appear to a considerable extent. In summer, 
when pasturing, it subsides altogether, except at 
the fetlock, which remains a little enlarged. It 
appears a little still' at times, but no lameness. 
Any information as regards cause or cure, 
through your valuable paper, would oblige 
Canada West, May, 1861 . A Subscriber. 
Remarks. — Mayiikw talks very sensibly 
concerning swollen legs, lie says they occur, 
mostly, in heavy animals, and in over-grown 
carriage-horses—such animals as are of weakly 
or soft constitutions. Such have a tendency to 
become dropsical. Fast work exhaust* the sys¬ 
tem of the carriage horse, while high food slim- 
lates its natural inclination to disease. With 
heavy horses, the prolonged hours of labor are 
ecpially debilitating, and the Sunday’s stagna¬ 
tion generates disorder; neither have any innate 
hardiness to withstand injurious Influences; both, 
when highly fat, have the weakness inherent 
to their constitutions greatly increased. The 
quadruped, loaded with accumulations of many 
months’ repletion, may please the eye of the 
master; but it is rendered more subject to dis¬ 
ease, and less capable of labor or of activity. 
Persons who require fast work, should em 
ploy light vehicles and email horses; the crea¬ 
tures should be principally supported by grain— 
a little hay may be allowed during certain times, 
when the animal’s attention requires to be 
engaged. When the carriage is not wanted for 
the day, care should be taken to see the groom 
gives at least four hours’ exercise. 
With regard to the heavy animals, the custom 
of blowing them out with chaff or hay is not to 
be commended. A good horse is surely deserv¬ 
ing of good provender, and the best manger 
food is uot generally deserving of any higher 
character than the word “good” may convey. 
A home for work should be in sound flesh with¬ 
out being fat; when not required, it should ndl 
be allowed to remain in the stable all day. 
When a horse is troubled with swollen legs, 
take it from the stall and place it in a roomy, 
loose box; nothing more quickly removes this 
affection than easy and natural motion. At 
grass, dropsy generally attacks the abdomen; 
but the author has not heard of the legs being 
affected in the field, the limbs there being in 
constant action. Having placed the animal in a 
loose box. abstain from giving hav for some 
weeks; procure some ground oak bark; having 
damped the corn, sprinkle a handful of proven¬ 
der among each feed of oat*. Particularly 
attend to the exercise, and should the legs still 
enlarge, do not allow bandages to be employed, 
but set both groom and coachman hand rubbing 
till the natural appearance is restored. 
Communications, (Etc 
•which American farmers would starve. The 
American wool growers in the older Eastern 
and Middle States, do not average 150 acres of 
land and 150 sheep each. * * * * 
“The American wool glower’s capital, at 
starting, is. in a majority of instances, little be¬ 
yond his own broad shoulders and the ever-busy 
bands of his faithful wife. All the property he 
can hope to possess is to be wrought by the 
sweat of liis brow from the bosom of the earth. 
Yet the axe has not ceased to ring in the clear¬ 
ing. or the native sod of the broad prairie is 
scarcely broken, before the school house is built 
at the cross-roads, and before the church spire 
is seen pointing to heaven. He and his wife and 
his children eat of the fat of the land. They 
are as comfortably clad as princes — they as 
much scorn the squalor and rags which are the 
badges of voluntary social serfdom. He taketh 
his seat among the elders of the land. He is the 
ofliecr of his church, of his school district, of 
his town, of his county— perhaps of his State. 
His sons and daughters are well educated. They 
fill the places of their parents, or still higher 
ones. A great majority of our men of genius, 
our generals, our statesmen and their wives, 
have such a parentage. Yet when the rural 
patriarchs J have described go down to the 
grave, but a small portion of them leave estates, 
worth $10,000. But while they lived, they were 
men—aye, thank God, men. It costs something 
to perform the duties ami live with dignity the 
life of an American freeman! Such labor can 
not compete with pauper labor, or seiui-civil- 
ized labor which has no such responsibilities, 
and. which supports no such social system. Such 
capital can not maintain itself in a struggle with 
hereditary or other amassed capital, which only 
ask? three, or four, or five per cent, profits. 
