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THE GENESEE FAR^fER. 



Not too Late to get Subscribebs.— We would again 

 return our sincere thanks to onr numerous friends who 

 hare consented to act as agents for the Genesee Fanner. 

 Several thousand new sub-cribers to the current half- 

 volume have been already received, and we have still the 

 pleasure of adding forty or fifty new names to our list 

 each day. Our clerks complain that the books are not 

 large enough to hold the names ; but no one need hesitate 

 to send us new subscribers on this account. We will 

 mak' room for them. 



The hurry of farm work is now over, and farmers will 

 have more time to read. If xhere are any in your neigh- 

 borhood who are not provided with an agricultural paper, 

 will not each friend of the Genetee Farmer see if he can 

 not induce them to give it a trial for the current half- 

 volume. We send the half-volume to any address for 25 

 cents in postage stamps; five copies for one dollar; eight 

 copies for $1.50; and, in each case, send a Bural Annual 

 to the person getting up the club. 



It should not be forgotten that we offer twelve Cash 

 Premiums, amounting to nearly one hundred dollars, for 

 ♦he largest number of subscribers to the half volume, sent 

 in previous to Xhn Jifteenth day of October. Any of our 

 readers can easily take one of these premiums. The nu- 

 merous Town and County Agricultural Fairs soon to be 

 held will afford a good opportunity to get subscribers. 

 We shall be happy to send any of our friends a few copies 

 of the Farmer, and hand-bills, for gratuitous distribution 



on these occasions. 



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Sale of Imported aa'd Pure bred Stock. — The Third 

 Annual Sale of Mf. Fred. Wm. Stone's imported and 

 thorough bred stock takes place at Geulph, C. W., on the 

 7th of September. For particulars, see advertisement in 

 '.his number. We need hardly say that Mr. Sto.ve is one of 

 the largest importers and most successful breeders of thor- 

 ough-bred stock on the continent. Those of our friends who 

 have recently asked where Cotswold sheep could be ob- 

 tained, should attend this sale. Mr. Stoxe's Cotswolds are 

 decidedly the best we have seen in this country or in Canada. 



Mr. Sto.ve writes, August 2d, " Yesterday I forwarded 

 by Great Western cars, ten Cotswold rams, five South- 

 Down rams and one improved Leicester ram, with six 

 Cotswold ewes and three South-Down ewes, selected and 

 purchased by a gentleman from New York for Albert 

 Dibble, Esq., of San Francisco, California." We believe 

 this is the second lot of sheep which Mr. S. has sold to go 



to California this year. 



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Sporting on the Prairies. — The Hon. Grantlt F. 

 Berkeley writes us that he intends visiting the United 

 States for the purpose of shaking hands with American 

 sportsmen, and visiting the prairies. He will bring with 

 him some of his hounds and dogs. He expects to arrive 

 in New York about the 3d of September. Mr. B. is a well 

 known confributer to the London Field, and will write an 



account of his travels for that paper. 



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New Rochelle Blackberrt. — We are indebted to 

 Messrs. C. P. Bissell <k Salter, of this city, for a fine 

 dish of Atic HcichelU or Lawton blackberries. This fruit, 

 the present season, has more than sustained its reputa- 

 tion. Where properly cultivated, the crop was immense, 

 and the berries of great size, and whenyulli/ ripe, quite 

 sweet and of good flavor. 



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ExTEAORDL-fART TiBLD OF Wheat. — The Grand 

 Sachein says, Mr. Mahtindale, of Oneida townsliif 

 W., left at that office sixty-five stalks of fail wlna 

 grown from one grain. He got a teacupfull of the se 

 prize wheat at the Provincial fair last year, and planti 

 in his garden in rows seven inches apart, each kei 

 being three inches a',>art in the drills; and from this s; 

 patch he has threshed seven quarts of good seed whaii 

 beside the stalks he sent to that paper. 



Inquiries and Answers. 



FoRCK PcMP.— (W. C. H.) J. M. Ednet, 14/ Chamb^Bi 

 street. New York, manufactures a pump which will pn?*f'''" 

 ably accomplish your object. Those who have u>' 

 speak of it in the highest terms. The New York Aa 

 pendent says "a woman or boy can work it with ru 

 raise water CO feet, and a man can raise it 100 feet all da 

 * * One of these pumps has recently been put in at 

 house in Greenwich, Ct., built by G. D. Hawks, no 

 owned by Robert M. Bruce, of this city, by which a mi 

 is able to force a supply of water up a hill, a distance ( 

 .540 feet, and a perpendicular bight of 97 feet." Sti.d 

 Mr. Ednet for a circular, giving price, Ac. 



Heaves in Horses. — Will some of your manv a> 

 writers inform me through the Farmer, what a\ : l: 

 the heaves, as I hare a fine brood mare that has i. ;,.i 

 dling bad.— Jonathan Wynn. 



We believe it can not be permanently cured ; but alio* - 

 ing the animal to run at grass in summer, cutting up ii 

 hay or straw in winter and giving it mixed with wat< 

 and crushed grain, care in allowing it no dry food, espi 

 cially oats, at any time; nor letting it drink more than 

 pailful of water at any one time; driving the animal st' adil 

 and slowly, will ameliorate this disease, and enable th 

 animal to show but little of it. 



Tents fob Agriccltcral Fairs. — (H. C. Williams, (' 

 W.) Mr. James Field, of this city, has tents of all size 

 suitablefor Agricultural Fairs, which he rents at reason abl 

 rates for the occasion. His tents give general sati.«r.ic:ior 

 He will send a competent man to erect the tents and tak 

 charge of them. See his advertisement in this number. 



Pine Seed. — CN. V., Argo, Lucas county, Iowa.) Th* 

 seed of the Austrian or Black pine may be procured fron 

 J. M. TnoKiJcnN <t Co., 15 John street, New York, wh 

 keep on hand an assortment of the seeds of most ever 

 green trees. , 



Floir Sacks. — (G. R.) You can procure these of al 

 kinds from M. Vanderhoof, 171 West street, New YoA 

 Sec his advertisement in the last number. 



To Prevent Hens from Sitting. — How can hens b« 

 prevented from sitting without cutting iheir heads tM\ 

 Sline will sit on their nests without eggs till they die, aari 

 I have tried mav preventives without success. — C. C. P. 

 Gould, Fon du Lac, Wi*. 



Ducking them in cold water and then shutting them up 

 in a dark box or barrel, might be tried. 



Hernia in Colts, — Hard Milkers. — Will any readei 

 of the Farmer please inform me of the most proper method 

 to treat cases of exomphalos, or umbilical hcmio, in thi 

 colt? Has any cut' Yankee practiced, with enccn'-.iifing 

 success, the operation of dilating with a bougie tli'' fpen- 

 ins: orifice in the cow's teat? — John M. Clark, dirt/tujft, 

 Indiana. 



