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fine sheep, have committed a very great error 
and one unfortunately which is quite too char¬ 
acteristic of American farmers. We have a 
laroe class who are constantly changing their 
breeds of stock, kinds of crops, etc., in order 
to have that one which is apparently uppermost 
in the scale of profit. The lessons ol experi¬ 
ence are entirely thrown away on men who 
always labor under the extraordinary hallucina¬ 
tion that because a commodity is dispropor¬ 
tionately high to-day, it must necessarily remain 
eo permanently, or at least for a long period. 
Tet this is usually the impression of these 
rolling-stone farmers; and it is amusing to 
listen to the reasons which they are so ready to 
assign, every time they mount a new hobby, for 
their absurd confidence in the fact that it. will 
always be the foremost thing in the market. 
Their reasons are about as solid as thistle-down, 
soap-bubbles, or morning fog! 
These tickle-minded persons are, in nineteen 
cases out of twenty, both indifferent farmers 
and unsuccessful farmers. They are always 
selling at a sacrifice and buying at a disad¬ 
vantage, because they sell their stock when n is 
lowest, and buy new when it is highest. They 
are also constantly sacrificing on fixtures —for 
each new kind of animals or crops requires dif¬ 
ferent ones or differently arranged ones. They 
throw away those improvements which all good 
farmers ought to make in stock of every kind. 
Finally, they cut. themselves oil from the chance 
of acquiring extensive experience, and conse- 
* quently first rate skill, in any rural pursuit. 
Most of them become, in the expressive com- 
Communicotiou0, <£tc. 
SHALL WE KILL. OR SHALL WE NOT! 
An inquiry in the Rural of the 6th inst., 
headed “killing woodchucks,” suggested to me 
a few thoughts, for which I decided to ask a 
little space in your columns, although not ex¬ 
actly in answer to the questions asked. 
No doubt there are many cases where a war 
of extermination upon certain species is desira¬ 
ble, and demanded by the great destruction of 
property caused by them. But are these eases 
not. often over-estimated, and made excuses for 
gratifying a desire to kill ? And when the dep- 
reflations of birds especially, and the various 
aniirate generally voted as pests, have been 
scientifically investigated, will not a large mu- 
may make two pounds of wax, worth perhaps 
one dollar. The exercise of a little arithmetic 
will soon convince any skeptical beekeeper of 
the folly of melting up his good combsiuto wax. 
Bees will commence much sooner in surplus 
boxes, and store much more, if supplied liberally 
with good clean white combs, attached to the 
top of the boxes with a mixture of melted rosin 
and beeswax, in proportion three-fourths of the 
former to one-fourth of the latter. 
Bees ofteu spend much time in stopping up 
the cracks about surplus boxes, which it would 
be money in the beekeepers' pocket to fill with 
this mixtuve. A dish of the composition sus¬ 
pended over the chimney of a common kerosene 
Lamp can be easily kept at the right temperature 
for use. B. L. Fairchild. 
Dodge Co., Wis. 
SPRAIN 
COFFIN JOINT 
Kurd Notes ani* Ctucxic* 
jority of the cases 
show that while there was 
A PENNSYLVANIA MARL BED. 
mon phraze, “Jacks at all trades, and good at 
none." To sum up the whole matter, they are 
like those squirrels which we often see in their 
revolving cages — always on the spring, autl 
always at the bottom of the wheel! 
The man who had good Downs, or Cots wolds, 
or Shropshire*, or Leicesters, or any other good 
mutton variety ol sheep, i7i situations adapted 
to them, ought not to have parted with them 
owing to the late exceptional relative condition 
of the wool and mutton markets; aud he cer¬ 
tainly ought not to do so now when mutton has 
advanced as much as wool — and when coarse 
wool baa advanced considerably more in propor¬ 
tion than fine wool. "We have seen no time 
when the relative profits, or the prospects of 
first class mutton sheep were any better than 
now. Judicious men, whose farms are so situ¬ 
ated that they can command ready and easy 
access to good mutton markets, are now care¬ 
fully inquiring for rams and ewes of the best 
mutton varieties; and we know of no way in 
which that demand can be so much quickened, 
and the interests of the breeders of these varie¬ 
ties so essentially promoted, as fov them to make 
a great ami splendid display of their sheep at 
the next New York State Fair. This would be 
worth more to them than a thousand arguments 
aud a thousand newspaper advertisements. 
