The Rural New Yorker at the Sooth,—O f late 
we ar^ receiving many subscription.* and renewals 
from ihe South, and confidently anticipate a Urge in¬ 
crease of the Rural's circulation in the border and 
planting States during the enduing three months. 
Every moil brines ns well-lined and otherwise en¬ 
couraging letters — from both city and country. 
Among several money letters received the same day 
from New Orleans, one (after speaking of the writer’s 
former acquaintance with the Rural.) closes thus: 
“It is just the paper needed by the planters of the 
South. As an agricultural paper it would be worth 
thousands of dollars to the planting population of 
Louisiana alone Please convey to me, in some 
shape, how long $10 will pay a subscription for; and 
in case of change of residence would the office change 
direction of paper on notice? [We will send the 
Ruual four yet»i« for $10, and change address free.] 
I (eel anxious to Bee your paper get a large circulation 
in the city and country here, and will do all in my 
power to aid your enterprise " 
Other letters from the South say the people need 
the Rural on account of the changes since the war— 
a different system of labor, and more mixed hus¬ 
bandry, (instead of growing so much cotton and 
sugar,) cutting up large, plantations into small farms, 
&C, <fce . creating a demand for Information about 
the culture of various field and garden products, the 
planning and construction of farm houses, outbuild¬ 
ings, and sundry other matters discussed and illus¬ 
trated in the Rural. The encouragement we are 
thus receiving from the Sooth is fulls appreciated, 
and in return we shall, so far as consistent, endeavor 
to promote the best interests of the people of that 
vast and fertile rural region. 
turkey, gosling or chicken, which as a 
P roast ha.- done its duty, will make a 
nourishing broth. Gelatin, and not fat, 
is the true foundation for soup, and 
\ this is largely contained in bones. So 
y much for the domestic uses of bones; 
now let us look at their other uses. 
First, then, the bone, boiler deprives 
them of their fat, which is used for a 
hundred purposes, from the basis of 
fancy soaps and pomatums to the 
“slush” for ships’ masts. The gela¬ 
tin becomes the “isinglass” put up in 
fancy colored papers, and sold at the 
groceries for making jellies, soups, and 
blanc mange; or it enters into the 
r J~ if (j_ composition of jujube paste and. gum 
;drops. Old bones arc the foundation 
°f the much valued fertilizer known 
as superphosphate of lime. Ground 
— J -— and mixed with sulphuric acid they 
restore to the soil what it has given 
. us in our wheat. 
But they are almost invaluable in 
the arts. Very much of our “ivory 
handled” cutlery, probably nearly all 
vn^ li^'Y^'out 0Mr * vor y handled umbrellas, para- 
No. 2 sheared sols and whips, mauy similarly orna¬ 
mented cants, etc., are handled with 
= bone, and not true ivory. In fact, 
'pjjjg some of the bones in our domestic animals ap- 
, b ce proach very nearly in texture to genuine ivory, 
trees We have 6ecn a complete set of dental instru- 
oul(1 ments handled with horse bones, which made 
r j. as fine an appearance as the real ivory. Bone 
cor _ buttons are *«o commonly med that only an 
ll ne allusion to them is necessary. Almost all, if 
not quite all the phosphorus employed in the 
aec p arts and sciences is procured from old boues. 
,j ia £ It is probably the most valuable extract which 
n his bones y idd - _ 
'idly. Application of Manure. 
The Marylaud Farmer closes an article on 
Uera. ^ 6u |,,j et ,t 0 f a proper application of manure, 
ith a by gating;—“ On heavy clay lands manure liber- 
'' ul1 ' ally and plow it under; on light soils top-dress 
In more limited quantities, but more frequently 
e than on the heavier ones.” This is brief, sensi- 
11 ble and probably us correct a practice a* the 
:|0vnc various modifications of soil will permit, 
back - 
care- Feeding Cows. 
lions “ Cosmo,” in the Saturday Evening Post, 
i will ridicules the idea advanced by an agricultural 
its,— journal that feeding a cow a peck of Indian meal 
hem, a day besides hay, during the winter, will pro- 
vreat. duce a fine flow of rich milk. “Cosmo” is 
right in this. A cow so fed will fatten rapidly, 
but her flow of milk will decrease in an equal 
ratio. 
perform a double office in the growth of plants, as 
both a component and solvent of other mat'ers 
in the soil into plant food. Pope says, “ A little 
learning is a dangerous thing,” but he never 
studied chemistry, or he would have known that 
a little chemistry gives a thirst for more. A 
little chemistry will give the farmer a growiDg, 
lively interest in the making, saving, and appli¬ 
cation of his manures. lxxvi. 
