o 
out training, as a three year old heifer to adopt, 
all at onoe, the sober habits of the old cow, just 
because you want her to. If, in the one case, 
there would be ignorance and fear, so there would 
in the other, and as you would endeavor to over* 
come the fear of the former so overcome the fear 
of the latter. 
If the heifer is wild, unapproachable, have ready 
a handy yard, about one and a half rods square, 
into which get the heifer with her calf. Do not 
oblige her here to let you approach her, but keep 
talking to her and holding out your hand with an 
ear of corn, as a bribe to acquaintance. ’Vhen 
you can put your band on her, do it cautHnsly, 
rubbing her, and keeping yourself as genlle as 
you wish your pupil to become. Do not corner 
them, hut teach them to stand anywhere you 
coine to them,—if possible, avoid using force or 
anything like it. This method will consume more 
time at first, but will save time in the end. 
When millsing, if the heifer starts, look for the 
cause. If fear,—what will overcome it? A well- 
directed milking stool hurled with a strong arm- 
showing less training in its owner than the trem¬ 
bling object of its aim? Try it! It may pay her 
for running, hut you will get your pay hack in 
many a well-contested race, &c. As fear wears 
ofl', a habit will be formed, and this is just what 
you should aim at from the beginning,— to over¬ 
come fear and form habits of gentleness, quiet, 
real cow like tnannners. 
If you cannot provide the little pen spoken of, 
catch and tic the heifer, and keep her tied fora 
couple of days, feeding well, and giving her as 
much care and attention as convenient In this 
time she will learn to bo bandied and lo let you 
approach her without much fear,—and remember, 
fear is the great obstacle to be overcome. Milk 
for a few times by the fence, after which, putting 
on the rope, milk anywhere, being in readiness to 
hold her by the rope if she starts. In this way 
the wildest heifers can be readily managed, taught 
not to fear, and yet to he under the control of the 
milker. 
You can never flog, kick, or scold a heifer into 
a gentle, quiet cow. Remember the process of 
ears on each stalk, let them plant just such corn bottom, another opening will have to be made to 
as they wish to raise. let it out. It is a well settled principle that mat- 
A few years ago we obtained an early kind of ter is never taken out of the system by absorp¬ 
tion. If there arejiny fistulous pipes, they must 
be laid open. If a tjee incision is made soon after 
the disease is discovered, there will be no trouble, 
or any deformity rl-ult, the same as In a felon, 
but if matter is suflred to produce its mischiev¬ 
ous effects, the boni becomes diseased with the 
rest of the tissues, ind the horse always carries 
marks of the diseas. No salves, or stitches, are 
needed in any case and no application except 
water, unless it has s o long been neglected, when 
the occasional applration of spirits of turpen¬ 
tine will be useful. 
could investigate the laws by which the reproduc¬ 
tion of the bee may be retained pure and not be¬ 
come hybridized with the common bee; and 
every principle by which hybridizing can be pre¬ 
vented should bo made known, so that we may be 
enabled to evade the perplexities and disappoint¬ 
ments which some of the German apiarians were 
doomed to. by their colonies producing hybrids. 
The great difference between my views and 
those of other apiarians, is in the production of 
tlie queen bee. Does or doe3 it not require semen 
to perfect the queen? Is or is not semen depos¬ 
ited in the cells of the bread comb, so that the 
workers can iufuse the egg or larva in the royal 
cells in the absence of the drones? 
Henrietta, X. Y., March 20,1860. E. Kirby. 
Agricultural illiscclianp 
Thb Season - . — The weather continues remarkably 
warm and pleasant throughout this region, the season 
being quite forward. The first two days of this week 
the thermometer reached 7S and 79 in the shade. It is 
very dry. however, and rai n is much needed The drouth 
in New England is *aid to be unprecedented for the sea¬ 
son of the year, ab< 1 we have similar accounts from the 
West, especially Wisconsin 
for seed,—rejecting about one half of each ear, 
from the butt and top,—it became still carlier(for 
the kernels on the middle of the ear always ripen 
first,) and the ears of the third crop were in¬ 
creased at least one half in length, while the ker* 
nels were nearly twice as large as thoBe of the 
first planting. These are facts in “Corn Culture” 
that can be substantiated by a number of wit¬ 
nesses. N. B. Ament. 
