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MILKING HOUSE. 
A cokrf.spondknt wants to know how to make a 
good milking bouse. I have seen Home very good 
ones, hot if I were to make one, it would be some¬ 
thing after this fashion. In width, 24 feet in the 
clear. The length governed by the number of cows 
to be accomodated — allowing .'i feet C inches, from 
center to center, for each cow. The posts of light 
timber, say 3 by 8, and 12 feet, and 8 feet between 
joists, leaving the chamber about 4 feet from joiate to 
plate. 1 should build a balloon frame, most decided¬ 
ly. The upper floor should be tight, as it will be 
very convenient for hay to feed the cows late in 
autumn, or late in spring before they finally go to 
grass. It is well to give them a little bay till into 
June, when brought up to be milked. Tbe floor I 
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wall, of four feet, to stanchions, which occupy about 
one foot. Two feet next the stanchions for mangers. 
Then platform for cows, four feet six inehes for com¬ 
mon sized animals. It is well, however, to have 
some few platforms at least five feet six inches, for 
very large cows. Next comes the manure gutter, 
fifteen inches wide and six inches deep. Then a 
platform, on same level with the cows, three feet; 
then the manure gutter, cow platform, stanchions, 
manger, and front alley, as on the other side, making 
the width in the clear, as before observed, 24 feet. 
Now for my reasons, for I think they are very 
good. By having the cows stand tail to the center, 
the manure is much easier disposed of, and more out 
of the way of the milkers, who have a clear space of 
three feet between the manure gutters, and can 
approach the cows from the raised platform without 
any inconvenience. Then, again, the space thus 
afforded makes it much more easy to carry out the 
milk. The space between the two rows of cows is, 
ia reality, over five feet. It should be made light 
and well ventilated. And with little trouble it cun 
he kept clean enough for the most dainty lady to 
milk in. A building upon this plan, CO feet long, 
will accommodale about cows, and it can be made 
to hold 40 very comfortably. 
There is no building that affords the dairyman so 
much comfort In the managing of his cows in the 
milking season as a conveniently located and arranged 
Milking Stable. The cows are more quiet, ami in 
rainy and had weather it is so much more pleasant 
milking in n good, dry, clean house, than out in the 
wet, and mud, and manure, so commonly the prac¬ 
tice now all over tbe dairy region. It is not for the 
want of means generally, for, as a body, no class of 
men can command all needed capital so readily as 
the dairymen of this Btate. 
Somebody may desire a better Milking House than 
mine. Let us have it.—r. 
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SHAW POTATO—A SPORT. 
Ens. Rural New-Yorker:— Perhaps the following 
may possess sufficient interest for your columns. 1 
had for many years raised largely of a variety of po¬ 
tatoes known as the Early Shaw, an English sort, 
with a pale yellow skin and flesh, of good size, which 
gave a fair crop and valuable for the market, early in 
season, or as preparation for wheat. 
The season of 1850 I raised five hundred bushels, 
and while digging them, I found one potato marked 
on one side with pink eyes. I saved it, planted it 
the next season, and morn than one half of the pro¬ 
duce wero marked with the pink eyea, the others like 
the Shaw, without markings. Selected and planted 
again, and was pleased to find that this crop was all, 
or nearly all well marked, many were also blotched 
with red on the seed end. Have planted annually 
from one to three acres, and they still breed true to 
the original sport — in all their characteristics, save 
the markings, are the same as the original Early 
Shaw. p. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y., Nov., 1861. 
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Seventy Swarms of Bees at War. 
Ezra Pitple, a well known citizen of this town, 
and for many years engaged extensively in the man¬ 
agement of bees, communicates to us the following 
interesting particulars of a battle among his bees — 
He bail seventy swarms of bees, about equally divided 
on the east and west sides of his house. On Sunday 
afternoon, about three o’clock, the weather being 
warm and the windows open, his boose was suddenly 
filled with bees, which forced the family to flee at 
once to the neighbors. Mr, D., after getting well 
protected against his assailants, proceeded to take a 
survey, and, if possible, learn the cause which had 
disturbed them. 
The seventy swarms appeared to be out, and those 
on one side of the house were arrayed in battle 
against tliose on the other side; aud such a battle 
was perhaps never before witnessed. They filled the 
air, covering a space of more than one acre of ground, 
aud fought desperately for more than three hours— 
not tor “ spoils,but for conquest; and while at war, 
no living thing could exist in the vicinity. They 
stung a large lluek of fihanghai chickens, nearly all 
of which died, and persons passing along the road¬ 
side were obliged to make haste to avoid their stings. 
