’g RUR&L hew-yorker 
•0¥. 17. 
grass, or othor food eaten by the cow. The cow 
being a natural laboratory for working up a less 
valuable or unmarketable commodity into a pro¬ 
duction that iB more valuable arid marketable— 
for changing grasB into human food. The mere 
fact that one cow yields four pounds more than 
another cow, does not prove that site is the more 
valuable cow, udIchs it be also Bhown that she 
consumes proportionubly less food. Butter can¬ 
not be made out of nothing. 
Again—A fanner becomes in earnest to im¬ 
prove his flunk of sheep. He purchases for this 
purpose a valuable buck, for which he pays, per¬ 
haps, $30 or $100. After making Buch an invest¬ 
ment he will of course care that all is rightabout 
pasture, fodder, shelter, grain, roots, water and 
salt; but this for our present purpose we will let 
pasB. lu duo time he aunounceB to hi* wife, 
neighbors and perhaps to a periodical, that his 
lambs have sheared one pound, or two, of wool 
each more than he formerly obtained. He charges 
himself with the cost of the ram, credits himself 
with the extra pounds of wool, and very com¬ 
placently considers himself as much richer as the 
balance indicates. But those extra pounds of wool, 
whence came they? Why they grew on the backs 
of my beautiful sheep, says the farmer. Yes, 
well; but wool cannot be made out of nothing. 
That wool was made out of the grass, fodder, 
grain, roots, water and salt fed to the sheep. The 
real question at issue is; did those sheep make a 
pound of wool out of less of these raw materials 
than the old flock? otherwise there may he some 
incidental advantages about the new breed, but 
not the great profit claimed. 
I am awsre that the opponents of “ II. T. B.,” 
in the “Prospective Sterility Question,” aver 
that the atmosphere furnishes a part, and not the 
Teutonic quarters of the large towns, is very 
enthusiastic in favor of this peculiar condiment 
He gives his expeiieuce as to the best way to en¬ 
joy its peculiar flavor and savor. It is in this 
wise:—Prink a quart of lager, smoke six bipea, 
then call for a quart of lager, fresh pip s and 
tobacco, and some bread and cheese. The whole 
makes a concatenation of strong smell- that the 
Bul'ject is then prepared to appreciate. If you 
are curious in these things, try it 
Limburgh cheese is manufactured principally 
by one firm in New York, who supply the article 
to dealers In all the large towns from Boston to 
New Orleans and California. The largest supply 
comes from Lewis county, where some four or 
five hundred cows are rented annually for its 
manufacture. 
The implements consist o! a large copper kettle 
which will hold about one. hundred gallons, with 
a large iron bail, by which it is suspended from 
a huge crane, by which H is swung into and out 
of a large srch, which exactly fits the kettle, being 
open, however, on the front to admit its passage. 
A series of moulds shout the H!'/,e and appearance 
of those used in moulding brick, are necessary, 
F. I have heard of giving bees water in winter 
if confined in rooms; I would like to know your 
opinion on the subject. 
K. In some instances it would be advisable; 
but the Author of Nature, by the natural laws, de¬ 
signed to furnish the bees with what water they 
need In the winter,by means of their sealed honey 
combs, which they place, by instinct, above their 
brood comb. The former is one of tbe heat ma¬ 
terials for condensing tbe vapor arising from the 
heat of their bodies, by which means the bees are 
furnished with water during their confinement by 
the coltl. In shallow hives, in which the brood 
combs extend from the top to the botlom of the 
hive, with hut little sealed honey comb above 
them, it will be necessary to give the water in 
small quantities, as often as every other day, from 
the middle of January until they can obtain it for 
themselves in order to supply the mature bees and 
perfect their brood early, which cannot ho done 
without water. 
