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asccndB perpendicularly, and thus prevents the clouds 
from sinking, and the constant winds (trade winds or 
monsoons,) where they can blow uninterruptedly 
over large surfaces, do not allow the transition of 
vapors into the form of drops. In the forests, on the 
contrary, the clothed soil docs not become so heated, 
and, besides, tbs evaporation from the trees favors 
cooling; therefore, w hen the currents of air loaded 
with vapor reach the forests, they meet with that 
which condenses them and change into ruin. Mince, 
moreover, the evaporation of the earth goes on more 
slowly beneath the trees, and since these aUo evapo¬ 
rate very copiously in a hot climate, the atmosphere 
in these forests has a high degree of humidity, this 
great huiaidtiy at the same time producing many 
springs and streams.” 
Testimony of this kind could be accumulated, and 
I hope that the reading public will give the matter 
serious thought.— h. t. b. 
a farm may be made profitable, and kept up in fer¬ 
tility, but rather by a steady and continual persever¬ 
ance in a good and judicious system of cultivation— 
and if this is so carried out as to maintain an equi¬ 
librium between the productive powers of the soil 
and the exhaustive powers of the crop grown upon it, 
we need have no fear of “prospective,” or rather 
progressive, “sterility” resulting. j. m. 
Hamilton, C. W„ 1861. 
patented his ‘‘movable frames” in 1852,— when he 
devised them I am not prepared to say,—whereas the 
Baron of Berlepsch did not devise or “adopt mov¬ 
able frames till 1855.” 
J also notice an error in regard to the price of an 
Individual right to use Mr. I.angstkotu's movable- 
comb hive in the Western States. Mr. Otis adver¬ 
tises thus:—“ An individual or farm right to use this 
invention, including one hive, will be sold for ten 
dollars.” M. M. Baldridge. 
Middleport, Niagara Co-, N. Y., 1861. 
Opjt remarks in answer to the inquiries of a cor¬ 
respondent, who desired information respecting the 
Movable Frame Hives, were made from memory, 
without consulting with books for dates, as we could 
give all the information sought without this. The 
improvements of Mr. Langstkokh were made about 
the same time with those of Dzierzon, but Mr. I-. 
takes precedence in point of time over Baron Bek- 
I.EP3CH, for we find by the Patent Office Report that 
Mr. Langstoth’s patent was obtained in 1852. It is 
not claimed in any European work that we have seen, 
that Baron Berlepsch made his improvements on 
the Dzierzon plan until 1855.—Ed. 
had a bushel of roots daily. I prefer a mixed feed, 
grinding oats with the corn for oxen, and rye for 
milch cows. It is very well known that corn meal 
alone is very heavy feed, and uuless great caution 
is nsed, animals become sickened. Now the cobs 
ground up with the corn, even if they contain no 
nutriment, which is far from being proved, form an 
excellent divisor to Separate the meal and create the 
stimulus 6f distention in the stomach, so essential to 
the perfect digestion of its contents. For this pur¬ 
pose we give cut straw with meal, not supposing that 
when fully ripe it has much more nutriment in it 
than good saw-dust. 
Coating Fence Posts with Cement. 
Wm Kenxey, of Paris, Ky., makes the following 
Suggestions in the Country Gentleman of the 14th 
inst.:—A few evenings since, while engaged in setting 
fence posts, I was revolving In my mind the many 
suggestions offered for their preservation, and while 
thus engaged an idea occurred to me, that I do not 
recollect to have ever heard advanced, and which I 
submit lor your consideration and use. Hydraulic 
cement bas been used for many purposes other than 
stopping leaks and plastering cisterns. It makes a 
hard and durable paint, mixed with flax seed oil, for 
wood work and out-door machinery much exposed to 
weather, and is impervious to water. After once 
mixing it with water and suffering it to harden, it 
cannot be again dissolved, and on plastering cisterns 
when fully dried, it is there for all time, and as hard 
as adamant. Now suppose we were to prepare a solu¬ 
tion of this cement in water, and give the ground 
end of our fence posts several successive dippings, 
drying after each dipping, to the depth we want them 
to stand in the ground —might it not make some of 
the less durable timber more durable for posts_ 
Discontinuance of the Rural American-.— Some friend 
ha, mailed os the Rural American of Fob. 334, —the only 
number we have seen this year, except one dated Jan. 20th, 
-Sunday.) The number before ns announces the discontinu¬ 
ance of the R. A. the article commencing thus— " It, becomes 
my painful duty to announce to my subscribers, that misfor¬ 
tune has come upon me, and the consequence is, that the 
Rural American ceases to exist with this week’s issue!" Then 
follows a long explanation —the gist of which is that the 
former political course of the R. A., and the recent hard 
times, caused the catastrophe- If all he says of hia troubles 
is true. Mr. Miner's case is a pitiable one indeed; and, though 
he ha= prored our bitterest enemy — having wilfully slan¬ 
dered and libelled us, beyond reparation,— he has as much of 
our forgiveness and sympathy as human nature will permit 
us to extend. 
