MOOSE'S Ittf&JtL L T 3SW-YG&EE&. 



3FSB. 5. 



g, almost as iullcxiblc as iron. The .Winy 

 ind afterwards battened 

 i piloted 



The Poor* are of pine, 



and i i' on rollers al 



the lop. The frame* are 



two Inches thick, pal 



The roof is nearly flat on tho top, for fourteen 

 feet, sloping seven each side of the centre— sur- 

 " u d °3 Q l'">*il<>tiiKj Cupola, (figure 6,) aud 



llll(ll . ,,,,1 



brackets, n K | ,', oftha roof u 



covered with Russell's Patent Hoofing, laid upon 

 nuiJi.Lni.., k, well nailed lojoiatosxi^ inches, Tim 



"'"l"' lll,m BM BOOlTOil only bill inches each way, 



» from ttrwdUy, and ftoi 



siluuliou suow cannot accumulate " 





The 

 shingle, laid upon bub hemlock, 



itet pan of ,i* ItBflb, an 



to Rite a greater projection lrwill 



amount of rocflng.and , 



a finished look to (he design, »» tein io flgui 



Tho cave- trough' 



I por- 



bracket. U ,|,1 running down the corner of U 

 ro an additional finish. 



rbj i 



Tho Harn haaa project ioo.M seen i 

 i the clcvatio 

 to the Bo 

 hut pro Ice la Ibe 

 The npproach to 

 ■ ■ 



I 



fool „ 





IK23 



The prelection wall is ubout four 



f i it i i in ii and two fuel thick, 



sloping against tin bank, 



Thearva between thoprotcction 



i wotl and the building I bi idged, 



giving a free circulation of uir to 



i "iiul drawing. 



C entire structure was not for from 



AJJOUT WOOL. CORRECTION. 





heart Uoeeea/ 1 from 

 It makes me say the 

 buck* was one year, ami of the 

 i fight day*, when i Intended to 







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the whole hire, excepting where the bees an 

 tcred. will be a froicn ma*s of ice, and the be 

 all the honey in their immediate vicinity and then 

 die or starvation in the midst of plenty. Many 

 bee-keepers do not examine their hives often, 



•Then the frost u all tbawed 

 the/ tind the bees all dead, plenty of hooey io 

 e their loss to t 

 want of luck. The remedy would be eitbci 

 winter them in rooma or bee-houses sufficiently 

 warm to prevent the moisture from freezing, or t 

 ten lilattOn permit the moisture to escape Dal 

 is ralhcr a difficult matter to ventilate thecomme 

 old- fashioned box hive. There are hives, howeve 

 that can easily be Ventilated, but they have the 

 misfortune to be patented, consequently I am 

 pcimittcd to describe or name them here. I do 



thai this is the cause of your t 

 respondent's want of success, but only suggest 

 that it may be. If lie will state at what season of 

 tho year his losses occur, nud what the coudition 

 of his hives when be first discovers his bees 

 are dead, we can then perhaps give the true cause 

 and tho remedy, for how con a physician prescribe 

 for a sick pntient without knowing the disease, I 

 would here stale lhat I am not in any way inter- 

 ested in patent bec-hiTCS, only as I have purchased 

 the rights for my own individual use, and iTT- L. 

 Irishes to mnkonoj inquiries and will direct a let- 

 will inform him what my experience with them 

 C. C. Wilson. 





Tl c position 1 take istht 



beep "I Small oi medium .i ■,-. , .,i i ■, ,,|.; 



■ ;. mI animal oil, will | Ii i . i., ■■ 



tool "> proportion to tfu wtiyht e/ 



liusrui ,i laigc si/.e, mid currjing n lurge rpiaulily 

 I .uiiinnl till unddiit, and consequently be 

 . iiiiiin.i.iim i<> Hip grower. 

 Tins niK'slion will bear much enlargement and 

 ) Ihcsul'ji'c.i to tlu- 





■ for t 



dig ■: pi 





id. continue to aoll well, though l 

 as sold extremely well of luleyeurs. 

 i to show that manufacturers an 

 i open to Hun "wooden nutmeg" 

 i. I don't know ua this achieve- 



as 1 I 



d and weighed but one fleece be- 

 [ore, and don't doubt butl may bo beaten, I hope 

 I may, for my doolie, m io improve my dock by 

 new cross, as 1 bcfoie Muled. Will uol thosa «l 



line | I attention to tins sol.ji'ct, communieiii 



wiili Hie Uini.M,, and give more light Io thoso who 

 are iu the daik. How much wool will grov 

 hundred weight ol mutton ( A. Y. lUt 



THE APIABY.- WINTERING BEES. 



