THE GENESEE FAEMEE. 84T 



The present harvest ha3 shown me the necessity of getting a harvesting machine for cutting my 

 wheat next season. My wheat was the first sowing this season, consequently shorter ; but Mr. 

 Hardy, a neighbor, has a crop averaging six and seven feet high, very thick, and heavy headed. It 

 is supposed it will yield sixty bushels to the acre, and he says it is almost impossible to cut it with 

 a cradle. If you will send me a description of the best header and its weight, the cost, and cost of 

 transportation from your place or any eastern se.nport to Scotsburgh or Portland, Oregon, I will lay 

 your paper before the citizens of Douglass county, and get all the subscribers I can to it. Please 

 let me know the weight and expense of getting a wheat-drill here. 



We have a pleasant, healthy country, and crops look remarkably well. I killed a steer a year 

 old last March that weighed over five hundred pounds, and sold it for one himdred dollars at 

 eighteen and twenty cents per pound. 



The best time for sowing winter wheat is the last of April and first of May. It grows some in 

 the spring, and does not stalk ; it remains without stems until fall rains commence — then it grows 

 all winter, and is harvested the last of May or first of June, although wheat can be sown every 

 day of the year and produce a crop. The best way of manuring land is by making boards out of 

 cedar timber, it being very light, inclosing the land, rearing stock, and turning them off the prairie 

 on to the land in summer and fall at night, and turning them out in the morning to graze through 

 the day. I have often heard it remarked here by men who were in the habit of stall-feeding cattle 

 in the States, that they never were able to produce by feeding, currying, and rubbing, so fine, fat^ 

 slick-coated, f oft-haired cattle, as are produced here by Nature, or Nature's food, without the 

 assistant hand of man. Alfred B. Collver. — Winchester, Douglass county, Oregon. 



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To KEEP "Worms out of Bee Hives. — In the July number of the Genesee Farmer, on page 224, a 

 correspondent asks for the "best method to keep worms out of common box bee hives." I use that 

 kinji of hive, and no other. I set them on small round stones, one under each corner of the hive, 

 from one-half to one inch in diameter. This gives the bees room, and they will drive off the miliars, 

 which lay their e2;gs in small crevices. I have never been troubled with them since I adopted this 

 method. Richard Willet. — Cambria, iV. Y. 



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Culture of Bees. — I have long wished to see the culture of bees carried on in a more economical 

 manner than is common in many parts of this country. I have heard something and read a little 

 about a non-swarming bee hive being used in some places ; I have also seen a diagram of one, but 

 no explanation was given of it. I have long considered it a cruel and inhuman practice, after the 

 harmless, industrious little insects have labored so diligently all the season, apd prepared a good 

 and ample supply of food against the day of want, that their town should be beseiged, themselves 

 murdered, and their store-houses plundered, to satisfy the lustful appetites of men. 



Now, since it is a well known fact that a prosperous swarm of bees will in one season accumulate 

 far more food than they require for the winter, can not an edifice be constructed so as to preserve 

 the lives of the bees, and also to supply their proprietor with plenty of honey ? I have no doubt 

 but that the project has been tested, but whether it has proved satisfactory or not I have not yet 

 been able to learn, as it has not, to my knowledge, been tried in this section of the country. 



Will you, or any of your readers, please to furnish me with the desired information through the 

 medium of the Farmer, whether such a building can be made as will be profitable to farmers who 

 keep from five to twelve or fifteen hives of bees? and, if practicable, give a draft and description 

 of it. I think thie information will not only interest myself but a good portion of the farming 

 community. A Reader. — Romney, N. T. 



Emigration of Irish Laborers. — The Mark Lane Express observes : " The great bulk of our emi- 

 grants still go to America, where the opening up of her boundless regions by railroads — the growth 

 of large cities afi'ording a sure market for produce — and the progress of the arts and sciences gen- 

 erally, confer upon the new settler many advantages which previously were not enjoyed. The 

 hardships which were once experienced are no longer heard of in the New World ; so that coloniza- 

 tion has at length become, as it were, civilized. Indeed, such is the degree of progress, that our 

 transatlantic cousins are entering into competition with us, at our annual meetings, with their reap- 

 ing machines, churns, <fee., and bidding fair to leave us in the distance t" 



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