HDITKD BT HENRY 8. RANDALL, LL. » 
NATIONAL WOOL CROWERS’ ASSOCIATION 
Tub National Wool Growers’ Association will hold 
its Annual Meeting in Pittsburg, Pa., on Wednesday, 
Nov. 27th, at 12 o'clock. M. 
Henrt S. Randall, President. 
Wk. F. Greer, Secretary. 
NORTON 
GOOD AND BAD WOOL, 
MARltlNER Sc BRONSON’S EWES 
Editor Rural: — The writer of this fully _ , . . .. „ 
„ „ Q , . I The ewes above portrayed are the propert 
agrees with B. o* Butavja, regordin^ N. x. State They were sjot by the Intuotado r.im, Youug (; 
wool, and, from inquiry and life-long experience, of Paular ewes bred by D. E. Robinson, Shores 
is fully persuaded that there is no wool that 15 lbs. 10 ozs.; No. 3, 14 lbs. 3 ozs.; No. o, li 
makes so smooth and strong a thread as N. Y. • ■ - - 
State wool. The quality is the best. The con- there has been a remedy discovered, also the 
dition is 41 what’s the matter.” To show bow j (jjgeasc has been discovered. I have got the 
it came so, we will give a single circumstance ^ wllole r i g bt to the medicine and to the diseov- 
that occurred In onr experience as u wool buyer. J ery of ljic disease. There are two of us, and I 
Our factory is at Fort Byron, near the center of ^ j, a y C purchased his entire Interest in it. I have 
the State, and of the county of Cayuga. We pur- . applied for a patent, and if 1 succeed I will have 
chase our wool from farmers in this comity, and ' territory to sell. Mr. J, White of Licking Co., 
also In Onondaga and Wayne, and by retail trade o jj i0> told me he lost, $ 1,000 worth of sheep last 
return it to them again made into cloth. About spring with the above disease. / ranine a 
every year until the present we have toned It J cure 0r m p (l y ([ (, aV c been in the sheep busi- 
necessary to go on the road and take our chances DCSB 25 years.) I saw Mr. Montgomery, who 
with speculators and commission men, and it is ' waa BPn t to Washington last winter as one of 
our custom to pa © 5 all lots of wool without an the lobby members for our tariff; nud he advised 
offer that by reason of Us condition would he tn( . to get It pateuted. 1 presume, you are ac- 
nnprofltable to work. But the circumstance, quamted with him. I have been to considerable 
Farmers A. and B , whose farms were adjoining, expense to discover what the disease is and a 
bought from a large eastern flock each 100 sheep. rcmc dy. Yours truly, 
A. fed his what bay they would cat and enough | p. c. Swktland. 
grain to prevent their running down, tagged and | Cheeterville, Morrow Co, Ohio, Oct. 6th, 1667. 
washed them in a running stream of water, and ----—- 
when the wool was dry, sheared. We gladly paid j Condensed Correspondence. Items, &c. 
