Tux Season. Crop Products, &c. — The weather 
of the past two weeks has been generally favorable 
for farming and gardening operations, and much has 
been acc unpliehed In this region. Last week was 
pleasant, and the dose (Friday and Saturday) unusu¬ 
ally warm for April — giving vegetation a rapid up¬ 
ward tendency, though there was a lack of moisture 
in the earth. As we write, however, (Monday, 23d,) 
a heavy, soaking rain Is Calling and the drouth is more 
Our reports in regard to the crops are 
Pigs - Success in Raising. 
A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer 
gives the following experience about raising 
pigs: — “Your correspondent wants to know 
what is the matter with his pigs that they all 
die, and particularly the best first. I had the 
same trouble for years while I kept sowb in pens 
and fed exclusively on corn. I got almost dis¬ 
couraged in trying to raise pigs. One sow was 
kept until she had one hundred and twenty- 
seven pigs and she did not raise twenty-five In 
all that time. 
“A few years since in building anew barn-yard 
fence my pig-pen interfered so I pulled it down, 
intending to rebuild it at some future time. In 
the meantime I allowed my hogs the range of a 
four acre clover lot in summer ^ilUi use of the 
barn-yard and straw stack summer and winter. 
I fed a few beets in winter, and most of the corn 
fed to them first went through my neat cattle. 
I have also reduced the Suffolk in the stock with 
a cross of the Chester white. 
HOP GROWING IN ENGLAND 
Eds. Rural New-Yokkf.k : — As I have seen 
some inquiries in the Rural about hop-grow¬ 
ing, I will, if acceptable, give the English sys- 
g hops in KenL The hop 
tern of cultivable 
plants are raised from the cuttings of the old 
Btocks, made in the spring. Every cutting 
should have three joints. These cuttings, or 
sets, are planted In rows with the two lower 
joints below the surface of the soil, about three 
inches apart in the rows, and the latter one foot 
apart. If the ground U clean they need but lit¬ 
tle attention the first season. The following 
spring the sets are taken np and planted in the 
yard. To sot out a yard right, the planter re¬ 
quires as many small sticks one foot long as he 
•will have hills. A hind-measuring chain Is the 
best thing to lay out the hills. Take white or 
red paint and make marks on the chatu six feet 
apart. A cord or garden line will stretch so as 
to bring the hills at uneven distances apart. 
Our hop yards are all planted with the hills 6ix 
feet apart. The small stocks are placed in the 
ground by the marks of paint on the chain. 
The next thing done is to prepare the soil in 
the hills for planting. Dig the hill up one foot, 
deep, and mix one sbovelfull of well rotted ma¬ 
nure with the soil; place the stick in the center 
of the hill. Then plant the sets, three la every 
hill, in a slanting direction, the tops of the sets 
close together on the surface, with the upper 
joints a little aboveground, the roots of the sets 
are trimmed pretty close before planting. The 
young gardens, as we call them in England, are 
not poled the first year, as it Is said to weaken 
the Block. Two stakes, six or eight feet long, 
are sufficient the first year. The second year 
two poles, 14 or 10 feet long, are set. If the poles 
are cut shorter three are put to a hill. They arc- 
placed firmly in the ground, one foot from the 
center of the hill. The land is dug with potato 
forks every spring and the old vines are cut off 
with a knife. The space between the hills is 
cultivated with horse cultivators three times 
during the summer and the hills are rounded 
ith live or six shovels of earth about inid- 
than checked 
favorab'e for this period, bnt of course It te yet too 
early in the season to particularize or predict with 
any certalnity. Seed time is surely being vouchsafed 
us in season, though many despaired of it a month 
ago, and we have the promise In regard to harvest. 
Let our whole diUy^dGch»rgedJn_plauUng,_ car# 
and culture, and leave the result to Providence. 
tottingham's paulab ewe teg, 
Tub Practical Shepherd—Agents, &c.— As we 
are “ barred out ” of the advertising department, it 
being OTcr full, will state here, in answer to inqui¬ 
ries, that The Practical Shepherd, Dr. Randall’s 
latest and best work on Sheep Husbandry, is not sold 
by the trade, (booksellers,) but only by the Publisher 
and his Agents—that we arc now prepared to appoint 
Agent* in the South and furnish them the work on 
favorable terms —and that thoja who flr3t apply will 
have the privilege of selecting the best sections for 
canvassing. From present indications wc infer that 
many thousand copies of thislStandard Work, by the 
author of “Sheep Husbandry in the South,’’ &c., 
may be sold during the present season in the wool 
growing regions of the Southern States, an d thos e 
disposed to give the bustness a trial will please ad¬ 
dress the Editor of the Rural. 
