<cn 
\ which he sets on the frame which Bupports the stone 
when he is through using it. 
— Have been puzzling my brain the past three 
days to discover the difference in appearance be¬ 
tween the Club and Fife wheat as it stands ripe in 
the field. Have naked farm era to show me the differ¬ 
ence, but have as yet found no one who could do so. 
It is easy to distinguish between these varieties, by 
shelling a head arid comparing the kernels; and one- 
man told me he could pick ontthe Fife wheat every 
time, about the time it is in bloom; it then shows a 
peculiar blue color which the Club does not. The 
Fife generally yields more, but the Club brings the 
better price. I And hut few farmers who grow the 
Rio Grande; but the few who do, like if much better 
than either of the varieties named. It will bring 
more than either ia the Chicago market. 
— Have found, thus far, in my travels in Illinois 
and Wisconsin, but one small piece of Chinese Sugar 
Cane, and-that was in McLean Co., Ill. I am re¬ 
minded of the fact by discovering in a field a wooden 
mill with two vertical rollers. Mr. Bpaffokd, the 
owner, says be has grown the cane four years prior 
to the present, and lias not, since harvesting the 
first crop, purchased a gallon of molasses or sirup. 
He thinks it a profitable crop, but failed to get ripe 
Beed this year and has none growing. He strips 
and cuts his cane, and grinds It in this home-made 
mil! as fast as it is cut; evaporates it in a sheet iron 
pan five inches deep, holding about a barrel. Boils 
it rapidly, uud uses no other clarifier than a skimmer. 
Formerly used lime, but makes better sirup without it. 
— Wheat and most other small grain crops stand 
in the fields hero, generally, until they are threshed 
—stand in shocks. When it is a wet season great 
losses occur—especially if warm and wet. Some 
stack their grain, but if the weather is good it is a 
loss of labor. So far as I have observed, wheat is 
generally set up in “Dutch shocks,” or a double 
row of sheaves. But here, as I leave the Oak Open¬ 
ings along the banks of the Des Plaines, and emerge 
on the prairie, I find large farms and a different 
practice in shocking, which I am assured is the 
common mode hereabouts. Six sheaves are Bet 
together, so, * * precisely in the form of a “ Dutch 
shock,” and then four more sheaves are added, 
two on each side of the shock, like this, . * * . 
making the shock as nearly round as it can • . , * 
be made. The tops of the sheaves are pressed to¬ 
gether. A bundle is then taken by the farmer, the 
butt pressed against his breast, and with his hands 
underneath the head, it Is doubled up and then laid 
on top the shock; another bundle is prepared in the 
same way and laid crosswise over the first bundle, 
the two forming, with but little adjustment, a straw 
roof which protects, especially when Hie straw is 
long, the shock from heavy rains, completely. Farm¬ 
ers with whom we have talked think it the best, 
indeed the only way to render wheat secure in the 
shock—the only practicable way. 
— We are told that Proctor Putnam has a fine 
flock Of Spanish sheep, and urged to go and see him 
—one of his neighbors saying at the same time, that 
“he is about ns good a farmer as w T e have in the 
COnnty.” We find all that we have heard of his 
sheep, true. They are of the same family aud from 
the same flock as Enos Furry's, heretofore spoken 
of- quite as good, and in general appearance and 
condition show better. The lambs were dropped 
earlier and are larger. The ewes are in better con¬ 
dition. Mr. Putnam herds about 100 sheep in a 
flock, lias barns with basements aud shedB which 
may be kept open or closed, in which he shelters 
his flocks in winter. He keeps his sheep dry in 
winter, feeds good timothy, red top, ami oats in the 
sheaf, lie feeds six sheaves of oats per day to each 
hundred sheep, and regards it the best grain food 
that can he given them. He cuts his oats green, or 
when about half ripe. Feeds his sheep in racks, 
and keeps them clean. Has had no diseases among 
his flocks. Prefers to have his lambs dropped before 
the ewes are turned out in the spring, nr late, after 
the feed gets good and the weather warm. He does 
not dip his sheep in any mixture at shearing time in 
order to kill the ticks, but lias always, until this 
year, dipped the lambs in tobacco water. The 
present year lie adopted the mode practiced aud 
recommended by some of his neighbors, viz. Takes 
a worn paint brush, dips it in linseed oil, and draws 
it along the back of the lamb from the bead to the 
hip, filling the wool. The lambs alone are thus 
served, and allowed to run with the balance of the 
flock a few days after the shearing; the ticks soou 
leave the old sheep aud appear on the lambs, when 
the oil destroy-' them. Such is the theory of this 
practice. The wool buyer may object to the oily 
operation; aud the experienced Bhepherd may object 
to the theory and practice- if so, let them say why! 
