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Artificial Swarming of Bees. 
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Practical Treatise on Humanity to Honey Bees. 
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Handbook on the Honey Bee. 
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An Essay on the Winter Management of Bees. 
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The Hive and its Wonders. (Written for the 
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Two Blades of Grass vs. One. 
We are not able to say liow many addresses, 
reports, and communications we have had sent to 
us during the year, which contain the proposition, 
that that man is said to be a benefactor, who causes 
two blades of grass to grow where one grew be¬ 
fore. We are safe in saying that it is some scores 
at least. As a rule, we stop when we come to 
that sentence, and conclude, that the man who 
wrote it had not much to say. We do not doubt 
the sentiment any more than we doubt the histor¬ 
ical fact, introduced into every school boy’s com- 
eosition upon intemperance, that Alexander killed 
his friend Clytus in a drunken spree. We con¬ 
cede the benevolence of the man who multiplies 
blades of grass, whether once, twice, or sixty fold 
for all time to come, and we wish to advertise all 
our friends, who write addresses for the Fall fairs, 
or articles for the papers, that we are not hereti¬ 
cal on this point, and never mean to be. Our 
readers generally are sound in the faith, and are 
stirring themselves diligently to intensify the pro¬ 
lific qualities of grass. While all flesh is grass, 
there is little danger that the verdancy and the 
truth of this proposition will be forgotten. We 
beg for our own particular benefit, and that of our 
readers, that this sentiment may be laid upon the 
shelf among the fixed facts, and axioms of our 
agricultural literature. He is a benefactor who 
makes the sun to shine. We believe this^ truth 
just as cordially, as if it was announced in every 
chapter of the Bible, and bored into us in every 
sermon on Sunday. The whole world has been 
convinced for at least two thousand years past, 
of the benevolence of the man who makes the 
grass reduplicate its blades. For a small sum we 
will warrant that the proposition shall not be 
doubted for the next two thousand years of the 
world’s history, even if no writer alludes to it in 
any way, shape or manner. 
The Southdown Sheep. 
Many of our readers are already aware that 
of the improved breeds of mutton sheep 
which have been brought into this country from 
England, we have esteemed the Southdowns as 
among the very best. Their compact, well-knitted 
frames, their hardihood, their capacity of taking 
on flesh at an early age, and their fair fleece of 
middle-quality wool give them a value to the 
smaller farmers. They are so available for flesh 
and ready market, that they are rapidly spreading 
throughout the country wherever feeding mutton, 
or rearing market lambs is an object, and railroad 
transportation is accessible. Thoroughbred 
Southdowns are, as yet, too valuable as breeders, 
to sacrifice in mutton ; and there is not a likely 
thoroughbred ram reared, but is worth at least 
fifty dollars as a lamb-getter, among a flock of com¬ 
mon or cross-bred ewes, kept mainly for mutton 
purposes. As a proof of this fact, one need only 
stand at our sheep and lamb markets on sale days, 
to witness the wide range in price which our 
butchers make in their purchases of good South- 
down and long wooled grades, over the common 
scrubby things so framed that they cannot take 
on a fair carcase of mutton under almost any 
given amount of feeding. On the same food, the 
improved sheep is fat, and plump ; the other is 
lean and scraggy. One brings a profitable return 
to the breeder, and a fair profit to the purchaser; 
the other, no profitable return to the breeder, and 
if the buyer or butcher makes a profit on the car¬ 
case, his profit comes out of the consumer, who is 
surely a loser in the use of such inferior meats. 
We are led to these remarks by receiving from 
Mr. J. C. Taylor, of Holmdel, Monmouth Co., 
New Jersey, a sketch of three of his beautiful 
imported Southdown ewes, bred by Mr. Webb, 
the celebrated Southdown breeder, at Babraham, 
Cambridgeshire, Eng. In these cuts are exhibited 
the fine rotund shape, and beautiful symmetry oi 
the animal as now perfected by their best breeders, 
both in England and America. Mr. Taylor has 
taken eminent pains, and been at great expense, 
to get up a flock of the choicest variety, and from 
his success in making sales, both at home and 
abroad, he is doing signal service to the country. 
A late sale of eight rams, and two ewes to go to 
California, at an average price of $110 each, folly 
justifies his enterprize, while it repays the extra¬ 
ordinary outlay in stocking his farm with such 
valuable sheep. From $300, for some of the 
choicest, down to $50, for others of equally good 
blood, but younger, were among the prices; and 
we have no doubt that the discriminating sheep- 
breeders of our country will continue to buy, at 
fair prices, all the good Southdowns which our 
breeders can rear for years to come. Mr. Taylor 
recently imported, at the cost in England of $500 
paid to Mr. Webb, a fine Southdown ram, “Frank,” 
the highest price ever before paid, except by our 
friend Samuel Thorne for his celebrated prize 
ram, No. 1 la, three or four years ago, also from 
Mr. Webb, which cost in England, $050, the price 
at about which he had been let at for a single sea¬ 
son, at the time, but bought off' by Mr. Thorne 
from the bidder. There are probably at this mo¬ 
ment no better Southdowns in England than those 
now in the possession of Mr. Thorne, and Mr. 
Taylor, and we congratulate the country that we 
have amongst us two gentlemen who have exhib¬ 
ited the sagacity and enterprise to thus introduce 
and establish at once, without regard to cost, the 
highest standards of quality in this race of sheep. 
We are surprised and mortified that the stock 
farmers of our great feeding districts in the West 
have hitherto paid so little attention to these valu¬ 
able sheep. It would cost them but twenty-five 
per cent, more to bring a sheep to New York 
worth six to ten dollars at the Bull’s Head, than 
the scraggy thing which only brings three or four 
dollars ; and yet they do it, while the tools to rev¬ 
olutionize the whole mutton trade of the country 
can be obtained for a small percentage on the dif¬ 
ference in price of the mutton, when reared. In 
addition to the extraordinary sheep of Messrs. 
Taylor and Thorne, some fine flocks of South- 
downs exist in the western part of New York, in 
Ohio, and some other States, from which they can 
obtain rams to improve their flocks of mutton. 
SOUTHDOWN EWES-IMPORTED FROM THE FLOCK OF JONAS WEBB, ENGLAND. 