Mt. Morris, N. Y., 1860. 
The L, S. Agricultural Society, organized in 1852, 
has been incorporated by an act of Congress, approved 
April 19th, I860. The April Xo. of the Quarterly Jour¬ 
nal of Agriculture, published by the Society, contains 
the official proceedings of (he Annual Meeting, held at 
Washington, Jan. 13th, under the title of “ Eighth Agri¬ 
cultural Congress," and embracing several able addresses. 
The Journal announces that the Executive Committee 
decided, in answer to an informal proposition, to select 
Cincinnati as the location of the Annua] Exhibition for 
1860, “provided the citizens would guaranty the pay¬ 
ment of a premium list if by any chance the receipts 
should prove insufficient, and provide suitable grounds, 
buildings, forage, water, police and music." It is not 
stated whether this guaranty bi> been given, and hence 
the location of the Fair is not positively determined. 
There is more danger of ap¬ 
plying articles that re positively pernicious, if 
you would do what tie books direct, than if you 
do nothing at alL Tie filling of the Wound with 
tincture of iodine, sal, or other irritating agents, 
is calculated to prodme as much mischief as the 
original disease, am interrupt nature in her 
efforts to effect a cu e. A good, sensible treat¬ 
ment by farmers tlemscives, will cure more 
horses with this diseam, and with leas deformities, 
than all the witchcraft Dutchmen in Christendom. 
Toledo, O., April 30,180. Jt 
WEATHER, CROPS, &c., IN VIRGINIA. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:—T his spring is not 
considered a forward one, but has been quite 
favorable for dispatching spring work. Oats 
were sown mostly during the last of March and 
the lirst half of April. The earliest sown are 
making their appearance finely. Farmers, gener¬ 
ally, have their ground mostly plowed for corn, 
and if the present fine weather continues, a good 
breadth will be planted this month, though it can 
be deferred a month or two, for I have known a 
good crop harvested from planting the 17th of 
Wheat, early sown,—S. c., sown by the first 
■looks well; Borne is large enough to 
Inquiries anb ^InstDers. 
Si>rin-g_ Wheat-Corn- and Grubs.-Tu the Rubai, of 
January .th,[ saw an article, by Hoo. A. B. Dickinson, 
which treated on the culture r{ spring wheat. Air. D 
vtates that the be*i variety of Spring wheat U the China 
Tea Healeo states that a mixture of the Canada, or Mil¬ 
waukee Club, with the China Tea wheat, will yield four 
or five bushels more to the non- than w hen sow n sepa¬ 
rately. I have gome of the China Tea wheat which 1 
purpose sowing about the lit!, ..f May. I sow it late m 
order to escape the midge. Would a mixture of the 
Canada, or Milwaukee Club, with the China Tea wheat 
weU, u ‘own the 15th of May, as if sown very earlv' 
” 1,1 ‘ a,t - wb*n sown broadcast after spring wheat, injure 
young timothy or clover? Another inquiry and I am 
done. East season the grubs destroyed one-half of rov 
Steam H-owino a “Fixed Fact."-A t least we so 
judge from the leading article in last week’s Prairie 
Farmer, headed, conspicuously, “ Steam Plowing Tri¬ 
umphant ; — The Fir$t Actual .Success in Strain Plowing 
in America :—Seventy Acres of Illinois Prairie Broken 
by Steam : The Farmer say*:—“ The above Is no sensa¬ 
tion heading to a sensation article, but a real statement 
of facts as they exlst-iu three sentences,” The editor 
then proceeds to give an account or a recent visit to 
Grundy county, to observe the working of Waters' 
Steam Plow in breaking prairie. Passing a field of forty 
acre* which had been broken by Mr Waters' plow, the 
narrator “caught sight of the plow In the distance, 
traveling leisurely across the prairie, drawing its gang 
of six plows, cutting a furrow nine feet in width.” Mr. 
