clear this land for $25 per acre. But most of us 
believe that, with the proper appliances, it can be 
done for much less. 
The writer admits that “this region has the advant¬ 
age of a healthy climate, and near proximity to New 
( York, which is easily accessible by the Long Island 
Railroad " — two very important points, in our judg¬ 
ment. And if (as we claim,) we have, besides, as 
good land as any part of Long Island, the purest and 
best water, and that when our land ia cleared, it is 
much easier cultivated than In many other parts of 
the country, we certainly have advantages possessed 
by few farming districts with which we are 
acquainted. 
Mr. Editor, we are not “ land speculator most 
of ua having no land to sell; but we intend pur¬ 
chasing more as soon as our means will admit. Yet 
we are “ interested parties' ' amd do feel an interest in i 
our neighborhood, and desire to see this wilderness, 
which has been so long under the ban of an ignorant 
or foolish prejudice, under cultivation by an intelli¬ 
gent, industrious population, and we believe it will 
be as remunerative as in any other part of the 
country. 
And now, Mr. Editor, in conclusion, allow us to 
cordially invite any persons desirous of locating in a 
perfectly healthy location, where cheap land, with 
superior facilities for a cheap transportation to the 
best market in the world, can be bad on easy terms, 
to come and see for themselves. 
F. M. A. Wicks, P. M. and Co. Treas., 
Aaron Stone, Henry Miller, 
B. H. Lewis, T. C. Lei.and, 
E. A. Bitnce, Afourths Stimson, 
Thomas E. Bridger, Stephen Taylor, 
Hyman Skaver, Btkphkn .Sharp, 
Charles G. Miller, William Stimson, 
William Metcalf. 
Thompson Station, Suffolk Co., L. I., 1861. 
that butler exists in the form of minute globules, 
inclosed in membraneous sacs. Each globule is a 
ball of butter in a perfect state, sailing in its sac 
through the milk, or rising in cream to the surface. 
The process of churning tears open the sacks, and 
permits the halls to escape and adhere in a mass. 
In removing these coverings, particular pains should 
be taken to prevent the grinding, or crushing, or 
bursting of these globules. Butter is often injured 
by being worked too much, because the natural but¬ 
ter globes nrc crushed and mashed by the process. 
Those who raise a tempest in a churn, in order to 
make the butter come quickly, will make grease in¬ 
stead of butter—while those who wear oil' the cover¬ 
ing from the butter globes by gentle friction in their 
native element, without pressing or hurling them 
against hard substances, will find their labors re¬ 
warded with butter in a perfect state. I shall not in 
this paper assume the province of determining bow 
this can be done. It can be done. It should be 
done. It is done by the host butter-makers. No 
luxury on our tables is so sensitive as butter. Its 
color, taste and quality are more or less controlled 
by the uature of the grasses with which the cows are 
fed. If the dairy happens to be near the stable, the 
butter will smell of the stable. If it lie stored in the 
vicinity of unpleasant orders, it catches them. If 
packed in firkins of soft wood, it absorbs the smell 
and taste of the wood. The great butter-buyer to 
whom I have alluded, employs a small army of int-n 
queen cages are easily and readily made, and at a 
small cost, not to exceed three to five cents apiece. 
They are many times fonnd to he of much service 
to the bee-keeper, aside from being valuable in in¬ 
troducing queens. There are many ways to con¬ 
struct these queen cages, but the one given will be 
found to answer every purpose. 
Middleport, Niag. Co., N. Y. M. M. Baldridge. 
1Laiuer - 8,1 should be thoroughly 
removed from its surface, and no other material than 
lampblack should ever be mixed with oil where it is 
necessary to blacken the leather. Shoe blacking is 
sometimes used, and always with injurious effects; it 
Irequently contains sulphuric acid, which, when 
brought in contact with leather, rapidly destroys it. 
When the leather is very dry, as with boots and 
shoes, the injury from this canse is not so great. 
Vegetable oils should never be applied to harness of 
any kind, for after a while they harden the leather 
and destroy its usefulness. Leather curtains should 
never he varnished, but always kept perfectly pliant 
by very moderate and frequent application of the oils 
we have named.” 
Gob Menl for Cows. 
