THE GENESEE FARMER. 



But little can be done with bees from now till 

 they are put into winter quarters, except to pre- 

 vent their robbing each other's hives, which is ef- 

 fected by letting down hives, if raised, upon the 

 stands, and partially closing the entrances of weak 

 families — not after the robberies commence, but 

 now before the damage is done. When the honey 

 harvest has not been abundant, and where weak 

 families of bees exist, they must be looked to im- 

 mediately, and their passage-ways closed so as to 

 allow but two or three bees to enter at once ; and 

 in some cases of weaker families, but one bee at a 

 time. 



A little attention to this matter now will, per- 

 haps, save the loss of several weak families in every 

 apiary. You need not trouble yourselves at all 

 about the strong families, as they can and will take 

 care of themselves. t. b. mines. 



OUnton, N. Y. 



" Nothing to Do." — The New England Farmer 

 says : " We have for several years known an elderly 

 farmer, whose fields are level and well adapted to 

 the use of the mowing-machine, but who could not. 

 surmount the idea that machinery is a plague on 

 the farm. So at early dawn he has bent over the 

 scythe on his broad acres, until he has acquired a 

 bend in his back that no medicament can cure. 

 This year the pressure was too strong for him. 

 He heard the ' clack ' of machinery all about him, 

 and saw his neighbors clearing their fields at the 

 rate of two acres to his one. He could stand it no 

 longer. A wood-machine was purchased, and 

 proved a good one, and now he may be seen early 

 in the morning under his beautiful trees, feeding 

 the poultry, or slowly following his fine cows as 

 they nibble the sweet grass on the roadside, on 

 their way to pasture. He is in no hurry, not he. 

 He sits twice as long at the breakfast table as he 

 did last year, and thinks the food tastes better than 

 it did then. He rises early, to be sure, and his 

 practiced eye scans every thing, and sees that all 

 is right. The horses are hitched to the machine 

 about nine, and, presto, before twelve there is as 

 much grass down as all hands can take care of. 

 He thinks he can earn more in the time which he 

 has to bestow upon his stock and his care of 'little 

 things,' than he ever did in the mowing field. In- 

 deed, it seems, he savs, as if he had l nothing to 



do.' " 



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Stamping Fruit. — A German journal publishes 

 the following : "At Vienna, for some time past, fruit 

 dealers have sold peaches, pears, apricots, &c, or- 

 namented with armorial bearings, designs, initials 

 and names. The impressions of these things are 

 effected in a very simple manner : A fine fruit is 

 selected at the moment it is beginning to ripen — 

 that is, to take a red color — and paper, in which 

 the designs are neatly cut out, is affixed. After a 

 while the envelop is removed, and the part of the 

 fruit which has been covered, is brilliantly white. 

 By this invention the producers of it may realize 

 large sums." 



FARMERS WANTED IN INDIANA. 



Eds. Genesee Farmer: — "Why don't some of 

 your people who want farms come to this region — 

 Central Western Indiana? The country west of 

 Indianapolis, near the National Road and St. Louis 

 Railroad, is -good, healthy, mild in climate, very 

 finely watered and timbered, and is cheap. It is 

 almost, if not quite, a first-class grass and fruit re- 

 gion. We have most glorious woods, (excuse 

 "glorious" — I am just from the poor timbered 

 Lake country, and I love fine, rich forest trees)— 

 of large beech, oak, sugar-maple, hickory, elm, pop- 

 lar, lynn, black-walnut, ash, haskberry, &c, with 

 almost no bushy under-growth at all. A good pas- 

 ture is made here by simply "deadening" the 

 beech and sugar trees, leaving the timber standing 

 alive for after use. In two or three years you caD 

 fence up a good pasture of the indigenous blue- 

 grass and red-top, and clear up the dry trees as thej 

 fall. Of course, if near the railroad, the wood if 

 chopped and sold instead of being deadened. 



The creeks putting into the Wabash run for long 

 distances through the country, and are fed b] 

 smaller branches of the clearest water, whicl 

 meander through and drain the whole, and spring 

 are plenty. The bottom lands on these streams 

 from ten rods to a mile in width, are warm, ricl 

 and mellow, and of the very finest character. Com 

 aider soil, climate, timber, water, stone, coal (abund 

 ant in Vigo, Clay, Putnam and other counties,) am 

 our land must be a desirable one. We have to fee' 

 stock from the last of November to April first. 



We are a somewhat slow people. Very litth 

 capital was brought by early settlers. Perhap 

 nearly one-third of our people are descended froi 

 emigrants from Kentucky ; over a third from thos 

 from Ohio, and the residue from those of Easter 

 States — from Maryland to Massachusetts. W 

 need more Yankees. There ate a great many farm 

 one-third to one-half improved, that are cleare( 

 fenced, worn out by corn crops for the hog, bush;; 

 briary and foul, with uo sheep on them, that coul 

 be bought at low rates, and would require but ver- 

 little labor to make them beautiful and valuable. 



As to the prices of land, I suppose $25 per acr 

 for choice down to $10 will cover the whole trutl 

 Many farms of 40, 80, 120 and 160 acres and uj 

 ward, may be had at $12 to $20 per acre — somi 

 for $10 — and the terms are generally about on< 

 third cash and the residue on liberal time. 



I am from Maryland, and have beside me an ol 

 friend from Rochester, N. Y., who is gradually leac 

 ing me into fruits, &c. I wish some of your pe< 

 pie who want good, cheap farms, in a mild climati 

 who will grow grass, fruits, sheep and cattle, an 

 exclude the hog — which has been the ruin nearl 

 of this country — would come out here and settli 



J. M. MULLIKIN. 



EeeUville, Putnam County, Ind., Avgust, 1862. 



Pedigree Wheat. — The Irish Farmers' Gazeth 

 speaking of Hallett's Pedigree Wheat, exhibite 

 at the Royal Agricultural Fair, says, "to be caudk 

 we did not think much of it, and the foliage of th 

 live plants exhibited, grown from single seed. 1 

 though they had tillered enormously, was greatl 

 tamaged by rust." This has always been the ot 

 jection to thin seeding — the crop is apt to rust* 



