fork, being heavier and stronger, and put to 

 severer work. A machine has recently been in- 

 vented in England for digging, which operates 

 something like a clod-erusher, and is driven by 

 horses, which is said to be a valuable improve- 

 ment. 



Please give us some informatien in regard to clover hul- 

 lers. As clover is becoming more extensively grown, it is 

 imporlant that we have a better machine in this comitry. 

 With the one that we now have (Mansfield's patent), if we 

 thresh fast, say 80 bushels per day, it cuts the seed badly. If 

 there is a better one in your State, we would like to hear of 

 it in the next number of your excellent paper. I have a 

 quantity of barnyard manure in heaps, quite fine, intended 

 for spring crops. "but on account of wet could aot get it out. 

 Now, to use it for a wheat crop on sandy land, which we 

 plow but once, and turn under clover, would you spread 

 the manure and plow it under, or plow first and then spread 

 the manure and harrow it in ? Eabton.— Ziwa, ilich. 



Spread and plow in manure on sandy land, 

 rather than plow first and harrow it in. 



In regard to the best mill for grinding clover 

 chaff from the seed, we cannot speak with con>- 

 fidence, and desire information from some of our 

 numerous readers who are familiar with the sub- 

 ject. 



What is the best method of constructing bee hives, so as 

 to keep out the worms 1 What is the best mode of keeping 

 them out of all kinds of common box hives ? and what is 

 the best mode of eradicating the evil when it already 

 exists? J. MisuLKB. — Jifogadore, Swrmyiit C'7., Ohio. 



Hundreds, perhaps thousands, have taxed their 

 wits to attain the objects indicated in the above 

 questions ; and who among the whole has best 

 succeeded, we can not say. Can not some reader 

 aid us, and all bee keepers, by throwing light on 



this subject ! 



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I have been wishing to see a treatise on the best known 

 treatment of sorrel. It is a crop of a good deal of impor- 

 tance with us, and yet I have heard but little said about it. 

 Some imagine that v/here it grows there is a sourness in the 

 land, which, if corrected with lime or a^ies, it will stop 

 growing. Will those "who can throw light on this subject, 

 and like to see our country improving, impart their knowl- 

 edge to your columns ? 



I have heard it said that there are saws sold in Rochester 

 for horses to saw wood in the log with; I would like to 

 know if it is so, and also the thickness and general plan of 

 the saw. Stove wood, stave-bolts, heading, and shingles, 

 in my opinion, should be saiced in ihf log^ If you ask in 

 what way, I answer, by horse-power is a good way, and it 

 is easily connected with a threshing power. Once get a 

 crank on the belt-wheel of the power by a strip of wood 

 each side of the wheel, and a bolt through them for a crank : 

 or otherwise, a i)itnian on the crank,' and the other end 

 swinging a penduhim, and another pitman from the pi-ndu- 

 lum lo the saw. Tlie saw may be a croiis-cut, straiiu'd like 

 a biu-k ; or, wliat is better, a hand-saw large enough for 

 horses. One or two horses can saw from six to ten cords of 

 stove wood in a day. I have s:nvcd a cord of hard maple 

 by sheep-power and one man assisting to split it, in less 

 than two hours. If you wish tlu^ wood about two inches 

 square, turn the block on end and slab and plank it two 

 inches thick across the log; then string it along on a rail, 

 and you can finish the splitting in short order, and it lies 

 in a good position to ))ile or load up for market. 1 have 

 sold considerable for one-fourth more than card wood cut 

 for the stove. Almost any wood 'can be sjjlit, if sawed into 

 logs only 15 or 18 inches long. 



1 would like to see some further ob.servution on cutting 

 •wood by horse power, as 1 have no experience either in 

 making or using. 



I have used a good sheep-powor with one or two sheep 



weighing fnmi IW) to ISO pounds, and there is no room for 



" N complaint but wliut it pays well for the small expense, »nd 



if I did not -vrish to saw considerable for other folks, would 

 be contented with it for years to come as I have for five 

 years back. 



I wish some one would tell us how to build a milk-room, 

 so that it would be sufficiently cool -and dry to get the best 

 cream. The making of a large quantity of butter from a 

 given number of cows, I imagine, is understood by but few 

 and practiced by less. N. N. 



Eats. — I am troubled in no small degree with what some 

 call the dock or wharf rats, and how to get clear of them I 

 know not. Various things have been tried, but all seem to 

 fail of clearing them out. If any of your subscribers know 

 of anything that will exterminate them, if they wiU let it be 

 known through the columns of your valuable paper, they 

 will confer a favor on James M. Bkadbttet. — Spuria, 0. 



HORTICULTURAL. 



(C. L.) Skxes of the Aur.\cakia, Deodar, and 

 CnYPTOMEKiA. — The Auracaria has the male flow- 

 ers on one tree and the female on the other. The 

 latter, it is said, does not attain more than one- 

 third the size of the former. The Deodar and 

 Cryptomeria have, we believe, both male and 

 female flowers on the same tree. 



(Rose Bush.) The leaves enclosed appear to 

 have been injured by some insect, but that may 

 not be the cause of their dropping. You should 

 examine the roots, and see if all is right there. 



(Mrs. W., Moscow.) Names of Plants. — The 

 flowers inclosed are those of the Japan Qiiince 

 {Pyrus Japonica.) 'There are two sorts — the 

 scarlet and blush. It can be propagated by cut- 

 tings of the roots, and by grafting on the com- 

 mon Quince 'or on the Apple. 



Flower Seeds. — The supply prepared by Mr. 

 YiCK, the publisher, was very large, yet not large 

 enough to meet all the demands. Several appli- 

 cations, we are sorry to say, have to lie over, as 

 seeds could not be pui'chased here to supply them. 



Grapes. — I beg to say that I lately read in a Provincial 

 newspaper an extract from a late number of ITnrpj/'n Mag- 

 azinj', an account of a new seedling grape, said to be fully 

 equal to the IsabMa, and ripens at least one month earlier. 

 Can you inform me, through the' Fiinnei; whether this 

 species of grape has been propagated to any extent, or 

 where I .can procure one or more of the vines V (1) 



Also, pli'ase to say whether the Diana grape ripens nmch 

 earlier than the Catawba, and whether it is a hartly 

 grape V (2) J. K. — Ca-van, 0. W. 



(1) We are not aware of its being propagated 

 to any extent. Messrs. Hovey & Co. can proba- 

 bly give the information. 



(2) The Diana is quite hardy, and ripens ten 

 days or a fortnight sooner than the Catawba, 

 under the same circumstances. 



CATKnrii,i.ARS.— En rout to California I noticed, through 

 most of the road, that our conunou caterpillars (web") were 

 found on the (^lerrv (Choke) and I'luni trees. In this 

 country tlm wild Cherry is always flill of them. On the 

 plains, other trees never, or very seldom, held a web. Po 

 the Plum and Clierrv produce them, or are they only more 

 attractive? J. W. OohK.—rntlrMon, Iiuf. 



TIloy do uot produce them, but are more at- 

 tractive as food. 



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