evaporator, whether patent or home made, and good, 
seasoued furnace wood. The wood should he about 
three feet long, split finc,..and of a kind that will 
make a quick blaze. Boil ns rapidly as possible, 
having a thin surface of juice. The evaporator 
hottest part of the day. A quiet and fearless treat¬ 
ment of bees is indispensable. .Smoke is ibe most 
effective and seldom failing means of keeping them 
in due restraint. The old bee-masters always 
employed their e a then ware smoking pot, sometimes 
should bo wider than the furnace, so that a strip of increasing its effect by a small bellows attached to 
the bottom of the pan about four Inches wide will 
be exposed to the cold air. This causes the shim¬ 
mings to flow to that part of the pan, and prevents 
its again boiling back into the juice, which imparts 
much of that strong flavor usually found in sirups 
boiled in deep pans, or iron kettles. 
With a very little experience the operator will 
know from the appearance of the sirup while boil¬ 
ing when it is thick enough, without the aid of a 
thermometer. A aaccharomeler will be of great 
convenience for testing the quality of different lots 
of cane, and at different parts of the season. 
Sugar. — Not having much experience in the 
manufacture of Sorgho Sugar, I will give the 
statement made by Mr. Day, of Mansfield, Ohio, 
who oxhib ted at the Ohio Sorghum Convention a 
number of beautiful samples of sugar made by dil- 
feront persons in the Northern part of this State. 
The sirup should lie boiled to about 235" Fahren¬ 
heit, or a very little thicker than table sirup. Then, 
without letting it get cold, put it in a warm place 
until crystalized, which will often take place in 24 
hours. Alter it has formed crude sugar put it in a 
strong linen bag, and press the mass until dry. A 
cheese or similar press rnay be used for that purpose. 
Evaporators. — There are a number of patent 
evaporators that will make a good article of sirup, 
and some succeed very well in making a small 
quantity in a simple home made pan, consisting ol 
a plain sheet ol iron nailed to the bottom of wooden 
sides. I worked in that way for two or three years, 
but found that I was not realizing in quality and 
quantity of sirup for the amount of labor performed 
and fuel burned. 
In I860 I purchased one of Cook's Evaporators. 
On this one pan, with only one place for firing, 1 
averaged-six gallons an hour through the season. 
Being pleased with the working of the evaporator, 
this year i purchased an additional one, one man 
being able to work both. 
The pan has transverse channels running through 
it. The cold juice runs in at the end over the fire, 
and travels backwards and forwards over the tire, 
(always leaving the skimmings at the outer end oi 
the channels.) and coming out at the back end oi 
the pan, ready for the table, and as clear as honey. 
I prefer copper pans, as they are more durable, 
and clean much easier. Copper will not corrode in 
making sirup. 
Mills.— A wooden mill can be constructed for 
the least money; but as it will not express more 
than one-halt the juice, use economy , and procure a 
good iron mill. There is less difference in mills 
than evaporators, many ot the manufacturers using 
nearly the same patterns. It requires a severe 
pressure to press the cane dry, and the main point 
in selecting a mill is to have strength of bearings 
and shaft, with good sett screws for adjusting the 
rolls. 
Defecators.— Sirup made without any defecators 
will be the whitest, but will have an acid taste. 
Quick lime, slaked, or made into a creamy paste, is 
the best defecator. Stir a little into the cold juice 
until it will not change the color of Litmus paper. 
If you have no Litmus paper at hand, the leaf of the 
common red cabbage is just as good. 
Cost of Sirup.— From the writer’s experience of 
several years he is satisfied that if properly man¬ 
aged, the Chinese or Imphce Cane will yield on an 
average 250 gallons of merchantable sirup to the 
acre. And counting the rent ot the land at $4 per 
acre, and the necessary labor at per day, and 
giving the manufacturer one-half for making the 
other half, it will then cost the grower but 20 cents 
per gallon. 
Bagasse—T he pressed stalks we remove from the 
mill with a cart to a large pile on the outside, so 
that the stock will run over iL in the winter, and the 
winter rains soak it thoroughly. 
In the spring I plow up my potato patch, harrow 
it, and mark it out in rows 18 inches or 2 feet apart. 
I then cut up the potatoes, leaving one eye on a 
piece. These I drop one foot apart, and barely 
cover with earth. 
I then haul out’the bagasse, and cover the whole 
patch eveDly about six inches deep. They require 
no other care. In digging time remove the stalks 
from the hill, and pick up the potatoes. The cane 
stalks seem to have a different effect on the potatoes 
from straw. FQr two years I have raised potatoes 
in that way, and found my crop doubled both years 
over the old way. The potatoes were dry and 
mealy, and kept perfectly sound until new potatoes 
the next season, without any signs of deeay. The 
next spring the bagasse was entirely rotted, leaving 
the soil light and loamy. Matthew Long. 