him the highest market price, which was then 00 - 
cents. His fleeces weighed four pouuds each, Cuts.—G entlemen should be very careful to have 
and his 400 pounds of wool brought $240. B. their sheep cuts delivered at the office of the Rural, 
“ fed" his flock. “ They were bog fat all the before they write to v* that they are so delivered, for 
time,” &c. He didn't tag them, nor did he when we direct the insertion of a particular one (and 
wash them,-but he did turn each one over In a f <*rward podigree to accompany it) its absence from 
. ,, , . , the publishing office produces a chasm which we can 
pond hole. They were In the water one minute ^ of 1ime to dlrcct , nothcr cut t0 
by the watch, after which they ran three weeks Bnpf) , y (t8plac<N Forthi , n . a . on the Bubal was 
before shearing. His wool was put up and ready reC eutly without sheep illustrations forthree weeks in 
to Bell, when he could get “the highest price.” succession. The persons who fnilto deliver their cuts, 
Wc had bought A.'a, and called to see B.’s, whip they notify ns of their delivery, uot only lose 
which wc passed without making an offer. The thW* own turn, but manecescurUy keep hack oth. r*; 
nest, day he sold to a «Ottimtaston ajjent for «0 and we feel compelled to ray that hereafter they must 
cents, and remarked that he thought U was hard »>« P^,d, as j-ticc requires, at the bottom of the 
. .... .. . . . . li„t. We notify Mr. V. C. Deardohkf that his cuts 
that he should gel no more than A., as h.s was ^ the offlce> 
from the same flock and had been kept so much - 
better. He knew he was dishonest In making Salk of Cotxwolds —There has been an unusually 
this remark. Lit* fleeces weighed about seven active demand for pure bred Cotswolds during the 
poUDds, and he got for bis wool $430, and thus present full Mr. John D. Wing of Washington, 
obtained ns a reward for his dishonesty $180. A. Dutchess Co., N. Y., has recently sold two rams and 
was told by us that his Wool was worth 30 eta. , JJJ A™"™ Zf Cayn&a Co^Nb Y.; 
per pound more than B. e, and to this day A. is 
in doubt as to whether wc cheated him 20 eta. 
per pound or B. cheated the agent that much, i 
This is no imaginary ease. Hundreds of very j 
similar ones occur every year in our experience, 
and with those who are Judges of wool. It is 
ottener that we llud a judge of the quality of 
wool than wc do of its condition and relative 
value. 
In this particular branch of trade farmers arc 
too often stimulated to dishonesty by rewards, j 
and it has been practiced so long in some parts 
of the State that a farmer is uot considered j 
smart and enterprising who does not sell this | 
dishonest wool. 
Wc have written too much to ask space in 
giving remedies for the correction of this great ^he arreg (, of bee swarming, ©ays 
abuse. We will say briefly: Let the manufac- ag0 oue 0 f my colonies of Italiai 
tnrer buy his wool of farmer© aud pay what it is to 6Warm out, but 1 arrested it ai 
worth, regardless of the unjust practice of de- desertion by capturing the queen 
ducting one-third, one-quarter, one-half, Ac. I rnn into the hive, the 
for unwashed, badly washed, buck’s fleeces, Ac. attempted to kill her. I caged 
Have the moral courage to punish the sloven tJ on, placing the cage between 
and cheat, aud reward the upright farmer for his j p rao( ) combs. Next day the i 
neatness and honesty. tempted twice more to swarm 
S. Hayden, Woolen Manufacturer, return, as the queen could not 
Port Byron, N. 1. ^s tjie queen was a very valuabl 
Why We Don’t “ Blovtatb." — An intelligent 
friend inquires why we don't “bloviate” more 
about the Rural, by publishing letters, notices of 
the Press, Ac., in its praise—“especially as yon [we] 
have by far the best rural paper in the country. Why 
not do as the — — does, and occupy the moat prom¬ 
inent pages in heralding the Rural's merits, induce¬ 
ments for clubbing, and so forth and so on.” 
— There are several reasons for our reticence. One 
is that we have not space to give one-tenth the com¬ 
plimentary letters, notices, etc., which we receive, 
without seriously infringing upon the rights of our 
readers. If we received but few such compliments 
we might give loom perhaps, but. they are so numer¬ 
ous that we refrain from publishing, except occasion¬ 
ally, and then generally In connection with other 
matters. We may, however, do better in future, as 
space permits,—yet It Is difficult to select from so 
many good things, and beside some of our readers 
might think of the Rural as does a MSxsiissppi gen¬ 
tleman of another paper, (the same mentioned by 
onr friend In connection with “bloviating,”) who, in 
remitting for the Rural, says:—“We need many 
improvements in Agriculture in this section, and I 
am looking about for light. At present I am taking 
a monthly journal from New York, the — —, but it 
takes up so much space puffing itself, Ac., that it 
leaves out the Agricultural department, almost.” 