Hence, with equal or superior natural facilities 
for production, the American wool grower must 
receive protection, or be driven out of the mar¬ 
kets of his own country by foreign competition. 
And for precisely the same reasons, and for no 
other or better ones, the woolen manufacturer 
must receive, and does receive, governmental 
protection. In his business, as much as in tbe 
producer’s, the natural facilities found in the 
United States are equal or superior; but the 
labor and capital employed can not compete 
with the labor and capital of other lands. The 
same is true of nearly every branch of protected 
industry.” 
The Season — May has thus far been very wet and 
unfavorable for farm work. Prof. Dewet submits the 
following interesting report of tbe 
Wrath.T of the first half of May , 1861.—The tempera¬ 
ture of this half ta a little above the mean for the 28 
years, but the rainy and cloudy weather has not been 
ravorable to farming operations. But little gardening, 
and especially of plowing lias been done,-unless upon 
the drier fields. The whole surface is softened, by the 
water fallen, to considerable depth. The rain In this 
half was 4 76 inches. The large rain of tbe 3d aud 4th 
gave near an Inch, and the groat rain from 4 p. m., on 
the 12th to sunrise of the 14th was 2.70 inches; and rain 
fell on 18 of the 15 days. The Genesee rose nearly to 
high water mark. The water fallen iu hull' the month 
much exceeds the average for the whole month. The 
tabular view of the temperature follows: 
General average of the 1st hall' is...53.C* 
Average Of the present hair....54 0 
Hottest, noon, the 0th,---~§t 0 
“ day, a ............_......68.0 
Coldest mornings, 3d and 11th,...87 0 
AN IMPROVED CORN-MARKER. 
When we speak of a combination among 
wool growers, we are reminded that we ought 
at tbe same time to say that such a combination 
for any other than purely legitimate objects—as, 
for example, to control wool prices, or to force 
any of the operations of business into channels 
which would unjustly sacrifice other interests to 
those of the wool grower—would soon fall under 
the deserved condemnation of the public and 
and crumble in pieces. 
The response to the proposal lor calling a Con¬ 
vention, thus far received, is nearly unanimous 
in its favor. Five ex-President® of the State 
Agricultural Society, two manufacturers, three 
leading agricultural editors, and a considerable 
body of prominent sheep breeders of every class 
of sheep have already , authorized their names to 
to be appended to the call. As a large majority 
of voices are in fa vor of holdiug the Convention 
at Rochester at the. time of the State If air. there 
is no necessity for immediately publishing the 
call, and we will defer it two or three weeks 
until every part of the State ts heard from. All 
who have been addressed on the subject are 
requested to send in their answers. We should 
also be happy to hear from any other extensive 
wool growers on the subject. 
E»s. Rural:— Herewith I send you a figure 
and description of an Improved Corn-Marker. 
If the corn is planted three feet nine incites, the 
distance used here, take a pole twelve feet long, 
bore a hole at each end. and drive in wooden 
teeth (a, a,) about a foot and a half long. The 
two middle pins (5, l>,) are longer and hung 
with bands, like those used on revolving horse- 
rakes, so as to drag behind. The middle teeth 
will fall into furrows and rise over ridges, 
marking all the ground. A handle (c, c,) at¬ 
tached with pins, and a pair of thills, complete 
the machine. If the swinging teeth are not 
heavy enough, nail pieces of hand iron on the 
ends. They may also be thrown over when 
inconvenient in backing and moving about. 
Batavia, N. Y., May, 1864, Palmer Gates. 
This half of May, 1863, was colder by three degrees. 
The earlier cherries began to blossom in the last week 
of April, and continued ten days into May The com¬ 
mon sour red English chorry blossomed about the 
12ih, and is full of blossoms to this date. Pears are 
also putting forth their blossoms.; and peaches are 
still in flower, which la late for them. Grass comes 
forward with great rapidity. 
The late great rain did not extend its power along 
the eastern part of the State. The rain and snow of 
the first four months of this year Is 10.70 inches, which 
exceeds the average; and the fall in the last half 
month, 4.70 Inches, is far above the average. It should 
be noted, too, that, we hail more than a half inch of 
snow on the morning of the third of the month Navi¬ 
gation on the canal began with this month.—May 10. 
