stale into this diseased state of excessive fatness, that 
moment the value of its carcass, as food, begins to 
deteriorate, and at the same time it ceases to be 
profitable to feed that animal. I am aware that 
there are men who do not, and perhaps will not, 
believe any such thing: but they are not men who 
charge the animal with the cost of raising it 3nd 
feeding it. Fermented food is not healthful for men 
or bnitce, and should not be fed them. It is still an 
axiom: No animal food should be eaten which is 
obtained by depriving the animal of the essentials 
to health. Ad Valorem. 
or four kinds of seed from different kinds of pota¬ 
toes, which I intend to treat in the same way as 
heretofore described, this fall, and will let the New- 
Yorker know the result. Franklin Botks. 
Mount Upton, N. Y., 1862. 
Ill ST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, 
Tiffany's Tile Machine — V. Spalding. 
Chain Pump Tolling—I. S. Hobble. 
Buckeye Horse Corn-Planter—J M. Scribner. 
Schenectady Auncultural Works—G. Westinirhouse k Co 
Photographic and ArnhrntTpe Gallerr—G. W Squiers. 
Strawberry ami Kaspbop-y Plants—E. Williams. 
A Brother Lost—Jos. Wntsnn 
Litreriil I'rices paid for Rare Coins—W. E. Woodward. 
Bean Planter—Whiteside, Barnett A Co 
Cranberry Plants—P. D. Dili Ison. 
8rECIAL NOTICES, 
Etbtj man his own Printer—Adama Press Company. 
Bees Dying. 
E»s. Rural New-Yorker:— In the number for 
April 5th 1 saw an inquiry headed as above, from 
a u RnRAL Reaper,” in regard to the cause of some 
of his swarms dyiDg. He says. “ they have plenty 
of honey left, ami they are set in a warn place, and 
appeared all right in the fall.” Now my experi¬ 
ence has taught me that on account of the eccen¬ 
tricity in the nature and disposition of the honey 
bee, any particular course taken by different indi¬ 
viduals, or even by the same person, with different 
swarms, or, indeed, with the same swarm under 
different circumstances, will not always bring about 
Ihe same results. Yet there are certain fixed laws 
in the nature and management of the honey bee, 
which if violated will always, doubtless, result more 
or less unfavorably. Now I think that one of these 
laws is not to keep them in a “ warm place ” at,auy 
other season of the year than during the time when 
the young brood -are hatching, which usually com¬ 
mences as soon as a few warm days occur early 
in the spring, aud continues to a certain extent 
throughout the summer. But as the warm weather 
approaches, less Care is needed in keeping tin* cool 
air from them; and after they are through with 
swarming, and the parent hive replenished with a 
full swarm, then the bees should be kept in a cool 
place till the breeding season commences the next 
spring. At least, this is the result of iny experience. 
1 have been the most successful in wintering bees 
on.Che north side of a building, where they would 
be kept cool and dry, and less affected by sudden 
changes of the weather, that in any other location: 
aud I think they should be kept at as even a tem¬ 
perature as possible, for by this means they consume 
far less honey, lose less of their numbers, and come 
out much more healthy in appearance, and are more 
prosperous during the summer than they are if kept 
where the sun arouses them every time it shines. 
The reason why this course results thus favorably, 
I will let philosophers and theorists investigate; but 
I am satisfied with the fact, which I have proved by 
practical experience. Hence, if “ Rural Reader ’’ 
should winter bis bees in a cool, dry place, not 
exposed to sudden changes of temperature, wilh n 
current of fresh air playing freely about them, and 
should be as well satisfied with the results as I am. 
perhaps he would agree with me in thinking that if 
there is no evidence existing in the appearance of 
the hives of any other reason for his losing his 
swarms, the reason doubtless exists in his wintering 
them in a “ warm place.” c. 
Peach Orchard. JL Y., April. 18G2. 