MR. TOTTINGHAM’S FATJLAR EWE TEG 
B. B. Tottingham of Shorcham, Vt., writes 
ug; _“Tbe above ewe was got by the ‘Tot¬ 
tingham ram’ so often mentioned in your 
paper, ont of a ewe from the flock of J. T. & V. 
Rich. 1 have now (Feb,, 1865,) fourteen supe¬ 
rior ewe. lambs by same ram ?" He writes (Oct., 
1865,) “I have recently sold to W. W. Moon, 
Crown Point, N. Y., ten yearling ewes for *2,100, 
and to Mr. Griggs of Rutland, a ram lamb for 
*500.” _ 
And now I have 
no trouble in raising pigs, and my neighbors 
compliment my liogs and ask what breed they 
are of, &c., &c. 
“I never allow my hogs to root a great while 
at a time; sometimes 1 cut the nose and some¬ 
times I ring with wire. Could I have a ring 
where both ends would turn in the snout I 
should prefer It to cutting, as when cut young 
they sometimes grow up, and when re-cut break 
out at one side.” 
To Correspondents. —Having oecn nv« »»- 
sent from home, in the discharge of our duties M a 
member of the Executive Committee of the National 
Wool Growers’ Association, we have neceesar y 
fallen far Into arrears with our editorial correspond 
encc. Questions have been sent ns which required 
a prompt reply, and which we should have most wil¬ 
lingly replied to - had they met our eye within the 
time when an answer would have been of uny ava 
Communications have also been sent which would 
have been published bad we been at borne when they 
came,—hut they pertain to matters now ho far passed 
bv that we do not think their authors would consider 
WOOL GROWERS’ PETITION, 
Congress is flooded with wool growers’ peti¬ 
tions. Unfortunately no record of their pre¬ 
sentation goes, unless casually, Into any of the 
newspapers except the Congressional Globe, and 
so the country receives no reliable account of 
their numbers or of the number of petitioners. 
Perhaps as many os twenty or thirty Congress¬ 
men informed us that they had already received 
petitions embracing from one to eight or ten 
hundred signers, and they remarked that this 
“looked as If the wool growers were in earn¬ 
est.” This is precisely what wc want to demon¬ 
strate to Congress, that wc arc in earnest. A few 
weeks will now- settle the question, whether we 
shall have adequate protection to onr industry, 
or whether wc shall put up with gold prices for 
our wool, lower than they were on the average 
for the thirty-five years ending with 1861 — in 
short, whether Sheep Husbandry shall flourish 
or fall. Congress appears well disposed, but 
business moves slowly in it, and the season of 
adjournment approaches. 
Friends of the cause 1 now is the time for the 
final struggle! Canvass your towns and your 
counties and get the name of every friend of 
American Industry to your petitions. Write 
your Congressmen short, pithy letters calling 
on them to act. Tf we do our whole duty to our- 
eelvee, we shall in al 1 probability succeed. If we 
Hug in our efforts, the zeal now- felt in-Congress 
in our hehalf will also flag. If blank petitions 
arc not on hand, write them or get new ones 
printed without delay. We re-publish the form 
of the one most generally adopted by the wool 
growers of the United States: 
7b the Conyrm of the United States: The under- 
signed Inhabitants of-County, State of-be- 
Inning that the present situation of our National 
finances requires an amount of revenue to be raided 
by duties on foreign imports which, if levied in pro¬ 
per proportions on the different articles of import, 
can be made to protect all branches of domestic in 
duetr* requiring protection, without ultimate Injury 
to any: arid believing that under the present tariff 
the American Wool Grower has co adequate 
protection against the compotltiou of the cheap 
labor and accumulated capital or other Countries — 
respectfully petition, that a duty of Iff cents per pound 
aud 10 per cent, ad valorem be levied on all unwashed 
foreign wools competing with American wools, the 
value whereof at the last port of export, including 
charges In such port, shall be 32 cents or less per 
pound; aud that a duty of 12 ceuts per pound aud 10 
per cent, ad valorem be levied on all Jibe wools, the 
value whereof Including charges in port shall exceed 
32 cunts per pound; ana that tUeabove rates of duties 
bo (I mi bled on washed wools, and trebled on scoured 
wools. _ 
We also pray that the law be made to take effect 
from the time of Its passage. 