i x Bi a&i in the Bubal of Not. lath, i 



orticle on the above subject from T. L., of C; 



gus Co., N. Y., asking for information I 



otheis in lipoid to their management. In the 

 i u rso of my experience in bee-keeping, 1 t 



ive found Unit (he ml of wiutel mi; been sueei 

 llv, n hult ii -i.nl de- ute I atom, more losses 



I this 



n ol iheyci 



nily, 



i from all other sources combined, lint I do 

 attribute the eauno of this mortality among 



i to Sudden Utruosjdiei ii" elianm.-., u- does youi 



cspondont T. L. Indeed, 1 consider these 

 :iges of the tern per at uii' of tho atmosplu 

 tor very often bciicticiul to them, If the 

 » T. h. thinks, tho remedy would l>e to proteei 

 n from these sudden changes by wintering 



them iii dark i as oi boa-houses. To describe 



how these houses should he built, mid their mun- 

 ui therein, would OOOupj mora space than 



should be taken op bj tbla arUele, Baml) find 



ill these things fully and ably discussed in the 

 iriitingaol Mi. QootnT, a nrorkwhioh should be 



ii I he 1 1 iumI-. ol eveiv inlelli^i'iit liee-l.ee |,er , I'm in 



hia, aa in all other things, the most intelligent mnu 



1 ll1 IUC I tbO boat. The word ii.ti: in boo-keop- 



ng is the same as luck iu other things— that is, 



iitelliyenee combined with diligence. Tlio re- 



i\t£ Mian wo can proveut a drouth and hinder 

 ;he sua from parobing the earth and scorching 

 jur crops of gruiu and g<a*+, except |.it keeping 

 ■ loaed as much as po&Mble during the 

 early spring mouths, to prevent the chilling of the 

 young brood, and doubling 

 that hove not honey inffiotent to winter them, it 



known that two small m 

 perhaps 12 or la pouuds of honey each, If wintered 

 separately, would be lost, but if both swarms with 

 heir eoulenu be placed in ouo hive they will win- 

 er well. 

 But 1 have said that I do not attribute tho loss 



lure of the atmosphere. W'lut, then, ia the cause 

 low Of l*v» in wiuier? This los* is 



BOoUmealrulj alarming, In the winter of 1955-6 

 ■ M but iti.it hall the beea in laia 



loot, and in thai winter there wen- 



lU'll.l! 



■bout II 



> but 



the than 

 rail) tioni tore to »> above, and du: 



temperature was below tho fn 

 is always n 



good 3 ".' 



ii of bsvs. Tln» i 





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EXPERIMENTS WITH MUCK. 



Eos. Ktii.ti.:— Having nbout two acres of tama- 



c swamp adjoining high, warm, loamy land, aud 



led m;; desirous «f trying the effect of muck upon 



u January, \sr.7, after tramping the snow into 



mud and wider, ami letting it fiecze, I sent iny 



man and te.iin in, and hauled some 150 or 200 loads 



upon an adjoining lot of fourteen aercs, leaving it 



-irimile ( r spreading. It covered 



about one-half the lot. In April i covered the 



other hulf with hani-ynrd manure. The muck be- 



ing wholly pulverized and fine by frost, I sprend 



both and plowed it in. The result wnsngood crop 



of corn, beans and potatoes. It w 



"In. h side of the field was tlio best 



i hard to tell 



ngai 





swamp and took frmu the ditch i horn three to live 

 feet deep) sufficient to cover % of a nine-acre lot, 

 of similar soil, and in like mnnncr as the other lot, 

 finishing out with ham-yard manure. This muck 

 Iny in heaps until tlfS nrel ol June Around the 

 heaps and along Hie tracks where the sleigh ran 

 with the water di ipptng oil", the grass wasadarker 

 greennnd twice llicaiicofiidjoiuiriggniss. I plowed 

 planted, and cultivated beans in the usual way — 

 they complelely covered the ground. The result was 

 another good crop. In this case I gave the muck 

 preference over tho othcr.manure. Tho past full I 

 have plowed a part of tho bean stubble, rnd sowed 

 wheat, which looks well. Being fully satisfied with 

 the experiments of the two previous years, and the 

 double benefit of draining the swamp and fertiliz- 

 ing tho fields, I shall go on doing likewise the 

 present year, lenving the barn-ynrd manure for 

 other fields. The labor of taking direct from the 

 ditch to the field (without drawing to the barn- 

 yard and mixing with other mnnure, then redraw- 

 ing.) being much less than any other method I 

 have seen described, accounts for my sending yoi 

 this sketch. A, Phipps. 



