if you ever noticed it, a hog can't root unless he 
stands on.legs. You see the philosophy of loker- 
motion.” “llaDg you and your patent,” said I: 
“here’s your dollar, and if you will just go along 
and hold your tongue there’s a quarter to get your 
dinner with.” lie started off, the very picture of 
injured innocence.’ However, after getting a little 
way, he turns round with “I say, mister, if ye ever 
uses that ero thing you will find it to work like a 
stick in Boap grease.” 
Editor. —Did you ever use it ? 
John.— Did I ever use it ? What do you think ? 
Editor.— Why, that a man who would go to hear 
the Professor would be pretty likely to use the 
“patent anti-hog-rooter.” But did it ever get out, 
John ? 
John. —Somehow Smith got hold of it, for he used 
to ask me sometimes, in a sly way, how my hogs got 
along. I shut his gate, however, beautifully. 
Editor.— How ? 
John.— No time to tell now, as I must be off to 
the lecture. 
Editor. —Write and let me know how you like it 
John. —I will. So, good night. 
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CLOVER-SAVING THE SEED* 
TO THE FAHMEB3 OF THE WEST. 
Eds. Rukai, New-Yorker:—As 1 have a good 
many inquiries respecting raising clover, and saving 
seed from the Eiime, I would take this opportunity 
of giving my mode of operation. I try to cat the 
first crop and get it off Ihe last days of June, and 
not later than the 4th of July. The second crop 1 
save for seed, letting it stand until I think two- 
thirds at least of the heads are ripe, when I take my 
reaper, with the platform on, and cut, raking it off 
in gavils and putting them in rows, so as to save 
time in gathering. I then let it lay until it gets one 
or two good showers, and soon as dry, having no 
barns, (and by the way I would prefer to get out 
the seed out of doors,) I take and make a bottom of 
rails at least eight inches from the ground—say ten 
feet wide and forty long, according to the amouutof 
clover. I build the tide very square up—if any¬ 
thing a little wider on top—until the lust two or 
three loads, owing to the size of the stack, throwing 
them in the middle, and top out, good, with coarse 
prairie hay, or a load or two of corn-stalks, bound 
up and lapped over, so as to make a sure thing ol 
it. This done, 1 let it stand until the ground freezes 
and the weather settles. I then take one of Bikd- 
9 a Li, & Bkokaw’s Premium Clover Threshers and 
Hullers, combined, and make short work of it in 
preparing it for market. 
Our yield in this Western country,on an average, 
is three bushels; .1 have raised seven. I am sure, 
as a general thing, our Western farmers do not 
seed one-half enough for the benefit of the land. 1 
know of pieces of land here that never get a load of 
manure or a coat of clover for ten, and sometimes 
fifteen years, aud consider it a poor way of farming. 
A good crop of clover seed pays me belter than a 
crop of wheat; wheat a’. 75 cents, and clover at $.'! 
per bushel. Some may ask, where can Bikdhkli. 
A Broeaw’S machine be seen or got? As 1 am the 
Western Agent, any one can get all the desired 
information by sending a letter to my address, with 
a stamp enclosed, or by coming to my place. [See, 
also, B. &. B. s advertisement, in Rural.] 
Yourp, truly, Hugh Hulb. 
St. Charles, Ill., Nov., 1862. 
DISADVANTAGES OP RURAL LIPE. 
Ens. Rural New-Yorker:— It has become very 
much the fashion for the speakers at our County 
Fairs, and writers in Agricultural papers, to con¬ 
gratulate the farmer on bis enviable position as a 
tiller of the soil,—holding daily communion with 
Nature, breathing the free, mild air of heaven, with 
cheerful exercise aud occupation, contentment, &o. 
Now, cant is always disgusting; and it strikes me 
that there has, of late, been not a little of it con¬ 
cerning conntry life; aud as the Rural is open to 
discussions upon all subjects, I have a word to say 
ou this, which, it not quite as flattering as much 
that we hear aud read, may at least have the merit 
of being equally true. 
Every one who knows anything about farming, 
knows that it is very hard and very dirty work. 1 
am aware that it is exceedingly delightful tosiliu tho 
shade of some thick-branching, wide-spreading tree, 
on a lovely July day, and watch the mowers at work 
in a luxuriant meadow. How like play it looks; how 
beautifully the tall grass comes down, rank after 
rank; what music in every swing of the scythe, as 
it rushes in aud out the mimic forest; and then the 
delicious fragrance which floats upon the air,—veri¬ 
ly, there is no perfumery equal to the breath ol 
new-mown hay! That is the poetry ol the thing. 
