TOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
NOT. 27. 
on cos’ of petting there. Hurra for the ironies, 17 IP CHINESE SUGAR CANE. EXPERIMENTS, rating purposes, and the modus operandi of the eral pleasure of Jiving. I hope they are of i 
Lev ns even Ebandon our hills bug herd 
sugar and syrup camp has been practically illus- genial turn of mind, and do not allow their heads 
tal Misfilta 
The American Institute announces an Exhi- 
pan to forests and wild beasts, and our dwellings The results of the past season's operations with tra * d ^ as he &»*»* 
to the owls and the bats, if we can find no one ins new saccharine producer are beginning to find the .-variations.” The many results go to prove has set forth in his article. If he wishes to see =■ 
green enough to buy of us; let us give up that J^irway to the sanctum .andthe probabilities are that it wiI1 be a pro fi ta ble as well as a very con- farms drained as they ongbt to be, let him visit The American Institute announces an Fvhi- 
sickly sentimentalism which teaches that labor is ' ' * • ® dlJ lfca 111 the corps C01t0 ' venientand sweet occupation in its season. Sugar, Niagara County, andl will showhimfarms drained bition of Fat Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Poultry 
a blessing, and that that man is a public benefactor 8 d “f r of being metamor- 8yrQP) 8nd vinegar , arc deri ved from the BUgar at a much smaller figure than S45 per acre. Yes, competition open to the wholI uniSd 
who causes two blades of grass to grov where be- ie pcimenso 1,1 e 8we ® cane, besides the excellent fidder from its leaves and I will show him men whose knowledge con- commence Dec. 15 i1l See advertisement 
fore there grew but one; let ns away with the j However, we will assume all risks in this acd 8eed . seming draining lands, is fully equally to hfs, who ec.^l^ee^dvertisement. 
folly of being generous in our dealings with mother | and w! 1^ de ™ From what I have learned by experience and will assure him that land can be drained at amuch Rarey’s System Applied to CATTLE.-The 
earth, and henceforth seekAo fl>onge a livibg from 8 R " 8 ' observation, I have come to the conculsion that less cost than what he has placed it. “He wishes groom of the Duke of Portland, James Thompson, 
her without “ stated contributions from unwilling toe sobghum in Indiana. good crops of cane will produce about two hundred to point out the circumstances under which it will after taking a series of lessons under the teaching 
hinds. In short, let us go where we can live without Messrs Eds.:—’ The age of cheap sugar, of which gallons of syrup per acre, or fourteen hundred gal- pay”—also Bays, “mistakes are made in selecting of Rarey, applied the training system to a vicious 
expense and without toil—where nothing that we i triend W. B. P., of Prattsburg, N. Y., speaks in Ions of juice—it takes about seven gallons of juice lands.” Does he not know that the best of lands Alderney bull, and succeeded in making the once 
do will fail to “payr for the simple reason that !, e Rural of Nov. Cth, has not merely a dawning to make one of good syrup. o. p. d. always command the highest prices? Well, then, terrible brute as “tractable and docile as a child » 
fully of being generous in our dealings with mother i matter, and will not longer keep Rural readers 
earth, and henceforth seek to sponge a livibg from | Horn the “feast of good things” given below, 
her without “ stated contributions”' from unwilling Tns sorgdum in Indiana. 
hands. In 6 hcrt, letusgo where we can live without ?v1essr«. Eds.:—T he age of cheap sugar, of which 
expense and without toil—where nothing that we . triend W. B. P., of Prattsburg, N. Y., speaks in 
we’ll nothing do. Huzza for the Tropics! Adieu ;-truce, but has already spread its frugal influ- Palmjra, Wisconsin, 1858. 
to ditching! Everlasting gratitude to him who - •‘nee upon thousmds, and especial'y upon your - - 
from the fullness of his great heart, has kindly 
stepped in to 83ve us individually, and save ns as a 
nation from tumbling “neck and heels” into 
hopeless and irredeemable bankruptcy! And yet 
orrespondent who has not only made syrup but 
r ood sugar. 