May we not, then, hope to see such flocks 
'there represented as those of Messrs. Thorne, 
Conger, Sheldon, Messenger, Beebe, Campbell, 
Brodie, etc., of this State, Messrs. Fay and W bite | 
of Massachusetts; Judge Chaffee of Ohio; Mr. 
Taylor of New Jersey; Mr. Alexander, of Ken¬ 
tucky and Messrs. Frederick W. Stone and 
George Miller of Canada West? As all propri¬ 
etors residing in other States and the Canadas 
can compete in the same classes and on equal 
terms wtih New York breeders, when and 
where will there ever be a better opportunity 
for a great and commanding exhibition of choice 
mutton sheep? We know that the officers of 
the New York State Agricultural Society will 
delight to make preparations for such an exhi¬ 
bition on the most extensive scale. Its indefati¬ 
gable Secretary (CoL Benjamin P. Johnson, 
Albany. N. Y.,1 w ill answer all questious on the 
subject, forward premium lists, etc., whenever 
applied to. It would be desirable that breeders 
from out the State give early notice to him of 
their iutention to exhibit, the number they pro¬ 
pose to bring, etc., in order that the very best 
accommodations may be provided for them. 
In incidentally naming the few distinguished 
breeders and flock - masters of coarse - wooled 
sheep above, we have only mentioned those the 
names of wbi h we are most familiar with. W e 
shall be most happy to obtain a knowledge of 
other gentlemen’s efforts and successes In the 
same department of husbandry. At e will wil¬ 
lingly publish accounts of the products in meat, 
wool and lambs iu particular [locks, give por¬ 
traits, properly notice samples of wool sent to 
uk, and iu short give to the mutton breeder the 
same intention in every particular that is given 
to fine wool sheep in these columns. 
some loss, there was greater gain by the destruc¬ 
tion of mvriads of those small insects and ver¬ 
min, beyond the reach of “dogs, traps or bul¬ 
lets destroy any particular kind, and will not 
a worse appear in its track? Drive away the 
robin, so tame, with its gentle ways and happy 
song, the quick and frolicsome swallow, the 
little wren, aud the many other feathered song¬ 
sters. inhabitants of our forests, and companions 
in the leafy groves surrounding those happy 
homes, and how cheerless would he the places 
where they were wont to congregate and pour 
forth their morning songs and evening melodies. 
And besides, will not the teachings of the 
Rural, and the opinions of all well-informed, 
observing persons, go to show that we would 
he the losers pecuniarily ? 
Again, is it not better to suffer a little loss in 
this respect, rather than encourage the wanton 
destruction which seems, to me, to be ou the 
increase, especially among the youth just big 
load and fire?’’ Is it not so? 
enough to 
Eds. Rural New Yorker:—Iu a recent 
ramble over portions of Tioga and Bradloid 
counties in Pennsylvania, I came across a bed 
of marl. It is situated between a couple of 
gradually sloping hills on the east and west. 
The bed of marl extends, at least, a half ft mile 
north and south, and probably 80 rods east and 
west. Experiment has shown it to be twenty- 
five feet deep, aud uo bottom touched yet. It is 
said to be very pure, at least 00 per cent, and 
that which has been prepared for the mason’s 
use, is said to possess nearly double the strength 
of common lime. As this is in a region entirely 
destitute of lime, either marl or stone, the m- 
Since these three years of war, do not the boys 
in their sports choose the tjun, and roam fiom 
field to wood, shooting all kinds of game 
**get in practice” and harden their sensibili¬ 
ties? Look at it from a higher stand-point than 
loss and gain iu money, at the loss of some of 
the finer feelings of our nature. Although all 
created things, lower than men, were made for 
his use, he should not so construe it as to make 
it abuse ; they were placed here by the same 
Being that created us, and with them the means 
of their sustenance; and we should indeed look 
well to it, that we have a moral right to make a 
wholesale onslaught on them, before so doing. 
