THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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New Advertisements this Month, 



ral Apency— William Lyon Maclcenzie, Toronto, C. "W. 



entry made Easy — Jas. Challen & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. 



e Leroy'8 Nurseries, Angers, France — F. A. Bruguicro, 



New York. 



11 Nursery — Charles Moulson, Rochester, N. T. 



pard's General Forwarding and Commission, Horticultural, 



y, and Seed Agency — Wm. P. Sheppard, New York. 



•1 Mercantile College— G. W. Eastman, Rochester, N. T. 



ester and Lake Avenue Nurseries— J. Donnellan & Co., 



•ter, N. Y. 



lO a Year— J. W. Bradley, Philadelphia, Pa. 



ES ON THE WkATHER AND SeaSON FROM AuGUST 15Tn 



PTEMBER ICth, 1859. — The last half of August gave 



• delightful weather. The showers were adequate, 



ngs were dewy, many of the days full of sunshine, 



t star-light nights, and the heat below the average, 



rer}' little hot weather. The mean temperature was 



jeing 2.5" below the average; the average of the 



1 68.0°, or 2" below the mean for twenty-two years. 



assachusetts on the 17th was a white frost in towns 



Boston, but none about us to do the least injury. 



s have occurred in New England and all the North- 



tates in each of the summer months. 



e first half of September has been cooler still, the 



ge being 57", or 7.3° below the mean for twenty-two 



The rain has been but little. Heavy frost occurred 



ichigan on the 7th, and in this vicinity on the 14th 



15th mornings. At Marquette, on Lake Superior, on 



st and 2d, were rain and snow and frost; some snow 



fell in the northern part of this State in the first week 



sptember. Indeed, this has been the coldest first 



of September here in the last twenty-six years. The 



colder was in 183G, when the average was near 59°, 



it two degrees warmer than the present. This low 



lerature is the more striking as we know that the 



n has been above 70° in some years. Weather very 



I'ular. On the 11th, at sea in a storm, the Persia had 



as well as rain, and tempest of west wind. There is 



3oubt that the cold has been uncommon for this part 



he year over a great extent of our country. 



he progress of vegetation has been retarded, and 



ian corn, so much put back by the frosts of June, has 



bred nomewhat, in many places, by thi) frosts of the 



k half of this month. In Michigan, b( th Indian corn 



buckwheat sulfered considerably by the frost of the 



and the same result took place in some localities in 



vicinity, in the cold of the 15th, so that Indian corn 



eing cut vp bt/ the roots and stacked in sm<ill tna^sses, as 



ught to be, to ripen the better. Where the corn has not 



n touched by frost, it may be matured by the expected 



•mth cf the last half of the month. Admitting all the 



whacks, the amount of corn to be harvested will be 



at, and the supply adequate for man and beast. 



'he aurora borcaiis was magnificent on the evening of 



August 28th, and at one to three o'clock on the morning 

 of the 29th. The same was repeated on September Ist, 

 in the evening, and continued on the morning of the 2d. 

 On this day it re-appeared in the ei^ening, and was splen- 

 did next morning, the 3d, and renewed again in the even- 

 ing, when it was magnificent in its various colors of green, 

 white, red and crimson, in its cloud and pillars, and its 

 corona a little south and east of the zenith, and in the 

 wide and rapid corruscations of light upward toward the 

 corona. The whole southern horizon was overspread with 

 it. It extended from regions north of Quebec to the 

 Gulf of Mexico, and the Islands of Bermuda and Cuba, 

 and from the Atlantic to west of the Mississippi. The 

 aurora of August 28th and 29tli appeared in England, and 

 was said to have been unsurpassed in beauty and splendor 

 for many years, if ever; the language also of American 



observers. 



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The Fruit Trade — Prospects. — A considerable quantity 

 of apples and plums have been sent from this city to Can- 

 ada, during the past few weeks. Bartlett pears have also 

 been sent there — dealers paying $10 a barrel for them. 



In this section, the plums are more abundant than they 

 have been for many years. They sell for 75 cents to $2.25 

 per bushel. 



The peach crop this year is a failure in Western New 

 York. The trees are now very thrifty, and look as though 

 we might expect a large crop next year. 



Large Timothy.— A correspondent in Lewis County, 



N. Y., writes that he found a head of timothy in his 



meadow, this season, which measured eleven inches in 



length ; others measured eight and eight and a half inches. 



He asks : " Have any of your con-espondents found any 



better?" 



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The Rural Annual and Horticultural Dirbctort 



FOR 18G0 is now nearly ready. We think it will be found 



the best volume yet issued. We have room for a few 



appropriate advertisements. They should be sent in 



immediately. 



How TO Remit. — Money for the Genesee Farmer may be 

 sent by mail at our risk. You need not "register" your 

 letter. All current bills taken at par. Small sums may 

 be sent in three cent postage stamps. 



Errata. — In my last communication, page 284, Sep- 

 tember number, I think I wrote of the Astrachan apple, 

 " the best early apple." Also, in regard to the Dorcluilm' 

 blackberry, ^'fii-st fruit being small," &c. d. w. l. 



It is thought that the wheat crop in Onondaga county, 

 N. y., will average twenty bushels per acre — the largest 

 ever grown in the county. Mostly Mediterranean, but 

 of excellent quality. 



A gentleman in Erie county informs us that, owing to 

 the drouth and scarcity of grass, cows have been sold in 

 his neighborhood for ?10 each. 



The wool clip in, Michigan this year is estimated at 



three and a half million pounds ; that of Wisconsin at 



one million pounds. 



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The cultivation of tobacco is rapidly extending in this 

 section. The crop this season ia rerj large. 