Beet Root Sugar, 
A correspondent of the Country Gentle¬ 
man states the following facts respecting the 
manufacture of beet root sugar in Illinois. In 
1 SG2 land was purchased, a factory built and 
other preparations made to manufacture the 
sugar, by the firm of Gknnert Brothers. In 
the spring of ’63 one hundred acres were planted. 
In the meuutiine, prices of skilled labor ad¬ 
vanced 300 per cent. The machinery was yet to 
be Imported from Germany, with gold over two 
dollars. The funds of the firm were not suffi¬ 
cient, and, as a consequence, with meager appli¬ 
ances, only 8,000 pounds of sugar were manufac¬ 
tured. The yield from the 100 acres of beets 
was ascertained to average 10 tuns per acre, and 
the per centagc of sugar was 11.4 per cent. The 
pier centage actually obtained with the imperfect 
manufacture was 7 per cent. 
Last September a company was formed with 
ample capital, and the undertaking again re¬ 
sumed. The Superintendent has purchased the 
requisite machinery and 9,000 lbs. of seed. Six 
hundred acres of beets will be grown tbc coming 
season. We have confidence that sugar making 
from the beet will prove highly successful, and 
if so the rich prairies of the west can supply the 
world. _ 
Give the Boys a Chance. 
“ One ot the boys” argues his case very per¬ 
tinently as follows in the Ploughman: — “ Yes, 
Mr. Editor, give us boys a chance. It is better 
to till a patch of ground, or take care of fowls, 
than to gamble on a small scale for marbles, or 
louuge round the grocery 6tore. Besides, we 
like to better; we think more, and have more 
ambition; and we also learn to love work, and 
love animals. 
A pair of rabbits, or pigeons, or henB, or a 
cosset, will keep the hands and brain busy. 
Then a little ground to raise strawberries, corn, 
or potatoes, will help. We try little experiments 
upon it; determine the best variety of the pota¬ 
to, and decide between Hovey’s and Wilson’s 
strawberries; then with live stock wc sec wheth¬ 
er to give chicks corn or dough, or learn how 
much hay will fat a sheep. Thus, by and by we 
shall know about the science of farming, and 
also its practice. 
Yes, Mr. Editor, by all means give us a chance, 
far one generation quickly succeeds another, 
aud if wc do not learn to be useful, pray who will 
be useful by aud by ?” 
Sheep Shows, Shearings, &c. — Public Sheep 
Shows or Shearings, or both combined, are to be held 
during the ensuing few weeks as follows: 
N<-w York State,.. Rochester,.May 8—10. 
Ohio State.. Wellington,..,. May 15,16. 
Monroe Co . N. Y . Clarkson,. May 3. 
Onondaga Co. N. Y., .. Manlius........ May l. 
Washington Co.. N. Y„. No. Granville,. May 2, 3. 
Kalamazoo Co.. Mich., Kalamazoo. May 3. 
Genesee Co.. Mich. Flint,.May 9,10. 
Washtenaw Cb . Mich... Manchester,... May 8. 4. 
Crawford Co.. Ohio,.DeKalb. May 24. 
THE WOOL TARIFF, 
The Committee appointed by the National 
Wool Growers’ Association to confer with a 
similar Committee appointed by the National 
Association of Wool Manufacturers, In regard to 
the Woolen Tariff, Ac., have completed their 
labors. The Wool Growers’ Committee have 
reported the draft of a proposed tariff on wools 
to the United States Revenue Commission. It 
has not yet been reported on by the latter body 
to Congress, and thus tip-own before the public. 
We hope this will be done during the present 
week; and we shall then give it in full to our 
readers. 
