Raising Hemp—Saving Manure—Bee Hive* 
It is my opinion that the sooner it is spread 
upon the earth after it is dropped from the 
animal the better. I have tried it upon a 
piece of grass land the two past years, and 
from land which in 1840 bore comparatively 
nothing, l have this year cut 2 1-2 tons hay 
per acre, by manuring it highly in 1841 and 
1842 with that which came fresh from the 
the stable, and was put upon the land in the 
month of March. I have nothing to say 
against the age of manure kept under cover 
and from the air. I believe the longer it is 
kept the better, even until it turns to salt¬ 
petre ; with this too I have had some expe¬ 
rience, and know something of its great 
7 power to stimulate vegetation. 
Very respectfully, yours, 
October , 1842. Inquirer. 
Michael L. Sullivant, Esq. of Columbus, 
Ohio, writes us, that he has just finished 
curing a good crop of 40 acres of hemp, it 
being the first attempt at raising it in that vi¬ 
cinity. He also adds—“ We are much in 
the spirit of making manure, since reading 
Johnstone’s Agricultural Chimistry, and Da¬ 
na’s Muck ManueL” This is certainly a rare 
thing for a gentleman to assert who is culti¬ 
vating the fertile bottoms of the Sciota. We 
can remember when any person would have 
been laughed at, upon the slightest supposh 
tion of it ever being necessary to enrich the 
soil in that section of the country, and many 
of the farmers there still believe manure a 
great incumbrance and would feel grateful to 
any one who would take the pains to cart it 
from their premises. But not so with Mr. Sul- 
livant. He finds from actual experience, that 
a continual cropping of these fertile bottoms 
does very gradually exhaust them, and we 
recollect when we last visited him, of seeing 
all his manure carefully husbanded in the 
yards, and carted out to his rich meadows 
before breaking them up for corn, and of the 
good effects of this system, we have no 
doubt the succeeding crops have told a good 
tale. 
We shall be happy to hear of Mr. J. Sul- 
livant’s experiments in making sugar from 
corn stalks, and trust that they will be soon, 
forwarded us for publication. 
Another article on the prairie grasses of 
Ohio we have been confidently looking for, 
from a correspondent, and are sure our read¬ 
ers and the public will be much benefited by 
its appearance. 
PLAJST OF A BEE HIVE. 
Fig. 2. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
Gent.— Enclosed I send you a drawing of 
a bee-hive ; it is now in full operation, and to 
all appearance, is the very article that has 
been so long desired, and if you think it wor¬ 
thy, you will confer a favor by giving it a 
, place in your very valuable periodical'. 
I call it the convenient bee-hive., and shall 
describe it as follows: Fig. 1 represents a side 
view of the hive as it stands in the apiary ; 
fig. 2, the top or main body of the hive when 
removed from the hasp ; fig. 3, the base, 
giving an inside view, when the body of the 
hive is removed,. 
The letter «, represents the side of the 
body of the hive : b , the door inclosing the 
