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recover If shaded, and « ill Bower t'i> r tome months. 
Dahlias.— See that all arc correctly labeled; while 
Hi • Bowers will allow thorn to bo Identified After 
frosta kill Hi.- tops, allow the roots to remain a 
week or so in the ground to ripen. Take ap on a 
dry day; keep In a dry collnr the same. as potatoes. 
PraniM and /Vs. should be made ready. 8eo page 
880. Sel the plants in them svheu night frosts 
come, and cover ; keep sash off every warm dny 
/■«.7im'<m.— I'ot on tho approach of frost, and 
loop over winter in a cool, dry cellar. 
QladMus. — Take up before the ground freezes, 
and preserve in the cellar tho same as dahlias. 
(lodge*. — The lower shoots of deciduous hedges 
may now be shortened and the whole put iuto shape. 
/ infernos, if lifted nud put in a box or large pot, 
will do well through winter In a cellar. Trained 
to a bush form they improve In beauty each year, 
/.dieus. — New i s may be made, tirade, trench, 
or subsoil, and manure the plot, Sow clean seed 
early and roll and repeat the rolling before cold 
weather. Blue grass make* a lasting, uniform sod. 
/'iriHti.tls. — Take up, divide, and reset Dicentro, 
-, Phloxes, Clematis, Hollyhocks, etc. 
Pinks and Carnations. — Pot rooted layers and 
wiuter in pit* orcold frames, or iu dry, cool cellar. 
S is. — Save from best plant-; as fast as Un-y ripen. 
Shrubs.— All the hardy deciduous shrubs may be 
transplanted. Those native kinds which it is de- 
sired to remove to the grounds may be attended to 
this month. .Mark them before the leaves fall. 
Stocks and Watt Flowers. — Pot and remove to 
the pit or greeu-honse before freezing weather. 
Cold Grapery. 
The only thing to be done is to favor the ripen- 
>f the wood. For this purpose the tempera- 
Cur may lie slightly increased by closing the lower 
ventilators and admitting air only through the up- 
per ones. Leave every leaf on the vine until it 
drops of its own ripeness. Close the house entire- 
ly where there is any danger of chilling frost. 
Green and Hot-Houses. 
The houses should have been in readiness last 
month. Remove lender things in-doors in good 
season, and let Azaleas, Camellias, and hardier 
plants be out until there is clanger from frosts. In 
removing plants to the house, the pots will need 
cleansing, and all moss and weeds to be removed 
from thesurface. It is a good plan to remove the old 
soil from the surface and replace it with fresh. The 
tropical collection will need some fire-heat. The 
general directions of last month apply to this. 
Annuals may still be sown for winter blooming. 
A stock of Mignonette is always useful ; more 
showy plants make the house brilliant in winter. 
Bisects. — See that the plants are clean from these 
when they are brought in, aud keep vermin dowu. 
Ventilation. — Air well, but avoid sudden changes. 
Water. — Syringe freely ; keep atmosphere humid. 
Apiary in October. 
Prepared by M. Quinby — By Request. 
Reports from different sections of our country, 
show a greater disparity in the honey yield than 
usual, this season. But few swarms have issued in 
any place. In some localities the bees have stored 
surplus honey in abundance, while in others the) 7 
have too little food for winter. Too little honey, 
or too ranch, are both unfavorable conditions. 
The bees should have room to pack themselves in 
the empty cells, or they will suffer with cold in 
consequence. If too little honey is stored, they 
starve if not fed. The food given them is often 
not as well adapted to their wants as that collect- 
ed from the Rowers, and the chances of losing them 
in winter arc increased; yet, with good attention, 
most of tin-in may lie kept. It" it is desirable to 
keep such light colonies, they should he put in the 
best possibl >ndit'u n this month by feeding, that 
the honey may he scaled up before eold weather. 