The Weather continues cold. As we write (May 6th,) 
fires and overcoat* arc indispensable to city folks, as they have 
been during die past two weeks —indeed through the whole 
spring, with the exception of only two or three days. Some 
good-natured, sanguine people are joining the ranks of the 
croakers, and complaining of the cold, wet weather, lateness 
of the season, etc.; hut while thus rebelling, they rejoice at 
the heroic treatment the rebels in a sunnier clime are receiving. 
EARNS FOR STRAW 
®Ijc News dLcnienect 
America* Short-Horns j* England.— We understand 
that Messrs. Samuel Thorne, of Dutchess Co., N. Y., and R. 
A. Alexander, of Woodford Co., Ky.,— two of the most 
extensive and popular breeders of Short-Horns in this country 
—have resolved to become competitors at the great Interna¬ 
tional Cattle Show of the Royal Ag. Society of England avid 
Highland Ag. Society of Scotland which opens in London on 
the 23d of uext month. Representative animals from the 
herds of the gentlemen named have already been entered, and 
jt is not improbable that they may win some of the best prizes, 
though competing with the finest Short-Horns of England 
and Scotland. 
— Speaking of American Short-Homs In England, we inay 
add that the recent catalogue of Mr. Thorne 8 Short-Horns 
(which gives the pedigrees of fifty-two cows and heifers, and 
twenty bulls.) stales that eight head of those bred at Tliorn. 
dale were purchased the past season by breeders iu England. 
It is said “they met with a most favoralilo reception upon 
their arrival there,’ haring had the highest commendation 
bestowed upon them by many of the breeders and the press. 
Tiiis certainly tends to disprove the theory so often advanced, 
that Short-liorns deteriorate whe* bred in this country.’’ 
— Western Virginia has given over 3,000 majority for 
emancipation. 
— Fort Pulaski is being repaired under the supervision of 
Gen. Gillmore. 
— The friends of Gen. Sigel are procuring funds to purchase 
a farm for him. 
— On the 16tli ult, S5 Mormons sailed from Liverpool for 
Utah’, via Boston. 
— Minnesota lias just sent a new supply of very sharp, 
shooters to Washington. 
— The direct cost to England of the great American rebel¬ 
lion of 1776 was $630,000,000. 
— Ex-Lieut.-Guv. Koeroor of Illinois, it is understood, has 
been tendered the mission to Spain. 
— The telegraph line from Cairo to Pittsburg, Tenn., has 
been carried away by the high water. 
— The steam frigate Roanoke is to have three heavy Erics¬ 
son towers, like the Monitor, on deck. 
— Deserters from Beauregard’s army state that negroes do 
all the work of fortifying for the rebels. 
— The postofflee appropriation bill provides $1,000,000 for 
the service of the California central route. 
— Every port on the coast of Florida, except Tampa, had 
been vacated by the rebels at last accounts. 
— The Federal Government is in the market all around, buy¬ 
ing ears for the robbed railroads in rebledom. 
— The Suez canal approaches completion. Twenty-two 
thousand workmen are employed on the work. 
— The Common Council of Chicago has voted $10,000 for 
the benefit of the wounded at Pittsburg Lauding. 
— Ninety Kentucky mules have been sent to Port Royal, to 
be used in preparing the land for cotton planting. 
— On Monday week, the horse of the rebel Commander-in- 
Cliief, Albert Sidney Johnston, arrived in Chicago. 
— The English Government bas officially announced the 
retirement of its military contingent from Mexico. 
— The official returns of the recent election in Connecticut 
give Gov. Buckingham 30,782—a majority of 9,134. 
— Facts are given to prove unfounded the charge of 
cowardice against the 77th and 33d Ohio regiments. 
— The Australians are making a movement to populate the 
northern part of Queensland with Chinese laborers. 
— The Japanese ambassadors to the European courts arrived 
at Malta on March 2-8, and are by this time in Paris. 
— The costly railroad ridge overthe Connecticut at Lebanon, 
N. H., was carried entirely away by the late freshet. 
— A bill will soon be introduced into Congress, limiting the 
number of Brigadier-Generals to 200, or thereabouts. 
— Gen. Sigel who has been quite ill for some time in St. 
Louis, is so far recovered as to bo able to take the field. 
