’S RURAL 5EW-Y0KK: 
ceed the preceding, and will laBt till near the mid¬ 
dle of August. 
The corn, sown on the 10th and 25th of May 
and early in June, will supply, In succession, ex¬ 
cellent food till early in September. 
The barley, sown In July, will continue a snffi- 
I you ofTer a little more for it when well cleaned?” many folks to fill it; so there is as yet little com 
I asked. “Because,” said he, “ we are obliged to petition in buying land. 
put it all in the same pile; but if every farmer 
would do it, then we could pay them for their 
trouble. Now, at this rate, how long will it take 
to bring about a change in thiB matter? Ifbuy- 
cicnt supply of good feed until the first of Novem- ers will persist in paying no more a pound for 
her, when, as sometimes before, the top* of roOta- wool, butter, corn, oats, or wheat, than for dirt, 
as carrots, beets, and turnips, with cabbages- buttermilk, cobs, chaff, or straw, they surely ought 
are a never-failing resource. not to complain of farmers for merely supplying 
Reduced to a single statement, my experience the market Pcblico. 
and system is, for the support of my soiled stock Wayne Co., V. Y, Aug., I860, 
during the months of July, August, and Septem- 
ber, to sow In the months of April, May, June, “PROSPECTIVE STERILITY.”-OKCE MORE. 
and July, equal to three-quarters of an acre far each - 
heal of cattle to be soiled, In such order as will Messrs. Editors: —H. T. B. says,—“ Wherever, 
give a regular succession of succulent food du- without high manuring, the crops increase, or re 
ring the three first-mentioned months. 
For their support from the 20th of May, and 
during the month of June, 1 reserve early clover 
and other grass at the rate of one quarter of an 
acre fur each head of (tattle soiled. 
For their support during the first half of Octo¬ 
ber, I depended upon the second growth of the 
main as good as at first, it can be traced to im¬ 
proved tillage, or rather to improved methods of 
extracting the fertility from the soil. It is mak¬ 
ing the cider inn a bigger stream, by giving the 
screw of the press another turn.” 
I would ask, in all seriousness, of what use is it 
to attempt to restore the wasted energies of a field 
half acre cut over in May and Jane, and the second t i// a g ri when it has become impoverished by 
growth of oats and corn cut over In July. husbandry already? Pacts are stubborn 
It now remains to be shown that the cost of thing», and often upset our theories and logic 
raising, cutting, and distributing the food to the altogether. A farmer purchased a piece of land 
stock, is compensated by these savings above 0Ter thirty years ago, which was so poor that it 
mentioned. Upon this point, my own experience j jro ,i UCL .h less than thirty bushels of corn per 
has satisfied me that the manure alone iB an ample acr(J) ftut j t he year following less than thirty 
compensation for all this expense; leaving the bushels of oats, when it was seeded with clover 
savings of land, of food, and of fencing-stuff, as ftn( j timothy, and remained in that situation for 
clear gain from the system. twenty years. During all this time not a rod of 
A popular objection to this mode of keeping ^jteblng was cut, although some portion of it 
milch cows is, that want of exercise must allect have been much benefited; but it was 
injuriously the health of the animal. To this pastured with sheep. The field contained twenty 
2. Many at the east have been frightened with 
reports of our long, cold winters—which arc not 
longer or colder, in my humble opinion, than 
those of the New England States, New York, 
Michigan or Wisconsin. The hideous story per¬ 
haps arose in this way. About the first winter 
which the pioneers spent in this country, was the 
severe and snowy one experienced throughout 
our whole country four years ago. This was a 
hard introduction, especially as provisions were 
scarce and houses were but hovels. The settlers, 
of course, had never known such a winter. No 
shelter for their cattle, little or no grain for them, 
and hay not plenty—what wonder if some did get 
home sick? 
3. Money is scarce. It takes a long time after 
the late “crisis,” and consequent stagnation of 
affairs in the financial heart of the country, for 
the “ blood” to reach and vitalize this extremity, 
especially while it Is true that— 
4. Minnesota has no railroads to carry off the 
surplus produce, of which she has had consider¬ 
able for a year past, and of which she will In future 
have vast quantities. And as for teaming grain, 
flour, & 0 ., to the large rivers from far into the in¬ 
terior, it is too expensive, especially as most of 
the farmers have only ox teams. So our market 
has been rather poor—though 6 ince navigation 
opened the last spring, wheat has brought 75 
think the bees will have any objection to good 
treatment. At evening I remove the hive to the 
bench, set them on a good wide hoard which I 
h ive for each hive to sit on, and raise the hives 
up on thiee small blocks about half an inch high. 