A little after six o'clock quiet was restored, and ihe 
living bees returned to their hives, leaving the slain 
almost literally covering the ground, since which but 
few have appeared around the hives, and those appa¬ 
rently stationed as sentiuels to watch the enemy. 
But two young swarms were entirely destroyed, and 
aside from the terrible slaughter of bees no injury 
was done. Neither party was victorious, and they 
only ceased en the approach of night, aud from utter 
prostration. The occasion of this strange warring 
among the bees is not easily accounted for; and 
those most conversant with their management never 
before witnessed or hoard of such a spectacle as here 
narrated.— ConncautfOhio) Reporter. 
A “No-Patent” Bee-Hive. 
Eds. Rcrai. New-Yorker:— Having seen models 
of different Bee-Hives in your valuable paper, I will 
introduce one for the benefit of bee-keepers, which is 
superior to any other in use. It is made of birch 
hark, and costs about five cents. My experience with 
this hive is five years. The comb remains white; it 
has grown no darker for the last three years; the bees 
winter on less honey, swarm earlier, and have one- 
third more frax. As the hive can be made t” hold 
water, there is no hiding-place for the miller, 
although 1 have no millers about my apiary, as I keep 
tame minks, which exterminate them. I have kept 
from twenty to one hundred swarms for the last 
thirty years, and consider the birch hive, and the 
minks to catch the millers, the two most important 
discoveries to bee keepers that I have made in that 
time. Abram Mudgktt. 
Great Valley, N. Y.,1861. 
Removing (|nccn Cells. 
Royal cells containing queens nearly ready to 
emerge, must be haudled with great caro when 
removed from the comb to wbichetbey are attached, 
and inserted in another. The embryo is then still 
soft, and delicate, will he injured or crippled if the 
cell be shaken or accidentally let fall, and defective 
wings or other malformation may be the risuit. 
When inserting a royal cell, we must be careful also 
to place it so that tbe bees cannot readily have access 
to its base, from tbe rear or the opposite side of the 
comb, or they will be apt to open it there and 
destroy the embryo. To such case, a circular open¬ 
ing is made, and the apex and sides of the cell 
remain closed; and on a cursory examination, the 
observer would suppose that the queen had not yet 
emerged, though long since destroyed. 
Tracking Wild Been. 
Eds Rural New-Yorker: — I wish to inquire through 
the Rural if there is any certain way of tracking wild bees 
so as to obtain their honey. Perhaps sonic old Michigan Jke 
Hunter can answer. There are plenty of wild bees in the 
forests here, but how to follow them home is the question 
Give ns the modus operandt In detail, and much oblige — 
A StiRSCinuKK, /M i ViU, Iowa , Sept., 1861. 
gural spirit at tto 
Straw lor Fodder. 
A writer in the Journal of ihe Royal Agricultu¬ 
ral Society says:—‘‘It is an interesting fact that, 
well fed cattle in open yards will eat more straw 
during the winter months, than other cattle kept 
under the warm shelter of a roof. This fact indicates 
the value of strain as food for maintaining warmth. 
Straw Is not sufficiently digestible and nutritious to 
be a desirable addition to the food of young animals. 
It is recommended, that when cut straw is to be used 
for feeding cattle, it should be cut the previous 
season and packed away, with one bushel of salt to 
one tun of chaff, the heap to be well tramped; fer¬ 
mentation will then he induced. None hut those 
who have tried this plan of old chaff can believe tbe 
advantage in value of old chaff for feeding cattle.” 
Burning Potato Vinca. , 
According to the Massachusetts Ploughman 
potato vines should be thrown into heaps and burned, 
for the moft plausible theory in regard to the potato 
rot is, that it is caused by a very minute insect, nol 
visible to the naked eye. By burning the vines, 
therefore, we may catch millions of them and send 
them whore they came from—for the vines are of bul 
very little value as manure, and their ashes are better 
than their stems buried in the soil. A very feason- 
ablc supposition in regard to tbe rot is, that it is 
caused by a poisonous little insect, too minute to be 
readily discerned; yet numerous enough to cause 
destruction to that root which ia almost the Bole 
food of millions of our race. If, as we conjecture, a 
small poisonous insect is the cause, we can out-flank 
and subdue him by fire and water. Let the vines 
have the fire; and let the tubers, at the time of plant¬ 
ing, bo dipped into potash water, to kill the little 
nits that adhere to them. 
