MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
SELECTING A PLACE. 
ANOTHER BEE-HIVE — COLTON’S IMPROVED PATENT. 
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In few transactions do men make such 
egregious errors as in selecting themselves Although the Bee-hive subject in 
a home. Multitudes are governed more by our I 351, was not announced as “to be 
the amount of money they can command cont * n ued, we take it up again to give 
or by some whim, than what they really a cut of Colton’s Improved Patent. 
want-, in consequence of which many a It is represented in the accompanying 
good man in comfortable circumstances is CI1 n rav ing with the back doors open, 
made substantially a slave for life. For in- showing the box drawers which “open 
stance, here is a man who has a particular r * cb ’ wben idled, as there the bees 
taste for market gardening and the cultiva- de P osit their P urest and rich <*t stores. Wi 
tion of small fruits—he obtains an acre or bbe centre part of the hive, between |||| 
two of land and enjoys the greatest pleas- the rows of drawers, is the home of H 
ure, and profit too, in occupying it to the thc bees > and the boxes a ™ so made 
best advantage. In process of time he be- as to be °P ened to their admission at 
comes independent in his circumstances, t,bc of tbe owner - Tbe y can be 
and soon lays by enough to buy him a farm. removed and others substituted, when 
Some evil spirit whispers to him thus to in- [ ulI > aad where in use are thought to 
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soon moves on to a large farm, to which he the bone ^’ wlthout destro >’ m S the bees > For the benefit of our readers residing in 
is not by habits or taste adapted, and his whlch can be devlsed ' We knw of a case Niagara and Orleans, we may add that Mr. 
life is thenceforth one of severe and ardu- ln ' v ' hlch a fnend took tw0 Premiums, and D. C. Culver of Royalton, owns thc right 
„ u i„„i, wir rp _ sol d '^ 2 5 worth of honey, from ©ne hive, in for the former,—and Mr. R. Gordineer of 
soon moves on to a large iaim, 10 wniun no \ w & 
is not by habits or taste adapted, and his whlch can be devlsed ' We know of a case Niagara and Orleans, we may add that Mr. 
life is thenceforth one of severe and ardu- m ' vblch a fr,end took two P^miums, and D. C. Culver of Royalton, owns thc right 
ous toil Often does he look back with re- Sold * 25 worth of hone ^ from ® ne hlve > in for the former,-and Mr. R. Gordineer of 
gretto the little spot of earth which, for a smgle season-having enough left to keep Medina, for the latter county. They will 
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gret to the little spot of earth which, tor 
liberal attention, had ever yielded him grate¬ 
ful returns—but alas, he is chained to his 
destiny. 
Another individual has an excellent farm 
in a retired situation where he soon becomes 
prosperous and forehanded. Ambition leads 
him to sell off his old but long tried place, 
his swarm throughout the winter. probably furnish the hive ready made or 
We believe Colton’s hive has not been give specifications by which any mechanic 
generally introduced in Western New-York. can construct them. 
LE ROY FARMERS' AND MECHANICS’ 
ASSOCIATION. 
though having the advantage of tame grass 
and clover. 
P. P , • , i We notice with much pleasure, the form- In the spring of 1850, my sheep gave, 
him to sell off his old but long tried place, . T a * • i f 6 . , /, . ° ’ 
. ° „ ation or an Industrial Association, of the throughout the entire nock at shearing, four 
and he selects a fine farm with an excellent Farme ^ Mecbanics nnd Fruit Growers „ f pounds and ^ olmces of wool> wh £ ^ 
mansion, out ui ln o s at ) awns, u theTownof LeRoy. It cannot fail to prove flock they were taken from did not yield 
ter he has obtained the gilded pnze, he finds, of high ^ as an enc of entcr . tbree pounds the head . Xhe sho J are 
when too late to retrace his steps, (for pride . .. c . . 
