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MOORE'S RURAL XIW-TORKER: AH AGRICULTURAL AXD FAMILY XEWSPATER. 



SEH. 11. 



on 1 verse. In my opinion, the on]/ advantage 

 derived from the old comb U in saving the eggs 

 and unmatured brood, and the Influence it has 

 the bees io accustoming them to **«*' new home - 



And the -rappo.tfiOT" th** eo B»nch honey 

 time are consumed by the bee* in constructing the 

 comb, tome may belie", bat those who hare bad 

 experience In bee-keeping ana paid attention to 

 I I think will know belter. It is - " 

 known that a new awarm will often fill a hive with 

 comb* and honey to the amount of from fifty 

 seventy pounds, while the parent stock will not 

 hare increased In weight ten pounds, and often 

 lire ponnda. The main reason of this difference 

 in their working la the fact that the old colony 

 have a hive fall of comb and yoaog brood 

 attend to, which occupies a good share of their 

 time, while the new swarm have nothing to C 

 the commencement bat collect materials and 

 struct combs and store them, bat after the firs! 

 weeks they will ot store honey or construct combs 

 as rapidly,— Bad I bave found that transfer 

 stocks operate very similar. If the old combs 

 transferred, it occupies a great share of their ti 

 in attending to them, and the bees very seldom 

 work as well after being transferred with the 

 combs as before, while a stock tbnt' is transferred 

 and hare only a small quantity of brood combs in 

 the top box will work much more industriously 

 than before. 



But if Mr. B. has as much faith in bis soppi 

 lions and theories as he would have others believe, 

 and is as anxlouato Inform the public on practical 

 f.icU as he has been to misinform them by misrep- 

 matting fos.ti, I am ready and willing to test the 

 matter with him, to the satisfaction of all con- 

 cerned, in the following manner, viz: — Be may 

 transfer Into the "Max-able Comb Hite" Ave, ten or 

 fifteen stocks of bee* with thirty or forty poondB 

 of old combs and honey, — the combs shall be not 

 less than four years old, (as he contends old combs 

 are as good as new,)— and I will transfer into the 

 Combination Hive the same number of stocks, of 

 the same age, and quantity of bees — as near e 

 may be, — and transfer only a portion of the ol 

 comb (or such as contains eggs and immature 

 brood) into the lop boxes. I will however reserv 

 the privilege (if I choose to do so) of feeding t 

 each Block In the Combination Hive the warn 

 amount of honey that he transfers Into his. Th 

 hives shall all bo placed io the care of reeponsibli 

 disinterested persons, who shall do justice to a) 

 and at the expiration of six months or one jea 

 they shall report a true statement of facts; and if 

 In their opinion five dollar?, or one half that amount 

 la gained by transferring the old combs into the 

 new hive, then sir. II. shall be entitled to the 

 Combination Hives and their contents; but If, In 

 their opinion, that amount is not gained by trans- 

 ferring the old combs— then the ■' Motabte Comb 

 Hives " and their contents shall be forfeited to me. 



Again, he Is extremely anxious to inform the 

 public of all the good qualities of the "Movable 

 li ■ " and even exaggerates them, and ib 

 jast as anxious to misrepresent and injure the 

 reputation of the " Combination Hiur," In referring 

 to the latter, he says:—" There ia a patent hive in 

 tbji Mo ttoy," ianfl he might with truth sai d, more 

 oy ids .ctj-conceiled vendors" [he might also say, 

 by those using them) "to be/ml the thing needed", 

 so that we can change the combs every year or so' 

 and also Informing the .public that if the combs 

 are not changed every year or two the beeB will 

 become dwarfs." In reply to the foregoing we 

 will etate, for " the benefit of all concerned," that we 

 do not recommend changing the brood combs every 

 year or two, or every third year, merely on account 

 of the cells becoming too small; but there are 

 other reasons why the health and prosperity of a 

 stock of bees is benefited, and frequently a stock 

 saved, by removing the old combs from them. For 

 instance, where the combs have mildewed or beco 



brood. Bat this ire do say .—The blve is last the 

 thing for removing the old combs, or a portion of 

 them, or of the honey stored in the lower part of 

 the hive, jut as often and whenever we think the 

 health and prosperity of the colony and the in- 

 Wrest of the owner requires it, whether it is even 



tm or Only once tnjh* years, and do it, too, wlS 



out exposure to the bees or injury to them. We 

 aUo say ll is '<,«,, ,} u lhing » to accommodate 

 either large or small families of bees with as much 

 or ai little apace as they actually need, at any season 

 of the year. We also state, for the benefit of Mr 

 a, hat we will make him a handsome present if he 

 -*» prove that the said sections, or anything 

 answering 



HOME PICTURE. 