Working Cows. 
We find a communication in the Ohio Cultivator 
as to the mistaken exemption of cows from labor, 
from which the following extract is taken: 
“ I do not think cows are much better than women, 
or than mares; and so I nm of the opinion they might 
work as well as the female man and the female horse. 
In Germany they have to do it, and the owner is 
greatly the gainer, while the cow is none the worse 
off for having to woik. Many a small farmer could 
make money did he work his cows, while, when lie 
does Lis work with oxen or horses, he expends all 
his profits upon those animals and their feed, which 
keeps him poor. Let him have four cows, and to 
plow, use two half of the forenoon, and then change; 
and so in the afternoon, milking thc-ni three times a 
day. In resting time they could be grazing or eating 
mown grass. A little grain must be fed, but this 
would repay in the greater abundance of milk and 
butter. How proud I should feel, were a I farmer, to 
drive my team of four fat cows to market with a 
load of grain, produced with the aid of cow labor. 
My neighbors might laugh at me while using my 
cows upon the farm; but when 1 should have realized 
the fruits of their labor, and tbe saving of oxen and 
horse flesh, my turn would come to laugh.” 
Carrots for Horses Better than Medicine. 
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman re¬ 
lates his experience thus: 
“ I have never fed carrots to a one year colt, but 
have fed carrots to colts and horses from two to 
twenty years old, and have always found them of ines¬ 
timable value when given with other food. I have 
never given hut one kind of food to ahorse for more 
than one or two weeks in succession; and us far as 
my experience goes, I think it impossible to keep a 
horse in good condition without changing his food 
from time to time, and keeping his bowels free by 
carrots or brau mashes. 
The chief value of carrots seems to me to be their 
slightly laxative properl ies and their magical effect on 
the skin and hair, together with their fattening prop¬ 
erties ; moreover their judicions use oftentimes 
prevents the applications of those terrible concoc¬ 
tions called ‘ horse medicine,’ which the ignorant 
owner of a horse is often prevailed upon to give for 
the slightest disease. 
Anting about ‘horse medicine,' reminds me of a 
dose which I heard a man say he gave to a horse for 
colic. The internal dose consisted of one pint of 
whisky, one jiaper chewing tobacco, and a handful of 
black pepper, and a gill of lamp oil. Strange to say, 
the horse recovered, but as the owner remarked, 
seemed ‘rather shaky’for a few days. And now if 
any of the readers of your admirable paper have a 
horse attacked with a colic, let them give him a 
quart of warm flax seed tea, with one or two table¬ 
spoonfuls of caraway seeds in it, aud see if the 
remedy has not a good effect; but let them not forget 
to warm the extremeties by hand and flannel rub¬ 
bing, endeavoring to remove that deadly chill which 
so often accompanies those attacks. If they have to 
employ a veterinary sorgeon, let them stand over him 
with Dr. Dadd in one hand and Youatt in the other, 
unless they feel sure that the title of veterinary sur¬ 
geon was honestiy gotten, not picked up. 
But I am forgetting all about carrots. In keeping 
horsea in that whole condition so necessary for work 
either upon the road or farm, carrots are with me 
indispensable, and I would as soon think of keeping 
horses all winter without carrots or bran, as I would 
of keeping them on eit er hay or grain alone. In 
summer, a little grass now and then can take their 
place. It is my aim to bring horses out in the spring 
in good condition, not needing (if they ever do) 
bleeding, or a dose of physic. With this end in view, 
I have always fed from two to six quarts of washed 
and sliced carrots at noon, and in nine cases out of 
ten have accomplished my end.” 
Churning in Winter. 
In reply to the qnery, “Where is the farmer’s 
wife who has not been troubled more or levs with 
churning in winter,” the Prairie Farmer remarks:— 
Cows fed on straw cannot be expected to have much 
butter in their milk; the poor things need tho whole 
of It to supply animal heat. It is well known that 
butter is held in the form of oily globules, encased in 
a film of casein (curd,) and that agitation hursts these 
films, when the oil or butter, being specifically lighter 
than the milk, rises to the surface and concentrates. 