The fate of the R. A. teaches a lesson which should be 
heeded—ror, though the reasons assigned may have had some 
influence, we apprehend they are not the true causes of its 
failure. The R. A. was simply an imitation in mechanical 
style, kc., of u journal which the public declared and still 
reiterates, by its substantial and extensive support, to be 
superior in all that constitutes an Agricultural and Family 
Newspaper. Cnder the head of “Tim Rural New Yorker 
and one of its Imitators," we discussed this subject at some 
length in our issue of Dec. 8, I860.—stating, in conclusion, 
that the claims of (his Rural were based upon its merits 
alone—that we did not wish it mixed or confounded with any 
other “ Rural,"— and 6nally inviting the public to examine 
and compare the two papers, in Contents. Appearance, Price, 
Ac. There we let tbe matter reft, without further notice of 
the R A. or its venomous attacks, and tbe verdict of the 
public has been so flattering and unanimous that we are con¬ 
tent with the result In some instances traveling agents of 
the R. A. have professed to be acting for the Rural New- 
Yorker, bat when the papers arrived the fraud was exposed 
—the subscribers receiving the R A I We hope the publisher 
was not cognizant of such transactions. In some cases, people 
have written us that they would form clubs for this Rural if 
we would take $1 per copy—otherwise for the R. A., as it was 
so cheap (?) — but whenever wo replied at all, our answer 
wos Nay —that the Rural Nkw Yorker could not bo afforded, 
and would not he furnished, at leas than its published rates. 
We hope those who subscribed for the R. A. on account of 
its cheapness— and the agents who formed clubs therefor — 
are satisfied with the dividends received from their invest¬ 
ment- and efforts ; while such as have bocu deceived by trav- 
cling agents will, we trust, learn wisdom therefrom. 
THAT MACHINERY QUESTION 
ABOUT CHEESE - MAKING 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker: — In a late number of 
the Rural, I noticed an inquiry from one of your 
Ohio subscribers, asking information relative to the 
processor manufacturing cheese. It would lie difficult 
to give in writing a clear idea of the somewhat com¬ 
plicated method of cheese-making; it would require 
at least several long articles to give an intelligent 
description of the making, curing and caring for 
the cheese dairy. The best treatise on the subject 
that I have seen, was written some years since, by 
A. L. Fish, a practical dairyman of Herkimer Co., 
and published in the Transactions of the N. Y r . State 
Agricultural Society. 
The present anil prospective price of cheese will 
induce many to engage in this branch of agriculture, 
and doubtless many butter dairies will be changed to 
cheese; and to all those who intend to 
Questions for the Curious. 
Ena. Rural Nkw Yorker: — I have been an apiarian for 
many years, but do not understand all the mysteries of bees. 
It is generally admitted that the queen lays all the eggs iD 
the hive, and tho question is bow the eggs for drones are all 
iu the cells that were made to hatch the drones in. and the 
eggs for working bees are in tbe cells that were made for the 
working bees, and the queen eggs are in the cells made to 
hatch queens? Does tho queen distinguish between the 
different kinds of egg* whoo she lays them, or do the others 
separate them, and place them in proper order? Or is it the 
mode of reasoning that makes the difference? If the queen 
lays each egg in the roll where it hatches, she must have 
some previous knowledge what kind of egg she is going to 
lay.—A. Willson, MosrceUut, N. E, 1861. 
