standard of Illinois cheese at that time, Nine 
years ago last June 1 introduced myself to the 
grocers of Rockford, by calling at their stores, 
and with all the urbanity I could command, 
asking them if they wished to purchase some 
cheese. They universally gave me the Yankee 
answer by asking if it was Illinois cheese. Being 
obliged t.o answer them lu the affirmative, they 
would turn upon their heels, saying (making the 
words correspond with the twist of their shoul¬ 
ders) that they were not dealing in that article. 
I met with like success through all the business 
streets of the city. If I bad been in the habit, of 
allowing myself to be overcome with disappoint¬ 
ment, I should have Left the city in disgust, but 
being fresh from the Yankee land, I soon in¬ 
vented a way of disposng of my cheese. 
I commenced traveling through the streets the 
second time, leaving a cheese with each of the 
principal grocers to fltll or give away as they 
might think proper. In this way I emptied my 
wagon. On my return to the city the next week 
with another load, I discovered that those left 
the week before had til disappeared, and I re¬ 
placed them with others. From that time to the 
present I have retained those customers at prices 
corresponding with Uit best quality of Eastern 
cheese. . 
While it is gratifying to know that many dairies 
have been established IS this vicinity within tiie 
last ten years, the preduets of which will do 
credit to any market, yet the demand of the 
country calls for three or four where there is 
now one. There is no branch of husbandry, all 
things considered, more remunerative than dairy¬ 
ing, in proof of wliich assertion 1 will give a 
statement of the net profits of my dairy of one 
hundred cows for the year 1S03: 
expenses : 
Pasturing 100 cows SI.00 per head. $400 00 
Wintering, IX tons nay each cow, at $5.00 per 
ten .7. 875 00 
Milking and making cheese 8 months. 620 00 
Care and feeding in winter. 75 00 
Interest on money invested in 100 cows, $25.00 
per head, at 7 per cent. 175 00 
Cloth for sacking and time in marketing 
cheese........ 50 00 
Fon the Union. —A club agent in Central New 
York, in a letter containing a good list, says some 
object to taking the Rural because “it goes so 
strong for the Union,'' but that he has obtained others 
to take their places, and don't think it is much of a 
loss. We assure our friend that we can afford all truck 
“ losses,” and that we ask no support from those who 
arc opposed to restoring and maintaining the Union. 
The Rural is for the Union, “first, last and forever.” 
While it is not partisan, it never expresses sentiments 
to please, favor or sustain traitors or rebels, North or 
South. " A vermiUion edict 1” 
convenience in those parts where help cannot 
nlways be got for love or money. And it saves 
a considerable work for the women folks, in not 
having to board the hands, &c. 
Our straw was light this year; some of it so 
short that we could not have bound it at all by 
hand. Wo nsod about one pound wire to the 
oerc, on an average, at 25 eta. per pound. In 
heavy straw It would take a little more. The 
difference in the number of acres is more than it 
need he; after a little practice with the binder 
there need be very little difference with or with¬ 
out it. And there is the satisfaction of having 
the grain bound as fast, as it is cut, 
A. Helld?. 
Pewaukee, Waukesha Co., Wie. 
State Cheese Manufacturers’ Association.— 
The Second Annual Meeting of the New York State 
Cheese Manufacturers' Association, will be held at the 
Court House, in the city of Utica, on Wednesday and 
Thursday, Jan. 11th and 12th, 1865. The Annual 
Address will be delivered on Wednesday evening. 
The meeting will be one of great public interest, and 
a large attendance is expected. The following are 
among the topics to be discussed: Improved Methods 
of Cheese Manufacture. Best Manner of Marketing 
Cheese: whether direct or through middle men. An 
Uniform Kate of Cheese Manufacture for 1865. The 
Best Manner of Organizing Factories: whether by 
private enterprise, by corporations, or otherwise. Best 
Breed of Cows for the Dairy. Summer and Winter 
Management of Mildi Cows, &c., Ac. 
