THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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New Advertisements this Month. 



"Wood Cuts for Sale— Joseph Harris, Eochester, N. T. 



Honey— G. G. Berry, North Stamford, N. 11. 



Select Strawberries— Frost & Co., Eochester, N. T. 



Eochester and Lake Avenue Nurseries— J. Donellan & Co., 

 Eochester, N. T. 



Cider Press Screws— L. M. Arnold, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. - 



Farms for Sale — Messrs. Wright, Ingersoll, C. W. ^ 



Book Agents — E. G. Storke, Auburn, N. Y. 



New Book on Africa — Ticknor & Field, Boston, Mass. 

 « Cider and Wine Mill — W. O. Hickok, Harrisburgh, Pa. 



$150 per Monib — I. S. Pardee, Binghampton, N. Y. 



Trees for Sale — Jayne & Platman, Benton, Yates Co., N. Y. 



Strawberries — John Wilson, Alban.v, N. Y. 



Strawberries— Wm. E. Prince & Co., Flushing, N. Y. 



Genesee Valley Nurseries — Frost & Co., Eocliester, N. Y. 



Geneva Nursery— W., T. & E. Smith, Geneva, N. Y. 



Trees for ihe Autumn of 1S60— T. C. Maxwell & Bros., Geneva. 

 N. Y. 



Small Fruits— Frost & Co., Eochester, N. Y. 



Sugar Evaporator — Blymyus, Bates & Day, Mansfield, Ohio. 



Apple Gralts— Barnaly, Teas & Shepherd, Raysville, Ind. 



The Austin Shaker Seedliug— Chauneey Miller, Albany, N. Y. 



Air-Pressure Churn Company, New York City. 



Cash Prizes ! Cash Prizes. — We regret to be still obliged 

 to say that our offer of Cash Prizes for clubs to the present 

 half volume of the Genesee Fanner, are attracting little or 

 no attention. This ought not so to be. The prizes are cer- 

 tainly liberal, and are worthy of a little competition. Any 

 young man might secure one of the-largest by a little efibrt. 

 To show about how large — or rather how small — a club 

 will probably be necessary to take one of these cash prizes, 

 we may state that last year a club of 22 subscribers to the 

 half volume took a prize of §1 ; 23 a prize of $2 ; 2-i, $8 ; 

 25, §4; 27, $5; 28, §6 ; 29, $7; 80, $8 ; 32, $9 ; 3G, §10; 

 etc. Are there any of our subscribers who can not take 

 One of these prizes 'i 



The prizes this year are the same as last year, and will, 

 apparently, be taken by very small clubs. 



American Pomological Societt, Sept. 11, ISflO. — Orch- 

 ardists, fruit-growers aud'pomologists, throughout the 

 country, should bear in mind that the 11th day of Sep- 

 tember is the time appointed for the assembling of the 

 American Pomological Society at Philadelphia. Many 

 questions of the highest interest to fruit cultivators will 

 be discussed, and the merits and demerits of a great vari- 

 ety of fruits will be fully brought out ; and we can not but 

 advise a general attendance of all interested in these mat- 

 ters iu all parts of the Union and Canada. 



Uplaxd Rice. — We are indebted to Mr. D. Dickson, of 

 Oxford, Ga., for some seed of upland rice. Mr. D. says 

 "it grows well on high, dry upland, r.ichorpoor; requires 

 less rain than corn, and will jicld twice as much per acre 

 as corn." It is planted iu Georgia from the first of March 

 till the middle of June, 



Notes on the Weather from JdneIoth to July 16th, 

 1860. — In the last half of June, the weather was very 

 pleasant and uniform — fine for all the crops. The earth 

 was rather dry, even with ihe moderate rains that fell 

 twice, till the 28th, when a powerful rain drenched this 

 section. The water of this rain amounted to 2.8 inches. 

 The rain of the month was S.VS2 inches. 



The average heat of this half was 69.1° — very near the 

 mean for 23 years ; and the mean of the month was 66.3'' 

 — just exceeding the same for 23 years. ,At noon of the 

 25th, the heat was SS**, and the mean of the day TG^* ; and 

 the mean was the same, 76°, for the 2Sth. The last five 

 days were rather warm". 



Fruits and vegetables of the season were abundant. 

 Strawberries, veiy large and delicious, tQ the end of the 

 month. Cherries for the last fortnight excellent, and the 

 trees loaded with them. Black raspberries in market for 

 the last week of the month. Excellent green peas plenty 

 for half a month, and the Marrowfats are following. 



The Horticultural Floral Exhibition, on the 22d, was 

 very fine. The Rose was the belle of the occasion, when 

 several hundred fair sisters decorated the scene. Thus 

 have its varieties multiplied. Many other famed beauties 

 graced the tables. The variety, magnitude, color, and 

 taste of the strawberries, was surprising and joyous. 



Hay has been making in the last week, while winter 

 barley also began to be cut, and some fields of rye and of 

 winter wheat were nearly ready for the reaper. The 

 promise of abundance is rich. 



Severe storms have continued through this half of the 

 month, as in the first half. On the 17th, at Albany, was 

 a heavy storm of thunder, rain and hail at 5 P. M. On 

 the 18th was another storm in much of Dutchess Co. On 

 the 19th, great wind, hail and rain, at Groverville, Herki- 

 mer Co. At Hartford, Ct., a great rain, four inches in 

 two hours, on the 20th, from 10 to 12. On the, 29th, great 

 gale and rain at Brooklyn, Long Island, doing much dam- 

 age ; also severe storm at Boston, as well as at Brighton 

 and other towns in the vicinity ; also at Springfield, Mass.; 

 and also at Poughkeepsie and its surrounding towns. 



The scale-bug, called by Dr. Fixcii Lecanium acericor- 

 ticis, was on the tender limbs of the soft maple in May, 

 about an eighth of an inch long. In the beginning of 

 June, it began to project its cottony mass of thread from 

 its hinder and upper part, which increased in size to that 

 of a large pea and contained several hundred small eggs, 

 while the bug, lying on, its belly, showed a tortoise-look- 

 ing back of more than a quarter of an inch long. Some- 

 times these cotton balls were so clustered as to cover 

 more than half of the limb on its under part. At the 

 close of July the eggs had began to hatch, and the very 

 small insects, like wood-lice, crawled up the leaves and 

 fastened themselves along the ribs or veins of the leaf, 

 often in one continued line. What is to be the result? 

 The insect is new here, unless seen on one tree last year, 

 in the city. On the hard maple only a few appear. It 

 has been found in one case on the honej'-locust, and in 

 one other on a willow. Some soft maples are nearl^^ cov- 

 ered with them. June has been a very fine month. 



Jul// came in rather cool. Indeed, the first half of it 

 has the mean heat of 65.7'-', which is 4.5° below the mean 

 for 23 years, and is actually half a degree lower than the 

 mean heat of June last. 