This gives them sufficient air aud prevents the 
bee moth from depositing her eggs under the 
edge of the hive. Salt them as often as once in 
two weeks, by scattering it under the hive. They 
are as fond of it. as your cattle or aheep. In the 
fall yon can let your hives down. In the spring, 
when it gets sufficiently warm, you can raise them 
again, but first take the board from under tbeui, 
plane it clean aud put it back again, and they are 
all right. 
With late swarms, which arc generally small, I 
put two into one hive. They will Boon dispose of 
one of the queens, and all will go on harmoni¬ 
ously and make a good strong swarm to winter. 
I always bore a hole In the top of the hive and 
place a box over it, which I generally get filled 
once, and sometimes twice In a season. If yon de¬ 
sign the boxes of honey for market, weigh the 
boxes before placiug on the hive, put the weight 
on the box; then when you remove it, by weigh¬ 
ing and deducting weight of box, you have the 
number of pounds of honey it contains. 
I have one question to ask more experienced 
bee-keepers than myself. Are there two kinds of 
the drone bee? 1 notice within a year or two a 
white-faced drone and a black-faced drone, which 
cents on an average, at the mills in this (Fillmore) I never noticed before. Now, are they the same ! 
county. if so, R0 different complexion? 
5 . The State was settled in the good times im- S‘> ulu T ' iv - Co ’ N - v » l8 °°- F ' K «' L00 °- 
mediately proceeding the “break,” and the folks jj,.,.*. 
here, like most other people, ran wild with rpecu- ^ inquire, through your valuable paper, 
lation—running headlong into debt—mortgaging how Italian bos* liourinh in your part of the State? 
. Away down here, In 11 Old Onondaga, the native bees 
their lands and other property to buy more, lor moy ' on M n SU »i, t, u t the Italian queen* don't seem to 
monev was plenty. When the crash came, of get along. The bee*, and the money sent after them, 
J F don't come back. But these warm day* Mr.ee the eclipse 
course they could not meet their liabilities. nmv them. Plea»« give ns all the light yon have. 
Speculation fever has passed. Men wake up to We ha'e sotne hope yet —A Bk*.Kekpkb, Rome, A. J., 
find “plenty of land, well mortgaged.” Then Ju ‘ v ' ls00 ' , . , .. . . 
2 , , , . Our correspondent, we judge from the above, has 
came forced sales, foreclosures, Ac. Slowly, but , , 1 ’ . J * ... 
, . forwarded money to pay for an Italian queen without 
an rely, the vessel rights up after the storm. A oUalnInR tb# deglied rt . tn rn. We understand there i* 
great lesson has been dearly purchased. eotne difficulty in getting American bees to acknowledge 
Fountain, Minn., July 26,1860. A. Hitchcock. these foreign queens, hence their propagation has been 
-*-•-*- more difficult than was anticipated, when advertisements 
«i • DVAI9TAGES OF SIDE RILLS ” were published offering them for sale, lienee thcro has 
_ been some delay In supplying order*. 
European writers, some of whom have kept, in 
this way, large herds, reply that they ‘ never had 
one sick, or one die, or one miscarry, in conse¬ 
quence of this mode of keeping.’ After more 
than ten years’ pursuing of this practice, my ex¬ 
perience justifies me in uniting my testimony to 
theirs on this point” 
In the Agricultural volume of the Patent Office 
Report for 1859, just received, wc fiud an inter¬ 
esting article by P. S. Citutts, or Madison, Wis¬ 
consin, on the same subject, in which Mr. C. en¬ 
deavors to show the peculiar adaptation of this 
system to the West, where fencing materials are 
scarce and dear. He claims “ nine distinct bene¬ 
fits” arising from the system,as follows: 
“We can now sura up, clearly, nine principal 
advantages that may be surely derived from the 
faithful practice of this beautiful system of green 
soiling the stock of the farm, besides the inci- 
acrcs or more; it received about one tun of plaster 
per acre during the twenty years; beyond this 
there was no fertilizing materials used, and if 
land grows poorer each year from what is taken 
off, then when this field was plowed at the expi¬ 
ration of twenty years, it ought to produce less. 