Waters was found “quietly guiding the machino, with 
none but the necessary attendants abont him, und thus 
practically testing its ubility sod power before seeking to 
place it prominently before the public.” The writer then 
speaks of IU operation, and adds:—*< Estimating the 
ground plowed as nearly ns we could without measuring 
it, we found that during seventy-two minute*, flncludinz 
June, 
of October,' 
hide a rabbit Later sown is thin and email, 
though its color is good. Pastures have got a 
fair start, and young cattle have mostly been 
turned out Hay is quite plenty, (except with 
those who have to buy,) and the price has ruled 
low during the past winter; could ho bought In 
stack for $10 to $15 per tun, and much of the 
time it has not brought more than that in Wash¬ 
ington market. Rye straw ditto. 
As regards l'ruit, the peach crop is rather ca¬ 
pricious, mostly, or three-fourths, destroyed in 
the county. In some places an elevated site 
served n3 a protection; in others, the proximity 
to a wood. Cherries promise well, und are In 
full bloom, and apple trees are following suit, In 
the garden hardy vegetables are well along, from 
open planting, and some peas are already climb¬ 
ing the sticks. The husbandman has now no 
time to loiter, for each moment must he used in 
response to the calls that are continually being 
made upon him, and he needs to strengthen his 
hands and take courage. A. H. Anslev. 
Fairfax C. H., Va,, April 21, I860. 
The Queen lice—IIoiv Produced. 
Eds. Rural NewYorkerj —In your number 
of the 14th of April, RCoi.yin made some state¬ 
ments purporting to he quotations from an article 
of mine, which you pndished Feb. 4th, in which 
he makes it appear tint I said, “that the royal 
jelly upon which the qteen's larva: are fed, is the 
semen of the drone, r*cvionSLY deposited in the 
cell.” I did not say, n the article referred to, 
“that the queen’s lameire fed on the semen of the 
drone, previously depoited in the cell,” neither 
do I hold such to be no fact. I think that Mr. 
Colvin must he origiml in his ideas, as advanced 
in his assertions, relati e to the queen bee. 
I will here state my lpinion on several points 
in relation to the rcproluotion of bees, so that no 
one need mistake the position which I occupy. 
Diseased F.yes-Invormatio.v Wanted— l„ looking 
'Hr till* Hl'nir 1 tmlino.l r. cl....* ..i.’.l _ IV V ... * 
. . - - 
unu woj? to uopt'jt it would mat rov ca*o 
ray writinu.tii you, fwhich I had determined in 
. b ca*o before your 
a Statement of the difficulty. 
over the RURAL, 1 noticed a abort article called 
Eve* tn Horae*,” i ’ ' ' 
aud save r— r _ 
do,) but thinking I had better Jav the 
reader*. I herewith aend j - * 
About two month* ago I discovered tbere wa* something 
wrong with an eje of my horse. It appeared to bo con¬ 
siderably smaller than the other, aud wa* quite dim He 
woeou frequently -but it, a* though it «** weak nod 
hurt him. It 1* now nomewbal inhumed, but the dtmne*.* 
i* about the man, I Lava consulted m-vi-ral person* 
about it. and some call it the “hook* "—other* »ay it i* 
the film growing over the eve so ns to cause blind new 
I have done ecarcely anythlng for it except to waeh it 
with cold wilier. There me several email, hard Iutijph on 
hi* shoulder, caused by the collar when he wa* first 
osed, and when we work him hard they ewell up and are 
very sore They urn on the raine side that hi* sore eye 
in. and I have been wondering whether it wa* not that 
uliich caused hie eye to become *ore. Now. if any of 
your correspondent: can tell me how I can got rid of 
those lntDpfr (for they are h gre.it ino.nnveiiUiDco to me., 
and also how lo enjv hit eye. they will greatly oblige— 
IIcnky S. Busker, Oardingtim, Monroe Co,. Ohio, i 860 . 
The eggs of the queer as they pass the neck of 
her ovary, on the way to the cell in the comb, re¬ 
ceive some of the ilrote’a semen, that has been 
deposited with her for lie purpose of changing 
the drone eggs to workers, which infusion is, by 
attraction, drawn through the film of the egg to 
the seat of life, and tht embryo thus formed be¬ 
comes an organized wo ker. 
