THE GENESEE FARMER. 



377 



4 



To Correspondents. — At the close of the year, we 

 esire to express our thanks for the many favors received 

 rom our correspoudents. We regard these communica- 

 ions from practical and experienced farmers and fruit- 

 rowers as the very best portion of rural literature. We 

 lave on hand over a hundred articles from correspondents, 

 nany of which contain valuable information, and which 

 ve have laid aside for future use. We hope our friends 

 ;vill still continue to communicate their experience 

 lirough the pages of the Genesee larvner. 



How Largb a Club will Take a Premiom?" — We 

 am not answer this question. We can only judge from 

 he past. Our January premiums in 1858 were taken as 

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

 »I is, $7; 34, §8; 86, $9 ; 38, $10; 40, $11 ; 43, §12; 56, $13; 

 58, $14; 91, $15; 107, $20. 



The January premiums for 1859 were taken by clubs of 

 29, 30, 81, 82, 88, 34, 86, 87, 38, 39, 40, 49, 55, 60, 70, 

 H, 83, 97, 107, 116. 



A club of 28 took one of the April premiums of this year. 



"Who Can Compete for Premiums ?"— Every one can 

 compete. We have no restrictions. One of our friends 

 asks, "if old subscribers will be counted in?" Certainly. 

 The premiums are not offered for the greatest number of 

 new subscribers ; but for any subscribers, whether old or 

 new, without any restrictions whatever. The subscribers, 

 too, need not all be at one postoffice. We send the 

 papers wherever the members of the club desire. 



TnERB ARE JIany Young Men who could not do better 

 than to act as agents for the Genese-e FarTtier. A few 

 days spent in soliciting subscriptions among the neigh- 

 bors would secure one of our largest Cash Premiums. 

 All that is required is to show them a copy of the paper, 

 and tell them its marvellously low price. 



There is not a town in the United States or Canada 

 where a good list of subscribers could not be obtained 

 for the Genesee Farmer. All that is necessary is for some 

 friend to exhibit a copy of the paper. It is so cheap that 

 every farmer can aflord to take it, even though they 

 subscribe to several other papers. 



«•« 



Correction. — In alluding to Mr. Pinnet's Dwarf Pear 

 oi'chard, in the October number, the printer made us say 

 that Louise Bonne de Jersey trees, seven years from plant- 

 ing produced this season three barrels each ; and that 

 they were held at $6 per barrel. It should be bushels, in 

 both cases. 



OcR January Premiums. — We offer $235 in 21 cash 

 premiums for the twenty-one largest clubs sent us, by the 

 15th of January. A ■very small club will secure one. If 

 not, you are svre of a specific premium. Send on the 

 names as fast as you get them. 



A Large Potatob. — Emory J. Wood, of West Bloom- 

 field, N. Y., raised from one potatoe a bushel of good 

 large potatoes, one of which weighed three pounds and a 

 half. It is of the Jenny Lind variety. 



Missing Numbers. — If any of our subscribers have 

 failed to receive, or have lost any numbers of the Farmer 

 for this year, we will laost cheerfully forward them, gratis. 



Bead what is said of the Genesee Farmer. 



It is filled with deeply interesting, wsefiil, and instruc- 

 tive vaaXi^T.—JRepositary, JVew London, Co'in.n. 



It is a capital paper for farmers. We don't see how they 

 can do without it. — Watchma^y MordicelU, Ky. 



The Genesee Farmer is one of the best agricultural peri- 

 odicals we receive. — Mining Journal, De Quoin, III. 



We think the Genesee Farmw the best and cheapest ag- 

 ricultural paper published. — Tribune, ll&rne.lhville, JV. T. 



The Genesee Fanner is one of the oldest and best agri- 

 cultural periodicals in the covsiitry. — Times, Mootnin^ton, 

 Illinois. 



It is well filled with interesting and nseful reading mat- 

 ter for the farmer and lover of agriculture. — Daily Atriot, 



Madison, III. 



Farmers who want a reliable and instructive paper, cam 

 not do better than to subscribe for the Genesee Farmer. — 

 Fducational Herald, New York. 



The Genesee Farmer is filled with valBable information. 

 It contains the best agricultural articles, and is about the 

 best agricultural monthly published.— iS^'^, Columbia, Fa. 



The Genesee Farmer for August is a capital and season- 

 able number of this old fijvorite. The articles are full of 

 the very marrow of agricultural wisdom and experience. — 

 Eepublican, Faribault, Minn. 



The Genesee Farmer is always welcomed to our desk 

 with a sincere good will. We have been familiar with it 

 for many years, and rejoice at its widely spread popular- 

 ity and its usefulness. — Gazette, Frostbury, Maryland. 



The Genesee Farmer looks as plump as a newly cut sheaf 

 of wheat we saw the other day. It is edited with much 

 ability and practical knowledge, thus producing a publi- 

 cation of intrinsic Y&\\xe.—Star of the JSorth, £loomsburg, 

 I\innsylvania. 



The Genesee Fanner is published at the very low price 

 of fifty cents a year. It is well known to nearly all of our 

 agriculturists, and we can safely recommend it to those 

 who are not acquainted with its merits. — Feoples Advo- 

 cate, Yo-rh, Pa. 



The Genesee Fanner contains nearly everything which 

 the farmer needs to know, being made up of the experi- 

 ence of a large number of the most experienced farmers 

 and fruit-growers in the covinir j.—Narragansett Weekhi, 

 Westerly, B. L *^ 



The Genesee Farmer for this month has been passed in 

 review. It proves a very excellent number of a very ex- 

 cellent journal. We heartily recommend the Farmer as 

 the cheapest and best agricultural paper published. — 



Oiinlian, Independence, Iowa. 



The Genesee Farmer is worth many times its cost, to 

 every farmer's family in the land. It"is emphatically the 

 •'paper for the times," in its information and price. We 

 advise all not acquainted with the Gejiesee Farmer to send 

 for a copy. — Courier, Alt&n, III. 



Our agricultural column this week is exclusively made 

 up from the Genesee Farmer. Any one that owns "a farm, 

 or others that desire useful information, would make a 

 good investment by taking the Farmer. We write from 

 an acquaintance with it of over twenty years standing, 

 — Conner, Netcburgh, N. Y. 



The ancient visage of this time-honored laborer in the 

 harvest field of agriculture, that for the last thirty years 

 has been peering into the sanctum of every new recruit, 

 smiled complacently in upon us a few days ago. It was 

 with no ordinary degree of pleasure we grasped the hand, 

 and made our bow to age and worth. In the early days 

 of our boyhood, we hearJl the first note of his bugle" blast, 

 and caught the first clash of his steel, as the sturdv blows 

 of his " red right arm " fell upon the shield and the breast- 

 plate of ignorance and error. And even now, although 

 having nearly fulfilled the space of time allotted to mor- 

 tals, and having discharged the great ends of his being, 

 his step betrays no terror, his heart no faintness, and his 

 head no folly. May he live long to extend to his co-labor- 

 ers a helping hand in their efibrts to advance the cause of 

 good husbandry. The numbers are replete with orig^inal 

 articles of great interest and value. — Farm, Journal, Rich- 

 mond, Va. 