Mr. Putnam believes in sheep as a farm stock. 
He finds and has found that they pay. lie does not 
think there are enough sheep in the country—neither 
enough attention paid to stock—to the handling and 
feeding cattle. He would recommend buying three 
year old steers in the fall, feed them well through 
the winter, keeping them in a thriving condition, 
give them good pasture in the spring, and put them 
in market in June. This wo know to be good prac¬ 
tice for thts market, and there is usually money to 
he made by it. But the profit must of course depend 
on the relative price of grain and hay in the fall and 
the prospective price of beef. There are few years 
when a large profit may not be made. 
1 should have said that Mr. Putnam’s flock sheared 
6 pounds per head last year.- This year he has 
not weighed the wool, but thinks, from the weight 
ot “ few samples, it will average rtitfre per head. 
Before shearing he selected twenty-five of his poorest 
ewes and their Iambs, patting them in a field by 
themselves. After shearitig he sold them at $2 per 
head, lambs and all—25 ewes and 28 lambs. Sheep 
sell better fur stock than for mutton—they are worth 
more to keep them to sell for the latter purpose. 
A CHEAP MANUBE, 
Eds. RirAi. Nsw-Iokkkk:— I do not know as I 
ought to have a 1 tearing iu the columns of your valua¬ 
ble paper, as I am not among the many thousands of 
its subscribers: but as I have the privilege of perus¬ 
ing it, and find it to be all that you advertise, yon 
may couut me as one for the coming year. 
As the object of your paper ia to get and give such 
information as will benefit the public, 1 would like to 
relate my experience iu one branch of farming. As 
I am an old-fashioned fanner, I still follow the old 
plan of manuring corn in the hill, and always having 
as good crops as my neighbors, I have felt very well 
satisfied. 1 always plow under what manure I make on 
my farm, and buy enough of the different fertilizers to 
manure in the bill. Having tried some of the different 
kinds offered to the public, I wish to give my opinion 
as to which is the cheapest and best. Planting, as (do, 
from 15 to 20 acres of corn each year, I ha 7 e made it 
an object to ascertain which of the different fertil¬ 
izers is the cheapest and best for me to use. Having 
ascertained, to the best of my ability, I prefer the 
American Compost Fertilizer to any that I have 
tried; this being a new kind of manure, is the cheap¬ 
est and best adapted to different crops. I have used 
one hundred lbs. to the acre for corn in the bill, and 
have had better corn than when I have uped pondrotte, 
superphosphate of lime, and other fertilizers. As I 
am confident that it is the cheapest and best, I use no 
other kind. Last spring, instead of paying out fifty 
dollars, as 1 had formerly done, I bought one ton of 
the American Compost, for which I paid twenty-five 
dollars; and feeling satisfied that I shall have belter 
corn than when I used different fertilizers, induces 
me to inform your readers of my experience. I have 
seen this manure tried upon a field of strawberries, 
and I would say to those that cultivate this delicious 
fruit, they would do well to try it. A Farmer. 
Mattituc.k, Suffolk Co., Long Island, N. Y., 1861. 
Remarks. —The above appears a little like attempt¬ 
ing to grind an ax, on our grindstone, for the benefit 
of the manufacturer of a particular fertilizer. The 
writer offers his “opinion” freely, but gives no 
figures as to results. Why not state the comparative 
advantage, as ascertained by experiment, of the 
“Compost” over other fertilizers? Again, If our 
correspondent is an “old-fashioned farmer,” and still 
practices ancient ways, it is strange he Bhould use “ a 
new kind of manure.” The fact is, such statements 
as the above are, in plain English, nil gammon — or at 
least most unsatisfactory. No sensible farmer would 
purchase a fertilizer on such unreliable testimony— 
an opinion which m volunteer at the risk of losing a 
subscriber in expectancy—E d. 
-- 
Jm I in ii Queen* In Common Hives. 
Ens. Rural New-Yorker:— In answer to many 
inquiries as to whether a stock of common bees, oc- 
cuping a box hive, can be successfully Italianized 
without first transferring them to movable frames, 
( will answer that they can. There are several ways 
of doing this, but the bent method 1 will proceed to 
give. Take your box hive early In the morning, 
before many bees have left for the fields, and 
blow under it a whiff of smoke from punk, burn¬ 
ing rugs, or tobacco,.—only a little,—just enough to 
drive up among the combs any that may lie clustered 
about the entrance and on the bottom board; now 
carefully tum the hive bottom up, and place on its 
open end a box to receive the bees, prepared to fit it, 
and about the capacity of the hive; tack a couple of 
slats on each side to hold the faces of the two to¬ 
gether, carefully corking every crevice, so that no 
bee shall escape. Now drive out the swarm, by lightly 
rapping on the top—now bottom — of the hive, 
gradually following up as the bees are observed mov¬ 
ing upwards, which will be known by their humming , 
on putting the ear to the side of the hive. When all 
are pretty well up —which will he in from fifteen to 
thirty minutes,— remove the top box, carefully cov¬ 
ering the now almost empty hive with a sheet, or 
other covering, to keep out robbers. Now take the 
hex containing the bees atul turn it. down beside an 
empty box, placed after the manner of hiving a 
swarm of bees, and with ft spoon or ladle, search for 
the queen. As the beea are tlius passing from one box 
to the other, the queen will be readily found, if not 
the first time, change boxes and try it over again. 