CHINCH BUGS-BURNING STRAW, 
Eds. Rural New-Yoykkr:— The chinch bugs 
were more numerous the past season in this 
county than ever before. In some fields they 
appeared before the wheat was headed, and those 
fields were entirely destroyed; in other fields 
their appearance w-ae later, and finally they were 
to be found everywhere, even on the wild, unbro¬ 
ken prairie. In some cases new land broken last 
year, was nearly exempt from their ravages, and 
in other fields of like character, the wheat was 
entirely destroyed. On one of my fields of 13 
acres, two-thirds of which was plowed in the 
Fall, by going round the field, and the balance 
plowed in the Spring and all sowed the same 
day, the wheat on the Fall plowing was fit to cut 
about the time the bugs made their appearance, 
consequently was but little injured; while that 
on the Spring plowing was injured one-half, and 
was cut one week before the remainder of the 
field, it having ripened prematurely, and was in 
a fair way to fall entirely to the ground. 
I have practiced, for many years, spreading 
wheat straw evenly over the grouud at thrashing 
time, and afterwards bnrning it, t hereby destroy¬ 
ing all the weeds and I think many insects. I 
have always noticed that land thus treated invari¬ 
ably produces nice, plump wheat and bright, 
glossy straw, which is sure to stand well. For 
those farmers that have not sufficient stock to 
consume all their straw, I consider it the most 
economical way to dispose of it. If labor was 
cheaper it perhaps might he better to bury it in 
the furrow at plowing, but that would involve 
the labor of one or more extra hands, and I doubt 
if the increased benefit would equal the increased 
expense. 
The little experience I have had with the chinch 
bug would indicate that the beet course to pursue 
to prevent its ravages, is to burn and clear off all 
grass and litter in the Fall as soon as practicable, 
to spread all straw not wanted for fodder on 
stubble ground and bum it. Plow early, as soon 
after harvest as possible. Sow early, as soon 
as the frost is out., and harvest as soon as the 
straw begins to turn yellow. Those farmers that 
pursue this course usually suffer but little from 
their ravages. S. W. Arnold. 
Curniuiid, l>eKallj Cu., 111. 
H. W. HAMMOND’S INFANTADO STOCK RAM KEAR-SAR-GE, 
Portraits—Pedigrees.— Onr correspondent from 
Genesee Co.. >' Y., whoso name and post-office address 
we will oiuit, is informed that a decently truthful por¬ 
trait of an animal cannot possibly be made out from » 
mere verbs! description of that animal. It would be 
easier to choose a wife to your likiug, buy a horse 
without getting cheated, or get a good fitting coat 
from your tailor, without eeeiug the lady or hor^e, or 
having your tailor see. you I 
The pedigree inclosed by same correspondent of a 
ram lamb is a good one, and wc will with pleasure 
publish it if sent to us with a portrait, with the weight 
of fleece next spring, or in connection with any other 
circumstance, now or hereafter, which can be supposed 
to render it a matter of some interest to the public. 
A pedigree without any of these concomitants, inter¬ 
ests nobody but the owner of the animal. 
choice of the ewes older than lambs, and he 
chose the dam of Kearsarge. Hence her namo. 
Kearsargc’s first fleece weighed between 16 and 
17 pounds. He is remarkably short in the leg, 
compact and well built. Fabulous prices have 
been offered for him. 
Wisconsin Sorgo Convention.— The annnal meet¬ 
ing of the Wisconsin Sugar Cane Growers will be held 
in Madison, commencing on Tuesday, Feb. 7th. Those 
who have samples of sirup, sugar and seed, are re¬ 
quested to Like them. It is desirable, as tar as prac¬ 
ticable, to exhibit seed in the head. There will be 
committees to examine and report upon all samples. 