But. come out of your leafy retreat, take the scythe 
iu your own hands, bend your back to the required 
angle, and keep it so bent, hour after hour, through 
the whole day, with the sun (which you thought was 
shining just right, as you sat iu the shade,) beating 
upon yon, and not a breath of air stirring. That , I 
am inclined to think, you will conclude, is plain 
prose. 
I do not, by any means, wish to be understood as 
speaking of work with contempt, for I know that 
everything worth having must be toiled for, and 
often the highest good comes only by the hardest 
labor. And, moreover, there is a vast deal to be 
done in the economy of lilts, which is very dirty and 
disagreeable, and no one is less a man or woman 
because it chances to fall to his or her lot to do it 
But what I do maintain is, that it is always better to 
have a correct and definite understanding of our 
position and circumstances; whatever is peculiar or 
disagreeable therein, for it is only thus that we can 
apply ourselves intelligently and effectually to 
overcome what can be overcome, or “making a 
truce with necessity” bear courageously what must 
be borne, and so get from life all of good that the 
Creator, in bestowing it, designed it should yield us. 
I have observed that those of our farmers who 
are most thoroughly imbued with the idea that 
their condition is the most enviable to which mortal 
ever need aspire, and who look upon “corn and 
pumpkins plenty” us the sum and substance ol 
human felicity, are usually the most ignorant, unde¬ 
sirable part of community, almost invariably pro- 
slaveryites of the straitest sect, thoroughly rooted 
and grounded in the faith that the negro is only an 
animal, and that the salvation of this nation in par¬ 
ticular, and the world in general, depends upon hie 
being kept in bondage. Enter the home of oue of 
this class, and make yourself familiar with the 
spirit that pervades it, and I think it will not require 
a very long sojourn therein to convince you that 
the condition of his pigs is Far preferable to his 
children, in so far as respects facilities for attaining 
the highest ends ol their existence. Now I grant I 
this may sound a little extravagant, yet f think that 
no one who has had opportunities for observation 
will deny that the tendency among our rural popu¬ 
lation, and especially in districts remote from large 
towns, is to subside into a sort of half-animal exist¬ 
ence, and it is only by constant watchfulness and 
effort that this tendency is counteracted. 1 believe 
no intelligent farmer who has ever been a dozen 
miles from home, mingled among men of other 
callings, and observed the quickening and sharpen¬ 
ing effect of constant intercourse with others in the 
way of business or pleasure, but has felt with a 
sigh that he, too, is “a man of whom more might 
have been made.” 
There are scattered here and there all over the 
country, men who in their boyhood had longed for 
a more satisfying life, a higher cultivation, but who, 
from various causes,— perhaps by reason of the 
burden of debt resting upon the homestead, which 
his strong arm must help to lighten, or from pater¬ 
nal unwillingness to give him a start in another 
direction; or what so many have longed tor in vain, 
even permission to go out and work his way alone. 
I say there are many Fuch, and noble men they are, 
too, many of them, who have quietly given up all 
their hopes, anil set themselves heroically to do 
their best in the lot which seemed to be marked out 
for them. For 1 hold it to be the highest heroism 
for one to reconcile himself to, and work heartily 
and cheerfully in, a calling into which he may have 
been forced against his will. 
But, Air. Editor, this is an extensive subject, and 
as I fear I have already trespassed too far, I will 
reserve for another letter a lew more things Ibat, 1 
have in mind concerning the disadvantages of rural 
life. F. M. Gat. 
Easton, N. Y., Nov., 1862. 
AN OUT-DOOR CELLAR. 
Ens. Rural New-Yorker:— In the Rural of 
the 15th inst., “Farmer” desires some information 
about the building of an out-door root cellar—“it 
you think such aconstruction valuable for a farmer.” 
We consider a good root cellar one of the indie 
pensables to a good farmer. The reason why we say 
good farmer is this:—A root cellar is of but little 
benefit to any but a good practical and systematic 
farmer, or one desiring so to be. We say systematic, 
because it needs a thorough system in feeding roots 
and other succulent fodders to make such a course 
of feeding profitable. Again,—a good farmer will, 
as far as he is able, have a good barn and stables 
aud everthing well adapte-d to the profitable feeding 
of such succulent fodders in all kinds of weather 
during the winter season. 