They will add nothing more to their stores now, 
except in localities where few are kept, and the 
Golden Rod and the Wild Aster abound. It is mis- 
takeu kindness, and false economy that decide 
never to kill booa however unfavorable their con- 
dition tor wintering. .Some colonies e;in not be 
wintered, and it is mercy to take life at once, rath- 
er than allow (hem to starve by degrees. Keep :ill 
the colonies that can bo mad'- profitable another 
year. Decide which are to he wintered. Feed the 
light ones to the required weight, not by weighing 
what Is given them, bul by ascertaining how much 
the hive has gained - robbing bees uiiy carry it. off 
as fast as it is led. Feed at. night, and as fast as 
they will take it up. Such as have too little comb 
to hold the Btorcs (less than 1,200 cubic inches 
spare Ailed,) should be taken up, and tho hive, with 
contents, after tho bees are removed, he set away 
for an other year. West India honey, or that strained 
from hives that have contained diseased brood, 
will do for feed, if scalded (boiled) nud well skim- 
med. A queenless colony may have a colony of 
l a Introduced, if it have sufficient stores, and is 
not injured by the moth. A colony working with- 
out a queen will store treble the usual quantity of 
bee bread, and should weigh several pounds (8 or 
10 1 more, to be safe for winter, than if it, had had a 
queen. Semi the surplus honey to market now. 
Turn the honey boxes bottom up, and pack in 
large cases that can he easik- carried. Secure care- 
ful handling lest the combs Vie broken. In locali- 
ties where foul-brood exists, the greatest care should 
be taken to remove it all. A colony thoroughly in- 
fected can not be cured ; it-will not swarm, is fre- 
quently lost in winter, will often become weak in 
summer, get robbed, and the disease will thus 
spread through other hives. The most, profitable 
for owner, neighbors, and all concerned, is to break 
rip all such hives, and save the honey and wax. A 
hive well filled with honey, having the brood dis- 
eased, must be taken now or nil will he lost. Col- 
onies that continue rearing brood later than usual, 
are ofteu affected. Examine the old stocks as for 
queeulesg colonies, with the point of a knife re- 
moving the sealing of some of the cells of the brood 
combs that appear the oldest. Should the young 
bee while in the larva state, be dark colored, it is 
dead, and-a. few such should condemn the hive. 
Prevention in this matter, is better than cure. 
When all disease is removed, there is no risk of its 
spreading to others through the apiary. Colonies 
for winter should be strong bees at this time, ex- 
tending through all the combs, but there is no ad- 
vantage in having an unnatural number in one 
hive, as might occur if three or four strong colo- 
nies were united ; but two or three weak ones may 
be put together advantageously. They seldom quar- 
rel if smoked thoroughly with tobacco or puff-ball. 
Commercial Notes.— Valuable Tables. 
In the next column we present a series of Tables pre- 
pared expressly for the American Agriculturist, which 
give, in a very condensed and convenient form for study 
and reference, the various transactions in Breadstuff's, not 
only (luring the past month but for a series of years past. 
The figures are compiled from an immense number of 
records, partly from official sources and partly gathered 
bv ourselves. These figures are believed to be thorough- 
ly reliable, no labor or care having been spared to make 
them so. The tables tell their own story so plainly that 
there is little necessity for explanatory remarks. — It will 
be seen by Table 3 that the exports have fallen materi- 
ally below those of the previous year—corn very greatly 
so. Flour has nearly equalled the average of 18 years, 
(Table 41 ; Wheat is double the average, while Corn 
sinks almost below comparison. The Tables present 
many other points of obvious contrasts During the 
past four weeks, the Breadstuff Markets have been very 
unsteady and unsatisfactory, owing to the violent fluc- 
tuations in gold, and we have no means of judging, even 
as to the immediate future. When gold falls, thevahie.of 
Brca'lstuffs for export is decreased, and the whole mark- 
et depressed. If, through military success or other 
onuses, gold continues to decline, all exportable articles 
must necessarily fall, though the prices of Brea slutPs 
have not yet gone down asmuch us gold. The large deal- 
ers are boiling hack for h'gh prices again ; they are car- 
rying their stork with borrowed fun is. mil a permanent 
decline would crush maiiv larce operators both here and 
at the West ..Provisions have been affected by the 
same causes as Breadstuff*, but not to the same extent. 
and the speculators have maintained their firm rates re- 
markably well Wool open*- 1 pretty briskly nl ad- 
vancing prices, but 'he fall in gold has recently brought 
business to a stand, and quotations are now altogether 
nominal Cotton, Seels, Hay, Hops, and Tobacco, 
opo I buoyantly, with good Inquiry, but closed heavily. 
The following condensed, comprehensive tables, made 
up to Sept. 16, .show the transaction! tin- past mouth. 
Iv. TUANKAirriONfl AT Til K NKWT'iltK MARKETS. 
