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THE GEKESEE FARMER. 



" How MANY Subscribers will it take to get one of 

 THE Cash Prizes ?"— We are frequently asked this ques- 

 tion, and in reply would say, our January premiums in J858 

 were taken as follows : A club of 29 took a premium of 

 $5 i 31, $6 ; 33, $7 ; 34, $8 ; 3G, $9 ; 38, $10 ; 40, $11 ; 43, 

 $12; 56, $13; 63, $14; 91, $15; 107, $20. 



The January premiums for 1859 were taken by clubs of 

 2y, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 49, 55, 60, 70, 74, 

 83, 97, 107, 116. 



A club of 23 took one of the April cash premiums for 

 1859. 



This year our January cash prizes were taken by clubs 

 of 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 59, 60, 62, 63, 65, 70, 73, 75, 78, 82, 90, 

 94, 118, 120, 157, and 166. Last year our highest cash 

 prize was $25— we now offer $50. 



Our April cash prizes, this year, were taken by clubs of 

 31, 33, 34, 35, 38, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 56, 57, 58, 60, 

 68, 71, 74, 104, and 124. 



Our cash prizes for the half volume this year were taken 

 by clubs of 18, 20, 22, 28, 31, 32, 34, 38, 49, 50, 56, and 71. 



The names of the parties who take the prizes, with their 

 address, are published. There is no deception about it. 

 We 'pay the prizes in full, in casli, and feel certain that no 

 young man who has a little leisure,and will take the trouble 

 to speak to his neighbors and get them to subscribe, can 

 fail of obtaining one of the largest of these cash prizes. 

 We do not offer books, or machines, implements, seeds, 

 pianos, Ac, &c., but cash, that all may know exactly what 

 they are working for. Our list of cash prizes for clubs 

 sent in before the 15th of January next, will be found on 

 the last page. We will send specimen copies and show- 

 bills free to all who are willing to form clubs. 



The Rural Annual and Hoeticultural Directoet 

 for 1861. — The Sixth Annual volume of the Rural A/mual 

 and Horticultural Directory is now ready. To those not 

 acquainted with the previous numbers, we would say, that 

 the Rural Annual is a handsome book of 120 pages, pub- 

 lished at the office of the Gmicsee Fanner, and designed to 

 furnish a large amount of valuable and interesting infor- 

 mation in a cheap and permanent form. A new number 

 is prepared each year, containing entirely new matter. 

 Among the contents of the present number may be named 

 treatises on the Farmer's Kitchen Garden, Shade and Or- 

 namental Trees, management of Window Plants, cultiva- 

 tion of Immortelles or Everlasting Flowers, Ornamental 

 Hedges, Sulphur for Mildew on the Grape, designs for 

 Farm Houses, Cottages, Suburban Residence, Barns, &c. ; 

 Ornamental Water Fountains, Construction of Gates, Cal- 

 endar of Operations, Cultivation of Pears, with many other 

 articles of interest and practical value to the Farmer, the 

 Fi'uit Grower, and the Horticulturist. 



It is illustrated with 80 beautiful wood engravings. 



The Rural Antiual and Horticultural Directory for 1861, 

 will be sent, prepaid by mail, on the receipt of 25 cents in 

 postage stamps. Address Joseph Harris, Publisher of 

 the Ge-nest« Farmer, Rochester, N. Y. 



Arthur's Home Magazine. — The prospectus of this well- 

 known and excellent Magazine, for 1861, will be found in 

 cur advertising columns. Those not acquainted with the 

 work, should write for a specimen copy — which the pub- 

 lishers offer to send/r€e to all who wish to subscribe. 



Agricultural Lectures at Yale College. — The Se- 

 cond Agricultural Lecture Course, under the auspices of 

 Yale College, will be held at New Haven, Ct., next Feb- 

 ruary. It will be held in the lecture room of the magnifi- 

 cent new building of the Philosophical Department, and 

 will occupy the whole month. Among the lecturers are 

 Professors J. A. Porter, S. W. Johnson, H. Silliman, and 

 W. H. Brewer ; Drs. Fitch, Comstock, Grant and Gul- 

 liver ; Messrs. M. P. Wilder, P. Barrt, R. G. Pardee, L. 