More than $ 2,000 worth of wool, the product of 
the grass grown on that field, was extracted from 
the soil In twenty years, while not over $200 was 
returned to the same in plaster and salt. Further¬ 
more, said field must have lost a large quantity of 
bone earth, us it was pastured principally with 
ews and lambs. 
Now, what are the facts as regards this field 
for producing corn and oats, after having been 
exhausted of more than $1,800 worth of its soil in 
course they could not meet their liabilities. 
Speculation fever has passed. Men wake up to 
find “plenty of land, well mortgaged.” Then 
came forced sales, foreclosures, Ac. Slowly, but 
surely, the vessel rights up after the storm. A 
great lesson has been dearly purchased. 
Fountain, Minn., July 26, I860. A. Hitchcock. 
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“ADVANTAGES OF SIDE HILLS.” 
Eds. Rubai. New-Yorker:—I n a late issue of 
the Rural, your diagram illustrating the “ad¬ 
vantage of side hills, gives hardly credit enough 
to our uneven country. Your diagram represents 
bone and wool? It produced over fifty bushels of the plants as growing to an unequal height, when 
corn to the acre, and more than fifty of oats the the tops of the grain or plants describe the same 
following year. Was this increased crop due to uneven surface m the ground. You say “ the 
° • A. __ill La a! 4 on 4ViO iinatrATi onhfiiun 
dental benefits which grow out of it indirectly, „ nnt of plttsU . r atKl 8alt U8ed during tops will be closer together on the uneven surface 
v ♦ xi. _ x L. i !a1« <a IamaI 41, a aovaa 
namely: 
Saving of land; saving of fences; Baving of 
food; improved condition and comfort of all the 
animals; larger produotof milk and flesh; greater 
docility of the animals; freedom from brcechy 
depredations; larger accumulations of manure; 
and increased order in all the business of the 
farm. 
Incidental to these, will be greater cleanliness 
throughout the premises, there being few foul 
fence-corners, and no feed or manure scattered 
about under foot; a greater variety of food can 
be used, and everything saved; allowing the con¬ 
venience of doing more of the work by one’s self, 
and requiring the paying out of less money; and 
permitting the sale of a larger portion of all 
grain and fruit, or other viatured products that 
may be raised on the place, and be desired in the 
nsual market; and the comfoitof doing a much 
larger share of tho ordinary business under shel¬ 
ter; and having a much larger amount of value 
concentrated in a comparatively smaller space, 
throughout most of the farm property and pro¬ 
ducts; as, for instance, one hundred dollars’ worth 
of stock or grain occupies much less space than 
the same value In land or fences, and a hundred 
dollars' worth of wool or butter less space than 
the same value of grain.” 
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AT THEIR OLD TRICKS AGAIN,—WHEAT. 
I have been about some of late, and have noticed 
extensive preparations for sowing winter wheat. 
I greatly fear that the old system of sham cultiva¬ 
tion is to be revived. 
Once settled that we can raise wheat at all, and 
we are bound to raise it any how, in season and 
out of season, by fair means and by foul—par¬ 
ticularly the latter. 
Farmers in this month of August are breaking 
np crude soil, well stocked with Canada thistles 
and other noxious weeds, to sow wheat upon. 
Wheat stubble is to be plowed and sown again, and 
the old style of sowing corn ground revived. It 
is horrible. The favors of a merciful Providence 
should not he treated with that kind of “reci¬ 
procity.” 
I write this, Mr. Editor, to request you to print 
in large capitals, as a standing advertisement, 
what you said in your last week’s editorial on 
this same subject:—“ ft is unreasonable to expert 
to reap abundantly where we have not son'll good 
seed, in due season, on properly prejiared soil 
I think the Mediterranean the safest variety to 
sow.— n. t. n. 
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PREMIUMS ON CARELESSNESS. 