Bogle Barber. N. v., 1869, 



iluviil Spirit of tl)c jprcss. 



imparlance of regu- 



-\qvicultuinl itliocclluim. 



. feeds his stock rcgul.irlv 





To Cot oi 

 slock, o'eorrsapondenr. - 

 the JTom« An»«- mentions two different ways in 



Of bis ucqn.iinlmiccfecdthcircattle. f mo,t P r " eti 



cattle ihei 



portion. After they bare catco Ibcir allowance, 



tbey He quietly duivn, chew their coda in peace, 



to have another feeding. The F di I 

 docs them double the good by being given with 

 regularity i the cattle are healthy, in good order, 

 i ittor than though a different course 

 was followed. Farmer B, 



mutter wluit time in the day— and ■cattera over a 

 little driblet of hay to his cattle. They eat it up, 

 and ii in a half hour be chances to go iuto his barn 

 again, the cattle are standing up, 

 him enter, begin to twist, strati 

 foddering of bay. Farmer II. th 

 hungry, so of course gives Ihem 

 The consequence is, when any on 



floor, if the cattle are lying down— wbir.h i- m Id 



the ease— they instantly jump up and w, 



small portion of hay Io be given tliein. Fodder 



thus put over to cuttle docs them no good ; they 



arc thin aud half starved all the 



said before, i< needs no argument 



riority of a regular mid uniform system of feeding 



stock. Everyday examples like these two are OJ 



more imporlnocc than a whole column of orgu 



i i-iioi 



Tea Mi,, 



<:— " If not self-evident, it is believed that a 

 out number of experiments have been made, 

 iblish the fact, that swine are self-sustaining 

 Is, and that pork is the cheapest meat raised 

 upon a farm. The bog is a woi king animal, and 

 lupplied with sufficient material a for (he fnal 

 months of his life, will produce n sullicieut 

 quantity of the best of manure, to bo equivalent to 

 s value, giving him two months to rest from la- 

 rs, and to grow fat. Oeuciolly nt one year old 

 the best time to kill. A word as to breeding.— 

 is quite common to breed from young sows, say 

 1 pigs, to come in with a litter ot pigs when 01 

 ar old ; a practice to be utterly condemned, mid 

 continued in tliu same family for a lew umei ■. 

 ms of swine, they will be found to dwindle il.m u 

 >m three lo four hundred hogs, to two or three 



hurdrcd. It is i h better to keeji tin -,.« si :n ■■,- 



four years, and even much longet Ibey have 

 been known to have been kept some fifteen years to 

 advantage. The hog is some years, in his natural 

 >, in coming to maturity. It is a fact well 

 vn, at least lo every Irishman from the ould 

 itry, that pjgs from old sows will grow into 

 i some thirty or forty pouuds heavier than 

 e fiotu young ones." 



■ oh,. 



■utly t 



jJmiuirics null 3msuicvs. 



,■ I, ,!■-.., 



p.iltw, 







S., Glenmarr 



Tub WhiU BOffiaB 



crop, but is supposci 

 some of the smaller varieties. We do n 

 any eipei iiucnts that prove this. If th 

 still believe the larger varieties are the r 

 able lor field culture, and iu addition to 

 would recommend the Altringham 





t ooumos 



suctio 



1" 



np will rais 



w 



th 



rtyfttl. 



There 





uco on the le 



el 



le 



so that 





gh 



elevate the 





th 



ty feet. 









TO 





so it only fourtec 













e proi nrcd ii 



to sow eight acres wll 

 Please giro me the prl 

 ll.ll.,Scipio,tf. 1'., Ii 

 Orchard Oram oai 

 we presume, of the seed dealers generally. The 

 price is about $3 per bushel, The seed is very 

 light, only weighing from twelve to fourteen 

 pounds per bushel ; aud ubout two bushels of seed 

 1 the acre. 



null, | 





Ii i. In. 



Tuts inquirj "e frill not undertake to answer i 

 It embraces important question: 

 propriety of growing Timothy to an 

 sandy soil, nnd of sowing Clover an 

 Timothy together, which we leave for our practi 



Ol-lll 



lUll] - 



D B . Smma Co., X. J"— la turning under a 



thai it should wilt somewhat— if plowed in while 

 in a greco state, the decomposition is so rapid as 

 to throw off many of its valuable properties. 