Although I am not acquainted with the cir¬ 
cumstances which caused the “woodchuck 
question” to he asked, I would say to the per¬ 
son asking it, will you examine the case, aud 
see if you can not apply the famous suit of a 
certain story, in which Daniel Webster was 
defendant, his brother Ezekiel plaintiff, their 
father judge, and a u woodchuck” the culprit, 
Ezekiel, after giving in his testimony, and 
pleading, as to the “ mischievous habits of their 
prisoner, and the depredations it had committed 
in the garden,” gave place to Daniel, who so 
excited the sympathies of the father by show¬ 
ing up the right of the culprit to its life, given 
it by its Maker, how dear life was to even the 
little animal before them, and its right to a 
living, that he, in the midst of this eloquent 
pleading of bis youthful son, cried aloud, 
«« Zeke, Zeice, let that woodchuck go!” 
John Hammkraway. 
West Springfield, Pa., 1864. 
BEE MATTERS. 
Foreign SnicEP at the N. Y. Fair.—I n 
the preceding article we have alluded to the 
fact that sheep brought from and owned In other 
States and the Canadas, can compete in the same 
classes und on equal terms with New A ork sheep 
at the State Fair. To guard against all possible 
misapprehension on the subject, we now say this 
regulation applies equally to coarse and fine 
sheep—to all breeds whatever. 
Wool Growers’ State Convention —The names 
of Hon. A. S. Ceil am of Leroy, and of L. G. Morris, 
Esq., of Fordham—both ex TTesidreta of the Stale Ag¬ 
ricultural Society—should have appeared among those 
eigned to the call for a Wool Growers’ State Conven¬ 
tion od first page of this paper. These make thirteen 
ex-Presidouls of the Society who have signed the call. 
A Goon Crop of “ Genesee Wheat.”- Hon. II U 
poi*Kii, of Batavia, Genesee Co , wrote to the Secretary 
Of the State Ag. Society, July 25th, as follows —“The 
Wheat crop from all f can loam, is one of the heal 
crops we have had In Western New York in u long 
time- There are some fields perfectly wonderful. 
One of about thirty acres, ou the road to Lockporl, ou 
the west side of the Tonnwauda swamp, and the lot 
hounded 1 >y it, where you can easily walk from bundle to 
bundle all over the lot; the quality very line. We arc 
now having a most glorious und blessing rain upon oar 
•parched crops.” 
For about ti week before the close of our long 
period of drouth bees stored honey in our local¬ 
ity rapidly. After a few days the earth became 
very dry again, ami for three or four days until 
it again ruined the bees did well. The balance 
of the season has been only ordinary in respect 
to the quantity of honey secreted by the flowers. 
We depend chiefly upon the white clover crop 
for the production of honey. The increase of 
this crop has beeirvery rapid within the last six 
years, aud out pastures and roadsides are white 
'with the blossoms, of seeming spontaneous 
growth. The writer transferred a swarm about 
the middle of May from an ordinary box hive to 
one ol Kidder’s Moveable Comb Glass Hives. 
About, the twentieth of June he took from it 
five frames containing brood, eggs and stores— 
brushing the bees back into the hive—to use in 
making an artificial swarm. He replaced the 
frames with two empty ones and three partly 
filled with dry combs. Up to this date, July 
25th, they have thchodyof thebive nearly filled 
and have stored two large surplus boxes nearly 
half full, amounting perhaps to twenty pounds, 
Another stock transferred about the same 
time to one of Langstroth’s Moveable Comb 
Hives, I have taken sixteen frames from at dif¬ 
ferent times. giving them each time a full sup¬ 
ply of dry combs, and in addition they have 
stored aboutsix pounds of surplus. The frames 
removed, together with those that are in the 
hive, (now filled) with the six pounds will make 
all together not less than one hundred pounds 
stored by th s stock the present seasou. This 
stock, iu transferring, had nearly all its surplus 
honey removed and was weak in numbers, but 
has bred rapidly and worked finely. ir this 
stock had not received empty combs ready to 
have filled they would have consumed, in comb 
building, a large share of this one hundred 
pounds. The advantages of saving empty 
combs and supplying stocks so that they will not 
consume their honey in filling their hives with 
comb, are too little appreciated. The time and 
honey consumed in filling a hive of 2,000 cubic 
inches with new combs can hardly be estimated 
at less than forty pounds. The beekeeper who 
supplies the combs of course saves this, which 
at one .dulling per pound amounts to five dollars, 
[f the price is two shillings the amount saved 
would be ten dollars The dry combs of a hive 
habitants are rejoicing over the discovery as 
much, nearly, as if they had found an oil well. 