H is earnestly rcqneaUd that there be a large at¬ 
tendance of those interested in the success of the cane 
interest in the North-West. Go prepared with such 
statistics as will enable the convention to place before 
the public the amount, cost and value of the Sorghum 
Crop for 1864. _^_ 
BOOKS for a Young Farmer to Read.— B. Briggs: 
Read Wabinq’s Elements of Agriculture; Emerson 
and Flint’s Manual of Agriculture; Thompson’* Food 
for Animals ; Stockhaudt’b Chemical Field Lectures; 
French's Farm Drainage. Then there are other 
works on specific branches of husbandry that might be 
named, but it Is better to comprehend one work well 
than ckuu through a dozen. Yon cannot fail to be 
profiled by reading any of the works above named. 
CONDENSED CORRESPONDENCE, ITEMS, &c, 
Australian Ram Salk—The Negretti Cabana.— 
We have already alluded to the sale of imported 
Merino sheep at Melbourne, Australia, in August last, 
and to the fact that Messrs .T. H. Clough & Co., who 
sold them for their owners, had forwarded u* a priced 
catalogue of the sale. In looking over this to ascer¬ 
tain what were the varieties offered for Bale, weobserve 
the following facts. There were seven lots, including 
100 head of “ thorough-bred' - or “ pure bred Negretti 
rams two lots, including 13 head of ewes of same 
variety; one lor. of 23 rams, caLled “Saxon Ermrial 
Negrettithree iota, including 42 head of “ pure bred 
Merino” rains; one lot of II of “ pure bred Spanish 
Merino rams” from America; ana one lot of 1-8 “ Sax¬ 
ony Mcriuo rams.” It would seem from the above 
that the Ncgrettis are in peculiar demand in Australia. 
There is no distinct family of them in the United 
States, though the Silesian sheep of Mr. Chamberlain 
are Negret ti-lnfantados, having sprung from four 
Negretti rams and one hundred IniAntado ewes, the 
posterity of which have been bred in-and-in ever since. 
The Mixed Leonese sheep of Mr. Jarvis contained an 
infusion of this blood. Lastetiuk said of the Ne- 
grettis that they were “ the largest and strongest of 
all the Spanish traveling sheep.” Mr. Jarvis iu a 
letter to L. D Oregobt (republished in Morrell's 
American Shplierdp. 72; thus describes them: “The 
Negretti flock were the tallest Merinos in Spain, bnt 
wore not handsomely formed, being rather flat-sided, 
roach back, and the neck inclining to sink down to the 
withers; the wool was somewhat shorter than the 
Paular and more crimped, the skin more loose and iu- 
-clincd to double, and many of them were wooled on 
their faces and legs dmvn to their hoofs All the looeo 
skinned sheep had large dew laps.' - We have always 
considered this a highly colored description of these 
sheep drawn from memory—for when Mr. Jarvis 
wrote it he bad not bred any Negretti sheep, Sepa¬ 
rately, for more than twenty years. In 1790 or 1791 
George III, King of England, says Mr. Yodatt, made 
‘“direct application to the Spauish monarch for per¬ 
mission to select, some sheep from one. of the best 
flocks. This was liberally and promptly granted; and 
a little stock was drafted of the Negretti breed, the 
most valuable of the migratory .flocks, and the exporta¬ 
tion of which was expressly prohibited by Law.” In 
the words placed in italics, wc have no doubt that Mr. 
Youatt speaks too unqualifiedly. He should bare 
tj,j(] “ eu\c of the most valuable. Bulthsyflck stated 
by him, independently of liis own opinions, most 
clearly demonstrate that the Negretti sheep had a 
vary high standing, and were esteemed second to none, 
both in Spain and England, at a time wheu the Spanish 
sheep were at the summit of their reputation, and 
when they were attracting the special attention and 
investigation of savans and agricultural improvers 
throughout Europe. . 
Improved Faut.ars.— A friendly correspondent re¬ 
cently asked us in a private letter what we mean when 
wc speak of “ Improved Paulars ?” We mean a family 
of eheep preserving the leading and essential qualities 
of the Paulars, prior to their receiving an infusion of 
the Mixed Loonese blood of Mr. Jarvis's Hock in 
about 1812, and of theln&ntado or Atwood blood iu 
1344. yet modified and improved by those crosses. The 
improved family are finer and evener fleeced, and liner 
about the head, &e. than the old stock. They also 
differ iu several minor particulars well kuowu to ex¬ 
perienced breeders of the variety. 