F. 1 see tbe reason why the bees require 
water In winter is for the want of sealed honey 
comb to condense the vapor that arises. I 
must call some evening and hear your reasons on 
each set of moulds resting upon a board full of the disadvantages of wintering bees in houses, 
small holes. and have you explain further the method of 
The cheese maker and his assistant, (no women incloBingtbcm in hoards. Good evening; Ithank 
arc employed,) go into a dairy neighborhood, hire you for your trouble. Henrietta. 
a convenient dairy house, put up their fixtures, - 
and bargain for the season for the milk of about 
eighty cows, paying the farmers usually six cents 
per gallon. When the milk is brought in at night 
or morning, it is measured and poured into tbe 
copper, swung into the arch, and warmed to 85“ 
Pali. The rennet is then put in, and the munngc- 
incnt the same as in other dairies till the curd is 
properly scalded. The whey Is dipped oil until 
all iB taken ont that can he easily. The caul is 
To Remove Boxes of Honey. 
Tell “Young Bek Keepkk,” if be wants to 
remove any more boxes, to remove them immedi¬ 
ately to a dark cellar, shut all cellar windows but 
one, place the boxes near it, and as the bees come 
out of the box they w ill make for the light, and 
return to their liive6. If he has no cellar, another 
very good way is to take off the boxes when it 13 
warm; turn them with the hole up, then set glass 
soil all of otir agricultural product I am not j, n t into these moulds, and stands until it tumblers over the holes; when a quantity get up 
disposed to doubt this averment; because, when p a8 f mine d, or will keep its shape when turned 
I see a heavy hickory log reduced to n few ashes, 
and the rest gone into tbe atmosphere, I cannot 
help thinking that Nature has Borne way of making 
ont of that volatilised log another, or some other 
Bolid substance —perhaps wool. Whether ahe 
passes it through the soil first, or whether the 
sheep may breathe it and he themselves the lab¬ 
oratory, 1 know not. Without the help of the at- 
mosphere, they certainly would nut make ary 
wool. We will all grant, that all which is ob¬ 
tained from the atmosphere is clear gain—for 
even U. T. B. will not advocate making any re¬ 
turns for that. Yet even this view of tlie question 
does not modify the issue that the important 
point is not the yield of any animal, in the ab¬ 
out. NopresBureisused. The cheese are rubbed 
with salt and cured, if possible, in a cold, damp 
cellar. The fermentation commences early, and 
the odor exhaled from the cellar of the dairy 
house I visited in Lewis Co. was so poculiar that 
months after I had no difficulty in recognizing 
the Botirce of a very pervading smell that annoyed 
a good many passengers ou the New World 
steamer, as we were going down the river to New 
York, We had quite a large shipment of Lim¬ 
burgh cheese on hoard. 1 think it never forgets 
to smell, for I have seen it strong as iu its youth, 
only more so, when three years old. Many peo¬ 
ple like It, hut 1 am not in that category. It 
brings high prices, however, among the Germans, 
Btract, hut the yield compared with the value of and jg principally consumed by them. The inanu- 
tbe food consumed it should be the aim of experi- f aoturo j a confin'd exclusively to and for this 
jnent to exhibit- class of our people, and must bo a Btrong re- 
For many years I have bad a favorite mare, now minder of their Fader Land. It may become, in 
twenty years old, yet still fat and sleek, and coltish time, an article of general commerce, but the 
with a few days rest, that haB rendered a large chances are that our own improved manufacture 
amount of service for a small amount of service will, in a measure, supercede it—r. 
the food consumed it should be the aim of experi¬ 
ment to exhibit 
For many years I have bad a favorite mare, now 
twenty years old, yet still fat and sleek, and Coltish 
with & few days rest, that h»B rendered a largo 
amount of service for a small amount of service 
for a comparatively small nmount of food. — 
long journeys of week's continuance, when four 
quarts of oats three times each day was all she 
would consume, and of hay a less quantity than 
other horses of her size (which is medium) would 
have required for tbe same service. Doubtless 
ber secretive organs were more efficient than 
other horses, and about her omunctories there 
was less absolute waste. On the other hand; 
when Ohio was wild and uow, hogs in largo num¬ 
bers lived and bred in the frost. In autumn the 
farmers would get these wild animals into enclos¬ 
ures as best, they could. Sometimes it was im¬ 
possible, some times it was with difficulty accom¬ 
plished. I have known instances where the hogs 
were so wild and ferocious that they would not 
eat corn if they could sec or hear any person 
near them; and after eating large quautltieH of 
corn, were not well fattened. From all their 
emunctories food escaped without nourishing 
them. 