In what way, or by what agency, this immense 
deposit was stowed away there, and kept till the 
present time. I leave for the geologist to tell. 
The soil above the bed is only a couple of feet 
thick, and that is swamp muck. 
The great want now appears to be, some one 
who understands the preparation of the marl 
I for use; for though MR. O. B. Wells, the pro- 
1 prietor, has expended some hundreds of dollars 
in trials, and has produced a good article, yet 
his experiments have proved so far a failure, ex¬ 
cept to demonstrate the fact that a superior 
article of lime can he made. 
The mode of discovery was somewhat singu¬ 
lar. During a freshet, some two years since, in 
Tioga Co., Pa., a dam, that had been built at 
Daggett’s Mills some thirty years, was carried 
away, and the water washed a ditch in the cen¬ 
ter of the pond, which laid bare, and in fact 
carried off large quantities of the marl. 
A question for the scientific to solve: Is this 
a deposit from some convulsion of nature, in 
perhaps the Pre-Adamite age, or is it a gradual 
formation from materials already there. 1 wish 
some of the learned among your correspondents 
would solve the query above mentioned, for to 
me it seems very singular that such a vast de¬ 
posit of this nature should have been made in 
this out of the way place, and scores ot miles 
too from any tiling of a similar nature! If some 
individual expert in the preparation of marl for 
the mason’s use would take hold of the husluess 
be could doubtless make it profitable for him¬ 
self, aud be a great benefit to the people In an 
extensive region. Respectfully Yours, 
F. S. Rhoades. 
Seneca Castle, Aug. 1st, 1SG4. 
Remarks.— There are many kinds of marl. 
Will our correspondent tell us more about this 
particular deposit? What is its color ? Of what 
does the 10 per cent, that is not lime consist?— 
is it sand, clay, slate or peat? Are there any 
traces of shells, or the remains of infusorial an¬ 
imate ? . _ 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Spraius of the 
Coffin Joint are not as frequent as sprains of 
other joints, it being so well Becured from inju¬ 
ry by the horny box in which it is encased. 
The proof of this sprain is when the lameness 
is sudden, and the heat and tenderness are prin¬ 
cipally felt rouud the coronet. Sprain of the 
coffin joint is always a very serious affair. Not 
being always attended by any external swelling, 
and being detected only by heat round the coro¬ 
net, the seat of the lameness is often overlooked 
by the groom and the farrier, aud the disease is 
suffered to become confirmed before its nature is 
discovered. This lameness is not easily removed 
even by a blister; and if removed, like sprains 
of the fetlock and of the hack sinews, it is apt 
to return and finally produce a great deal of dis¬ 
organization ancl mischief in the foot 
Many a valuable horse has been ruined by not, 
forming a correct diagnosis in the. commence¬ 
ment. But the greatest importance is in know¬ 
ing how to treat this kind of sprain in a proper 
manner, in order to effect a cure. I have had 
for the past twenty-five years quite a number of 
eases of my own to treat, besides others that 
have come in my way. 1 have never had any 
difficulty in affecting a cure in a short time by 
the use of the following medicine:—One pint of 
alcohol; two ounces of camphor gum; two 
ounces of salt pet.re; two ounces of aqua am¬ 
monia. Mix them together. Apply it by hold¬ 
ing up the horse’s foot in one hand, and turning 
the medicine into the hollow of the foot—as 
much as it will hold—holding until the modi 
cine is absorbed. Do this twice or three times 
a day and a cure will soon be effected. 
A. Coricixs, M. D 
Lamartine, Wis. 
Tub New York State Fair.— The Indication* for a 
large and successful exhibition at, this Fair—to h« held 
in Rochester, Sept.30th to 23d inclusive—continue very 
favorable If the venerable Clerk of the Weather (the 
Rqv. Dr. and Professor D) will only regulate unites 
propelly, we nave no fears as to the result- In the last 
number of the Slate Society's Journal, Mr. Secretary 
Johnson says;—“We were at Rochester with Mr. 
Harold, General Superintendent, the last of July, an< j 
found that the contractor, Mr. Aldridge, was engaged 
iu the completion of the fair grounds aud erections; 
and therele no doubt that everything will tie in com. 
plete order previous to the 2-)th of September The 
very best spirit is manifested by the people of Roche*, 
ter, and we are assured that from present indications 
the Fair will he one of the best ever held. The correa- 
pondenee at. the rooms trom our own State, and from 
adjoining states and Canada, gives assurance that Mm 
State Fair of 1864 will in every respect he such ns to 
do credit to the Society, and to the farmers of the Em- 
pi re State.” 