) ., prize and improvement among them, and as only divided by a fence, mine running to 
prevents him,) that himself and family are bringing ^ ^ much 
new in- the straw stack, and my neighbor’s sheep 
utterly incapab e o appreciating so nc a f ormat j on connec t e d with their interests. having hay and grain in the winter. Now 
place, and have not taste enoug to a 'eep it The Preamble and Constitution are given the question is, how to account for the in- 
in a respectable condition. below—omitting those articles which relate crease in flesh and wool, considering the 
He honored himself on the old farm, to the duties of a portion of the officers, and management of both flocks ? 
while on the new one he as certainly dis- t 0 amendments and annual meetings: A Young Farmer. 
honors himself, for such a place deserves a preamlbe. Moscow, Mich., January, 1851. 
more capable, if not a more faithful steward, Wi, the undersigned Farmers and Mechanics OREGON FARMING 
j . and others, of the Town of Le Roy and its vicinity, _ 
and community h < S ' for the purpose of promoting the Agricultural, Me- With pto tn (to lo • , 
Once more Here is another man—one chanical, and Horticultural interests of the Town, ... J. . 1 ar o® accession which 
» -j i tt do hereby form ourselves into a Society, and agree wld most certainly be made to OUr popula- 
living near where I formerly resided. He to be governed by the following tion this season, we have thought a few re¬ 
occupied a neat and pleasant cottage with constitution. marks with reference to the agricultural af- 
a small but excellent garden, which was 1st.—This Society shall be called the Farmers’ fairs of our territory would not be out of 
but & stone’s throw from his business. Ev- ^ooiation. of th. Town o. L„ pUca The fact is indisputable that there 
tDirur Tyne nlea«ant_everv thing was 2d.—Any person may become a member of the '' 1 0 a great ernand for provisions, and 
^ ^ c ^ ^ ° Association, by subsribing to the Constitution, and the question is frequently asked, is there a 
prosperous—but alas, ambition lias made paying to the Treasurer the yearly sum of 50 cts. sufficient amount of provisions in the terri- 
sad havoc in that happy family! It induced 3d '~ Th ®. °® cers of th ® Association shall be a tory to meet the demand ? We have great 
him to purchase a fine situation, and some _ an d a Committee of Seven, who, together with P lcasure » aIter . extensive and careful enqut- 
eight or ten fair acres, a half mile off from the President and Secretary, shall form an Execu- ry, 1 R expressing a strong confidence that 
o tive (.ommittee. there wi he fniinrl tn hn o cnmlno 
Once more. Here is another man—one 
living near where I formerly resided. He 
occupied a neat and pleasant cottage with 
a small but excellent garden, which was 
his store. The consequence is, he half of • • * * * * * *. , visions on hand to supply an emigratio'n of 
the time loses hisdinnent wh,ch has result- ^ when Zl reflect A the un- 
ed in a failure of his health and the pros- their power relative to the subjects assigned them, settled condition of our farming population 
tration of a good constitution. He, partic- and re P ort the same - together with his ownexperi- and the too general neglect of agricultural 
ularly on cold or rainy nights, sits to a late 6 "sSb^-Tto .fc.ll fir the “ v ^ Wh? refl , eots .f C! “ c « dit O” 
Iimir in his comfortable store dreading his da y for the Annual Fair between the 1st and 25th Y ltb sucb e ' I( lGnce ot great re- 
1 ’ b days of October in each year. Such Annual Fair sources, what can we not do, by proper ap- 
long, dark and dreary walk home, so that to be held in the Village of Le Roy. And if the plication to the development of our natural 
his family can scarce sec him at all. His £ 01 T, itt ® e deo ; n d expedient, they may appoint advantages? 