Bi.ood Spavin— Can any one iulorm me what will euro 
what is commonly called blood spavin? I haven voung 
m ^, nr ' P* 8 *-) Which has a small puff on cacti 
gambrel. What would be the effect of lotting her “ run 
out one n, and also if she is old enough to breed 
from.-—iNfiXI'KUIKNCB 
Attached to the extremities of moot of the tendons, 
aud between the tendons and other parts, are little bags 
containing it mucous substance to enable this tendons to 
slide over each other without friction, and to move easily 
— .—i exercise tbe6« 
Tbere is one of them on 
This sometimes 
anil the etilarge- 
A vein passes over the 
lurgemcnt aud the 
»*U It In 
For the purpose of 
[ changing the worker ejgs or lame to queens, the 
workers take the seme! previously deposited in 
the bread comb, near oi with the polen, and in¬ 
fuse the eggs or larvm in the royal cells: it (i. e. 
the semen,) being carri’d by attraction to the 
seat of life. A part is Id re united with the food 
of the young larvm: hut by instinct tbe food is 
taken to support life, white the semen, by natural 
affinity or by a law of nature, becomes effectual 
for tbe impregnation of the queen. 
The eggs are all first dropped in clean cells, and 
tBe necessary food i« ou-voyed by (lie worker* tu 
HOW TO GROW MANGEL WURZEL. 
The inquiry in regard to the best method of 
growing this very useful root, in a late number of 
the Rural, reminds, me of a slight neglect of 
duty. 
I was at Mr. Chamberlin’s, near Red Hook, last 
summer, und saw a field of about eight acres in 
beets. They were a species of German, resem¬ 
bling tbe Mangel, but more of a turnip shape. 
held on the 2d inst.,—designed mainly for the display of 
stallions kept in this region—was quite creditable, con¬ 
sidering that it was the first exhibition of the kind ever 
held in the county. The weather was very line, and the 
attendance larger than the officers of the Society antici¬ 
pated at a season when farmer* are extremely busy at 
home. The 6liow of stallion* was quite attractive, and 
included several auperior auiruaU, while the road and 
carriage homes present made a fiue appearance. The 
whoV «xjyl. ! ' : .— -~ uu cauic. being made, 
but we xubjoin a l.tt of the stallions, so far .v« the names 
of animals and owners could be ascertained : 
Black Hawk Messenger— D P. Newell, Parma. 
Ben Franklin—,) C. BirdnU, Rush. 
Chief Flngineer—Hiram Sayles, Scottsrille 
Flying Cloud—A. B. Rockland, Brighton. 
Grey Eagle—Jus. Snllivan Kochnrter. 
Gifford Morgan—Samuel Dun-nil, Henrietta. 
Harkaway— M. L. King, Rochester. 
Henry Clay—Z. I.. Olnntead. Rochester. 
Kentucky Morgan—Jnines Sherwood, Mendon Centre. 
Live Yankee—Jarvi* Lord, Pittatord. 
Fed Eagle—J, K. Bullet)tine, ClillF. 
Sampson Duroo—Stanley Hammond, Brighton. 
Star of the West—J. O. Hall, Rochester. 
Sampson Morgan—D. W. Bevins, Pittsford. 
Young Yankee—J B. Spalding. Yergennes, Yt. 
Young Sir Charles—J, 0. Mason. Rochester. 
Young Eclipse—Morris Jack-mo, Henrietta 
Young St. Lawrence—Anson Lord, Pittslord. 
Young Morgan—Jag Alfred, Greece. 
ABORT PREPARING GROUND FOR CORN. 
od the neighboring part*. From violent 
vessel* are liable to enlarge, 
the inside of the hock at its bending, 
becomes considerably increased iu size, 
ment is called a bog spavin, 
bag, which is pressed between the enli 
••-in.and tbe noMwpo rho kv*a 
the vein is consequently distended by the accumulated 
blood, and the distention leaches from this bag as low 
down ns the next valve. This is colled blood spavin. 
Blood spavin then is the consequence of bog spavin. It 
very rarely occurs, and i*, in the majority of instances, 
confounded with hog spavin. Blood spavin doe* not 
Two years ago, on the farm of my father, we 
became bchintl-hand with our work, as it was late 
in the season, and we bad yet one field to prepare 
and plant to corn. One of our neighbors pro¬ 
posed a plan by which he thought we could save 
time and labor, and yet raise a good crop. This 
plan I propose to give tbe readers of the Rural. 
