and to send me a little, and I would judge it in 
righteousness. I further intimated that sugar 
cane was nearly the only thing the drouth had 
left us to base our hopes on, to keep us sweet- 
tempered. Thus a correspondence was opened 
which resulted in my ordering one of his Evapo¬ 
rators, and I prevailed on a few of my friends 
here to send in their orders also; partly because 
I had faith in the lie ka i., and partly because of 
the frank and courteous letters Mr. Miller wrote. 
I felt certain he was an honorable man, because 
he patronized the Rural. We were not mistaken 
in the man, for ho came to see us and taught us 
how to make sugar, and we found him to he a 
gentleman of truth and veracity, and his Evapo¬ 
rators arc all he claims for them. They make 
sugar, as he said they would, and sirrup so pure 
and good that for all cooking purposes It Is 
equal to any brown sugar. This fact has passed 
into a proverb, in all this region, arid as we have 
otherwise encouraged the cultivation of sorghum, 
at all times wince its first introduction into the 
United States, wc can now say to the agricultural 
readers of the Rural that we expect shortly to 
see the time that the Mississippi river will float 
sugar and molasses down stream instead of hear¬ 
ing it up as now. 
I do not intend this as an advertisement, only 
wishing to encourage the home production of one 
of the necessaries of civilized life, and any per¬ 
son really interested in the manufacture of sor¬ 
ghum, and desiring any further information, they 
can writo me, and I will tell them all I know freely 
and gladly. 
A word about other crops in this region. The 
Btory is soon told. The drouth lias been sneh 
that wheat was an entire failure all over Missouri 
and Kansas. Hay from the prairie was not made 
this year, but pubturo was very good in this re¬ 
gion. Corn is a poor apology for a crop, but as 
we did not expect to have any at all, for several 
months in the summer, we arc “thankful for 
email favors.” The corn crop is much better 
near tho Missouri river than hero, and better here 
than in the interior of Kansas. 
Fruit trees have done well here this summer, 
considering the drouth, especially those planted 
this spring; but evergreens of every description 
have dried up. For two years past the farmers 
here have given great attention to planting 
orchards. Tho Rochester Nurseries have shipped 
very largo quantities of stock into every pait of 
thiB State for the past two years. The quality lifts 
been fine, and they havo lived and grown well. 
We regard Rochester as the great Nursery of the 
Western Continent, and the Rural the great pa¬ 
per to encourage the cultivation of fruit and 
shrubbery everywhere where it is read. I have 
never seen any country whore fruit trees would 
grow so rapidly or produce so early as beie. Tho 
grape is Indigenous to this soil and its cultivation 
is receiving a good deal of encouragement lately. 
Notwithstanding the hard times, we intend to 
sustain the Rubai, in this county, because the 
times would be harder without it. You may look 
for an enlarged subscription for the New Year. 
J. Williams. 
Kingston, Caldwell Co., Mo,, Nov. 7, 1800. 
A PATENT CHURN BUG. 
Eds. Rural Nkw-Yobkkb: —For the past two 
weeks we have had in this locality a small “hum¬ 
bug,” by the side of which your “Egyptian Pop 
Corn ” must “ pale its Ineffectual fires.” This hug 
is of tho churn species, and I assure you it is full 
grown—none of your small, crawling bugs, but 
one that will walk right up to its game, insert its 
trunk, and extract a $5 bill ere you ore aware that 
you arc bit. 
The modus operandi is this:—A man enters a 
town and proceeds to canvass the same for a club 
of fifteen or twenty subscribers, (according to the 
size of the town.) Raid club is to have the exclu¬ 
sive right of said town, for 12 years, in a certain 
patent Atmospheric Attempered Churn, which is 
to he manufactured and supplied to subscribers 
alone, at half the retail price at the manufactory. 