RfcosiPTS. Flour. Wheat. Corn, Byt\ Barley. Oats. 
2.-,iliiv»"'i'<iii'lh 849.3O0 1,818,000 1,710,000 3,1 I 11,0 I UB4.000 
■.'I he. tlOSlU I Hi ... I "OHIO 1,318,000 l.i I 
Sales. Finnr. Wheat. Corn, lOje. I 
25dny« MM month, 15" iOO l,(rro,0 i 1,421.000 MOO 1,000 
21 days last Hi, Hi, ,0110 8,171000 1..WI.00O 
"i. Comparison irltlt mine thus, twit year. 
i !• i iits. Ftnue. Wheat, Com, line. Barley. Oat*. 
BdayslSIH . . 819.500 1,218,000 l 80.000 2.0O0 BLOOO 1.311, "O 
2.1 da') s 1803 835,000 1,734,000 2,019,(100 18,200 02,000 10 
Sales. Flour. Wheat. Corn. Jtye. liartey 
25 itayo 1884...... 457.500 1,676,000 1,481,000 M00 l.r/O 
25 days 1803 397,000 2,515,000 2,7i:s,uou m.rw 7.000 
3. Exports from New. York Jan. 1. to Sept. 15. 
Flour, Wheat, (-urn. Bye, Oats, 
bids. bus. tins. bus. 
1864 1.553,332 10396,707 709.208 ISS 81,185 
is-::.... l.-3.'.s'.*i 11,700.100 7,202,281 409.157 I 
1862 2,254,501 15,893,811 8,010,113 1,031,016 56, . 
4. Exports of Breadstuff's from the United State* to 
Great lirtluin and Ireland, each of 18 years, ending Sep. 1 : 
Flour, bblw. Wheat, bush. Corn, bush 
ISM 1,241,804 hi.! 1 ":: 717.131 
1868 1. 179.113 23,167,190 in,. 
1862 2,072,515 25,754.709 14,084,189 
1861 2,561,661 23,553,810 11,105.034 
Isiill , 117.156 4,'.«S.7I4 2.JJ1.--.7 
1856 106.457 -130.(110 
1858 1,295,430 6,555,648 8,817 02 
1857 819.000 7,179.101 4,746.27 
1856 1,1711.2115 7,976,406 6,1 
1855 17.1.209 824.427 0.619.133 
1854 1,8l6,tr20 6.038,003 8,049,371 
1858. . 1,600,4 19 4.888,519 1. 1 B, !78 
1852 1,427. 142 2,728,442 1,487.897 
1851 i,.i.19.isi i,I(k;,:;-,5 2.205,601 
1850 57I.7.V7 161,216 4,133. 
1849 1,1:11.556 1,140,194 12.1 
lsis 182,583 211,300 4, ■ 
1SI7 .3,133 ,815 4.000,319 17.1 
(Irani! total for is years. ;i,'22.1.iiliT iT;i,v-l,sir Til." 
Annual Average 1,315,809 7,1.11,217 6,11 
5. Exports from the United States to the Continent 
of Europe for ten years, each ending Sept. 1. 
Flour, bbls. "Wheat, bush. Corn, bush. Kye, bush. 
1861 ion..-,u s:;:.sifi 13.3.09 wjes 
1S63. 213.519 2,313.314 68.957 I 
1862 626.672 8.1117,112 332.071 1 
1361 112.129 8,452,496 101.115 
1RI10 49,248 17S.031 19,858 N ■ 
1859 51,888 57315 21.519 None. 
1S.VS 303.i00 390.428 lo.sis 
1867 483,344 8375.658 543..100 2tr,.ir,.' 
1S.1I! 748.403 2010.019 2S1.IN! L915.I78 
18.15 7,713 43T72 308,128 35,569 
Total for 10. vrs.2,726,i37 20,S61,,09 1,701,371 1,649.363 
Annual Average. 272,614 2,086.411 170,137 464,938 
G. Receipts of Breadstuff's at the head of tide water at 
Albany, by the Erie and inner New-York Canals, from 
the Commencement of Navigation. May 1st, to and inclwi- 
ing Sept. 9/A, m the years^ indicated. 
