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THE GENESEE FAEMER. 



New Advertisements this Month. 



Burrall's Cora Shellcr— Bnrrall, Snyder & Co., Geneva, N. Y. 



Illinois Lands — Jolin S. Ilayward, llillsboro', 111. 



Cauliflower Seed, &o.— liural Emp. Club, Macedon Centre, N.T. 



Hungarian Grass Seed — " " " " " " 



Virginia Farms— Corneliug Guard, Dowdalle, Ya. 



Apjik'-rie Melon Seed — C. Van Kapalye, Morrisania, N. T. 



Grape Vinos — C. P. BisscU & Salter, liocliesler, N. Y. 



Short Horn Ilerd at auction— Samuel T. Taber, Mineola, N. Y. 



To Farmers & Lumber Dealers— G. W. Fisher, Eochester, N.Y. 



Brighton Nurseries- T. B. Yale & Co., Eochester, N. Y. 



Vegetable Seeds— J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York. 



Horse Powers, &c. — G. Westinghonse & Co., Schenectady, N.Y- 



Tricks of Horse Dealers — Dinsmore & Co., New York. 



Balavia Nurserj' — A. Loomis, Bataria, N. Y. 



Durham Bull for sale- O. S. Cumings, Trenton Falls, N. Y. 



The Sweet Potato— O. S. Murray & Son, Twenty Miles Stand, O. 



Japan Pie-Melon — J. J. Wyche, Henderson, N. 0. 



Local Agents Wanted — E. C. Frost, Havana, N. Y. 



Hardy Native Evergreens — John W. Adams, Portland, Me. 



Prince Albert Potatoes — D. Norton, Jr., Pittstown, N. Y. 



Attorney and Counsellor at Law — John Dorr, Scott«ville, N. Y. 



Poland Potatoes — P. Sutton, Eansom, Pa. 



Hooker's Strawberry — H. E. Hooker & Co., Eochester, N. Y. 



OcK April Pkemiums. — Our friends will recollect that 

 the time for competion for our April Premiums terminates 

 on the L5th of this month. Send in all the names you 

 possibh' can before that date. Many will take prizes who 

 do not expect them. The names of successful competi- 

 tors will be published in the May number, and the mouey 

 immediutel}' paid. (See February number, page 71.) 



Ode M.A.ttKET Reports. — We would call particular at- 

 tention to our Market Reports. They are prepared with 

 great care expressly for the Genesee Fanner, by a gentle- 

 man peculiarly qualified for the task — a gentleman of great 

 intelligence and experience, and who, not being engaged 

 in any business, has no interests to subserve but those of 



Truth and the Agricultural Community. 



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Advertiseme\ts. — Our advertising columns are again 

 crowded this mouth. We desire to advertise everything 

 of interest to farmers and horticulturists, and will admit 

 nothing else. Our space is so limited that we must again 

 request our friends to make their advertisements as brief 



at posiibU. 



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The Rural Ax.vcal. — We have already printed two 

 editions of the liural Annual and ITorticulural I}irectory 

 for 1859. We are entirely out, and there has been a few 

 days delay in supplying orders, but we are working off 

 another edition, and all orders will now be promptly (illed. 

 The work is sent by mail, prepaid, to any address, on re- 

 ceipt of 25 cents in postage stamps. 



Any of our agents who have got up a club of eight sub- 

 Bcribers for the Genesee Farmer, can have eight copies of 

 the Rural Annual for $1, sent prepaid by mail to any 

 address. The subscribers need not all be at one post 

 ofOce. We send whererer the members of the club desire. 



Acknowledgements. — We are indebted to I 

 Underhill, of Croton Point, N. Y., for samples 

 Isabella and Catawba grape wine. Also to Jam 

 Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass., for a couple of t 

 celebrated Hubbard Squashes. It is undoubtedlj 

 variety we have. Also to Charles H. Oliphant, 

 Salt-Lake City, Utah Territory, for cuttings oi 

 currants, &c. The currants are said to be very 1 

 of good quality. They are grown from seed 

 from the wild currants growing in the canon 

 Rocky Mountains. 



Raising Potatoes Under Straw. — G. G. Sni 



Pike Co., 111., writes us that he has tried the m 



raising potatoes under straw, recommended in th 



Farmer, with great success. In six successive ; 



least crop was 270 bushels per acre, and the gre 



bushels per acre 1 He plants the potatoes in rows 



apart, and one foot in the rows. Then covers th( 



all over with straw six inches deep. This keeps 



cool, and in a warm climate, like Southern lUinoi 



beneficial. 



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Five Hcndred Dollars Premiu.m for the bi 

 IN Massachusetts. — The Massachusetts Society 

 moting Agriculture, offers a premium of $500 foi 

 conducted farm in Massachusetts, of not less 

 acres, taking into consideration the mode of cu 

 farm buildings, breeding, selection, and manage 

 stock. Farms devoted to market gardening are 

 mitted to competition. Those who compete mus 

 entrance fee of §10. 



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The Farmer's best Friends. 



BY A. HOLLOW AT, MT. BKTDGES, 0. W. 



Destroy not the birds; 



They 're the farmer's best firieaas^- 

 For the little they spoil, 



They make ample amends. 



Some fruit they will eat; 



But grudge it them not: 

 For the good that they do 



Should not be forgot. 



They keep down the insects, 



■Whose rapid increase 

 Would injure our harvests 



"nil harvests would cease. 



With their songs they amuse 



Our wearisome hours. 

 And iheir presence enlivens 



The shadiest bowers. 



Then forgive their slight faults; 



They make ample amends; 

 And do not forget 



They 'ro the farmer's best friends. 



Inquiries and Answers. 



Top Dressing for Grass-Land. — (S. M.) An 

 rotted manure or compost will be found benefici 

 have seen coal-ashes, applied in the fall, produce 

 effect — causing the grass to start earlier in the 

 There are some recorded experiments where ui 

 wood ashes have greatly increased the crop of ha} 

 have, however, a tendency to favor the growth 

 and other leguminous plants, rather than timotl 

 best top-dressing is undoubtedly Peruvian guano, 

 lbs. per acre, as early as posHUe. If sown late, d ' 

 weather ensues, it may do little good. 