Ilaving already passed the ordinary limits of 
an essay, I will conclude with a hope that the sub¬ 
ject may he treated by abler pens than mine. 
Statistics, showing the consumption of food, aud 
tbe result, are a very valuable addition to agricul¬ 
tural literature. I know these statistics do not 
readily admit of graceful utterance, of the ornate 
period, of the rounded sentence, of mellifluent 
language, and are therefore not attractive to the 
ambitions writer; hut still you could allow him a 
little scope iu describing the bcantiful horse, cow, 
or sheep, while writing of their food. 
Milan, Erie Co., Ohio, I860. Peter Hathaway. 
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LIMBUKGH CHEESE. 
Before I answer your question about Limburgh 
cheese, I want to find fault the least hit in the 
world with your proof reader. In all the articles 
iu the glasses, raise them and let the bees out. 
This will prevent any from entering the box.— 
M. H. 8., Fairvirw, Pa., 1860. 
Birn in TompUinw C ounty. 
In the Agricultural BcportfromTompkins Co., 
as published in the last Vol. of Transactions, we find 
the following in regard to the honey crop of that 
Counly:—The qniet manner in which this indus¬ 
trious little inBed h ai ds luxuries and wealth for 
man’s use, after supplying Its own wants, has 
caused it to be overlooked in the estimate of our 
annual crops, until our attention is arrested by 
the export demand for the article. I am quite 
sure it is not an over estimate of the year’s crop, 
to place the figures at 100,000 pounds of honey 
and 5,000 pounds of wax. 
Rural Spirit of lljc press. 
&l)c Rcc-Kcrpcr. 
Fin-tlicr Convorwn t ton about Wintering ltces. 
F. I have become quite interested on the 
subject of bees, and I would be pleased to have 
further conversation on the subject of wintering. 
A neighbor of mine pnt his 1 ees last winter in a 
small room partially warmed through tbe day by 
a stove pipe. lie bad them in a tight box hive, 
and they were ventilated by small gimlet holes. 
They became restless, kept up a continual buzzing, 
with water draining from them, and it would 
freeze at the bottom of the hive at night, and the 
stocks became unhealthy, having more dead bees 
than those wintered in the open air; and he said 
it would he the last of his keeping heeB in rooms 
in winter. 
K. I have had much experience for the last 
thirty years in wintering bees in warm rooms, 
cellars, and ont-buildings. This method has some 
desirable advantages and some unavoidable dis¬ 
advantages. The natural instincts of the bee 
must be attended to in regard to heat, cold, damp¬ 
ness, dryness, Ac., as you have to violate natural 
laws, more or lees, by confining them in rooms. 
To derive tbe full benefit of wintering bees in 
daik rooms or cellars, they must bo thoroughly 
ventilated at the top of the hive, in order to keep 
them dry. To give U3 control as far as possible, 
of tbe cold and warmth of the rooms by means 
of ventilation, prepare the hives the same as 1 
mentioned for wintering in the open air. The 
box hive must have a tight box cover or empty 
chamber. Leave the six holcB at the top open, 
cover them with a wire screen to coufine the bees 
to the hive, arid to prevent the mice from deetroy- 
ingthe comb, unless the light and mice are wholly 
excluded. When the weather becomes so cold as 
Boiled Corn lor Food. 