Flour. Wheat. Corn. Rye. Barlev. Oats 
1861.... 661,100 13.310,0(10 11.153,000 4-18.000 20fi.OOo" 8 1 
isi',2 ...R8I1.2IK 16.282.R0II 11.781,500 531.2110 881,100 21509,400 
1S63.... 718.100 10.tvn.0no 1.1.3.10.700 2111.000 79.800 £15 
1S64.... 556,200 9,933,300 5,531,200 80,900 166,100 4.91'.'.j-:i 
The following table gives the wholesale prices at tlie 
two dates of going to press, but each dav almost, exten- 
sive fluctuations in these prices are experienced. 
Current Wholesale Priors. 
Ang. 15. Sept. 15. 
FLom— Super to Extra State $9 10 ©10 50 to 35 ©loss 
Super, to Extra Southern 10 45 ©14 50 1100 915 50 
Extra Western 9 65 ©13 00 9 85 (■> 12 50 
Extra Genesee.. 10 60 is. 12 50 10 40 012 00 
Superfine Western 910 © 9 56 BS5 a 9 35 
RTSFXODB 8 50 ©n .10 son a 9 .10 
Corn Meai ... 7 90 ©8 50 8 00 © R 50 
Wheat— All kinds of White,. 2 95 ©2 10 2 3.1 (-4 2 55 
All kinds of lied 2 15 © 2 53 2 05 8 2 35 
corn— Yellow 1 54 © 1 55 1 63 © 1 65 
Mixed 151 ©152 1 62K© 1 121 
Oats— Western. 93 © 99 S8 © 90 
State 91 © 93 RS © 89 
Utk 195 ©2 00 160 ©165 
Barlkt Nominal. Nominal. 
Cotton— Middlings, pur lb.... 172 ©173 178 ©180 
Hoes, crop of 1808. per lb IS © 33 18 © 88 
Feathers, Live Geese, p. lb.. Nominal. Nominal. 
Seed— Clover, per lb. Nomina]. Nominal. 
Timothy, per bushel 1 ominat. Nominal. 
Flax, perbushcl.. Nominal. Nominal. 
scar— Brown. per lb is. 1 *© 24 19 © 24>tf 
MoLASSEs.New-Orleans, p.gl.. 100©120 1 0.7 © 1 25 
Coffxb. Rio, per lb 47 © 50 47 a 51 
Tobacco— Kcntuckv.itc.p.lb.. 14 © 86 14 © 38 
Seed Leaf, per lb... 25 © 65 25 © 65 
Wool— Domestic fleece. p.lb„ 90 © 1 15 1 00 © 1 13 
Domestic polled, per lb so © 1 10 85 © 1 i2'< 
California, unwashed 80 © 65 30 © 75 
Ta 1. i.ow. per lb... 19 © 19X 18J<© 19 
Oil Cake, per tun 70 00 ©77 50 9(100 ©161 00 
Pork— Mess, per bbl SO 00 ©39 50 42 62 w® 13 00 
Prime, per bol MOO ©3150 S3 50 ©89 50 
i'.kef- Plain mesa 17 00 ©2100 16 00 ©1900 
I.uin. in l.hls., per Ih 21«© 22X 23X© 24V 
Borrms— Western, per lb S3 a 46 40 © -is 
State, per lb 40 © 50 43 © 56 
Cheese IS a 2-1 19 © 27X 
Pews — per bushel Nominal. 2 50 ©290 
Pkas— Canada, per Dushcl... 1 '.»i © 2 00 2 00 © 2 10 
KQG6— Fresli, per dozen....... 2-1 © 25 27 © 29 
Poui/rnT— Fowls, per lb. is a 20 16 a 18 
Turkeys, per lb 20 a 21 22 a 23 
Spring Chickens, per pair — 7.1 © 1 00 50 a 1 00 
Potatoes— Mercers, p. bbL... 350 ©600 5 00 ® 6 00 
Peach Blow, per bbl *r. 300 ©550 5 00 ©550 
in 1, 111 .in-, per bill 5(0 ©5 50 3 00 ©5 50 
\vv\.v — Western, per bbl... s 00 ©400 3 00 @ 4 00 
— Fall Pippins, per bbl 3 50 © 4 50 2 00 © 3 50 
Apples-Common per nbt \m ©2.10 150 ® 2 00 
Pbaob .: i 37 - : .10 75 © 2 00 
Peaches— Jersey, per basket.. 125 3200 75 @ 1 59 
