at our club 

 terms of three shilling! each, one extra copy of the Farmer and 

 one copy of the Rural Annual. 



3 To every person sending us TwESTT-FOnR subscribers, as above, 

 two copies of the Rural Annual, and one extra copy of the Farmer, 

 or any agricultural work valued at 60 cents, postage paid. 



4. to any person ordering Thirty-two copies of the Farmer, 

 three copies of the Rural Annual and one extra copy of the Far- 

 mer, or, any agricultural book valued at 76 cents, postage paid. 



6. For Forty, four copies of the Rural Annual and one extra 

 copy of the Farmer, or, any agricultural book valued at %\, postage 

 paid, or, four extra copies of the Farmer. 



6. For FoRTY-EiCrHT, five copies of the Rural Annual and one 

 extra copy of the Farmer, or, any agricultural book valued at .iPl.25, 

 postage paid, or, five extra copies of the Farmer. 



For larger numbers, books or papers given in the same propor- 

 tion. „ 



ir^ To save expense to our friends, we pay the postage on all 

 these works, and persons entitled will stale what they wish sent, 

 and make their selections when they send orders; or if their list 

 is not complete, if wished, we will delay sending untU the club is 

 full. 



Premiums for the Greatest Wumber of S*scriber8. 



In order to excite a little competition among our friends every- 

 where as well as to reward them for their voluntary labors in be- 

 half of our journal, we make the following hberal otVer. Those 

 who do not get the premiums offered below are sure of the above, 

 so that we have no blanks. 



1 FI 'TY DOLLARS, in Agricultural Books, to the person who 

 shall send us the largest number of subscribers, at the club prices, 

 before the 15th day of April next, so that we may announce the 

 successful competitors in the May number. 



2. THIRTY DOLLARS, in Agricultural Books, to the person 

 who shall send us the second highest list, as above. 



3. TEN DOLLARS, in Agricultural Books, to the person who 

 shall send us the third highest list, aa above. 



Our object in offering books is to increase their circulation 

 throughout the country. Those who prefer nursery trees, plants, 

 &c., can be accouimoSated ; and if any prefer the money, we will 

 make arrangements accordingly. 



Cluhs are cot required to be at one post office or sent to one ad- 

 dress. We send wherever the members ot the club may desire. 



The Edkal Anndal and Horticultural Directory.— We have 

 just published a veiy neat little book of 120 pages with the above 

 title. It is devoted to the Orchard, the Vineyard, and the Fluirer 

 Garden and Laum : and we shall only express the opinion of all 

 who have seen it, when we say that it is the best little work yet 

 published on the subjects of which it so plainly and carefully 

 treats. Anxious to make the circulation of this useful little work 

 as general as possible, we make the following proposition, to those 

 who form clubs for the Genesee Farmer: For FOUR dollars we 

 will send ei"ht copies of the Genesee Farmer and eight copies of 

 the Rural Annual.. For eight dollars we will send sixteen copies 

 of the Genesee Farmer and sixteen copies of the Rural Annual, and 

 one extra copy of each for the person who gets up the club. 



Any peison sending us $3 for a club of eight of the Genesee 

 Farmer shall receive one copy of the Rural Annual for his trouble. 



The Practical and Scientijtc Farmers Own Paper. 

 THE GENE. SEE FARMER, 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OP 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, 



illustrated with numerous engravings of 



Farm Bmldings, Animals, Implements, Fruits, &o. 



VOLUME XVII. FOR 1856. 



IN issuing a prospectus for the .Seventeenth Volume of the Gen- 

 esee Parmer, the publisher hatters himself that it is too widely 

 known, too extensively circulated, and too well read, to render it 

 necessary to state at length the design of the work. Those who 

 read the Farmer are the best judges ot its value, and those unac- 

 quainted with it are requested to examine its pages. He wi.l only 

 Kiy that for ihe year 185ti he will furnish a paper that for size, 

 beauty, and ability, will not be excelled in this country. 