We believe the theory now pretty generally adopted 
is this: The “ spermathem ” or fertilizing fluid is con¬ 
tained in a little sac, shown in the engraving, (a) 
and opening into the viaduct (6). The ovaries (e, d,) 
commence 
cheese-making I would say, while I do not discard 
written methods or theories, I would advise them to 
avail themselves of the experience of a practical 
cheese-maker for the first season. Young men or 
women can be obtained from tbe cheese dairy dis¬ 
tricts that would be competent to superintend the 
maniifactnre, and subsequent care of the dairy, at a 
cost of $2,50 to $3,00 per week for young women, 
and $lti to $20 per month for young men; or, if pre¬ 
ferred, good tenents can be obtained, who would rent 
farms for a share of the products. The usual rate 
here is, the tenant has two-fifths of the cheese and 
butter, and one-half of the grain. 
Bet me give your readers who arc unacquainted 
with this branch of farming, something of an idea of 
the proceeds and expense attending our dairy busi¬ 
ness. Our dairy farms average about 200 acres, 
divided as follows:- woodland, 25 acres; meadows, 
50 to 00 acres; plow laud, 10 to 20 acres, and balance 
pasture. This farm would keep team, 30 cows, and 
raise young stock sufficient to replace the old, worn 
out cows, and 
Produce for market 10,000 lbs Cheese at 10c,_$1,000 00 
200 lbs Butter at 18c,_ 36 00 
600 lbs Pork at 7c.. 42 00 
Calf skins_ _ ... 20 00 
“ Beef (old cows,).. 60 00 
Total,. ..$1,158 00 
The expenses to carry on the farm, providing the 
proprietor and his “better half” are workers, would 
The Famine, anti DKsrrrmOK in Kansas are no doubt 
real, reports to the contrary, notwithstanding. On Monday 
of this week we received several letters from Linn, Wabaunsee, 
and other counties, which speak of the suffering of the people 
for want of clothing and provisions. In a letter containing 
payment for a small club of subscribers. Dr Wm. B. Carpkn- 
Titit, of Linn Co., says he cannot add to the number on 
account of the extreme destitution, and adds:—“ No one can 
have any conception of the number of destitute families 
among n- I give it as authentic that at the expiration of 
fifteen days from now, not less than 600 persons will be in 
want cl rations in my own township, and unless something 
occurs to send us a supply for these hungry creatures, some 
will have to be borne to their tombs.” A letter from C. A, 
Hotchkiss, of Wabaunsee, says:—“As regards the destitu 
tion prevailing here, I would state that crops were a com¬ 
plete failure from tbe fall wheat planting of 1859 to the 
present, nnd as most of tbe settlers had little means 
left after building dwellings and paying for their claims, 
many are destitute of clothing and provisions. Breadstuff's 
have been borrowed from one another until tho supply is 
nearly, and with some quite, exhausted.” 
To Prevent Sheep kenning oyer Stone Walls.— 
Wo often hear it said by many good farmers, that “I 
should like to keep sheep, but I have so much stone 
wall it is impossible to keep them in their proper 
places.” I herewith send tbe Rural New-Yorker 
my method of making a good stone wall, the best 
kind of fence for sheep, which you are at liberty to 
give your readers if you think it worth anything. 
Take common fence boards Hi feet long and 6 Inches 
wide. Saw a portion of them 2 feet long, raise up 
tbe cap stones of the wall, place these short boards 
under, letting them project out from the wall one 
foot -placing them 8 feet apart —then take the 16 
feet boards, and place them on the short ones In a 
transverse direction, and nail with wrought nails, 
taking care to place the short, boards so as to receive 
tbe ends of two long ones, or so as to break joints as 
iu making board fence. If the cap stones should be 
too light, yon can easily double them. This done, yon 
season, and with good care and feed, they will 
give as much milk in winter as in summer. Second, 
if the farmer wishes to buy calves, they can be 
bought much lower in the fall and winter than in the 
spring. Third, they are apt to receive more atten¬ 
tion during winter, because the farmer is about the 
barn more, and can provide for their wants better 
than iu summer, when he is necessarily busy about 
the farm. Fourth, they are ready to turn out as soon 
as the grass will give a good bite, and they will be 
strong and healthy, and better prepared to withstand 
the cold of winter than late ones. Lastly, they are 
ready to market six mouths or a vea/ earlier than the 
late ones. They should have new milk at least two 
weeks, and then skim-milk may be given once a day 
for another week, when it can be substituted entirely 
for new milk, but it, should not be given in such 
quantities as to cause them to scour. After they are 
five weeks old, a little linseed oilmeal Should be put 
into their milk, increasing the quantity from time to 
time, and when they arc eight weeks oid, if milk is. 