William Van Loon, writing to the Prairie 
Farmer , sayB that he has practiced feeding boiled 
corn to bis stock and bogs, and is "satisfied that 
he saves half his grain and gains as mnch more 
in time;” that opo husbel of corn on the cob 
boiled, will produce as much pork as two fed 
raw, and in half the time. In one experiment ho 
fed three bushels of boiled corn, per day, to 
twenty-seven hogs, for ten days. The average 
gain was two pounds per day. He then fed the 
same lot of hogs on three bushels of raw corn per 
day for twenty days; they gained a mere trifle 
over oue pound per day. These were small young 
hogs—larger ones would have fattened better. 
Touching Figs lo I'.nt Slow. 
A correspondent of the New England Farm¬ 
er says:—Pigs should be early taught to eat slow¬ 
ly, for the advantage of the pig, as well as of the 
owner. Nothing is easier. Give the weaned pig, 
at G or S weeks old—in a clean trough—hair a tea 
cup of dry shorts or bran, aud after his dry food 
is all eaten, give bis drink, and increase the dry 
food according to the age and appetite, till three 
months old; aud then add one-half Indian meal 
for two months, and then dry Indian meal, till 
fattened sufficiently. This plan has been followed 
for live years with decided success. 
Jlanngcnu-ni of C’reniu in ('olil Weather. 
For some reason not yet known, cream 
skimmed from milk in cold weather, docB not 
come to butter, when churned, so qniekly as that 
from the same cow in warm weather. Perhaps 
the pellicles, which form the little sacs of butter 
in the cream, are thicker and tougher. There 
are two methods of obviating this trouble iu a 
great degree. One is, to set the pan of milk on 
the stove, or in some warm place, as soon as 
Btrained, and let it remain until quite warm- 
some say, until a bubble or two rises, or until a 
skim of cream begins to form on the surface. 
Another mode recommended, is to add a table- 
hill before the cattle bave ever been taught to 
hack an empty cart down hill. 
“Cattle must be made to obey — and the com- , 
mon lash, or a switch stick, will be sufficient for j 
breaking in. But we ask for mercy on all cattle F 
that are willing to do right as soon as the light is t 
pointed out. Many drivers of oxen put the lash E 
ou first,, before asking their patient teams to 1 
move. This Is a species of barbarism which all * 
owners of cattle ought to prohibit. It is BO natu- ( 
tuI for people whom we hire from the interior, to , 
use force in the first instance, and gentleness j 
afterward, if at all, that particular care should be < 
exerted in regard to the treatment of their cattle. ■ 
Proper driving is sn important item in husbandry. 
So many farmers now depend upon their hired 
help to do the main work, it is important for them 
to see that the work is properly done. The mer¬ 
ciful mao is merciful to his beast.” 
Kcclnirning Worn Ont Meadows. 
In the November issue of the American Agri¬ 
culturist, S. A. Newton, of Susquehanna Co., Pa., 
writes that it is often remarked by farmers that 
the grass on their older meadows has run out, and 
that they cannot plant all their lots, and get 
round in time to prevent it. They practice keep¬ 
ing the land under the plow for two successive 
crops, before laying it down to grass again. 
Borne tube four or more successive crops; they 
manure well, as they should, but they do not con¬ 
sider that the rest of the farm is thereby robbed 
to keep a few acres in full bearing fertility. Let 
any one do this fora dozen consecutive years on 
the Barno lot, and the injurious effect on his other 
fields will be unmistakably visible. My experi¬ 
ence teaches abetter method,because it increases 
the fertility of the soil, and renders it in future 
years more productive. 
There is much land in our country which, al¬ 
though not swampy, is too low and humid in 
spring aud early summer, for making eound and 
profitable corn crops. When I emigrated to Sus¬ 
quehanna some twenty-five years ago, I soon 
found I bad several acres of such low, wet uoil, in 
one of my lots. Twice the grass thereon run out, 
and each time I bad it up three years, under tbe 
usual way of treatment, taking off three successive 
crops. Each time I got a worse surface for the 
scythe, because I could not entirely subdne the 
Bod; and besides, wbat was worse, 1 was evidently 
reducing the natural strength of the Boil. When 
the grass failed again, I ordered it to he plowed 
of usual depth, perfectly, aud without a balk. 