In building a root-cellar—as in everything else— 
the old adage holds good, “what is worth doing at 
all is worth doing well.” I should not advise any 
one to build a root cellar of posts, plank, and straw, 
as such an one would soon be converted into a har¬ 
bor for rats and mice, and well tenanted, too. I 
should prefer to bury in common holeR rather than 
build such a cellar’. I find, from experience, it is 
better not to put more roots in. a cellar at one lime 
than will last your stock six weeks or two months, 
as they keep more fresh buried than In a cellar. 
I will now give the mode of building what I call 
a good root cellar, by giving a description of one 1 
built. Any one wishing to build can vary to suit 
themselves. It is attached to the end at my barn on 
the overshot side. The bottom of it is about on a 
level with the bottom of iny stables. The size of ii 
is sixteen by twenty feet. The walls are built of 
! stone, laid in lime mortar; wall pointed in and out¬ 
side. No one stone should run through the wall, as 
it will Ire more apt to freeze. The height of wall 
is seven feet, which brings it to the top of burn wall. 
I have a door entering it from under the overshot of 
my barn, which makes it always dry and warm 
The thickness of wall is twenty inches. To prevent 
it from freezing at the door. I hung two doors on 
one frame, one swinging in and the other out. The 
bottom of the cellar is plastered with two coals of 
water lime, which prevents the rats and. mice from 
entering. It has two coats of common plastering 
overhead. This, with two windows, finishes the 
cellar. 1 then set on it a building the same size 
of cellar with twelve feet posts. This I divide in 
two stories. The first r use to keep my farming 
tools iu, and find it belter than the money it cost put 
out on interest. The second I use for a work shop. 
This I find, by having a good supply of tools and 
timber, such as every farmer should have, is better 
than double its cost. W. H. Silverthoen. 
Fairview, Fa., 1862. 
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$ltJC 
Bees and their Destroyers. 
Do birds destroy bees ? Is not the sting of the bee a suf¬ 
ficient protection ? 1 have also seen it stated that toads de¬ 
stroy bees, but this would seem hardly possible, and as I have 
always encouraged the presence of toads in tnv garden for the 
purpose of catching insects, 1 would like to be informed of 
the facts. Will mice attack bees in winter f—L earner. 
Birds will destroy bees, that is, those that feed 
upon the wing. Toads will eat bees in vast quanti¬ 
ties, and should never be permitted to harbor 
around hives. We have often seen toads at their 
work, in the evening twilight. Alice like the warm 
comfortable quarters Airmailed by the bee-hive, and 
they also relish the honey as well as the dormant 
bees. The following on this subject is by Air. Lang- 
BTROTn: 
“ tt seems almost incredible that such puny ani¬ 
mals as mice should venture to invade a hive of 
bees; and yet they often slip in when cold compels 
the bees to retreat from the entrance. Having once 
gained admission, they build a warm nest in their 
comfortable abode, eat up the honey and such bees 
as are too much chilled to offer resistance, and fill 
the premises with such a stench, that the bees, on 
the arrival of warm weather, often abandon their 
polluted home. On the approach of cold weather, 
the entrances of the hives should be so contracted 
that a mouse cannot get in. 
“ That various kinds of birds are fond of bees, 
every Apiarian knows to bis cost. The King-bird 
(Tyrcmnus musieapaj which devours them by 
scores, is said—when he can have a choice—to eat 
only the drones; but as be catches bees on the 
blossoms—which are never frequented by these fat 
and lazy gentlemen—the industrious workers must 
often fall a prey to his fatal snap. There is good 
reason to suspect that this gourmand can distin¬ 
guish between an empty bee in search of food, and 
one which, returning laden to his fragrant home, is 
iu excellent condition to glide—already sweetened— 
down his voracious maw. 