For a membership in said club the modest sum of 
$5 only is required, which makes the neat little 
sum of $75 for each town canvassed. Subscribers 
that enter this dub will please take notice that 
they only buy the right “to buy and sell said 
cbnrns on commission,” as tbe right to make is 
reserved. After the formation of the dub, tho 
members are to appoint a general agent, who is 
to order the churns, (if there arc any to order,) 
and transact the business of tbe company. To 
some the representations are that they have a 
churn for the live dollars; to others, that unless 
the club is completed before night no more will 
be said about it. Again, after procuring six or 
seven names the subscription list is changed 
for a new one, and then it is said that he 
will not probably succeed, as he has had poor 
luck. 
Such, Mr. Editor, are a few of this bug's tricks. 
The game has been progressing in this county 
for some little time past, and you will please 
expose it for the purpose of putting your readers 
on their guard, especially as it is entirely among 
farmers that the dodge is played. I atn sure they 
will be much obliged to you for opening their 
eyes. As T am not one .of the^ bitten ones, but 
only a looker on, I have no revenge to satisfy or 
ax to grind. Herkimer. 
Herkimer Co., N. Y., Nov,, 1S60. 
To Keep Manure Heaps from Heating.— In 
a late Rural, J. A. C. inquires how he shall “keep 
manure heaps from heating.” Nothing is easier. 
All that is necessary is the frequent application 
of water. Make the heap rather flat, excavate a 
email place on the lowest side, and make it water 
tight, wet the heap freely, let it drain into the 
hole, have an old scoop-shovel, and as often as 
the heap begins to smoke toss the water on the 
top of the heap to drain through and cool it, and 
be ready for the same operation again when 
needed. He can thus keep his manure cool and 
have all of its valuable qualities left.—J. C. B., 
Sheridan, JV. Y., 1860. 
OOEE’S REPEAL HEW-TOEKEE. 
(£I)c I3cc-Kc£pn\ 
Drones — How lo Exterminate. 
“There! T wonder,” says Uncle Watctlvk, 
“what our friend will write about next? He is 
now to tell us how to exterminate tho drones! 
Can it be possible that he is nine? It is surpris¬ 
ing that he has not yet learned that the drones arc 
females; that they lay all tbe eggs; that they sit 
upon them until they hatch, aud then Bupply the 
worms with food until sealed over; that they fly 
out at. mid-day and extract from the atmosphere 
the substance of which tbe comb is made; that 
they are, iu fact, the most useful members of a 
••skip,’ and hence to exterminate them would 
most assuredly ruin the whole colony.” 
Mr. Editor—if you only had the experience 
that I have had in traveling among nearly all 
clauses of bee-keepers, I venture to predict that 
you would not, in the least, he surprised to hear 
some old-lushioued, whimsical, and worse than all 
else besides, self conceited bee-keeper, make in 
substance precisely the some remarks as are 
given above. As I have neither Fpacc nor time, 
at present, to write any more Bee-ology nonsense, 
I will proceed to state tbe office of the drones and 
their relation to the colony — why at a certain 
season of the year they should be destroyed, and 
then give the process for expelling them. 
Tiit- drones are the mule bees—their sole office is 
to impregnate the queen, which office generally ex¬ 
pires as soon as the swarming season is over, and 
all the then young quecus impregnated. When a 
large number of colonies are in one apiary, a few 
drones to each—50 or 100—are sufficient. The 
queen always being impregnated in the open air, 
would not very likely fall to meet some of them, 
as the drones instinctively issue from all the hives 
at about the same time, making, in the aggregate, 
according to the number of colonies, several 
thousand. With no hive, except it have movable 
combs, can the production of drones be pre¬ 
vented, and the precise number actually wanted 
obtained. Tills, i» tbe former case, may be 
effected Bimply by removing all the drone comb 
and supplying ils place with worker comb. If 
100 drones are wanted, cut out a piece of drone 
comb containing 100 cells and a corresponding, 
piece out of a worker comb, and insert the piece 
of drone or store comb. In this way any desired 
number may be obtained. It frequently is the 
case, however, that the bee-keeper does not avail 
himself of this very desirable advantage afforded 
by movable frames, and therefore necessarily 
finds his colonies well populated by a large 
progeny of drones. To show how, at the above 
season of the year, to exterminate the drones, 
wholly or partially, is what 1 purpose soon to do. 