RAISING BEANS, 
Eds. Rural: —As you requested farmers to 
give their experience in raising different crops, 
I will give you mine in raising one-lnilf acre of 
the common white field bean. I bail, last spring, 
some low level ground, but not so low as to 
retain water on the surface, which was com¬ 
pletely covered over with June grass —which, 
by the by, would neither grow nor let any 
other grass grow. So I concluded to put it so 
far out of sight, if possible, that it would not 
trouble anything on the face of tbe earth for the 
next twelve months at least. I, accordingly, 
took two teams and and two plows and went to 
work with one plow directly behind the other, 
or in the same furrow’. I put on to the head 
plow a good, sharp coulter aud rigged it to cut 
three inches deep. 1 had the other plow follow 
after cutting six inches deep, making, with both 
plows, a furrow nine inches deep. Into the bot¬ 
tom of this furrow I tumbled tbe June grass, 
and a rich loam was rolled on top of it, four or 
five inches deep, which left the surface, after 
being harrowed, as mellow as an ash heap. I 
prepared the ground, and put in the beans as 
follows:—I haiTOwed it over once, after which I 
rolled it; then with a common grain drill (only 
three hoes of which 1 allowed to be used) the 
beans were drilled in two feet apart in the 
drill. Then the ground w as once more rolled. 
Nothing more w r as done to the ground until 
pulling time. Now for the result:—Two teams 
one-third of a day at $2.25 per day each, plow¬ 
ing, $1.50; harrowing and rolling aud drilling, 
and rolling a second time one-half day, $1.12; 
one day’s work pulling, $1.00; one day’s work 
threshing, $1.00; for seed to plant. $1,00. Total 
cost, $5.02. V 
Credit by ten busTicIs of fieaus at S2.50 per 
bushel, $25.00. Nett, $19.3S. 
It is true this is not a very large yield, but it 
is certainly a good one considering the same 
ground the two summers previous yielded noth¬ 
ing at all, and that the ground was plowed more 
for the purpose of killing the June grass—which 
it did efl'ectually—then for raising a crop. 
Illinois, 1801. A N'n a. 
Sanford Howard, Esq —Many of our Western 
readers will be pleased to learn that this able agricul¬ 
tural writer, for the past twelve years editor of the 
Boston Cultivator, has accepted the office of Secretary 
of the Michigan Board of Agriculture and of the Agri¬ 
cultural College Of that State. Aud his hosts of rrieuds 
in all sections will be glad with us, to note that Mr. II. 
was recently given an entertainment at the Darker 
House, Boston, by the Massachusetts Agricultural 
Club and others, and presented with a massive stiver 
pitcher, as a token of appreciation of his services for 
the improvement of agriculture and respect for Ins 
character. This parting tribute was worthily be¬ 
stowed, for Mr. Howard is as meritorious as he is 
modest He has written much and well on the various 
branches of practical husbandry, and probably no 
man in the country Is better Informed concerning 
rural nfl'aiis, especially In regard to improved Stock of 
all breeds. Mr. U 'has several times visited Europe 
for the Mass Society for Promoting Agriculture, and 
for other parties, to purchase improved stock, which 
he accomplished creditably to himself, and greatly 
benefited individuals and the agricultural community. 
During one of his European tours lie contributed a 
series "or valuable letters to this journal. We sin 
ccrely congratulate the Agricultural College and Board 
of Agriculture of the eminently rural and prosperous 
Peninsular tirnle upon the accession, and trust the 
evening of Mr. Howard’s life will be pleasant and 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, MINOR 
ITEMS, &c. 
Proposed Tariff on Wool. —non. James K. 
Moorhead, of Pa., Chairman of tbe Committee on 
Manufactures in the House of Representatives, lias 
made a report from that Committee in favor ol increas 
ing duties on foreign wools as follows: 
On wool costing 18c per lb. or less, 3c per lb. and 20 per 
cent ad valorem. 
On wool costing 13c per lb. and not over 24c, 6c per lb. 
and 20 per cent, ad valorem. 