— For the information of those wishing copies of 
Premium List, &c , (some of whom write us thatthey 
know not to whom application should he made,) we 
would again state that they can he obtained by address, 
ing the Secretary, Col. 13. P. Johnson, Albany, N. Y. 
guvnl spirit of the 
How to Save Hen Manure. 
A CONTEMPORARY talk* 
as follows of a 
hen-house, and how it was managed“ It. was 
designed only for laying and roosting in; and it 
at first seemed strange to find, at mid-day, with 
a cool atmosphere, turkeys and chickens occu¬ 
pying it. They had free egress and Ingress, and 
were not fed nor watered in it; yet the chick¬ 
ens always went there to lay. The secret was 
revealed, however, when the proprietor in¬ 
formed us that he had it cleaned out every week. 
All the droppings of the fowls were scraped 
from the floor, which was an inclined plane, 
into a trough or receiver, from which they 
were shoveled and heaped up, and the place 
whitewashed once-a-woek. This required but 
tittle over half an hour, aud the manure from 
last season was estimated at one hundred and 
twenty dollars, and quite sufficient in quantity 
as an application to his entire crop of corn.” 
The State Fair Discussions—T he Executive Com. 
mittee of the Suite Agricultural Society, at a recent 
meeting, prepared the following programme—announc¬ 
ing subjects for discus-don. — for the evening meetings 
to be held during the State Fair: 
First evening: “Steaming aud Cutting Food.” Geo. 
A. Moors, E-q, of Buffalo, to open discussion. —3 
Second evening: “ Fine Wool Sheep. Should theSo- 
ctety recognize any distinctions of breed among fine 
wool or Merino sheep, as at present bred in the Untied 
States, or should all heclassifi'd together, aud regarded 
Trom identity of origin or subsequent intermixture of 
blood, as now belonging to 011 c and the same hrsedr 
Hon. Ubsrt S. Randall, ELD., to open discussion. 
Third evening; ‘ Is it best for Dairymen to raise thrir 
Stock, or purchase?" Hon ’ L. F. Ali.en to open dis¬ 
cussion. 
Kx-President A. 13. Conger will preside at these 
meetings, and at their close will present a summery of 
the points arrived at. in the discussions. 
Information Wanted -Wo would tike to see a 
cheaper paper than Moore's Rural New Yorker, at. r2 
a year In clubs. We would like to see any other paper 
in'the Unton. that is as welt fltlpd wii’i general and use- 
mi know fudge, as Moore's Rural New-Yorker. W'c 
would like to sec another paper that is of equal value 
to Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, as an advertMmr medi¬ 
um We would like TO see the farmer who would di- 
con timid M>tore’s Klimt New-Yorker, ns long ns he 
mmld Uud two dollars iu hi* wallet In fart \\\ would 
he satisfied tl wc could .-ee a publication of any Mud 
that would equal, in nnv form. Moore’s Rural New- 
Yorker, pnhttehed at Rochester, N 5'. Bimffe copies 
f 'l -Via year. A cluh of ten subscribers $2 06 each, 
anti one to the person getting up the club. _ __ 
NcUU’s Little 
HEAVES IN HORSES. 
Eds. Rural New Yorker:-I notice in the 
Rural of Aug. C, an article in respect to heaves 
in horses, in which the writer locates the dis¬ 
ease in the throat notwithstanding tiie well 
known fact of its location in the lungs. Heaves 
are cuused by influmation in the lungs, from 
colds, violent exertion w hile the lungs are in¬ 
flamed—musty hay and clover dust being only 
accessory. If the disease were not in the chest, 
why would a horse heave badly on being placed 
with his head down hill, after drinking a largo 
quantity of water, in consequence of the dis¬ 
tension of the stomach interfering with the play 
of the lungs? The same effect is produced by 
eating green clover, as the gas developed in Its 
digestion is very expansive nud will heave a 
horse worse than any other feed 1 know of. 