This effect is always acComranied by the formation 
oflaoticacid from the sugar of milk. Butbelowatem 
perature of 50°, this formation of lactic acid does 
not take place, and consequently the butter will not 
come. To make butter come, then, we would advise 
better food for the cow. In addition to straw or hay, 
give some shorts, a few mangel wurzel or beets, and, 
what is best of all, a little oil cake. Then your milk 
will churn butter, and to get it out will not be difli- 
cult Place tho milk where it will not freeze, and 
the cream in a temperature of GO", and keep it till it 
gets sour, which will not be long if the temperature 
is uniform. Avoid heating it in the day and freezing 
it at night; such a course will turn the cream bitter 
instead of sour. In churning, the temperature should 
tie (in wiuter) as high as GO* when the cream is placed 
in the churn, and about 70“ when the butter conies. 
A good “ thermometer churn ” is of great advantage 
in winter as well as summer, because of tbe admira¬ 
ble means it affords of placing warm water outside 
the churn. 
How to Millie Dairy Farming Pay. 
From an article on this subject in the American 
Stock Journal, wc select the following paragraphs: 
For the last dozen years there lias been, perhaps, 
no branch of industry that has uniformly yielded to 
the husbandman better or surer profits than a judi¬ 
ciously managed dairy. Nothing produced upon the 
farruB of this country meets with a more ready sale 
than milk, butter, and cheese, especially when pure, 
of good quality, and well put up. Calves and pork, 
incidental to a well conducted dairy, also sell readily 
for cash and remunerative prices. 
To make the most that can he made out of a dairy, 
great care, coupled with a good degree of knowledge 
and skill, is required. Cows should he kept in per¬ 
fectly healthy condition, and fed upon the kind of 
food adapted to tbe production of the largest quanti¬ 
ties of milk or butter. Another important thing is, 
that cows should have good dry yards, with com¬ 
fortable sheds in summer, and warm, well ventilated 
sheds in winter, au*i alleys plenty of the purest water. 
When all of these c/Wiltons are complied with, 
dairy farming cannot but be remunerative. 
Then, again, when lnitter and cheese is made for 
the market, it must be well and neatly put up, in 
order to command the highest price. It costs no 
more to make a hundred pounds of butter of the 
finest quality than it does to produce a very inferior 
article, while there ia from fifty to a hundred per cent, 
difference in their value when brought to market. 
The best article always meets with a ready sale, aud 
reflects credit upon the maker and vender, while the 
other is a drug at any price, and may well occasion 
a blush of shame upon the face of him who makes or 
sells it ^_ 
fmjuidfjs ana 
Glass Eyes for Houses —As everybody, rind the rest of 
mankind, apply to the favorite of everybody, the Rural, 
when in Impuljle, I wish to follow their example, ami. with 
your perni®-inri. suit for light upon a dark subject. I have a 
Valuable blooded colt, a few months old, which recently met 
with a serious misfortune, viz., the loss of otm eye by the 
kick of a horse. It has nearly all run out. Now I wish to 
know if a class eye cau be procured. If so, at what cost, and 
where? Will some one please answer, aud oblige — W. R-, 
7/o ward, At Y . 1861. 
A Dairyman in Trouble-— as the Rural has kindly 
opened its columns to a great many questions of your sub 
Scribors about farming ami dairy matters, I would thank you, 
or some or your readers, for an answer to one, viz • What can 
be done to make short churnings? Oar churnings sometimes 
take four or five hours to get the butter, anil then It Is soft 
aud pale. Oar fixtures, cows, nod pastures, are the same as 
two years ago, when »<• could rhino in thirty or forty min 
ntes'and get good, hard butter. But now we churn, churn, 
churii, and get little and poor. Somoofour neighbors have 
the same trouble. If you will please to tell ns a remedy, we 
sluiil regard it as a great favor.—E. V., Bell, VaUey , Pa. % 
Rural Kotca artir Stems. 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Founder — Can you give any advice about founder in the 
foot? I have a horse that has this complaint The hoof is 
contracted, and is feverish and sore, if he stands long on a 
hard floor. Seeing a good many recipes in your paper, I 
would be greatly obliged if you, or any of your readers, could 
give a cure for founder, and insert it in your newspaper,—A 
Constant Rkadkr, Birmingham, Oak. Co.. Mich., 1861. 
In our issue of Sept. 14th, “Constant Reader” will find 
two inodes of treatment. 