Okcb I bnllt a boose jest to my fancy, and — tail 

 let me describe it to you, and tell you all about it 

 I owned fifteen acres Just about smile from a flour- 

 ishing village lo Western New Tort, and just a 

 convenient distance from the New York and Erie 

 Railroad. My land was very productive, and we " 

 coltivated. I had a great variety of fnuL In m 

 garden were several kinds of strawberries, raspbe: 

 riea, blackberries, grapes and corranta. In th 

 orchard the best of apples, good peaches, pears, 

 plnmF. cherries, and, besides, we had a superior 

 vegeuble garden, and a small spot devoted to flow- 

 ers, and flowering ehrnba in our yard. For shade, 

 we hsd several varieties of oar native forest t 

 maple, mountain ash, basswood, &c 



Beyond my orchard, was a nice pasture for the 

 cow, who yielded as abundance of cream and milk, 

 and Borne hotter. I also kept two good horee; 

 which coold be driven singly or together, as w 

 chose. I had a plain, double carriage, a aingl 

 covered boggy, and a small democrat wagon fo 

 business purposes, or mnddy roads. 



Now for my house. It was built of brick — par 

 of it two stories. It was not very large, butwe ha< 

 plenty of room, and need it all. It was not placed 

 In the road, but back far enough to be oot of the 

 dnat and noise of travel. On the front of the 



had no parlor to keep shut and open it on grand 

 occasions — we used the best room ourselves, 

 friends always found ua there, when we wi 

 home. Tbe sitting-room was well furnished, and 

 made in every respect as pleasant as it well ooul 

 be, adorned with kindly faces, and loving smiles 

 We had a sort of rule, not to carry BOur or gloomy 

 faceB Into tliat room. On one side of this roc 

 and adjoining tbe hall, was a small room where 

 kept a few books, and contained a writing de- 

 table and lounge, pictuies, A.c. Beyond this \ 

 family sleeping-room, large, airy, pleasant. 



1bi»r 



Uitchen,- 



e-pla. 



u. Then there wa 



totthe least important department, by 

 This room was specially arranged for 



e and ease in labor. There was a box 

 made in the wall, half oi it being in the wood 

 house, which could be filled with wood without 

 carrying It by armfuls in the door. Inside there 

 was a cover which could be kept down in cold 

 weather. There was also plenty of water to be 

 had without going out of the room. The cellar 

 door opened ont of the kitchen, as all cellar-doors 

 should, or else in a pantry. 



Why do people pay bo little attention to the 

 arrangements of the kitchen? What most misera- 

 bly contrived houses most people live in, — not for 

 the want of means, bnt from the inconsiderate, 

 thoughtlessness of the builders. We spend the 

 most of our lives in boose?, or women do, and yet 

 how little expense and pains are taken, to make 

 them attractive, and pleasant, and 

 And do we not nil of us live out mor 

 day?, before we begin to think, and compare, and 

 study into the whys and wherefores < 

 and see whether we are living to so 

 paring the f oll measure of enjoyment 



good a purpose, 

 or even after, "Prkl 

 and arranged by p n 

 further stale, "for the 

 we have a claim for t 

 dividers duly tiled on 



and well arranged, , 



."— until devised 



t the 



to have it examined; and whoever 

 without authority will d 





it at 



Mr. B. also considers himself in duty bound to 

 otify the public that the hive U just as good with- 

 ut "(»j Moth TVap." Now, Messrs. Editors, one 

 f two things are certainly true, Mr. B. U either 

 utrtty ignorant of the operations and advantages 

 ' " w Wi Trap," and states that of which be 

 ns of knowing whether his statemenu 

 -*j w false, or, ifheU actuated with them, 

 no knowingly and wilfully misrepresents them, for 

 I am prepared to^r. his statements false by W 

 "tJj who bive wed them. 