“L. E., inquires why one of his horacs was 
attacked with the disorder and the other es* 
caped. He might have asked why one member 
of a family has the toothache aud the others do 
not. The cause was simply because the horse 
was exposed to some cold or violent exertion 
that the other was not. The horses could have 
stood in a current of air when warm, where one 
would shield the other and take cold at the same 
time* hut more probable is it that the one that 
contracted the disease had weak lungs. 
Strangles, or “distemper” as it is commonly 
called, is very likely to leave a horse with the 
heaves, more especially when the horse is pre¬ 
disposed to the disorder by small or weak lungs. 
L, E’s. horse may be troubled with chronic 
bronchitis which is located in the air passages, 
and produces QUidcand laborious breathing, in¬ 
stead of genuine heaves, which are incurable. 
John U. Bishop. 
Lakeville, N. Y. 
Remarks.— We do not believe, with our cor¬ 
respondent, that heaves are incut able, if they 
are so, it does uot alter the fact that we have 
known the disease to disappear permanently 
from horses hail ly afflicted with it here, after so¬ 
journing iu the west a short time. As many of 
our readers are aware, this cure is attributed to 
the Rosin-weed or Polar Plant— BUphium Ian- 
cinialum — a resinous weed common on the I entirely^ jSJJE 
prairies. ’ 
Hon. E, Cornell’s Farm and Stock. 
Th k admirers of fine stock should treat them¬ 
selves to the same luxury which wo enjoyed last 
week in making a thorough examination of the 
herd of Short-Iiorns, Devons and Galloway cat¬ 
tle, and South Down sheep, which may be seen 
at all times at the extensive farm of Hon. Ezra 
Cornell, adjoining our village, in the ampli¬ 
tude of his means Mr. Cornell has purchased 
about six hundred acres of land, and stocked it 
with a herd which is so extensive that it is cer¬ 
tainly surpassed by only five, and probably by 
only three iu the whole United Stales. The ob¬ 
jects leading to this result have been three-fold 
iu their character, viz:—First, to gratify a love 
for flue animals; secondly, to show to his agri¬ 
cultural freiuds to what perfection a system of 
breeding will tend aud endeavor to introduce 
generally, improved stock, ami raise the stand¬ 
ard of farm productions in that direction; amt 
thirdly, to demonstrate that the interest of every 
farmer lies in raising superior instead of inferior 
cattle aud sheep, or In other winds, that there 
is money in it, nud it pays to feed, milk and fat 
Short-Horns and Devons instead of grades, or 
in too many T cases, animals of no grade at all. 
He originally imported five animate, cows and 
bulls, which cost him in the neighborhood of 
$5,000, or $1,000 each, and he has purchased at 
ev ery point where sales were made, which pro¬ 
mised to Increase the value of those before pos¬ 
sessed. I 11 one case lie paid $1,000 to Mr. 
Thoknk, of Dutchess county, for a calf less 
than a week old, w idle several of his cows cost 
him prices ranging from $500 downward. The 
result at the present time is a herd of between 
seventy-five and eighty head, which may be sur¬ 
passed in numbers, but we are confident cannot 
iu quality by any individual stock in the Union. 
This result has been reached by and through a 
determination to have nothing but the best, and 
Mr. C. may toil ay challenge competition in this 
particular. Those who have the most otttud 
knowledge of English productions must be 
aware of the often mid honorable mention made 
or South Down sheep and mutton, ranking as it 
does among the choicest delicacies of the tables 
there. While abroad two years since, Mr. 
Cornell became so impressed with the excel¬ 
lence of this breed of sheep that im imported 
some two dozen bucks and ewes, which cost him 
hero about$100 each. Ho has now a flock which 
is rapidly Increasing, and which promises to be 
all which could be ex pee Led or even desired. In 
the collection of his herd of cattle aud flock 
sheep, Mr. Cornell has expended largo sC"- 
of money, but their value is not to be esti" ult ' d 
only by the amount paid lor them, hut ’ e 
increased by the time which lie g ‘ v ?, U ,° 
their collection, and the attentl^ 10 
properly core torn Wg.aml .*'*»>*» * f'’“ 
LL,w W«. Tlie .undapl of flne cita¬ 
tion I, . high ooe WK1I Kira. D 0 t Inn ing Hint 
tuein, it can be reached by 
— The Id Extra, or " Little 
Paper,” has heretofore been comm- ndod In thi* journal, 
hut the above beanliful extract” from it* Issue or the 
ttii iuat enhances our admiration of the Extra, and of 
Nellie’s good, sense ai d truthfulness We bend in 
profound acknowledgement, and shall dot! onr “straw 
heaver ” to onr fair young litend on the first oppor,uni¬ 
ty, Nellie must he a sweet, clever girl, and we hope 
that, she will not only prosper in multiplying Extras, 
but erelong become extraordinary In other res peers - 
Including the becoming on extraordinary good wife of 
an extra-good husband! Her Extra is published at 
Pen field, N. Y , -W cents per year. 