 I ' have experimented » 



tar For IUk 



i Iln- 



i Tiu 



-H. 



ce of the ill effects resulting from 

 ■ shorten the excessively long boofsof young 

 horses. A colt, with unusually lung hoofs, bad in 

 play stepped upon some hard substance, and 

 ikon off the front part of the hoof of one foot 

 the quick. The accident was attended with 

 ue bleeding, uml c.tccsjiive lameness, the poor 

 fellow being unwilling to put bis foot to the ground. 

 Ten minutes' work would have saved the animal 

 much pain, and the owner might have had the 

 profit of three mouths' growth, instead of having 

 it arrested for that period, llut tho occasional 

 breaking off" of a part of the hoof is but a trifle 

 when compared with other mischiefs resulting 

 from the same cause. When the loo is too long 

 the strain on the fetlock-joint is greatly increased, 

 and permanent injury to the suspensory ligament 

 of the foot often follows. Young horses frequently 

 have wind-galls, and other evidences of sprai 

 before they are put to work, and in nincly-ni 

 cases out of a hundred these are where shortening 

 of the toe has been neglected. On some gravelly 

 aud stony land and hard road*, the hoofs will 

 fust enough, as nature evidently intended they 

 should, but if horses are kept on smooth turf their 

 feel must be kepi short by artificial means. 



The Itoyal Agricultural Society has awarded 

 purse to Dr. Laim:, of Jpplepen, lor a paper on (I: 

 Potato, its cultivation, production and disease. - 

 The conclusions at which he arrives are:— "That 

 the disease U of a fungoid nature, increased in vir- 

 ulcncy by atmospheric causes. That all manures 

 arc injurious, saving only lime and salt. That tho 

 earliest potatoes in ripening should he exclusively 

 grown. That earllii ii g n | ne| lent edl v with line earth 

 is the only effectual preventive to the ravages of 

 the disease." In a review of Dr, Lairg's article, 

 ie London Gardener's Chronicle remarks: — 

 These opinions arc much the same as those 

 hich have been rcpealcdly expressed by our- 

 dves, with the exception of recommending lime 

 ad salt as a manure, and trusting to frequent 

 u-lbing up. But we must express our entire dis- 



"c a large numb 

 ■in i;i on (cations on Ale for pviblk olio 

 ill appear ns aoon as possible— i 

 I, important and »eaaousblc hovii 



them publicity. ' 



■ 

 ■ ould by no mci 

 ■'ample room nnd verge enough" to gne in lull 

 oi deferred, n 

 please noto and accept this explanation, withe 

 tbanka tor tbeii raluablc favors. 



A fin Paoposas toP i 



<— Finnan Fisu, a member of Aeaetnblj >' < 



.' i i I. ity, has in' i it 



tixtt body a bill '* lo require growers nnd sellers 



i Ii Hie li.ilin.' 

 .. "ii:hl," A 



under a penalty of fine o 



■ 00 VYO bale liol yd heen tl.e ileli 



i, . ;. . 

 . . ■ i . bo ftnocosaityfbraomalawon thiaai 

 Joct, but, wo think it would bo hotter to hare I 

 regulated by tho Iowa ol trodi Ouraoe 



hope, before ton - n il 

 in their enterprise, and give 

 best that the world affords. 



— Hut tins is a delicate ma 

 law-mskers must bo careful, 



i the pu 





si. Intel. 



n Hi-., 



I (: in l.i th) n 



ted. Carry out such n law nnd our seedsmen would 



all bo in prison In Leei kjeai 



seeds mix very readily . indeed nuihiuc hut the 

 greatest care will prevent mixture, ami this erne, 

 our secd-gioweis lime not learned to CJ 

 will they learn it iu u day. [Joy at any of our 

 aeedatorw, pnekages labelled Long QntH Oucvm* 

 bsr, nnd not one seed in a thousand » ill prove t,ue. 

 amc may be said of all our winter squashes. 

 Scarcely a pure specimen can bo found at (hesccd- 

 i or else whore. This ov il wo hope to sec conce- 

 nt greatly doubt whether it can be by law. 

 I . In-. : |...ilnTi ol oui seed n imported from 



Europe. These are not always p , nnd v. ould it 



just to bold our seedsmen ii'sjioii.tible. t.n l!,o 

 italics or frmnls of luteign dealers? Much of tho 

 seed, too, sold in this State la put up in other 

 jites, and we know not how u law could be luiiued 

 reach this eaie. We shall discuss the question 

 ore nt length in a future number. 