Carelessness is a curious commodity, truly, 
for which to offer premiums; but I think yon 
showed conclusively, not long 6 ince, that wool 
buyers not only offer, hut pay heavy premiums for 
it. Dealers in various other articles might learn 
a similar lesson. I once inquired of a clever 
country merchant, wife whom butter was a “legal 
tender,” why he paid the same price for different 
lots, when he admitted some were woith two or 
three cents a pound more than others. “O, we 
have to serve them all alike, or we should lose 
their custom; but I hope and expect the time is 
coming when we can pay just what it is worth,” 
was the sage reply. 
While drawing away my grain, last fall, the 
buyer deplored the fact that farmers would bring 
in their grain just as it came from the separator, 
when they could make it so much better by just 
running it through a fanning mill. “Why don’t 
the w.Dt; )W. it ... pa.tiir.d7 1 think not; »" «"* >• ‘"f ’« s>v. the Mine 
because if that . ere to ease, it might I,an been room upon the alopuf .urf.ee aa upon the end, 
applied lua much shorter time, and produced each hill must he planted further .part,” *0. 
applied In a much shorter time, and produced 
equal results. The dews and rain arc constantly 
sending down fertilizing materials, to cause the 
earth to feed tho germs of life of every descrip 
lion, that they may produce food for the suste¬ 
nance of man and boast; yea, even the winds are 
subservient to man’s purposes, to purify the at¬ 
mosphere and distribute or scatter the noxious 
vapors as food for plants, thereby serving a double 
purpose—a renovator and purifier. 
Newark, Wayne Co., N. Y. A. G. Pbroet, 
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MINNESOTA-LANDS, CROPS, PROSPECTS, &c. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker: —“ In the mouth of 
two or three witnesses, every word shall be estab¬ 
lished.” In your issue of the 14th July, is a com¬ 
munication from T. C. Jewett, of Forest City, 
Minn., whose statements with regard to climate, 
fertility, and price of land in this State, you seem 
to think rather enthusiastic. Now, I never saw 
Mr. Jewett, or heard of him till I read his letter; 
nor have I any land to sell in Minnesota —and 
more, I would not advise any one to come here 
to settle, without first visiting the country: 
hut bis description of particulars I can fully cor¬ 
roborate. 
Having been reared in “Old Ontario,” 1 have 
frequently visited Geneva, Canandaigua, Geneseo, 
Rochester, Buffalo and intermediate places—have 
crossed Genesee Flats in every direction, yet i 
can sny, consistently, as to pleasant cites for 
towns, beauty and fertility of lands, to fill my eye, 
I never saw this country equalled. Whether the 
soil will wear as well, is, of conrse, a question of 
time. One thing, however, is certain—the earth 
ten feet deep, thrown out, will produce about as 
good a crop as the surface. 
As I have been here but one year, (which has 
been as pleasant in weather as any year— the best 
year —passed in any other State,) I am not fully 
prepared to judge of the climate, but from all I 
can gather,conclude the warm seasons areas long 
here as in the “Genesee country,” if not longer. 
I so judge, partly from the fact that prob¬ 
ably one-lialf of the corn raised is “dent.” The 
last spring wo had no frost to injure beans in this 
section after April. 
Crops are looking very fine. Spring wheat 
(there is no other raised in this community,) is 
splendid; large straw — some too large — and 
plump berry; will be ready to harvest in one 
week. Some early pieces are now being cut. 
Oats are monstrous: many pieces are tumbled 
down every way. Corn looks well. I have a 
piece of “ King Philip,” planted the 12th of May, 
on sod, which was one year ago the 1 st of this 
month wild “grub prairie,” but broken within 
two weeks after, and only harrowed this spring. 
All the tending it received, was once through 
with the hoe to cut down the weeds. ( Reader — 
“Well, that is slovenly.”) It now slands, on an 
Now, if the plants all grew to ft horizontal plane, 
this would be true enough; hut please understand 
quite a portion of each plant, as it grows above 
its neighbor, is wholly exposed to the light and air. 
In aslope of twenty rodB, this exposure is equal 
to that of a great number of plants in full view. 
Could I ascertain the mean descent of our hills, 1 
would give the exact advantage of aside-hill to 
produce crops. But it iB my opinion, Mr. Editor, 
that the side-hill exposure, with the advantages 
you have mentioned, would induce me to cling to 
the side-hill farm, to excel my neighbors in pro¬ 
ducing quantity. M. L. Dev. 