- Monthly Fairs for the two months next preceeding a ~ ru * .y c , ,, , 
family are so far from church and evening the Annual Fair, for the exhibition of Fruits, Vege- . na lfc I s a * act w orthy of record that our 
lectures that they have changed from con- ta b'es, Fbwers, &c. agriculturists are becoming convinced that 
J ® . 10th.—Every person presenting articles for ex- the richest gold mines to which they call 
slant to occasional attendants; in fact they hibition must be a member of the Association, and resort are their own fertile fields We have 
havo become in a large measure isolated. ™ a „y facts before us which leid us to the 
The little garden and yard was finely cared ner of tillage of crops, &c. conviction that every man who can com- 
there will be found to be a surplus of pro- 
FORESTS. 
It must be apparent to the slightest ob¬ 
server, that the forests of the State are rap¬ 
idly diminishing, and that wood every year 
is scarcer and dearer. Considering the 
value and necessity of woodlands to future 
generations, a farmer cannot do a better 
service to his posterity and to the State than 
to perpetuate the forests. To accomplish the 
object, the woods now standing must be 
carefully guarded, and cut with caution.— 
Only the oldest trees should be selected, 
leaving the others to improve by standing. 
The high prices of wood leads our farmers 
I to cut off all the timber of some piece of 
I land, whose soil, rocky situation, or position 
on a side hill, prove that it is of no service 
but for wood. A little care of such tracts 
would lead to their perpetuity, and to their 
constant increase in value. All woodlands 
should be so securely fenced that cattle 
should have no access. A litte care will 
protect the very young trees from the 
growth of underbrush. But there is one 
thing, hitherto neglected by our farmers, to 
which we wish to call their attention, and 
that is, the sowing of the various nuts that 
will preserve the forest to posterity. It is 
on this subject that the present generation 
have been the most careless, and have shown 
the least regard to the benefit of the future, 
because they may suppose the present will 
derive no advantage from it. Let, there¬ 
fore, our farmers every year, scatter acorns 
of different species, especially of the white 
oak, beach nuts, hickory nuts, of the kind 
most serviceable for fuel and in places 
adapted to the tree, chesnuts if they wish a 
supply of fencing, maple and ash keys, &c., 
and they will be doing as much service to 
their grand children as if they laid up mon- 
i ey for them at ten per cent, interest.— Hart¬ 
ford (Com) Cour ant. 
Remarks. —The Hartford Courant is not 
quite so good a guide in farming as some 
of our practical men. The old plan of go¬ 
ing into wood-lots and cutting none but the 
rotten trees is entirely exploded by our mod¬ 
em farmers. It is found to be the best to 
cut clean as you go and let the sprouts come 
out. Sprouts grow more than twice as fast 
as seedlings. But no sprouts come from 
old trees. If all are cut we may expect 
vigorous sprouts to come from the young 
stumps. 
We frequently find lamentations in the 
newspapers about the fate of those who may 
live a hundred years hence. They com¬ 
plain that the public lands are stripped of 
the forest trees, and ask that the timber 
now growing may be permitted to stand for 
future generations, as if the same timber 
will be as good then as now. Ought they 
not to ask for a provision to guard the young 
wood and the sprouts, and should not pub¬ 
lic agents be appointed to cut off the full 
grown trees to make room for the small 
nnps ? 
for, but thc eight or ten acres call for SO Hth.-AU persons who present articles for exhi- 
9 k % # bition must conform to the regulations of the As- 
much to be done as to effectually discour- sociation. 
acre from doing scarcely anything. And . 12th.-A show case shall be prepared and placed 
£> c> J J \D in snmp. nlaeft in the V1 lacre ot ho Kov. where 
many facts before us which lead us to the 
conviction that every man who can com¬ 
mand a rood of land would do well for him¬ 
self and the country to draw off of it all of 
which it is capable. 