When found, destroy her, and having the Italian 
stranger ready, drop her down among the bees. None 
will molest bur, for the same rcuson that none will 
offer any resistance to the operator—because they are 
now all Ji/led w>th honey to tlieir utmost capacity. And 
even bad yon placed a dozen queens among them, the 
bees would not immediately molest them. 
As soon as the queen is safely among them, return 
the lilve to its original position and ladle the bees 
into it, or near its entrance, and they will soon go 
up, thus effecting a change of queens without loss of 
time. Of course, substantially the same method can 
be practiced with equal success on any hive. I have 
somewhat extensively practiced this mode of transfer, 
of late, and can confidently recommend it in prefer¬ 
ence to any other. Martin Metcalf. 
Grand Rapids, Micli., Sept. 4, 1861. 
Apiaries nml Hives. 
The best position for an apiary is one fronting 
the south-east. It should be so placed that the flight, 
of the bees is uot obstructed; though this is not abso¬ 
lutely necessary, as they will always manage to find 
tlieir hives. It is better to locate an apiary in a val¬ 
ley than on high ground, that when the bees are 
returning heavily laden they may be saved from a 
toilsome upward flight. Yet they may properly be 
placed in the upper story or even iu the roof of a 
house situated in the valley; because the bees, wliea 
returning, rise high enough iu the air to clear any 
trees or other high objects in their course, and 
descend only when they arrive in the immediate 
neighborhood of their hives. But it is not proper 
thus to place stocks intended for natural swarming; 
because the swarms are then apt to alight in places 
difficult of access, and are also more prone to make 
their escape to the woods. I have, however, often 
placed swarms, after hiving, in a garret, and they 
labored there with remarkable industry.— Gundelach. 
Singular Fact. 
On the 12th of ft&iemb'er, 1855 f Mr. #. A. lief' 
ling, of Weissenfels, pass'd a strip of woodland, 
where wood choppers were at work’ clearing off the 
timber. Some of them had just felled a huge hollow 
oak tree, in which bees had taken up ttjeir abode. 
They were engaged in securing the honey »fren Mr. 
II. reached the scene, and consented to let him have 
the bees, which he collected, plated in a rude boa, 
aud carried home. He then transferred them to a 
movable comb hive containing five frames with 
empty combs, aud one with sealed honey. On open¬ 
ing the hive next morning to ascertain whether the 
Tneen was safe, he found the five combs also well sup¬ 
plied with honey, doubtless deposited by the bees, 
who trad gorged themselves with their own stores 
when their old domicile was so rudely demolished, 
and thus carried off’ a supply nearly sufficient to last 
them through Ibe ensuing winter.— Bee Journal. 
To Siraln fifowey. 
Bees make no- honey late in the season, there¬ 
fore take it away early. Select, and mash by band, 
and strain through a serve. Td warm weather it will 
nearly all drain through- an a few days, and the honey 
thus passed will be pure and perfect, and will candy 
in cold weather. IF it is desirable to prevent candy¬ 
ing, keep it warm. What remains itr the combs may 
be washed out with a small quantity of water, and 
may be boiled and skimmed, and answers the same 
purpose in culinary matters as the best. The silly 
practice of beating and Btraining through cloth 
always spoils the honey. O’. T. Hobbs. 
Randolph, P»., 1881. 
Transferrin" Bics from Box Hives. 
Being a subscriber to your valuable Rural, and 
knowing it to be open for question, I venture to ask 
one. I have a colony of bees in an old-fashioned box 
hive with doors in the top. The hive is filled down 
to the bottom with comb, which has become wormy. 
What shall I do with them? Should they be driven 
into a new hive? If so, at what time and bow?—E. K. 
Terry, Norwich, Chenango Co., N. E, 1861. 
The Baron of Berlepsch has had colonies in his 
apiary which increased eleven pounds in weight in 
one day. Mr. Rader, of Mayence, had one which 
increased twenty-one pounds, and the Rev. Mr. 
Stein, of the same place, one which increased twenty- 
eight pounds in a day.— Bee Journal. 
gural spirit of tit* gms. 
Eating off Glover In the Fall. 