The furrows were rolled down and harrowed 
. lightly, to lill up the spaces between; and then 
oats aud timothy seed were sown aud well har¬ 
rowed in for one grain crop only. This was an 
experiment; I did not expect much—I was not 
disappointed; lint the crop was worth, for feed, 
as much, if not more, than the hay could possibly 
have been. The next year the grass was greater 
1 than I had ever seen grown before, and of a 
1 superior quality. For five years after, the crop 
t annually was equally good. 
! The next year the grass was evidently failing, 
’ and I broke the lot up again exactly as before. 
' This was In 1858. The oat crop this time was full 
• and good, having had the benefit of the old sod; 
1 and this year the grass was fully equal to the yield 
5 of any former year; besides, the sod now appears 
' to promise for the future better than at any time 
p before. 
I have twice since treated some of my corn 
5 lauds in the same way, obtaining each time super¬ 
abundant crops, even greater the first time of 
mowing than I formerly got after two grain crops. 
• One of our most practical farmcis in an adjoin- 
• ing town, about the same time, yet unbeknown to 
B mo, commenced the same process of tillage on a 
1) largo lot of humid soil, in every respect like mine, 
1 which had nearly become non-productive. He is 
I getting extra large crops of hay annually: and 
7 he now considers that lot as one of his best, 
e which had long been bis poorest, huving been 
least productive. 
This Transactions of trk N. Y. State Aa. Society 
for 1359, with an A tv-tract of the Procet dings of the 
County Agricultural Societies, have been received from 
Mr. Secretary Johnson. This is the nineteenth volume 
issued by the Society, and its TOO octavo pages comprise 
several able and valuable SHAy* end paper,-, in addition 
to the ordinary buaintpa t,n<inactions of the institution, 
and statistic* and reports from the local Rural Associa¬ 
tions of the State. Tbe Agricultural Survey of Onondaga 
County, by Bor, Gto. Geodes, will attract attention from 
tbe ability, clcarne-fl.erni appnreutfamilLrity with which 
the whole *utject la diecowed—including Topography, 
Geology, Soil*, Agricultural Prodnote, Manufactures, &c. 
Mr. G. admirably illustrates tbe material wealth and 
capabililiea of one of the hot agricultural districts in 
our State. We hope other connties will be as well sur¬ 
veyed, and the results given in future volumes. The 
Transactions comprise several other pipers worthy of 
special notice, but we cannot even enumerate them at 
present 
Agricultural illisccliann. 
.. V . , . .1 A AUVUUW A1AUUV AWVVtUUIvussvv, — — — — * 
you have published from my manuscript, and to confine the bees to their hives, remove them to M of aalt t0 a quart of cream when it is 
- • il . ___J-iinObtr-WC Tt'lfO F A 
yon know how many, 1 do not remember two 
more provoking slips than in the article on Eng¬ 
lish cheese. If I were a bad penman, there would 
be some excuse, though it is the compositor’s 
and proof reader’s business to make out tbe 
the room destined for their winter quarters. Tuko 
the top box cover off and open tbe chamber doors 
in all moderate winter weather; and when it be¬ 
comes very cold, so ns to freeze iu their rooms, put 
the box cover on and close the doors of their 
proper words, if they have only straight marks hive, and be careful to remove them when the 
to work from. But, I especially pride myself upon 
my legible writing. There have oocurred but few 
instances when I could not read my own writing 
with facility, and these were when I had forgotten 
tbe subject matter of the manuscript. I hope the 
Captain and Mr. K. will ho more particular, now 
election is over. 
The milk is colored to a butler, not a “better” 
color; or a little darker than a bright half eagle. 
A little further on you make me say the curd is 
gently “ washed." If you were a cheese maker, 
you could relish the absurdity of washing curd. 
