Correspondence, 
We are greatly obliged to Mr. George Smith 
of Hamilton county, Ohio, for his Mattering 
opinion of our present work. We have been fa¬ 
vored recently with the reception of many such, 
but have adopted the rule of omitting them in 
all cases. We accept his kind offer with thanks. 
He says “the BellevueTalavera Wheat, referred 
to in your April No. page 13, which took the pre¬ 
mium at the Royal Agricultural show of Eng¬ 
land, I am well acquainted with, and can give 
you its history another day.” (By all means let 
us have it.) 
“ I have known a 40 acre field yield 48 bush¬ 
els to the acre, weight from 62 to 65 lbs. per 
bushel; it is a white large grain,*and the qual¬ 
ity superior to any other kind, and it will rise an 
inch higher in a 7lb. loaf of bread than the 
common sorts. I should like to have a barrel 
of it, if to be had reasonably. 
“ Your judicious observations with regard 
to sheep, met my views; you have seen my 
small flock of imported South Downs, also the 
Bake wells and Cotswolds. I think you will 
agree with me in opinion, that the size of 
each breed will improve just in proportion to 
their pasture in summer, and attention in winter. 
“ There appears to be an increasing inquiry 
after the improved sorts of sheep; no wonder, 
for they certainly are the best stock on a farm, 
and particularly adapted to this country.” 
We think so too, and indeed throughout the 
whole southwest. We have several orders to 
fill in the autumn. We wish they had been 
for thoroughbreds, and the best of their kind 
to be had. We thank Mr. S for the proffer 
of the English sheep crook, but as we have no 
use for it just now, and it would be troublesome 
and expensive sending us, as we do not possess 
the franking privilege, to order it by mail , he 
will please hold it in reserve for some friend 
at the west, who may not be so fortunate as to 
possess as tame sheep as his own pretty flock. 
We shall enquire at what price the Talavera 
wheat can be imported. 
Mr. Nathan Loomis, of Dranesville, Fairfax Co., 
Va., with a long list of subscribers, suggests some val¬ 
uable hints as to the preservation of our paper for 
binding, for all which he has our cordial thanks. We 
add his suggestions. 
“ Would it not be well for you to suggest to your 
subscribers, some easy method of preserving their 
numbers of the Agriculturist in a neat and clean 
state, to the end of the volume 1 Without proper care 
taken, such a work will become unfit for binding; but 
well kept, it will be as valuable in years to come as 
in the present year. 
My way is, bn receiving it from the office, to have 
the folds made in mailing, carefully ironed out, stitch¬ 
ed, the leaves cut, and placed in a cover before any 
one is suffered to read it. I made a cover of book- 
board, with leather back and corners, finished with 
marbled paper, of suitable size to contain one year’s 
numbers. I suppose thick pasteboard would answer 
very well. It is not necessary to fasten more than one 
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or two to the cover—and they need not be fastened 
together. At the end of the year the volume is in a 
fit state for binding, and the cover ready to receive 
the next. Should you recommend some plan lor pre¬ 
serving the papers through the year, it may be a ben¬ 
efit to the children of some of your subscribers.” 
Mr. Charles W. Elliott, of Cincinnati, has written 
to us about Peach trees. He has just commenced a 
fine nursery, and thinks in the fickle spring of South 
Ohio that the Peach should be planted on a northern 
exposure to prevent an otherwise premature blossom¬ 
ing, and endangering the fruit to be cut off by early 
frosts. A belt of forest is desirable on the north to 
break off the cold winds, and he recommends little or 
no pruning other than cutting out the centre wood, 
thus forming a large bush, as we understand him, ra¬ 
ther, than a tree, which admits the sun alike to all 
its branches. 
We have received from Mr. G. W. Phipps, a plan 
of “ Webb’s perfect Bee Hive,” which appears to be 
an admirable contrivance. He says in an accom¬ 
panying note, “ These hives are approved by the 
most experienced raisers of honey, who say they 
answer fully the purpose for which they are intended \ 
they effectually keep out the moth. Honey collected 
in these hives is perfectly pure and white, and has 
sold as high as 50 cents the pound. The honey is 
collected without injury to the bees.” 
Mr. Beach, of Lebanon, O., has forwarded a cure 
for Fistula before it breaks out. “ Take Podophyl¬ 
lum (May Apple) root when green and pulverise it 
fine; then boil in hogs lard till strong, and apply 
when cold to the swelling for a few days, but care 
should be taken not to let the liquid run down on the 
shoulder, as it makes the worst kind of sore. When 
the hair is about to come on, fresh butter or lard 
should be applied, and the hair will come on as well 
as ever, and the horse will not be shy in the withers 
afterwards. I have cured three in this manner that 
have remained sound for years.” 
An old friend, J. H. Hepburn, Esq., of Jersey shore, 
P. 0-, Lycoming Co., Pa., after some very compli¬ 
mentary remarks on our work, which, as in all other 
cases we must omit, and a list of subscribers for 
which he has our thanks, says— 
“ If you should be enquired of, for a very superior 
Durham Bull, and can find me a purchaser for Sam 
Patch, at a fair price, I will sell him next season. 
You are acquainted with his pedigree and the charac¬ 
teristics of the family from which he derived as well 
as I am. As to the properties of the stock of his get¬ 
ting, it is equal to any thing that can be produced, 
both for fine form and large milking. I can only 
however, speak of the milking from one heifer that 
has come in, and that at too early an age ; but as she 
was a good size, and I was impatient to see what she 
would do, I let her to the bull early. She is now 23 
months old, and is giving four gallons of milk, per 
day, grass fed. My other heifers out of him I will 
keep back, and when they are in caff, as it will be the 
third crop from him, I may sell him if I can get his 
value. Considering the deranged state of money 
matters, I will sell him for four hundred dollars.” 
As to the Bull to which Mr. IT. refers, we can 
answer for his breeding , he having been produced 
from some of our thorough bred short horn stock, and 
though we have not seen him since a calf, we are con¬ 
fident he is a valuable animal, and well worth the 
price asked for him, even in these excruciating times. 
His progeny is sufficient recommendation for him. 
The valuable letter of John J. McCaughan, Esq. 
will appear in our next. Its reception after our mat 
ter was made up, unavoidably excludes it from this,. 
