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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NXTMBER. 



Hasty Ilints on Spring Werk 105 



IIow thick sliall wo sow Oals ; Cutting: Potatoes I(l7 



Crops which enrich the 8oil lOS 



Harrowinii Potatoes; Washing Horses' legi 110 



Unripe Corn for Seed ; Wheel vs. Swing Plows 110 



Experiment with Potatoes ; Alpacas in Australia Ill 



Lice on Cattle, Swine and Calves ; Hungarian Grass Ill 



The Best Doctor lor Animals; Breeds of Cattle in England.. .112 



Jatmary Number of the Genesee Farmer 113 



Quarterly Memoranda from "Down East.' . , 11.3 



Improving our Highways; Chinese Sugar Cane 114 



Butter Miikiug; Cure for Murrain in Cattle 114 



6i)ring Man.igcment of Bees 115 



Facilities for growing Cattle at the AVest ; Feeding Horses. . . .115 

 The Great Bustard ; An easy way to cultivate P(.>UtoM 116 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Horticultural Notes for the Month 117 



Transactions of the Mass. Hort. Soc'y for 185S ; Useful Tools. .US 



Strawberries 118 



Currants; Blackberries; Grapes 119 



Apples ; Pears 120 



Cultivation of the Grape, No. 3 121 



Treatment of the Vines the second and third Years 121 



Treatment of the Vines the fourth Year 122 



What Varieties of Grapes to plant 128 



Grading the Grape Vine ; Cucumbers, Melons, &c 124 



Rust on Apples: Impatiens Jerdoniae 125 



Black Waluut Tree 126 



ladies' dkpaetment. 

 Original Domestic Receipts 127 



editor's TABLE. 



Items, Notices, &c 128 



Tlie Farmer's best Friends 128 



Inquiries and Answers 128 



Notices of Books, Pamphlets, &c 130 



REVIEW OF THE MARKETS. 



General Remarks 130 



Market Reports 131 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Web-Harrow; Two-rowed Barley ; Chevalier Barley. 106 



Foiir-rowed Barley ; Howard's Prize Plow 107 



White Lupine ; Spurry 108 



Bird's F()')t Trefoil ; Medicago lupulina; Lucerne; Vetch.... 109 



Potato-Harrow 110 



Ox-Louse ; Swine-Louse ; Calves'-Louse Ill 



Great Bustard 116 



Horlieultural Tool Chest; Bill Hook; Trimming Shears 118 



Pruning Scissors; Border-Knife; Tree-Scraper 118 



Ten figures illustrating Grape Culture 121, 122 



Rust on Apples— three figures ; Impatiens Jerdoniae., 125 



Black Walnut 126 



TRICKS OF horse: DEAI^ERS ! t 



BE TUE LATE 



"FRANK FORRESTER." 



Only 10 cents. Illustrated. Sent free bv mail. Address 

 April— 2t* DINSMORE & CO., 9 Spruce st, New York. 



AGKICULTUEAL IMPLEMENTS— A large assortment, at 

 manufacturer's prices, consisting of Endless Chain Horse- 

 powers and Threshers, E.\cclsi>ir Kan Mill, Hay and Straw Cut- 

 ters, Churns, Cora Shcllers, Seed Sowers, Harrows, Cultivators, 

 load Scrapers, Iron and Wood Beam Plows, &c.. Sec 

 Send for a catalogue. A. LONGETT, 



Marcli, 1S59.— 3t 84 Cliff street. New York. 



ANNA, DIANA, DELAWAEE Grape Vines; 

 REBECCA, LOG.VN, and GOLDEN CLINTON Vines; 

 CONCOP.D, KING and TO KALON Grape Vines. 

 Send a posuige stamp, and get the price list of our 56 sorts of 

 Grape Vines for sale. Vines sent by mail post paid, and larger 

 orders by cxprcis, free. Also, Raspberries, Blackberries, Straw- 

 berries, &.C., &.C. Write to C. P. BISSELL & SALTEli, East 

 Avenue Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. aplt 



APPLE-PIE MELON SEED-9 cU. Package. MAMMOTH 

 PROLIFIC LIMA BEANS, grow only 6 feet high and cov- 

 ered with bunches of 15 to 20 largo pods to the bunch, 9 cts. pack- 

 ago. Also, LARGE CHEESE SQUASH, keeps well, ami for 

 pies, or as a substitute for the Sweet Potato, o.nnnot be excelled ; 

 12 cts. package. Tue tueee fok £5 ere., mailed. 

 Address, C. VAN P.APELYE, 



•pll* Care * Hort. WonUily," Morrisania, N. T. 



LONG ORANGE CARROT SEBD.-Our stock of the abc 

 is sii|jerior to any ever offered. Price $1.00 per lb., or 

 reduced rates in quantities over 5 lbs. 

 ALSO, 



Loxo Red Altringham Carbot, per lb., $1 



WuiTK Sugar Beet, " 



Long Red Mangel Wttrzkl, ** 



Lakge Red Onion, " 1 



Large Yellow do., " 1 



Fine American DuuMnKAD Cabbage, per lb., f 



" " Flat Dutch do. " i 



White Spined Cucu.MBER, " 



Long Scarlet Short-top Radish, " 



Scarlet Turnip do. " 



Round Leaf Spinach, " 



Early Dutch Turnip, " 



White Strap Leaf do., " 



Red-top Strap Leaf do., " 



Improved RuTA Bag A, " 



HrNCARiAN Grass, per bushel 1 



Carpenter's King Philip Corn, (Ears.) per bush., ' 



We have also a limited quantity of the following rare 5 

 &eds : 



AiiiES Doug LASH, per package of 10 seeds, $ 



Abies GRANDis, " " " " 



With thousands of other seeds, for which see our Catalogue 

 J. M. THORBURN & CO., 

 Growers and Importers of Seeds, 



April 1, 1859.- It. 15 John St., New Yor- 



CHORT HORN HERD AT AUCTION.— Having sold 



O farm at Chestnut Ridge, Dutchess county, N. Y., I will 

 tiK sale at auction, my entire Herd of SHORT HORNED C 

 TLE, consisting ol about thirty-five head of superior anir i 

 Among them will be the unrivalled Bull, "Highflyer," 578; I 

 stock sired by him, as well as the •' Earl of Warwick," 465. 

 sale will take place at Dover Plains, on the New York and I 

 lem Railroad, on the lOth day of May next, at 12 o'clock. 



Catalogues of Pedigrees may be had after the 10th da j 

 March, at the offices of the American Agriculturist, New M 

 Country Gentleman, Albanv, Ohio Farmer, Cleveland, B( 

 Cultivator, and of the subscriber. SAMUEL T. TABE | 



Mineola, Queens Co., N. Y. ap 2t 



P. 8. No animals will be disposed of before the sale at auc 



FOR THE FAIili OF 1859. 



BRIGHTON NURSERIES' 



[Established 1837.] 



TB. YALE & CO., Proprietors^ would respectfully solici 

 • attention of the public to their large stock of Fruit an 

 namenlal Trees, which are not excelled in point of beauty oi 

 orous growth. From our long experience in the business, w 

 assured th.at we can supply Trees, Shrubs, Roses, &c., to th< 

 feet satisfaction of all who mav favor us with their orders. Ad 

 April— It* T. B.' YALE & CO., Rochester, N. 



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