R. P. Bingham, of Ellsworth, Ohio, writes to the 
Ohio Fanner of an experiment made in feeding a 
meal of corn, oats, and rye, in comparison with coin 
and cob meal, to dairy cows. He fed of the first, six 
cents r worth per day to a cow for a week — she gave 
158 Its. of milk, making 6? lbs. of butter. He then 
fed six cents’ worth of cob meal per day, for a week 
— she gave 157$ Jhs. of milk, making 7 ft.s. 7 oz. of 
butter. He then tried the cob meal scalded, for a 
week — the cow gave 15GJ lbs. of milk, yielding r, lbs. 
6 oz. of butter. The weather was very cold; mer¬ 
cury below zero several times durino- the trial 
The Weather has at last moderated, and is becoming, ea 
mwble. Up to Monday, the 20th, however, "Winter 
lingered in the lap of Spring, and comparatively little plow¬ 
ing or sowing had been done in Western New York. But if 
the present favorable weather continue?, much urgent farm 
work will he performed during this week, though we doubt 
whether over one-fourth of the spring sowing and planting 
wll he completed. There is so much important work to be 
done in a brief period, that, extra efforts and care are neces¬ 
sary. The “home guard ” must therefore try to accomplish 
more, and do it better, than usual, to make amends for the 
backwardness of the season and lack of those laborers who 
have left the farm for the ^tented field. 1T 
Straw Bee-Hiven. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Having observed 
in your paper of February 2d an article upon the sub¬ 
ject of the superiority of straw over all other material 
for the construction of bee-hives, I was induced to 
visit a gentleman of this town who has recently con¬ 
structed etraw hives upon a novel, and to me an 
entire new plan. As a patent has been applied for 
the improvement, it would be ungenerous in ine to 
enter into details as to the plan. Suffice it to say 
that this new <tyle of hive ia mainly made of straw, 
and eminently combines all the essential qualities 
for coolness in summer and wannness in winter._a 
desideratum sought by every intelli'gont apiarian. It 
is capable of free ventilation, and when well put 
together cannot fail to be durable. 
This new style of hire can he made of any size and 
shape to suit the fancy; even the bars, or the movable 
cotnb frames, can be used, if desirable. The straw 
The Farmer and the W 
Brow.v, of the Nrv> Engla 
article, <-- -• - 
sentiments. Much that he i 
t> at New England; this for 
Use all the 
Under this beading, Gov. 
turner, gives an excellent 
comprising practical suggestions, as well as patriotic 
Much that ho says is adapted to other meridians 
,-,• example:— 1 “ Our advice is this. 
manure you can possibly press into service- pre¬ 
pare it from every source; purchase it, if possible, even at a 
high rate; use it liberally, especially on the crop; cultivate 
with care through the season, never allowing a weed to grow 
among the crops, and the result will be a harvest more valua¬ 
ble m every way than one obtained from a large breadth of 
and badly managed. On rich river bottoms, or in the West 
where fair crops may be obtained without manure, the 
expanding policy may answer, but it will prove disastrous in 
New England. All you can produce will ccrUiulybe needed 
even if the war should be closed in three months. There is 
no need of alarm on the part of the farmer. No evil be¬ 
comes so general and destructive as to leave no compensa¬ 
tion behind. The withdrawal of 60,000 men from the labor 
of the Held—men who must still i,» <v.a_in _.,_ 
WOOL AND WOOL GROWING, 
bee moth. In this hive now under contemplation, 
if firmly put together, the moth would find no 
greater, if as great security, as in the plain board 
hive. There can probably be no hive so constructed 
as to completely prevent the depredations of moths. 
But let it be remembered that these pests never make 
much progress with strong, vigorous swarms, and 
that only the weakest arc objects of attack. Conse¬ 
quently any thing that can be done to strengthen a 
swarm, goes to prevent the progress of moths, and 
to promote the multiplying of a colony. [This iS 
true, but we should do nothing to furnish a hiding 
place for their enemies.— Kn.] 
Straw is a ready absorbent of moisture, and an ex¬ 
cellent non-conductor of heat; consequently warmth, 
generated by bees in a hive, will not escape, nor will 
excessive outside beat of summer penetrate within. 
Let it be observed that the greatest losses incident 
to bee-keepers, arise from combs contracting damp¬ 
ness in winter and freezing, and from these circum¬ 
stances, becoming moldy and unfit for the hatching 
and maturing of young brood, which frequently pre¬ 
vents a swarm from sending forth a new colony at 
all, and in the end, rot and destruction ensue. 