Beech, Licking Co., Oliio, 1862. 
$1 U g* t U JC r. 
Fear of Bee Slings. 
Many persons who would like to keep bees, are 
deterred from fear of their stings, having imbibed 
the erroneous idea that the bee-keeper must Ire 
annoyed constantly by the poisonous shaft wisely 
given for the protection of this industrious insect, 
and not for the injury of its keeper. To show how 
groundless are these fears, we give ihe following 
from Mr. Bruckish : 
The objection that, on account of their tendency 
to sting, it is risky and often dangerous to keep bees, 
is without foundation. The puncture, as is well 
known, is the wound caused by the sting, and is 
accompanied by swelling. The swelling is the 
result of an acid similar to that distilled from the 
ant-hills, and contained in the vesicle at the root of 
the sting, from which it is poured into the wound. 
The bees of Germany, it is true, are often quite 
it. It was by using this implement, protecting their 
hands with gloves and, their faces with a bee-cap, 
i that bee-keepers formerly ventured to approach 
( their bees, performing all their operations under this 
s oppressive shield, though they had to perspire pro¬ 
fusely under the bee-cap, and could not sec dis¬ 
tinctly. 
The Rev. Mr. Dzierzon and his followers have 
banished the bee-cap and the glove- Instead of the 
smoking pot, they make use of a burning cigar, ora 
little lighted 6tick of decaying linden or maple wood, 
the smoke of which can easily bo blown by Ihe mouth 
to whatever spot, required; it being enough to blow 
a little smoke occasionally among the bees. Where 
no such decayed or decaying wood can be got, a 
bunch of rags is used. The glowiug end of such a 
lint-stick must be dipped in water, or buried in the 
ground after use, so as to avoid any danger of fire. 
The smoke benumbs tho bees; yet if enraged by a 
violent shock, by many being crushed, or by a hive 
being upset, the strongest smoke will avail little, 
and the bee-keeper has no alternative lmt a speedy 
retreat, to allow tlie bees to become calm and quiet. 
The Italian bee does not exhibit such violence of 
temper; she stings only when pressed or irritated 
in the highest degree. The mild character of this 
bee, not to mention its supefior industry, renders 
the introduction and extension of this race import¬ 
ant, as the fear of being slung, though often ground¬ 
less, deters many from engaging in the enterprise 
ol bee-raising. In the progress of his management, 
the bee-raiser will have acquired so much skill 
and practice that, even in an extensive apiary of 
one hundred hives, he can readily discover and 
catch every bee disposed to sting, lie distinguishes 
it. by the peculiar sound it emits when buzzing 
about him, and strikes it to the ground with the 
palm of his hand. Among hundreds of humming 
bees he will soon recognize the tones of that one, 
more or less distant, which is disposed to 6ting. 
Sometimes the pain resulting from the sting is quite 
severe, but generally produces little inconvenience, 
and gradually the human system becomes accus¬ 
tomed to the virus, and no bad results lbllow the 
infliction. On being stung, the sting should he 
immediately extracted, and the wound annointed 
with spittle, wot loam, olive oil, sal-ammoniac, 
alcohol, or vinegar, whichever is most conveniently 
at baud. The pulp ot a pear may also be pressed 
on the wound — an experiment tried by the Rev. 
Mr. Fischer, of Kaaden, Bohemia, who after being 
stung by three bees on the point of a finger, imme¬ 
diately took a pear from one of his trees, laid open 
its flesh or pulp and pressed his finger against it 
The pain almost instantly ceased, and no swelling 
ensued. It might be interred from this that other 
fruits may prove equally serviceable. Nobody 
could have betrayed more tear than the writer as a 
new hand; but now he looks upon the sting of bees 
with indifference, as will every practical bee-keeper; 
and the subject has been treated of here in such 
detail only because most persons attach so great 
importance to it. 
To Keep Ants from Hives. 
Ants are very annoying to many bee-keepers. 
Mr. Baldktdok says: “When hives are proper! vjeon- 
structed, ants cannot getinto them to propagate their 
young. They frequently, however, get into hives 
in consequence of not being properly constructed, 
and do much injury, ns they annoy the bees, injure 
the hive by eating into the wood, and will eat the 
honey if accessible. It is very little trouble to drive 
and keep the ants away from the hive, although 
much trouble has been experienced by rnauy, for the 
simple reason that, they know no remedy. To drive 
the ants away Jrom the hire, or out of their retreat, 
direct upon them a small quantity of the smoke of 
wood or tobacco. Each one will usually shoulder 
a number of their young, and “secede" instanter ! 