— A fatal epidemic prevails to a considerable extent in the 
uorthern part of Oneida county, N. Y.. auiohg the horses. 
— The British war ship Plover, in the China seas, reports 
the appearance of a rebel privateer off the coat of Borneo. 
— One-sixth of the deaths in Biddeford, Me., during the 
past year, were from diptheria. one-quarter from consumption. 
— The notes of old Virginia banks are now fifty per cent. 
1 ” tin» fldnf rvrOTvniim 
— The 48th auiiuai meeting of the American Baptist Mis¬ 
sionary Union will be held In Providence. It I., on the 27th 
inst. 
— The number of hogs packed in Indiana the past season, 
at the larger towns and cities, was 486,243, against 382,610 in 
1860. 
— The King and Queen of Holland will visit the Emperor 
Napoleon iu May, the Queen staying a month at the French 
court. 
— Two hundred and fifty four of the rebel prisoners at 
Camp Douglas, Chicago, have died, and about 300 are in tile 
hospital. 
— The Tower of London is under course of repairing and 
refitting, in preparation for the flow of visitors expected tills 
summer. 
— It is stated that the appearance of the fall wheat in Upper 
Canada is unusually good wherever the fields have sufficient 
drainage. 
— A terrible hurricane passed over St. Joseph, Mo., on 
Wednesday week, doing great damage to houses and other 
property. 
— The Lutheran Synod of Virginia has withdrawn from the 
“General Synod of the United States,”and cast its lot with 
rebellion. 
— The Gloucester (Mass.) papers say that a large number of 
vessels are fitting out there for the mackerel fishery in South¬ 
ern waters. 
— Mad dogs are numerous in Onondaga county, N. Y. Mr. 
Farmer and two of his children, at Onondaga Castle, have 
been bitten. 
— The first vessel bearing the Siamese flag has entered the 
port of Bremen, where she was originally purchased by the 
King of Siam. 
— Napoleon, like the rest of the Old World, admits that 
the Monitor and Merrimac duel has sealed the fate of all 
wooden fleets. 
— Hon. Horatio King, late of the Postoffiee Department, has 
been appointed a commissioner under the District of Columbia 
emancipation act 
— The people of Nicholas Co., Ky., recently held a meeting 
and resolved that none of the absent traitors should ever be 
permitted to return. 
— A diamond wedding took place last week at Sliutesbury, 
Mass. Asa Raymond and wife celebrated the 75th anniversary 
of their wedding-day. 
— The Emperor Napoleon will positively visit the Interna¬ 
tional Exhibition. Six vessels will be sent to Cherbourg to 
escort him to England. 
— The French army on the peace footing is to consist o 
400.000 men, viz.: 23,414 officers, and 376.586 non-commis¬ 
sioned officers and men. 
— Col. Morse Cooper, one of the few surviving heroes of 
■Waterloo, has recently died in England. He was wounded at 
Bayonne and Waterloo. 
— A letter from Southwestern Missouri says it is not an 
uncommon tiling to find persons there who have not seen a 
newspaper in seven years! 
— The winter was very severe in Oregon. Many persons 
lost their lives by exposure to the cold, and large numbers of 
cattle and horses perished. 
— The New Orleans rebels can now test the story which 
their journals told a year ago, tliatGeu. Butler was a colored 
barber who once lived there. 
— Two interpreters have been engaged to show the tombs 
and monuments of Westminster Abbey to foreign visitors 
during the exhibition season. 
— Two Federal soldiers were poisoned at Paducah, Ky., the 
other day, by strychnine contained in apples, which were given 
to them by unknown persons. 
— The debt of Mexico to the allied powers is stated in round 
numbers as follows: To England, $75,000,000; to Spain, $10,- 
000,000; to France, $5,000,000 
— David R. Aitehison, the Missouri Senator, who gained an 
unhappy notoriety during the Kansas troubles, is said to be a 
private soldier in Price’s army. 
— The Honolulu Commercial Advertiser of Feb. 27 states 
that a great deal of excitement had been caused by the report¬ 
ed discovery of gold at Koolau. 
Plaster for Potatoes. 