That agricultural pursuits will pay large- 
' & J J c* in some place in the Village of Le Roy, where lliat agricultural pursuits will pay large- 
what is all this for? Why simply that he specimens of Fruit, Vegetables, and other articles ly, a few facts will prove. For example_ 
miffht have land enough of his own to pas- ma -’ at , an Y t !™ 6 be P lacod > and ' f deemed expedi- we overheard a gentleman a few days since 
ture his cow —a mere figment of a vain im- report on the same, as often as once a week, thro’ |‘® rnar King that he had just sold stock irorn 
agination. To banish his family from al- ^ papers of the Village. f farm to the amouat ^ 7 >0°°; And 
“b 1 ' 13th.— Such truits. Vegetables, flowers and the same gentleman said that aside from his 
most every privilege, and himself from al- other articles as the owners thereof are willing, remaining stock he also had 150 acres of 
most every social comfort, in order that he exhib^ wheat > which is now bein g harvested, and 
might have thc ' privilege of pasturing his the other monies received by the Treasurer after which will yield from twenty to thirty bush- 
marn ,-nw at more than ten times the ex- pa >' in £ the necessar y expenses of the Association, e ls per acre. And any one can calculate 
own vow, at more than ten times the ex shal , g0 », ^,„ p ,h e to be „.,d 8d . t i ie F thousands of dol / ars such a wi „ 
pense in interest which it would have cost ******** . “ r 1 r , “ 
f. Vt. ;„m™ v_ ...,n officers for 1851. secure t0 . ><* h “ re . heard .» f 
to hire a neighbor to keep and milk his 
cow, and deliver the milk at the door. 
These are only specimens of multitudes 
of cases where, if men when selecting a 
ELIJAH PLATT, President. 
Wm. Morgan, Vice President. 
John H. Stanley, Secretary. 
James K. Bartlett, Treasurer. 
secure to its owner. We have heard of 
two or three gentlemen on the Columbia 
river who have large fields of potatoes which 
have been, by disinterested persons, estima¬ 
ted at $1,000 per aere. One individual has 
’ ° The following persons were appointed to bo as- ten acres of potatoes, which have and will 
place and only knew or would stop and think sociated with the President and Secretary, for an in aU cost him twQ monthg f personal la _ 
Wh* ««y really want, they might avoid. ‘ ° ^ bo,, and the same amount /labor from 
Let the inquiries be direct and sensible. 
What kind of a place do I want? Is the 
place I am looking at, convenient for me ? 
Is it adapted to a man of more qr less, or a 
different taste than myself? Am I capable 
supervision of the Association :— 
B. Murphy, Uri Kelsey, A. Brewster, J. G. Buel, 
J. W. Shedd, Joseph Annin, John Tomlinson. 
A QUERY FOR SOLUTION. 
two hired hands, and if he meet with no 
adverse fortune, he will realize eight or ten 
thousand dollars from his potatoes alone.— 
In the upper part of the Willamette and 
Umqua river there are almost unlimited op¬ 
portunities for hay raising and dairy busi- 
^-1 - - \ - > T7 T> T 1 i • * VJ 1J.AU U.C* AAV K/L UACAC; CHC aiLAAU&b ULillllll IC'U UU" 
f . iro a ^ t i-i Eds. Rural:—I have a question in re- z 1 ... n , . . , , . , K 
different taste than myself ' Am I capable 1 portuinties for hay raising and dairy busi- 
of managing it crcditablr, or will it all be atIOn t0 sheep, a Inch some of your readers nesS| j„ t h,. most beautiful country in the 
but as good old Richard used to say. “pay anSWer ’ ,t / aCed / befo f e the “- In Oreg on Spectator. 
. j r . 7 ,.. 7 June, 1849, my father (now deceased) pur- " ot-Lru^ruw. - 
%ng too dear for the whistle. r. g. p. lit + e * c i- \ A cement composed of four parts of pure 
January 8,1851. ^ “ far “- f tlllablc ^ " ha>h ; chalk, and five and one half parts of fresh 
-(speaking after the manner of men,) had blue alluvial clay> wiU be found choapcr 
Farmers too should be active if they been skinned. The soil had never been than any other as an hydraulic mortar, 
would keep along with the times. They stirred to the depth of more than three or . “ ~—TTT T , 
should not let their end of the yoke slack- four inches,-but by plowing six or eight sb J p : ‘Le anoweTfreeaccMsTsik they 
en and draw them into the furrow, harm- inches deep, crops are now pioduced that w jjj n eye r subject to the disease called 
ers must have more light than was needed astonish the neighbors. In buying the the “ rot.” 