 o«™ 1 M< *" a - Edi ' ' bop " ! ■"J <» Phoned for 

 toufd ntt'L" 00 '^" '" "" Rtn " L ' « d ' 

 tronhl. ■ " " ked 1!le ''■"" or taken the 



do ..d kwSSJ'S. "f " "«*** "' Coald """ 



f^S^ZSSTZ I' p,pe " ^ Mpled 



copy this also. ' wU h " e *• Sadness to 



WINTER Bj.BJ.Sr, CrLTTB*. T> wnn __ . 



many read.™ of the R<Wa« °%£' **-T«J 

 conoerning the results of the p»st season' *° T 

 meats with this ramal— *he, -in __ ""P*"' 



house, would you like a picture of its Inhabii 

 My wife wore a rosy, healthful, happy face, and my 

 children loved and trusted us, and each other so 

 that we were all orated, industrious, contented' I 

 always want to have a happy wife and children if 

 any. Why not? I was the head of the household 

 held the means in my own power, and I considered 

 myself responsible for the well being and content- 

 ment of every person and creatare, who, through 

 my influence, Beared my life. In aU my arrange- 

 ments for business or pleasure, I contidered my 

 family first. In the first place, I had taken care 

 to marry a kind, reasonable, eenaible woman aud I 

 knew, well, that to consult her taste and happiness 

 was to aogment my own, and to neglect or forget 

 her, was tho worst policy I could pursue. I found 

 the Btudy of the natures and needs of my wife and 

 children most interesting as well as profitable.— 

 Neither did I neglect to attend faithfully to my 

 business, but I endeavored to do my whole duty, 

 and the consequence is, I am walking down to the 

 grave blessed with affection, respect, and am, I 

 trust, still a nsefol citizen. 



Who else wUl give us a picture of their hemes 

 *ao Hves7 oh.-™. 



THAT "GOOD YIELD OF WHEAT." 



Messrs. Eds,;— I saw a statement in the Rttra 

 of August 21st, relative to a vet 

 crop of Mediterranean wheat, gro 

 of Mr. LaFatettb Pritcoard, of Chil 

 faithless, but resolved to satisfy myself 

 correctness of the story. Accordingly, I 

 on the farm of Mr. P., and had an interview with 

 the gentleman himsself. I had the precaution 

 arm myself with the number of the Eobix 

 question. After a self introduction, I called : 

 attention to the paragraph, asking him if i 

 statement was correct, or an exaggeration. Hia 

 reply was, that in the mai 



the amount of yield per acre, he thought would 

 exceed your atatemenL After allowing for the 

 in harvesting and threshing, he did not 

 doubt a yield of over forty bushels per acre. 



indeed, a most abundant crop, particu- 

 larly when we take into consideration the unpro- 

 ductive variety of the wheat. He informed me 

 ras carefully though liberally measured as 

 from the separator, and I saw that it was 

 unusually clean, and of a superior quality. There 

 twenty-four large, Tery ]ftrge lo8ds _ wheQ , a 

 field, i examined the quality of the 

 principally clay, inter- 

 very level 



midge, I think it is useless to sow any other, ex- 

 cept, perhaps, on some dry sandy soils. If fsrmers 

 in this section would continue to grow these hardy 

 varieties, they may, In the course of a few years. 

 become so acclimated or changed in quality, as to 

 be nearly if not qnlte eq-ial to the whiter varieties 

 formerly raised in this region. a, b. 



i gavel— others 



ieces may yield 

 u expect of 



ROETHERN J1LTJT0IS C0HEESP03DESCE. 



Eds. Bcbal;— You have heard "hard times" 

 ontil it has got to be a worn out story, I soppose, 

 bat it seems the West has cried " wolf, wolf," when 

 it was nothing more than a harmless f jx. Last 

 year our fields waved with golden groin of a luxu- 

 riant growth, onr guners were full and running 

 over, and thongb there seemed to be a dark cloud 

 hangiog over the commercial horizon that sensibly 

 affected the farmer, yet be coold feel a kind of 

 eelf complacency in thinking that at least Provi- 

 dence had smiled upon his efforts and bountifully 

 supplied his Immediate wants. But there is a 

 marked contrast this year. The crops are very 

 poor on the rich prairies of Illinois. 