scarce, they can be fed wholly on it, put into a little 
warm water. At this time they will relish a few 
roots, and they will do them good. I have fed a calf 
this winter on beef scraps, a single handful, dissolved 
iu warm water, night and morning, and he did as 
well on it as on skim-milk. Calves should lie loose, 
in a warm airy place, have plenty of litter, and plenty 
of good fine or aftermath hay to eat, and occasion¬ 
ally a shovelful of dirt to lick. Calves raised in this 
way cannot fail to be good ones, especially if of a 
good breed. 
SkaneatklxB Farmers’ Club. —In reply to our remark (in 
Rural of Jan. 26th,) that we had not been favored with a 
direct communication on the subject of the recent proceed¬ 
ings (annual meeting) of this Club, the worthy Secretary 
writes us, contradicting the statement, and saying he sent a 
copy. True, friend Beauchamp, you did send a copy, hut 
Mot direct to us—for we publish'-'* **t the liEM./ 
between the date of the Iptti-r and its receipt from the person 
to whom it was addre#»cd! You also sent a letter, addressed 
tons, (in a business letter from a third person.) but it was 
not received until our notice bad been prepared, 
— The Secretary writes that the Club last year held 34 
meetings. -‘Our library contains 161 volumes. Our Fair 
occupied three days. Tbe .Society erected a substantial build¬ 
ing. 100 feet long and 28 wide, for the accommodation of 
exhibitors. The -aru of $365 was freely contributed to pay the 
expenses incurred, as ours is a free Fair." All this gives 
evidence of the right spirit, and we hope the farmers of 
other localities will emulate an example so laudable. 
For hired man, one year,... $150 00 
u gill, “ .100 00 
For extra help, haying and harvesting. 75 00 
Total, ...j...$325 00 
'J be profits would depend of course on the amount 
of capital invested in farm, cows, Ac., and this 
varies so much that we will not attempt to fix tbe 
valuation; 
I wonld be pleased to have some of your corres¬ 
pondents furnish your paper with a similar estimate 
of tbe produce aud expense of wool and grain 
farms. F. Smith. 
Norway, Herkimer Co., N. Y., 1861. 
of the seminal fluid m-^ssary to their fertilization. 
The drone cells beinJ^^L the abdomen of tbe 
queeiureceives wo <*■ egb* n ro not Im¬ 
pregnated, and dronda ts Cue result. In support of 
this theory it is shown that young queens, if confined 
and not permitted to take their ilight for tbe purpose 
of meeting the drones on the wing, will lay only 
drone eggs, even in worker cells. Those who believe 
this theory, consider that the eggs of an unimpreg¬ 
nated queen have sufficient vitality to produce drones, 
but not workers. Tins ingenious theory originated, 
we believe, with Mr. Samcki. Wagner, of York, Pa. 
Queens, it is believed, are produced from eggs that 
by ordinary treatment would produce workers. But 
they are placed in cells much larger than those of 
workers, or drones, and somewhat resembling a small 
pea-nut, as shown in tbe engraving, and 
are generally made on the edges of the 
Combs, and with the mouth banging 
down. It is a question yet undecided, 
whether the eggs are laid in these cells, 
f or are placet! there by the workers, 
being removed from worker cells, where 
they have been laid by the queen. In 
these colls are deposited, for the use of 
the queen larvae as soon as hatched, a 
larger quantity of food then is given the 
workers, and of a different character, 
jpr which, when fresh, has the appearance 
of starch, and when old, a light quince 
jelly. It is a little acid, and is called royal jelly. 
The manner of treatment, in connection with this 
food, is supposed to produce the queen from an egg 
that if allowed to remain in a worker cell would have 
hatched an imperfect female, or worker. 