We raised “ca ! n” on one-fourth of an acre every 
juice—n eases auuui seven gallons oi juice mnue." uoes ne not know that the best of lands Alderney bull, and succeeded in making the once 
j make one of good syrup. o. p. d. always command the highest prices? Well, then, terrible brute as “tractable and docile as a child.” 
Palmyra, Wisconsin, 1858. ia the poor man going to lay out all his money in -- 
a few acres, when he can buy others a little poorer, A Virginia gentleman proposes to donate 
THE RURAL,—FALL PLOWING. and, as he begins to cultivate the same, improve $20,000 for the erection of an Agricultural College 
' ^ them? No. These are my opinions. I maybe in the vicinity of the University of Virginia, on 
Eds. Rural:—I have been a constant subscriber wrong, and am open to conviction—but his article condition that the farmers of the State will render 
Monday morning, with shovel-p’ow and hoe._ t° y° ur valuable paper, since its first issue—and does not convince me by a great deaL 
a higher meed of praise fer that disinterested anted in rows four feet one way and feet the amid the various publications that come into my 
klDdness which leads him to instruct us—“up in i^er. Part was suckered, leaving four main stalks bouse, there is none that is looked for with so 
Steuben and Cattaraugus. as to the management a hill. The part suskered produced larger stalks much anxiety, or whose pages are perused with so 
of hard-pan land! w. b p. and, I think, more and richer juices on the same much interest. There is, in my estimation, no 
Pr.ittoburgh, K. 1 •, 1858. amount of land than that, which was nnt encVcrpH neriodieal published in onr State, that creates so 
Lockport, Niag. Co., N. Y., 1858. 
INQUIRIES AND ANSWERS. 
the donation available for the purpose, by con¬ 
tributing aD additional sum of $50,000. 
Sheltering Manure.—S table manure kept UDder 
shelter, and properly mixed with absorbing sub- 
MY EXPERIENCE—NO, VL 
Pr Utaburgh, N. 1 ., lSiS. j amoun t 0 f land tban tH a t which was not suckered. periodical published in onr State, that creates so n Dressing Skins. —T saw several recipes in the stances, muck, leaves, strawy litter, &c., is of much 
' ~ j Ihe machine we ured was wooden, the rollers salutary an influence—both morally and intellec- ^ 0KKSE f° r Dressing Deer Skins, and greater value than when exposed in the open 
BET.f a Nli BE E-HIVES. covered with sheet iron. We separated a portion tually—as your valuable paper. It treats not alone som^of^our^correspond^uts 1 would inform 1 me yard ’ An anal y 8is madeat the Royal Agricultural 
MY experience—NO. vl of tbe 8,alk3 at the fif h joint, and used the juice of agriculture; but has a high tone of moral and of a good method to dress Deer Skins and the Colle S e of England, shows that it contains more 
- of the buts for the purpose of mak’ng sugar.— intellectual culture, which serves to render it one of skins of small animals with the hair on, as I have than double tbe quantity of nitrogeDised matter, 
Tnu value of the “Changeable Hive” is based Loveking’s method was followed as closely as in- the most interesting family papers now published. 8 °“ e J B m 0 g^yl'^ e t0 dr€8s f° r 8 coat or other and the same of salts, containing organic and 
upon the following principle. Each young bee, experience, lime, eggs, and a “ big ket le” would Bat my object in writing this article is not so much USC ' * ” 1 s 0r0 ‘ inorganic matter, soluble in water; while of 
when it first hatches from the egg, is nothing permit. Not having the proper instruments by to eulogize the Rural, as to give you my views— What Aiib the Pigs—I wish to make a ' pota3b and soda, the unsheltered manure contains 
more nor less than a worm. When it receives tbe which we could with certainly calculate the point the result of practical experience — in reference quiry through the columns of your valuable paper -08 per cent > and tke sheltered 2 per cent. 
necessary food from the bees, they seal it over; it when to stop boiling, we necessatily resorted to to fall plowing, deep plowing, and plowing under in relation to a disease with which my hogs and - 
will then spin a cocoon or line its cell with a the usual method of getting at such thing?—that clover. more particularly my youDg pigs, have been at- Wisdom in Selection.— A great deal of skill and 
.08 per cent., and the sheltered 2 per cent. 
