28 INDIANA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 



agree to it. Look how they are renovating some of the 

 worn-out lands of Virginia. When your present exhaust- 

 ing system of farming in Louisiana has ruined the land, 

 and its present occupants, northern farmers will then 

 come and grow rich, where the system of starving the soil 

 has ruined the owners. These are facts, however useless 

 it may be to write them to southerners. But I am glad to 

 see that one planter, the writer of the article under re- 

 view, is in a fair way to be benefited by reading the Agri- 

 culturist; and it is a great pity that many others could 

 not be induced to follow his example in both reading and 

 writing in agricultural papers. 



Re^noving Stains frotn Cloth. — This is one of those 

 plain, concise articles, that all grades of intellect can un- 

 derstand. It is the many such useful articles as this that 

 gives great value to your paper. I like them. 



Yelloivs in Peach Trees. — No doubt the cure is effec- 

 tual. But I wish to know whether it would not also 

 answer to cut them off even with the ground, and then 

 the roots will sprout up and make new trees? 



Management of Honey Bees. — I have only one remark 

 to make upon this article. Mr. Miner condemns bee- 

 houses in toto This is so contrary to old custom that I 

 cannot at once agree to it. My bee-house is simply for 

 the purpose of sheltering the hives from sun and storm, 

 and I have never experienced the difficulties mentioned. 

 But if Mr. Miner's plan of hanging up hives in the open 

 air is best, it certainly is cheapest. But pray, Mr. M., do 

 your hives never warp and crack, and leak water ; and is 

 the sun not too hot without any shade whatever? Let us 

 hear further from you on this point, and in a more seri- 

 ous mood. 



Solving Machine. — For seeding, I prefer Pennock's, for 

 that plants and covers ; but this may do well for spread- 

 ing plaster, &c., which that would not. But this costs too 

 much, and I think it can be simplified and cheapened. 

 Construct the upper roller in the figure so as to serve for 

 the axle, and by being made fast in the hubs of common 