The proposed bill, we need not 6ay, has been 
drawn up after a long and careful examination 
of all the facts which bear on the subject, It 
provides a new mode of determining the charac¬ 
ter and quality of wools by tbc appraisers in our 
custom houses, and one which, after a careful 
examination, experienced officers in the Treasury 
Department at Washington, and experienced 
members of Congress, long identified with the 
wool interest., regard as feasible and efficient— 
far superior to any other mode hitherto practiced 
or proposed. And another most Important 
ground of security is, that the bill Imposes the 
same rates of duties on all wools which compete 
with American wools. The wool of our English 
sheep, our grade sheep and our native sheep, 
receive precisely the same amount of protection 
with that of our Merinos. All stand on the 
same table land of equality. There is, wc be¬ 
lieve, no impropriety in saying that to secure 
this equality cost the Committee a severe strug¬ 
gle. But from beginning to end, it was made 
an indispensable condition to full agreement— 
and it was finally conceded. 
The great difficulty with previous protective 
tariff law-s has been that they have had higher 
and lower scales of duties on wools competing 
with ours—and fraudulent invoicing, perjury, or 
scoitudrelism in some shape or other has always 
contrived to crowd down the great body of im¬ 
ported wools Into the lowest scale. We hope 
this door to fraud will now be closed. 
The amount of protection which will be 
secured, if the bill passes, is no more than the 
American grower needs, but it is all that he 
needs. The amount of duties to be asked 
for on competing wools was, as would be 
expected, a subject of anxious deliberation. 
/t was faced by the Committee of the National 
Wool Growers' Association. They “ Btuck their 
own stake.” They decided among themselves 
what it would be proper to ask—asked all they 
thought it necessary to ask—and never changed 
their demand or altered their figures afterwards. 
They did, however, pending the long delibera¬ 
tions, consult the officers of the State Societies. 
The writer of this holds letters from the Presi¬ 
dents of all the associated State Societies, whose 
Presidents arc uot members of this Committee 
signifying their acquiescence in the amouot of 
duties asked for—aud they have generally spoken 
not only for themselves but for other leading 
wool growers of their res]motive States. The 
most active and leading friends of the wool 
interest in Congress were also consulted, and 
they unanimously, so far as we know, approved 
of the action of the Committee in this regard. 
We understand some public criticism lias been 
indulged in, on that action, in one or two jour¬ 
nals. We have just returned from a five weeks’ 
stay in Washington, and have seen scarcely any 
of our exchange papers. We will not now turn 
back to them to ascertain what has been said on 
the subject. The writers tuny be well meaning 
men. If they have been longer identified with 
the sheep interest Of the United States, and un¬ 
derstand it better than we do; if they love It 
better, and have served it more faithfully through 
good and through evil report for thirty-five 
years; if they have more interest, feeling and 
honest pride staked on a successful result; if 
they have more character to lose in case of an 
-unsuccessful result—all we have to say ia that it 
was unfortunate that they were not selected in¬ 
stead of ourselves to represent that interest on 
the present occasion. 
The wool growers of the country will soon 
have an opportunity to judge the action of tluir 
Committee. The Committee are willing to abide 
their verdict. 
Wagon Axles—Iron v@. Trimble.— It is claimed 
that actual test, in drawing loads of three or four 
tuns weight, proves that axles made of solid iron arc 
the. ni 09 t reliable, durable aud lightest of draft. 
Thimble axles, though best for ordinary farm purpos¬ 
es, will not stand the jar of extremely heavy loads' 
We may ns well hint again that it is profitable to havo 
two sets of wheels to farm wagons—oue set of narrow 
tire for traveling in frozen ruts, and another of broad 
truck wheels, for many uses on the fann. 
up w 
summer. 
The hop Is known to be ripe by the leaves 
closing together, aud the inside of the leaf being 
covered with bright yellow substance. The hops 
are picked by the poor of London, and other 
large towns, and they grow fat aud healthy 
during this merry season. Each day the pick¬ 
ing is taken to the drying-house, and dried on a 
tightly stretched cloth made of horse hair. 
Great care is taken In drying not to scorch or 
over dry them. Brimstone is burnt in the fire 
to give them a deeper yellow color. When the 
hops are dried they are shoveled into a cooling 
room, and packed la bags seven and a half feet 
long and six feet round. Each bag bolds about 
one hundred and eighty pouuda. 
A dry loam or gravel soil suits the hop the 
best. It will not thrive on wet lands. Sheltered 
vales, if the land is drained, suits the best, as 
the wind often injures the crop. One tun per 
acre is a good, fair crop; 3,000 pounds is a large 
crop. One more thibg: the vines are trained to 
the poles by tieing them with rushes. This is 
the womens’ work. It is fine, healthy exercise 
and gives them rosy cheeks. English Ed. 