Why drones should be exterminated:—1st, To 
save a useless consumption of a large amount of 
honey. It has frequently been observed by prac¬ 
tical apiarians, and may easily be ascertained by 
auy one, that the drones, when issuing from the 
hive, are usually loaded with honey; but when 
they return, are either empty or contain compara¬ 
tively but little honey. Suppose, for instance, 
that there are only 1,000 drones in a colony; that 
they each issue, on an average, but once per day; 
aud that they each carry out with them oue drop 
of honey; reader, do you not suppose that a largo 
amount of honey is thereby consumed, to say 
nothing of the honey necessary for their daily 
sustenance while in the hive? The above, in my 
opinion, is a pretty low estimate for some colo¬ 
nies. Ir. has been estimated by a said-to-be relia¬ 
ble bee-keeper near Philadelphia, that no less than 
four drops are daily consumed by each drone. 
Some colonies that I have personally examined, 
indicated that no less than 5,000 drones had 
emerged from their cells within only a short time 
previous. The fact that they return from their 
flying excursions empty, is conclusive proof that 
they gather nothing to increase the stores of the 
colony, as some might, suppose. It must, be evi¬ 
dent to thinking minds that no colony having a 
large progeny of drones, can he very prosperous 
or very profitable to its keeper, at least not as 
prosperous and profitable as though there were 
only a few. 
2d, To propagate Italian Queens and secure them 
purely impregnated. Many, doubtless, have buen 
induced to purchase queens of this variety of the 
honey bee; but how to secure them purely im¬ 
pregnated has been a mystery. To introduce the 
quueus to native stocks when containing a large 
number of common drones, it would bo necessary 
to wait until they died off naturally, were killed 
by the bees or banished from the hives, before it 
would do to rear queens artificially, if the keeper 
were desirous to have them purely impregnated. 
By this time, it might he too late iu the season to 
attempt to rear them at all. A few weeks since, 1 
was obliged to contrive a plan forexterminating 
all the drones, as I wished to propagate these 
queens on a large scale and secure them pare. I 
would here remark, that it would be folly to 
attempt such a result with any hive except it 
have movable combs. I use and have used for 
the past three seasons Mr. Langsthoth’s movable 
comb hives, believing them to be the best. The 
process, ns will he obvious, is very simple, aud by 
it the drones may all he expelled iu 10 or 15 
minutes, or even less. The terms which I shall 
use will readily be uuderstood by those using the 
above hive, —hence an explanation of them will 
be unnecessary. Having never heard of the pro¬ 
cess before giving it a trial, nor since, 1 hope to 
claim for it a little originality. 
The process:—Let No. 1 represent the colony 
from which the drones are to be expelled. By the 
side of No. 1, place an empty hive. No. 2, without 
frames. Place before the entrance of No. 2 the 
entrance blocks, so that the working bees can 
pass readily through them. Make the blocks 
secure, so that they cannot possibly be moved by 
tbe bees. Now, subdue the bees in No. 1, by 
smoke, either punk or tobacco, and then com¬ 
mence taking out the frames of comb for the 
purpose of finding the queen. When she is 
found, secure and confine her for a few moments 
in a "queen cage;” or, if you have none, hold her 
carefully between the thumb and finger. With 
the other hand suddenly jar the bees off from the 
frame, or such a portion as will easily enable you 
to ascertain whether the comb has left upon it 
any matured drones. Being satisfied that no 
drones are upon the comb, transfer it. to empty 
liive No. 2. The beeR most be jarred back into 
Live No. 1. Proceed in this way with each comb 
until all are transferred. Tbe queen may now, or 
before, if preferred, be given to hive No. 2. Each 
ti'xe a comb is transferred, cure should be taken 
not to let any drones get into hive No. 2. This 
result maybe effected by closing it each time with 
the honey receptacle cover. All the combs now 
transferred should again be inspected, and such 
88 contain sealed or unsealed drone brood, or 
eggs in store cells—if deported by common 
queen—should be taken out, and either empty 
frames, frames of worker comb, or empty store 
combs, if ft progeny of Italian drones is desired, 
put in instead. Both hives should now be closed 
— hive No. 1 removed 10 or 16 feet away, and 
hive No. 2 put upon the stand originally occupied 
by Live No. 1. The bees in hive No. 1, having 
neither queen nor combs, will soon ascertain 
their actual condition, and in a few moments will 
commence lively preparations for going home. 