To keep the ants away from the hive , apply, as soon 
as they have mostly disappeared, thinly in places 
where they frequent, with the feather part of a quill, 
the spirits of turpentine; they will not bo seen 
again, in general, during the remainder of that sea¬ 
son; but should they return, repeat the application. 
This preventive is very simple as well as efficacious; 
try iL’’ 
Wintering Bees in the Cellar. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— In a late number 
of the Rural I notice an inquiry about wintering 
bees in the cellar, how to prevent their coming out 
of the hive, Ac. I will give my method, and I have 
found by experience that it is a good one. Bore six 
or eight holes in the bottom board with a gimlet or 
small bit, then stop the mouth of the hive, and place 
it upon strips of boards so that the air can circulate 
up through the hive- Where the hives have a 
chamber in them it. is necessary to have the holes 
open into it I consider a dry cellar one of the best 
places in which to winter bees. G. Graves. 
Newport, N. Y., 1S62. 
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spirit of tftr gtw. 
Hoot Cullers and Cleaners. 
A writer in the Country Gentleman says:— 
“When potatoes are fed whole, or other rooks are 
cut coarsely, the animal is obliged to hold its head 
so high to keep the root in contact with its teeth, 
that gravitation alone will pass it to tho gullet, and 
ordinarily it will pass thence unmasticated. if not 
too large; but if cut properly and mixed with cut 
stalks, straw or hay, as they always should he, they 
will be eaten with the head down, as in eating grass, 
and consequently be more thoroughly masticated 
and mixed with other food, and all danger from 
choking is wholly avoided; hence the preventive 
that I have used for five years, and recommended to 
malicious, but those here in the South are really of others to use, is, to cut up the vegetables as finely 
a good-natured character. One may manage them 66 possible with a good root-cutter and cleaner.’’ 
for days, may produce artifical swarms, take away 
their honey—in short, may undertake any operation Timothy Cirnss In Southern Ohio, 
with them without being stung. But suppose they Wm. D. Kelly writes thus to the Ohio Farmer: 
were even worse than those in Germany, it would “I have had about one hundred acres in grass on 
not form any really serious objection. To avoid my farm, for the last twenty years, and testing its 
their stings, however, the bees should neither be value in dollars and cents by a close calculation of 
pressed nor squeezed; they should not be breathed weight, find Timothy to be the most profitable of all 
on, nor should there be any jarring about their hives; grasses. My cattle prefer it to any other grown in 
and all rapid movements in front of the hives, and this climate. I find that every kind of 8tock that 
quick motions of the hands, must be avoided. It is feeds on grass, works after the Timothy more than 
Baid lhatbeesareirritated by the disagreeable sweat of the other grasses, and they pull it up and destroy it, 
is $5.50 per acre. My crop of hay has sold, for the 
last three or four years, at the rate of $15 and $16 
per ton; two tons per acre shows a profit of $24 
per acre.” ,_ 4 
Screwing on Nuts. 
We have sometimes known nuts on threshing 
machines,.circular saws, Ac., to be found so tight 
that no wrench would remove them. This was 
because they had been held in the hand till they 
became warm, and being then applied to very cold 
screws in winter, they contracted by cooling after 
being on, and thus held the screw with an immova¬ 
ble grasp. Always avoid putting a warm nut on a 
cold screw; and to remove it, apply a large heated 
iron in contact with the nut, so as to heat and 
expand it, and it will loosen at once—or a cloth wet 
with boiling water will accomplish the same purpose. 
So says the Country Genilernan. 
Sorghum in Wisconsin* , 
The Wisconsin Farmer says:—“ We have favor¬ 
able reports of the sorghum crops of tho past sea¬ 
son. The opening of the war and the certainly of 
advanced prices had the effect to stimulate the farm¬ 
ers, and the result appears to have been an increased 
supply of sorghum molasses. As appears by the 
statistical returns, the number of acres planted in 
1860 was 318 85-100, yielding a product of 51,1351 
gallons of molasses and 3,493 pounds of sugar. 
Last year the crop must have been considerably 
larger than this, though we have not sufficient data 
for a safe estimate. W’e have never believed that 
sorghum would come to bo a great staple crop in 
our State, but, the success which has attended its 
cultivation on a small scale should be an encour¬ 
agement to more of our farmers to cultivate it for 
their own use. Next season we shall expect a much 
larger crop than ever before.” 
An Interesting Dairy Sbatrment. 