In this section, we think plaster or gypsum a 
profitable dressing for potatoes. Sometimes it does 
little, if any, good: but again the effect is quite 
beneficial, and as the cost is slight, it is always 
worth while to sow a bushel or so per acre at the 
time, of planting, or after the potatoes are up. In 
some experiments of our own, not yet published, 
the effect of plaster was quite beneficial, especially 
in arresting the ravages of the disease. So says the 
Genesee Farmer. 
The Material for Water Pipes. 
Professor Silliman, Jr., of Yale College, 
replying to a question in the Springfield Republican, 
whether water may be conducted through lead 
pipes, for drinking and domestic purposes, with 
safety to health, replies that it may; and adds that, 
from pretty extensive inquiry and observation, he 
has bad the fact demonstrated that the waters of lakes 
and rivers do not, unless in so’ine exceptional cases, 
act on lead. The exceptional cases are those in 
which lime rubbish has been carelessly allowed to 
remain in the pipes used to convey lake or river 
water, lie remarks that it must not be assumed 
that what he has stated about the safety of lead 
pipes in other respects is applicable to spring water, 
which, a? a general rule, acts upon lead, producing 
a corrosion that is pregnaut with danger to health. 
Large Arrival of Grain a.t Buffalo — Geer 2,000,000 
Bushels in Port .— The Buffalo Courier of Monday morning 
(5th inst.) notices the arrival of a great fleet of grain-laden 
vessels from the upper lakes. The arrivals during Saturday 
and Sunday were constant, making a scene of the wildest 
activity. A jam at the mouth of the creek caused some dam¬ 
age, but nothing serious. Our authority says ;— The arrivals 
are by considerable the greatest ever known in Buffalo. We 
question whether any port in the world can parallel them. 
There are now in port about 210 vessels. They lie six deep 
from the foot of Main street to Bennett’s Elevator. The 
amount of grain is 2,100,000 bushels. Besides this there are 
some 40 vessels loaded with staves and lumber. One cause of 
this immense accumulation has been the up lake winds which 
have kept back the fleet cleared from Chicago on the lGth and 
17th ult., and allowed those clearing as late as the 28th to come 
in as early as the others. A flue south-west wind has brought 
the whole fleet handsomely to port in capital condition.” 
A II u messing Arrangement. 
A correspondent of the Country Gentleman 
describes the following method ol harnessing and 
unharnessing a horse to a single wagon:—In the 
first place, my harness is made with the collar open 
at the bottom, and no buckle, blit the hames are 
fastened to the collar, and there is one buckle to 
fasten them both. The tugs and hold-back straps 
are not uuhitched; tho lines lie over the dash, where 
they will not get under the horse’s feet: they may 
be unbuckled from the headstall, or remain with it, 
and all hang up together. I have a wooden hook, 
like an ox-bow, with half the length of one side cut 
off, so as to hook under the back saddle, collar’ aDd 
headstall. A cord is attached to the long end of the 
hook, and put up over a pulley, and through another 
pulley, and down to about three feet from one side 
of the horse. Unbuckle the belly-bands and the 
bam e-straps, put under the hook, pull all up, and 
make the cord fast to a small book at the side of the 
carriage house. A horse will soon learn to place 
himself back into the breeching, when the harness 
and shalts arc let down, three or lour buckles are 
fastened, and he is harnessed. 
A Rural Agent in Wayne Co., Mich., who has sent us 
nearly one hundred subscribers this year, thus writes in a letter 
just received :—“ You will Bee that my field is enlarging. It 
now takes in Illinois, (one of the subscribers being in that 
State.) Ifl thought my success in Riru.tL-ing was attributable 
to a peculiar faculty for obtaining subscribers, I might feel a 
little rain ; but when 1 hear the paper boasted of so much by 
others around St rather takes the starch out of me. and I con¬ 
clude I have not much to do with it, except to collect and for¬ 
ward. I now inclose pay for eight subscribers, who wish tho 
back numbers,” &e. Our frieud is too modest as to his instru¬ 
mentality in obtaining subscribers—for many pcojile who 
really like the Rural, would not become or continue subscri¬ 
bers unless invited to do so by just sucli a man. And it is to 
men of his stamp—those who act for, as well as believe in, the 
paper—that we are indebted for our present large and in¬ 
creasing circulation. Thanks to such, oil over the Loyal 
States, for their generous efforts ! 
