ADVERTISEMENTS. 



:s a club of eight subscribers at 

 each) we will give one copy of 



i Sixteen subscribers at our club 

 ,e extni copy of the Farmer and 



Genesee Farmer for 1856. 



This number completes the present volume. 

 Tlie next volume will be printed 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 offer for the coming year. There is no better way to procure 

 good agricultural reading than by obtaining subscribers tor the 

 Qenesee Farmer. 



1. To every person who sends i 

 our regular terms, (three shillinsTi 

 the Rural Annual for his trouble, 



2. To every person who sends u 

 terms of three shillings each, 01 

 one copy of the Rural Annual. 



3 To every person sending us Twentt-FOCR subscribers, as above, 

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

 or any agricultural worls 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 booli valued at 75 cents, postage paid. 



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

 copy of the Farmer, or, any agricultural boolt valued at i\,postage 

 paid, or, four extra copies of the Farmer. 



6. For Forty-eight, five copies of the Rural Annual and one 

 extra copy of the Farmer, or, any agricultural book valued at $1.25, 

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



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



trS' To save expense to our friends, we pay the postage on all 

 these works, and persons entitled will state 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 until the club is 

 full. 



Premiums for the Greatest Number of Subscribers. 



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 journiil, we make the following liberal offer. Those 

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

 so that we have no blanks. 



1. FlfTY DOLLARS, in Agricultur.al 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. TF,N DOLLARS, in Agricultural Books, to the person who 

 shall send us the third highest list, as above. 



Our object in offering books is to increase their circulation 

 thiou»hoat the country. Those who prefer nursery trees, plants, 

 fcc, can be accommodated ; and if any prefer the money, we will 

 make arrangements accordingly. 



Clulis are not required to be at one post office or sent to one ad- 

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



The Rural Anspal Ai-D HoETicrLTDRAiDiRECTOF.Y.— Wehave 

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

 title. It is devoted to the Orchard, the Vineijard, and the Flower 

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

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

 puUished on the sulijects 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 FOOR DOLLARS we 

 will seud eight 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 peiBon who gets up the club. 



Any person 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 Scientific Farmer's Own Paper. 

 THE GENESEE FA MER, 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 



AGEICULTUEE AND HORTICULTURE, 



ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS OP 



Farm Buildings, Animals, Implements, Fruits, &c. 

 VOLUME XVIL FOR 1856. 



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

 esee Parmer, the publisher (l,atters himself that it is too widely 

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

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

 read the Fanner are the best judges of its value, and those unac- 

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

 say that for the year 1856 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 Brst of January, and will 

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

 will contain about one-third more reading than at present. Each 

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

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

 title page, index, &c., suitable for binding), at the close of the year. 

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



Our Illustrations are NUMEEOcs, appropriate, and expensive, 

 consisting of Farm Buildings, Improved Implements, Domestic 

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



Wc number among our Contributors hundreds of the best prac- 

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

 pages the benefit of their wisdom and experience. No thinking 

 I 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 rural interests of the conn- 

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

 To accomplish this, it has Labored long and faithfully, 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 Year, In Advance. 



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

 at the same rate. 



g;*^ All subscriptions to commence w.th the year, and the en- 

 tire volume supplied to all subscribers. 



jrF" Post-Masters, Farmers, and all friends of improvement 

 arc respectfully solicited to obtain and forward subscriptions. 



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

 or free) at the risk of the Publisher. Address 



JAMES VICK, 



Rochester, New York. 



November, 1855. 



RASPBEEKY AND STRAWBERRY PLANTS, GRAPE 

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PLANTING. 

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CURRANTS- an assortment including. Large BUck English, 

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RHUB ARB-,-Victoria, Downmg's Colossal, Linneus, Gaboon, and 

 a great variety of seedlings. , , „ , c j,. 



STRAWRERRIES-Boston Pine, Early Scarlet, Hovey s Seedlmg, 

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also. 



TO NTIRSERYBEEN 

 K A BUSHELS Canada Plum Stones for 

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sale. Just collected 