Manlius, N. Y., May, 1861. J. v. H. C. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— I have been a reader 
of your paper for several years, and found it very 
valuable as to the subject of sheep raising and the 
wool market. Indeed, I was first induced to take it 
from a selfish motive, us I could not obtain the mar¬ 
ket price of wool in my New York papers. Iu look¬ 
ing at the N. Y. Times to-day, I can find no wool 
market. The wool buyers hero tell us how low they 
can buy their wool in Michigan. I have to refer 
them to the Rural, and say to them that you are 
posted on the wool market, and they say no more. 
I am sorry that the Wool Grower has been given up, 
as it was very useful to those of us that are engaged 
in sheep raising. 
In a late Rural, E. Palmer, writing from Minne¬ 
sota, asks if it will do to keep sheep on land worth 
75 cents per acre. 1 can answer und say, it will do 
to keep sheep on land worth $100 per acre better 
than any other stock or raising grain. In Dutchess 
county we have but one drawback, not wolves, but 
dogs ten times more destructive. We can guard 
against wolves, but not dogs, for they come in open 
daylight. Now, friend Moore, you can do some¬ 
thing for u». With your influence we can get a 
dairying ox a Small SoALE.-The following statement is 
sent us by Mr. David Bixut, of Fredericktown, Knox Co. 
Ohio;— "From the 1st of December, I860, to the 1st of May' 
.61, I have eold 204 lbs. of butler from five common native 
cows be-ifies supplying my family (of four grown persons) 
with butter and cream, which we used plentifully. We also 
fed two pigs with sour milk, which sold this spring for $10 
more than 1 pa,d for them in the fall, and two calves that are 
worth ?5 each. The butter and cream used, I estimate equal 
to three lbs. per week of butter, making 63 lbs for 21 weeks; 
total, 357 lbs.; sold at 15 cents, $53.55; pigs and calves, $20- 
tn all. $73 55. Three of my cows were farrow, one of which 
had given milk a little over a year at the commencement of 
my account; two had calves last spring, and two in October- 
one went dry lo February, so that I milked but four from 
that time They were fed with corn stalks at night and 
stabled—fed with a patent pall full of slops, made by thicken¬ 
ing the slops of the kitchen with wheat bran and corn and 
oat» chopped, aud hay in the morning, and run to a stack of 
straw through the daj.” 
Jh me ittiKAL oi the llih ult., we gave an engra- 
ving of the Italian bee,—sent us by a gentleman of 
New York interested in bee culture,—a worker, but 
it was wrongly named, and figures as a queen. In 
comparing our engraving with the liviug Italian 
workers, we find it at fault in several particulars. 
Bla^k Hawk Horses. —In a late number of Porter's Spirit 
Mr. .Fas. D, Ladd, of Ohio, (good authority,) gives the fol¬ 
lowing interesting statistics relative to the Black Hawk branch 
or the Morgan Horse family:-" Black Hawk earned as a foal 
getter for D. A: E. Htu, $60,000; they and others sold out of 
Addison county alone for a number of years from $20,000 to 
$30,000 worth of his colts annually. A great many stallions 
of his get have been sold at frum 2 to 6 years old, for from 
$1,500 to $2,000; some at from $3,000 to $4,000; some at 
$5,000 to $6,000. The owners of Ethan Allen refused $20,000 
for him Of Tart trotters he got Etbau Allen, Lancet, Know 
Nothing, Black Ralph, Lady Lawrence, Belle of Saratoga, 
Black Hawk Maid, Tieooderoga, Sherman Black Hawk, Stock- 
bridge Chief, and many more. His stock hare taken the 
first honors at the Vermont and Massachusetts Fairs for 
years, with scarcely a single exception. At United StateH 
Pairs, Rthao Allen has taken a first premium, Ticonderoga 
one, and Stock bridge Chier two. Ethan Allen has always 
when shown for them, taken the first at Springfield, Mass.; 
last fall he took the first at St. Louis, and Stockbridg* mice 
the first at Nashville. His colts have taken all the first pre¬ 
miums at Ohio State Pairs, with two exceptions, as roadsters 
and a great many as horses for general purposes.” 
Straining Honey. 