Erie Co., N. Y., April, 1866. 
Iodene.— (E. E. H.) The scent of Iodine in a room 
is very lasting. We do uot know any means to re¬ 
move it, except a thorough overhauling. Have you 
painted, papered, and whitewashed thoroughly ? Did 
you remove the old paper and cleanse the wall? If 
this has been done, and the clothes, furniture, &c.,in 
the room at the time the Iodine was used, have been 
removed, we think the scent of the drug will not be 
noticed. We cannot, at present, give yon definite 
same pi 
A Special Manure.—G. S„ this State, writes ns 
that at the Shite Fair held at Rochester, 1864, Prof. 
Johnson or Saratoga Co.. N. Y., exhibited several 
varieties of vegetable* which he said were produced 
by the use of a fertilizer of extraordinary merits, 
which ho claimed to have discovered. Onr corres¬ 
pondent asks us If we can give him any information 
on the subject. Not any. But if our correspondent 
means that the Trof. really created the vegetables by 
the use of the fertilizer, we think the world ought to 
know it. 
Potato Digger.— E. G. F., Ohio, writes us in ans¬ 
wer to an inquiry, that be has invented and patented 
a Potato Digger which will dig, pile or sack potatoes. 
It is to he drawn by two horses, and will harvest from 
six to eight acre* per day with two men. All right. 
We hope you have such a machine. It will cure 
back-ache. But won’t It sack none as well as pota¬ 
toes? We have soon several different potato diggers, 
but Just the right one has’nt yet made its appearance. 
1. Bees, in common seasons, in hives of about 
2,000 cubic inches, will bo likely to send out 
one or more swarms annually until the locality 
is fully stocked with colonies. 
2. In hives of this capacity, and with the lo¬ 
cality fully stocked wit h bees, they will give but 
an an average of about 10 lbs. of Burplus in 
boxes, in common seasons. 
3. They will consume 60 lbs. or more during 
the breeding season and winter, giving one- 
seventh to the keeper and consuming six- 
sevenths. 
4. From one to three weeks time is lost by 
them in preparation for swarming, so far as 
gathering surplus Is concerned, and this in the 
very heart of the honey season. 
5 . In the construction of their cells and build¬ 
ing their comb, they will arrange for brood and 
their -w'mter’6 home in the center of their hive. 
In taking up box hives, tbc good, clear honey iB 
found in the top of the center sheets, and in the 
whole body of the side sheets. And the outside 
sheets in moveable comb frames are the sheets 
saved for surplus. 
6 . If there is plenty of room in the hive for 
all the colony, aud all the stores they can gather, 
they will not be likely to swarm. Mr. Quiney 
says of the large hive: “The swarms will not 
be proportionably large when they do issue, 
which is seldom.” 
7. The best arrangement for storing surplus 
is in boxes of the capacity of from five to ten or 
twelve pounds, with glass sides sufficient for a 
fair inspection of the honey. 
8 . If colonies, in hives sufficiently large to 
generally prevent the disposition to swarm, will 
give five times as much surplus as the colony in 
the ordinary small hive, then he who uses the 
small hive, deliberately takes the course to ent 
off from his honey harvest four-fifths of the 
surplus that he might gather by bis bees. 
9. The habits of the bees of building their 
comb so as to store their bee-bread and raise 
tlieir brood in the tenter of their hive, and place 
their pare, clean Loney inside sheets of comb 
and iu the top of their center sheets, indicate 
very clearly the proper position of the surplus 
boxes. They should be both upon the top and 
sides of the apartment, which is the home of 
Jasper Kazen, 
THE SHEEP FAIR AT ROCHESTER 
Tns Second Annual Fair of the N. Y r . Sheep 
Breeders’ and Wool Growers’ Association is near 
at hand — taking place on the 8th, 9th aud 10th 
of May. We havu not been at home to corres¬ 
pond with the friends of the cause, and there¬ 
fore are uot as well informed as we could wish 
of the number of those intending to exhibit. 