The following statement was thrnished to the 
Albany Cultivator by Mr. Albert Yale, of Guil¬ 
ford, Chenango Co., N. Y. 
Statement of (he proceeds of the Dairy of Albert Yale, for 1861. 
The number of cows I have milked this season 
was 10, the same as last year. My memorandum 
shows that the first tub was filled March 16. My 
cows calved, mostly, in the month of March. 
Total amount of butter made, lbs.,__ 2.785 
Amount sold,_...__ 2,305 
Leaving amount used to family and on hand,_ 48G 
Amount of sales of dairy, 2,305 lbs., at 23 cts.,.. . $530.15 
Amount used and on band, 480 lbs., at 23 cts.,.. 110.40 
Eight dcnconskins at 50 ct*., sold,... 4.00 
Three calves, raised on skim milk. 17.50 
Value of pork raised, deducting cost and com,_ 50.06 
$721.10 
Making the average to each cow,...$72.11 
Number of pounds to each cow,.... 278.14 
You will notice above that there are 11 calves 
accounted for, and but 10 cows. One cow had two 
calves. 
To farmers that are keeping a dairy, I would say 
in the first place, cut your hay early, and get it in 
in good order. This is part of the great secret in 
bringing your cows through the winter in proper 
condition to be profitable the next summer. Then 
give them enough of this and no more. When I sec 
a farmer forcing his cows to eat straw one halfol 
the time, and the other half, daisies, weeds or dry 
woody stuff called hay, with a shower of full ripe 
seeds falling from it at each forkful, and no grain to 
offset. I mark that man as one who wilt never get 
rich from his dairy alone. The proper place for the 
straw is under the cow. Give her a good soft bed. 
and keep her clean. Never compel a cow to eat 
straw*. When the fall rains begin, I put my cows in 
the stable through each storm. During the winter 
months they are most of the time in the stable, and 
are let out twice a day for water. 
Another point. It dairymen would take more 
pains in selecting their cows, and breed them to 
some thorough-lned bull, of the best milking fam¬ 
ilies, and teed them better, it would not l |0 necessary 
to keep but one-half the number of the general 
average of cows to make the same amount of butter. 
During the fall and early winter I prefer to feed 
rooks; but after they are well dried off, commence 
with one pint of meal to each cow, until within 
about one month of calving, and then increase to 
one or two quarts once a* day; after calving, tiro 
quarks at a time, twice a day. Keep them on this 
feed until they have been to grass eight or ten days, 
when I decrease the feed gradually each day. 
g»(juirUsi and gtogwm. 
Seeding Run Olotkk and Timotuy. — Will some of the 
Ru HAL’S subscribers inform me pi rough the paper how much 
red clover seed and timothy it will take to soiv an acre of new 
ground—one-third to he timothy? — Teller, Rolling Ground. 
Crauford Co., Ui'4., 1882. 
Curb.— 1 have a three years old colt which has what I suppose 
to he a curl). The gambiil joint on the outside is considerably 
enlarged. Now what 1 want to know is, whether the blemish 
can he removed, oranv further enlargement prevented. Will 
the lie kA t, or some one of its numerous patrons, please 
answer, and oblige—A n Old SunscimiKii, Jfaynt, Midi. 
Sheet Husbandry—Information Wanted —I have hired 
a farm of 200 acres, for which I pay a ix-rtain sum yearly. It 
is adapted to raising grain; also, fur pasturing, being princi¬ 
pally of a gravel (coarse) mid muck, inclined to be rather 
heavy, jf not thoroughly cultivated Some parts covered with 
boulders, weigliing front 100 pounds to 2 and 3 tuns, which 
makes it luird and difficult tilling, and would not pay me for 
removing. It is stocked with cattle nt present, ami is capable 
of keeping from 30 to 40 head of cattle, 30 sheep, and a span 
of horses. I hat e thought of try log sheep husbandry in place 
of raising rattle and growing groin. I would inquire of those 
who have bad experience In raising rattle and sheep which is 
tiie least expensive and most remunerative, and which requires 
the least hard labor of Uie two, according to tho capital 
invested? Steers, from 2 to 3 year* of age, range from $25 to 
$35 per head, according to quality Cows from $30 to $40, 
ditto. Early lambs, *ay coming in February, are worth in 
August and September $1.50 and $2 00 per head. Mutton 
sheep, according to size and quality, $3JX) and f t. 00 per head. 
1 don't expect. Its correct an answer as though n person could 
see the farm and was acquainted with its adaptability for such 
purposes; nor do 1 want the advice of a person who is wholly 
ignorant of farming, thinking he is conferring a great favor. 
We have too many such in some papers. But I want the actual 
experience of persons who have tested the thing,— Plowboy. 