when the virgin soil bore a spontaneous farm we bought a small lot of sheep, im- ’ 
burthen, and when the cattle found winter mediately after shearing. They were very Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave 
quarters under a pine bough or a hemlock, poor, but before fall they were fat, while otbers to ° 7 y QU what they plea se, 
and found browse on the winter green that the remainder of the flock from which they A man is rich who makes more than his 
needed no cultivation. — Mass. Ploughman, were taken, still remained in low flesh, expenses. 
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave 
For purposes of fuel young wood is best, 
and more of it may be obtained per acre, in 
a hundred years, by often cutting, than by 
letting the trees become old before they 
are cut. Timber lots must be permitted to 
stand longer, but they may stand too long. 
The fault of our New England foresters 
is, they clear up too large a proportion of 
their lands for tillage—lands that arc not 
worth tillage—and they endeavor to keep 
the bushes down to prevent new forests 
arising. We have a large proportion of 
land in Massachusetts that is good for noth¬ 
ing else but wood, and wood should be en¬ 
couraged to grow on such. 
In regard to sowing acorns and chest¬ 
nuts the trouble is, where such nuts are 
scarce the squirrels dig them all up. Where 
they are plenty there is no need of sowing, 
for the birds and the squirrels scatter these 
nuts pretty freely in adjacent grounds, and 
chestnut trees are now coming where none 
have appeared since the first settlement of 
the country. These should all be protected, 
for they grow so fast that six cords of chest¬ 
nut are grown as soon as one cord of walnut. 
No trees are more’ profitable than the 
ohestnut and the white pine. In some parts 
of Plymouth county, white pine seed and 
white birch seed are sown on the poorest 
and thinnest soil—premiums having been 
offered for such acts by the county society. 
Birch grows quite as fast in moist and rocky 
lands, and when the wood is well secured 
—that is, split and housed soon after it is 
cut,—it makes nice fuel, as good as oak in 
proportion to its weight. 
White pine trees seem to grow as fast on 
very thin soils as in the richest vallies. They 
make the handsomest evergreen forests that 
are found any where, and nothing but their 
abundance and commonness make the pub¬ 
lic indifferent to their beauty. White pines 
four or five feet high are as easily trans¬ 
planted as apple trees. Long roots are not 
wanted, but a sod of earth should be re¬ 
moved with the tree.— Mass. Ploughman. 
Ashes. —Take especial care of all the 
ashes made on your place—don’t permit 
them to be exposed to the weather, but keep 
them under cover. Five bushels of ashes, 
mixed with two double horse cart loads of 
marsh river mud, muck or peat, will con¬ 
vert the whole into good manure. A hogs¬ 
head or two of soapsuds would do the same 
thing—therefore, among your savings, save 
and utilize them. 
CARE OF HORSES. 
To go fully into this subject, would re¬ 
quire a whole volume, yet a few hints may 
be useful to some of our readers. Those 
persons who are constantly taking care of 
horses, are generally faithful and intelligent, 
and manage well. The horse is most neg¬ 
lected by the farmer who, in the winter, 
has but little for him to do, and spends but 
little time—often too little—in taking care 
of him. 
The standing of the horse is too much 
neglected, or this subject is not judiciously 
managed either by the professed groom or 
the farmer. The horse is often allowed to 
stand in the stable, on a hard floor, with his 
fore feet considerably higher than his hind 
ones, constantly straining his muscles. The 
floor on which horses stand, should only 
slant one or one and a half inches in eight 
or nine feet, barely enough to conduct off 
the liquid manure. 