Robbing Dees. 
Ens. Rural New-Yorker:—P lease tell us what is the 
rule or custom in regard to piratical bees. Must every man 
protect his own, or may a man whose stocks are robbed 
recover damages of the owner of tho robbers? —D. F. L., New¬ 
ark Valley, .v. K, 1862. 
This is a question that we have not known to be 
raised. As no guilt, or even negligence, can be 
charged to the owner, it would be improper, per¬ 
haps, to make him pay damages. 
A WORD FOR ROOTS 
Ens. Rural New-Yorker:— In this enlightened 
Nineteenth Century, 1 appeal to farmers in behalf 
of roots. The fertile prairies of the West and the 
rocky hillsides of New England each produce the 
cereals, and very properly, so loug as they don't 
crowd out the roots. When they do that they trans¬ 
gress their proper sphere and destroy the existing 
equilibrium. Witness ihe immense amount ol grain 
produced in the West the past, year. Providentially. 
Europe wants our surplus; probably she will not 
next season; perhaps never again. No. brother 
farmers, wheat is good, corn is good, but they are 
not the only things. A few acres of roots for home 
consumption should be raised on every farm. In 
behalf of horses, cattle, sheep, and swine. I plead 
earnestly for roots. Fed as cattle are in winter, with 
hay and straw only, who, I ask, would not call it 
dry fodder? A peck of turnips, beets, or carrots fed 
to each animal would be pleasant to them, and 
profitable to their owner. 
Horses should, by all means, have carrots. They 
eat them without cutting, grow fat and sleek. 
Turnips cut up fine and fed to sheep in spring when 
they get tired of hay are ot great benefit. Piggy, 
too. likes roots, though like some other folks he 
prefers to have them cooked. As a means of pro¬ 
moting the health of stock they are unsurpassed, 
and at ihe risk of incurring the displeasure of the 
M. D.’s, I assert they are far superior to pills or 
physic. A strong argument in favor of roots is the 
great quantity that may be grown upon an acre as 
compared with other crops. True, it is some work 
to get down on the hands and to weed them when 
small, but then it tends highly to promote that 
almost extinct virtue, humility. Savages and bar¬ 
barians live without cultivating the soil; let us 
resemble them in this respect no longer. 
New Haven Co.. Conn., 1862. G. P. 
The Reliable and Poiti.ar Advertising Agency of 
Messrs. S. M. Pettingii.l & Co. has been removed from No. 
119 Nassau st., where it hu-s been located for many years, to 
elfoible oremises No. 37 Park Row, New York. AVe 
have ever found this urn, |i.o.i.^-___, ( ^ 
to note such evidence of enterprise and increasing prosperity 
ns is indicated by the removal If Publishers; and Advertisers 
would deal only with honest, responsible Agencies—and wo 
know of none more so than that of Messrs I’ettincill <Sc Co. 
—the interests of all parties would be protected and promoted, 
while the bogus concerns, which are the vampires of the press, 
would soon cease their swindling operations. 
—Messrs. S. M. Fkttexcill & Co., 87 Park How, New 
York, and 0 State st.. Boston, are Agents for the Rural Nf.w- 
Yorkkr. in those cities, and authorized to receive Advertise- 
uients and Subscriptions for us at our published rates. 
Facts for Bee-Keepers. 
In the Model Apiary belonging to an Apiarian 
Society at Nurstadt. In Germany, auaer tut, seepe* 
intondelict* of Mr. Langbein. twenty-six colonies in 
Dzierzon hives and managed on tho Dzierzon sys¬ 
tem, produced 1,300 11)9. of surplus honey in 1S57. 
Three colonies, belonging to Mr. IToffinann, pro¬ 
duced 180 lbs; and fourteen colonies belonging to 
one of his neighbors, produced more than 500 lbs. 