Wisdom in Selection.— A great deal of skill and 
coating of silk less in thickness than the thinnest ia> guessing. Happi-y the mark was hint, bat Fall plowing, according to the mode of bus- T b e"symptoin^i'rJ’fi 01 '/^^ ,ast t5V0 or three years. sound judgment may be exercised by the farmer in 
paper; this remains af er the bee leaves it. It is not in the center. It granulated in a short time, bandry formerly practiced in this section, was not appetite, and, lamly/difficul^breathiiig 1 ^ l°have 8fde . ct * n £ tbe crop suited to his soil—in selecting 
evident, therefore, that after a great number have but would not separate. Draining would not do very generally approved; but now, in consequence lost a number of very fine shoats with the above variety and seed—in choosing the right time to 
been reared in a cell, and each has left its cocoon, i r , and after we had exhausted the thousand and of the ravages of the midge, wheat has become an disease. Any one of your numerous readers that P^°w, plant and harvest There is a call, too, for 
that such cell must be somewhat diminished, one methods prescribed, to no purpose, we con- uncertain crop, and farmers have to turn their can enlighten me upon Dj® subject will receive my wisdom in selecting of tbe knowledge obtained 
although the thickness of a dozen could not be eluded that if gentle means would not accomplish attention to other more remunerative crops. Spring warme ® an a • ilson, idgeicay, N. Y. from books and papers, that best, suited to our soil, 
measured; and when so reduced as to dwarf the tbe end, force would; so putting the mass into a crops have seemed to promise the most remunera- Remarks Mr. Wilson is hardly explicit enough climate and circumstances. Unless a man has 
bees, these old cells need removing, that the bees cloth strainer, a little pressure brought out the tion; but Spring Barley seems to be about as k ' 8 deta.:l of the symptoms to enable us to speak sound judgment in selecting, it would be better for 
can replace them with new ones. Bat how this thick gummy substances and left dry sugar. uncertain, as regards the midge, as the wheat crop. w ** b certainty as to the disease. It is more than to follow the example of a poor farmer we 
operation shall be performed is just what the I will assure W. B. P., of Sorghum physic no- Oats and corn will, I think, be the principal spring probable, however, that inflammation of the lungs, have heard of, whose crops were always poor, 
majority of patent-venders are ready to tell you— torie’y, that it is a settled fact with u«, that this crops in this section, at least, until the insect wheat (Pneumonia,) is the malady. The early symptom while his neighbor’s, on the next farm, were always 
they have a hive forgths express purpose. They syrup, and sugar not excepted, will keep north of enemies cease their depredations. is coughing. A cough in a hog is always a bus- good. He resolved to do as his neighbor did— 
could sell a recipe to do the thing scientifically, “.Mason’s and Dixon’s line,” and I imagine that be- It is important that Bpring barley should be sown picious circumstance, and should be early and plowing, planting, cultivating at the same time, 
the benefit of which would be many times, on the ing laken over to the other tide it would not suffer as early in the Bpring as will answer, in order that promptI Y attended to. The disease is rapid in its and , 88 near as might be, in the same manner. He 
principle of a surgeon cutting off your head to either by exposure to the atmosphere of that clime it may escape the midge. Oats, also, should be pro f ref8 ; The animal b * a ™ 8 dreadfully at the did so, and had equally good crops, 
get a chance to take up a small artery according nor by comparison with its best productions. Now sown very early to insure a good crop. It becomes flanks; he ka8 a »°st distressing cough, which _ _ , _ , 
