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which the bees pass into the chambers, are always 
carefully left open by them when every other 
opening is tightly cemented. This is conclusive 
evidence that the bees anticipate the use of the 
chambers, sooner or later, as store-rooms. In order 
to cause the bees to work upon these bars, a guide- 
comb must be attached to one of the outside bars, 
and the bees will build upon each succeeding bar 
as a matter of necessity. The guide-comb may be 
quite small, say two inches long and one broad. 
If no guide should be afforded, the bees might build 
across the bars. There is another way, however, 
to make bees build their combs in such-direction as 
one requires, as follows. When bees are hived, 
they always ascend to the highest part of the hive 
to commence building their combs—that is, if the 
hive be placed on a slight inclination, by raising 
one side two or three inches, while the other side 
is in close contact with the table used, the bees will 
ascend to the highest side, and build their combs 
horizontally , and as bees generally lay the founda¬ 
tion of the first comb on the second day on which 
they are hived, by inclining the hive, we can have 
the combs run in such direction as we desire. An 
advantage of cross bars is in being able to cut out 
and withdraw a comb at pleasure, in the spring, to 
supply brood-comb for artificial swarming. The re¬ 
newing of old combs may be effected on this plan, 
by withdrawing half of the contents of a hive dur¬ 
ing the swarming season of one year, and the other 
half in the next season. 
I speak of this method as feasible, but not as ad¬ 
visable as a general rule ; but in order to allow 
those who may wish to try the advantage of it, 1 
submit the distances of the bars as given by Dr. 
Bevan, which are as follows, viz. the three 
centre-bars seven-sixteenths of an inch apart, 
and gradually widening the distance on each 
side to nine-sixteenths of an inch between the 
two last bars. The bars are one and one-eighth 
of an inch wide, and half an inch thick. With 
bars of these dimensions, Bevan used hives eleven 
and five-eighths inches square. I 
allude to this kind of hive merely 
because it is considered as all- 
important by Dr. Bevan, whose 
work, is the only one of merit 
that has a general circulation*in 
this country. I myself do not, 
and will not try the experiment, be¬ 
ing satisfied with leaving- “ well 
enough alone.” Indeed, the art of 
making bees profitable does not lie 
in mystified complications, which 
perhaps the world may one day find 
out. T. B. Miner. 
Ravenswood, L. I., Nov. 1847. 
three feet apart in an orchard, about the middle of 
May, in the time of a severe drought, and was 
ready for harvesting by the middle of .August. The 
height of this corn was about five feet, the stalks 
slender, and upon an average, it contained two full 
grown ears to each, well filled with large grains, 
and growing only about eighteen inches above the 
ground. The field from which the above sample 
was taken, it was estimated yielded ninety-one 
bushels of shelled corn to the acre, or about one- 
third more than his ordinary crop. Had this variety 
been planted throughout the State of New York, 
the present corn-crop, he said, would probably have 
been increased 5,00*0,000 bushels ! 
Dr. Field also exhibited a specimen from the seed 
of the premium yellow corn of the last Fair of the 
American Institute, which contained only one ear 
on a high stalk, and was then in its milky or im¬ 
mature state. The latter variety was planted ear¬ 
lier than the other, and suffered much more 
severely from the drought. Dr. F. said that he con¬ 
sidered the Brown corn to possess many important 
advantages over the ordinary kinds, among which 
he enumerated the following:— 
1. It produces a greater yield, the mode of cul¬ 
ture being the same. 
2. Its rapid growth and early maturity render it 
secure both from late spring, or early autumnal 
frosts, and offer the advantage of early use or 
readiness for market. 
3. From its hard, flinty character, and the abun¬ 
dance of oil it contains, it is very nutritious and 
valuable for shipping. 
4. Owing to the diminutive size of its stalks, it 
is less exhausting to the soil, less liable to be blown 
down by high winds, and may also be planted at 
less distances apart. 
5. It has the peculiarity of thriving in orchards, 
or among other trees, where other varieties gene¬ 
rally do not succeed. 
GRANGER'S IRON-WITCH COOKING-STOVE. 
NEW YORK FARMERS’ CLUB. 
Successful Cultivation of the Brown Corn.- —At a 
late meeting of this Club, Dr. H. A. Field exhibited 
from his farm specimens of Indian corn-stalks with 
the ears attached. One was the variety called 
Brown corn; the seed from which it was raised, he 
obtained last spring, from Long Island, Lake Win- 
nipissiogee, in New Hampshire. The crop, he said, 
has far exceeded his expectation. It was planted 
Stoves are now so generally used all over the 
Middle and Northern portions of the United States 
for cooking, that one is to be found in almost every 
dwelling. Common as they are, the mass of them 
are defective, and in many cases very poor. We 
feel that we are doing a great service to our readers 
by recommending them to the use of proper stoves 
for cooking, particularly the planters of the South 