■man; but the writer has never noticed it. This would 
certainly be bad, as the labor required in the manage¬ 
ment of bees cannot, at all seasons, be performed 
without causing perspiration; especially is this the 
and other grasses and weeds take its place. I can 
cut my grass with a mowing machine, for fifty cents 
per acre; a good yield will average two tons per 
acre. Baling it costs $1.50 per ton; the whole cost 
case when hiving natural swarms during the of preparing one acre of Timothy grass tor market, 
Hungarian Grass.— In answer to an inquiry in No. 4, Jan 
uary 25th, of the Rural, concerning the culture of Hungarian 
grass, I give my experience of lust year. I had four acres of 
old sod ground, raUier a 6tiff day soil, that 1 plowed in the 
last week of May. I sowed it tho 12th of June — it should 
have been sown on tiie 1st. Thirty pounds to the acre L a 
good seeding for hay. If you want It to seed, twenty pounds 
would be enough. It being very dry when I sowed it, it did 
not come up for ten days after sowing I commenced cutting 
it the 30th of August, tho seed then being in the milk. I let 
a portion of it stand about two weeks for seed, then cut and 
cured in the "tame manner as any hay. It yielded about two 
tuns per acre; 1 think it was rather under the average. It will 
do well on any kind of soil, the strongcrand richer tiie better. 
I think it better than clover for horses, and equal to timothy, 
if you do uot allow it to go to seed. If it seeds, you should 
thrash it out before feeding it to horses, for they eat very 
hearty of it, and as it Is very full of Beed, there is danger of 
its hurting them. T thrashed, out of u hundred and fifty 
weight of hay, half a bushel of clean seed. Sheep and cattle 
are very fond of it. I think there might be two crops grown 
in a season by sowing early.—M, B. E., Schoolcraft, Midi. 
of glgriruttural 
Minnesota State Ag. Society.—A t the late annual meet¬ 
ing of this Society, held at St Paul, the following Board of 
Officers vtns elected for 1862: President —Wm L. Amis, of St 
Paul Vice Presidents (one for each Senatorial District)—1st 
l)ist., II. Acker; 2d, II. L, Thomas; 3d, R. M. Kiehaidson; 
4th, John E. Putnam; 6th, Asa Keith; 6th, 8. Rennet; 7th, H. 
Sprague; 8th, II A Mott; 8th. O Densmorr; 10th, F. Stowdl; 
11th, E. B. Jewett; 12th, J. V. Daniels; 13th, A. Adams; 14th, 
A. 11. Butler; ISth. S. Bostwiclc; 16th, G. 8. Ruble; 17th, N, 
Dane; ISth, M. D. McMullen; 19th, Samuel Shantlebur^r; 
20th, J. Flanders; 21st, A. Chmidlin. Secretary —J. A. Whee- 
lock. Treasurer —J. W. Selby. Executive. Committee —J. H. 
Stevens, McLeod; Jared Benson, Anoka; A.* Chambers, 
Steele; J. H. Baker, Bine Earth; It H Bennett. Washington; 
W. L. Wilson, Ramsey; W. G. Le Due, Dakota; William R. 
Smith, Hennepin. W. L. Ames and J. A. Wbeelock. ex-officio. 
Cattaraugus Co. Ag. Society.—A t the late annual meet¬ 
ing this of Society, the following persons were elected officers for 
1862: President —Samuel W. Johnson, EUieottville. Vies 
President — Lorenzo Stratton, Little Valley. Secretary — 
Horace S. Huntley, Little Valley. Treasurer— George M. 
Fitch, Little Valley. Directors — Nathaniel Manley, Mans¬ 
field; Isaac Reed, East Otto; 8. T. Kelsey, Great V&lley; 
Horace Cross, Otto; Joseph Smith, Mansfield; Halsey SafTord, 
East Otto. 
Winfield Union Society —The following gentlemen were 
chosen officers for 1862: President —Isaac L. Moore. Vice 
President —Peter B. Crandall Secretary —Russel Huntley. 
Treasurer —Hiram Brovyn. Directors-J. B. Murray. Plain- 
field ; A. L. Fish, Litchfield. Town Secretaries —A. R. Goodier, 
Litchfield, D. G. Young. Columbia, Wm. H. Hays, Bridge- 
water; Alonzo Vosburg, Richfield; 'William Collins, Plainfield; 
J. W. Warner, Winfield, L, R. Bliss, Exeter; Wm. Knights, 
Paris The Treasurer's report was read and showed a balance 
on hand of $222.13. 