to system, or show you a round-about way of half I would advise friend W. B. P. to take a short trip imperative therefore in order to get in as large a somet,mea almost suffocates him, and he refuses TnE Tbisk 1 0TAT0 Crop.— Tne Banner of Ulster 
a dozen miles to accomplish what as many rods out West, and enlarge his experience—in doing breadth as most farmers wish to have the ground t0 eat The principal g uidiD g eymptom will be ™y s: —" * e have had communications from the 
would do! But this is supposing the thing to be bo, if he will take the trouble to visit the domicil plowed in the fall Bat any’further preparation th ? coagh 8 ettin g worse and worse > and becoming mo8t intelligent farmers in this province, relative 
necessary. I shall discourage the operation as far of the subsciiber, he will show him as fine-flavored instead of being an advantage, would be an actual evidentl Y connected with a great deal of fever— t0 llie potato crop - In eome cases i,; is said th at 
as possible. I have found it unnecessary, and, for sugar as ever sweetened the palate of man, which detriment The farrows should not be turned over Ia man y cases congestion takes place in the lungs, one-third of the whole yield is more or lees 
41,0 i„of 4o„ -..oovn Roto ___ j l mill i. u i . „_ . .. ... _ _ _ a ti A th a n Ti I in A loo i n 4 i> i-o o o f fov, m a o : j.i_ diseased: in other instances ths destrnver has 
enough to have the cells reduced, to damage them. It is 
unnecessary to tell me that the stock runs down be¬ 
cause there is not room in the cell to develop the 
bee! The proportion that fail the second year is 
as great as those at eight years old or more. 
Pretty Prairie, Ind., 1858. 
THE SORGHUM IN PENNSYLVANIA. 
harrowed smooth, with a harrow—bat should be 
left partially edgeways. It is thus rendered more fri- 
cough comes on, there is little appetite, rapid wast- extended to more than one-tenth of the aggregate. 
7; J , oumure.xi- first thing that is to be rt rau8t not be ^gotten that evident signs of the 
able,loose and mellow, consequently more easily and ..... ? , , mai is 10 De _ . ... 0 
Letter nretmred for the seed in the anrin, tin it. d ^> 8 to_ bleed, and the most convenient place to d >«ease being m course of dying out, are to be 
juc yrupui uou mat mu me second year is ... better prepared for the seed in tbe spring than it “ v “''cuuvcmcm piace 10 . ~° “ --.- 
great as those at eight years old or more. Kr,s - Dural:—I suppose you, with some others, wou i d be jf dragged or cultivated in the fall. The b1 ced the hog is from the palate, If an imaginary 8een 111 the P otato lands. The disease is this year 
It is somewhat amusing to look over the different are ver y anxious to know how we succeed with action of the frost upon the ground left in the fur- line is drawn froai between the first and second ma ch less virulent than it was in the early seasons 
iriations in design to accomplish this feat of our Sorghum this fall. It can be answered in a row is found to moie completely destroy the tena- f roEt middle teeth i and extending backward an of its existence, and the sound portions of the 
impelling tbe bees to make new comb every two few words. Much better than last year; beyond P1 - nnH nn oiiH PH U t>osrpr?ps than if left flat py inch along the palate, and the palate is there cut crop are of a quality at least equal to the finest 
_ _ -_. . ____ J cious qualities 11 posseBfctB man 11 xeir nat ana ... „ ._* __ n ___ . ... irrnwn in thp ii»v« 
variations in design to accomplish this feat of our Sorghum this fall. It can be answered in a row is found to moie completely destroy the tena- f r01lt midd!e teeth » and extending backward an ot lta existence, and the sound portions of the 
compelling tbe bees to make new comb every two fenr words. Much better than last year; beyond ci0UB qualities it possesses than if left flat and iuch along the palate > flnd tbe palate is there cut crop ar . e of a quality at least equal to the finest 
