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of the house as dry as possible, and use sulphur, as 
directed last month. As the fruit commences to 
ripen, discontinue the watering. Sudden changes 
of air will interfere with the successful ripening, 
aud must be guarded against, but free ventilation 
is needed. After the fruit is ripe, the upper ven- 
tilators may be kept open at night. 
Tlie Apiary for Aitsust.— Prepared 
Ity M. Quinby, by request.— Boney that is in glass 
boxes, aud intended for market, should be ta- 
ken from the hive now, before auy collected 
from buckwheat is added to it. Boxes only two- 
thirds full of clover honey are often worth 
as much in market as if finished with buck- 
wheat. This darkest honey being on the outside 
will make it appear as if the whole was filled with 
it, and the price will be in accordance with the ap- 
parent quality. When to be used at home, it may 
remain until finished, but all that are not to be 
finished with buckwheat should be removed imme- 
diately. Bees will gather honey from buckwheat 
through this month, and in many places swarms, 
(particularly Italins) will issue. When it is desir.a- 
ble to increase colonies to the utmost, perhaps- it 
is not always advisable to return the bees, or part 
of them to the parent hive, as has been recom- 
mended. When the movable comb hive is used, 
they may be hived and assisted with a comb or two 
from some hive that has a surplus, and will be 
benefitted by being deprived of it. If the parent 
hive can have the queen cells cut out, and a laying 
queen introduced in a week after the swai-m issues, 
there need be no doubt about its being strong 
enough for winter. The Italians will raise more 
bees in the same space of eomb, and be stronger 
from the number raised, than the natives. It may 
be satisfactory to the bees to get the combs full of 
honey and brood, and have nothing further to do, 
but it is doubtful if such is the best state of things, 
cither for the bees or their owner. Take out two 
or three combs where full throughout, and put in 
empty frames, making room ne.ar the middle of 
the hive for them. If from unfavorable weather, 
the colony has not quite enough for winter, the 
full combs or part of them may be returned to the 
hive ; otherwise they may be given to some desti- 
tute hive or appropriated for table use. When 
bees can add nothing to their stores from buck- 
wheat, it is probable that condemned colonies will 
furnish more honey now than in September, the 
usual time for taking it. In favored localities, 
where bnt/ew bees are kept, there might be a gain 
in leaving them. Those wishing to raise Italian 
queens after the black drones are gone, and who 
want to preserve Italian drones, should prepare for 
it now, as without special care these drones are de- 
stroyed before the natives. First, render a colony 
queenless and keep it so ; it may be allowed to 
raise queens, but they should be removed before 
laying. As soon as honey fails, feed daily. Make 
it strong in drones by introducing to it all the 
scaled drone brood from the other hives. It would 
be well to make the hive for this purpose larger 
than usual, to accommodate more frames. 
luternational IndiistrinI and Ag- 
ricultural Exhibition.— Altona, a city of Schles- 
wig-Holstein. and situated almost as near to Hamburg as 
Brooltlyn to New-York, has, through its mo.st influential 
citizens, put forth a very attractive programme for a 
grand exhibition, to take place in Jvine, 1866. An agent 
has been sent to this country to induce a full display of 
American machines, manufactures, implements, animals 
etc. Full explanations may be gained by addressing 
Austin. Baldwin & Co., 72 Broadway. Mr. Marsh, our 
Consul at Altona, is earnest in forwarding the interests 
of the commission who have the management. 
Fair of tlie American In<>titntc and 
the Greeley Prizes.— The great fair of the American 
Institute opens this year September 12th, and lasts till 
October 191h. The horticultural exhibition in con- 
nection with it begins on Sept. 16th. At this the fruit in 
competition for the Greely prizes will be shown. It will 
be remembered tliat Mr. Greeley offered $100 for the best 
bushel of the best apples, JlOO for the same quantity of the 
best pears, and $100 for the best 6 pounds of grapes, and 
the prizes were not awarded last year. The special 
committee who have these prizes in charge, are Dr. J. 
A. Warder, Charles Downing, Fen-is, Dr. I. M. 
Ward, Mr. W. S. Carpenter, Dr. E. W. Sylvester, P. B. 
Meade and Patrick Quinn. The Institute has secured 
the ample quarters where the Sanitary Fair was held 
last year, on 14th street, near 6th avenue. 
Official list of the 428 Money Order Post 
Offices, July 1, 1865. 
As a matter of convenience to our readers, we publish 
tlie Official list of all the Post Offices where Money Orders 
may be obtained and paid. At any one of these offices, 
an order for from one to thirty dollars may be purchased, 
to be paid at any other one of these offices named. The 
cost is only 10 cents for an order for $10 or less, and 20 
cents for any sum between $10 and $30. For larger 
sums two or moie orders may be purchased. — This is a 
very great convenience, as the sum sent is almost abso- 
lutely secure against loss. Instead of sending money, 
there is forwarded simply an order payable only to the 
person for whom it is designed. If by any chance an 
order is lost, by theft, destruction of mail bags, etc., a 
duplicate order is issued. Since our publication of the 
previous list of 141 offices, the system has worked so 
well that these new offices are established, and probably 
thousands of other offices will in time be included. We 
have received a large number of remittances in this way, 
and advise our subscribers to adopt this mode of sending 
$5 and upwards, where a Money Order Office is conveni- 
ent. For large sums a draft on a New York Bank is 
preferable. These can be obtained quite cheaply now, 
from almost any bank or good private banker in any part 
of the countiy. 