Some farmers turn their horses into a 
pen, and let them stand as they please. This 
is a good arrangement, as they can move 
about, and stand at ease; and by standing 
on the manure which is moist and soft to 
their feet, they are much less liable to inju¬ 
ries in the feet than horses that stand on 
hard floors. By this arrangement a horse 
may eat from a trough by the barn floor, so 
as to breathe freely of pure air. But with 
this plan, it is necessary to level the manure 
frequently, where the horse stands to eat, 
else it will accumulate under his hind feet 
and give him an uneasy position. 
Horses should be curried and brushed 
down daily. This is as necessary as it is 
for a person to wash his face and hands 
daily. It is not only necessary to comfort, 
but to permanent health. 
Horses should have a good supply of 
pure water. Farmers often consult their 
own convenience in supplying this, to the 
serious injury of their horses. The animal 
comes home rather late in the evening, 
warm, and perhaps sweaty, and in that con¬ 
dition is supplied with cold water, as the 
hour for retiring for the night is at hand, 
and to water the horse, as the saying is, after 
he has become cool, would be very incon¬ 
venient. To avoid so great an evil as giving 
cold water to a warm horse in winter, when 
his labor is over, give him water when he 
is about to return, if convenient; if not, wait 
till the horse has become cool, after return¬ 
ing home, and turn him to the water, or if 
more convenient carry some to the stable. 
If a little hot water can be added to the 
cold, he may have drink without waiting; 
or moistened food may be given to him, so 
that water will not be so necessary. 
There is one thing in which many farmers 
are negligent in the care of their horses.— 
They feed their whoie stock early in the 
evening, and they do not go to the barn 
again for the night. When the horse has 
eaten his supper of dry fodder, he is very 
thirsty, but he has no drink, and suffers 
greatly for want of it. The next morning 
his thirst has abated, by an equalization of 
moisture in the system, and he has become 
hungry, and is looking for his breakfast, so 
he will not drink frequently, in the morning, 
though water is offered. It is but little 
trouble to turn the horse to water, about 
nine o’clock in the evening, and it should be 
attended to. If the food be cut and moist¬ 
ened, as now practiced by many, it will be, 
in a great measure, a remedy for the evil. 
When the horse is out keep him well 
covered, while standing in the cold, espe¬ 
cially after hard driving, or when warm; 
and put a blanket on him on being put into 
the stable when sweating. Never wash a 
horse’s leg in cold water when he is warm, 
not even in hot weather. Cold water may 
be used for inflammations, but only when 
the horse is still and cool .—New England 
Farmer. 
Make your own Candles. —Take twelve 
ounces of alum for every ten pounds of tal¬ 
low, dissolve it in water before the tallow is 
put in, and then melt the tallow in the alum 
water, with frequent stirring and it will clar¬ 
ify and harden the tallow, so as to make a 
most beautiful article, for either summer or 
winter use, almost as good as sperms. 
If the wick be dipped in spirit of turpen¬ 
tine, the candles will reflect a much more 
brilliant light .—American Farmer. 
Griddle Cakes oe' Unbolted Wheat. 
— A quart of unbolted wheat and a tea¬ 
spoonful of salt; wet it up with water or 
sweet milk, in which is dissolved a teaspoon¬ 
ful of saleratus; add three spoonfuls of mo¬ 
lasses. Some raise this with yeast, and 
leave out the saleratus. Sour milk and sal¬ 
eratus are not as good for unbolted as for 
fine flour. 
These are better and more healthful 
cakes than buckwheat .—Prairie Farmer. 
To Make Transparent Pudding.—8 
eggs, 8 oz. of butter, 8 oz. of sugar, nut¬ 
meg. Beat up the eggs, put them into a 
stew-pan with the sugar and butter, nut¬ 
meg to taste, set it on a stove or fire of coals, 
stirring it constantly until it thickens, then 
pour it into a basin to cool. Set a rich 
paste round the edge of your dish, pour in 
your pudding, and bake it in a moderate 
oven. A most delicious and elegant article. 
