THE GENIESEE FARMER. 



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Year Premiums. — Our half-year premiums for 

 itest Bumber of subscribers sent in on or before 

 enth day of October, have been taken as follows : 

 es Hicks, Mead Corners, Pa., $20 for 118 subs, 

 hepard, Kirk's X Roads, Ind., 

 IS Barnes, New Bufl'alo, Mich., 

 'urvin, Carbondale, Pa., 

 '. Seelye, Hudson, Mich., 

 lill, Prairie Depot, Ohio, 



. Hamilton, South Butler, N. Y., 14 

 . Irvine, Greenville, S. C, 

 i. Gregory, Altay, N. Y., 

 *. Owens, Beaver Dam, Ohio, 

 ackclcan, Jr., Ancastei", C. W., 

 3. Humphreville, Mt. Pleasant, 0., 9 

 . Livingston, Davidsville, Pa.,- 

 lakeslie, Galieu, Mich., 

 . Transon, Welhvood, Tenn., 

 lavermale. Canton, HI., 

 artwright, Johnstown, Pa., 



M. S. Beatty, Aurora, N. Y., 

 )iiks, Hurfifville, N. J. 

 . Hill, Berlin Heights, Ohio, 

 lends can draw on us at sight for the amounts, or 



send by mail, or in any other way they may 



7 Large a Club will Take a Premium?" — We 

 answer this question. We can only judge from 



;. Our January premiums in 1858 were taken as 

 A club of 29 took a premium of $5; 31, $6; 



34, |8 ; 36, $9 ; 38, |10 ; 40, $11 ; 43, $12 ; 56, $18 ; 

 91, $15; 107, $20. 



anuary premiums for 1859 were taken by clubs of 



31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 87, 38, 39, 40, 49, 55, 60, 70, 



97, 107, 116. 



b of 23 took one of the April premiums of this year. 



'EoRAL Annual and HoETicnLT[jKAL Dikectory 

 0. — We believe this number of the Rural Annual 

 found the best of the series. We have spared no 

 p expense in preparing the matter and illustrating 

 e illustrations, we think, are superior to anything 

 cind ever published in this country. The work is 

 arly ready, and will be sent to any address, pre- 

 7 mail, on the receipt of 25 cents in postage stamps, 

 s Joseph Harris, Rochester, N. Y. 



ORD TO Young Men. — Read our List of Premiums 

 last page, and then ask your neighbors to subscribe 

 Genesee Farmer for 1860, and see if you can not 

 )me of the highest prizes. Our offer to send the 

 ber and December numbers of this year to all who 

 be before tlie 1st of December, makes it an easy 

 I get subscribers noiv. We will gladly send you 

 ills, specimen copies, &c., if you wish them. 



TO DO GOOD AND GET PAID FOR IT. — TcU j'our ncigli- 

 ho do not take the Genesee Farmer that by subscrib- 

 w they can get the November and December num- 

 ■ this year for nothing. Form a club and take one 



largest Cash Premiums. In this way you will do 

 •to us and your neighbors — and get paid for your 



The Friends op the Genesee Farmer should not over- 

 look our offer to send the November and December num- 

 bers of this year, gratis, to all who subscribe before the 

 1st of December (see last page). This is a rare opportu- 

 nity to get new subscribers. Will not our readers, espe- 

 cially in places where we have few subscribers, tell their 

 neighbors of this offer. In clubs of eight, we will send 

 the volume for 1860 and the two numbers of this year 

 (November and December) for 40 cents each. All such 

 subscribers will be counted in for the January premiums. 



A handsomh Grape Vine. — In the cold grapery of 

 Aaron Erickson., Esq., of this city, tliere is a Wilmofs 

 Black Hamburg vine, bearing thirty-two large clusters of 

 grapes, sixteen on each side, and as beautifully and regu- 

 larly arranged as if placed there by the hand of a skillful 

 artist — as indeed they must have been. The vine does 

 not occupy a space more than three feet wide and twenty 

 feet high. It is only four years ./id. The crop from this 

 small vine would weigh from 25 to 30 lbs. 



Inquiries and Answers. 



Buckthorn Hedge. — I have a small lot of Buckthorn 

 plants for a hedge, which I purpose setting out about the 

 middle of November next. I wish to obtain some infor- 

 mation, if practicable, before that time, through your 

 ])aper, in regard to pruning, but more particularly, in 

 regard to pruning them when I set them out. The plants 

 have had one year's growth before the jjrescnt, and have 

 attained an average height of 2.J to 3 feet, and are still 

 growing rapidly. — Inquirer, Elliot, Me., Sept., 1859. 



Will some of our experienced correspondents answer 

 the above? We have seen some plants set out without 

 any pruning, but it is usual to cut them down to within 

 about six inches of the ground. 



Kohl Rabi. — (A Subscriber, Jackson C. H., Ohio.) 

 This plant is much-used for food in the north of Europe, 

 the bulbs being boiled whole and used iu the same way as 

 turnips. It is an excellent food for all kinds of farm 

 stock, and.iuay be harvebted at the same time and in the 

 same manner as tnrnips. The leaves are also valuable, 

 being very similar to those of cabbage, and make good 

 greens in the early stages of their growth. It will stand 

 drouth well, and can be transplanted like cabbage. 



Root-Cutter. — (B. S.) You can find root-cutters at the 

 agricultural warehouses; but, for the small number of 

 roots you feed, you do not need one. It will not pay. 

 Get a sharp spade, and you can cut them up on a wooden 

 floor or frozen ground easily and expeditiously. 



Small Green House, Ac— Will you or some one of your 

 correspondents give, through the columns of the Genesee 

 Fanner, the best plan for a green house for between 38* 

 and 39" N. latitude, and the dimensions to be not more 

 than ten or twelve feet in width, and sixteen or seventeen 

 feet in length, and to be built at the end of a brick build- 

 ing, so that the green house will front south? I also 

 desire to know what kind of grape, and the manner of 

 planting, best suited for an arbor. — J. R. G., Virginia. 



Cranberry Culture. — What is the best method of cul- 

 tivating cranberries? What kind of marsh is most suita- 

 ble for them — should it be very wet, or not? How should 

 the ground be prepared for the p'lauts ? At what time 

 and how should they be set out? Are wild plants, taken 

 from cranberry marshes, as good for this nurj)ose as those 

 that have been raised by cultivation? Also, I would like 

 to know which will pav best, to grow cranberries or tim- 

 othy grass on sneh land.— S. R. S., Oxford, MitA. 