SERMONS FROM SHORT TEXTS 
ROTATION OF CROPS, 
Aiknowlkgmknt.— We are indebted to C Edwards Les¬ 
ter— u name somewhat known in the annals of literature — 
for a paper of Tomato seed, labeled “ Lester's Perfected 
Seedling," Ac.; •• price, 25 cts. per 100 seeds.” Accompany 
mg it wo are favored with an autograph letter, requesting 
the publication of an article from a New York paper, which 
Mr. L. thinks “w)tJ interest many of your [our] readers if 
you [we| print it. 11 Inasmuch as the article is the best kind 
of an advertisement—giviug the origiu of his Tomato, whe#e 
the seed may he obtained, &c.,— we refer Mr. Lester to our 
Terras of Advertising for conditions upon which his long 
story can be told in the appropriate department of this 
journal People who ask so much space gratis, and charge 
so high for seed, are not on our free list. 
P. 8. The Tomato is a good one, as we can attest. Having 
grown it last year, we can furnish Mr. L. a quantity of the 
seed at half the price he asks! 
“An annual change of crops upon a field, while under 
tillage, tends very much to economise its fertility, and to 
increase the profits of the labor bestowed upon it."—J udge 
Buel. 
Yet mark, a change or rotation of crops does 
not add to the fertility of tbe soil, but only prevents 
the particular elements contained in il Irom being 
exhausted so quickly as they would by a succession 
of the same crop. The addition of manure in some 
form or other is absolutely necessary to prevent the 
diminution of the vegetative power of the soil. The 
exhaustive powers of each grain, or white crops, 
taken from the land may be stated to be, wheat 40 
per cent., rye 30, barley 26, oats 25, corn about 20, 
peas 10. 
A well prepared fallow adds about 10 degrees to the 
fertility of tbe soil; clover mown, 12; pasture, 20; 10 
tons of ordinary farm yard manure per acre, 62 per 
cent. 
In carrying out. an alternating system of crops, the 
profits gained depend much on the manner in which 
it is done. Col. R-, of Norfolk Co., C. W., pur¬ 
sued a three course system lor several years, that 
maintained the soil (a sandy loam,) in such condition 
that his winter wheat averaged 40 to 45 bushels per 
acre, every year. He kept 300 acres of his farm 
exclusively for the production of wheat. The land 
was divided into lots of 100 acres each; each year one 
lot was under fallow, one in wheat, and the other in 
clover. Sheep enough were kept on the wheat stub¬ 
ble and tbe clover, after mowing one crop, to leave 
the land pretty well enriched by their droppings. 
The clover liay was used to feed the stock on the 
farm in winter, and the manure made applied to root 
crops on other portious of the farm. The sheep 
spent a good den! of their time during winter herded 
on the clover field. The clover was allowed to errow 
gfmjuims ana 
Bust Foop for Breeding Sows.—Will you. or some of the 
readers of the Rural, Inform me. through the columns of 
the same, what is Him best food for sows that have small pigs, 
where no milk is to he had? It has been said that corn meal 
was not good, as it dries up the milk —Frank Graham, 
Bailey Hollow, Pent) 1861. 
Cement Floors for Cattle Staples.—1 wonld like to 
inquire whether any of the Rural s subscribers Lave had 
experience in waterline- cement fora floor for stabling cattle, 
in the basement of a baru, with a wall on three aides, laid in 
lime aud sand, so it will not be exposed to the frost? Will 
some one give me the desired information? Ry so doing you 
will much oblige—A. R. Daniels, Mentor , Ohio, 1861. 
Japanese Wheat — Caution .— A correspondent aska us 
about what is advertised as a new kind of Drain, and called 
Japanese Wheat. We have never seen the article, or any 
thing iu it.- favor, except an advertisement which claims that 
it will produce 300 bushels per acre! — an assertion so decid¬ 
edly Munchausenish that none but the greenest of the green, 
or most confiding of the confident, need be cautioned to 
beware. Tbe Valley Farmer — published at St. Louis, in 
w hich place the grain is sold—says the Japanese Wheat is a 
new commodity to gull the people and get their money.” 
After asking when the day of humbugs will he over, the 
same paper adds:—“A certain party came to the ‘Valley 
Farmer ' office, and wished us to advertise it — hut we would 
not insert it for any priije. The people can use their money 
to better advantage.” 