FEEDING BEES, 
Salt as a Manure for Wheat — A correspon¬ 
dent of the Canada Farmer gives the result, of his 
experience In using sail as a fertilizer for wheat, f He 
says: —Last spring I thought I would try it, and 
bought six barrets, anti applied one tm.ioi«- .u V «*t/« o, 
on three acres Genesee Club spring wheat; at the 
same time 1 sowed half a barrel across five acres of 
wheat in another place. Nov* for the result. The 
three acres shot out live days before the same variety 
sown side by side on th>- same day, aud the strip across 
the field I can see as plainly a* if the one was wheat 
and the other oats. The reason I applied salt to the 
Club wheat was this: I have been troubled with the 
straw breaking, aud salt is highly recommended to 
stiffen the straw ; whether It will or not I cannot say 
yet, but T can suy dial the wheal I salted keeps far 
ahead of the rest. However, by harvest I will be 
able to tell you if it keeps the straw bright and stiff, 
aud if the wheat will ripen sooner 
E. S. T., in tl#< Prairie Fanner, in response 
Ui »u inquiry whether it will pay to feed bees for 
the promotion Kf early breeding, says: — “I 
have repeatedly Ikied feeding on a large and on 
a small scale, but never with any profit. Uni¬ 
ting two or monc weak colonies in the fall, or 
strengthening the weak from the strong, is 
deemed the preferable mode of proceeding. 
The writer adds : 
“Those commencing with bees, who have 
little experience and are anxious to save all 
colonics and in<reasc fust, often err in their judg¬ 
ment of the condition of their beea, and find 
them in the spring a little short of stores. One 
such bee-keeper writes to me that be had several 
6tnrvc this year in May. No one need be told 
that, it is poor economy to allow bees to perish 
then for want, of a little aid, and here is just 
where feeding, in my opinion, properly “comes 
in.” A pound or two of sirup or honey fed to a 
destitute colony then will save and encourage it; 
and as honey muat of necessity soon be abund¬ 
ant in flowers, no bad effect© can follow feeding 
for so short a time. 
My rule in the matter therefore, seems to be 
rather au Irish one: — Don’t have any weak col¬ 
onies, but if you do have, feed them rather than 
let them starve.” 
The Season and the Weather —The Attica 
Atlas asks whether “tho oldest inhabitant” In this 
region can call to mind a season when scow has not 
fallen l>v the first of November, except the present 
one. Not being the “ oldest,” we cannot assert pos¬ 
itively as to this, but our impression is that for the 
last thirty years the advent of November has been 
preceded or accompanied by flurries of snow. This 
season has proved an exception, since, up to the 
time of the present writing (Nov. 4th) there has been 
nothing that could be called a snow squall, and the 
weather remarkably warm and pleasant. It is re¬ 
ported that along the line of railroad between Cleve¬ 
land and Toledo, snow fell la the depth of five Inches 
on the night of the 80th ul I But, though destitute 
of snow storms, wc have h ul some severe ones of 
wind, especially on Sunday night, Nov. fid. Walls, 
in exposed places, as also chimnies, wore blown 
down—in one instance involving the loss of a life. 
Illinois State Wool Growers' Association — 
This Association at its recent election of officers, 
elected ». I’. Uoarpman, Esq. of Lincoln, to repre¬ 
sent the. State (together with President Garland) in 
the National Association. Wc did not sec this fact 
stated in any of the earlier accounts we received of 
the proceedings. 
Flection is Over !—Now that the November Elec¬ 
tions are over, and the Country again saved, farmers 
aud other practical, sensible people can “breathe 
freer” aud direct special attention to other matters 
than politics —their own affairs, and tho welfare of 
their families. Those who have indulged In large 
doses of electioneering politics, may possibly find a 
pleasant change by tasting such palatable and nour¬ 
ishing food as is furnished by the Rural and 
similar journals. And should not those who par¬ 
take of and like such viands give others opportu¬ 
nity to refresh aud strengthen themselves from the 
same larder? Reader, need we add thal now is the 
season to extend this kindness by introducing the 
Rural to the notice and support of your Wends ? 