Albion, Mich., 1860. 
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&l)e 
Bees.—Ilow I Hive and Manage Them. 
As almost every bee-keeper baB a different way 
of hiving his bees, I will tell them my method 
that 1 have practiced with success for 25 years. 
Before the nsual time of swarming, I manufacture 
as many hives as 1 think I shall need. I use what 
is commonly called the box-hive. After trying 
several patent hives I have finally adopted the 
box-hive as my preference. I manufacture them 
of pine or white basswood boards, one inch 
thick, with the inside dimensions 12 by 18 inches 
in height. This makes a good proportioned hive; 
and I think I get more swarmB and earlier, than 
from larger hives. Have the top of the hive pro¬ 
ject over two inches at least, aa it partially shades 
and carries the water from your hives, where the 
hives are exposed to the weather. Leave the 
inside of the hive rough, as it enables the bees to 
stick themselves and the comb better. Be careful 
in nailing the top of your hive on, not to drive 
any nails inside of the hive and allow them to 
remain, for if yon do you will have more swarms 
leave such a hive than will stay in iu Their 
reasons T can't give. 
Now I am ready for my bees to swarm, and 
when 1 see them swarming, I sit down and keep 
perfectly cool till they cluster, which they will 
always do without giving them a horning and 
drumming—for this iB all nonsense. I have fre¬ 
quently been alarmed by my neighbors blowing 
horns, Ac., to claster their bees, I supposing their 
house on fire, or that something awful had happen¬ 
ed to them. To those that practice this way of clus¬ 
tering bees, I would say, don't for pity’s sake do it 
again; und if your bees go oil'without clustering, 
send an order on me for their value. As soon as 
they begin to cluster, I place a table under them, 
spread a cloth on the table, (linen or cotton, not 
woolen,) place two sticks with the upper edge 
sharp, on the cloth, for the hive to sit on, then 
after rubbing your hive with a few peach leaves 
and salt and water, place it on the sticks. Take 
a tin pan, hold it close under tne swarm, give the 
limb a sudden jog, and you have them in yonr 
finrgit ltoe Illve. 
Will notne of tho readers, or writers, of our favorite 
Rural please inform me,through it* column*, the cheap¬ 
est and best plan for building a House or. Large Hive for 
my bee* to work in': I contemplate building it 
eight feet square. Will they bull«1 their combs on 
slicks arranged croswwiss, or similar to small hives? If 
so, how near should they bn together? If not, how 
should it be made Inwde'f—H. E. QamPIIKLL, Chtsning, 
Saginaw Co,, Mich., 1860. 
Don’t bn I Id that large blve. Only one queen aud one 
colony will exist in a hive, no matter what it* size. The 
queen ie the mother of the whole family, nnd Bhe will 
not lay more eggs in a large hive than in one of ordinary 
size, therefore the stock will not be more numerous. 
The expense of so large a hive is, therefore, money 
wasted. This is enough, hut there are other objections. 
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Inquiries anb ^lustuera. 
DRv ins off Mn.cn Cows.—Will any of the readers of 
the Rural give me the best mode for drying off milch 
cows for fall fatting, and thus oblige.—J. H., Cowlesville, 
N. T. _ 
Mushroom Beds.— Will some one of yonrroany readers 
be so kind ns to inform me how to prepare Mushroom lied*, 
and also at what season of the year. Perhaps many oth¬ 
ers would be glad of the information.—C. I. S., Lyons, 
Lug. 6, 1860, 
About Skkd Wheat.—C an any of the Connecticut Ru¬ 
ral readerx tell me whu* preparation, if any, is best for 
seed wheat: also, the best variety of winter wheat for 
this latiiude, i.nd thus oblige a young farmer.—H ubert 
L. Itks, Litchfield, Conn. 1860. 
POISONOUS CHKESB.-Can any of the numerous read- 
ATO. 18 . 
^Agricultural jltisceUang. 
Agricultural Fairs,— We design giving, in » week 
or two, an extended list of Faire to be held in this and 
other States the present season. As we wish to make it 
aA correct and complete as possible, officers of County, 
Union and Town Societies who have not already done 
so, will please notify us of the times and places of hold¬ 
ing their respective exhibitions. 