Eds. Rubai, New-Yorker:—C an some of your bee-keep¬ 
ing correspondents tell me how to strain honey? I have a 
little houey every year, much of which I lose by its candying 
in the comb. As I cannot hit upen the right method of 
separating it, I will thank any one for a little light upon tho 
subject.—F. A., New Haven, Ctrnn., 1861. 
his views. The matter is certainly worth careful atten- 
tion,and we give a portion of the extraetbelow, In one 
of his numbers, says Dr. Holmes, after inculcating 
the importance of a good pedigree as being evidence 
of purity of blood, and the character of the stock 
becoming by attention to this more confirmed and 
concentrated, he remarks as follows: 
“The cows should be characterized by an aptitude 
for producing fine calves and bringing them to a full 
degree of development. They should therefore be 
good milkers, for the value of the produce will be 
very much regulated by this character. We shall 
have occasion to see subsequently that this property 
is in no degree prejudicial to afiy other desirable 
point of character. This tendency to produce milk 
not only influences the supply of food to the young 
animal after its birth, when any deficiency may be 
remedied, but it regulates the growth of the calf be¬ 
fore birth, when a substitute cannot be used, ThuB 
many of our best bred Short-horn cows produce 
calves which are very imperfectly developed and 
exceedingly weak, bo much so that many persons 
accustomed to inferior stock would consider them 
scarcely worth rearing. Tin 
ITALIAN QUEEN. 
Bee-keepers who have examined the matter, are 
becoming well convinced that the Italian bee is much 
better adapted to our country than the common 
black bee, being more hardy and every way more 
profitable. 
The following article is timely, and important to 
all who design to change their stocks by the intro¬ 
duction of Italiau queens: 
Italian Queens— How to Introduce into Native 
Colonies. —As many are designing to procure queens 
of the Italian race the present season, the following 
directions, showing the process of safely introducing 
them into native colonies, will probably be both 
timely and acceptable. 
1st Remove tho queen from the native colony. 
2d, Eight days thereafter take out the frames of 
combs, and remove therefrom every royal cell. 3d. 
Coniine the Italian queen in a “queen cage.” 4th. 
Place the cage with the queen in the top of the hive, 
parallel with and between two frames of combs cov¬ 
ered with bees. 5th. Let the queen thus remain 
thirty-six hours. Gth. Now open the cage and thus 
release the queen; she will almost invariably be 
kindly received by the native bees,—that is, when 
tin- foregoing directions are strictly adhered to. 
The following are some of the why* and where¬ 
fores of the foregoing: 1st. Either the native or 
Italian queen can very readily be found in hives 
provided with. Mr. Lanusthotii’s movable-eomb 
frames. 2d. All the royal cells will bo sealml, or 
nearly ready to be sealed, by the eighth day after the 
removal of the native queen, therefore they can 
easily be found, and removed or destroyed. 3d. 
Hay Required to Keep h JIor*c« 
A correspondent of the Wisconsin Farmer, who 
has given careful attentio%|p the subject, says that 
five pounds of bay at a feed, of fifteen pounds per day, 
with twelve quarts of oatmeal, or its equivalent in 
shorts, will keep a good sized horse in fine condi¬ 
tion l'or all road or farm work, and is amply sufficient. 
Some will keep on considerably less. 
Tiik Girls Growing Corn. —“One who Loves her Coun¬ 
try ” appeals to the young ladies of Maine (through the Me. 
Farmer,J “not to be idle white their fathers, brothers, and 
lovers, are away fighting for a liberty which all would rather 
die than lose.'’ She calls upon every youDg lady in the State 
to go for the corn pledge—asking those who live iu cities to 
plaut and tend not less than three hills of com, and those in 
the country twelve hills— arguing that in this way “went 
may he kept from our doors, though the - wrath of war ’ 
clouds the land yet many dreary years.' This ib patriotic 
advice, and if heeded, will largely increase the aggregate 
lield of au important staple Let the young ladies of other 
States emulate the example —many in the West will do for 
more, Au exchange contains this item from an Illinois girl: 
“Help l# scarce here. Last week F- and I dropped nine 
acres of corn in a day and a half. It made us some lame, but 
what of that? I shall do it again when needed.” Surely, 
the 11 War for the Lniou ” must terminate successfully when 
the women exhibit such love of country. 
Burley for Fork Fluking. 
At a Farmers’ Club in Illinois, reported in the 
Farmer's Advocate, inquiry wag made lor experience 
in feeding barley to hogs. One member had fed it, 
hut without comparison with corn, as to value. “ It 
made the best sweet meat, and free from the oiliness 
so common to corn-fed pork.” Another thought bar¬ 
ley double the value of corn for fattening purposes. 