The WniTR Chester Hoc,—W ill some one give me the 
origin of this breed of swiuef—H. E. S., Ontario Co., N. F., 
1861. 
It is stated that the captain of a vessel plying between 
Liverpool and Wilmington, a number of years ago, pro¬ 
cured in Bedfordshire, England, a couple of hogs, and 
brought them to this country. For some time they were 
known a» the Bedford breed, then as the County Chester Hogs, 
hut are oow called White Chester. 'Will not some of our 
Pennsylvania friends enlighten? 
That Lame Horse.— E. P. C.’b horse (of Medina Center, 
Mich.,) is undoubtedly-lame from a sprain in the back. I 
had one precisely like him. There is not much encourage¬ 
ment for a cure. Stimulating applications to the back 
(changing occasionally) may possibly relieve. I let a horse 
jockey have mine, who pronounced him the best horse to 
trade on he ever bad. Rest, of course, is desirable in 
attempting a cure.— P., Wright's Corners, TV. Y. 
Horses Over-Rkachixo — Noticing in a late Rural a call 
for a remedy for horses over-reaching, I send you my method 
Slake the heel corks of the forward shoes high and the toe- 
corks very low. and of the hind shoes the heel-corks low and the 
toe-corks high. You will observe that the horse will raise his 
forward foot before the hind foot reaches it — Blacksmith, 
Moreland, Penn., 1861. 
Killing Canada Thistles.— Having seen several methods 
in your paper for destroying the Canada thistle, I will also 
add my mite. Cut the thistles in the summer at anytime 
when the stem is hollow, fill with turpentine, and the remedy 
will be complete.— Geo. W. Shaver, .-Inn Arbor , Muh. 
Sprouted Wheat.—T ell D. W. Harrison that good, sound 
wheat can be sprouted seven times. I know that grown 
wheat will grow in the field, provided it has not become 
heated, and ia sown and covered in good weather, and the 
ground is in a good state.—K. R-, Metomm, Wit. 
IMPORTANT AND TIMELY ANNOUNCEMENT. 
Interesting to all Rural Readers, — Since issuing our 
Prospectus for 1862, an arrangement has been made by which 
Chas D Bragdox, Esq . of Illinois, will continue as Western 
Corresponding Editor of the Rural New-Yorkkjl This 
announcement must prove gratifying to all our readers, and 
especially the large number in tbe West, including a host of 
warm hearted personal friends and admirers of Mr. Bkagiion 
— those who know him hi be a true friend and sincere advo¬ 
cate of their best interests. As Editor of the Prairie Farmer 
tor several year*, Mr B made, his mark, winning golden 
opinions from the fripnda of Rural Progress an-l Improve¬ 
ment throughout the great Northwest. And his contribu¬ 
tions to the pages of the Rural during the past few months 
have increased his reputation — for we are confident they 
have been read with iuterext and profit by tens of thousands 
over the Free and Border States, and Canada*, while some of 
them have been extensively copied and commended by the 
press. Hence we believe his re-enagementwill prove gratify¬ 
ing to onr renders in all localities. While Western men roust 
be pleased to have their interest* so wei! represented—by one 
living In their midst and familiar with the practices and 
wants of the people and country — our friends in other 
sections, New England not excepted, will find much Interest¬ 
ing and valuable information in Mr. B.’s “ Western Editorial 
NottR.” With Mr. B. ns Western Aid, and the eonlinned 
services of our experienced Office Associates—Messrs. W, T. 
Kennedy and Jas Vick— and the kind assistance of a large 
and able corps of Contributors and Correspondents, we con¬ 
fidently hope to render the Thirteenth Volnme of this 
Journal worthy of cordial and increased support in all 
sections of the country. 
— We are specially indebted to various friends of the 
Western Press for kiodly noticing Mr. Bragdon’s first 
engagement with tbe Rural Nkw-Yorkkr, (id July last,) 
and if they and others will mention the present one, our 
obligations will the: thy be augmented, and tho courtesy and 
favor most gratefully appreciated. 