The ladles connected with tiie Winfield Union Ag. Society 
met at the bouse of 8 W. Day, and the meeting being called 
to order, elected the following officers of the Ladies' Depart¬ 
ment for the ensuing year. President-hire,. J. H. Clark. 
Vice President— Mrs, T. T. Morgan, Sec'y-Mn N. D. Taylor 
The Columbus Town Ag. Society (Chenango Co., N. Y .) 
has elected officers for 1862 ns follows: Prvtident —Isaac N 
Holt. Vies Presidents — Charles Williams and Stephen 
Spaulding. Secretary —Mathew Ludington. Treasurer — 
Wm, II. Purdic. Directors —Charles Holmes, Henry Holmes, 
Elliot Sherman, J. Mcdbury, Jr , G. B. Palmer, Nelson W. 
Matterson, Charles li. West, Elijah Sexton Nathan Clark, 
Hezckiah Myres, Oliver Myres, Jefferson Spun-. 
Rural Notes anil jltcms. 
Culture or Cotton and Sorgho in the Free States.— 
The Commissioner of Patents, tn a recent circular, says the 
cultivation of Cotton in tho middle portions of the Free 
Slates is attracting general attention. To prevent failures in 
its cultivation, it is proper to remark that it is a principle in 
vegetable physiology that tropical plants can never be accli¬ 
mated in the North, except by a repeated reproduction of new 
varieties from seeds. The attempt to grow Sea Island Cotton, 
such as is now brought from Hilton Head, would prove a 
failure in any portion of the Free States. Tho only variety 
capable of successful cultivation in those sections now seek¬ 
ing its introduction, is the Green Seed Cotton. Such is now 
being raised extensively in Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, 
and portions of Kentucky, and which produces a white fiber. 
Seed should be obtained from these localities. The modifica¬ 
tions of soil and climate will influence the size of the plant, 
the length and fineness of the fiber, and the product of the 
crop. No reasonable doubt is entertained of the success of 
the culture in all mild portions of the Middle States, and efforts 
are now making by this division to procure the proper seed 
for distribution, 
The Commissioner further says the results of the cultivation 
of Snrglio the past year settled the question of its entire 
practical success, and that one of the difficulties presenting 
Itself is the want of pure seed, To meet this want, this 
division has ordered seed from Franco for distribution the 
ensuing spring. It must bo borne in mind, however, that the 
same causes which have produced deterioration here, exist 
there, and well grounded apprehensions are entertained that, 
seed thus imported may not lie free from suspicion. Fanners 
interested should secure pure -seed from among themselves, 
when it is possible, as the season is so far advanced that direct 
importation from Africa or China would he impracticable. 
The World's Fair. —Congress having declined to make an 
appropriation to facilitate the arrangements of the U S. Com¬ 
missioners for the World’s Fair, including the chartering of a 
vessel to convey American products to London, as rccom 
mended by the President, the Commissioners are unable to 
proceed further in tiie business, and announce tliut tiie author¬ 
ity of the commission has therefore closed. They have 
apprised the commissioners appointed by tiie British Govern¬ 
ment that there will be no general participation on the part of 
the citizens of this country on that occasion, but they have 
thought it very improper at the same time, and recommend to 
the consideration of the Royal Commissioners such works of 
industry and art as have received the authentication of the 
commissioners, und may, to a limited extent, be presented for 
exhibition through individual exertion. American con¬ 
tributors are therefore thrown upon their own resources in 
sending works of industry, invention, and art to the Exhibition. 
Thm Value of Sorghum appreciates daily. Analyses of 
different samples of crude sirups received from different parts 
of tbe West, now in progress in this city (Chicago), show 
them to contain over ffly per centum of cane sugar !—a result 
entirely unlooked for by the sugar refiners. In addition to 
the cane sugar, there was a large per centum of grape sugar. 
Much of this may have been converted from cane sugar by the 
imperfect process of manufacture which it obtains. These re¬ 
sults are going to induce the erection of large works in differ¬ 
ent parts of the country for the manufacture of the sirup, so 
as to insure the cry stalizfttiou of the cane sugar Experienced 
sugar men say that if the analyses continue to furnish as 
favorable testimony of the sugar producing qualities of this 
plant, all that will be needed to produce our own sugar as well 
as sirup, is the application of knowledge in its manufacture.— 
C. D. B. 
Weather, Prices of Produce, fito., in Iowa —Mr. Josiah 
Paok, Of Iowa county, Iowa, writing us under date of Feb. 
