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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Life Illdstrated. — A 



FIRST-CLASS 



pictorial weekly, circulates East, West, Xorih, and South. Adap- 

 ted to the interests of all — to the farmer, planter, merchant, in- 

 ventor, artisan, mechanic lo schools, the learned professions, law, 

 medicine, and divinity. $2 a vear. 

 Feb'y— 2t FOWLEK AND WKLLS, New York. 



BLOOMINGTON NURSERY, ILL.-Eiahty acres. Fruit 

 and Ornamental '1 recs. liooi Gratis, llijUOO, $50. Wilson's 

 Alhany Strawberry, 1;00U, .$10. ifec, &c. /Seen iheio List. 

 March, 1.^60.— :3t* F. K. PHCENIX. 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Some Hints on Spring Work 



Surface Manuring 



Mole Drain-" -. 



AnLiury, or Club-fool, in Turnips. Cabbages, etc 



Draugiil-Bars or WhifHetrees. Large I'jg 



Spirit <pf the .Agricultural Press 



Breeding and liearing Farm Stock 



The Kauonale of Ciiewing the Cud in Uuminating Animals.. 

 Kotes on the Dec. and .fan. numbers of the Genesee Farmer. 



Best Food for Laying Fowls 



Maxims 



English Bacon. Curing Beef for Drying 



GENESEE FARMER PRIZE ESSAYS. 



On Buildings Suitable to a Large and Small Farm 82 



Large or Small Farms — Which arc the Most Profitable 84 



Suwing Timothy or Herds-grass 84 



Tlie Best Mode of Raising Carrots, etc 85 



How Deep should we Plow. Trees for a Country Cemetery.. 86 

 Cultivation of Flowers 87 



The Potato Convention 88 



HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 



Transactions of the Massachusetts Hort. Society for 1S59 S9 



Transplanting Wliite Cedars from the bwamp 9u 



How to Make Extra Branches Grow on Pear Trees 90 



Color of Houses — Winter Aspect 90 



The Hawthorn. Gen. Valley Hort. Society 91 



liecipes for Preventing llabbltsfrom Barking Trees 91 



Onions and How to Kaise them. Tompkins Co. King Api)le. 92 



LADIES DEPARTMENT. 



Bedroom Decoration. Making Butter in Winter. 

 Original Domestic Keceipla 



EDITOR S TABLE. 



Kotes on the Weather 94 



New York Ssaie Agricultural Society. Patent-OflSce Seeds.!.' 94 



Items, Notices, &c 95 



Inquiries and Answers '95 go 



Notices of Books, Pamphlets, »fec '.'.'. . . .' 96 



REVIEW OP THE MARKETS. 



General Remarks 97 



Market Reports .'.7 97* gg 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



An English Mole-draining machine 75 



Turnip affected with Anbury !!!!.'!!'. 76 



Draught-bars !!'.!.'!!!.'*..' 70 



The Potato Convention .'.'!!..!'.." 83 



Cut-leaved Hawthorn '.!!'.'.!!*.! 91 



Seed Onion '.'.'.'.'.'.'. 92 



THE GEIVE8EE FARMER, 



A MONTJILY JOUENAL OP 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, 



B PUBLISHED AT KOCHESTEB, N. Y., 



By JOSKPH HARRIS. 



It is the cheapest agricultural paper in the world, and has attaiied 

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Terms — Invariably in advasc«— Fifty Cents a Tear; 

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 Address JOSKPH HARRIS, 



Publisher and Proprietor, Rochester, N. T. 



GENESEE FARMER 



r oi^ I860, 



Thb terms of the GE.vtsEK Farmkk are: Single Subscribers, 

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 Eight Copies for Three Dollars : and any larger niunber at the 

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In addition to this reduction of one-fourth, we offer the follow- 

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SPECIFIC PREMIUMS. 



1. To every person who sends us Ekjht Subscribers, (at our 

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PrBLISHEK AND PeOPEIETOE, 



February 1, 1860. Eochestee, N. Y. 



BTESXOTYFSS BT JAliE6 LSNNOX. B0CSB9TXB, K. T. 