The inquirer said his attention was called to it by the 
great success of an eastern farmer in fattening pigs 
on ground barley and milk, getting three hundred 
pounds dressed weight, at nine months old. 
s is maiuly referable to 
the supply of nourishment given to the cair being so 
small, for the subsequent supply of milk c learly indi¬ 
cates how limited had been the supply given to the 
foetus. This neglect of the milking disposition is a 
great evil at the present day, and our best breeds are 
suffering, aud will continue to suffer from it until 
more attention is given to this point in the awards at 
the National Exhibitions. Here it should be made a 
leading point of merit, and this would stimulate 
breeders to give more attention to it. 
LONG ISLAND LANDS.— ONCE MORE 
Relieving Choked Cattle. 
A Portland correspondent of the New England 
Farmer gives the following easy aud simple remedy. 
If any of our readers have occasion to try it, will 
they please write us the result:—“The instant a 
creature becomes choked, no matter what with, the 
throat becomes dry, and the jonger the substance 
remains, the dryer the throat. The following is a 
sure remedy. Take some oil, no matter what kind, 
and hold the creature's head up and turn down about 
one gill of oil, and then let go of the head, and the 
creature will heave it out in two seconds? 1 have 
tried it for years, and never knew it to fail.” 
Edr. Rural New-Yorker: —We, the undersigned, 
residents of and near Thompson and Suffolk Stations, 
ou the line of the Loug Island Railroad, aud upon 
the new or wild lands heretofore commonly denomi¬ 
nated the “ Plains or Barrens of Long Island ,” 
have seen an article which appeared in tho Rural 
New-Yorker of the 12th of Januaiy lust, pur¬ 
porting to have been written from this county, 
attempting to describe these landB. their cultivation, 
productions, Ac. Said article we deem to he un¬ 
true, unfair, and unjust, and calculated to mislead 
those who might be disposed to come and examine 
these lands. Its statements as to the culturo 
and crops upon those wc have cleared, and upon 
which we reside, are “wholly false,” as wc have yet 
tu see tho first instance w r here intelligent jwactical 
effort has been made in their cultivation that the 
parties have not been amply remunerated. We have 
many ol ns succeeded in raising good crops of grain, 
hay, vegetables, and fruits of all kinds, not excepting 
grapes, i which the writer of the article alluded to 
IfnQUims and 
German Agricultural .Society —«i An important agricul¬ 
tural movement liar recently taken place in Germany, In the 
formation of a National Agricultural Society, after the plan 
of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. This is a 
project which has long been iu contemplation, enlisting the 
support of the leading agriculturists of Austria. Bavaria, 
Hanover, Saxony, Prussia, and of the other German nation¬ 
alities. Among the means which it proposes to make use of 
for the attainment of its object—the improvement of German 
husbandry —are the publication of a journal or periodical; 
holding successfully in the larger cities of the German Con¬ 
federation exhibitions, or shows of agricultural stock, pro¬ 
duce. and machinery; offering of prizes for scientific, or 
technical works relating to agriculture, and discussions on 
special agricultural topics at the extraordinary meetings of 
the Society. Germany has thus followed the lead of England 
in this most important matter.” 
Wakts on Cows' Teats.— I would like to know of some 
mode to eradicate these nuisances. —J. A. P., Cayuga Co., N. 
Washing in alum water is strongly recommended. Another 
remedy is composed of equal parts of neat’s foot oil, beef’s 
gall, spirits of turpentine, and old brandy—shake well before 
using, and apply once each day. 
GRUBS in Cattle.—W ill you, or some of your readers, 
throw light on the onuses, origin, and cure of grubs iu cattle 
and oblige—J. G., Columbus, N y , 1601. 1 
lonards the latter part of summer, or in earlv autumn, 
cattle nre much annoyed by the stings of au insect, com¬ 
monly known as the Gad Fly, which is aeekiog a place to 
deposit its eggs. The location generally chosen is on the 
back of the animal near the spiue This is pierced, the egg 
laid, and in a short time a little tumor is produced, which is 
tho residence of the Jarva. In Hie following June or July, 
it emerges, soon assumes the chrysalis form, remains there a 
few weeks, and then comes forth a perfect fly, The modes 
by which it is destroyed are various — some pour a corrosive 
To Keep Butler Swm, 
Dr. Epson Smith contributes to the American 
Agriculturist the following directions for preserving 
butter in good condition for any length of time; In 
May or Jane, when butter is plenty, work it tho¬ 
roughly two or three times, and add to the last work¬ 
ing nearly one grain of saltpeter and a teaspoonfnl 
of pulverized loaf sugar to each pound of butter. 