Oats for Shfuf.—W ill you, or some of vour numerous 
readers, please inform me through the column-of the Rural 
New-Yorker whether oats are eood for-hoop if not, what 
is the best grain they can be fed?— F,. S. Jexne, Clyde. N 1' 
1861. 
Tins subject has been pretty fully discussed in various 
volumes of the Rural, Summing up the experience of quite 
a number of sheep breeders it would appear thus—The con¬ 
dition of the auimals at the period when the grain was first 
given is the governing feature. If they were weak and poor, 
and oats were given somewhat freely, disastrous results gen 
orally followed,—if in good store condition, and the allowance 
was fed out judiciously, the effect w 5 beneficial. 
In regard to the second query of our correspondent, writers 
and experimenters seem to he about equally divided. Some 
argue that the oats is the natural grain of sheep.—others 
have had better luck" with corn. Either grain, if fed out 
with care and judiciously, we are inclined to think will aid 
and assist the individual who desires the best interests of his 
flock. 
out-door exercise., (Rev. I.. L. Langstkotu.) under¬ 
took. for his amusement, the study of the honey-bee, 
and invented arid patented a hive very much like that 
of Dzierzon, as improved by Berlkpsch, with mov¬ 
able frames.” 
It would appear from the foregoing,—or does, at 
least to me,—that Mr. Langstroth “invented and 
patented ” his “ movable frames about tbe same 
time " that tbe Baron of Berlepsch improved upon 
the Dzierzon cross-bar hive, by inventing the “square 
frames.” 
Whether other readers of the Rural get the same 
impression from a perusal of the above extract that I 
do. I cannot say,—not having conversed with any,— 
but if they do, as a matter of history, I would state 
that their impression is erroneous. 
There seems to be an opinion prevailing among 
“ patent hee-liive ” men. that the “ movable frames ” 
used as designed by the Rev, Mr. I.angs i KOTn are an 
“ old invention,” and hence Mr. L. is not legally en¬ 
titled to a patent on them. How this may be is not 
for me. but tbe patent laws, to decide. By the way, 
liowevcr, I would remark, that if the “movable 
frames” nsed as designed by Mr. Langstkotu, are 
an "old invention,” as some seem to believe, it seems 
a little singular that the celebrated Apiarist of Europe, 
Rev. Mr. Dzierzon, should have preferred the “mov¬ 
able cross-bars ” to the “frames." when the “frames” 
would have saved him such an euormous amount of 
labor, to which he was continually subjected by de¬ 
taching, by the aid of the knife, the combs from the 
sides of the hives. 
What I propose to say respecting the ‘ frames ” 
devised by both Mr. Langstkotu and the Baron of 
Berlepsch, is, that Mr. Langstroth is justly en¬ 
titled to the priority of date. Mr. Langstroth 
Clover nnd Meadow Lands. 
The Valley Farmer speaks thus concerning the 
management of clover and meadow lands:—Stock 
should always be turned off from clover so early in 
the fall as to allow the plants to make a growth of 
leaves sufficient to protect them from the action of 
the snow and frosts of winter. When eaten off to 
tlie ground, and the surface becomes trod hard and 
compact, the roots will he drawn up frequently three 
inches above the surface before spring. 
If clover aud meadow lands have already received 
close fall feeding, by all mean- stock should be kept 
off during February and March, so that the surface 
may become somewhat lightened by the rain and 
frosts, that the tender growth of spring may proceed 
without injury. One hundred pounds of feed gleaned 
from a clover or timothy field in the winter or early 
spring, will cut short the crop of the coming season 
live hundred pounds or more: so that it will prove 
the most miserable economy to allow a hoof to press 
upon lands that are intended either for hay or sum¬ 
mer pasturage. 
Effects of Corn-Cob Meal. 
As this subject is now being discussed in the 
columns of the Rural, we give the view’s of a Con¬ 
necticut farmer as expressed before the Homestead 
Club. He says:—As every one is invited to give 
his free opinion in your farmers' club, I venture a 
word. I have fed corn-cob meal for many years, 
both to cattle and horses, as I suppose with decided 
advantage, and as I have never had any animals 
sicken when on this diet, I infer that there is nothing 
injurious about it. To working oxen or milch cows 
I have never exceeded four quarts per day, and to 
fattening animals double the quantity. These last 
Wheat is New Hampshire. — Speaking of the growth of 
wheat in the vicinity of old Dartmouth, last season, the N. 