“ No Apiarian ought ever to encourage the de¬ 
struction of birds, because of their fondness for his 
bees. Unless we can check the custom of destroy¬ 
ing, on any pretence, our insectivorous birds, we 
shall soon, not only be deprived of their aerial mel¬ 
ody among the leafy branches, but shall lament, 
more and more, the increase of insects, from whose 
ravages nothing but these birds can protect us. Let 
those w ho can enjoy no music math* hy these winged 
choristers of the skies, except that of their agoniz¬ 
ing screams as they fall before their well-aimed 
weapons, and flutter out their innocent lives before 
their heartless gaze, drive away, as far as they 
please from their cruel premises, all the little birds 
that they cannot destroy, and they will, eventually, 
reap the fruits of their folly, when the caterpillars 
weave their destroying webs over their leafless trees, 
and insects of all kinds riot in glee on their blasted 
harvests.” _ . 
WiiHcrliiR Bees. 
AIr. Walter, in an article on wintering bees, 
asserts that colonies which have no stores of pollen, 
or are only meagerly supplied therewith, will not be 
injured, but rather benefited, by being placed du¬ 
ring winter in a dark depository wilh a moderate 
temperature. On the contrary, colonies well sup¬ 
plied with pollen, will be brought to the verge, of 
ruin by being placed in such a depository, with the 
temperature considerably above the freezing point. 
This may. perhaps, explain the discordant accounts 
bee-keepers give of the results of experiments made 
in this mode ol wintering bees. 
When a colony perishes of starvation in summer 
or in the fall, the workers first become too feeble to 
fly, and then too weak to walk, their motions being 
tottering and slow, Jill finally they die. If bees ex¬ 
hibit such symptoms in winter, they are not really 
dead immediately after becoming motionless, and 
may generally be restored, if found soon after get¬ 
ting into this condition and removed to a warm 
room If their hive contain sufficient supplies of 
sealed honey, or they be transferred into one which 
is thus furnished, they may then still survive the 
winter. * 
In the month of March, Capt. Baloenstein gath¬ 
ered from the snow on which they had fallen, a 
largo number of chilled and apparently dead bees, 
lie laid them on the alighting board of one of his 
hives in the evening, and closed up the apiary. On 
re-ripening’it next morning, at 10 o'clock, they still 
lay there without any sign of life. But after tlie sun 
shone on them awhile, the greater part of them re¬ 
vived. and fiew to their respective hives. They had 
remained in a "benumbed state sixteen hours without 
being really killed. 
Winter Management of Bees. 
Ip his stocks were carefully prepared for win¬ 
tering during the mild weather iu October and 
November, the bee-keeper will not be called on to 
give only a general supervision from time to time, 
though if warm days occur, on which the bees can 
fly out, he may use the opportunity to inspect his 
hives more tmnowly. Dead bees and droppings 
should then be removed from the bottom-board, as 
a precaution lo prevent the entrance from becom¬ 
ing obstructed or closed. This should be done 
quietly and expeditiously, and only when the tem¬ 
perature is such as to allow bees to fly. Fowls 
must not be suffered to roost on or between the 
hives, nor should dogs, cats, or other domestic ani¬ 
mals be tolerated about the apiary, especially dur¬ 
ing the winter. The less the bees are disturbed, 
at this season, when complete repose is so essential 
to them, the better. Tt the hives are situated ou 
the north side of a fence or building, the bees will 
be less likely to be affected by transient changes of 
the weather, and in other locations, the front of the 
hives should, if practicable, be sheltered from the 
sun's rays. A temporary screen will serve an ex¬ 
cellent purpose, saving numbers of bees which 
would otherwise be tempted to issue and find them¬ 
selves unable to return Thin hives, whether made 
of straw or wood, will need some protection during 
very cold weather, in Northern districts; and where 
this seems necessary, it is always judicious to attend 
to it early in the season, so as not to disturb the 
colony when clustered in a semi-torpid stale. 
Bees kept in Lungstroth hives, will require up¬ 
ward ventilation, especially il' the stocks are strong. 
The mere removal of Ihe tin coverings of the holes 
in the honey-board is not always sufficient to pre¬ 
vent the condensation of moisture within the hive, 
and the honey-board should then either be elevated 
about an inch, or entirely removed. If replaced by 
a frame of suitable size covered with canvas or 
coarse linen, sufficient, ventilation may be furnished, 
and if the stock needs feeding, honey thickened wilh 
brown sugar and worked to a stiff doughy consis¬ 
tence, may be spread on the canvas immediately 
above the clustered beos, when it will be taken as 
required. If condensed moisture still collect within 
the top or cover of the hive, after the removal ol the 
honey-board, (as sometimes happens with strong 
colonies) additional ventilation should be given by 
boring oue or more three-fourth inch holes through 
the sides of the cover. The entrance of the hives 
must, during this period, be kept so contracted as to 
allow the passage ol only one bee at a time .—Bee 
Journal. 