or three years —professedly to prevent rearing wnat we had dared to hope. There have been seve- Bmoot h Although it now seems necessary to plow dee P , Y> witk a lancet or fleam, plenty of blood will grown in the days which preceded the advent of 
dwarfs instead of full-sized bees. This class of ral hogsheads of Syrup made in this vicinity, and i n the fall for spring barley or oats yet I would not be obtaiDed - An assistant may easily open tbe th e potato rot. _ _ 
patent venders have done more injury to the bee- of a much better quality than was manufactured recommend such cultivation for corn, unless it was m0U f th 8affici ^tly for all this by means of a halter Liniment -Mr Thos. E Hooker, of 
keeping community than if the diminished size of last season. a heavy , tenacious soil, and then, for the reasons or 8 ^tstick but beyond tfa» the swine is anawk- M Y ive8 n9 the ' /^ing Se for a 
a cell had never been thought of! They have not . 1“ consequence of the wet weather in the spring, above Btated) it, perhaps, would be better. If the wa " d patieD ‘ to “ anage< He wlU 8tr uggle obstin- Lii J t M J he d fr j g experience 
SL“,L 0,e J i"!i' °:L ,g “ r “A.”L lh . e . tot 1 W : S . P “‘1 K.r.l 1 :^ ,0 ™ »"■ «■ to be placed in it. »*, a. the to, Z1Z 
A Good Liniment. —Mr. Thos. E. Hooker, of 
Murray, N. Y., gives us the following recipe for a 
of practice. It is plain to some who have had abort at least one-third but it is generally thought plow in the fall, but just before planting, giving 0886810 . 6ndeav f ° r \° cbeatb ’ m b ? hl8 med ‘ wood o l . one 0 / hemlock oil- one or camphor 
experience, and have no interest to blind their to be much sweeter. Aside from all these draw- only time to suitably prepare the soil-even two or ^ Z followmg ma ^ be 8 ivea: gum - fou ’ r 0Z8 of aq ua ammokia Add “ you 
judgment m this matter, and therefore ought to backs considerable seed has matured. I have three weeks difference in the time of plowing made ^ d , ,gltah . 8 ' tbre f 8 raiD8 5 antimcn.al powder, Le’it the liquid of one b“efs udl Mix and it 
nuderstand it, that every time a colony of bees fill made no estimate of the expense, per gallon, but more than one-half difference with me in a crop of 81 ^ ms > mtre, half a drachm. Mix, and give in is immediately ready for use 
an ordinary sized hive with brood combs, that they I should think about 25 cents. The fodder pro- corn , It would be folly to think of nlantimr the 1 U 6 warm swil,) or milk ’ or mash - mmcaiateiy ready tor use. 
would store at least twenty-five pounds of pare sur cured from the suckers and from the leaves strip- 8ame g r0 nnd to corn the ensuing vear without In the greater number of cases the animal will — Mr. Hooker avers that one recipe which he 
plus honey in boxes during the time, if they could ped from the stalks, fully paid all the cost of plant- blowing deep and very late in the fall- for the readi,y take tbis: bat if be is 80 tbat nutriment obtained in the Rural, (that of raw linseed oil for 
have had their old combs! I never knew a vender ing and hoeing. Cows thiive upon it exceedingly wire-worms would most certainly destrov the croo of ever y ki ’id is refused, he must be drenched.— Garget in cows—to be rubbed on the bag on the 
of a hive of this kind, who allowed that combs well. The yield varies from 150 to 300 gallons per Fall plowing is a very good wav to eradicate nuac’-- Th is should be repeated morning, noon, and night, first appearance of the disease,) has been worth to 
would answer longer than three years any way— acre. Of course the richer the ground the greater C ras« or Canada thistles and* cultivate the Rurf*^ until the inflammation is abated. A purgative bim a life-time's subscription, and trusts 1 the above 
many of them two, and one recommended chang- the yield. Onr sjrup is equal to the best sale molas- the ensuing season without disturbing the roots 8bould quickly follow, and we have those for the will prove equally valuable to many of its readers. 