They will readily psBH through tbe entrance 
blocks into hive No. 2; but the drones finding 
themselves too large to pass through them, will 
have to content themselves by staying on the out¬ 
side. In tho course of hair an hour, all or nearly 
all the workers will be in Live No. 2. At evening 
the drones will be found clustered under the por¬ 
tion, when they may lie collected and drowned. 
The entrance blockH should not be dietuibed; for, 
the drones from other hires will seek, and thereby 
gain, admittance. Should this colony be removed 
to a location two miles from neighboring bees, Ital¬ 
ian queens, when the progeny of Italian drones 
mukes its appearance, may thus be obtained pure. 
I would not advise taking all the drone or store 
comb away from any colony; better leave at 
leaBt a few cells. All that is desired, is to know 
that the apiarian cun expel or exterminate the 
drones wholly or partially when necessary. 
M. M. Baldridge. 
Middleport, Niagara Co., N. Y., 1860. 
llural Spirit of tl)c Jprrss. 
Fattening Hags on Dry Corn. 
A writer in the Country Gentleman remarks 
that, “ one of my neighbors—a former all his life, 
aud over seventy years of age—fattens his hogs 
in a dry pen without water or slop, giving them 
nothing but dry corn, and I have noted the faetfor 
five years that I have lived here, that he has made 
I think the heat—I know the fattest—pork in this 
county. The hogs while fattening, particularly 
in dry, warm weather, eat and lie down, walking 
about but little. Had I known the above twenty 
years ago, it would have Baved me a great deal.” 
Apparatus for Salting Slieep. 
A correspondent of the Boston Cultivator 
writes:—“Last year 1 carried a large hogshead, 
for which I paid 38 cents, into the field aud laid 
It upon the ground, making it fast—one head 
having been previously taken out. I was careful 
to smooth off all protruding nails or rough sub¬ 
stances liable to pull tbe wool. Then upon the 
inside ol the other head I nailed a seven by nine 
box, to oonlftin the salt, and the work was com¬ 
pleted—the whole costing in money and labor, 
about fifty cents, and so far as necessity is con¬ 
cerned, it answered a very good purpose.” 
Liine und When!. 
Gkorok H. Chase, an enterprising young 
farmer of Union Springs, N. Y., writes to the 
Country Gentleman that he has tried an experi¬ 
ment. the present season with salt, ashes, and lime, 
on wheat An acre each was selected for the 
three experiments. About two barrels of salt 
were applied to one, two two-horse loads of ashes 
to a second, and a hundred bushels of lime to the 
tliiid acre. The result has not been measured as 
yet, but the eft’ects of each are very visible. The 
salt proved least useful; the ashes more so; and 
the lime most of all. The line of superiority 
marking the boundaries of the limed portion was 
as distinct as a line fence, The increase of the 
crop by liming, over the portions not dressed 
with anything, is at least ten bushels per acre. 
Calves With Sheep. 
A correspondent of the Germantown Tele- 
graph remarks, that late calves, when they come 
10 the barn in the fall, will, if confined in yards 
with older animals, frequently sicken and become 
debilitated. Being weak and small, they are 
usually shoved about, and deprived of their due 
share of the food, and in consequence, “fall 
away” rapidly. Now, I never allow animals of 
this description to associate or bo confined with 
larger ones, but put them with my sheep, where 
there is no danger of their doing or receiving 
harm. Sick calves, I have observed, often pick 
up and devour with avidity the hay and straw 
from among the sheep dung. It iBmedicinal, and 
I know of no article that has a more immediate 
and salutary effect in restoring diseased calves to 
health, than sheep dnng. I have practiced this 
usage for many years, and have never lost an ani¬ 
mal, though I have had many sick when they 
came to the ham. 