Iguttll of tlJO gffS#. 
Lice on Fowls. 
A writer in the London Field says fowls may 
be kept, free from vermin as follows:— “ First of all 
if in confinement, in the dust corner of the poultry 
house mix about half a pound of black sulphur in 
the sand and lime that they dust in. This will both 
keep them free from parasites and give the leathers 
a glossy appearance. If infested with the insects, 
dampen the skin under the leathers with a little wa¬ 
ter, then sprinkle a little sulphur on the skin. Let 
the bird be covered with insects and they will disap¬ 
pear iu the course of twelve hours. Also, previous 
to setting a hen, if the nest, be slightly sprinkled 
with the sulphur, there is no tear of the hen being 
annoyed during incubation, neither will the chick¬ 
ens be troubled hy> them. Many a fine hatched 
brood pines away and dies through nothing else, and 
no one knows the cause.” 
Sheep-Pox. 
Tins disease has created considerable alarm in 
England, and is being discussed by many writers 
for the Agricultural press. Though it has not 
appeared irr this country, its introduction is not 
improbable, and hence any information concerning 
it will prove interesting. We therefore copy the 
following on the subject from the Edinburgh Veter¬ 
inary Review: 
Firstly —The sheep-pox on British soil has never 
yet been proved to occur, except by the introduc¬ 
tion of the disease from the European continent. 
No well educated veterinarian, who has devoted 
any attention to epizootic diseases, can assert other¬ 
wise. 
Secondly —The sheep-pox commences almost in¬ 
variably by one or two cases, w hich, if separated 
early, do not propagate disease; and it may be 
limited to this insignificant number. If these first 
cases, however mild, are not attended to early, the 
results are disastrous. 
Thirdly —It is very easy to attend to these early 
case?. There are always signs of indisposition, loss 
of appetite, dullness, drooping ears, redness of the 
eyes, Ac. Whenever these symptoms appear, a rash 
or pimples are seen on the thighs and arm-pits. 
This is the golden opportunity not to be lost, and 
the affected animals must be enclosed in a place of 
perfect safety, or destroyed and buried. 
Fourthly— In whatever district the disease may 
appear, we recommend the farmers to act as one 
man—to join and protect each other, and secure 
the very best professional aid money can obtain. 
An early effort will save a county, or the country, 
from irreparable loss. 
Prince Albert’s Farm. 
According to a writer in the Philadelphia 
Ledger, the late Prince Albert’s farm is situated 
near Windsor Castle, about twenty miles south-west 
ot London, occupies one thousand acres, one hun¬ 
dred of which are never plowed, and is wooded and 
6own with orchard grass, top-dressed every four 
years with liquid manure. The arable land is sub- 
soiled every two or three years with four enor¬ 
mously large Scotch horses, driven tandem: rotation 
of crops much the same as ours, without the Indian 
corn. 
Barley and oats are crushed in a mill driven by 
steam; eighty short-horn and Alderney cows are 
kept; cow-stalls made of iron; iron troughs always 
lull of water in each stall, with waste-pipe lo gutter 
behind them, and thence to manure-shed, from 
which it is pumped into carta similar to ours for 
watering streets, and sprinkled over the grass. 
Keeps none but Suflolk and Berkshire pigs; pre¬ 
fers former on account of their taking on fat; as 
one of the swine-herds said, “A dale of fat a dale 
quicker.” 
The. pig-pens are of stone, and payed with stone, 
being lower in the center, from which a pipe con¬ 
ducts the liquid manure to keep. In the garden 1 
saw peach, apricot and plum trees trained espalier; 
pine apples, straw berries and grapes, in all stages 
ol growth; the latter finer than iu countries to 
which they are indigenous, and ripe all the year- 
round. Melons will not grow in the open air, but 
they have very fine ones in frames. Her Majesty 
must certainly fare sumptuously every day. There 
are forty men to attend to tho garden alone. 