The Canadian Agriculturist well observes :— 
“Irreparable injury is sometimes done to meadows 
and clover lands by hard stocking late in the fall or 
early in the spring. Sheep, in particular, by eating 
close, often seriously injure the crown of the clover 
plant, and thereby either kill it or greatly injure its 
after growth.” 
Barley for Fattening flogs. 
Tub Maine Farmer publishes a communication 
from a correspondent at Rockland, in regard to the 
relative value of corn and barley for the purpose of 
fattening hogs. We give the following paragraph 
from bib letter; —“From what experience I have had, 
a hundred pounds of barley Is worth as much as a 
hundred pounds of corn; but it must be clean barley, 
not half oats, as barley generally is as raised by many 
of onr farmers. I think barley better adapted to fat¬ 
tening bogs than any other grain I ever gave them, 
as it seems to make them quiet and sleepy, and this 
bogs require in order to fatten well.” 
Clem lug l.uml of Stone. 
Speaking of the ill effect of the entire removal 
of stone from Borne soils, 0. W. True, in the New 
England Farmer, says:—“There were but a few 
stones upon a moist loimy, rich soil, laying upon a 
gravel pan almost impenetrable to water, but when 
tbe loose ones and those that the plow came in con¬ 
tact with, were dug out, the soil seemed entirely 
changed. It was later in the spring, aud the grass 
did not hold out bbt about half as long as before the 
stones were removed. Had it been underdrained, I 
am confident it would have been ranch improved, and 
instead of being a week later in seed-time, would 
have been a week earlier than originally.” The re¬ 
moval of “the natural attractors of heal,” and tbe 
loss of the mineral matters supplied by the wearing 
away of the Btones, is his explanation of this 
difference. 
The Fermentation of Milk. 
According to the experiments of Mr. Hoppe, 
milk contains Ub peculiar ferment ready formed, 
which is destroyed at the temperature of boiling water, 
but it is again formed by the action of atmospheric 
oxygen; aud also that the fermentation, once begun, 
proceeds spontaneously, without the assistance of 
atmospheric oxygen. Hoppe’s Investigations further 
show that fresh milk, in contact with tbe air, takes 
up oxygen and gives off carbonic acid, and that the 
volume of this rmfbonie acid is larger than that of the 
oxygon absorbed This change proceeds very rapidly 
at the common temperature, during the first twenty- 
four hours; and the milk left in contact with more than 
its own bulb of air, is able to take up within three or 
four days the whole of the oxygen of that quantity 
of air. 
Price of.Potatoes. 
The following table, carefully prepared for the 
American Agriculturist by Mr. Henry B. Walker, a 
large dealer of New York, will be found interesting 
and useful. The statistics have reference to the best 
potatoes at wholesale prices; it will be noticed that 
the price has fallen every year, with but one excep¬ 
tion, since 1854. 
Average Price per Bushel. 
1854. 
1855. 
1856. 
1857. 
1858. 
1869. 
1860. 
Jan. . 
.$1 
07 
*1 
22 
SO 
72 
$0 
97 
SO 
91 
$0 
93 
SO 
45 
Feb. ... 
1 
18 
1 
25 
0 
72 
1 
03 
1 
00 
0 
58 
0 
58 
March 
1 
12 
1 
2 
0 
80 
' 1 
00 
0 
88 
0 
95 
0 
64 
April 
. 1 
60 
1 
48 
0 
63 
1 
35 
0 
77 
0 
83 
0 
55 
May .... 
. 1 
41 
1 
26 
0 
60 
1 
41 
0 
58 
0 
68 
0 
60 
June ,.. 
. 1 
60 
1 
8-1 
0 
60 
1 
25 
0 
55 
0 
70 
0 
69 
July ... 
. 1 
00 
1 
00 
1 
00 
0 
62 
0 
61 
0 
47 
0 
63 
Aug. 
. 1 
50 
0 
63 
0 
69 
0 
64 
0 
61 
0 
49 
0 
52 
Sept. ... 
1 
22 
0 
69 
0 
70 
0 
83 
0 
57 
0 
50 
0 
63 
Oct .. 
1 
00 
0 
69 
0 
76 
0 
83 
0 
54 
0 
05 
0 
45 
No?. 
. 1 
89 
0 
69 
0 
84 
0 
96 
0 
53 
0 
60 
0 
64 
Dec. ... 
. 1 
02 
0 
65 
0 
94 
0 
95 
0 
65 
0 
45 
0 
63 
Average. 