The soil was a black muck, rather wet and cold, 
but mellow and rich. It had been planted to 
corn the previous year, and was free from grass. 
We ridged it up the old fashioned way, first hav¬ 
ing set our plow to run very wide, and then, in 
the return furrow, threw the former one all back 
again. In this way we moved all the ground, 
and left the ridges three feet and three inches 
apart We then made a marker with four teeth, 
with a tongue, of heavy material, (so as to go well 
down into the ridge,) put. on two horses and 
marked the ground with this—letting the outside 
tooth run back in a former mark, thus insuring 
against crooks. We then planted with hoes, the 
Hheep thrive So well upon them. The seed was 
| imported from Silesia, along with the sheep. 
The method of cultivation was new to me, and 
appeared a success. 
The seed was planted in a seed bed prepared 
for the purpose, and made rich and mellow. 
When the plants were large, and strong enough 
to hear transplanting, the gronud was broken into 
small ridges, about twenty-six inches apart, and 
them as soon a* they inquire it, und semen and 
food to the royal cells. Mr, Col vin seems to 
don Id whether the bees carry royal jelly from 
other cells; but the truth will set him right on 
that point, on learning that the eggs are first 
placed in the royal cells tailhout jelly until the 
workers convey it to them. 
Mr. Colvin suggests a plan by which he thinks 
my theory can be tested, for which he will please 
accept my thanks; as I wish to have my theory 
tested by every means that reason can suggest, 
that the public may know the (ruth or error that 
it contains. I solicit investigation on the follow¬ 
ing subjects in the natural history of the honey 
bee, which I think go to substantiate the truth of 
my theory, and the hybridizing between the 
mon and the Italian bee. It has been known 
do not believe there was a single vacancy over 
the whole field. The cultivation was a model of 
neatness. 
To rny suggestion that it must involve much 
more labor, Carl answered that, on the contrary, 
it required less labor, because, while the plant was 
growing in the seed bed, they had abundant time 
to prepare the ground, and thus keep down the 
weeds, which I think is entirely true; beside, it 
insures a better stand ol plants, for there will be 
no vacancies. The plan is a good one.—p. 
eom- 
sinee 
the time of Huber, that the queenless stocks oc¬ 
casionally refuse to perfect queens, although well 
supplied with eggs and brood, and everything 
necessary for perfecting their brood, and that 
they did thus perfect it, all hut the queen. 
Langstrotb's last edition, page 193 , says after 
a nucleus is formed with a card of comb taken 
from a stock, if the workers do not commence 
royal cells they should be shaken off and another 
card of comb with eggs or brood substituted, and 
they would he likely to perfect queens. By my 
theory I should say that the first comb contained 
no semen, but that the second one did. Dr. Do.\- 
hoff would say it was for the want of nurse bees. 
I think his system would not apply in the case 
above mentioned. 
DziEitzoN,whom ali unite in admitting to be one 
of the most scientific of apiarians, has succeeded 
better in multiplying the Italian bee than most 
others. He was in the habit of taking a piece of 
comb, with brood in it, from the Italian hive, and 
transferring it to the common hive, supplying its 
place with empty combs; in this way he succeed¬ 
ed in rearing about fifty queens the first season, 
ball oi which were pare brood. His success will 
be accounted for by m.v theory, by the fact that 
in removing the comb from the Italian hive, he 
took with the comb the semen of the Italian 
drone, and the workers obtained and impregnated 
the eggs or larva with it, and thus caused them to 
be pure Italian queens: and in cases of their ob¬ 
taining semen from the common drone they were 
hybrid. 
BEKLErscu, in his experiments with the Italian 
bee, by transferring an Italian queen through 
different common hives, succeeded ia raising 139 
queens, about 50 of which he thought were pure. 
By my theory they would be all hybrids, and it ap¬ 
pears to have been the case with him, for he 
entirely failed to multiply the Italian bee. 