We trust and expect there will be a fine turn out 
from all parts of the country. Western New 
York alone Is capable of furnishing first class 
sheep enough for au excellent exhibition. Cen¬ 
tral and Eastern New York will doubtless be 
well represented. The lists are open to all our 
sister States. If Vermont does not accept the 
invitation to compete, she will not Bhow her 
usual pluck. We should be glad to see the 
famous sheep of Ohio and Pennsylvania, also, 
in the pens. The door is wide open to all. 
But, as we have said on a previous occasion, 
the first and greatest reliance of all Fairs for 
Buccess must be on the surrounding country. 
It. rests with Western New York to say whether 
all the classes shall be numerously filled. A few 
choice animals do uot make up a Fair. Let 
every farmer of Monroe county who has good 
sheep, seud them for the credit of his county, 
whether he expects prizes or uot. Let the 
cblfcce flocks of Ontario be as well represented 
as last year. Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Wayne, 
Steuben, Yates, Orleaus, Genesee, Livingston 
and Wyoming, all have ready railroad access to 
Rochester, and a moderate representation from 
eacn of their choice flocks would make such au 
exhibition as has never yet been witnessed. And 
these do not constitute one-third of the court "3 
of the State in which choice flocks are owned. 
A large attendance of visitors, purchasers and 
exhibitors, is expected from other States. I f the 
weather, unlike that of last year, is even mode¬ 
rately favorable, we anticipate oue of the fine-t 
gatherings of sheep and “sheep men" which 
ever assembled in this or any other country. 
Barley vs. Malt. 
Tns relative value of barley and malt as food 
for stock has been made the subject of extensive 
experiment by Mr. Lawes of England, at the 
instance of the Board of Trade. Cattle were 
taken in lots of ten, aud the comparative experi¬ 
ments were continued for ten and twenty weeks. 
The results are thus concisely stated by Mr. 
Lawes:—“A given weight of barley is more 
productive, both of the milk of cows and of the 
increase of live weight of fattening animals, than 
the amount of malt aud malt dust that would be 
produced from it.” We must add that these re¬ 
sults are consistent with those obtained In the 
limited experiments of Drs. T. and R. D. Thom¬ 
son, and also agree with those obtained in a pre¬ 
vious inquiry by Mr. Lawes himself. 
Sorghum Sugar.—A barrel of sugar made from 
sorgum grown near Rockford, Ill., was exhibited on 
“ change” in Chicago. It Is claimed by the manufac¬ 
turers (Clarice & Utter,) that every fanner whose 
land can produce sorghum can lay aside his supply 
Of light dry sugar with as much certainty as hd can 
his vegetables, and that suitable machinery for this 
purpose can be purchased for fifty dollars or less. 
Cashmere Goats.— The Ohio man who says Cash¬ 
mere Goats can be had In Kentucky is mistaken, I 
think. Dr. Smith imported the Angora goat. Ihare 
seen goats of his importation aud their get, aud if 
naturalists and zoologists tell ua the troth his im¬ 
portation certainly were of the Angora breed, and 
Gen. J. S. Goa or Fa. used to sell them for much less 
than $1,000.—J. S. S. 
Growing Seed Grain, 
What might be done if the same skill and 
perseverance was given to raising seed grain 
which the horticulturist bestows upon fruit? 
Farmers talk a great deal of Importing seed, of 
changiug it; but none think of growing it. 
Now, hero is au idea worth a fortune to any 
young farmer. Let him study what may be 
called the habits of wheat, aud commence grow¬ 
ing from carefully selected grains, taking the 
largest and most perfect, carefully removing 
from the plants all weakly aud imperfect cars 
and shoots, aud in a few seasons he will have a 
quality of seed — native and adapted to the cli¬ 
mate superior to any that can be imported. 
Plan for Hen-House Wanted.— W. II., N. Y., 
wishes some of the Rural readers to furnish a plan 
of a cheap and convenient hen-house. Will some one 
having snch an appendage to the farm please respond ? 
Work on Horses.— (L. M. D 
Uinta to Horse-Keepers is one c 
the kind over published. 
Rust on Iron —Paint. 
Evert particle of rust on iron may be re¬ 
moved by first softening it with petroleum and 
then rubbing well with coarse 6aud-paper. To 
paint iron take lampblack sufficient for two 
coats, and mix with equal quantities of Japan 
varnish and boiled linseed oil. 
the swarm. 
Albany Co., N. Y 