Pack it tightly in stone jars to within two inches of 
the top, and fill the remaiuing space with strong 
brine. Cover the jars tightly, and bury them in the 
cellar bottom, where the butter will be kept unhurt 
for a long time. 
through the wire screen or gauze. She will thus be 
attended to for any reasonable length of time. The 
writer has kept them ou hand iu this way three or 
four weeks at a time, hut care must he taken in cool 
weather to keep the cage far enough below the tops 
of the frames, that the bees will not be induced or 
obliged to abandon it, aud consequently the queen, 
which might result in her being chilled or starved. 
5th. She and the colony by this time will become 
scented alike, also alike acquainted: hence now is 
the proper time for her release, tith. It is not neces¬ 
sary to disturb the cage, but simply open it carefully, 
that the queen may make her exit at pleasure. When 
convenient, at some future time, the cage, if desired, 
may be taken out. 
There are other modes of safely introducing the 
Italian queens to native colonies, but the one given 
is probably the best yet devised for the majority of 
such apiarians as have had but little or no experience 
in this matter. 
A queen cage is made thus: Take a piece of wire 
gauze two inches long, 12 meshes to the inch, and form 
it into a tube, having an aperture of about five- 
eighths of an inch. It should be about two aud a 
half inches wide. Either edge may be lapped over 
the other so as to form the size of the aperture uiven. 
Carcasses of Diseased Animals— Caution .—People who 
have occasion to skin or dissect animals that have died of 
disease, cannot be too cautious, as deaths frequently occur 
in consequence of accidental wounds from knives used in the 
operation. A Salem (O ) paper thus mentions an accident of 
this nature:—" One day last week, while Rouert Tolkrton 
was skinning a cow that had died from some disease, hecutbis 
wrist badly, and in so doing he poisoned himself by getting 
some of the blood of the animal in the cut. Mr. Tolkrton 
is in a very critical condition, and but little hope is enter¬ 
tained of hi= recovery Persons should be very careful when 
they are skinning dead animals, that they do not cut them¬ 
selves with the knife they have been using for that purpose, 
as it will doubtless result fatally.” 
Cough in Horses.— Will the Rural inform me as to a 
remedy Tor a cough in horses? A valuable colt has been 
niuch troubled, and I have gone through inv lists of curatives 
without effect —H. G. K., Kent Co., Mich., 1861. 
In the treatmentof simple colds , a few warm mashes, warm 
clothing, and a warm stable, are generally all that is neces¬ 
sary. Sometimes a little relaxing physic may be given to 
advantage. Dadd recommends four ounces each of slippery 
eim, Indian turnip, elecampane, skunk cabbage, and caraway 
seeds — all powdered, Dose, half an ounce twice a day, in 
gruel. While administering medicine, the horse should be 
deprived of water, and be made to drink of slippery elm or 
flaxseed tea. Where the cough has become chronu\ a blister 
extending from the root of one ear to that of the other, taking 
in the whole channel, and reaching ax or eight incheB down 
the windpipe, ha* often been tried with good effect. Feeding 
has much influence upon a chronic cough. Too much dry 
feed increases it, and one of the best things that can he used 
as a portion of the animal's daily fodder are carrots. The 
authority before quoted says “for an old chronic cough that 
seems likely to wear the animal out, and also the patience of 
its owner, depending perhaps on some organic change, or 
irritable state of the respiratory surfaces, me counter irrita¬ 
tion, and give a dose of the following, night and mornin?: 
Equal parts of pleurisy root, licorice, lobelia, sulphur, sassa¬ 
fras, and bloodroot—all powdered. Dose, one ounce, night 
and morning, for the first two days; then omit the morning 
dose. To be mixed with the food.” 
Minor Rural Items.—T he Orleans Co. Ae. Society an¬ 
nounces that its fourth Annual Exhibition of Horses will be 
held inAlbion, June 14th and I5th.-Hon. T C. Peters, of 
Darien, baa thoroughly tested two of Alden’s Horse Hoes, and 
fully endorses Mr. Todd’s commendation, given ia our last 
number.-Mr. H. B. Hart, of Rush, has just shown us two 
monster eggs, laid by a Poland goose- Each weighs 12 
ounces; one of them is full 12 inches in circumference 
(measured the long way,) and the other only a fraction less. 