Italian- BUCKWDJMT — Italia;* Bloom Git ass. 



CmtralB Uioswlbat— Uknuy Ghat, of Avocn, 



Steuben county, presented us with a quantity of 



llin lil.e of ulneli ue liuu' hetme ni'eneil 



lioniiblleK nl sources, under all of the above tutmes. 



Tins seed, in iippeurmiee. snnien ImL resembles tho 

 the lltnujarian G'raM seed, though mure nearly the 

 Canary mud, Mr, O. sowod the seed on two acres 

 lust spring, and the yield was over seven tuns. It 





DfCW 



the ■ 



a tho lower port 





ful in tbe same 

 fly, and tbe whf 

 paratus conaiab 

 small wbccl-bai 



Btro.v aba Turnip m y . 



Wiudall, of Adermaston, England, has 



nt a patent for destroying tbe turnip tly and 



ious to crops, and it may be u»c- 



aoner for destroying tbccottoD 



midge in our country. The op- 



w, the tire being operated by a 

 olviog fan blast, through a Strep from o pulley 

 the Wheel Shaft, On Ibe top of the furnace is a 

 >e chimney bent downwards and capable of befog 

 a«d in ant direction. BnJphm i 

 all pieces, from time to time, on tbe fire, and the 

 blast directs the gases thus generated through the 

 tube among the plants on which the 

 i Ins appears to be a use- 

 0," remarks the Seimlijit Amtritan, 

 it expensive or difficult for any fanner 



the product would be at least one hundred bushels 

 d to tho ncre. Horses and caltlc are very 

 fond of it, and cut up both head and stalk. Tho 

 >( ilie head is MUnuthing like 11 room Corn, 

 and tho specimens wo have now before us are 

 four feet in height, the straw thick, tender, 

 short-join ted, sheathed with leaves, of which there 

 eat abundance. The seed weighs CO pounds 

 bushel, and some persons say lhat for pan- 

 cakes it is equal to Uuekwheal. Mr. G. sowed tho 

 od of June, and cut with the reaping machine tho 

 of August. From this account we should say it 

 would bo excellent for fodder. 



elude, grass ami gni 



annual demand. 



EXSTEIIM CuAUTil'QtlB Ao ill C[JLT URAL SOCIBTT. — 



At a meeting of the citireusoflhc towns of Elling- 

 ton nnd vicinity, on the 2-1 th ult., for tho purpose 

 of perfecting an organisation for the promotion of 

 Agricultural Interests in tho lowns of Ellington, 

 I'ulund, Gerry. Charlotte and Cherry Creek, in the 

 county of Chantamiue, an instructive and interest- 

 ing address was delivered on tho subject of agricul- 

 ture, by WoitTirr Putnam, Esq., which was emi- 

 nently calculated to inspire the furmer with on 

 interest and feeling adverse to that of going to 

 mill— oa did the Dutchman— with a grist m one 

 end of his bag aud a stone in the other. A Consti- 

 tution and Uy-Laws were adopted, and officers 

 cboseu for the term of ono year, as follows :—Prai- 

 dent— NonMAK M. OanpawraB; Vict- Pretidmt — 

 Cary Briggs; S*cret.ary— AlbroS Brown ; Trtamir- 

 it— Allen Bagg, Jr.; Dirtctort^- For tbe town of 

 Ellington, Anson Crosby, Jesse II. Dean ; for Po- 

 land, Elibu Gifford, O. Wait; for Cherry Creek, 

 Nelson Frost, Warren Parsons; for Gerry, Harny 

 Phelps, Levi Terry; for Charlotte, William M. 

 Wagoner, Alonzo Stephens. A vote of thanks was 

 idered lo Mr. PoTNAH, for bis very excellent 

 Iross.- Aldro S. Baoww, oWf, Ellington, N. Y. 



Bemmna Co. Ao- Societt.— The Annual 1 

 ig of this Society was held at Watkins, Jan. 

 t which there was a large; 

 revious meeting, and tho utmost g 

 iterant prerailed, The election of 

 d as follows:— 1'ruidmt — Qnti.x 

 Stcrttary—S. W. Beckett, Caths 

 . 7rantnran JThni Bn as. W 

 ice President, one Manager or 

 • uvc Commits {rom f 1 " 

 comprises a board of tbr 



Koa Co Ao Sociftt — Officers for 1969.— 

 President — Ali 



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