First, about the wheat crop in thlB Bectioo of the 

 country. A variety known as the "Canada Ciab" 

 haa entirely failed. As it yielded more than any 

 other kind last year, farmers put in a great share 

 of It for tbe crop of the present season, thus 

 proving that the experience of one year will not 

 always be successful the next. Many fields of this 

 variety stand onharvested — t 

 their fields then left It lay in j 

 hive stacked the wheat, but 



more, bnt five bushels is tbe 

 poor shrunk wheat. Another variety, r. 

 introduced, is from Wisconsin. I believe but one 

 piece raised io this town has done well. It has a 

 nice, plump berry, and probably will yield f/om 

 fifteen to twenty bushels per acre. This variety is 

 known as the "Scotch Club." Both of these vari 

 eties are bald. Another kind, known as the "Eh 

 Grande" (bearded) has done well. Many piece: 

 will yield twenty bushels per acre, bat, in compari 

 eon to the amoont sown, there la little of thia- 

 Another sort the "Italian" (also bearded) I hear 

 has done well, but I have not examined It T 

 varieties are all spring wheat. But very little 

 ter wheat is raised on the prairies. Old settlers 

 say that when the prairies first began to be settled 

 winter wheat did well, but about eleven years ago 

 there was an entire failure of the crop, since which 

 time the farmers have not succeeded 

 good crops. In the Barrens, winter wheat does 

 much better, and spring wheat is much better this 

 season than on the prairies. 



Oata, which may be aaid to be one of the prim 

 pie crops of Illinois, are a bad failure— some fields 

 are worth nothing. One of my neighbors threshed 

 ont what he got off of twenty acres and he had 

 twenty five bushels. Some fields are worse than 

 ibis, and some much better, but I assure you the 

 oat crop is a complete failure — worse than the farm- 

 era ever experienced before, and it makes some look 

 blae. They had seen wheat, corn, and potatoes 

 fail, yet the oat crop stood by them like a faithful 





soil, and fo< 



ipersed with muck and gra'veL ft 

 field— rather low. I think, for a winte 

 had been summer- fallowed tbe previous „.«„ 

 I think lightly manured. There have been several 

 very fair crops of this kind of wheat raised in that 

 vicinity. . Mr. Richard Habris of this town had a 

 fine yield of twenty-eight bushels per acre, the past 

 season, of this same variety; though there u a 

 alight mixture of the Blue Stem in it. It do*a cot, 

 however, detract from its quality in the least, but 

 is decidedly an advantage as that variety has a 

 fuller and plumper berry. 



As these grades of wheat are the most hardy, 

 and the least liable to the attack of the weevil or 



good, considering the 

 i unusaally early frost, 

 which many farmers are afraid of. We have already 

 had a rumor of a frost south of us, but I cannot 

 vouch for the truth of It. The potato crop would 

 be tolerable if it were not for the rot which threat 

 ens to injure it badly. Crass seed Is quite a comi 

 mon crop among the fanners here. I believe it is 

 pretty good this year, but brings a low price, twelve 

 shillings per busheL Grass is generally heavy, but 

 as we have had bo much rain it has filled the 

 sloughs full of water so we cannot cot the grass 

 only on the margin. Hay will bring a good price 

 next spring, especially if we have a hard winter 

 which many prophesy from certain indications 

 that they think infallible. 



There is not much rye sown by farmers in this 

 section, but the little sown has done weB. 



Barley ia light where raised, but little sown and 



that mostly in the Barrens. 



The fanners here are almost universally in debt, 



id they expected to pay with the incoming crops' 



but they are doomed to disappoinment. Many have 



In debt to store keepers and the merchants 



tell they must pay. " We are owing," Bay they, 



large debts in New York and yon know these 



New York folks wait neither for time nor Ude— they 



ruined. If you can't 



do any better yon must mortgagey our farm— we 



must bave our poy." Alas, too many mortgaged 



their farms in prosperous times in order to bay 



money that lies deep in the soil. We all see the 

 evil, and would gladly apply the remedy, but we 

 all feel our own weakness in the present crisis, and 

 our only hope Is in the Superintending Providence 

 who does all things well. If mankind would only 

 learn by experience not to place too much depend- 

 ence on the future probability of things, there 

 would be more hope in their case. 



of a covered trench of suitable dimensions, leaving 

 sufficient space for the smoke to pass to the skins. 

