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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



New Advertisements this Month. 



The Rural Annual for ISfiO— Joseph Harris, Rochester, N. Y. 

 The Horticulturist— C. M. Saxton, Barker & Co., New York. 

 Hungarian Grape Slips— John Kolber, New York. 

 Descriptive Catalogue — J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York. 

 The Phrenological .'Journal — Fowler and Wells, New York. 

 Family Pictorial — Marie Louise Hankins & Co., New York. 

 Life Illustrated — Fowler and Wells. New York. 

 The Magazine of Horticulture — Hovey & Co., Boston, Mass. 

 Flower Seeds for the Million — J. M. Thorburn & Co., New 

 York. 

 Grape Vines— C. P. Bissell & Salter, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Seeds at Wholesale— J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York. 

 Poultry for Sale — Sherman Smith, Daricn Depot Office, Conn. 

 Important to F.;rmers — Israel Forman, Grafton, Va. 

 Apple Stocks for Sale — Chas. Moulson, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Lithographs and Colored Fruit Plates — Thomas, Wright, Srra- 

 cuse, N. Y. 



The People's Mill— R. L. Howard, Buffalo, N. Y. 

 Cranberry Culture — Paul Chilson, Bellingham, Mass. 



April Cash Prizes. — On the last page of this number 

 will be found our List of Cash Premiums for the greatest 

 number of subscribers sent in between the 15th of Janu- 

 ary and the 15th of April. There are twenty-one prizes, 

 amounting to $235. 



Last year we offered twenty prizes, amounting to $211. 

 These prizes were taken by clubs of 23, 24, 25, 2(5, 29, 30, 

 34, 36, 43, 46, 53, 54, 55, 65, 70, 73, 74, 95, 123, and 141. 



We mention this that our friends may have some idea 

 as to how large a club will take a Premium. 



We keep a careful account of all subscriptions sent in, 

 Mni the Prizes will be awarded to the twenty-one persons 

 who send in the largest lists between the loth of January 

 and the loth of April. 



There is not one of our agents who can not take one of 



the highest of these Prizes. All that is needed is a little 



personal eifort. JVow is the time to commence. 

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Great Success of the Genesee Farmer. — Thanks to 

 our numerous friends who have acted as agents in obtain- 

 ing subscribers, the prospects of the Genesee Farmer were 

 never so bright and flattering as at present. 



We give below the amount received for subscriptions 

 up to the 17th of January in each of the following years : 

 1858. 1S.W. 1860. 



$1,814 01. $2,246 64. $4,009 68. 



In view of these facts, we would desire to express our 

 thanks to our friends for their disinterested efforts in our 

 behalf. It shall be our aim to merit a continuance of 

 their favors. 



We shall spare no expense in making the Farmer wor- 

 thy of their patronage. We can not fully compensate our 

 agents — theirs is a labor of love — but we shall continue 

 to offer Cash Premiums, although so few compete for 

 them that it is rather discouraging. The April Cash 

 Piemiums are larger and more numerous than last year, 

 and we hope our agents and readers generally will com- 

 pete for them. (See last page of this number.) 



Notes on the Weather from December Iotu to Jan- 

 uary 16th and Results. — The first half of December was 

 cold, giving the average heat 25. 1'', or G*^ below the mean 

 of this half for 22 years. 



The last halt had the average 20. 4^', or 5.1" below the 

 mean. The whole month was 22.7'', or 5.5° below the 

 mean. It was the coldest December since 1838, and as 

 cold as that. 



Only in four Decembers in 22 years, viz., in 1850, 1851, 

 1354 and 1856, was the cold down to zero, and only in one 

 of those was it as low as on Dec. 29th, 1859, even 6*^ below. 

 The previous day was very cold, and its average 3<>. 



The warmest December was 34.4", in 1848. 



Good sleighing began on the 9th and continued to the 

 end of the year, on a hard frozen bottom, and a vast 

 amount of business was done. Dec. 81st was a cold day/ 

 only 3" above zero. The cold was wide over the country. 



The mean heat of the year was, at our house, 47.3°, which 

 is the mean also of the 22 preceding years. 



The quantity of water fallen in the year is 31.3 inches, 

 while in 1858 it was 35.9 inches. The average water for 

 the 22 years preceding is 32.19 inches. The water fell 

 very unequally in the months. The following table gives 

 the quantity in each month in 1859, and then the average 

 monthly water for 22 years. 

 Months. Jah^i/. FeVy. March. 

 1S59. I 1.37 I I.o't I 2.49 



Mean. \ 2.05 | 1.98 | 1.93 



Jul I/. August. Sept. Octoher. 

 4.'. 6 I 5.14 I 2.8S I 1.21 

 3.17 I 2.60 I S.29 | 3.19 



Frost occurred in every month in 1859, and was injuri- 

 ous in June ; but the crop^ recovered from it, or the dam- 

 age was less than had been supposed. Crops generally 

 fine and large. Peaches, none over this section, but ap- 

 ples and other fruit most abundant. 



It is hoped the wheat-head midge was destroyed by the 

 frosts of June, as the destructive animal had then ap- 

 peared, but soon disappeared, leaving little evidence of 

 its presence after the frost. Should this prove true, a 

 great blessing attended the frost, which can not be esti- 

 mated by many tens of thousands of dollars in Western 

 New York alone. 



The Weather in Mississippi. — G. W. Gill, of Chula- 

 homa, Marshall Co., Miss., writes us Dec. 24, 1859 : " The 

 winter so fiir has been the coldest we have experienced in 

 this section for many years ; and up to this date, there is 

 no cessation of "freezes" — cabbages all killed — great 

 difficulty to save sweet potatoes, of which we have made 

 an abundant crop. I would be pleased to send you about 

 ten potatoes from my crop as a sample of their growth in 

 the South-west. I sent twenty-two sweet potatoes to Tir- 

 ginia this fall, which weighed seventy pounds. Our cot- 

 ton crop will be a large one — for which we are getting 

 good prices. Corn is scarce, and in demand. Meat is 

 worth from seven to eight cents, and in demand. We 

 have lost "lots of hogs" by cholera." 



A Twenty-five cent Premium to Evrey Subscriber. 

 — Every reader of the Genesee Farmer should have a copy' 

 of the Rural Annual. The price is only twenty five cents. 

 But in clubs of eight we send the Farmer and Annual for 

 fifty cents the two ! In other words, you get the Farmer 

 and Annual, for the price of the Farmer alone. 