('apt. Balstein, also a scientific man, after try¬ 
ing for seven years, all experiments that a culti¬ 
vated mind could suggest, failed to reproduce his 
Italian colony with the common bee—all proving 
to be hybrids 
Thk New Cattle Disease (Pleuro-Pneuraoula) con¬ 
tinues to absorb much attention in Musssch use Us. An 
exchange states that a meeting of the Massachusetts 
Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, was held in 
Boston, Friday week, at which it was resolved to. sub¬ 
scribe $2,000 toward the Guaranty Fund, which is being 
collected in and about that city. Several of the mem- 
June freshet,) was as good corn as we generally 
see in this neighborhood. As soon as the corn 
was out of Die gronud, we went through it twice 
in a row each way with a cultivator, which left 
the ground perfectly well pulverized and smooth. 
Corn-stubble-ground is very much improved by 
going over it first with a good two-horse cultiva¬ 
tor to level down the old bills. 
Although this may, to some, seem to be a 
“shiftless ’’ way of farming, in some cases it has 
many advantages. A man with a good team 
will ridge four acres per day, where he would 
plow but two, to say nothing of harrowing. 
Another advantage is, that in cold, wet soils the 
ridges will dry and heat through, and become in 
plnntable condition, much sooner than level 
gronnd; and in case of heavy rains soon after 
planting, the hill is more secure front the effects 
of the water. We tried the same plan last year, 
and observed that in a field joining, the frost of 
the third of July bad killed nearly every hill, while 
this was scarcely touched; and several of our 
neighbors attest its value, when followed in 
certain cases. J. E. Day. 
Romeo. Mich., 1S60. 
POLL EVIL-TREATMENT, &c, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker: —Noticing, in your 
issue of April 2Sth, an inquiry for the cure of 
Poll Evil in the horse, aud your remarks and sug. 
gestions thereon, 1 take the liberty of giving you 
my views upon the subject, in the hope that it 
will lead to a 
ational treatment by those who 
may have occasion to apply it 
Poll evil is an inflammatory disease, resulting in 
suppuration or abscess, and affecting the deep 
seated tissues about the bone at the top of the 
common 
these foot square sticks, diagonally, through all its 
length, making two wedges, one foot square at the head, 
and coming to an edge at the other end. These will be 
exactly half and half of the foot square slick. Lay these 
two wedges on two adjoining sides of one entire stick, 
tbeu complete the square by dropping another stick, 
coruerwise, into the space left. This space will receive 
one-half the stick, because it held it all in the two feet 
square stick. Trim off the superfluous lumber of the 
last stick applied, keeping the stick square all the way, 
and you will have just such a stick as you wish to get 
the contents of. Now, a stick 2 feet square, and 30 long, 
4 multiplied by 30. equals 120 cubic- Teet; and we have one 
stick and half another left, which is 30 plus 15, equals 45; 
120 minus 45, equals 75 feet, the amount of the stick. 
Now to set it to board measure, as the stick amounts to 
just one whole and three half sticks. Iustead of divid¬ 
ing them wedge-like aud cornorwise, as above, lay two 
side by side: split one in,the middle, and lay one half on 
the side, then yoa have a plank feet long, 1 foot 
thick, and -20 feet long. It will make 12 boards, 2J i feet 
wide, and 60, pl U9 15, equals 75, multiplied by 12, equals 
900 feet of inch boards, (saying nothing of saw cut.)—J. 
McLoCTU. It'a!worth, A. F I860. 
neck. Bruises or injuries are the most 
cause, though it may arise from any irritation in 
the parts themselves, or externally. The first 
symptoms are usually a fullness* or swelling 
which is tender upon pressure, and the horse dis. 
likes to have it touched, as it gives him pain. 