15, says:—" We bad no sleighing until the 6th of Jan.; since 
then it has been very good. Snow is now 18 inches deep 
Wheat sells at 40 to 60 cts.; pork sold from $1,50 to $2.20, 
averaging about $2.00; corn 20c.; butter 10; eggs 6; turkeys 
20 to SQ cts. each; chickens 5; cows $10 to $16; oxen $40 to 
$60 per yoke; horses $75 to $100 each. Prairie land is $3 to 
$5 an acre. It can be bought by paying from one-fourth to 
one half down, with a loug credit for the balance, and in 
quantities from 40 acres upward. This section is its healthy 
as any part of the U. S. The water is good, and timber more 
plenty than in many portions of the West. Money is scarce, 
owing to the low prices of produce." 
Large Ox and Sheet. —In the Rural of Feb. 8th, we gave 
an account of a monstrous ox, fattened by Hon. J. Sandw- 
son, of Bemardsten, Mass. He has since been slaughtered in 
New York, and a New England exchange says 11 tho dressed 
animal weighed 2,473lbs., or 164 lbs. more than the celebrated 
ox 1 Union,’and exceeded any ox ever slaughtered in this or 
any other country." The same paper adds:—“Two sheep 
raised by Dea. Bukfum, of Winchester, N. H., were slaugh¬ 
tered also in New York, and the muttons—one weighing 215 
and the other 208 lbs.—are to be sent as presents to President 
Lincoln and Secretary Seward. Roasting pieces from tbe 
big Sanderson ox are also going as presents to other official 
gentlemen." 
About Coffee.—A “ Young Ruralist " in Southern Illinois 
wishes us to request Mr. Huffman to advertise his coffee seed 
in tbe Rural, for the benefit of himself and many other 
“Egyptians.” We doubt whether our friend would be bene¬ 
fited if the request were made and complied with, for we do 
not believe genuine coffee can be successfully grown in this 
country, even in favored F.gypt. We more than suspect tliat 
the article grown by Mr. Huffman is decidedly inferior to the 
coffee of commerce, and not equal to the “ Union Coffee " 
(composed of coffee and rye) manufactured by our friend Van 
Zandt “ Prove all things, and hold fast that which is good.” 
LI8T OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Rooks for Schools and Families—Beadle h Co. 
Tree Seeds — Schroeder & Co. 
Corn-Droppers— Thns. B, McConanghev. 
Implement*, Machinery, Seeds Ac — Paschall Morris. 
Farm nod Careen Inipleroente —John Vanderbelt. 
Farm for Sale— C. H. Rorers. 
Apple Trees for Sale -C. H. Rotrera 
Celebrated Trntttntr Stallion New Jersey. 
Farm for Sale- W. R. Hunt 
Italian Bees - M. Qniiihv. 
Falley Seminary- John I’. Griffin. 
Apple Seedlings L. J. BilLings. 
To Printers and Publishers. 
®l)c Ncui0 Coniicnscr. 
— The Rhode Island Legislature has voted a sword to Gen. 
Burnside. 
— The iron-clad British frigate Warrior is a failure as a sea¬ 
going vessel. 
— Four hundred nnd eleven females hold postoffices in the 
United Staten, 
— Mrs. Nancy Smith has been elected Mayor or Mayoress 
of Oskaloosa, Iowa. 
— Tho Parisians are about to erect a crystal palace on the 
plan of that at Sydenham. 
— The rebel Gen. Buckner's mother died recently at her 
residence in Union Co., Ark. 
— Geo. Nutter, of Bramstead, N. n., was teasing a horse, 
and the horse bit hLs nose off. 
— The tobacco trade, the Louisville Journal thinks, will be 
transferred to the Middle States. 
— The mails will go to Clarksville, Tenn., and so to Nash¬ 
ville, They will follow the flag, 
— Tho King of Prussia is in a state of health which excites 
much uneasiness among his friends. 
— Four canal steamers, two steam tugs, ’and thirty canal 
boats, are now being built at Buflido. 
— About $300,000 were paid out in New York on Wednes¬ 
day week as interest on the war loan. 
— The famous Gauley Bridge, burned by Wise in his flight 
from Western Virginia, has been re-built 
— At Richmond, five rebels celebrated Washington’s birth¬ 
day by a mock inauguration of Jeff Davis, 
— Some of the Irishmen captured at Fort Donclson wanted 
to join Col Mulligan's regiment at Chicago. 
— Tho Richmond Dispatch admits that the aggregate force 
of the rebels now in the field is but 200,000. 
— Ericsson’s bomb-proof battery is off; it is, supposed to 
watch the Merrimac, should she venture out 
— The rebels promised to spend ttye Winter at the North. 
About 15,000 of them tiro keeping their pledge. 
— A rebel schooner laden with tobacco was seized by tbe 
frigate Santee, near Galveston, a few days since. 
