THE GENESEE EARMEE. 



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April Premiums. — Our friends should not forget that 

 we offer two hundred and tJiirty-Jive dollars in Cash Pre- 

 miums, to be awarded to the greatest number of subscri- 

 bers sent in by the 15th of April. So far as we have 

 ■heard, very few are competing for these Premiums, and 

 they will undoubtedly be taken by very small clubs.— 

 There is not one of our readers who could not take one 

 of the largest of these premiums. 



Last year we ottered iwenty prizes, amounting to |211 

 These prizes were taken by clubs of 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 

 84, S<3, 43, 46, 53, 54, 55, (15, 70, 73, 74, 95, 123, and 141. 



This year there are twenty-one prizes, amounting to 

 $285. (See last page of this number.) There is yet 

 abundance of time to compete for these Prizes. 



^ome of our agents in distant places think they stand 

 a small chance to take our premiums. This is not the 

 case. There is no section of country where an active 

 friend of the cause might not easily obtain subscribers 

 enough to take the highest prize. Our April premiums 

 last year were taken by persons residing in Michigan, 

 Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Canada West, 

 and Utah Territory. 



The busy season of the farmer and gardener is ap- 

 proaching, and no one should be without an agricul- 

 tural and horticultural paper. We have the testial)uy 

 of many of our readers, that a single hint in some 

 number of the Gene^e^ Farmer is worth more to them 

 than a whole year's subscription. tJnlike a miscella- 

 neous paper, it is convenient to preserve, and is always 

 on hand for reference. If you, kind reader, have any 

 neighbors who do not take a good agricultural paper, 

 teil them that the Genesee Farmer is what they need, and 

 so niarvelously cheap that all can afford to take it. If you 

 wish them, we will send you a few copies for gratuitous 

 distribution. We aim to make the Farmer worthy of your 

 countenance and support — a paper that you will not be 

 iashamed to recommend to your friends. 



Advebtisenents. — We have more advertisements this 

 month than we desire, and ha-ve been obliged to omit 

 several. Still, they are all of interest to our readers. We 

 ri'gidly exclude patent medicines, and all deceptive adver- 

 tisements. There is no better medium of advertising 

 than the Farmer. It has large lists of intelligent readers 

 in every State and Territory, and in the Canadas, Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick. Our friends, in writing for 

 anything advertised in our columns, would oblige us by 

 Baying that they saw the advertisement in the Genesee 



Farmer. 



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A Rare Offer. — Five numbers of the Eural Annual 



and Horticultural Directory have now been published, 



viz: 1S56-7-8-9 and '60. We will send the whole series 



for one dollar, prepaid, by mail to any address. These 



five volumes contain a fund of valuable information on all 



horticultural and agricultural subjects, to be obtained no- 



■ where else for double the money. 



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If any of our agents have not received the Bural An- 

 nual, or extra copies of the Farmer, to which they are 

 entitled, (see list of specific premiums on last page,) we 

 will most cheerfully send them. In the hurry of mailing 

 they may, in some instances, have been forgotten, but we 

 are always desirous to correct them and all other mistakes. 



Additions can be made to clubs at any time, at the 

 club rates. After you have got a club of eight subseri 

 bers, you can send on the names of one or more subscri- 

 bers at 37j cents each. If the members of the club have 

 not had the Bural Annual, they can still have it at 

 the club rates. In other words, we will send you eight 

 copies of the Annual for one dollar. 



The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory 

 FOR 18G0. — Every one interested in the cultivation of the 

 soil — in fruit or ornamental trees, in the garden, orchara 

 or farm — should have a copy of this work. It will bo 

 sent, prepaid, by mail for 25 cents. Address Joseph 

 Harris, Rochester, N. Y. 



We are now printing another large edition of the Riv 



ral Annual and Horticultural Directory for 1860, and can 



supply all orders the day they are received. All our agents 



can have the work for old and new members of their clubs 



at the lowest club rates, or eight copies for one dollar 



(12} cents each.) 



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The press on our columns is still so great that we ar 

 compelled to leave out many valuable communication^ 

 illustrations, inquiries and answers, and much other mat- 

 ter. Our friends must bear with us. We shall find room 



for them by e-and-bye. 



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The Genesee Farmer to England.— In reply to seve- 

 ral inquiries on the subject, we would say that we wili 

 cheerfully send the Genesee Fai-mer to Great Britain, on 

 the receipt of thn subscription price, together with 24 

 cents for the postage. 



The Genesee Farmer and Rural Annual is sent in clubs 



of eight for fifty cents the two ! Those who have not had 



the Rural Annual for 1860, can still avail themselves oi 



this ofl'er. 



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We now stereotype each number of the Genesee Farm/- 



er, and back numbers of this year can always be furnished. 



Inquiries and Answers. 



Large Ears of Corn.— I would like to know from th 

 subscribers to the Genesee Farmer how large corn ears 

 they have grown. Last year I had some ears that weighe'' 

 one" and a half pounds, measuring nine inches in cir 

 cumference. Some had ten, eleven and twelve hundred 

 grains on an ear. I had one ear of corn that had twenty 

 six rows, and fourteen hundred and fifty-seven grains, 

 think this ear hard to beat.— Martin Smith, Hunterdon 

 Co., N. J. 



Bark-Louse— Lawton Blackberry- Pears,— (0. Buch- 

 NEE, Clear Creek, C. W. 



The best remedy for the larlc-lause on your Apple trees 

 is to scrub the trees thoroughly with a stiff brush anc 

 soap-suds in the month of June, when the insects are 

 young ; we would advise you not to make use of tar anj 

 oil for that purpose. 



The seeds of Lawton Blackberry would, probably, no4 

 produce their kind. 



The five following named Fears are among the best, as 

 Summer and Fall varieties, to cultivate on Pear stock 

 Bloodgood, Bartlett, White Doyenne or Virgalieu, Flemish 

 Beauty and Sheldon. 