Afr. Tait, the gentlemanly manager of the farm, 
gave me every information desired. 1 also went to 
see the Queen's stables at Buckingham Palace; 
they would make more comfortable dwellings than 
two-thirds ol the people of London live iu. Eng¬ 
lish farriers have found out that the upper part of 
the stall ought to be lowest by two inches at least. 
There are in those stables one hundred and six 
horses. Her Majesty is partial to greys, and may 
be seen driving two in hand in Windsor Park. The 
Princess Alice drives four ponies, and is said to be 
an excellent horsewoman. I saw the eight cream- 
colored horses that draw her Majesty at the time of 
opening or dissolving Parliament. Their harness 
is red morocco, gold-mounted, cost $10,000: and 
the state carriage cost $30,000 ninety years ago. 
Agriculture, Arc., of New York. 
The Country Gentleman furnishes the following 
compilation on this subject: 
New York— the first State in the Union, in 
point of population, is the 17th in geographical area. 
It is the 4th in density of population, having 84 in¬ 
habitants to the square mile, while there are 158 in 
Massachusetts, 134 in Rhode Island, and 08 in Con¬ 
necticut. These facts are derived from the Prelim¬ 
inary Report of the Census of 1860, tor a copy of 
which we are indebted to Afr. Snpt. Kennedy, 
through J. S. Grinnell, Esq., of the Bureau of 
Agriculture. 
The Agricultural tables in this Report, show that 
although New York is only the 17th State in area, 
she stands first in the extent of Improved Land, 
Illinois being second, Ohio third, Virginia fourth, 
and Pennsylvania the fifth on the list New York 
also “ stands at the head” in the cash value ot her 
farms, Ohio being here tho second, Pennsylvania 
third, Illinois fourth, and Virginia fifth. In value 
of Farm Implements and Machinery, New York is 
again in first, Pennsylvania second. Louisiana third, 
Illinois fourth, and Ohio fifth. 
In Livestock, New York stands third to Ohio aud 
Illinois in the number of Horses; but in Asses and 
Afules she is the twenty-third on the list of States. 
Now Yor k is first by very long odds, in Aiilch Cows, 
Ohio standing Eecond with less than two-thirds as 
many: is third in Working Oxen to Texas and Mis¬ 
souri j and fifth in “Other Cattle,” to Texas, Cali¬ 
fornia. Ohio, and Illinois. New York has the second 
largest number of Sheep’, Ohio being first, Indiana 
third, and Pennsylvania fourth. Iu Swine we make 
no show at all, being seventeenth from the top, with 
Indiana first, and Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio, Ken¬ 
tucky, and several other States following close after 
her. But iu the total value of Live Stock, New 
York again heads the list, Ohio following next, 
with not quite eight-tenths our pecuniary amount. 
As to Crops, New York is the sixth State in the 
production of Wheat, the second in that of Rye, the 
fourteenth In Indian Corn, the first in Oats, the 
eighth in Tobacco, the fifth in Peas and Beans, the 
second in Barley, (California beiog the first;) the 
second in Buckwheat; the first in Orchard Products, 
in those of Afarket Gardens, aud in Hay; the third 
in Clover seed and in Grass Feed; the first in Hops, 
(producing nearly ten-elevenths of all grown in the 
Union.) the first in Flax, and the first in Maple 
Sugar, (producing more than one-fourth the total 
crop.) fn amount of Woo), she stands second only 
to Ohio, and the difference in favor of the latter 
State ib not so large as iu the number of Sheep, 
showing either that our fleeces average heavier, or 
that more sheep leave the State of Ohio when 
young (which may be t,be case) to be fed or shorn 
at the East. Our product of Butter in New York 
is set down at more than double that of Ohio—not 
quite double that of Pennsylvania— the two States 
ranking next. Our product of Cheese ib also more 
than double that of Ohio, and lacks comparatively 
little of being one-half the total product of the 
Union. The “value of animalB slaughtered” is 
greater in New York than in any other State. Our 
product of Honey is also at the top of the list. 
These odd facts and comparisons do not amount 
to anything, except to gratify one’s curiosity by 
showing to what objects our Agriculture is mainly 
devoted in this State as placed side by side with 
others. 
Hural Notes an 5 Stems. 