.*1 
22 
SI 
01 
1 o 
75 
SI 
00 
1 o 
if* 
72 
so 
59 
1 o 
6fl 
IIo>v to Manage Bones. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the Journal of Agriculture 
gives the following as his experience, every other 
year, for the past ton years; that beiug as often as he 
could collect bones enough to fill a tub: 
With a sledge hammer break the bones into pieces 
of one, two or three inches; take a hogshead tub, 
put in two or three inches of hard wood ashes, the 
same depth of botes; then ashes and bones until full; 
pound or press solid as convenient; fill with water or 
urine, all that it will absorb. If done in the spring 
or summer, by tht next spring it will shovel out fully 
decomposed, the nones being as soft as chalk. 
Then add all vnir hen manure, shovel and rake jt 
over cnee a weec, for three or futir weeks before 
planting time; by that time it will be finely powdered. 
Tut about equal b a handful of compost into a hill, 
for corn, potatots, squashes, melons, &c., when it 
will be fotrad to forward the crops to a wonderful 
degree. 
How to Clear Land of Brush. 
Our pastures are euCached ufion by sbfubs 
f.iad trees of inferor growth, m'Vking nestling places 
for Weeds, and shading much land WklCb otherwise 
would produce glass. We prefer to m&’ the brush 
hook aud' cat up everything, to lay the dr> bTash 
over the stubif Aodburn it. If sbeep aye kept on /he 
lot afterward, lh£j will feed down the young growth 
which starts from Be roots, for the most part, ami a 
scythe will keep ohder the remainder. A corres¬ 
pondent of the Hcmesteaif gives his views as follows: 
"This is often a problem of much importance, 
and the solution of it is attended in some sections 
with much difficuty and expense. After cutting 
and burning the bnsh piled ap in heaps, many think 
the best aud perbaja the only mode of extermination 
is plowing and thorough tillage. This is an effeetaal 
remedy, and, wherecircumstances will admit, a good 
one. But there aremany fields that eannot be treated 
in this manner. Ether the occupantsaiinot sustain 
the requisite expense, or impediments to plowing 
stand in the way. 
“In many sectims there are large quantities'of 
land now comparUirely useless, that will, if' the 
brush is destroyed, be valuable for grazing. Last 
year I tried burning tbe land over without cutting 
the brush, and have been se well pleased with' the 
result that I wish to recommend the practice to 
others, and also draw out the experience and 
opinions of others. Now is the time, as soon as the 
ground is dry enough. The fire runs best in the 
middle of the day. From a single experience I have 
come to the conclusion that fire running over the 
land a few consecutive years, will run out the brush, 
and the land he benefited by the operation, especially 
if a top-dressing of gypsum or something else is 
applied afterward.” 
Hint* on Building Stables. 
The American Agriculturist treats the subject in 
this wise:—“The recent improvements in American 
architecture have not reached the stable, to the ex¬ 
tent that could be desired. Brown stone froDts, high 
ceilings, marble mantel pieces, costly furnaces for 
warming and ventilating the dwelling, may please 
the eye and promote the health and comfort of the 
occupants, while the valuable horses of the proprie¬ 
tor are suffering from a poorly constructed aud poorly 
ventilated stable. 
The fault often lies in two directions. The stable 
may be too tight, or too open. A horse needs light, 
as well as air and suitable warmth and food, —the 
vegetable structure hardly needs light more than he 
does. Pure airts essential. His blood can not be¬ 
come purified while the air which influtes his longs 
is full of foul gases from fermenting manures. Nor 
is it enough to keep the stalls clean, if they are so 
tight that the horse is obliged to breathe hi* own 
breath over and over again. Digestion ia interfered 
with, and all the functions of life arc impeded. Liizy 
grooms declare that a close, warm stable, helps to 
make a horse’s cout fine and glossy in winter as well 
as In summer. But in winter, such a coat is not to 
be desired. Nature provides the animal with longer 
hair and more of it, to defend him from the cold. II 
the horse is well groomed and blanketed, his hair 
will be smooth and glossy enough all the year round. 
The indolent groom onght himself to be shut up for 
twenty-fonr hours in the hot, steaming air in which 
he confines his master’s horse, and see how he would 
like it. Open the doors of such a stable in the morn¬ 
ing, where several horses are kept, and the hot air 
and the hartshorn are almost sufficient to knock a 
man down. What wonder, then, that horses so used 
should suffer from inflamed eyes, cough, glanders, 
and other ailments! The wonder is that they bear 
tbe abuse so long and so well. 
Now, the “improvement ” is simply this; ventilate 
the stables. Ventilate, both in winter and summer. 
The outer air should be brought in at certain places 
near the floor, but not in the immediate neighbor¬ 
hood of the horse, so as to cause hurtful draits of 
wind immediately upon him. Impure air must he 
ejected, as well as pure air brought in. This can 
be done in summer very well by leaving several win¬ 
dows open in different parts of the barns. But a 
bi-tti-rwny is to insert ventilators in the highest parts 
of the building, into which ventiducts, (square 
wooden tubes.) shall lead from the stalls, and which 
can be opened or closed at pleasure. These ven¬ 
tilators should be covered with a cap, to prevent 
downward currents and the beating in of rain. By 
this plan, the foul air is carried oil' directly from 
the stall without mixing with the hay in the loft.” 