On wool costing over 34C per lb. 9c per lb. and 20 per 
cent ad'valorem 
It recommends that the ad valorem duty be hased on 
the value of the wool at tue American port whpre the 
duty is levied, instead, as heretofore, at the foreign port 
of export. If the latter provision is not adopted 11 
recommends in lien of it an increased ad valorem duty 
of 20 per cent, which it is believed will increase the 
revenue about, equally. 
WOOL GROWERS’ STATE CONVENTION. 
We have, within a few weeks, been urgently 
solicited to issue, in tins paper, a call for a Wool 
Growers’ State Convention, for the purpose of 
organizing a permanent State Wool Growers’ 
Association, and adoptiug such other measures 
as might be deemed expedient. Wc did not 
feel authorixed to take this step until leading 
wool growers and other persons interested, 
throughout the State, had been consulted—had 
signified their approval—and bad indicated their 
preference of time and place for holding the 
Convention. A number of persons were ad¬ 
dressed on the subject—the list extending to 
one or more individuals in each county—and it 
embraced not only breeders of all the different 
kinds of sheep, but wool manufacturers, agri¬ 
cultural editors, fanners uot specially devoted 
to sheep husbandry, and, perhaps, in a very few 
instances, to efficient officers of Agricultural 
Societies who are not practical farmers. It was 
deemed expedient rather to consult the views 
of representative men throughout the commu¬ 
nity, than to confine inquiry to a single and 
interested class. And we can not hut hope that 
if a State Association is formed, it will be 
planted on the same broad basis—that while 
specially devoted to the furtherance of a partic¬ 
ular interest, it will assume no narrow and 
exclusively clannish cast; but, on the contrary, 
exhibit a just respect for other interests, and 
always allow them to be represented in its 
deliberations. 
We have been asked what are the objects of 
the proposed Association, which the State Agri¬ 
cultural Society can uot as well accomplish ? So 
far as we understand the views of those who 
favor such an organization, its objects would be 
two-fold. The first of these would be to do, in 
a different field, precisely what the State Agri¬ 
cultural Society is now doing, viz., aid aud fos¬ 
ter improvements in Sheep Husbandry. That 
Society pays premiums, encourages competi¬ 
tion, and draws out and publishes practical 
essays on the general subject. The Association, 
we may suppose, would meet twice a year to 
discuss topics of particular interest to the woo) 
grower, and to concentrate, and from time to 
time express the views of the majority on a 
variety of practical subjects, such as breeding 
in-and-in, crossing, feeding, treatment under 
disease, washing, etc.,—in short, on every part 
of a proper system of general management. It 
might also appoint experienced individuals to 
write essays, and committees to investigate and 
prepare elaborate reports on such subjects. In 
all this, it would act in concert with the State 
Agricultural Society, only—as would be ex¬ 
pected of an organization devoted to a speeiul 
object—it would Carry out more extensive])/ the 
particular objects of its foundation, in this 
regard, it would be to the former, what a State 
Horticultural, Potnoiogical, or other organiza¬ 
tion devoted to any special branch of husbandry 
is—a co-operator and friendly ally. 
The second principal object of a State Wool 
Growers’ Association, it is presumed, would be 
to meet on all necessary occasions to express tlie 
views of the wool growers of the State on such 
important questions touching their particular 
interests as may from time to time arise in the 
progress of public affairs—such, for example, as 
National or State legislation in relation to such 
interests. How much hits every wool growing 
State needed such an organization, pending the 
present deliberations of Congress on the wool 
tariff', to prepare and forward to that body an 
A Long Petition.*— It is reported that one petition 
forty feet in length and covered with signatures has 
been forwarded from Vermont to Congress, in favor of 
increasing the duty on foreign wool. 
Tasturino Sheet witu Cows.— (A new beginner.) 
In yottr case we should put the sheep and cows In sep¬ 
arate pastures. A few sheep may be kept with a herd 
of cows without Interference; but unless your pastime 
range is largo, wc should not pasture forty sheep with 
ten cows. _ 
That Lame Horse.— 1 see that E. S , of Ogdens 
bnrgh, wishes to know what will cure his horse that is 
lame in the shoulder I have, seen horses cured of smelt 
lameness by working them in a breast harness, if they 
had formerly been worked in a collar — G. E C, Si. 
