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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
From the Farmers’ Cabinet. 
T11ING.S THAT DO NOT LOOK WELL. 
When 1 saw the substance of the following 
paragraphs in the Prairie Farmer, I felt more 
than half inclined to be out of humor with its 
editors. Parts of them to’uched me so closely, 
that 1 concluded at once, some of my neighbors 
had been to Chicago, and told of me, and had 
got the piece inserted just to vex me. Let, how- 
ever, “ him laugh who wins.” Instead of being 
annoyed, though touched in a sore place, I have 
made up my mind, not only to try to reform 
myself in those particulars, but also to give oth- 
ers an opportunity to profit by them. Gl. 
It does not look well to let the garden grow up 
to weeds, and then say that a garden is good tor 
nothing. 
It does not look well to have the gate with- 
out hinges, held up by a prop, leaving at the 
bottom an aperture through which some hog, 
with a convenient nose, can rub, and so slip 
around into the garden. > 
It does not look well fora man to thump and 
abuse his horses or oxen, just to try his whip ; 
or to suffer his boys to do so. 
It does not look well to keep the horse in a 
stable not cleaned, till his hind feet are 45 de- 
grees higher than his fore feet, so that he is 
obliged to rear up to get himself on a level eve- 
ry time he wishes to swallow a little hay or 
oats. 
It does not look well to have the women hang 
out the clothes on rough and thorny bushes, and 
tear them in getting them off, when a neat line 
would save that trouble. 
It does not look well lor a man to keep a dog, 
when he can keep no cow or pig; and lor no 
purpose but to worry the neighbois’ cattle, and 
annoy the neighborhood with continual bark- 
ing- 
It does not look well for anybody’s daughters 
to walk the streets in kid slips in December, 
and lace themselves so cruelly that their voices 
w’aste away, and their cheeks turn to the color 
of moon-lig ht. 
From the Maine Farmer. 
PATENT ENDLESS BEE HIVE. 
John Milholland and Benjamin Crane, of 
Chandlersville, Muskinghara county, Ohio, 
have invented a new and useful improvement 
in the construction and use of the Bee-hive, for 
which they have obtained letters patent of the U. 
S. G-overnmerff, bearing date the 2&th day of 
April, 1843. 
The nature of the invention is in constructing 
the Bee-house in horizontal, lectangular sec- 
tions, or boxes without tops or bottoms, placed 
on a base, — supported by four spreading legs, — 
on which base is a double inclined bottom, for 
the discharge of all offensive matter. The sec- 
tions are placed upon the base, and upon one 
another, until the house is raised to a sufficient 
height, and the upper box is covered with a hori- 
zontal top^ 
From the Farmers’ Cabinet. 
BEE MOTH. 
- Mr. Editor— In the last number of your 
Cabinet, you say that “ on examining your bee- 
hives in the morning, you have been annoyed 
by frequently finding on their platform, worms 
full grown,, which had no doubt been hatched 
from the egg of the bee moth.. Where did they 
come from'? Will some of our friends tell 
us I” 
The bee moth is a nocturnal visiter, and en- 
ters the hive after the bees have retired to rest, 
and deposits its egg in the comb where the in- 
sect, when hatched, meets with its proper food, 
until it arrives at maturity. It then descends to 
the bench, and incloses itself by the web which 
it spins, and passes into the pupa or chrysalis 
state, before it becomes a fly. The moth-worms, 
^vhich have lived through the winter, will com- 
mence leaving the comb the last of March and 
beginning of April, and continue to do so till 
late in May ; by which time those that came 
first have become flies — ready to enter the hives 
^nd carry on their work of destruction. These 
insects pass through all their different change.«, 
from the egg to the fly, during the hot months, in 
the course of five or six weeks. In 1838, I put 
some of these worms in a glass jar, on the 9ih, 
12th and 14th of April; the flies came out after 
the 23d of May. Fb w worms were found under 
the hives after thisdate. 
To mitigate the ravages of the bee moth, I 
spread salt on the bench belovv the bee-hivm, and 
keep it there from Match to November. If the 
worm should descend when the salt is damp, it 
will be so far prostrated as seldom to recover ; 
but if dry, it has veiy little effect. Frequent at- 
tention is still necessary to meet with success in 
the management of bees. 
An Octogenarian. 
Attcrmarle, Va., May'iX, 1844. 
From the N. E. Farmer. 
IMPROVE THE BORDERS OF FIELDS. 
Strips of land on the borders of fields, next to 
the wall ox fence, where the plow could not be 
brought to work, are very often suffered to lie 
idle, and produce nothing. Now, if such strips 
were improved by planting bush beans or peas, 
or winter squashes, they would yield a product 
of more profit, I venture to say, taking into ac- 
count the expense bestowed on them, than the 
same amount of land planted with the main crop 
ol the field. 
“ Many a mickle makes a muekle,” says the 
Scotch proverb;, and a hill of beans here, and 
of squashes there, in spots which would not oth- 
erwise be occupied with any thing of value, 
will count up at harvest, and furnish a supply 
of these excellent vegetables for family use, suf- 
ficient, perhaps, for the whole winter. 