Crops, &c., in South Carolina.—A subscriber 
writing ns from Edgefield District, S. C , Oct. 24th, 
gay* :—“Thc cotton crop is above an average one, in 
this vicinity, for the land planted, - but there is not 
above one third, and probably not one-fourth, of the 
land planted this year that there was say In 1660 
Grain crops, too, have turned ont well this year, but 
much of the lands that ought to have been planted 
are now a wildncrncss of briars, broomeedge, etc. 
The cloud is dark." 
— Aye, friend, but your report shows that “ the 
cloud has a silver lining, ”—for the fact, that you have 
an abundant yield, in proportion to land cultivated, 
is most encouraging. What South Carolina (and 
many of her sister States,) most needs is labor, ener¬ 
gy and capital to cultivate lmproveand render profit¬ 
able her thousands of fertile farms aud plantations, 
now lying waste, and the hundreds of fine water 
powers which arc unoccupied within her borders. 
Were the farmers, manufacturers and capitalists of 
the North aware of the advantages offered them in 
the Carolinas. Georgia, &c.,—and that they would, 
as we verily believe, from observation, be well re¬ 
ceived by the people there,—many of the desert 
places of the South would soon be rendered pleasant, 
productive and profitable. 
ABOUT SAVING QUEENS. 
Italianizing Common Bees. —W. C. Cortot, 
St. Louis, writes Column’© Rural World on the 
management of the honey bee and the method 
to pursue in Italianizing the natives. All that 
is necessary to make the change., he says, is to 
remove the native queen and introduce in her 
place a fertile Italian one. The young bees 
(Italians) will begin to emerge from the cells in 
three weeks after the introduction of the new 
queen, and a week or two after will appear on 
the outside of the hive. As the old bees (na¬ 
tives) will rapidly die off, the result will be a 
colony of pure Italians. 
A New Potato.— At a recent meeting of the Hart¬ 
ford Co., (ConD.) Ag. Society, David Clark, of Hart¬ 
ford, stated he had raised the present season about 
forty bushels of a new seedling potato supposed to 
have been derived from the Colebrook. They were 
pronounced uncommonly flue — mealy and white, 
when cooked, and, so far. free from rot. A© there 
wae no name for this seedling the Society suggested 
that of “Hartford Seedling,” which wae adopted. 
Mr. C. proposed to distribute this new variety among 
the members of the Society for the purpose of test¬ 
ing its merits as a potato for general cultivation. 
HOW SHEEP DRINK.-PALE DISEASE 
H. S. Randall, Esq.— Sir; There has beeu 
some discussion among writers as to how sheep 
get water in winter. A writer in one of the 
Patent Office Reports say© when ©heep come up 
to the water in cold weather, and they stand by 
it and do not drink, it is because they are afraid 
of getting their wool wet around their jaws, 
and he says he put a plank over the water, with 
holes in it, and then they would drink. But 
he is mistaken. 
I claim that Providence ha© provided a way 
for the sheep as well as the horse. The horse 
breaks the ice with hi© feet, and the sheep gets 
water through as thick ice as the horse can. 
The sheep melts a hole through the ice with it© 
breath. I have seen them melt it through ice 
three inches thick ; and when that man who saw 
them stand by the water and would not drink, 
the. sheep were going through the process of 
getting water in cold weather. They will stand 
by good running water and go through the same 
operation, ai though the water was frozen over. 
I observed them seven years before I knew why 
they would stand by running water when they 
were dry and not drink. This may be new to 
some,—but it is true. 
There has been some inquiry about a disease 
called pale disease in sheep-or, by some, paper 
skin,—and writers on the subject claim that there 
is no remedy discovered as yet. But I claim 
Bonner’s Horse Premium.— The N. Y. Ledger 
furnishes an article on the subject, of premiums at 
Fairs in which the publisher of that paper takes oc¬ 
casion to air his own liberality in the premium line 
a little. This is shortly done by publishing a receipt 
for $33,000, signed by tile former owner of Lexter 
as the price received for that noted piece of horse 
flesh. This is claimed to be the largest premium of 
the season — beating the best given by any Society, 
County or State, or even the famed World Exposition 
at Paris. 
Winter Fuel. 