 A trench twelve or fifteen feet long is best so as to 

 allow the smoke to pass cook Rouen wood or 

 sawdust is best to smoke with,— smoke well for a 

 day or two, — wash through brain water as before. 

 Repeat the operation o! braining and smoking three 

 times and you will have well dressed leather. To 

 prepare the brains for use, take sheep, beef or hog 

 brains, place them on plates, and roast them grad- 

 ually befoie a fire or in a stove oven till brown- 

 Hack them fine while roasting. They will keep tar 

 a year or two. Io osing, place them In a small 

 bag of thin muslin so they will wash through in the 

 water by rubbing. 



Dhbbdwi Debe Buna n» On.— Grain the skins 

 well,— pat them into a mash of BOur wheat bran; 

 let them remain three or tour days; take them out, 

 wring and let them get about half dry, then put 

 them in oil.— pound well, bulk them, covering from 

 the air till they are done heating, — wash in pearl- 

 ash water,— hang up and let dry and they are done. 

 JOBS P. Liming. 



. r,i« f 



. [BG8, 



Messrs. Eds,:— I see in the Rct.al that A. T. 

 Northbct, of Otego, N. Y., wants a recipe for 

 dressing deer skins according to the Indian, or 

 smoked method. I have one I will send. Soak 

 the skin in cold or warm water until the hair will 

 scrape off, then scrape the hair, and grain, wash In 

 cold water until it Is clean — stretch the skin aud 

 hang it up and smoke it for one day,— take the 

 brains of a deer or bog, or any kind of brains, and 

 mis them in warm water; eoak the skin In the 

 liquor half a day— if a heavy skin all day. If you 

 have not brain?, strong soap suds will do. Rub 

 the skin a considerable time in the liquor. Stretch 

 the skin and rub it until it is dry and soft, then 

 make a bag of it, dig a hole In the ground and make 

 a smoke therein. Place the bag over the hole — 

 tarn bo as to smoke both sides alike. The longer 

 jou smoke the akin the darker it will 

 cobs are good to make the smoke with. 





CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE. 



I I! KM 



: l!r 



N. Y., says that the folio wing prescription is a sure 

 cure for the heaves: — One half ounce each of 

 aloes, asafcetida, flour of lavender, fenyeek, rose- 

 water, silt petre, sursaparillu, spirits of nitre, anUe 

 seed, camphor gum, and three-fourths of an ounce 

 Spanish flies, all put into a jug contain g one quart 

 of alcohol. The quantity to be given is oni 

 spoonful every other morning — give nine tin 



of Cayuga Co., an English 

 a gargling oil made of equal parts of Soap Lini- 

 ment, Oil of Spike and Tincture of Aloes, is supe- 

 rior to anything else for rheumatism, bruises, 

 chilblains and burns in the human subject, and 

 for swecney, inflammation, sprains and Bwellings 

 In horsea or cattle. He arrives at this conclusion 

 after sixty yearB experience. 



Soap Lintmbnt is made thus:— Alcohol 1 pint; 

 clarified soap 3 ozs,; aqua ammonia lo/i, oil ol 

 campnTrr-^flA^- Eropf spirits 2 lbs ; tinctu re ol 

 as alcohol will dissolve— spirits of rosemary I 

 pint. "'- 

 for Be 



Product of a Stair o* Millet.— Seeing noth- 

 ing on the subject of the raising of millet, and 

 fearing from that fact that there was not doe atten- 

 tion paid to its cultivation, I thought that I would 

 give the product of one plant which grew in my 

 garden, and which received no extra culture. The 

 plant was five feet and nine inchea high, with a 

 head eleven Inches long, containing three thousand 

 Bix hundred and ninety-eight good, well-filled 

 seeds, besides many which were not filled. The 

 failure of a portion of the seed filling was owing 

 alk was taken up while green 

 th a Bmall handful of earth 

 ipen. Thia may look like a 

 nevertheless true, by actual 

 Q, Geneva, N. V, 1868. 



to the fact 

 and set in a shop 

 round the roots, t 

 large story, but it 



to«d Hisfrikm). 