Office of our Western Editor.—F or the information of 
Hrioir. readers in the West, and especially the many acquaint¬ 
ance? of our Western AssoeiatB, we would state that Mr 
Brac,DON'S office is M Nil. 69 State St., Chicago, where he will 
bo happy to see his friends from the country. It is unneces¬ 
sary for us to add that Mr. B. is deeply interested iu all that 
pertains to the progress of the West and isealously laboring 
to promote improvement in its Agriculture, Horticulture and 
kindred pursuits. Identified and familiar with its Rural Af¬ 
fairs. he will be glad to meet the Farmers and Horticulturists 
of the West, and receive and impart information on topics of 
interest to the people and country. To his friends no intro¬ 
duction will be necessary, and other readers of the Rural 
will, we doubt not, receive a cordial welcome, tine who has 
traveled so much in the West, and observed so closely and 
written bo well about what he has seen and heard, requires no 
commendation to those desirous of elevating the position or 
enhancing the interests of the Agriculturists of that vast and 
productive region. We therefore invite those i idling Chicago 
to call at No. 69 State St., and have a chat with our Western 
Aid, who we may add. is both intelligent and amiable—a man 
thoroughly imbued wilh progressive principles and right im¬ 
pulses, and who, moreover, firmly believes in the West and 
its People. 
A Good Sewing Machine, although not an agricultural 
implement, is considered indispensable by many a farmer's 
wife and daughter, and therefore a proper subject of comment 
in this journal. So thought we a day or two ago, on entering 
the fine and splendidly furnished and stocked rooms at No. 70 
Buffalo street, this city, recently opened as the Western New 
York Emporium of the 'Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Ma¬ 
chines. The Rochester Agency for the sale of these machines 
has long been superintended by Mr. 9. W Dibble, a gentle¬ 
man “to the manner born," assisted by Harvey Hall ; but 
at tho new head quarters (fitted up and arranged under the 
eye and direction of Mr. Diiiulk, who is a member of the 
firm of W. & W.. and now resides in New York.) the man¬ 
agement is submitted to Mr. D. O. Dutton, late of Lockport, 
arid Mr. Hall, both largely experienced in the business. 
Messrs. 1>. & H. have a fine stock of machines and findings, 
and we cordially and voluntarily commend their wares to the 
attention and examination of ladies visiting Rochester. And 
any father, husband, brother, or even lover wishing to pre¬ 
sent a certain party a very useful as well as musical instru¬ 
ment can find such an oue by calling at the Emporium. 
Crocs in RebeldOM.— Tho planters of the Carolinaa, 
Louisiana, and other Southern States, arc finding that seces¬ 
sion is a hard road to travel, with both Providence and the 
Union Army to contend against. The Charleston Mercury 
states that the corn crop of South Carolina has been serious¬ 
ly diminished by a drouth, and that the rice crop is small on 
account of the removal nf the planters from the tide water 
region. It has appehensinns of a short ^ apply of food for the 
winter. The first instalment of the new sugar crop was re¬ 
ceived in New Orleans on the SOtb. The prospects are not 
favorable for saving any considerable proportion ol' it- though 
if the usual force of negroes was available, the largest crop 
ever raised in the State would be gathered this season. The 
New Orleans Advocate of the 31st ult says—“.Fine and pro¬ 
pitious weather for a grinding season, but planters have, in nine 
cases out of ten merely to stand l*y, as it were, and see their 
crops go to ruin. Tho negroes have beeu to turbulent and 
insubordinate during the season that no wood has been se¬ 
cured, and there being no coal on hand there are none of the 
usual requirements for taking off - a crop of cane available.” 
Minor Rural a.vd otiikr I thus .—The Greatest IP col 
Growing Stale, according to tho census, is Ohio; New York 
and Pennsylvania next, and Michigan ranks fourth. New Jer¬ 
sey raises more potatoes than any other State by two to one. 
- The Snow Storm, of the 26th ult.. extended as far south as 
Chattanooga, Tcnn., where the ground was covered to tho 
depth of an inch and a half—and to the Block Mountains of 
N. C., where the snow was half afoot deep- the. (Pastern 
Railroads are doing an enormous business, and tho Illinois 
Central has lately made a contract for the building of 600 new 
cars. The Michigan Southern and Michigan Central are also 
adding largely to tlioir rolling stock.-- The Manufacture of 
Salt at the State Works in Onondaga county continues to in¬ 
crease in amount over that of any previous year. The num¬ 
ber of bushels inspected this year up to the 8th inst, is 7,680,- 
000, which is an increase over Inst year to the same date of 
nearly 1,350,000 bushels." 