He who wishes to improve the bee pasturage of 
his neighborhood, should not neglect to plant maple, 
locust, chestnut and linden trees on his own prem¬ 
ises, and encourage others to follow his example. 
The tulip, poplar, sugar maple and horse chestnut 
make fine shade trees for towns and villages. 
Bees which are really dead, will always be found 
to have the proboscis protruding. "When this is not 
the case with bees apparently dead, they may be 
revived by sprinkling them with diluted honey or 
sugar-water, and placing them in a warm room. 
Value of Soot n* a Alanine. 
In response to an inquiry relative to the worth 
of soot as a manure, the Working Farmer replies: 
Its chief component is carbon, and in so divided 
a form as to be nearly equal to a solution iu water. 
As soot is formed on the side of a chimney, thou¬ 
sands of cubic feet of atmosphere are passing over 
it, much dilated by heat, and containing ammonia; 
this is absorbed by soot, its line carbon retaining 
the ammonia, and in a condition not defined by 
chemistry, but certainly known in practice to have 
high value. In England the soot from both coal 
and bituminous coal is habitually saved, and many 
farmers buy it largely. In this country, soot, in 
common with many other valuable substances, is 
wasted. Some English farmers use thousands ot 
bushels annually, and with great profit, applying 
twenty-five to fifty bushels per acre. Its great 
value, however, is for the compost heap, where it 
not only absorbs new quantities of ammonia, hut 
assists iu insuring that kind of decay of woody fiber 
known as trmacuacis, and arresting the putrid fer¬ 
mentation. which frequently is so violent as to cause 
the loss of much of tie volatile products, producing 
the condition known nsjlrefanging. Boot may also 
be used like other finely divided black powders, for 
dusting over young turnips and other plants infested 
with the turnip fly, and after performing this office, 
it will find its way into the soil. 
Western Rural Items — The Season is law. But little 
spring grain has been sown, comparatively. However, the 
usual amount will probably be put iu the ground.- The 
World's Horse Fair is to commence in Chicago the 2d day of 
September next and continue two weeks. Chas. D. Brag- 
don has been elected Secretary thereof.-Two hundred and 
forty dollars in premiums have been offered by the Blinois 
State Agricultural Society for the best reaper aud mower, 
the best reaper, the best mower, and the best heading ma¬ 
chine. Also, a valuable medal for the best grain binder, 
which can be readily attached to any ordinary reaper. The 
trial is to take place at Dixon, Ill., during the coming harvest, 
at a time to be fixed by the President. Entries must be made 
by the 15th of June.-It is getting to be the opinion here¬ 
away among intelligent apari&ns that Italian bees are a grand 
humbug.—o. d. u. 
gnquim.si anti gUmvm 
The Nf.w Law to Prevent Stock Running at Large — 
A subscriber in Cayuga county asks whether the new law in 
regard to cattle and other stock running in the highway is in 
operation now. or to take effect hereafter, snd adds:— ” We 
are very much troubled with unruly horses and cattle, and 
have hesitated to take them in charge, not knowing that Gov. 
Morgan had signed the bill and it bad actually become a law.' 
Wo believe the net referred to lias been duly approved by the 
Governor, hut as no lime is named in the hill for it to take 
effect, it could not be enforced until twenty days after its final 
passage, which must have been on or before the 23d of April, 
w hen the Legislature adjourned. We shall publish the act in 
full next week. 
UnderdraIning—(’tiring Hay. 
At the recent meeting of the Maine Agricultu¬ 
ral Society, various subjects were discussed. We 
copy the following from a reportof the proceedings: 
Unperiiraining. —Mr. Hayden had planted pars¬ 
nips directly over one of his drains, and upon pull¬ 
ing them up found them to be four feet and three 
inches in length, and three quarters of an inch in 
diameter where broken off If water stands in soil 
at a depth of six inches from the surface, the roots 
of plants can go down no further; they run off near 
the surface, and when dry weather comes on they 
dry up and the plant dies. Drainage is the remedy 
for this; it gives the roots of plants a chance to pen¬ 
etrate the soil, and consequently a more vigorous 
and healthy growth is obtained. The two great 
benefits to be obtained from underdrawing are:— 
1st. It gives two week3 to the length of the season, 
which in Maine is of great advantage, as it would 
enable us to raise plants now but seldom cultivated, 
2d. It prepares the soil in such a condition that 
plants stand the drouth much better than if not 
drained. 