Tub Ticxnesbkr State Fair is to be held at Nashville, 
commencing Sept. 10th, and continuing through the 
week—and not in Oct. as stated in our list of State Fairs, 
given two weeks ago, We named the correct time in an 
editorial paragraph on the 14th nit., and also referred to 
the fact that the Managers offered several premiums of 
$500 each, competition being open to the whole Union. 
All Interested will plpase note that we were correct in 
the first as we are in this announcement. 
Tub Palmyf.a Sheep Shearing, on the 23d of June, 
waa a very creditable affair, as we learn from an account 
of it furnished us by Mr. JA8 White, (and which would 
have been published had it been received in season.) 
About fifty sheep were presented, and there wa* a good 
attendance of farmers. The sheep were well washed, 
and exhibited other evidence of improvement in man¬ 
agement. 
A Machine for Shelling, Cleaning, and Bagging 
Corn, by horse or steam power, has been invented, and 
recently put in operation, by Mr L. A Bbkiik, of Wayne 
county. In a note inviting us to witness ite operation, 
Mr. B says:—“ The machine is declared by all to be a 
worthy invention. The work is all performed, even to 
loading the cob* (which are left perfectly dean,) into a 
wagon, by one operation—thns avoiding all re-handllng/ 
Canada CkuraLB —Our attentive correspondent, Mr. 
J. Mackxloan, Jr., of Hamilton, C. W , sends ns some 
heads of winter wheat and barley grown near that place. 
The samples of wheat are of the “Blue Stem” and 
“ Wild Goose " varietie*,and both good, Mr. M. writes: — 
The nddgo has been less destructive this year than 
usual, though there is scarcely a field of wheat that has 
escaped it entirely. The spring wheat, however, i« likely 
to suffer considerably." 
Crops in Central Iowa —A recent letter from Mr. 
Jan. P, Hknkt, of Tamar Co., Iowa, says:—“We have 
the best crops of wheat and oats that have been raised 
in Central Iowa for several year*. From present appear¬ 
ances WO shall have an excellent corn crop. If the farm¬ 
ers of Iowa could have one or two more such crops to 
sell at lair prices, they might be able to get on their feet 
Crops in Virginia.—A recent letter from Waterford, 
London Co ., Va,, Rays:— “ Here, in Old Virginia, we have 
just about closed up our harvest. We bad a flDe promise 
for an abundant yield of wheat, but from various causes 
our crop Is much curtailed. The early sowing is good, in 
quantity and quality: late sowing very poor wheat and 
heavy straw. Oat* unusually fine, Corn looking very 
promising. A part iff our county wa* visited by a hail 
storm, July 7th, which almost ruined some corn fields, 
destroyed hundreds of bushels of oats which were yet 
uncut, and broke large numbers of window lights. Hail 
of the size of a hulled walnut was plenty. Our hay crop 
i* unusually large." 
Wisconsin Wheat Crop.— After a careful estimate, 
the Committee on Farms of the State Agfl Society put 
down the wheat crop of Wisconsin, for the year I860, at 
22,000.000 bushels! The Wisconsin State Journal, in 
remarking upon this estimate, says:—“This aggregate 
may seem enormous to tho*« who have not traveled in 
the State the present season, and seen with their own 
eyes the extent and magnificence of our wheat fields. 
No other State in the Union can equal Wisconsin as a 
wheat growing State, in proportion to her 6>'ze aud 
population." 
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Geneses WnBAT AND Barlet in N. Y. Market.— 
Tim cereals or this region are again attracting attention 
in the New York Market—something more tangible than 
“straws" indicating that “Genesee Wheat 1 will ere 
long regain Its former reputation. The N. Y. Courier 
of the Rural inform me. through Its columns, of and Enquirer says:— “Mr. Samuel K. Ford ha* exhibited 
the cause of new cheese sometimes causing sickness at on Coro Exchange samples of wheat and barley of 
to ... *.» »< .» to to— Ttor. 