Fight, for Animals. 
A correspondent of the Homestead, in an 
article on fattening hogs, gives the following ad¬ 
vice:—“ One more important item of advice, and 
that is, locate your pen where your hogs can have 
the benefit of light. I don't mean merely day- 
light, but the full, bright light of the sun; it will 
add to their cheeiful contentment, as it does to 
the human species, and physiologists declare 
that, other things being equal, families who oc¬ 
cupy apartments in the Bunny side of dwellings 
are the most healthy and happy. Although the 
comparison may, to sensitive nerves, appear odi¬ 
ous, still it is beyond our power or province to 
change the established laws of nature. I never 
knew of a hog, or any other animal, kept under 
the north side of a barn or other buildiDg, where 
the dampness and darkness is never penetrated 
by the sun’s rays, aud where the animal was em¬ 
ployed as the scavenger for other animals, to be 
sleek looking, fat, clean or quiet I have seen 
many a pen where the mud and offal was two or 
three feet deep, and no place of retreat left for the 
poor occupants upon a higher spot, excepting tbe 
bed floor, and that unfurnished by straw.” 
How to Finihli Rooms. 
Bayard Taylor's opinion on this subject is 
thus expressed in the N. Y. Independent :—"For 
the finishing of rooms, there is nothing equal 
to the native wood, simply oiled to develop the 
beauty of the grain. Even the commonest pine, 
treated in this way, has a warmth and luster, 
beside which the dreary white paint, bo com¬ 
mon, even in the best of houses, looks dull and 
dead. Nothing gives a house Buoh a cold, un¬ 
comfortable air, as white paint and white plaster. 
This color is fit only for the trOpicB. Our cheap, 
common woods—pine, ash, cbesntnt, oak, maple, 
beach, walnut, butternut—offer us a variety of 
exquisite tints and fibrous patterns, which, until 
recently, have been wholly disregarded in build¬ 
ing. Even in furniture, wc are just beginning to 
discover how much more chaste and elegant are 
oak aud walnut than mahogany. The beauty of 
a room is as dependent on the harmony of Re 
coloring as that of a picture. Some of the 
ugliest and most disagreeable apartments I have 
ever seen, were just those which contained the 
most expensive furniture and decorations. My 
experience shows that a room finished with the 
best seasoned oak or walnut, costs actually less 
than one finished with pine, painted and grained 
in imitation of those woods. Two verandahs 
of yellow pine, treated to two coats of boiled 
oil, have a richness and beauty of color beyond 
the reach of pigments; and my only regret con¬ 
nected with the house is, that I was persuaded by 
the representation of mechanics ta use any paint 
at all.” 
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Inquiries anb ^nutucru. 
Carrots for Horses—How to Ff.f.d.—H ow should 
carrot# be fed to horses: sod how many are equal to a 
peck of oats?—S. T. T., Southold , 1860. 
In feeding carrots to horses, it is usual to chop them 
aud feed with grain, or n mash. The comparative value 
of carrot* and oats, for fending purposes, Is estimated at 
about two of the former to one of the latter. An English 
agricultural exchange sate that four aDd two-thirds 
pounds of oats is estimated by analysis to contain a little 
over one pound of flesh, muscle, and fat-forming princi¬ 
ple?. To equal that, It will take of carrots nearly nine 
pounds: of Aberdeen turnips, nearly twpnty pounds; and 
of Swedes near seventeen pounds, omitting minute frac¬ 
tions; tho quantity of oats being too small to go closer, 
'Agricultural JHisccllcinji. 
Tub Wkatiikr Tery suddenly changed from 8 mild to 
an exceedingly frigid temperature on Saturday morning 
last. The change was not only sudden, hut very great, 
With high winds. The canal was soon blocked with ice 
and navigation suspended, while an embargo wa* as sud¬ 
denly placed upon the out-door operation* of farmer*. 