The Rural's Prospects were never so encouraging as 
now, as we trust its friends will be glad to learn. Two 
months ago we feared the war and times would affect tbe 
ciiculation of the paper injuriously. Since then the skies 
have brightened wonderfully, and we now anticipate a large 
increase during the Winter Campaign. Our letters from 
Agents nnd Subscribers are of the most encouraging charac¬ 
ter. From the East, West, North, and as far South as the 
mail* extend, we are daily receiving most gratifying evidences 
that tho Rural Is more highly approved than ever before, 
and that its Thirteenth Volume will have a far larger circula¬ 
tion than the present, 
The friend* of the paper seem to be in earnest, and if all 
who can consistently will now kindly lend their influence to 
extend Its benefits, Its circulation and usefulness may be 
largely augmented wlthlu three months. Timely action will 
do this. A letter just received, from an agent friend in Mich¬ 
igan, (requesting Show-Bill, Inducements, Ac.) well says:— 
“ I wii-li to be up mid doing before elutes start for other papers. 
The Rural must not lug this year. Though the times may 
be hard sod the taxes high, the agriculturist must read." 
Aud a subscriber in Wisconsin writes:—“I receive the only 
copy of your valuable paper in this town, hut I do not intend 
that, it shall he after the 1st of Jan. next. I have obtained 
several new subscribers here for the next volume, and am 
hound to fill out. a club of twenty if possible. If your large 
Show Bill is not too expensive, please send one." It is not too 
expensive to semi free aud post paid to any and ail who are 
disposed to aid the Rural, and we care not how many friends 
“speak all at once” for it and other documents — induce¬ 
ments, specimens, etc But these are not essential in obtaiu 
log subscribers, for any one wbo takes or has a number of the 
paper, can easily enlist new recruits among his neighbors and 
acquaintances. How many friendly readers will become Kk 
ORUitjng Officers for the Rural Brigade, and thug aid 
in rendering its Winter Campaign successful and victorious? 
Corn and not Cotton is King.— King Cotton is dethroned 
and Corn is being coronated. For, the rebels having given 
up the idea of an easy victory, and finding that England and 
France will not break tbe blockade for them, tbclr pnpers 
and cabinet officers are urging tho planters to give up cotton 
aud turn their attention to corn and breadstuff*. The Mem¬ 
phis Appeal, New Orleans Della , and other Southern jour- 
nals, in doleful articles, urge this course. We suspect that 
“Sciiessla ” has caught a Tartar—that w hile the C. S. A. are 
blockaded and (SglitiDg, “all the world and the rest of man¬ 
kind” will manage to produce sufficient cotton or its substi¬ 
tutes to not only exist temporarily, but perhaps permanently 
dethrone that proud monarch. Meantime corn aud bread- 
stuffs must be had by southrons, and in that view the advice 
of its papers aud ogicials may be wholesome. Its profit or 
practicability to planters, however, is another affair. On this 
point a Providence paper well remarks:— “ The planters com¬ 
plain that they cannot sell their cotton, aud apply to tbo 
confederate government for aid. Mr. Memmingbr coolly tells 
them to plant corn. Think of a sea island planter, whose 
precious soil has yielded a crop worth a dollar a pound, 
being told to plant corn. It is as though a lace maker should 
be told to make brown sheetings ” 
Old Nob is Bead,— “ Uncle Moses 1 Old Nob is dead.” 
Sorrowfully were these words spoken to my companion, as 
wo entered tbe hospitable mansion of I Vincent, Esq., of 
Pike, Wyoming Co., — the “old homestead” of the late 
Judge Dolb. And who is “ Old Nob?” Forty years ago he 
was n sprightly colt, and died in that same meadow, the 
scene of his merry gambols, forty years previous. “ Old 
Nub/’ lived to see many changes in his old home and neigh 
borhood, The Judge, his old master and friend, and other 
cherished members of tbe family, have long reposed in 
yonder burial ground. The distant village of Pike can now 
be seen from his native pasture. Forty years ago no spires 
were Feen, as uow, rising from churches and seminary, the 
tpindlu did not hum iu yonder factory. A dense forest then 
intercepted the view from the old homestead, and marred 
one of the finest landscapes in Western New York. “Old 
Nob” has seen the bear and wolf prowling around those 
woodlands that have disappeared, aud given place to tine 
fields and gardens. “Old Nob' died surrounded by friends; 
he was not turned off in old age upon a pitiless world, but 
received the kindest attention from a kind hearted family, 
who will long remember “ Old Nob."—w. N. a. 
Great Shipments of Produce from New York, —The .V. 