H. Journal of Agriculture says:—“Col. Culver, of Lyme, 
hue grown on six acres of fall sown wheat, 180 bushels, and 
on three spring sown, 120 bushels The Town farm, in Han¬ 
over. on a field of six acres, produced 226 bushels. John D. 
Bridgeman raised, on a little less than two acres, 06 bushels; 
and Elijah Tenney, East Hanover, from three bushels of 
seed, on 2?a acres of soil, grew 125 bushels of nice Bpring 
wheat.” 
Use of Hen Manure, —Seeing an inquiry in the Rural of 
February 2d, in regard to the best way of using hen manure, 
1 thought I would send you my method. Pulverize the ma¬ 
nure, add as many bushels of plaster as you have of manure, 
and to every five bushels of this mixture, add one of salt. I 
have used this for ten years For corn. I put a handful of the 
mixture in the hill when I plant, and. if I have enough, a top- 
dressing after hoeing.—P. C. Daniels, Oiueyo. A. V., 1861. 
uuder for the fallow. Three plowings were given to 
the (allow, and the wheat sown as early as possible 
in the fall. 
I his system is similar to the one pursued iu Nor¬ 
folk Co., England, except that there white turnips 
arc grown in place of a naked fallow, the sheep fed 
off on the turnips in the field during the winter as well 
as pastured on the clover. This three course system 
is not, however, one to be recommended as profitable, 
except where wheat and mutton both command a 
high price and ready sale. 
I think the following rotation, which may be called 
a seven course system, is one that will be found most 
profitable, regard being had to the adaptability of the 
farm and locality for particular crops. First year, 
oats or peas; 2d year, roots or corn, heavily manured; 
3d year, barley: 4th year, wheat, seeded down to 
grass or clover, the grass to remain 3 years before 
again breaking up the soil,—the last year it is to he 
pastured the entire season. It is not by a succession 
of heavy manuring, followed by heavy crojiping, that 
Rf.medy for Blind Staggers.— A writer in the Charleston 
Courier gives “an effectual remedy for that formidable dis¬ 
ease in horses, the blind sxaggers." the recipe being as follows: 
“Gum camphor, one ounce; whisky or brandy, one pint — 
dissolve. Dose—One gill, in a half pint of gum arahic, flax 
seed, or other mucilaginous tea, given every three or four 
hours; seldom necessary to give more than three doses. The 
horse must be kept from water twenty four hours. Never 
bleed in this disease.” 
Horsf.s Pulling at the Halter, — Seeing an inquiry in 
the Rural of February 2d for breaking a horse of pulling at 
the halter, I give you my mode of treatment, which is the 
best I ever knew for that purpose. Take an inch rope, put 
it around hi» neck, and throw it over a pole in front of him, 
about as high as his head — the pole being fixed solid — run 
the rope back under the pole to one of his hind feet, hitch it 
around his fetlock, fasten, and let him pull. This is the best 
remedy I have ever tried, and will effect a cure.—H. F. Her¬ 
rick New Berlin, henango Co., X. V.. 1861. 
Lv answer to the inquiry, how to break a horse of pulling 
at the halter, I would say tie him to the limb of a tree, or 
something that will give, but not let him loose. I think this 
an effectual remedy.—J. W. 0., North Huron, Wayne Co., N. 
Y„ 1861. 
Erie County (l J a.) Ag. Society. —At the recent annual 
meeting of the Stockholders of this Society, the following 
officers were elected for 1861: President— Anthony Saltsman. 
Vice President —John P. Vincent. Sec. Secretary —Samuel P. 
Beecher. Cor. Secretary —Irvin Camp. Treasurer and Libra¬ 
rian —Wilson King. Also, twenty-four Managers. 
Union Ag. Society 10tu Congressional District, (Indi¬ 
ana.)—The following officers were elected for 1861: President 
—J. D. G. Nelson. Treasurer —H. H. Hitchcock. Secretary 
—Jno. Mitchell. A Board of Directors composed of one 
from each of the eight counties comprising the District, and 
an Executive Committee. Fair first week in October. 