The storm has caused tunny disasters on the lakes, but 
we trust little damage has resulted elsewhere. The 
weather is mild to-day, (Nov. 27.) eflorts are being made 
to navigate the canal, and it i« thought the great, number 
of earteru-bound loaded boats will be able to reach their 
destination or proper hibernating quarters. 
Ao’l Science in Gkxesux Co!.lkgx.— We learn from tbe 
Lima Journal that It Is proposed at the Winter Term in 
this College to organize a class in Agricultural Science, lo 
consist chiefly, aud perhaps exclusively, of practical 
farmers. Tbe class is to meet once a week, we believe, 
and is only tbe beginning of a thoroughly furnished 
Department of Agricultural Science, which the Trustees 
design ere long to connect with the College. We wish 
the endeavor every success—for, next to. the University 
of Rochester, the Genesee College is the beBt located for 
such an enterprise, of any in the whole country. 
Got. Skw-ard's Arabian Horse — Opinion of the 
Committee .—Haviog had our say about tbe Arabian stal¬ 
lion exhibited at the recent State Fair, we give the 
report of the committee, of which Ex-Gov. John A. 
King was chairman:—" lu their opinion the horse unites 
most, if not all, the points which indicate the purity of 
of the Eastern blood. He is six years old, h blood bay, 
and about fourteen and a half bauds iu height, The 
horse is not in good condition, being recently off a long 
voyage; but among other good points, it may be stated 
that his head ia perfect, and well set on; his eyes are 
lively; his ears email; his nostrils full, and his forehead 
broad. Ilia loin ia large, with a lull development of 
muscle; bis barrel round, and well ribbed up. His stifle 
and square knee* Indicate a powerful muscular action. 
The committee uced scarcely more than allude to the 
well understood properties of the Arabian in imparting 
style, action, spirit, and stamina, to all other breeds of 
horsee, as Indispensable in elevating this noble animal to 
the dignity and station which he should ever hold in tbe 
estimation of a civilized people, As Fuch, they commend 
this horse to tho good opinion of the American people.' 1 
The Rural’s Seow-Bill, for I860, seems to be greatly 
admired, though we do not consider it perfection. An 
earnest friend writes: — “Your new Show-Bill Is just 
the thing —brief in talk and very attractive. That large 
engraving is so rich In colors that it * sticks right out,’ so 
that every one stops to examine the bilL How much 
superior, and more appropriate withal, ia such a design- 
new, and indicative of the objects of the paper — to the 
piece of r. dozea-year-o)d picture of the London Crystal 
l’alace which defeees the otherwise tolerable bill of the 
-. Are we lo take the two * picters' aa a fair 
index of the comparative progress and enterprise of the 
establishments whence they emanate ? By-tbe by, I atn 
at varianco with a friend about the way in which so many 
colon are blended in your ‘big pictaie. 1 lit contend* 
that it was done by painting, while I as stoutly affirm that 
it was executed hypriuting. We've not bet largely on 
the point, but want to know who is right. Of couibb 
you'll decide on my side." 
— The illustration alluded to was drawn and engraved 
expressly for us, and is mostly original, though a small 
part of it is copied from the Coat of Arms of the Empire 
State. As the artist performed his task “ on time," he 
could not do justice to the design. We can’t decide in 
favor of our friend as to the coloring—for that was done 
by hand, (stencil painting,as it i9 called, thirteen stencils 
being used in this case,) and not by the printing process. 
We send the bill, post-paid, to all regular agents, and also 
to other persons who will use it in aiding our circulation 
Valuation of cattle. Ac., is Mass.— The Valuation 
Committee have established tbe following prices for the 
appraisal of cattle, sheep, and swine, throughout Massa¬ 
chusetts:—Oxen $40 each; cows $25 each; swine $6 each; 
sheep $2 each; steers and heifers $10 each. 