Lawrence Co-, A. 1". 
Short Horn Bull “ Prince of Wales.”—Wc give 
on first page n fine portrait of tbi» celebrated Imported 
animal. This “Prince” is numbered M0Q in the 
Amtricau Herd Book, (Vol. VI.) IMJ80 in the English 
Herd Book, and 508 iu the Canadian Stock Register at 
Toronto. The Prince is now a Western New-Yorker, 
and kept nt the residence of Mr. Markham, in Rush, 
near Avon. Ills pedigree, as given in A H B, is a3 
follows:— “ Roan, bred by U Byme, RedWirk, Scotland, 
Imported by George Miller, Markham, C W , the 
property of W- G. Markham, Rush, N- Y , and Aaron 
Barber, Jr., Avon, N. Y., calved July 12,1358, got by 
warm that the grass appears to nave aooiu inaue up 
for lost time.” It is now as forward as usual at the 
season. 
C. D. Sweet, of North Bennington, Vt, writes us — 
“I saw an article in the Rural New-Yorker of April 
16th, which brought my name in question, in conse¬ 
quence of Blotter I wrote to Eli Keller, of Ohio. I 
hnvc been misunderstood in the matter, and yon will 
allow- me to make a brief explanation. I sold to E. D. 
Silvernail some full-blood Spanish sheep, descended 
from sheep bought by me of Edwin Hammond, the 
pedigree of w hich I have sent to you. I gave Silver 
nail a certificate of 'heir pedigrees I did not know 
what lie intended to do with them. He was an utter 
stranger to me at the time- When 1 saw D. W Per 
CEV’b letter showing that thesheepsold by Silvernail 
in Ohio as imported sheep, were from my flock, 1 wrote 
a letter to Mr. Keli.lt., tbe purchaser, giving the actual 
pedigree of the sheep, and expressing the opinion that 
be would not lose by tbe purchase, bntl hadnothonght 
of justifying the conduct of Silvernail— or of having 
my letter published. What I said to Keller about 
showing the letter, merely referred to his neighbors, ot¬ 
to those who might want to buy the sheep. I had no 
thought whatever of getting up a controversy with 
yon.” 
Mr. Sweet has sent US the copy of a certificate signed 
by Mr. Hammond, and dated Middlebury, April 10th, 
1852, to the etTect that he had sold Mr. Sweet ten two 
year old ewe? and a ram from his own full-blood flock. 
The IToney Cnor Last Year —I am interested in 
bee.-*, (but iu no patent hive ) I come to ask of your 
numerous readers on answer to these inquiries: Did 
white clover produce its usual quant ity and quality of 
honey the last year* Did buckwheat produce any of 
any kind last year? Thousands of swarms of bees 
starved to death before winter set in In North-western 
Pa., and one more such year and the lice business la 
gone tip with us —Fred Stranahan, Erie. Qo., Pa. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
To Draw Rusty Nails,— Rusty nails may be 
drawn from wood with ease, by first giving them 
a blow hard enough to start them In a trifle. 
To Drive Nails in Hard Wood .— Nails may 
be driven into hard wood by first touching the 
small end to grease. 
Sow to Clinch Cut Nails .— Common nails 
heated rod hot, and put into cold water, will 
clinch and answer the purpose of wrought nails. 
To Make a Wagon Jack. — A good wagon 
jack may be made by taking a piece of board 
two feet long, or longer, according to the size of 
the wheel, and another long enough to put under 
the axle after it is ruised, place one board in 
front of the wheel, one end on the ground, and 
the other just under one of the spokes, close up 
to the fella?; then take hold of a spoke on the 
opposite side of the wheel with one hand, while 
with the other hand you place the other board 
under the axletree. In this way a heavy wagon 
may be lifted, aud tbe jack is quickly and 
cheaply made. 
To Keep Hwill.— To keep swill from freezing 
in winter, and the bad smell and flies away iu 
summer, take a good tight barrel aud dig a hole 
in the ground, (in a convenient place,) two-thirds 
the height of the barrel, place It in the hole, and 
pack the dirt around it to uear the top of the 
barrel, and keep on a good tight cover. 