BURSON’S GRAIN BINDER, 
The White Grub.—I wish to inquire if any of your 
contributors have any plan whereby I can destroy the 
whlto grub worm, as I am bothered and damaged to 
sumo extent by them. They kill my clover, cat my 
wheat badly, damaged my corn full one-half. If any 
of your readers cun give me a remedy it will be of 
great worth to the farmers of this prairie.—J ohn W. 
Zioler, Polling Prairie, Jnd. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker Noticing an arti¬ 
cle in your issue of Dec. 3d, asking for further 
information in regard to cost of binding by 
machinery and binding by hand, I can give you 
pretty correct figures. I bound about fifteen 
acres of Canary seed the postseason with one of 
Bcrson’s Binders, manufactured in 1802, since 
when many improvements have been added— 
two very important ones. 1 regard the machine 
as being perfectly adapted to the work required 
of it, and know from experience that any man 
of ordinary intelligence con bind with it all the 
grain that a common five or six foot machine 
will cut, if it is delivered to the binder in as good 
order as nlno-tcnths of grain is delivered on the 
ground. The machimvs simple, strong, durable 
onff without n ninlt.ityof springs which are 
more or less liable tt^ct out of repair in any 
Salt in Winter. —In answer to Sbnex, we would 
say that the sheep of Spain did not formerly (and we 
presume the same is true now) receive salt in winter 
—nor did they during their migrations. So they re¬ 
ceived it only for about fi ve months of tlie year. During 
that period 100 lbs. of salt were allowed to 1,000 eheep. 
The Spaniards believed that salt greatly increased the 
fineness of the wco!. 
Warts ox a two-tear old Colt. Old Firkin, 
Rockford, Ill,: The warts may be taken off your colt 
by passing a. needle armed with a double thread, 
through the center of the wart, near the base, iuid the 
thread wound around the pieek of the wart ou each 
side. Or, paint the wart over with per-mauganuto of 
potash a few times and it will disappear. 
Jar in Spanish Wool.—O ur friend P. is informed 
that the best Spanish sheep at the beginning of this 
century, when the sheep of Spain were at the height 
of their excellence, did contain Jar. or short detached 
hairs, tapering to a jjoint at both ends. 
Sugar from tuk Beet,—W e have inquiries relative 
to the manufacture of sugar from the sugar beet. It is 
done by evaporation, but the knowledge wc have of 
tne process lo too ilmlicii to war nun us lu uudt-j taking 
to instruct our readers. If our correspondents have 
practical knowledge of the best process, they will 
oblige many Rural readers by giving it. 
Communications, (Etc 
Rural Notes anil (Outcries 
DAIRYING IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS, 
Department op Agriculture.— Julius Rising, 
Hampden Co., Mass.: You can obtain the seeds and 
books you refer to, by addressing Isaac Newton, 
Commi.- riouer of Agriculture, Washington, I). C.; and 
from the Commissioner you can obtain information, 
probably, concerning sued seeds as the Department 
may have for distribution. 
“ Hafpv New Year.'' and other Greetings.— To 
ail Hurallsts—Contributors. Correspondents, Agents, 
Subscribers, and even borrowers—wc arc constrained 
to extend, cordially, the “ compliments of the season.” 
Indeed, we feel happy, and wish to impart the same 
emotion lo “all the world and the rest of mankind 
for nothing less, apparently, would include those who 
are substantially and heartily seconding onr efforts to 
make the Rural what we desire—the beet, most use¬ 
ful, widely circulated and acceptable Journal of its 
Class in the World. Oar roccipts from all sections, 
near and distant, indicate that Vol. XVI will be abun¬ 
dantly sustained. Thanks to friends everywhere for 
their efforts, and kind letters and printed praises of 
The Rural. We shall strive, to appreciate their favors. 