Where a wood lot is part and parcel of a 
farm and has “down timber” upon it, farmers 
will fiud it a paying operation to cut up and 
cord these fallen trees before snow storms come 
on. This will give the wood an opportunity to 
dry, rendering it better for use and more easily 
handled wheu the sleighiug season arrives, if 
not wanted before that time. It i© difficult to 
gather suck fuel after the snow has fallen, while 
every day’s exposure to storms renders it less 
valuable for market or for domestic use. 
Townshit Farmers’ Clcbs. — A correspondent at 
Montezuma, N. Y., asks an opinion as to the feasi¬ 
bility of forming and sustaining a “ Farmers’ Club ” 
in each township of the State, as recommended by 
n. Greeley in a recent address. Our opinion is that 
if the effort were made and Ehoold prove successful 
in only half or even a less number of the towns, the 
investment, on the whole, would prove a paying one. 
Ordinarily a few stirring men can succeed in getting 
up a “Club” and for a time matters progress with 
tolerable smoothness, bat a- the novelty of the thing 
wears off and loeal jealousies arise the attendance 
falls off, the interest flags and the “Club” dies from 
sheer sluggishness. Fanners’ Clubs supply moans 
of ini' rovement and are valuable institutions, but 
uofori uuately, like precocious children, too many of 
them die young, 
-- • ^ f " — 
A Safe Offer.—A friend in Oxford Co., Me., who 
formed a small club for the Rural this year, thinkB 
he can do much better next because the paper is so 
well liked, and adds:—“1 ©aid to one person, ‘If 
you will subscribe for the Rural, and are sorry at 
the end of six months, I will pay you back the money, 
and you may have the paper for nothing.' He sub¬ 
scribed and likes the paper first rate.” Many of its 
friende have made a like offer of the Rural for a 
year, but we never heard of an instauce in which a 
return of the money was demanded. It is a safe offer. 
Louisville a Cotton Market. — The LouiBville 
Industrial and Commercial Gazette states that the re¬ 
cently inaugurated efforts to make Louisville the 
focus of a great cotton trade are proving eminently 
successful. Warehouses for the reception and storage 
of cotton are multiplying with the increase of busi¬ 
ness, giving promise that Louisville at no distant day 
is destined to become one of the most prominent cot¬ 
ton depot© in the United States. 
BEE HUNTING, 
Those who have the inclination to hunt bees, 
and the necessary leisure to iudulge in the ex¬ 
citement of it, will find the warm, sunshiny dayB 
of “Indian Summer” well ©ui d to the pur¬ 
pose. It ia customary, in the tin i ! tion© 
of the country, to repair to soil ■ it: 
forestand ignite a portion of honey comb on a 
flat ©tone ns a lure to any ©tray i i 'n bn my 
be iu the vicinity. While the om'o i Uurni ,. 
a piece, well filled with honey, eiionni place.! 
in a cup near by, where it ma’ be res.cily found 
by such bees a© are attracted • < m.i 
dneed by the ignited portion of comb. A j tile 
patience is requisite, though ©omuiimes the test 
is neither severe nor protracted. Usually u sin¬ 
gle bee will come circling around aud soon s attic 
on the honey-box and commence the work of 
Bones and Their Uses. 
The Scientific American, discoursing upon 
ones, enumerate© several ways in which they 
i.re made useful. Thus:—The fresh bone© from 
uc butcher’s stall, as those of heel', which have 
ecu entirely stripped ol the flesh, are excellent 
uses for soup. Indeed, bones alone make a far 
Letter soup than meat alone; and even after 
being cooked, unless boiled, bones are superior 
material© for this purpose. Even the rib bones 
of a piece of roasting beef, after having been 
placed once ou the tabic, although marrowless, 
are good soup bones, and the skeleton of the 
Two Hundred and Eleven to One.— The Roch¬ 
ester Democrat states that .Ions Peacock of West 
Greece in this county, last spring planted the eye© 
from a seedling Mercer potato—forty-four in number 
— in twenty-two hills The yield, when dug a few 
days since, was two hundred and eleven good sized 
potatoes. Considered, with reference to the amount 
of ©ced used, the yield is au uncommon one 
A Whole Hoo.—There was a hog on exhibition at 
the Illinois State Fair which weighed 1,400 lbs. 