green cheese, which lias never had, at we would say. a The sample* of barley include both spring anu winter 
crack or a shipper hole, is filled with a sort of gas which crow U,. the former somewhat stained, but the latter in 
» f ^ trior ^ Ul *- Th * wkeat inciuded 
panic in a neighboring village.of* poison," caused by eat- white amber and dark red. The white, although superior 
ing green cheese I which resulted in nothing more thau tf| ftny 0 R er jngB from that quarter in many years, and 
•»-to «... to 0to~ 
ieet ibey will oblige an anxious—I xquiukk, Albany , iV. Valley iU world*wide reputation, iuBlill somewhat ueii 
r 1 1860. ° __ gient in color and weight. The amber wheat was nearly 
..... - equal to Zimmerman, and wa* really 6uperb. The dark 
Gentian. The person who made Inquiry for Gentian ^ ^ plumpi had a ver y r0U gh appearance, and 
a weeks since, can get it gratis, liere.-O. T. Hobbs, Ran. although winter wheat, would bring but little, 
dolph, Crawford C o., Pa, _ any _ morc than Chicago spring. These samples excited 
CcUK for Dislocated Stifle.— Take the white of 6 a good deal of interest among the oluer habitues 
eggs, beat to a perfect stiff froth, and add half a pint of Corn Exchange." 
good hog's lard. Mix cold, bathe the stifle three times a 
day One rubbing will sometimes be sufficient, and two Dkatu oy Obed Husasr.-We regret to learn that 
days will always insure a cure if the ligaments are not Mr. Obed Hussey, of Baltimore, inventor of the cele- 
brokeu.— Farmer Bot, Hebron, Ohio, 1800. brated Hussey Reaper and Mower, lost his life at i-.xeter, 
__ K. H„ ou the 4th inst., by falling between the cars, twe 
SCALES ttt Buttermilk.— Having noticed, in a late «* "kick P-f * dircc ^°7 hi* body kUUng him in- 
issue of the RURAL, an inquiry from W. T. D„ as to the ^ntiy. Mr. Hussey has always manifested great m 
.... < ■ . • ventiTC and mechanical genius, and his reaperand mower 
cause of scales in buttermilk, I propose to give him the - , ., i, llr .i m »n 
„ , , i , , - It have given him much celebnty among agricultural men 
benefit of my experience, which Is, that milk, when ex- b _„ m . 
’ ,, all over this country and Europe. lie waa a warm 
posed to the wind, or heat of the stove, causes the cream »» oy » r , J .. cause 
in rising to become dry on the top, and When this is the parted, genial and companionable man the very cause 
Je you are sure to have scales in the milk after churn- of his death arising from the benevolent desfi to jire 
ing.— Mrs. C. B„ KUkalon, Green Co, N. F. the Christian “cup of cold water" to a stranger and a 
_ child. He wa« 68 years of age. 
Tkosb Flsas Again.— A subscriber wishes to know * 
how to get rid of tho 3 e troublesome little pests—flea*. A Good Grass I- arm. The Palmer (Mass) our > 
In this, as well as many other evils, “ an ounce of preven- in noticing what it calls '• perhaps the best grass farm in 
tion is worth a pound of cure." They almost invariably the State," (that of Franklin Morgan, Esq-, of 1 almerj 
proceed from the strawy rubbish, or other litter, in which says:- “ His farm numbers 400 acres, one hundre “ 
swine nest. This should be changed often, and a little which are devoted to mowland. Eighty acres ot ims 
ouicklime sprinkled over the fresh bedding and around will yield an averege of three and a half tans of hay o 
week. Some early pieces are now being cut. again; and if your bees go oil witnout clustering, theety. Hat where they have beepmo bo numerous aa to 
Oats are monstrous: many pieceB are tumbled send an order on me for their value. As soon as infest the barn yard, I would say, for the comfort of “ Dis- 
down every way. Corn looks well. I hove a they begin to duster, I place a table under them, tracted," and others annoyed by the 2.22>* little fellows, 
piece of “ King Philip,” planted the 12th of May, spread a cloth on the table, (linen or cotton, not to yard sheep for a few night*. As the “ critters " are 
on sod, which was one year ago the 1 st of this woolen,) place two sticks with the upper edge rather leggy they c,mnot go a * !^ a ?*** 
month wild “grub prairie,” but broken within sharp, on the cloth, for the hive to sit on then cLiTd off, ^ the' great relief of P er- 
two weeks after, and only harrowed this spring, after rubbing your hive with a few peach leaves g(jng ’ of (enda . ( e eliogs.-PKTER Multany, Marengo, 
All the tending it received, was once through and salt and water, place it on the sticks. Take 3 /,isoo. 