Ccring Hay.— Mr. Barrows said, in regard to 
curing hay, he thought formers burnt their hay too 
much; let it have too much sun. He had traveled 
extensively in England, and in the misty climate of 
that country, where the sun was not seen for a num¬ 
ber of days in succession, they succeeded in having 
good hay. It was cured chiefly in the cocks, being 
put up in small bunches. Hay dried too much is 
I worthless; the straws should bend, hut not break. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Having seen a cor¬ 
respondence in a recent issue of your journal, from 
Mr. ¥m. P. Trimble, of Erie, Penn., relative to the 
hog distemper, raging with such fatal effect through¬ 
out various sections of the United States, and also 
having had some experience with said distemper in 
this immediate section of the country, where fearful 
inroads have been made upon the property of swine 
raisers, I take the liberty to pen a tew lines relative 
to our treatment, which has been attended thus far 
with entirely satisfactory results. 
We take the position, that when a hog is attacked 
with the aforesaid disease it will surely die. and 
our experience up to this time has confirmed this 
opinion. But in every instance where pitch tar has 
been administered to the hogs, the disease has been 
arrested, at least in all instances that have come 
under our observation, or to our knowledge, and 
we are firmly of the opinion that the above remedy 
is a sure preventive, if not a cure. The above med¬ 
icine is prepared in tbe following manner:—Two 
tablespoonfuls of tar to a pint of boiling water. 
When thoroughly melted, mix with half a pail of 
bran, and then fill the pail with milk. This makes 
a sufficient dose for six hogs. J. J. Kellogo. 
Dwight, Ill. 1862. 
Rules ofthh New York Pork Market. —Will some of the 
Rural readers have the goodness to publish the rules for pack¬ 
ing pork for the New York market — size of barreL quantity of 
salt, aud what constitutes tness, one hog, prime, and clear? 
Also, the size of kegs for lard. Give u? the rules in detail, 
aud much oblige—H H. Kendall , 2V. Y., 1862. 
Shokt-Hokns from Kentucky—Mr. Conger’s Herd. —We 
learn that Mr. J. R. Page, of Cayuga, passed through this city 
eastward, a few days ago, with about thirty Short-Horns, 
recently purchased of Mr. R. A Alexander, of Kentucky, 
for Hon. A. B. Conger. Wald berg. Rockland Co., N. Y’. A 
very fine lot of animals, we are assured. With this addition, 
Mr. C’.'s Short-Horn herd numbers over one hundred cows 
aud heifers, and lie has bulls in proportion to requirements 
for breeding. Mr. Conger also has herds of Ayrshires and 
Devons, a flock of South-Down sheep, and quite a number of 
Thorough-bred horses. Waldberg must be an interesting 
place for breeders, and other admirers of improved stock, to 
visit. 
Power Wanted. — I wish to be informed through the 
Rural what is the best power and means, except steam or 
water power, to raise water 30 to 40 feet from a well, in quan¬ 
tity sufficient for farm slock, and to saw fire wood, with force 
to run a circular saw 20 inches in diameter? Also, the cost, 
aud where to be obtained? —A SuiiSCkiiikk, &:Jiookraft , Kal- 
amaioo Co- Mich., 1S62. 
Seeding to Clover.— I have a very poor piece of light, 
sandy soil, which 1 want to get down to clover as soon as pos¬ 
sible* but it is BO very poor 1 am doubtful about its taking, 
and shall loose my seed. 1 wish Rural readers would inform 
me how I can get this clorered in the shortest time and at least 
expense. It is now perfectly barren, Rnd when dry , tbe wind 
blows it. about like snow. Nut far from this field 1 have a bed 
of muck. Will it do to draw this on during summer, aud 
plow it in in the fall, sowing winter rye, and elovenng? The 
barn-lard manure is needed more for other parts of the farm. 