What I did say was, that the curd was gently 
“ worked .” That is, squeezed by the dairy woman, 
while in the strainer. You next make me say 
weather moderates, to prevent the combs becom¬ 
ing damp and mouldy. If the bees become rest¬ 
less to obtain their liberty in warm days, open 
the ventilators to their rooms at evening, if cool, 
and close them early the next morning. This 
will do much to keep them quiet, which is of the 
utmost importance iu winter, as they consume 
much less of their stores, and they are more 
healthy. Strive to keep the roomB of a tempera¬ 
ture not lower than 32“, nor higher than 40”. Tbe 
reason that your neighbor did not succeed in 
wintering his bees in a warm room, was for the 
want of proper ventilation, aud arousing them by 
lire heat. 
F, I see very plainly the reason that my neigh- 
skimmed. Cream thus prepared, will generally 
come to butt r in a few minutes when churned. 
It is thought the salt acts upon the coating of the 
butler globules and makes them tender, so that 
they break readily when beaten by churning. 
So says the Maine Farmer . 
Whipping Oxen. 
It is a cruel and generally a useless act of 
barbarism to whip oxen. Tbe best drivers use 
the lash the least. Upon this point hear what 
the editor of the Massachusetts Ploughman Bays: —It 
is good sense, and every farmer should think of it: 
“ Thoughtless men will whip, whip, whip. They 
do it from habit—a very bad habit; and we find 
it difficult to correct habit. We are trying to 
teach our hired men better manners than to put 
on the whip before giving an invitation to the 
brute animals 1 to go.’ We bave oxen that will 
‘go’ as soon as they are invited, without the 
indorsement of the whip. Y’et we find it a diffi- 
\Y Lilli: 111 mu cLA aim i • * via Autmv miv vwj - • * - . , , , T* • i 
“ hoops or net.” I said vat, which is the common bor did not succeed with his bees. It was as you cult matter to control tne whip. It is sure y a 
word for the round thing the curd is put into, say,-he did not give them sufficient ventilation, savage practice to apply the lash before inviting 
and pressed till it becomes cheese. Please correct and kept them too warm during the day, and too the animals to move by the proper words. Yet 
the errors, for they are important. cold during the night. we see that this is a very common practice of 
Did you ever eat any Limburgh cheese? If not, K. They are taught by Mature to fly out when those who are not owners ol the cattle. W hen 
go into some German saloon, call for a mug of the weather is sufficiently warm, if not kept in the common whip-lash is not thought to be hard 
lager, brown bread, and cheese, and pretty sure dark rooms; still, their instinct is so strong that enough for the backs and noses ol cattle, the 
you will get a piece of very strong-smelling they would sooner die than submit to close oon- walnut handle, one inch iu diameter is used on 
cheese. A friend who sometimes explores the finement the noses of oxen, to make them back a load up 
The Weather continues very wet and unfavorable for 
out-door operations. We do not remember a fall whentlie 
aqueous cloment was so copiously, and almost continu¬ 
ously, sprinkled and poured from the clouds as the pres- 
eut iu all this region. The securing of crops, fall plow¬ 
ing, etc., have been greatly hindered—Indeed almost 
ignored—the days when it has not rained being excep¬ 
tions to the general rule for over a mouth past. Corn 
has been injured extensively, and potatoes are rotting 
more generally that in any former year. This is bad for 
farmers, yet we trust the actual lots w ill not be great, 
and they should r emember that the SpriDg and Summer 
were moat favorable, with abundant harvests. 
N. Y, State Fair Premiums.— We intended to publish 
a list of the principal Premiums awarded at our late 
State Fair, hut preferring a correct, official list, we 
awaited the publication of the October number of the 
Society's Journal. This was received go late, however— 
on the 10th of Nobetuber—that we have concluded to 
omit the publication, and re feral! interested to the pages 
of the Journal for particulars. 