ing every year. Take the longest term, (three ses. I will venture the price of ten subscriptions to Ouack-cras« esDec’ialiv if "tamed under ten nr bo S which are mild as well as effectual, and from -~~- 
years,) there must be three changes in nine years, the Rural, that our much esteemed friend of “roll- twelve inches deen'in the fa’I will he verv easily wbicb no da nger can result. The Epsom salts may Origin of the Carter Potatoes— “About 
which has cost, besides trouble, at least seventy- in g pin” notoriety, with all his erudition and pro- eradicated bv cultivating the surface thoronghlv bC giV6n iu d086S ° f fr .° m ° De to three ounces > and 30 years 8g0 ’ more or less ’ “ re marks the SpriDgfield 
five pounds of pure surplus honey, without any found sagacity cannot tell the difference. I am a as the roots of this crass will not grow nnleRH near and the Y wil1 communicate a not unpleasant or un- Republican, “John Carter, a resident of Savoy, 
equivalent, as comb nine years old is just as good “Sorghum defender of 1858,” and there are more t bp surface usual flavor to his broth or swill. iu the county of Berkshire, experimented for the 
for breeding as that but one! I have combs used of llie same sort here; and 1859 will see a great flav land especially if wet if intended for a at ^ purpose of the improvement of potatoes by plant¬ 
er brood much longer than that, and I challenge dealmore planted in this region than any previous BDdng crop should be plowed deep “n the fall for r 7* h B ° UT ™ E h™ 11 P v LOW - 1 cannot give p0t \ t0 balls ’ and at barve8tiE g tbe fir8t ? ear he 
the whole paternity of these venders to pick out year. This w.ll prove something. All the “fidgets” it ? more easUy pulverized and brought to a’fane * 1”! “ Z 7 8 migbt > in re « ard foand that he had Sauced one step towards 
by the size of the bees, those stocks containing old and “ pumpkins,” and stereotyped puffing and cry- ih Such is not the ca«e wifh light tLdvso^ls P ’ hnt J efiI } n «‘J» might not get bringing out a new potato. He, therefore, the next 
combs! This frequent renewal of combs being ing down, don't frighten us in the least ^ I should bat an actual detriment to the prodLtiveness of fiJT* “^° n a3 he W18 f hed / 1 8 !I e my ’ deas of y6ar planted the seed rai6ed the fir8t ’ and 80 011 
proved to be nnecessary—for it seems to me every have replied to “ W. B. P.” long ago, but I thought 'soil- for^unless protected by the aod it wS be L ^ 18 “° ^ f ° r 8 ! V61 ; al Jear8 ’ tiU he prodaced ^e potato 
person having no interest but the utmost thrift of like one of old, “he is joined to his idols let him more or less, blown away ’ ’ ^ 88 th8ie 1B an Y advertisement of it. It is now distinguished as the ‘ Carter.’ Mr. Carter 
his bees must see it —what is cfliupfi hv air,n P » more or less, d own w y. composed of a strong wooden beam, with a gauge- died soon after, and therefore did not eDjoy the 
useless^’xpense? 66 whatl8 gained by8omnch But I see I have extended this branch of my sub- beam to which to attach the team The handles Ml glory of his discovery. He was the owner of 
useless expense r I have given you a brief statement of our urn- i«Pt tn onmc length, tbprp.fnrfi wittipa^o ^ . . ........ „ .... . 
useiess expense? 8 B1 uea oy so muen . But I see I have extended this branch of my sub- beam to which to attach the team.’ The hahdles Ml glory of his’discovery. He was the ov^er of 
As there are still other objections to be urged gress in the sweeping line, this seasonffirwhkh Cm an “ ^ d6Pt ? ° f ^ ditCb ’ a f B “ alI . ferm j n Savoy ' whicb be tilled; a portion 
against changeable hives, I will describe one or I shall doubtless receive several blasts from the LtJville, N. Y, 1858. 80 ^ the per8 ™lcan walk with one foot of his time, however, he devoted to mechanical 
two on this principle. It is a sectional one, of able pen of our Prattsburg worthy, but if it will 
course. The simplest form consists generally of in the least quiet his nervep, let him give full vent 
about three boxes, one above the other, or two to his volubility, as if it will relieve him of that 
somewhat long ones placed side by tile, tl.e doleful complaint, the “fidgets,” we give him the 
third one on the top of them. The first ii made ill fall privilege to “pipe away.” 