F. Evening Post slates that the exports of Produce from 
New York city last week amounted to nearly three and a 
half million dollars—a value twice as great as for the corres¬ 
ponding weeks of the last two years,. Among the exports 
were 84,102 barrels wheat flour; 146 barrels rye flour; 1,155 
barrels corn meal; 987,708 bushels wheat; 54,610 bushels rye; 
1,000 bushels peas; 4,730 bushels oats, 2,001) bushels barley; 
253,137 bushels corn. 
The Grain Product of Ohio is enormous. The official 
statistics of the crops during the last two years show that, in 
only 11 counties of the State the increase of wheat in 1860 
over 1859 was 10.294.612 bushels, the quantity in 1839 being 
13 315,844 bushels, and in 1860. 23.640,359 bushels. Of Indian 
corn the same counties produced, in 1859, 69 372.343 bushels, 
and ia 1860, 91.588.704 bushels, being an increase or22 216,361 
bushels. A good report for the Buckeye Slate, and indicative 
of “progress and improvement" in the right direction. 
Fowler’s Steam Plow, the winner of a first premium in 
England, has been tried recently on a farm near Philadelphia, 
thus challenging comparison with Fawkes’ American inven¬ 
tion. The inventor is said to have expended $100,000 in 
perfecting his machine. It is now being introduced in this 
country, as will be seen by reference to announcement in 
our advertising department. 
One of the editors of an Iowa paper, recently discontinued 
on account of the times, writes from St. Louis to stop the 
Rl ft At. sent in exchange, and adds:—“We heartily thank 
you for the courtesy shown us in the ‘exchange,’ and sin 
cerely hope yon may weather the storm with your journal. 
It was one of the most prized that came to our table, and 
should either of us again resume the publication of a paper, 
will make application for a renewal of acquaintance.” 
Tite. Horticulturist —Mead k Woodward. 
Nat-ml firmni—Geo. W. Elliott. 
The New York Ut.M-rver—8bir»t‘V K Morse, Jr. At Co. 
:>hoo! Vi-ito-—Danghonay k Hammond. 
Fairfield Semir>Hr»-Kev. A G. Cochran. 
\t anil- i - A man In lake charge of a Grain and Stock Farm. 
To Farmers and others - James Shaw. 
Old Ridge Nursery- IsrwiaJ. Biding*. 
New Grape North America — O, T Hobbs. 
Hawthorn SeOil — W M. Beauchamp. 
Fowler's PatentSteain Plowing Machinery—R. W. Eddison. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
National Hymns, Ac~—George W. Elliott 
$l)e Keros tfUnbertser. 
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— They had three inches of snow up in Warren, I’a., last 
week. 
— Seventeen years ago the Gospel was introdnoed into 
China. 
— Iowa has furnished 22,000 men to the armies of the 
Union. 
— The California Pony Express ceased running on the 27th 
of October. 
— About 30,000 persons are employed at the Court at SL 
Petersburg. 
— Diamonds, to the value of $3,250,000, are annually sent 
from Bahia. 
— It is proposed to erect a monument to Lord Byron at 
Missolonghi. 
— A submarine telegraph from Alexandria to Malta, 1,300 
miles, is a success. 
— Secretary Cameron has declared Boidiers shall not be 
used as slave catchers. 
— Forty-one millions of seven-thirty Treasury notes have 
been sent to subscribers, 
— Mr. Rarey, the horse-tamer, is in Lyons, France, explain¬ 
ing tbe mysteries of his art. 
— The boring of the Alps by atmospheric pressure is said 
to be more and moTe successful. 
— Queen Victoria now reigns over 176.000.000 people. Of 
this number, British India has 135,000,000. 
— RodDta Nutt (3 feet 0 inches high—brother to Gen. N.,) 
ha* married Miss Sarah Belton—height 2 feet 11! 
— The Douglas monument nt Chicago is to cost from one 
hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 
— The acting Governor and Commander-in-Ohief of Min¬ 
nesota is as Irish-American— Lieut Gov. Donnelly. 
— Only one box of candles in Galveston, Texas, and the 
gas works stopped for want of coal, i* tbe last report. 
— A small paddle steamboat has heen constructed for Dr. 
Livingstone, which draw* only a few inches of water. 
— Tbe Union majority in Maryland will aggregate 30,000. 
The vote was quite as large—some say larger—than usual. 
— A Sanitary Association has been organized in Philadel¬ 
phia. It will co-operate with the Commission at Washington. 
— There were 1,245,577 bushels of grain and 64,362 barrels 
of flour exported from New York to Europe during the past 
week. 