— The rebels accuse the Uniou workmen in rebel arsenals 
witli purposely rendering the ammunition impcrlccL 
— An anonymous American abroad has sent the U. 8. 
Treasury $1,000 to liqjp pay the expenses of the war. 
— Four brothers are in the 9th Illinois cavalry regiment, as 
colonel, surgeon, assistant-surgeon, and quartermaster. 
— There has not been snow sufficient at any time in Barn¬ 
stable Co., Mass., the present winter, for good sleighing. 
— Out of some sixty or seventy newspapers published in 
Texas a year ago, only some ten or twelve are now living. 
— A single firm in St. Louis sold twelve thousand flags— 
large sized ones—for the Washington's birthday celebration. 
— The Baptist Bible House property in New York was sold 
on Saturday week, under foreclosure of mortgage, for $05,000. 
— The manufacturing business in Massachusetts is still 
moderately active, with tho exception, perhaps, of the shoe 
trade. 
— Col. McCook, who was wounded at tho battle of Mill 
Spring, has nearly recovered, and has returned to his regi¬ 
ment. 
— The amount of cotton secured by tbe Government agents 
at Hilton Head and tlutt region, is 9aid to be about $2,000,000 
worth. • 
— Two million visiting cards passed through the Paris post- 
office on the first three days of the year, besides the ordinary 
letters. 
— The Illinois Constitutional Convention has voted unani¬ 
mously to submit the instrument framed by them to tho 
people. 
— The Utica Orphan Asylum has recently entered into the 
occupation of a new and convenient edifice, which cost 
$25,000. 
— A writer in the Boston Traveller says the production of 
capital in the loyal States exceeds the consumption $400,000,000 
annually. 
— The Mississippi flotilla, ready to leave Cairo, consists of 
12 gunboats and 88 mortar boats. The gunboats aggregate 
209 guns. 
— In Portsmouth, N. H., live 90 men, whose ages range 
from 75 to 95; 63 women who are above 80, and 7 above 90 
years old. 
— Prince Rung, the Regent of China, has decided to send 
to France, for European education, a cousin of the young 
Emperor. 
— The resolution impeaching tho Governor, Secretary of 
State, and Auditor of Kansas, lias passed the Legislature of 
that State. 
— It is said that the Sandwich Islands are to be sold to Great 
Britain. Tiie same offer was made to us some years ago, but 
we refused it. 
— A proposition has been made in England to consolidate 
the Great Western, Grand Trunk, and Buffalo and Lake 
Huron Railways. 
— The New York Price Current of Monday week says that, 
within the past six weeks, the price of cotton has fallen eleven 
cents por pound. 
— The Minnesota State Senate had recently before them 
Mrs. Swisshelm, to present a bill and make a speech for 
“women's rights!" 
— Tbe restrictions on the travel ot foreigners in the Russian 
Empire have been almost all abolished by the order of the 
Czar Alexander II. 
— Ynucey sailed from England as a passenger in the West 
Tndia mail steamer Seine, which left Southampton on the 3d 
ult., for St. Thomas. 
— An agricultural laborer died lately in Devonshire, Eng., 
aged one hundred years. A son who attended the funeral was 
seventy-five years old. 
— The steamer North Star was burned at the wharf in 
Cleveland, on Thursday week. Loss about $75,000. Insured 
for one-third her value. 
— A number of Prussian savaus are to be sent to Athens to 
make archaeological excavations there, and direct their especial 
attention to the Acropolis. 
— There are two hundred and thirteen joint stock compa¬ 
nies in Massachusetts, under the general law, of which fifty- 
nine are located in Boston. 
— The Convention to frame, a Constitution for the State of 
Deseret, held at Salt Lake City, adjourned on the 23d ult., 
having completed their work. 
— Russia is drawing supplies of cotton from Khiva and 
Bokhara, and tiie cultivation of the staple in those countries 
has been very largely extended, 
— The ship Amelia, which sailed from Philadelphia for 
Liverpool on Saturday week, had on board 2,208 barrels of 
flour and 11,164 bushels of grain. 
— A new revolution commenced in Honduras on the 11th 
ult The first victim was the President—Don Santos Guardiola 
—who was assassinated nt his own door. 
— A woman was frozen to death on the Minnesota prairies 
last week, near Hastings. A search revealed her buried in 
the snow within a few rods of hor residence. 
— Tbe Army Board on uniform propose to do away with 
epaulets, sashes, plumes, &c.., and leave the designation of 
rank to simple shoulder straps and sword belts. 
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— A babe of six months and a child of four years, fastened 
in a cabin near Cbittennngo, N. Y., while the parents were 
away, were burned to death, with the building, recently. 
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