This may seem to some a small matter; not 
so do I view it; it is an object worthy the far- 
mer’s attention. He certainly renders his repu- 
tation of being a good husbandman somewhat 
questionable, who suffers any portion of his land 
to lie idle, that could be just as well improved, 
and with an assurance of profit. 
Many such unoccupied strips ol land as those 
alluded to, might be put to a useful purpose, I 
think, in being planted with the sun-flower — the 
seeds of which, some maintain, are no less va- 
luable for poultry than grain. If these seeds 
have such value, most certainly they would well 
repay for the expense incurred in raising them. 
D. 
From the Albany Cultivator. 
BEES. 
To stop bees from fighting and robbing one 
another, break the comb of the robbers so that 
the honey will run down among them, and they 
will go to work at home. I had two hives of bees 
destroyed this month by beingrobbed, andshould 
have had another robbed, if I had not received 
the above information. 
Substitute for Cream in Coffee.— Beat 
the white of an egg to a froth, put to it a small 
lum,p of butter, and turn the coffee to it gradual- 
ly, so that it may not curdle. It is difficult to 
distinguish the taste’ from fresh cream. 
Toothache. — The Lpndoa Medical Gazette 
slates that the Fepela cataria of Linnaeus is re- 
commended by Dr. Gaustamacchia as a sove- 
reign remedy for toothache, whether it proceeds 
from catching cold or caries. The leaves of the 
plant are placed between the affected tooth and 
the opposite one ; this causes a copious flow of 
saliva, and in two or three minutes the raos vio- 
lent pains are relieved. If the patients cannot 
keep the leaves in contact with the diseased 
tooth, they must chew them, and the object is 
equally attained by a flow of saliva thus incited. 
Croton Water. — The length of pipes laid 
down in the city of New York for distributing 
the Croton water is 150 miles. The amount of 
water rents realised for the year ending 1st May, 
1844, was $92,626. The water is used by 4932 
private dwellings, which pay from $5 to $25 per 
annum; the average rate per annum, for dwel- 
lings, is $12. The number of steam engines, 
Stables, bathing houses, &c., &c., supplied with 
water is 1937. There are 600 free ht’drants. and 
1500 fire hydrants. 
A Singtdar Case.— A Mr. Hewett died lately 
in Ohio with the mumps, followed bj' ervsipe- 
las, which affected his brain. In his delirium 
he injured two persons; me received a slight 
abrasion on the hand which was followed by an 
alarming swelling — another received a blow on 
the eye brow, which w'as followed by swelling 
and derangement. He grasped his mother’s 
hand so tightly as to stick his nails in her flesh 
— the hand became inflamed, the a-m swelled 
to the shoulder, with livid spots, and she died. 
C 0 H T E T S OF THIS HUMBER* 
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Sclcctfon.5, Sptracts, $cc, 
Dana’s Prize Essay, 105-107 
Utility of Qeese to tfie Farmer,. 107 
Overseers, 107-188 
Report on Indian Corn, .103-109 
Treatment of .Sick Animals, 
Country Life, 
Economy, 
Barbour County Agricultural (Society,. . . 
The Young Farmer’s Catechism, 
(Strawberries, 
An Independent Woman, 
Editorials — P oultry ; Cheap Gin Band 
Subsoil Plow ; Cu.e for Blind Staggers 
ing Cucumber Bugs to Eggs ; Nutritive Proper 
ties of Flour, etc., 
To make Water Cold,. ................ . 
Farming in Connecticut, 
Hen’s Eggs, 
Things that do not Look Well ; Patent Endless Bee 
Hive ; Bee Moth ; Improve the Borders of Fields 
Bees; (Substitute for Cream in Coffee; Tooth 
ache, 
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TURNEP SEED. 
A SUPPLY of the following’ varie- 
ties of fresh TURNEP SEED just receiv- 
ed, viz: 
Yellow Sweedish or Ruta Baga, very fine for 
stock, 
Large Globe Turnep, j Fine 
“ \N'hite Flat do. ( for 
“ Hanover or White Ruta Baga do [ table 
“ Norfolk do. j use. 
For sale in quantities to suit purchasers, by 
Aug. SO iS-tf WM. HAINES, Jb. 
GARDEN AND FIELD SEED. 
A GENERAL assortment of fresh 
and genuine GARDEN and FIELD 
SEED, among which are the following: 
Red and White Clover, 
Blue and Green Grass, 
Rye and Orchard do., 
Timothy and Herds do.,. 
Millet and Lucerne do.., 
Seed Corn of every valuable variety,. 
Seed Wheat, 
Buckwheat and Potato Oats, 
Kept constantly on hand by the subscriber, all of 
which are offered for sale at very moderate prices. 
All orders, by mail or otherwise, executed with 
neatness and despatch. 
WM. HAINES, Jr., 
No. 232 Broad street, Augusta, Ga. 
August 30. 13-tf 
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