Go ro the Faiss'- Now that the season has 



arrived for holding Town. District. County and 

 State Agricultural Fairs, we would Mse \™ 

 friend and promoter of improvemenUn ARrto.i- 

 tore, Horticulture, Manufactures, Art.«, ,\, ,, 

 attend and contribute some product of his or*h« 

 Industry and skill to aogment the variety Ua tjj. 

 tereet of the nnr f ,t exhibition, at least, end M 

 many others as can be consistently attended. W« 

 regard the Town and County Fairs as the moat 

 useful and important, aud worthy of the first atten- 

 tion; but the State exhibitions should not be oeg- 

 lected by those who can conveniently attend ns 

 competitors, or even as spectators only, for much 

 can be seen and learned that will pro\ e bencfldal 

 to practical and progressive men. All our Fairs 

 should be more largely attended, not only by those 



. ■ ■■ 



people have too few Holidays, 

 play" ia not beat for either health c 

 and we therefore favor the idea of combining inno- 

 cent amusement with the useful and I 

 features of our shows, thus tendering them em- 

 phatically Rural Holidays— days of celebration and 

 rejoicing as well as of exhibits of the beet product* 

 of the skill and industry of the people. The Prac- 

 tical and Useful should have the preli •• 

 attractive and even amusing may properly be In- 

 cluded In every programme. 



The Potato Caor in Irelakb.— The potato 

 crop In Ireland promises well. A letter from Dub- 

 lin, dated Aug, 13th, says:— " According to the 

 competent authority of the Banner of Ulster, the 

 breadth of land under potatoes this year in the 

 northern counties will be foond, perhaps, to ex 

 ceed 1,260,000 acres. Last season's crop turned 

 out well, ample in yield, and, as a general rule, ex- 

 cellent In quality. Prices kept up to a high fig- 

 ure, and tbe export trade in that article of pro- 

 duce formed a most extensive branch of cross 

 channel commerce. This season's crop of tbe 

 early varieties is very supetior. We are now only 

 in the second week of Augnst, nnd yet the prices 

 for excellent potatoes in tbe Belfust market are un- 

 der those which at a similar period of the season 

 ruled the markets before the advent of the potato 

 disease. Some solitary cases of the old disease 

 are to be seen in a few fields In the country; those 

 instances, however, are so trifling as not to be 

 worth any serious notice. The tale of superior 

 qualities at -1*1. a atone will give some idea of the 

 healthy and prolific state of the crop." 



Whs 



-The l 



ber of the Nebraska Afau has an Interesting item 

 on the yield and best time for sowing winter wheat 

 in that climate. As to the time of sowing, It says: 