A Good P.rriAL Annual. —We are in receipt of u Tho 
Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs and Cultiva¬ 
tor Almanac for 1861 ”—a handsome and well filled work 
of 124 pages—published hy Luther.Tcckkk & Sox, Alba¬ 
ny. A few days since we received an order for several 
hundr ed copies of a work of this character—the writer 
supposing us to be the publisher. We would therefore 
slate that we only publish the Rural New-Yokkkr, bat 
can commend the above work as the best of the kind 
within our knowledge. 
A Model ag'l Warehouse CATALOGuns. — AVe have 
received a most beautiful and admirably arranged 
‘■Illustrated Catalogue of Flows and other Implements 
and Machines manufactured and sold at C. V- Mares' 
Agricultural and Seed Warehouse, 120 and 128 Nassau 
at., and 11 Beckman st., New York." It contains 240 
pages, is profusely and fiuely illustrated, and altogether 
a model Catalogue. We have no acquaintance whatever 
with Mr. Mares, and never- saw him to our knowledge, 
but infer from thi3 Catalogue, as well aa from an inoog 
glance at bis Warehouse a few days since, that he is a 
progressive business man—such an one as will, from 
apparent enterprise and favorable location, soon achieve 
a prominent and leading position in bis vocation. 
Not this Pater— but a Politico-Agricultural one.— 
While in New A T ork city, recently, two orturao parties 
informed ns that they had heard of onr tillering the 
Rural New-Yorker, for clubbing with country papers, 
at fifty rents a year, and wished to know if such wax the 
fact. As we had never offered onr paper to the press, 
even for the purpose named, at less than the lnweetelub 
rate, we of course promptly deDled the soft impeach¬ 
ment. tVe are not doing that kind nf business, and sus¬ 
pect our inquiring friend# hare got matters ah tile mixed. 
Reckon they most refer to the Hural -, a paper 
started several years ago, somewhat in Imitation of this 
Journal in form, &c It commenced as a wc ekly,but was, 
If we remember correctly, soon changed to a semi¬ 
monthly. We think it Is now ismed weekly again— 
though we are not positive, for we have not seen a num¬ 
ber io over a year, (having stricken it from our exchange 
list long ago, for pirating upon our pages .md giving no 
credit ) It is, or was, a great paper, iu IU peculiar way— 
but we don't think il will succeed in permanently sub¬ 
stituting itself for a dozen copies of agricultural journals 
in a* many years, if fairly judged. Indeed, we suppose 
the fact to bo that it is a political paper in the guise of 
an agricultural journal stealing the livery of Heaven 
to serve Ike deril in"—for wo have a Circular to Post- 
Masters, (Issued some time ago.) whereia it* claims are 
urged, and favor sought, on the ground of being an 
advocate of certain political principles; and it very inno¬ 
cently adds that such doctrines can he more successfully 
inculcated in a rural than au avowed political paper! 
[The circular alluded to was sent u« by a P. M. who did 
not fancy its tenor, with a request to expore the “ sell.”] 
This was an U ar1ful dodge,'' to be aura. How many 
others have emanated from the same source we wot not; 
bnt the offer to country papers belongs to the same cate¬ 
gory. We suspect, however, that the conductors of the 
press are a little too shrewd to be thus induced to club 
with and commend such a publication—though we ob¬ 
serve that oue of our friends lias “put his foot in it," 
ankle deep. 
— Let it be distinctly understood, by both Press and 
People, that we base the claims of the Rural New- 
Yokkkr upon Its merits and intrinsic value alone,instead 
of mere size or price — and moreover that we do not wish 
it mixed or confounded with any- other “ Rural." That’s 
all we ask in the premises. 
