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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



New Advertisements this Month. 



Drawling and tSiibsoil Plow — Aldcn & Co., Auburn, N. Y. 



Trait's raU'iU r^elf-Venlilating Covered Milk-Pans — Arthur, 

 Burnliam, *.■. rrilroy. Pliiladflpliia, I'a. 



MhIoiIc ns — Mason & Ilaiiilin, Koston, Mass. 



A Prictioal Gardener wants a Situation — A. B., Rochester, N.T. 



Lawton HIaekberry Plants— Win, Lawton, New Eochelle N. Y. 



Pure Chester County Pigs — D. Cutts Nye, Lexington, Mass. 



PmiirhUeopsie Small Fruit Nursery — Kdwin Marshall, Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y. 



A f^afe and Profitable Business — E. O. Storke, Auburn, N. Y. 



South Downs — J. C. Taylor, Uolmdel, N. J. 



Excelsior Churn — Alden .t Co., Auburn. N. Y. 



Fancy Flour Sacks, &c.— M. Vanderhoof, N. Y. 



To Uairymeu— A. W. Eaton, Little Falls, N. Y. 



Notes on thr Weather from June 15th to Jult 16Tn. 

 — Tlie lust half of June, as well as the first, had an average 

 heat about three degrees below the mean for the last 

 twenty-two years. The progress of vegetation was re- 

 tarded, or less rapid. The quantity of rain was less than 

 usual also. On the 21st was a heavy storm of lightning, 

 rain, hail and wind in the vicinity of Albany, and on the 

 d»y before in Kansas. Many such occurred over the 

 country. The atmosphere was kept cool. Great fall of 

 temperature followed the thunder storms. At the begin- 

 ning of this half month were two cold days; and the last 

 of the month was cold, following the thunder storms of 

 the hot weather on the '27th to the 29th. The morning of 

 the 80th was 52*, while the heat of the 29th at 12 was 92°. 



July began cold, as a consequence, and we had frost on 

 July 1st; a hot day on the 2d with a terrible gale from 

 the west, with rain more or less, so that frost occurred 

 again on the ith and 5th. In many places oats were 

 injured, and grapes destroyed; in some, wheat was killed, 

 as well as corn, beans, &c., as well as cultivated raspber- 

 ries. The injury, though great, was far less than had 

 been feared. The frost operated with great inequality. 

 The heat of the first half of July has been close to the 

 average. But the rain was very little till the 15th, when 

 the drouth of much severity ceased by the earth receiving 

 rain to the depth of 1.46 inches. 



To the end of June, the flowers, wild and cultivated, 

 were splendid, and the fruits and vegetables of the season, 

 abundant and early. Strawberries in the greatest profu- 

 sion, and cherries, both early and long. 



Barley harvest began in this county on June 27th, while 

 wheat harvest in Southern Illinois and Ohio was far ad- 

 vanced. July 6th wheat harvest began in this vicinitj, 

 and new flour was in market on the 12th. 



On July 2d was the great gale of wind, in which the 

 balloonists, leaving St. Louis at 6.40 P. M. of the 1st, and 

 landing in Henderson, Jefierson county, N. Y., at 2.20 P. M. 

 of the 2d, making the passage of 800 miles in less than 

 twenty hours, or near 40 miles an hour on an average, 

 and more for a part of it; so that they must have been in 

 tugh wind alt the tim*, and in tb« heavier part of it as 



they descended near the earth east of Rochester. The 

 gale of the 2d was a tornado at Mt. Morris at 2 P. M., at 

 10 in the evening at Albany, and down the Hudson and at 

 New York; at 11 P. M. in PittsGeld, Mass., with great 

 rain. Strawberries finished by this gale. 



Mowing has been going on for a fortnight or more, in 

 the crop of timothy, and the mowing of clover began 

 still earlier. 



From over the country comes the glad promise of a 

 bounteous harvest. Let us rejoice and be thankful. 

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The Crops. — It is difficult as yet to arrive at any deft- 

 nite and satisfactory opinion in regard to the yield of the 

 present harvest. The press of the country generally 

 gives glowing accounts, but we fear there is a disposition 

 to exaggerate. In this section, comparatively little wheat 

 has been raised for a few years past. Last year a greater 

 breadth of land was sown to wheat than for two or three 

 years previous, though still not a fifth of the quantity 

 usual before the advent of the midge. The crop of wheat 

 on the land sown is a good average one where it was not 

 injured by the frost. The midge has done little injury, 

 especially to the Mediterranean and other early varieties. 

 Barley is rather a light crop. Oats late, and considerably 

 injured by the drouth. Corn and potatoes look well. Hay 

 very light, and in some sections grasshoppers are very 

 numerous and destructive. On old meadows the grase 

 seems to have been winter-killed, and the crop in some 

 instances is hardly worth cutting. Cherries never were 

 finer or more abundant. Apples and pears generally 

 good. Grapes very promising. Currants in this imme- 

 diate vicinity were nearly destroyed by the saw-fly.— 

 Raspberries suffered much from the drouth. Blackber- 

 ries, where properly cultivated, give promise of an enor- 

 mous yield. Peaches are a failure. We shall have a few 

 plums in spite of the curculio. 



Of the crops in other sections, our correspondents gen- 

 erally speak favorably ; and as they are practical farmers 

 themselves, their accounts may be relied upon. We make 

 a few extracts from letters recently received : 



W. H. McK., Warren county, Ohio, July 6th, says : 



" The wheat harvest is about over, and in Warren 

 county we have been very successful with our wheat. 

 Corn was a good deal cut down by the frost, but is recov- 

 ing. All other crops look well, except fruit, which will 

 be scarce. We had a severe thunder storm a few days 

 ago, which demolished timber and standing grain consid- 

 erably." 



J. L. K., Jefferson county, Ky., July 11th, says : 



" Wheat is a large crop, bright and pretty. Barley and 

 rye full crops generally. Oats better than last year, but 

 still very light. Meadows quite light. I'otatocs and corn 

 are very short, and suffering seriously for the want of 

 rain. Pastures pretty well burnt up." 



J. A. C, McHenry county, HI., July 9th, says: 



"Some of our farmers who imported their seed spring 

 wheat this season from Canada, will have a noble crops 

 while the rest will be short and very thin. Winter wheat 

 was an entire failure; the farmers "plowed up the greater 

 part of it, and sowed spring wheat. Oats nuike but a 

 poor show. Corn is thrifty, but the frost set it back so 

 that there is danger of its yielding to that Old iJun Tuck- 

 erish failing of being 'too iate for supper.' Grass will be 

 an average yield. Fruit is plentiful m some |. laces, but 

 in low damp situations the frost made a pretty clean 

 sweep of the trees. Wool growing here pays better thaa 

 anything else." 