The new volume will commence on the first of January, and wiU 

 be printed on NEW TYPE and superior paper, and each number 

 will contain .ibout one-tbird more reading than at present. Each 

 monthly number wiU consist of thirty-two large pages, making 

 a volume of 384 pages, with several hundred engravings, (with 

 title page, index. Sic, suitable for binding), at the close of theyear. 

 No one would sell the volume at the end of the year for its cost. 

 Our Illustrations are numerous, appropriate, and expensive, 

 consisting of Farm Buildings, Improved Implements, Domestic 

 Animals Choice Fruits, Flowers, Shrubs, &c., &c. 



We number among our Contributors hundreds of the best prac- 

 tical Farmers in the country, and our readers have through our 

 pages, the benefit of their wisdom and experience. No thinking 

 man can read any number we issue, without receiving some useful 

 hint in regard to the management of Crops, Stock, or the Orchard, 

 of more value than the price of the volume. Our large circulation 

 enables us to furnish a paper for three or four shillings equal, at 

 least, to the best in the country for value and beauty. 



An earnest advocate of improvement of both the Mind and the 

 Soil the Farmer seeks to advance the jural interests of the coun- 

 try, and elevate the profession of Agriculture to its proper position. 

 To accomplish this, it ha.s labored long and raithfully,and not with- 

 out some success. It is one of the oldest, and its position as the 

 CHEAPEST and at least one of the best' agricultural journals 

 in the country is fully established, and we confidently ask for it 

 that support which it merits from the Farmers, Gardeners and 

 Fruit Culturists of the United States. We invite all who feel the 

 importance of sustaining this work, and extending its usefulness, 

 not only to subscribe themselves, but to introduce it to the patron- 

 age of their friends. 



Fifty Cents a Tear, In Advance. 

 Five Copies for $2 ; Eight Copies for $3 ; and any larger number 

 at the same rate. 



J^ All subscriptions to commence w.th the year, and the en- 

 tire volume supplied to all subscribers. 



trw^ Post-Masters, Farmers, and all friends of improvement 

 are resneclfuUy solicited to obtain and forward subscriptions. 



Subscription money, if properly enclosed, may be sent (post-paid 

 or free) at the risk of the Pubhshcr. Address 



' JAIHBS VICK, 

 November, 1855. Rochester, New York. 



EASPBEEEY AKD STRAWBEKRY PLANTS, GSAfE 

 VINES, CTJEKANTS, AND KHUBAEB, 



AT VERY LOW PRICES TO NURSERYMEN AND FOB FIELD 



PLANTING. 

 on (\f\f\ Hudson River Antwerp, 20,000 Fastolf, 10.000 Fran- 

 OU.UUU conia, 10,000 Rivers' Large Monthly, 10,000 Kne- 

 vett's';i;uit. and a general a.ssortment of all valuable varieties, in- 

 cluding Briiikle's Orange, the most beautiful and best of all Rasp- 

 beriies 



GRAPE VINES— Isabella, Catawba, Diana, Herbemont, Clinton, 

 Bband F.lsingburg, and Brinkle. 



CURRANTS— an assortment including, Large Black English, 

 Black Naples, Wvatt's Victoria, and Large Bed and White Dutch. 



RHUBARB— Victoria, Downiug's Colossal, Linneus, Gaboon, and 

 a great variety of seedlings. ^ 



STRAWBERRIES - Boston Pine, Early Scarlet, Hovey s Seedling, 

 and McAvov's Superior. . ^ ,_ , 



OSIER CUTTINGS — triandra, purpurea and Foi-byana; also, 



Newburg, Orange Co., N. Y. 



C. W. GRANT. 



No 



-3t. 



50 



TO NUBSERYMEN. 



BUSHELS Canada Plum Stones for sale. Just coUcctfid 

 and warranted true. Price $12 per bushel. 



C. KELLY & CO., 

 Oct.— 2t* Hamilton Nurseries, C. W. 