 F. Allkn, H. F. French, J. S. Gould, Levi Baktlett, L. 

 H. Tucker, C. M. Clay, C. L. Flint, Sajsford Howard, 

 M. C. Weld, D. G. Mitchell, Ambrose Stevens, and 

 Joseph Harris. The lectures will be fully illustrated with 

 diagrams, models, life-size portraits of animals, &c. 



Just as we go to press, a telegram from Prof Portee 

 announces the addition to the above list of lecturers of five 

 new names of gentlemen eminent in their respective de- 

 partments ; also, that the subject of Horse Breaking and 

 Training will be illustrated by living animals. Full par- 

 ticulars can be obtained by addressing Prof. John A. Por- 

 ter, New Haven, Conn. 



Notes from Maine. 



The Weather. — The month of October has been more 

 pleasant than September, giving us many warm and 

 beautiful days for the husbandman to finish his hai-vest- 

 ing and prepare for winter, which with us, may almost be 

 said, to continue for six months. The frosts in September 

 were more injurious than was at first supposed ; much 

 fruit and vegetables were frozen, and frost-bitten so bad- 

 ly as to cause early decay in many orchards situated in 

 sheltered positions, and on low grounds, near water, the 

 fruit was so much injured as to be suitable for nothing 

 but cider. October has been a warm month — the mean 

 being 45.9'' ; extremes, 63° and 29". One of the heaviest 

 thunder storms for the year occurred on the 26th, at 4 and 

 5 P. M., and a heavy shock of an earthquake was felt on 

 the 17th, at 6 A. M. At 2 P. M., of SOth, the thermometer 

 indicated 65*^. NovemiDer began unusually warm, at 2| 

 P. M., of 1st the mercurj- marked 69*^. 



Hungarian Grass. — An experiment with this grass, 

 upon a small scale this season, resulted as follows :— -Near- 

 ly a quart of seed — the products of two heads in 1859 — 

 was sown the 22ud of May, upon a piece of ground, con- 

 taining eight square rods, or one-twentieth of an acre, and 

 harvested the l»th September, producing 300 lbs. of fod- 

 der or hay, from which was threshed 60 quarts of seed, 

 weighing 45 lbs. per bushel, or at the rate of three tons 

 of hay per acre, or about 40 bushels of seed, and two tons of 

 fodder per acre. The ground upon which it was sown 

 was in potatoes the previous year, and the manure applied 

 this year consisted of but one bushel of plaster or gyp- 

 sum. Of its merits or demerits I have nothing at present 

 to say ; I merely give the facts in the case, leaving each 

 one to draw his conclusions. 



Preparing for Winter. — The present warm weather 

 affords a good opportunity to put everything in order for 

 the coming cold winter. Tender shrubs and plants should 

 be carefully attended to, and among the different articles 

 used for this purpose, that which finds the most favor 

 with us, are spj-uce and fir boughs — hundreds of loads are 

 annually sold in this city for boughing gardens and 

 around houses ; and further back, where evergreens 

 abound, shrubs from six to twelve feet in height are cut 

 and disposed around the buildings, and in the gardens 

 and yards ; besides the shelter they give, a little taste in 

 their disposal will cause a pleasing eliect, destined in some 

 degree to cheat winter of its dreariness. 



Stock. — Stock still continues at a low figure consequent 

 upon the high price of hay, which is now selling (loose) 

 in this market at $16 per ton. Good cows are being sold 

 from $10 to $17 apiece, and all young stock still lower;, 

 working oxen command a fair price ; beef brings from $3 

 to $5 per hundred. It is a question whether farmers will 

 profit more by sacrificing their stock, so as to dispose of 

 hay, or keep it until spring, when it will undoubtedly 

 command a high price, beside having tlieii money.— Geo. 

 E. Beackett, Reljast, Me., Nov. 1860. 