 " The testimony of those who were the most soc- 

 ceBsfuI this season is, that the proper time la about 

 the fifteenth of September — not later than the 

 twentieth. Mr. T. P. Hall, who lives on the Cotton- 

 wood, raised a fine field of fall wheat this season 



3_flowed in tho middle o( September. Ho 



another field which he sowed about ten 



days later, which gave a much poorer yield than 



nature so well, and was more af- 



Mr. Grlmeley, living 



i the 



Clear «,■ 

 Our way of extern 

 and pasture lands, 

 period, Is 



F.EJ.I 



and Pasture Lands. — 



■re feoceshave 



—Remove the fence?, 



ifor 



DRESSIBO DEER SKINS, OMCE MORE 



In reply to your correspondent's inquiry for tl 

 Indian mode of dressing skins, I give him tl 

 method, as learned me by a person that obtained 

 from the Indians. It is as follows:— Place the skins 

 in a barrel of water, with a Bofficient quantity of 

 ashes to make a weak ley. Let them remain till the 

 hair will come off easily by scraping with the grain- 

 ing knife, then grain them with tbe back of a shoe, 

 butcher, or graining knife,— graining knife is the 

 best. Where shoe or other knives are used, drive 

 the edge of them into a round stick of sufficient 

 length to handle easily,— use a Buckeye log or 

 some soft wood to grain on. When done hang the 

 skins op and let them > ry till they are hard and 

 flinty, then soak in brain Viter with a little soft soap 

 added. Have the wau r abont blood warm. After 

 they become well softened, wring dry by folding 

 the ends of the skin together around some solid 

 post, take a Btlck and run through the other end to 

 wring with, and wipe off any water with a cloth 

 that may remain in the folds while wringing. Af- 



oot tbe brush, briers, or whatever it may be, let them 

 lie a abort lime, and burn them of£ To make an 

 end of them, take one or two yoke of oxen, as the 

 case may require, pot them to the plow, and lay 

 the land over in the fall, turning under all of the 

 roots if possible. Let it remain in this condition 

 till spring; don't put on a spring crop, but harrow 

 and plow, as you would for summer fallow, and sow 

 lo wheat, or rye if most suitable. This ia our ex- 

 perience, and we speak whereof we know. Where 

 oak, hickory, hazel, witch hazel, ;or bar berry 

 abounds, our theory, if carried out, wiU use them 

 Up.— J. W. Kirkendall, Painted Post, K Y. 



INfU'IBIES AND AXSWLE1S. 



first, did not 

 footed by the frt 



on Allen creek, raiBed about forty acres of e 

 lent fall wheat this season, which was sowi 

 middle of September. Both these gentlemei 

 sow largely thia fall, and not later than the flfte 

 From indicatlona we should judge that there v, 



The State Fair.— We understand that prepara- 

 tions are actively going on at Syracuse for the 

 State Fair, to be held In that city Oct. 5th to 8th, 

 elusive. The buildings, fences, Ac, are nearly 

 tnpleted, and are said to be superior to those 

 heretofore used. It is also stated that the appllca- 

 xhlbition are more numerous than over 

 before at so early a day. AU which we trust will 

 be fully verified, and that the forthcoming Fair 

 will be creditable to the Society and worthy of the 

 Empire State. The location ia very favorable for 

 a large attendance and exhibition of the people 



and products of the State. 



Editobb propose to assem- 

 ble In Convention daring the meeting of the 

 American Pomological Society, to be held In New 

 York next week. Regret that the holding of Mon- 

 roo Co. Fair at same time will preclude us from 

 attending. The Rural will, however, be repre- 

 sented by our Horticultural Editor, who attends 

 the Pomological Meeting as a delegate from the 

 State Ag. Society. 



pipe? What proportioi 



head of something, - 



v tbe like before. My brother ju-i.ii- 



lo me from Indiana; he , 



e Italian wheat, which he Bowed, 



s amongst it. He aays the head grows fro; 



stalk also forks often, 



eadbr, Benton Ridge, Aug., 1858. 

 Remark?.— The specimen enclosed was a head 

 ' the Couch or Quack Grass, or some allied Euro- 

 pean species. 



i through your 

 pour numerous 

 tan parchment, 



Potato Rot in Rhode Island.— Tbe Providence 



Journal says the rot Is making sad havoc among 



potato fields In Bristol county, Mass, and In 



Bristol oounty, R. I. Some of the farmers In the 



■ of Bristol, Warren and Barrington, wilt not 



average half a crop, while not a few will scarcely 



enough, of some kinds, for seed for another 



subscribers, can inform c 



parchment? By s 



Oblige a subscriber.— •, SJutiy, Orleans Co., 1858, 



Rulabib.— parchment is made of sheep and goat 



r wringing, pull the wrinkles out by stretching skins. As some of our readers are so well posted 



* 1 * 1 * , e hands,— place yoor skins (hang loose) In ( on the Indian process of tanning, they 



i old barrel or dry goods b 



e extremity doubt give the process of making parchment. 



Union Aa. Bociett. — At a meeting 

 of citizens of the towns of Sweden, Clarkson and 

 Onion, held at Brockport on the 1th inst., prelimi- 

 nary arrangements were made for the formation of 

 a Union Agricultural Society. The meeting ad- 



Addsess at thb State Faik.— It affords us 

 great pleasure to announce that Hon. Joseph R. 

 Williams, President of the Michigan State Agri- 

 cultural College, has accepted an invitation to 

 deliver tbe Annual Address at the New York Slate 

 Fair. An appropriate an admirable selection. 



TnE PobUc Bale of Short-horns, advertised in 

 this nomber by Mr. Chapman, is worthy the special 

 attention of breeders and others wishing to procare 

 fine stock. Our advertising department also con- 

 Ulna many other announcements of Interest to 

 AgricnhariBta, Horticulturists aBd others. 