To Make a Bailey Horse Draw.— To make a 
balky horse draw, when every other method 
fails, take a good, strong cord, (clothes line, for 
instance,) long enough to reach from the horse’s 
head to t he wagon, tie one end around the horse’s 
neck, close up to his head, in a slip-noose style. 
When the horse balks, draw on the cord until 
you choke the horse down, and keep him down, 
until he shows an inclination to get up; then 
slacken the cord, and he will, in nine cases out 
of ten, draw right off. Continue the practice, 
ami he will soon get tired of balking for the 
sake of being choked. I have succeeded that 
way when every other means failed. 
Cayuga, N. V., 1864. Farmer. 
Pulverizing Soil.— (W. O. G.) No, sir, plowing 
d ies not pulverize soil as It is usually done—especially 
sod lands which ere simply Inverted. The plow com¬ 
presses the particles more closely together. Such soils 
require thorough harrowing before receiving the seed— 
if yon have a no better pulverizer than the harrow— 
aud perhaps the roller may be used profitably also; it 
certainly may, if tbe ground is cloddy. The best way 
to pulverize plowed lands, If the soil is in good con¬ 
dition when plowed, is to follow the plow with the 
roller, the same day; then use the harrow, and after 
seeding, the roller again. 
prize at Aew t one tunic imix iu mn. 
PiCTcifuAt. Poultry. —We have received from Mr. 3. 
J. Bestor, Hartford, Conn., several haudsomcly exe¬ 
cuted lithographs of groups of fowls-reminding us of 
the palmiest days of the hen fever, years agone. The 
assortmentincludos ‘•life portraits” of Pure English 
Dorkings, White-Paced Black Spanish, and Irish Game 
Fowls—the originals having been bred by Mr. Bestor. 
If Mr B. has as handsome fowls as are portrayed he is 
a fortunate individual, mid can readily assemble u hen 
convention (<>f aristocratic pure bloods) on his own 
premises. _ < | 
Mr. J. II. Welsu- 
Grubs Pitonvor.vi; Vegetables.—A few days since, 
while one of my neighbors was grtibbiDE in bine grass 
sod, bo grubbed up several worms, called with us 
“ inullic grubs " or “ grub worm?,” having somu kind 
of vegetation growing out of their mouths; the sprouts 
were about three Inches long, and About 111* size of a 
ryes;raw. Neither Inornny of my neighbors have seen 
the like before. We planted one in the garden to see if 
it would come to anything. Do you or any of your 
readers know any thing about it ?—W. C. Black stone, 
Louisa Co,, Iowa 
This i? new to us. We doubt if it is a vegetable 
growth—mure likely an animal fungus. If you can, 
send us a specimen or two. 
Messrs. Shrives & Roaggy, of North Hooslck, 
N. Y., think that “simple justice to them requires” 
that we publish a letter which they addressed to us 
March 7th. This was in answer to the statements ol 
1). w. 1'EEi EY, in tuts paper Feb. 27:0, in effect charg* 
ing Messrs. S. & R. with having oiled and slub&is 
sheared the ram which was sold the same seasonmy 
the swindler Silvernail, in Uhlo, as an Imported 
Spanish sheep. Mi~*tr?. S. A It., in their letter to us, 
denied that they applied any artificial preparations to 
the ram, but they were wholly silent in respect to the 
charge of stubble shearing him. We published tills 
denial April ist,h, and also tlnir assertion that the ram 
yielded 27 lbs. of'w ool last spring, and that hit* fleece 
was still where "if ^tttld be seen.”* These comprise 
nil the direct or indirect denial.* mode by them to Mr. 
Percy's statements. We confess we did uot consider 
it a matter of “simple justice ” to them to publish their 
betvfs in regard to the pedigree of the ram, when they 
did not. offer to sustain them by a single fact; aud still 
less their offer to “ wager money ” that he would yield 
nitre wool “than Mr. Percy's ram." Messrs. S. & 
R. shall have the opportunity of defending themselves 
in this paper, and of adducing any pertinent facte pro 
or eon bearing ou the Silvernail swindle; but we 
have no room for w holly irrelevant personal issues, iu 
which the public feels no interest. 