ABOUT UNDERDRAINING. 
on either side of the ditch. The team travels one pursuits; he worked at repairing jewelry, some- 
on each side, being coupled to an evener seven or what, also, at repairing tin, brass, and copper ware 
eight feet long. The plow is a small cast-iron one, was what was termed in those days, a ‘ tinker.’ 
(with a determined will to go down,) bolted to the He was an honest, industrious man, but lived and 
of one size and shape, say about one foot square 
by five or six inches deep inside. The top cf each 
one has several small holes or one large one 
through it, or has cross-bars about one inch wide, 
Susquehanna, Pa., 1858. 
_ T . (with a determined will to go down,) bolted to the He was an honest, industrious man, but lived and 
Eds. Rural:—I n your issue of the 6th lust., I lower end of an iron 6tandardj which latter jg died poor . though Mr. Carter’s life was but 
no ice an ar ie e s.gne . . purporting to bo it e d to the side of the strong beam. The stand- little known, he will be gratefally remembered by 
Wm. Doolittle. | answer the inquiry, “Does Underdraining ;Pay?” ard is long enough for the depth of the ditch. It millions of potato eater?.” 
THE SORGHUM IN WISCONSIN. 
Now, I have one or too thing, to ,.j on thin .nb- Iedoce8 the , abor of 8hoveliD& whicbi j ^ 
ject In the first p.ace our learned friend (judging one half, and the hardest part at that. The mak- Orleans Co. Ag. Society.—S ome time since 
r vlv ; DDW “‘ D W1Ue ’ o MES f Sa f Eds - : ~ Sn 8 ar Cane - ita cultivation and from his letter) must have traveled over a consider - er’s name of the one I used is Hakyey Stone of Mr . President Bailey informed us that this Society 
and half an inch apart, so that when the three that manufacture into sugar and syrup, has indeed be- able portion of this continent, and perhaps has T> P p d , s “ n„7 7 V v l Zl had resolved to have the Annual Address, and 
form the hive are put together, the bees will have come an interesting topic of conversation among done some draining, perhaps a small farm of 10, or, S13 * H^bouuhf^t w^ JlL® *? “ y Deighbor al8 q t0 pay the premiums awarded Itlhe late Fair 
free passage through the holes or spaces. When the farmers of our young and flourishing State, maybe, 50 acres. No, he refers to Cork, and l am « STSU ^ at Jhe Innual SST^in the L^Mhat tlere 
all are fall the upper one is removed, and an Wisconsin. The success with which labor has been led to believe his ancestors came from that nlace n - } o.d me that Mr. Lamport, of g ’ 
empty one put under the bottom, to be filled in rewarded during the past season, while experi- £ some Z or oSeThe to wortS totoftrt Canandaigua keeps the iron fixtures for the plows. wotW be more interest and a larger attendance 
turn, every year. In this way, all are changed and menting upon a small scale, in the raising and cranium of his the idea that farmers think they u ha ^ e heard t0 / da y that Dan. Pratt, of Pratts- n aaaal - ^ e are g^d to learn that these an 
tb, comb, renewed ence in three jeariverj nfactnre of the o,»e into engar and « drain a„ Mein W Tbei/ea”Trep“ate“S ZtTr\“T * ™ 
easily and quietly done, securing at the same time already created in the enlisted farmer a renewed -probably but ten acres on a farm of one hundred ’ ’ JlhZ n 
a large box of surplus honey. This is as far as it energy and faith, that will tell wonders in Sorgho need dratning-and he goes on counting up the Pr0F1T8 of Bke Keeping One vear auo l «in Peters on the^ubiect of Draif age was recked 
is wished to have the subject investigated, and culture. Yes, and even the close-fisted ones who expense to the tune of <845 ner acre Verilvt T + kofits of Bee Keeping.— One year ago I win- eters, on the subject ot Drainage, was received 
many have never gone beyond this point. The are ever found in the back ground of any ** *. mnst^^ay this^^min of 1^/ontsttTps aSp e tered over sixty-nine swarms of bees in good con- with evident satisfaction The Society is in a 
objections to these hives for wintering bees have terprise, where dollars and cents are at stake, are decessors * eTZ’Ztf from these I took the past summer and prosperous condition, with harmony among its 
already been given-viz. the breeding apartment being daily convinced after “ seeing the elephant” TZIm like to ask the gentleman what he ^ 
point th^urDlu honev ean7 ?! °" Z “ , 4 w No, I should think not! Yet I am under the im- pounds of honey. I got twenty good young EzraN. Hill, Holley; Secretary —Oliver Morehouse, 
point,—tne surplus noney can weuerbe pure, as each Lane sweet” is evidently bound to become a nresRinn that be is not sn fnnlish ss tn nnt css „ , T , „ 3 6 J » .... ’ ’ . , „. 