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF MONEY OBDER POST OFFICES. 
Connecticut.— Bridgeport, Danbury, Derby, Guilford, 
Hiirtford, Litchfield, Jliddletown, New London, Norwich, 
New Britain, New Mllford, New Haven, Norwalk, Putnam, 
Rockville. Thompgonville, West Merlden, Waterbury, Willl- 
mantic, West Killingly. 
Delaivare.— Delaware City, Dover, "Wilmington. 
District Columbia.— Washington. 
Florida.— Key West. 
Illinois.— Alton, Aurora, Belleville, Bloomington, Cairo, 
Canton, Carlinville, Centralia, Champaign, Chicago, Danville, 
Decatur, Dixon, Eli;in, Freeport, Galena, Galesburg, Geneseo, 
Jacksonville, Joilet, Kankakee Depot, Lacon, Macomb, 
Mount Vernon, Olney, Ottawa, Paris, Peoria, Pontlac, Prince- 
ton, Quincy, Rockford, Uock Island. Shawneetown, Shelby- 
ville, SpringQcld. Sycamore, Waukegan. 
Indiana.— Attica, Bloomington, Columbus. Crawfords- 
ville, Evansville. Fort Wayne, Green Castle, Greensbnrg, 
Goshen, Huntington, Indianapolis, Jeflersonville, Kokomo, 
Lafayette, La Porte, Lawrencebnrg, Logansport, Madison, 
Mnncie, New Albany, PlyTnouth, Princeton, Rensselaer, Rlch- 
moud. Salem, South Bend, Terre Haute, Valparaiso, Vlncen- 
nes, Wabash, Warsaw. 
Iowa. —Burlington, Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Diaven- 
port, Des Moines, Dubuque, Iowa City, Keokuk, Lyons, 
Marshalltown, Mt. Pleasant. Muscatine. Newton, Oskaloosa, 
Ottumwa, Sioux City, Washington, Waterloo. 
Kansas.— Atchison, FtLeavenworth, Lawrence, Topeka. 
KcntucUy.— Bowling Green, Louisville, Lexington, 
Maysville, Paducah. 
Louisiana.— New Orleans. 
Maine— Augusta, Bangor, Bath, Belfast, Biddeford, 
Brunswick, Eastport, Ellsworth, Lewiston, Portland, Rock- 
land, Skowhegan, Watervllle. 
Maryland.— Annapolis, Baltimore.Cumberland, Easton, 
Ellicott'a Mills, Frederick, Hagerstown, Havre de Grace, 
Salisbury. 
Massachusetts.- Amherst, Bridgewater, Boston, Chic- 
opee, Fall River, Fitchburg, Gloucester, Greenfield, Law- 
rence, Lee, Lowell, Lynn, Milford, Natick, New Bedford, 
Newburyport, Northampton, Pittsfield, Plymouth, Salem, 
Springfield, Taunton. Westfleld, Worcester. 
Midiigan.— Adrian, Allegan, Ann Arbor. Big Rapids, 
Cold Water, Detroit, East Saginaw, Flint, Grand Rapids, 
Hillsdale, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Mai-Bhall, Monroe, 
Niles, Pontiac, Port Huron. 
Minnesota.— Faribault. Hastings, Mankato, Red Wing, 
Rochester. St. Cloud, St. Paul, Winona. 
Mississippi.— Vicksburg. 
Missouri.— J eflerson Barracks, Jefferson City, Kansas 
City, Pilot Knob, Richmond, Rolla, St. Charles, St Joseph, 
St. Louis. 
Nebraska Territory.— Nebraska City, Omaha City. 
New HanipsUire.— Claremont, Concord, Dover, Exe- 
ter, Great Falls, Hanover, Keene, Lancaster, Manchester, 
Nashua, Portsmouth. 
Nc*v Jersey.— Bridgeton, Burlington, Freehold, Jersey 
City, Morristown. Newark, New Brunswick, Newton, Pater- 
son, Plainfleld. Princeton, Trenton. 
Ne-w Yorlc.— Albany, Albion, Auburn, Batavia. Bath, 
Binghanipton, Brookljii, Buffalo, Canandaigua. Cooperetown, 
Cortlandt Village, Delhi. Dunkirk, Elizabcthtown, Elniira, 
Fort Hamilton, Geneseo, Hudson, Ithaca, Jamestottm, Kings- 
ton. Little Falls, Lockport, Lyons, Malone, Newburgh,New- 
Tork, Norwich, Ogdcnsburg, Olean, Oswego, Owcgo, Penn 
Yan, Plattsburg, Port Jervls, Ponghkeepsie, River Head, 
Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, Seneca Falls, Syra* 
cuse, Troy, Utlca, Warsaw, Watertown. Wellavllle, West 
Point, TVhitehall, Yonkers. 