Onr New Dress—the neatest and best the Rural ever 
donned -was obtained in anticipation of less cordial 
and wide appreciation, but being the best obtainable, 
we must make onr obeisance in It, though the audi¬ 
ence is flu larger than expected. Wc present, with 
the uew type, rom 5 new Special Contributors, Cor¬ 
respondents, &c, ; and hope during the. year to offer 
many new things worthy of attention. Indeed, Cor¬ 
respondents, Agent-Friends and Subscribers are so 
kind to us that we feel in duty bound to do our very 
best to increase the value and usefulness of the Rural, 
and to this work we dedicate ourselves anew. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Will you permit 
me, through the columns of your ably conducted 
and widely circulat ed journal, to make a few sug¬ 
gestions and statements (based upon experience 
nnd observation) upon t bis laborious but lucra¬ 
tive branch of husbandry ? As a citizen and 
fanner of the famous Prairie State, it, is with feel¬ 
ings of humiliation and regret, that I have to 
acknowledge that one-half, at least, of the cheese 
which is consumed in this part of the State is im¬ 
ported from t he. East. Therefore many thousands 
of dollars for this article is sent out of the State, 
when wc possess all the natural resources for not 
only manufacturing for home consumption, but 
might make It a much more paying business for 
export than the raising of wheat, corn, etc. 
No State possesses more fertile river bottoms, 
or any which will .yield a greater amount of grass, 
under proper management, than Northern Illi¬ 
nois. All that we need to make this branch of 
husbandry the leading and roost lucrative one in 
this Stale is an immigration of experienced I 
dairymen here from the Eastern and Middle- 
States. 
A decade of years has passed away since I, like 
thousands of others, left the rugged hills and 
bracing atmosphere of my native State, with all 
the pleasing and endearing associations of early 
life, to secure one of the fortunes in storo in the 
Great 'West, for the hand of Industry and Fru¬ 
gality. After leaving the Queen City of the 
West, and traveling up Fox river, through the 
valley of lvishwuukec, up nnd down the cele¬ 
brated Rock river, and over the Pceatonlea, in a 
soliloquy I staked, cannot a country possessing 
such beautiful rivers with their numerous t ributa¬ 
ries, and running through a section of country 
unsurpassed for fertility, form a trio with JJam 
Plan of Milk -House Wanted.—W ill some reader 
of the Rural please give directions how to build a 
milk-house large enough to hold the milk of about 
fifteen cows, and sny if he would advise having the 
ice house attached to it ? I wish to build with as much 
economy as possible. —J. Flanagan, Dunkirk, N. Y. 
Five hand binders, one day each.$12.50 
Profit. $5.00 
And the work is much better done than I ever 
saw any five men do it; no grain scattered on the 
field, and no men for the housewife to cook 
victuals for. Fifteen days’ use of the machine 
would pay for it, T regard 10 acres per day a fair 
day’s work, bnt I could bind one half more, or 
fifteen acres, if driven hard. I would say that 
the wages of hands iu harvest the postseason has 
been from $2.50 to $3.00 and board, which will 
make a larger difference in favor of the hinder. 
And the amount of wire used may be reduced 
one-third, but I am inclined to be over rather 
than under the cost of doing it with the binder. 
In conclusion, I would 6ay that T will not bind 
by hand at any price, but am willing to work the 
binder at the same wages paid for doing the work 
by hand. h. 3 . o. 
Champaign Co,, Ill., Dec., i864. 
The above comes from an entirely 
Fall plowing Sod Ground for Corn. — S, M. Bur- 
well is informed that we think the best time for plow¬ 
ing sod grouud for corn, as a rule, is just before plant¬ 
ing, after the grass has got a good start; and that we 
do not know that fall plowing will kill cut and wire 
worms. 