section or box must be used for breeding, and every home production of the North and West—tbi« ? „ a “J.? I * * n u * , 4 v 15 swarms which I value at five dollars each. It was Albion; T/ea^re/—AradThomas,Albion;i>ir«c- 
ceil thus used will contain cocoons corresponding . . . ’ per acre ’ which he says it will ultimately cost, a poor season for swarming, and not so g6od for tors — Henry Kerby, Clarendon; John Hadstead, 
to the number of bees reared in it. Also pollen or 8 , P “/ ’ Judg,n ^ tlie experience that Better let such land lie, and turn fillibuster, (or making honey as some others have been. Since I Carlton; Guy Sherwood, Shelby: 8. R. Howes, 
hr7 b d rea So7pif a tfn in m 6 viciD . ity 0f ,^ e young 7l S ha f Ve had thls sea90n - Ifc bas correspondent of some periodical,) or follow any have kept bees I used the kind of hive recommend Barre; Clark Hall, Albion; L. Bates, Ridgeway, 
brood. Some ot this will remain sealed up with been raised m almost every portion of our State business more Inerative than that of farming .jl-m a ’ 
the honey to please tbe palate with its exauisite with decided success Two or thrpp finmnipa r f , T i v m Dg ’ ed by Mr. Quinby — a common box hive made 12 — The plan of having an address at the annual 
flavor! How much better to have all surplus honey sa garand some tenor twelve of svmn I f r There 18 oneplace '. 1 tbink ’ tbe S^eman never inches square, inside, by 14 deep, with ten inch meetings of Ag. Societies has already been corn- 
stored in new, white, pure combs, and free from 8 ° g . 1* T* lv ° f Syr K U f.’ manafac ’ bas waited, and that is Cattaraugus County, when holes in the top, then the boxes and a cap over mended in the Rural, and we are inclined to think 
any foretgn substance-as it will he with proper tBr8d * om tb ® cane - were on exhibition at the he speaks of a man “being a mile from the four- them as described in his “Mysteries of Bee Keep- that many Societies would find it advantageous to 
XToSvai?eTforShL°lS.° arn0tiCe h ve I 7°* T - two from the store,” &c, & c I think the ing.” As for miHers and worms, the best and only w 
St. Johnsville, Mont. Co., N. Y.,1858. M. Quinby have been built, pans h ave^beer) 8 ru 7’ &TCheS lnhabl | ant3 of that 8et / lon might justly feel indig- way to get rid of them is to pinch their heads.— opportunity to correct mistakes, and secure the 
Quinby. hav e been built, pans have been made for evapo_ nant at such gross insinuations against their gen- Eugene Lewis, Reed's Corners, Xov., 1858. presence of those who ouuht to elect officers. 
have been built, pans have been made for evapo 
mg. As lor millers and worms, the best and only pay premiums at the same time. It would afford 
way to get rid of them is to pinch their heads.— opportunity to correct mistakes, and secure the 
Eugene Lewis, Reed's Corners, Nov., 1858. presence of those who ought to elect officers. 