Tint Potato Rot.—W e don’t know that there is any 
probability nf giving very great light on this question, 
yet the following from a correspondent will bo found 
interesting, especially the present season, when the evil 
is much worse than usual: 
Messrs. Editors: —Some ten or twelve years ago, I 
planted about one-third of an acre of Mercer potatoes in 
ground well manured, aud they grew well and yielded 
well. Myself and hired man dug and put seveiity-fiie 
bui.hole in the cellar. In a dry and excellent Condition, on 
the 10th or September, without any signs or rot, and 
they kept sound until they were wed up, the next sum¬ 
mer. But not so with the balance of the patch. There 
came a heavy rain the next day, and it continued to rain 
more or less every day for a week or more, when 1 found 
those left in tbe ground had badly rotted, e.-pi-cially the 
large ones. AVe then dug the balance, (about one hun¬ 
dred bushels) the ground wet as water could make it, 
washed the potatoes, and spread them ou tne baru floor 
to dry. But they all, or nearly so, rotted. Again, about 
four years after, I planted about the same amount of 
ground with the Round Pink F.ye potato, They grew 
finely until the 20th of August, when we had three days 
of very showery weather, tbe tun ekiuiDg between 
showers extremely hot. My potatoes again commenced 
rotting rapidly, so much so that potatoes as large as a 
man's (1st would change so fast that in twelve hours they 
would, from a sound potato, become so rotten that they 
would not hold together when the earth was taken from 
around them, aud was .very offensive. At the end of 
three days, the raio ceased, and the rot very soon after, 
and the result was, that when we dog them, (9lh or 10th 
of September J full one-third of those that were left, had 
commenced rotting, and stopped when the weather be¬ 
came dry, and they had continued to grow till the time 
of digging, when they were found to be perfectly sound, 
though from one-fourth to one-half had rotted away. 
Stock Raisikg— Good Advice ,—In an article on stock 
raising, a Southern journal has some truthful remarks, 
applicable to auy meridian, aa follows:—“It is choice 
cows, sheep, horses, and mules, that yield the greatest 
returns to skillful husbandmen. The production of 
scrubs, or mean stock of any kind, is rather a mern busi¬ 
ness, in a pecuniary point of view. Raise superior ani¬ 
mals on rich perennial grasses, if yon seek a good income 
from your larm stock husbandry. Such animals may 
obtain part of their living from unimproved old fields, 
particularly sheep; but they want good clover and pea 
hay in the winter, or hay made from the EDglivh grasses. 
The most prominent error in stock growing is the attempt 
to rear flue hogs, cattle, and sheep, on seauiy and defect¬ 
ive food. Some want a great deal of meat, milk, or 
wool, from little or nothing. They ask nature to make 
them rich, while they lie in the shade in summer, and sit 
by the fire in winter, and leave their poor animals to 
nearly or quite perish from neglect.” 
Shall wk havr the 100,000 Subscuibkrs ?— A 
Long-IsUnJ Subscriber writes:—“ Now that 1 the Coni) try 
Safe,' it is time for all Rural Agents to join in the irre¬ 
sistible conflict and swell the subscr’ption list to One 
Hundred Thousand, and claim the promised portrait of 
D. D. T. Moore. I am in hopes of doing some good in 
the way of circulating it iu this Die of the Sen.” 
— Our friend’s memory is a little treacherous. AVe did 
not exictiy promise the portrait; but, in answer to a 
request to give it in the Rural, we said — “Even if we 
possessed sufficient merit to warrant the erposure, we 
doubt tbe propriety of going into the prefers. When we 
get tbe 100,000 subscribers, and sufficient age and dignity, 
it may answer." However, we have no objection to the 
100,000 subscribers, aud when we get them —as Bubal 
friends seem determined we shall ere long —wo will con¬ 
sider about the ** age and dignity " qualification! 
Short Crops in Kansas,—Got. Mldaky writes to the 
Ohio Cultivator that Ike failure of crops over a large 
portion of Kansas Territory is very discouraging. Still, 
he hopes there will not be great suffering for want of 
food. He says cattle are everywhere fat, and in good 
numbers, that pork will be plenty, but generally thin, 
and that there are chickens “ without number.” Bread 
will be scarce, and with many, difficult to get. 