— It is reported, by way of California, that Mr. Harris, our 
Minister in Japan, ia on his way home, having resigned his 
office. * 
— It is supposed that within thirty years that 100,000 
Karens have been brought to the light and liberty of the 
troth. 
— Col. Mulligan is recruiting a new regiment in Illinois 
and Michigan. It is probable that he will he made a Brigadier 
General. 
— A spirited Union mass meeting was held in Baltimore 
on Monday evening week. The secessionists stood dumb¬ 
founded. 
— A letter from General Viele states that several of the 
rifled cannon taken at Port Royal, were lately imported from 
England. 
— A second crop of tobacco is growing at Enfield, Ct., a 
crop that has shot up from the old stales, cut more than a 
month ago. 
— Gen. Mitchell has tendered hia resignation, but the 
President is unwilling to accept it, and it will probably be 
withdrawn. 
— It is figured up that at least 8,000 persons are engaged in 
Hartford, Ct,, at present, on work for the United States 
Government. 
— A lady named Palmer, wife of a Lieutenant in one of 
the Missouri regiments, died at St. Louis, a few days since, of 
hydrophobia. 
— Six men were badly injured by an explosion at tbe 
Watervliet Arsenal, last week. It is thought that most of 
them will die. 
— A Herald correspondent writing from Old Point says 
that a movement of some sort is to be made by Gen. Wool’s 
command soon. 
— The shipments of wheat from Milwaukee for twenty-four 
hours, the other day, reached the enormous aggregate of 
200,000 bushels. 
— The second Cayuga regiment, Col. Dodge, has been 
designated as the 76th, and will leave for Washington on 
Wednesday next. 
— There are uow in China eighty Protestant missionaries, 
some fourteen hundred communicants, and three thousand 
Chinese Christians. 
— The Republican State ticket in Massachusetts is elected 
by 82 000 majority. Both branches of the Legislature are 
largely Republican. 
— Tho World’s Washington dispatches say that if the late 
Gen. Fremont desires a court martial, the Government will 
grant it immediately. 
— Thomas II. Clay, eldest son of Henry Clay, is spoken of 
s* the probable successor of the traitor Breckinridge in the 
United Stateg Senate. 
— The destruction of the cotton crop by the extraordinary 
height of the waters of the Nile, amounts to one-third of the 
whole year's produce. 
— The eight slorps of war and twenty-three gunboat*, 
ordered by the Navy Department about four months since, 
are nearly all finished. 
— Sarah 11., widow of Major Sullivan Ballou, of Rhode 
Island volunteers, mortally wounded at Bull Run, has been 
granted $35 per month. 
— Since the interruption of trade with the United States, 
the proprietors of the guaoo islands in the Pacific are send¬ 
ing cargoes to Australia. 
— New Jersey has gone Democratic. House is composed 
of 60 members, Senate 21. Senate, 11 Dem., 10 Rep.; House, 
36 Dem., 23 Rep., 1 Union. 
— Barnum offers $1,000 for the lone representative of 
Southern Chivalry found drunk at Beaufort when taken 
possession of by our troops. 
— The growth of business on the Erie canal is immense, 
lo 185!) the tolls amounted to $1,814,362; in I860 to $2,381,- 
301; and in 1S61 to $3,353,168. 
— Trade on the Connecticut river is now largely carried on 
by sailing vessels, the Government having bought or char¬ 
tered most of the steam craft. 
— John C. Tucker, who has been chosen a member of the 
Massachusetts Senate, in the city of Boston, is the first Irish¬ 
man ever elected to that body. 
— The banks of Wilmington, Del., have taken one hundred 
thousand, and tbe people one hundred and fifty thousand 
dollars, of the Government loan. 
— One of the cannon captured from the rebels at Romney, 
on the 26th ult., waa lost by our troops at Manassas, and 
bears the State arms of New York. 
— An iron steamer, built on the plan of Winan’s cigar 
boat, baa been made at Sh Petersburg by Americans, who 
intend to offer it to the U. S. Government. 
— From a statement furnished tbe Government by Gov. 
Dennison, it appears that Ohio has now enlisted, in field and 
camp, for the three-year service, 00,250 soldier*. 
— The young ladies of Glenwood seminary. West Brattle- 
boro’, Vt., have made aud sent to tbe Sanitary Committee at 
Boston 65 pairs of woolen socks for the soldiers. 
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