The swelling goes on, the tenderness increases, 
and matter gailieis, which being confined by a 
dense, unyielding tissue, it burrows among the 
bones and tendons, running some distance up the 
neck before it breaks through the skin. The con¬ 
sequence is a great destruction of tissue, and, 
perhaps, diseased bone, which it takes nature a 
longtime to repair, and in the healing process 
the top of the head is drawn back, stiffened, and 
its proper position’ forever lost. This disease 
bears a striking analogy to what is called a bone 
felon in the human species, and should be treated 
in the same way, i. e., by the knife. When it be¬ 
comes swollen and tender, the opening cannot he 
made too soon, ami sbonld be three or four inches 
long, down to the bone, and longitudinally of the 
neck, so that the matter can have free vent; after 
which it will only need daily sponging with warm 
Wool Growing in- California.—a late number of the 
California Fanner, in noticing the arrival of “ another 
Hock of splendid sheep " from Vermont, commends them 
to wool growers, and adds:—‘-We have the evidence 
from every source, that our State will goon beat the 
world in the character of cheep raised here. We can 
raise larger aud handsomer sheep, produce more wool at 
a clip, and raise more lambs from a hundred ewes, than 
any other country under heavens. 
— That is rather sanguine, not to say “ highfalutin, 1 ' 
Colonel, yet we are not prepared to gainsay its truthful¬ 
ness. Nor will we take issue relative to your remark, in 
speaking of Spanish Merinos, that—“ We have tacts to 
prove that sheep of 140 pounds [carca*- weight] have 
clipped 21 lbs. of fine wool,'’ We would only suggest 
that there is a vast difference, in some sections, between 
the weight of cleansed and uncleansed lieecef, and such 
may possibly be the case on the Pacific coast. 
HOW TO SELECT SEED CORN. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker :—The article on 
“Corn Culture,” in your issue of April 21st, is 
eminently practical aud suggestive, but little is 
said about selecting the seed, which is an impor¬ 
tant item in 
this department of farm economy. 
The quality and quantity of the crop depends, in 
a great measure, upon the seed. Corn is, per¬ 
haps, capable of greater improvement than al¬ 
most any other kind of graiu. The ears intended 
for seed should be selected from the most for¬ 
ward hills in the field; the ears that ripen first, 
are, evidently, the earliest. 
If it is desirable to have corn that will produce 
two or three cars on a stalk, then the seed should 
be taken from the stalks that yield the requisite 
If corn with large kernels is 
Post and Rail Fence. — A Pennsylvania subscriber 
wishes to know how to mase a good post and rail 
fence. My method is this:—Take locust posts, of suita¬ 
ble size, six feet long, and if used for turning horaes aud 
cattle only, make three holes iu them, four inches long 
and two inches wide, to receive the rails. Use rails of 
chestnut, twelve feet iu length, properly sharpened. 
Set the posts firmly iu the ground, drive the rails 
“ home,” and you may have a fence that is straight, and 
one that will last till you are tired of seeing it. Red 
cedar is about as durable ns locust. I hare a red cedar 
post that is nearly a century old, aud perfectly eouwd. 
.More than three rails can be used, if desirable. Such a 
fence U preferable to a worm fence, not only on account 
of economy, but no room is left for thorns and thistles 
to hide themselves.—S., Southold, Suf. Co., ,Y. Y. 
Sorghum Sugar.— We are indebted to Mr. A. H. Mil¬ 
ler, of Laporte, Ind.. for a sample of Sorghum Sugar of 
his own manufacture. It is a handsome article—of 1'ght 
color, good grain, and most toothsome Savor. It was 
made by a machine of Mr. M.’s invention, called the 
Rotary Alternating Sugar Kvaporator and Self-Cleanser. 
Logical advice.— Some years ago a young man wrote 
to Hokac l Greeley, asking l,:s advice—whether lie hail 
better become a professional man or farmer—and re¬ 
ceived this sensible and pithy reply:— il I judge that 
there are three times as many lawyers and doctors m 
the country as are needed, and. judging from the price 
ot flour and beef, not half enough farmers. Of course, 
I judge that you couid better look toward growing grain 
than making pills or pleas." 
and stopped as he commented, 
with one swam only. 
Within the last six months there have been im¬ 
ported for the first time, to the States, over 100 col¬ 
onies of the Italian bee. Never has there before 
been a time when ail interested in bee culture 
number of ears. 
the great desideratum, then large kernels should the bottom, which it will do, as soon as the matter 
be planted. And, further, if any are desirous of is let out, if the bone is not diseased, and if it is, 
having early corn, with long ears and large ker- it will do so as soon as the bone becomes healthy, 
nels, producing from two to three, or four such If the wound close at the top before it does at the 