Nortli Carc^ina,- Newbern. 
OUio.— Akron, Athena, Bellefontaine, Bucyrus, Cam- 
bridge, Chillicothe, Cincinnati. Circle^llle, Cleveland, Co- 
lumbus, Dayton, Defiance, Delaware, Finley, Fremont, Gal- 
lipolis, Hamilton. Hillsborough. Ironton, Jackson. Jefferson, 
Kenton, Lancaster, Lima, McConnellsville. Mansfield. Mari- 
etta, Marlon, Massilon, Medina, Miauiisville, Mt. Vernon, 
Newark, New Philadelphia, Norwalk. Oberlin, Painesville. 
Piqua, Portsmouth. Ravenna. Ripley, Salem, Sandusky, Steu- 
benville, Tifl5n, Toledo, Urbana, Van Wert, Warren, Woos- 
ter, Xeula, Zanesville. 
Pennsylvania.— Allentown, Altoona, Bedford, Belle- 
fonte. Carlisle, Chambcr6bur2;b, Chester, Danville. Easton, 
Erie, Franklin, Greeusburg, Harrisburg, Honesdale, Johna- 
towm, Kittanning, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lewisburg, Lewis- 
town, Lock Haven, Meadville, New Castle, Norristown, 
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Pottsville, Reading, Scranton, Su&- 
quehauna Depot, Towanda, Warren, Washington, Wellsbor- 
ough. West Chester. Williamsport, York. 
Rliodc Island.— Bristol, Newport. Portsmouth Grove, 
Providence, Westerly, Woonsockct Falls. 
Soutli Carolina.— Port Royal. 
Tennessee.— Chattanooga. Memphis. Nashville. 
Vermont.— Bennington. Brandon, Brattleborough, Bur- 
lington, Middlebury, Montpelier, Rutland, St. Albans, St. 
Johnsbury. Springfield, Windsor, AYoodstock. 
Virginia,— Alexandria, Old Point Comfort, Norfolk. 
West Virginia.— Clarksburg, Harper's Ferrj', Martins- 
burg. Parkersburg, Wheeling. 
Wisconsin.— Beloit, Black River Falls, Darlington, 
Eau Claire, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Hudson, La Crosse, 
Madison, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Portage City, 
Prairie du Chien, Prescott, Racine, Sheboygan, Sparta, 
Stevens Point, Wankesha. 
Containing a great variety of Items, inclvding many 
good Hints and Suggestions which ive throw into smalt 
type and condensed form, for voant of space elsewhere. 
Xlie AdvertisiDp: Pa*>-es this month 
present many features of special interest to all, and will 
well repay perusal. It is satisfactory to the readers to 
know that none but parties believed to be entirely reliable, 
are permitted to insert their business cards in the Agri- 
culturist— those who will perform what they promise. It 
is equally pleasing to advertisers to know that our read- 
ers are a live class, who take note of what is going on in 
the business world, and hence we repeat tlie request 
heretofore made, that parties writing to advertisers shall 
mention in their communications that advertisements 
were seen in this journal. It will also show that they 
rightfully expect prompt returns and fair dealing, ajid 
will thus be mutually advantageous. 
Agricultni'al Instruction at Vale 
College. — In connection with the Sheffield Scientific 
School, there is a special Agricultural Department, which 
receives the benefit of the United States grant under the 
Agricultural College act. Instiuction in this department 
consists in two courses of study. The first is called the 
" full course," and occupies three years, to enter which, 
applicants pass an examination in the elements of a good 
education— the standard being high, especially as regards 
a knowledge of mathematics. The second, or "shorter 
course" is arranged especially to accomodate young 
farmers, and occupies seven months, from about the 
middle {12ih ttiis year) of September to the middle of 
April, during which time one may attend a selection o( 
the most useful exercises of the full course, viz. : in- 
struction in Practical Agriculture, Agricultural Chemis- 
try, and Physiology, Agricultural Zoology. Physical Geo- 
graphy, Foiestry, etc. For full information apply to 
Prof. Geo. J. Brush, Yale College, New Haven, Conn« 
Soldiers' Claims. — Among the many good 
things the Sanitaiy Commission has done is the establish- 
ment of a Piotective War-Claim Association, of which 
General Scott is President, and its Executive Committee 
composed of citizens of undoubted .and unselfish patriot- 
ism. Its objects, as briefly expressed in its business card, 
*' are to secure to soldiers and sailors, and their families, 
claims for Pension, Pay, Bounty, and Prize Money, 
without charge, !Lnd to give them advice and information.'* 
We have before us the report of the workings of this 
Association for six months, ending June 30th. which 
shows that 3,179 claims have been filed, of which 1,210 
have been paid, amounting to $199,086.3?. The ofTtce of 
the Association is Nn. 35 Chambers street. N. Y. City, 
and Henry Greenfield is Secretary. As the Sanitary 
Commission has been from the beginning purely national 
in its character, we give this account of one of its depart- 
ments as of interest to persons in all parts of the Unioa. 