Ifnguirit# anil Answer#. 
A Jumping Colt. — I hare a span Of colts, tine of which 
jumps How can I fix him a,, that tic will tiebave himself? I 
have put fetters on him, Outdo not like them I should be 
glad if you. or some of jour readers, would (jive me the best 
plan of keeping him where be belongs. I do not. mean a 
lecture about 11 Prevention.’’ Ac., for that is too late.—T. I. 
P,, South Bristol, 2Y. . 1861. 
Straw as a Fkjitilizkk.— I would be very glad to obtain 
a little information In regard to tlie use of straw as a fertilizer. 
Iu Ibis section of the country, there is a good deal of coar-e 
R'raw, considered unfit for feeding. Now, the question is, 
wkilt shall be done with this? Rome say plow it under, hut 
it seems to me that disposition of the thing is neither 
economical nor convenient. If you. or any of your numerous 
renders, can give any light on this subject either theoretical 
or as the result, of experience, through the columns of the 
Rural, they will greatly oblige—J. E. S., Veremit, A r . I". 
Prickly Ash k or Hedges.— Will you inform me as to the 
prohahle result of a lo dge fence grown from Prickly Ash 
plants or seeds? The Prickly Ash is a very hardy bush, 
grows well almost any where, und cattle, horses, and all 
kinds of stock farmers wish to fence against, shun it By 
cutting down when two years old, it w ill bush out very thick, 
making it almost impenetrable. If it will answer, s farm 
could be well fenced with it in five year6.—11. E. G., Loclcpmt. 
N. K, 1SH1. 
Who has tried this plant for a hedge? Will not our friend 
test the matter? 
SCRATCHES.—Not seeing any recipe for the disease known 
as the scratches in horses since I have taken the Rural, it 
would benefit oie some if you would give a remedy that can 
lie relied upon, as I am somewhat of a dealer.—AFI’ hbckhier, 
N. Y , Sejilember. 1861. 
We give several modes, either of which he can test to bin 
own satisfaction—In its early stages, diet, cleanliness, and 
ventilation, require the attention of the groom. When the 
heels are swollen and hot, apply a poultice ef slippery elm 
(powdered) >.( pound; fine salt, 2 ounces Mix with hot 
water, and when cool, spread a portion on cotton cloth and 
land. If the horse if fat, a mild cathartic, coasisting of 
aloes, 4 drachms; gentian, 2 drachms; ginger, J draebtn—all 
powdered—may be administered, If, on the other band, the 
horse be poor. uBe no medicine, but allow a generous diet. 
Prof. MORTON, of the Royal Veterinary College, recommends 
the following:—Equal parts of vinegar, linseed oil. and tur¬ 
pentine. Wash the heels with lake warm water and Castile 
snap, and, after wiping dry, apply the mixture. 
Jons Jobnston gave his manner of treatment in the 
Rural for March, 1860, and we reproduce it Mr. J. ta.vs:— 
Take sugar of lead and hog's lard, and make a salve. Wash 
the legk Of Ul 0 !‘ orse clean, and when perfectly dry, rub in 
the salve. Keep the horse out the Bind f° r * L' w day*, using 
the sa’te occasionally, and It will soon effect a cure. It 
appear* to tne absurd to think of putting anything down tbe 
throat of tt horse TO cure scratches. * * * Before I got 
my yards made perfectly dry, 1 was greatly troubled with the 
scratches iu the legs of my cattle, iu BOft wnather, in fall or 
early wiater. I have had a dozen or mof'C ffi bnee. with 
swelled legs and scratches, a hot fever, aud great!.; Ja*n«. 
Washing and fomenting the legs with hot water, using the 
sugar of lead and lard salve, and keeping in a dry place, soou 
effected a core. Wash off the ooqd j/ptu the torse's legs 
when he coines in the stable, never let it dry on, and a fig 
for scratches. Prevention is better than cure. 
A Toledo, Ohio, correspondent of the RURAL says any per¬ 
son having a horse troubled with the scratches, will fiod, 
^ by taking a soft or fresh corncob, and using warm dish- 
Wfitltir. or warm water and Castile soap, (I prefer tbe former.) 
an d VubbiDg the affected part with the coh, dipping it fre¬ 
quent// ib the water, until he has tbe scruff all off atul per¬ 
fectly c.lea'i! then drying it with a cloth aud applying the 
following sal ri, rhhbiog it well, that it will take but a few 
greasings until the horse is perfectly cured. With S case- 
knife. scrape from fheontslde of the iron pots used for cooking, 
the soot or black thsViA on them, aud then mix tallow with 
it until it forme A good ssflve, or paste, and rub the scratches 
with it, after being cleansed, three or four limes, or even six 
times, if necessary. The horse should be kept in the stable, 
or out of the mud, until he is cured, or nearly so. 