The “ Lute Robinson Ran.”— It was mentioned in 
the pedigree of the Tottingham ram, published in 
these columns Oct, 8, that his sire was a ram “bred 
and owned by ERABTTO Rownson” and “ his favorite 
stock-ram at the time of his death.” Mr. R. sold him 
w hen a lamb to a person residing in Ticondcroga, N. 
Y. He and hi brother Lucius subsequently repur¬ 
chased and used him. When Erastub died he became 
the property of hie heirs and of Lucius Robinson. 
Luciu 6 ihenceforth kept him until he was sold to 
Charles Lane. He. subsequently passed iuto the 
ownership of A. II. Clapp and A. H. Avkf.t, of Man 
linB, N. Y., where he died a year or two since much 
advanced iu ye^rs. He was got by the ‘ Old Robin- 
Eon Ram,” for pedigree of which see Practical Shep¬ 
herd, pp. 417, 418, dam bred by Ef.astus Robinson. 
The “ Lule Robin sou Ram" got unusually large, well 
Leached Abhes on the Ground— Wm. Hendrick.: 
Wc do not know that it improves leached ashes at all 
to lie ou the ground; on the contrary wc aro iuclinod 
to thiuk it will be more likely to improve the ground 
if they arc properly spread. 
Government Lands in Michigan.—M. C. A., Or¬ 
ange Co., N. Y., asks il Government has any good 
turning lands in Michigan ; and if so, where located, 
whether healthy or not; il not what diseases prevail. 
Will some of our Michigan friends respond? 
The Single Copt Price Popular. — When wo 
advanced the Terms of the Rural to $3 per single 
copy, and $2.50 in clubs of ten or more, we expected 
to lose subscribers -perhaps ton to twenty thousand 
or more—although the advance was notin proportion 
to that of most articles produced by Rur&fista. But 
we have been disappointed—very agreeably. While a 
very few Ignorant misers grumble at theadvnnce, the 
intelligent mass of our subscribers say it is right, and 
many aver that they would pay $5 a year niftier titan 
be without the Rural. During the past week we have 
received scores of letters containing the single copy 
price ($8) from persons who might have joined clubs, 
but preferred paying full price. Wc daily receive 
letters with $12 Tor four copies. $'J for three, and $0 for 
two—while many send $.‘> for the Rural and Practical 
Shepherd, lu not a few instances former subscribers 
have refused to join clubs, and sent tin instead the 
single copy price, lu one case (at Albion, N. Y.,) after 
our agent had sent a subscriber's name (remitting for 
him at club rate) he repudiated, insisting upon sending 
$3, which he did, stating the reason. 
Remarks. 
reliable source, and furbishes the facta and figures 
we called for. Wc are very glad to record the 
success of such an implement, as seen from the 
practical stand- point our correspondent,furnishes 
us. Wc shall hope to hear from him again on 
other farm topics. 
—Since preparing the above, our Waukesha 
Co., Whs., correspondent has sent us his figures 
as wo requested, for which we arc obliged. 
Figures always tall decisively when they arc 
accurate and complete: 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— 1 will give you, 
as nearly as possible, (he cost of binding with 
and without Burbon’S grain binder. Without 
the binder we cut, with a good team, 13 acres of 
wheat in a day, and it tikes five men to keep up 
with the reaper, bindixvr, which makes 
Seven men 1 day at $i.$14.00 
Board.. 3-50 
Team..k. 2-00 
Total. ..,.$19.60 
Or $l.G2i cents per aer4. 
With binder three ni|u will cut and tie 10 acres 
per day. 
Three men one day. 3..... $0.00 
Board. 1-00 
Team.. 2.00 
Wire.A. 2.50 
Total.I.$12.00 
Or $1.30 per acre. 
Whielr makes 43J eta. per acre difference in favor 
of the binder, besides the satisfaction of having 
your help always on hand, which is a very great 
Keeping Milk Sweet.—I s putting icc into milk the 
beat method of keeping it sweet in hot weather for 
cheese-making when set in a large vat upon a dairy 
stove? Will some of your readers please answer?— 
A Dairyman. 