—S., West Junius, 2V. J'.. 1S02. 
Livingston Countt Ag. Society. — At a recent meeting of 
the managers of this Society, it was decided to hold the next 
Annual Fair on the 25th and 26th of September, at Geneseo. 
Some important amendments were made to the premium list, 
which has been much enlarged, and most of the premiums 
advanced. A committee was appointed to procure a new and 
superior diploma. There is talk of having u Mowing Match, 
a Sheep Shearing, and a Horse Show next month. YVe are 
glad to note these evidences of the progressive spirit which 
animates the members of the Society. 
Garget —Can yon give any cun' for this complaint 4 I have 
two valuable milch cows that have been affected with this 
disease for the last glx months. My neighbors call it the gar¬ 
get, While milking, the milk flows thick—no blood—in fact, 
it looks maturated 1 would he greatly obliged if you, or any 
of your readers, could give a cure.—W , Big Falls, JY. Y. 
The Rural of March 15, a copy of which has been mailed 
to your address, contains the information you desire. 
Tub Perry and Castile Ag. Societt held its annual meet¬ 
ing a few days ago. It was numerously attended by the right 
class of men, aud the best spirit prevailed. The following 
officers were elected: President — Thomas J. Patterson. 
Vice President—George E. Pierce. Secretary— J. S Sanford. 
Treasure, —R. C. Mordoff. Directors— R- W. Brigham. Samuel 
Waldo, A. Palmer, S. D. Tabor. L. H. Beardsley, h. B.Crego. 
Mr. Chamberlin said he was sure too much sun 
injured hay. lie did not care how tight a barn was 
—his own’was double-boarded and clap-boarded, 
but was well ventilated, there being from twelve to 
fifteen square feet of ventilation always open. Was 
careful to have his hay well trod dow n when mowed 
away. 
Mr. Martin thought three or four hours’ sun was 
amply sufficient for clover hay, if about half of the 
heads were turned before it was cut, if it was mown 
after the dew was off, and putin the barn at noon, 
or when hot Last year he had five Ions of clover 
hay, which, after being cut, had stood in the cock 
five days through dull weather. The hired men 
opened'it. and because it looked green they spread 
it out very thin, and it was not worth half price. It 
was dama’ged greatly by the sun. 
R. Mbatyard, Ellicott, Erie Co., N. Y .—The subject matter 
of your inquiry was discussed iu the last issue of the Rural. 
“Now, 1 hold that no one would think of slaughtering an 
animal for food which was at the time in a perfectly healthy 
state; for excessive fat is a disease of itself.” &c. 
Your “ hold,” friend “ E. M. P.,” has a very uncer¬ 
tain tenure; for people do think of slaughtering 
cattle, sheep, and swine, when in a perfectly healthy 
condition. And I repeat the axiom with emphasis , 
as being entirely practicable: for it is practiced per¬ 
haps not as much as it should be: but still it is prac¬ 
ticed with more profit than that practice which 
creates “ excessive fat, which is a disease of itself.” 
The moment the animal passes from the healthy 
A. L. Hoxie, Wheatland , Mich .— We answer Tex to your 
various inquiries as to Flower Seed. Correspondence, etc. 
Will respond concerning the culture of onions in our next 
number, if possible.__ 
CRiiinixo Horses. — Seeing an inquiry in the Rural for 
curing horses of cribbing. I will give you one that has been 
very successful Take a large size fence wire and stretch 
across the stall, six inches above the top of the manger, and 
the horse will always bite on that, being the first object his 
nose touches. A very few trials will cure him.—G. A. Brady, 
La Sails Co., Illinois , 1862. 
Rkad tuk New Advertisements in this paper. Among 
them are several important and seasonable announcements. 
Tho machines and implements — such as Tiffany’s Tile 
Machine, We&ti.yshouAB & Co.’s Boise Powers, Thrashers, 
Clover Machines, &c., and the Corn and Bean Planters adver¬ 
tised—will of course attract the attention of farmers and 
others interested. 