Another correspondent, residing at Lock port, N. Y., pos¬ 
sessed of what he claim* !»' a simple preventive and cure, 
peuteit. It is as follows:— Wtnen tbehorse todies in at night, 
his legs should be washed clean, and rubbed as dry as rnay 
be, then apply good vinegar, rubbing it well to tile skin. 
Two application.- a day are aofik'ient. I have always found it 
a sure preventive and a certain cure. If the leg? have 
become cracked aud sore, apply tbe vinegar freely, and add 
a piece of copper**, the size of a eouunon hickory nut, to a 
quart of vinegaff. 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
A V .l|UA(l IV Hl illHl .■‘JIMP - 
Carpeting* tor dale Cheap—How- A: Rogers. 
Hlrhlnnd ' uwr es Cowles, Robert-& Co 
K'*;tester l ighf Oiniage Factor-. —-f. Hugh McDonough 
l lu-A 1 11 i'ir Vooerf——Helfroti & Rest. 
Cninheirv Plan's for Fall Planting—P. D. Chilson. 
Iialmn queen* for F-ile—C Win. Ross. 
A noted Farm for Fab*—8llas fatten. 
Apr.'s P-edPnf* il Blnekmar 
Oporto Gr»f/e Vines for Sale—E. Ware Sylvester. 
Uural Notes anfr Stems* 
Thk Corn Choi-.— Contrary to the general expectation, 
the corn crop has thus far progressed finely, no “untimely 
frost” hiring checked its ripening. Tbe weather of the past 
two or three weeks has been favorable to its growth and 
maturity, and the prospect Is that a fair if not good crop will 
he obtained over a large extentof country, We think a great 
portion of the crop is airrady (Sept. 17) out of danger, and 
hence rnaov who anticipated a failure are much encouraged 
by the prospect r.f es-ape and a profitable result — their suc¬ 
cess in “ making a crop " of corn this season beiug as gratify, 
ingasit was unexpected. Though the maize may not be so 
abundant and cheap in this region as to permit it use (in the 
ear) as fuel—aa is done in some parts of the West—we trust 
there will he sufficient for ordinary purposes, and congratu¬ 
late farmers thereupon. t 
American Commissioners to the World's Fair.—P resl- 
daut Lincoln has appointed tbe following Comint“Rioners to 
represent the Interest* of American exhibitors at the Exhibi¬ 
tion of the Industry of all Nation- to be held in tbe city of 
London, September, 1862:—Wm. H Seward. Secretary of 
State; Caleb B Smith. Secretary of interior; Edward Everett, 
of Massachusetts; Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonian Insti¬ 
tution; B. P Johnson, S-cretary of New York State Ag. 
Society; Robert It Minturn. of New York; J. Dawson Cole¬ 
man, of Pennsylvania; John II Klippart, of Ohio; Jas. E. 
Partridge, of Maryland; Rich. Wallach, Mayor of Washing¬ 
ton; W W Seaton, of Washington; Jos.ph C. 0. Kennedy, 
Superintendent, of the Census Bureau. 
Tbe appointment of Col. .Johnson on thin important com¬ 
mission places “the tight man in the right place,” and will 
be bailed with pleasure by his numerous friends. 
The World's Fair —It is said that the great building for 
the World's Fair next year is nearly completed, (at South 
Kensington, England.) Of the thousands of columns, 
girders, brackcta, and railings of cast iron, nearly one-fourth 
are already actually In their places. The remainder are 
being rapidly forwarded, aod all are to be delivered on the 
ground heforco the 80th of September. In all, about 4 000 
tuns of cast iron will be required. Tbe cnlumnanre to be of 
unusual eve and strength. They are to number 1.100, aud if 
laid eud to end. they would reach from South Kensington to 
the Cnstal Palace at Norwood. Early in October tbe Picture 
Gallery will be all roofed in, so that tbe walls wild have 
ample time to dry before the grand opening on the first of 
May next. Tty tbe 12tb of February, the building will be 
completed, and formally handed over to the Royal Commis¬ 
sioners. After the 30th of this month no further applica¬ 
tions for space will be received by the Comudasioners, no 
matter from what, quarter they may come. England and the 
colonies alone bate demanded more than five times the 
space of the entire building. One of the earliest applications 
for space was that of an inventor, who did not specify the 
nature of the articles he intended to exhibit, but required 
Space in every Class of the indnstiial section* to the amount 
of 72,000 square feet! One gentlemau requests room in the 
Picture Gallery for the exhibition of a poem.’ The entire 
list of applications, it is said, would make one of the most 
amusing books ever printed. The committee of admission 
and rejection will have no very enviable labors to perform. 