That Rural Ruining Advertisement — 1 “ Strike, but 
Hear."'— Two weeks ago the claims of a then can¬ 
didate for Governor of this State, were presented in 
our advertising department. This was done during our 
absence, yet we “assume the responsibility,” for we were 
not altogether ignorant. A clerk in onr office aeked us 
by telegraph, if an electioneering article iu favor of a 
certain candidate was to go in the Rural, and if so, 
where. Our response was this—" Do not insert ant 
electioneering motter, except as regular advertisement.” 
We did not then know a w ord of the contents of the 
article; but we did know we had been applied to, before 
leaving home, to aid the same candidate in a certain 
manner, (the same way that, we were assume), “ other 
agricultural journals in this State bad doue,") and 
jrromplly refused— stating that ire would uot thus aid 
any political party. We were then asked if we would 
insert an advertisement urging the claim# of the candi¬ 
date, and replied that we could not refuse either party 
sneb a request—it being a legitimate budne.Hs transac¬ 
tion—though onr preference was averse. The next we 
heard of the matter v.vs by telegraph, aa already slated. 
— We thought seme subscriber unacquainted with 
the rules of publisher.*, or, morn likely, some jealous 
enemy, would be moved to say or do something about the 
matter-and lo! we are not mistaken. Pint one of our 
subscribers has addressed us a word of complaint on the 
subject, yet we have the gratuitous sympathy of the 
publisher of an agricultural monthly hereuway. Now, 
we beg respectfully to state, for the information of all 
interested, that, if any subucribers feel aggrieved at our 
course, they can “ stop roy paper," We advertise for 
hotli political parti* 1 ; (as do the leading prrty papers,) 
and their organs, and if any subscriber should object 
to onr advertising for the Democrats this year, as one 
did because we advertised for the Republicans (or their 
great organ,) last year, we should be likely to reply in 
a similar manner, as follows: 
[Frew the /lurid Piac- Yorker of Dec 3, 1859] 
“Ktoi* my Uai'erI" — Under date of “ Yudklneville, 
N. O.. Nor. 15tb, 1859,'' a subscriber writes us in this 
chivalrous wise:-“I sec in your l»e» paper a long 
advertisement for the New York Tbribune, a King 
hell tired, sectional concern You can atop my paper 
immediately. 1 can’t patronize no paper that advertises 
for the Tribune." 
— While receiving n»w subscriber* from all parte of 
the Union (tbe Carolina* not excepted.) aud encourag¬ 
ed with the prospect of lidding from twenty to thirty 
thousand to onr pio*ent circaJa’ion within the miming 
three months, sneb a logical, peremptory, and (so far aa 
one whole subscription is concerned,) perfectly annihi¬ 
lating epistle a» the above, i# a stuiin-'r -a strong dose 
of hydropathy for this chill weather] Onr tinth-Jovtng, 
patriotic ft lend ought to have con-Mered our “feelinke,” 
aud pot “ gone ari l went and done it”—crushing our 
fond hopes, and blasting our bright prospect in *uch 
a summary and overwhelming roan tier, regardless of 
the destructive consequences to the future weal of (not 
only the Rural, but l that portion r,f the people of this 
great •* Universal Yankee Nation" who subscribe to 
the somewhat obsolete dogmas e .f the Declaration of 
Independence.and think the “right? guaranteed by the 
Constitution " (Inducing free speech to onr fri'Dii and 
a free pres* t* us.) are uot altogether mythicnlt How. 
ever, we submit to tbe great pecuniary loss, amt severe 
Shock to our personal dignity and prospect*, with be¬ 
coming humility — »s we have afoietime In similar 
dispensation* ot wrath from both Northern and Southern 
fanatics Meantime, and perhaps f»r some time longer, 
we bIihII continue to edit and publish the Rural New- 
Yorker in such manner aa seemeth to us right and 
proper—furnishing the paper at $2 per annum, in ad¬ 
vance. and inserting such advortiseluentii (from the 
North, South, Float, and West,) as wo consider legiti¬ 
mate, nt our usual ratps! A* the present is a good lime 
to “ stop my paper.” we are thus particular in giving our 
platform, so that people who “ can't patronize no paper ” 
that don’t square exactly with their notion*, may govern 
themselves accordingly. 