This Business of tub West.— The following is cut from 
the commercial column of the Chicago Daily Post, one of the 
most reliable and discreet journals published in the West. 
We are assured that the condition of things thus stated is not 
exaggerated. The article is under date of Nov. 7th: 
*■ The business of the city continues very active, and not 
withstanding it ha* been clcoMon week, which is generally 
considered a poor one for business, the sales of the jobbing 
bouses will tint fall very far below last, week, which was be¬ 
yond all question the most active one ever witnessed in Chi¬ 
cago. The amount of produce going forward to the east i* 
without a parallel In the history of our ritv. Foe the past 
three weeks the depots of the three eastern bound lines have 
been so full of freight that the agents have hern compelled to 
refine hundreds of car loads. The lake transportation com¬ 
panies have also been overrun, and had the capncUteo of both 
railroad and propeller lines been double what they are, they 
would have bad all they could possibly do. Tin* w estern and 
southern bound railroads Centering in Chicago have also been 
overrun with bu-ine.*, aud the Illinois Central and Chicago 
and St. Louis lines have not been able to do the business 
offered, and if the former line had 2.500 more freight cars they 
could all bo employed to good advantage." 
Pork in Chicago, —This city will soon claim the distin¬ 
guished title of Porkopolis, heretofore given to our sister city, 
Cincinnati; indeed it may properly claim it now for the fig¬ 
ures of the lust season's packing warrants it. Last season 
Cincinnati cut 483,000 hogs; Chicago 614,118! The season 
now commencing finds Chicago prepared with nearly double 
tho capacity tor outtiug that It possessed last year, It is c x- 
pectcd that at least 700 000 hogs will be cut here tbe present 
season; some plane (he figures at 1.000,000. Last season the 
entire receipts of hogs was over 746,000,; 228,000 being ship¬ 
ped East. With the increased facilities for packing, it is be¬ 
lieved shipments will cease to a great extent during the pack¬ 
ing seasou.—c. D. n. 
Ohwkgo Co. Agricultural Society.—A t the annual meet¬ 
ing of this Society, held at Fulton on tire 7th lust., a resolu¬ 
tion was passed to hold the next Fair on the same grounds (at 
Oswego Falls) as this year aud the following hoard of officers 
elected for the year ensuing: 
J'residmt— Gardner Wood, of Fulton. 
Pice President* —let. Robert Oliver, of Oswego; 2d. David 
L Nichols, of New Haven. Treasurer— Sainucl (i. Merriam, 
of New Haven. Stcrttary—JoUa t! Smith of Oswego Falls. 
Executive Oam/mUtce— Elliot Harroun ami L. A. Hovey, of 
Fulton, aud A. U. Washburn, of Granby. 
That Saddle of Venison sent us a few days ago by U. C. 
Bingham, Esq , of Brantford, C. W , (one of the most active 
and successful agents of the Rural in all the British Posses 
.sions of North America,) made some of the finest roasts and 
steaks we ever saw or tasted—as ' 1 this deponent" and sundry 
friends could safely testify if called upon so to do before the 
“ Queen’s Bench " or other dignified judicial body. Friend B. 
will therefore please accept profound acknowledgments, with 
the assurance that ho has gratified the appetites and “stayed 
the stomach ’’ of the writer, his family and several friends, all 
of whom, like Unto Oliver Twjht, “ask for more"—when 
convenient 1 May all headeaters have as good friends in Queen 
Vic’s dominions, or elsewhere (where the ‘‘ stricken deer " is 
not a myth,) and be favored in like manner. 
Don't Remit “Shinblasteks,'’ Checks, &o —Agentsand 
others remitting for the Uoral will please bear in miud that 
fractional notes or “ shinplasters," issued either by corpora¬ 
tions or individuals (except the checks of the Treasurer of 
Rochester on the Monroe Co. Bank,) are nearly worthless in 
this city. Please don't send them to us, bur, instead, Govern¬ 
ment postal currency, or postage stamps. Some agents send 
us checks on, or certificates of deposit in, local banks, in pay¬ 
ment for clubs. The collection of these often subjects us to 
trouble and expense, and we greatly prefer drafts, less cost of 
exchange. 'Will our friends please make a note of this, also. 