• We stated at the Mime time that, tt was ilonled by a 
Western correspondent, on pretty good authority, unit 
those bpliiiryc the fleece would allow U t't-Ue Cfimra mid 
examined. Thai Western correspondent was a gentle¬ 
man "f the highest elianieter. and wholly disinterested 
in the dispute- DM Messrs. S. A K, observe rids 
statement? Is the fleece still where It can he examined ? 
Give the Clover Roots Room 
kr, or Webster, N. Y., brought us the other day, a 
single, clover root Which he drew out of a sandy loam 
soil with his plow, measuring five feel and two inches 
in length. He said it seemed to have run into the 
cnrlh in a perpendicular direction. It would require 
considerable heaving on the part or frost to raise a root 
anchored like that. It demonstrates where clover roots 
will go with soil in condition. 
----—T" 
The Death of Du. Evan Pugh, President of the 
Pennsylvania State Agricultural College Is announced 
afifhaving occurred at Hcllefouto, on the 30th of April, 
of typhoid fewer. Dr. P. was zealously devoted to the 
cause of Agricultural Education, and his decease. 1U 
the midst Of usefulness, ami just as success seemed to 
crow n his efforts, is not only a loss to his own State 
but the country at large. 
A Western Apiarian Society. —Wo sec the subject 
or organizing such u society Is being agitated. It ' vll | 
be very well if its objects are not to discuss hives and 
advertise patent wares. If tile object is to elicit facts 
and experience of practical value to the bee culturist, 
and it Is uncontrolled by the patent hive men, it wt 
do good. If otherwise, it will serve to illustrate "the 
happy family.” 
Ripe Hungarian Grass Seed operates as a diuretic 
when fed to horses in excess. If fed lightly like ot er 
grain, and without other grain added, it does not injure 
Dwarf Broom Corn.—A correspondent asks if there 
is a dwarf broom corn that is vuluablc. He says he 
thinks he has beard or read of one. Two or three years 
ago a dwarf variety was talked about and considerably 
planted, but we have lieatd little of it latterly. It was 
claimed for it that it grew In a sheath, was a longer 
hrnsb uud a liner one, and there was less waste to the 
acre. But wo have been told t hat the brush grows too 
long for brooms, and is only used by manufacturers for 
brush brooms. Where it has been planted it has got 
mixed 1o a considerable extent wii h the larger varieties 
If our readers know any good of it, we shall be glad 
to hear. _ 
Cast Iron Evaporators.—I n reply to R. StaintoN, 
Calhoun Co., Mich., I have used the cast pan twelve 
years—our folks say, they having something by which 
they have kept the date—aud there is no flaw nor any¬ 
thing that. I can discover defective ubout it; has not 
cracked yet. Our neighbor has another that he has 
used some six years, and It has stood on au arch all 
winter, aud fall of water; has frozen solid, and bus 
boon used by such as rent fai nts, the farm haring been 
rented most of the time. The pans are 8 by 6 feet 
square, SX inches deep around the sides, and about O’* 
inches deep In the middle, being a gradual slope from 
the sides and ends The thickness of casting is about 
5 10 of an inch on the top, about fa an Inch thick whore 
it joins on to the bottom, and I should think the bottom 
between 5-16 and an inch thick. It will hold 40 gal 
Ions, and boil it easy enough.—W m W. Horton, At 
Ugany Co., N. I'- 
Teasers Marking Progeny.— C. H., of Huron Co., 
O., employed a “very long legged, Slim bodied, home¬ 
ly ” ram as a teaser to a well formed Merino ewe. She 
was pul to a well formed Merino ram The lamb grew 
up a perfect copy or the teaser in form, while in fleece 
it closely resembled it? sire and dam, C. H. wishes 
to know what we “ think of it?” We have already 
given our opinion, so fur as we have formed any on this 
subject. We have never ourselves witnessed a case of 
“ marking,” and are considerably incrednlous. 
HORSES’ SWOLLEN LEGS, 
Eds, Rural New-Yorker:—A young mare 
of mine has had a swelling in one of her bind 
legs for the last two years, but more especially 
in the winter when stabled. If standing in the 
stable for a few days, it will swell to twice its 
natural size. But if working steady it will dis¬ 