Fairs next W kxk.—C hanges and Postponements. —Some of 
the best Local Ag. Societies in this and other States hold 
their annoal exhibitions next week Among the County 
kalis in this 8late (from Sept. 24 to 28) are those of Livings 
ton, Wyoming Orleans, Yates, Madison, St. Lawrence, Put 
unm, Fulton Westchester, Ac,,—and Town and Union in 
Aurora, Clockv!lie, Dr/deu, Oxford. Seneca Falls, Trumans 
burg, Unaoilla, Ac. The Ontario Co. Fair has been postponed 
one week, and will take place Oct. 2d, 3d, and 4th The 
Monroe and Chemung Co. Societies have resolved not to hold 
any exhibitions this year. 
The Micdtoan State Fair, — A circular from Mr. Secretary 
Johnstons states that the preparations for this Exhibition 
(which takes place at Detroit, Sept. 24—27,) are on a scale 
which will render it equal in every department to any Fair 
that has ever bor n held in the State, From the applications, 
for entries already made, the officers have reason to believe 
the show of articles and stock for competition will be larger 
than it was last year. There is also promise of a very large 
a'tendance, and we are assured that “every effort is being 
made to render this annual festival and gathering of the 
agricultural Interests such au occasion as will be worthy of 
the Peninsular Stale.” Competition is open to other Slates. 
Senator Johnson, of Tennessee, is to deliver the address. 
We trust our Michigan friends will have a moat creditable 
and successful Exhibition, aud shall endeavor to be present 
at least one day iu order to note the progress they are making. 
Tuk Provincial Fxhirition, — Great preparations are 
being made for the sixteenth annual Provincial Agricultural 
Exhibition of Upper Canada, which is to be held at London 
next week—from the 24lh to the 27th inat. Documents 
received from the officers of the Association indicate that 
the arrangements are on an extensive scale, aud that proper 
efforts are making to secure the attendance and competition 
of a large number of tbe best agriculturists and stock-breeders 
of the Province. The Exhibition ought to prove a snccess, 
aud we trust it will. Our Cauadlau neighbors have made 
astonishing progresn aiuce the organization and Urst Show of 
tbe Association, in 1846, and should make a display demon¬ 
strating improvmenl in every department. We hope to see 
such an Exhibition at London as will cast former ones, how¬ 
ever creditable, in the shade. 
Tin; Illinois Statk Fair, held at Chicago last week, did 
not open very favorably in consequence of bad weather 
Chicago papers report, however, that the weather was fine 
the middle and latter part ef the week, and the attendance 
and receipts large. The Fair was to “hold over” a part or 
all of this week we believe. An expected report from our 
Western Aid failed to reach ub in time for this paper, but will 
probably appear iu our next. 
The Potato Rot m Canada West.— We have some reports 
of tbe appearance of the potato rot in Canada West, as well 
as in this region. The Perth Courier of the 15th ult., sa.VB 
tb at “ it seems now to be beyond a doubt that tbe potato rot 
has tt'Side it* appearance, and is likely to prove very destruc¬ 
tive in till* section of Canada. We are Informed that, in 
some localities, ftrtire fields are turning black, and there are 
very few patches bill fhb'ff rndiCatioda of beiog affected. It 
is consequently impossible to tell at this stage of the disease 
what tbe extent of its ravages foVy b«, but it is Confidently 
stated that at least one-third of the Resent year's crop uiil 
be destroyed. The season has been very <f«t, scarcely a day 
passing without rain, more or less, and the wet, Co Id weather 
may have had something to do with producing the re-spP*» r - 
auce of the potato blight.” 
Croi'8 at thk South in Danger.—a dispatch fro a Louis¬ 
ville, Ky 16th in*t , says that serious fears aie entertained 
Tot the crops of the South, Tbe rains of August are reported 
ibe heaviest aod most geoeial ever known, and tery disas¬ 
trous. The Savannah Jtepubhcan claims fair r ce crops, but 
admits that continuous rains have damaged it somewhat. 
The Baton Rouge Advocate sayt that the cotton crops of that 
vicinity are literally covered with the army worm, and that 
the fate of tbe crop will be sealed iu a few days, for the rains 
and heavy atmosphere are favorable to tbe w orkers. 
Correction. —The article published in our last number, 
entitled “ Discipline 9s. Strength.” should have been credited 
to the Boston Cultivator Though we did not copy direct Trod 
the B C., (hut from an exebauge where the item was un 
credited,) we make the correction on intimation frosi, and 
for the benefit of, our esteemed contemporary. 