The Hag Motit, ou Limacoues fithecium. —TTe 
have received at the hands of M. Seymour of Gatet, 
N Y , the first specimen of this singular stag caterpil¬ 
lar we remember to have seen It is found on apple, 
cherry and forest, trees. This one was found on ou -p- 
pie tree. It feeds on the leaves of three tree?. Dr. 
Mhi.-nr.i mer says it eats th - leaves of the wild cherrj, 
also those of the red and white oak. It makes its 
cocoon about the middle of September, changes to a 
chrysalis the following April, and the moth appears 
about eight weeks afterward. IU namo-irifAsciuw- 
menns a shrivelled and monkey faced old woman. 
Those of our readers who have IlARUtB' Insects, new 
edition, will find this caterpillar, and the insect, de¬ 
scribed on pages -121 and 122 of that work. 
Do not Buy It.—A gents of ore Fuoas are canvassing 
the West selling whit they call his secret for making 
sugar from sorghum—or “ the right to make sugar from 
sorghum by the Riggs process.” Letoar readers re 
member that t his la a swindle. Hums lias no *• process 
for making sugar front sorglmm" which is new, lie 
which has not. been practiced for years. It is anotb.-r 
scheme to impose on the credulity ol farmers. Betid 
Intimate to such agrees that the sooner they leave yoit 
neighborhood the better Tor their health. Seeming 
on this subject page Ob curreut vol. Rcral, 
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Time to Cut Hemp —(J- S. W., Lake Co., O ) T* 1 '- 
timetoent. hemp is eoon after the mule or blossom 
bump begins to turn yellow—when the pollen puds 
burst aud the pollen (Bis the air. It nay bedew rotted 
by spreading it soon after t he first of October as yo»<"> 
Hhx ; or it may be water-rotted by submerging it 1u60ft 
water—* stream or pond-If convenient, at any 11 " ie - 
It Is quickly rotted In ten or fifteen diys, depending on 
the weather. For details see the Manual of t'tix Cul- 
turc. published by H. D. T. Moons, Rochester, N. Y. 
tore, published by 
Price !io cents. 
Burning Stitbblk Land.—W hich is better, toJ>u 
the stubble on laud before plowing, or plow it under* 
ami wire are the advantages of one practice over an 
other?—A Young Faumeu. 
When a stubble can be safely fired It Is well to burn 
it over, and the chief advantage that l ^“ 9 et 4 f° 
weeds and noxious insects »e destroyed. The ash of 
the burned straw Is an client manure \\ ere we 
going to burn a field, v«i should Isolate it by plowlc, 
arouud it before fir 1 * 1 ” 
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PkNN8YLV* nia Ao’l College —It is announced 6 J - | 
the Board**? Trustees have supplied the vacancy cao-d 
I, „ thodeath of Dr. Pugh, in the Presidency of *' 8 
y « -t - — -i* r»-..r n?tt.t.»f Tl ^U.KX. 
CoiyKC* by iho election of Prof Wiluam II- 
K,rmerly President of Girard College- 
standard before 
era U a comparative small outlay at firs 
vv tih outlay will return in li very tew v curs 
st, 
which outlay bi " n '" t } t of eT ery farmer who makes 
Beans with Corn — (J. N. T. G.) We havcgt'" a 
good crops of beans among corn by planting bub'^ 
the rows of corn at the lust hoeiug. We do not t* 0 * 
that the growing or a bean crop in this manner 
the corn crop materially. Some think it doe 
do not. 
We 
A Machine to Dig and Pick up Potato**’ i 
Header, Minneapolis, Minn ) We do not know 0 » * 
ntachlue that digs and picks up potatoes,except l»u mt 
and s wine. 
Process for Rotting SruMrs.-(A- c -> 
We know of no such process as y° u d *- 8011 *' 
Mich) 
and do not believe there is any. 
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