The Maine Farmer—Horns. —The Maine Parmer \ 
says: “A cotemporary quotes Ranuall as saying that 
* a hornless Merino ram is about as undesirable as a 
homed South Down or Cotswold ram.’ Now, with all 
due deference to Dr. Randall, or any other staunch 
friend and advocate for horiu on rams ol' any breed, wc 
would respectfully ask— what real good or benefit are 
a huge pair of unwieldy horns on any breed of sheep 
when in a domestic condition ?” 
This is giving our language rather a stronger coloring 
than it w ill bear. We said (Nov. 19) in answer to the 
question “ whether we w ould place any lower value on 
a Merino ram because he was hornless “Were we to 
look only to practical utility wo should answer no. 
But fa.-hiou compels us to respond yes." And we 
added: “ Horns are characteristic of the Merino ram— 
a fine pair of them are considered ornamental to him 
by most Merino breeders—and they would consider him 
as defective without them, as South Down breeders 
would consider their rams with them. 
of cheese making, I answered in the affirmative, 
and ten years’ experience in the business lu this 
country, together with close observation, has 
confirmed in my mind what then to many might 
have seemed a rash conclusion. 
I again repeat that w hat we need iu tins branch 
of Husbandry is men and women of experience 
In the art of cheese making. I have been pained 
to sec, in my own county, the choose from 
dairies of thirty and forty cows sold for lews than 
the cost of manufacturing—all for want of prop¬ 
er knowledge and experience on the part of 
manufacturers. Disappointed and ducouraged 
in their uew business, vvith one year's experience 
and failure, they would again resort tc the old 
routine of raising wheat, corn, &c.,—ignoring 
the fact that all occupations require time, study 
and practice to master them, 
The embarrassments with which I met, and the 
obstacles I had to surmount in making sale of 
my first load of cheese in the city of Rockford, 
ten years ago, will illustrate very forcibly the 
Btone Pumps.— A correspondent at Amsterdam, N, 
Y., arks at what place in Ohio, and by whom, stono 
pumps are manufactured. Kobrins & Calender, 
Newton Falls, O., manufacture sueh pumps. 
Tub Improved Buckeye Reaper.— A correspondent 
at Bdgcwood, III., asks where this reaper is made and 
by whom. It was made by II. 11 . Taylor, Freeport, 
III —or he was the agent for it in that State in 1862. 
To Advertiser*. We are again compelled to defer 
a number of advertisements, for want of space. 
Friends will boar in mind that wo only devote a lim¬ 
ited spnee to advertising, and give the most appropri¬ 
ate and Important matters the preference. Our aim Is 
to do the, best wo ran for advertisers consistent with 
our obligations >0 subscribers, but very frequently of 
late wo have been obliged to defer from one to three 
columns of paying favorb. 
Recently we have been favored,with a large num 
her of inquiries asking our lowest terms of advertising. 
As wc are unable to answer by letter at this busy 
season, inquirers aro respectfully referred to the Terms 
of Advertising, published in each No. of the Rural. 
Our rates may bo advanced ere long, but will continue 
as now given until a change is announced. 
A French Paper.— K. P. Shaw, Rent Co., Mich.: 
The Ooun ier des Elate-Unis is a French paper pub¬ 
lished in New York City. We do not know the names 
of the editors. 
Ide’b Cultivator Tketll—I can furnish castings for 
“ IDE’s Wheel Cultivator" to A. G. Cooper, who makes 
inquiry in the Rural.—Isaac Ii»k, East Shelby, N. Y. 
To Cure Dogs of Sheep Killing. —A. R. P. The 
mode described by you of effecting this is ingenious, 
but we can prescribe an easier and much more certain 
ono. It is merely to cut off the dog’s UU -jasf back of 
(tie ear's. Seriously, friend A. R. P-, is it not a little 
farcical to talk about curing a sheep-killing dog by any 
other remedy than death ! 
Black Lick on Cattle.—I am anxious to know, 
through your valuable paper, what is the beat remedy 
for black lice ou caitio.—M11.0. 
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