with the hoe to cut down the weeds. ( Reader — a tin pan, hold it close under tne swarm, give the Tq Flea8 _u Detracted" wishes to know bow to 
“Well, that is slovenly.”) It now stands, on an limb a sudden jog, and you have them in your destroy fleas. Can't tell him how, unless to catch and kit 1 
average, seven feet high. And by the wiy the pan, bear your hive over, pour your bees down, the critnr, hut can tell how to drivo them away—a sure 
vines grow in this “swamp,” I judge there will 
be "some pumpkins!” Without exaggeration, 
people in the east will hardly credit the rapid 
growth which vegetation will make in this 
country. 
Land here also is held at from S2.50 to $10 per 
acre. At the risk of being officious, I will ven¬ 
ture an answer to your query, “Why so cheap, if 
the soil is so fertile,and climate so tine?” 
1. This is nearly the frontier in this direction, 
and as we have " a great country,” it takes a great 
and let your hive down over them. This way 
does not give them so good a chance to rise to 
the limb again as pouriDg them down by the side 
of the hive. If they should be inclined to a light 
back on the limb again, just stand and shake the 
limb a few minutes, and they will settle on the 
hive. Some, perhaps, will think all of thispaiade 
needless, but after Leating them in this way, if 
they should leave you, you can say as the man did 
of his run-awuy wife, that they left your bed and 
board without any cause or provocation. I don't 
* U>2IUWUOM«^.- 
Tie to btoto. of Week wt.li.ut, (fell of tool 
place them iu your rooms, stable, Ac., and the fleas will 
leave in a few hours. Try it and report to the Rural.— Wood-Sawing Maohinert.—A Jamestown pnpn ^ 
Trio, Manchester, Ohio, Aug., I860. that the Wood-Sawing Manufactory of H. O. *--' K » * 
How TO GET Rin OF Fi.KAS._You can say to your Charlotte Center, i* one ofthe moet .mpOrlAa 
Illinois correspondent, if be will clear all of the manure factoring cstabushuients too. 
... , i , ... *n«ds most extentive of the kind i» the bnueu 
and litter from around and under his barns and sheas, -„r.nrif.f material and 
, .. , ... r 1im . f. his barn that Mr. L. a machines are of very superior maiei.* 
and scatter a good quantity of slaked lime in ms oar .„,i««flnn use,—about 
-j 1 1 * \ or.fi lot i LmrR tiike ud then* make, and that 1.000 of them are alrea.n 
yard, and under his barns, and let his nogs taae up > • . , v- ^ v„rk and Northern 
. , . , . . led with fleasloDK. one half the number in Western New York ana. 
quarters in the lots, he wont be troubled wuu ueos mug. . u„ n nd Western States. 
La Subscriber Avon, Lie. Co., Jt. K, I860. Pennsylvania,and many in the M.ddleand Wester 
the acre. The grass is so heavy that a mowing machine 
cannot be used, and he has now a force of twenty men 
cutting and gathering it. Four large barns ou his pre-i 
ises are not sufficient to hold all his hay, and he erec.s 
temporary sheds over stacks What is remarkable, |* e 
does not cut a hundred of poor or meadow hay on t e 
farm. Mr. Morgan keeps one hundred and sixteen cows, 
pasturing them all himself. In addition he has t,xtD ’ 
and ten or a dozen horse*. He supplies the fclate a ms 
house wilh milk, sufficient to feed three hundred c 
dreu upon once or twice daily. That such a farm pays, 
any boy, who knows how to make figures, can com J 
demonstrate. Rat then the secret lies injudicious man¬ 
agement and constant improvement.” 
Wood-Sawing Maohinert.—A Jamestown paper 
that the Wood-Sawing Manufactory of H. C. Lake, s. 
Charlotte Center, is one of the most important manu 
factoring establishments in Chautauqua Co.,—it being t B 
most extensive of the kind in the United States, A.r.o, 
that Mr. L.'s machines are of very superior material *n 
make, and that 1.000 of them are already in use,—iabou 