— The above article was prepared and put in typo for 
publication three weeks ago, aa the opening sentence 
indicates; hut, presuming that our readers generally 
were too sensible to suppose that tbe political sentiments 
of an advertUemeut foreshadowed our own—or that we 
would swerve lu the least from our neutrality—we con¬ 
cluded to omit It until some subscriber should allude to 
the matter, Since then we have received two letters on 
the subject—one from a subscriber in tho “Southern 
Tier," commending the publication, and another from a 
Republican Post-Master aud influential Agent of the 
Rural in the Western part of this State, saying that 
some of his subscribers objected to the same. Both let¬ 
ters were of course written under a misapprehension of 
our rules. Tho one of praise, we pass; but the one im¬ 
plying censure shall be briefly noticed. Tbe writer 
endorses his letter “private," else we would give it in 
fall—date, contents and signature. Iu one paragraph he 
says, subrtantially, that he has labored for the paper 
successfully for several years—that most of hL subscrib¬ 
ers are Republicans—that they object to subscribing 
again, because we published the KeLLT advertisement— 
and that he shall be sorry to see the list of names 
dwindle, k c. In another be avers that he is himself a 
Republican, and tbinka that, for a neutral paper, the 
publication was a bad move; “but,” he proceeds, “I 
think the Rural Nkw-Yohkkb is the beat and cheapest 
Agricultural aud Family Paper published lu the State, 
aud my rule aud practice ia not to discommode or wrong 
myself for the sake of spiting Borne one ebe." Our 
friend concludes:—“Should you think best to make any 
proposition or suggestions iu regard to the matter, 1 shall 
be glad to hear from you, and with the kindest feelings, 
am," &c. 
Now, we like, and gratefully appreciate, the frankness 
and kindness of our friend. His letter shows that he is 
manly, and disposed to be just and charitable. But we 
have no private proposition or suggestions to make to 
any man or club of subscribers, on tbe subject; whatever 
we say shall be public—and indeed we have little to add 
to the above article, written three weeks ago. We, how¬ 
ever, confess to surprise that any one who has read the 
Rural for years, should for a moment suppose that we 
would take any part in politic;,—and we do not believe 
any reader has discovered onr political sentiment* from 
anything ever published In tkii journal, even us an ad¬ 
vertisement. And we are furthermore surprised that 
Republicans—who advocate the freedom of Speech and 
of the Press—should, especially in the hour of triumph 
and victory, notice such a matter. They have succeeded 
in this State—just as we from our (uot political) stand¬ 
point supposed they would, long before the publication 
of the advertisement—aud, notwithstanding the large 
Circulation of the RpHAL, we did not believe any publica¬ 
tion in it would change tbe result. Indeed, we think 
sensible men of all parties, who judged dispassionately 
and calmly, entertained the same view of tho subject. 
The fact that we publish the advertisement of the leading 
organ of the Republicans, is uo evidence of our endorse¬ 
ment of its principles—nor does the publication of the 
claitmof Mr. Kellt. in our advertising coluiuuSi prove 
that we labored or voted iu the same direction. 
In conclusion—our advertising department is open to 
proper announcements from all parties and their organs, 
and any person who denies us this right and prirelege, is 
of coo iso at liberty to “stop mv paper” at his convenience. 
Another New Ag. Journal. —The publication of an 
octavo monthly to be entitled The Minnesota Farmer 
and Gardener, is announced by L* M Ford A: Co., of the 
Groveland Garden and N ursery—to be issued at St. Haul, 
at $1 a year From the prospectus ws infer that it will 
be devoted to matters pertaining to Minnesota, and act 
aa an organ of the State Ag. Society and similar local 
organizations* The time it is to be commenced is not 
definitely stated. ___ 
How Manx?— The Prairie Farmer say 8 an Iowa man 
“ writes that he has squashes that measure S}s feet in 
circumference, and weigh 126X lbs.” The size and 
weight being definite, please state the number sf vegeta¬ 
bles. TVas there a cart load, or how many? 
