phur. I have now ten good stocks in tho box 
hives, and t hey will average me, one season with 
.another, ten good swarms and not less than two 
hundred and fifty pounds of honey. Now, 
would you. as a friend, advise me to pay £10 for 
the right to use the frame hive, and £20 for 
a first-class honey extracting machine? The 
hives will cost more than the box hives, but may 
1 tir>t. manage so as to be able to save each year 
in time, t rouble aud empty combs more than the 
extra expense of right, hives and machines? 
Remarks.— A case like the above, my 
clear friend, is quite common, and you are 
right in supposing we shall class you among 
those who are a disgrace to our profession. 
But as you are so candid about the matter, 
we will give you our views, and will answer 
your questions in the affirmative. Facts arc 
convincing and liere they are: 
The extra cost of the Banostugtii hive 
over the box hive is only fifty cents—simply 
the cost of a set of frames. The box itself, 
that holds the frames, can be made of rough 
lumber and need not cost a penny more tJiun 
the box hive. Then ten frame hives will 
cost, five dollars more than ton box hives. 
But in the fall, after you brimstone the bees, 
you can save live dollars in time, trouble, 
and waste of honey, in getting out the comb 
from the ten frame hives; and you will save 
Jim times the cost of the honey machine by 
extracting the honey. The empty combs are 
worth one dollar each, and as there are one 
hundred combs in ten Lancstkotii hives, 
they arc worth one hundred dollars. These 
combs should be returned to the hives after 
the machine removes the honey. Now put 
these hives of combs into a dry, cool room, 
(a cellar is a good place,) and keep them 
there till the next swarming season. As hist 
as tho swarms issue put them into these 
hives of combs and put ono or more boxes 
on top of each hive for surplus honey. There 
should be room enough in the surplus cham¬ 
ber for not less than forty pounds of honey, 
and, if the season he an average one, each 
swarm will store t hat amount besides filling 
the lower part of the hive. They will do 
this as soon as they will (ill the hive proper 
when no empty combs are used. 
AVliat is forty pounds surplus honey worth? 
Not less than t en dollars, the estimated value 
of the frames of empty combs. If you have 
any doubts about the empty combs, averag¬ 
ing u square foot, being worth one dollar 
apiece, just try the plan I speak of and report 
the result. 
KECAl'ITUJLATION. 
(Toillt,. 
Ten hives of empty combs.£100 00 
Time, trouble, and waste, saved. 5 00 
T.dnl ..$105 00 
Debtor. ^ a-r nn 
Extra cost of' ten hives. . . * %>•' w 
Tost of tlio right.. .. 10 00 
Cost oi honey machine . 20 00 
Total. 00 
Su ved t be first year. . £10 00 
Alter the first season, there being no extra, 
to pay for, you will save yearly about $100. 
1 hope 1 have now illustrated the subject so 
clearly that you will not fail to comprehend 
it. M. M. Baldridge. 
St. Charles, 111. 
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THE CROSSING OF FOWLS: 
Spanish with Brahmas. 
We are of opinion that this cross would 
be one iu every way worthy of trial. It has 
been demonstrated to our satisfaction, at 
least, that the Brahmas arc a good breed to 
cross with—iu fact one of our best breeds. 
They infuse into the cross those requisites 
so often sought alter by the breeder—large¬ 
ness of carcass, hardiness and early laying— 
or iu other words winter layers—and the 
ease with which they may be reared, renders 
the cross a desirable one. 
When crossed with the game fowl they 
partake largely of the activity for which, 
that breed is so noted, and of which tke 
Brahmas, iu their natural state, are so de¬ 
ficient ; and impart to the former breed that 
largeness of carcass of which they so much 
lack. The cross does not make a beuuti- 
f d looking bird, hut it makes a profitable 
one for the breeder in every respect. 
We think the qualities possessed by the 
Spanish, that of being great layers and non¬ 
sitters, infused into the Brahmas will be 
found of decided merit in the breed r 
v.< >amers. 
CHLOROFORM AND BEES 
A SEED WHEAT EXPOSE 
I see that Geo. A. Dia ry., Clumliorsbunr, Pa., 
is advertising: his seed wheat in the RuiiAi.. I 
bought three bushels of wheat, oi him last year 
one bushel to be Bohemian KedumltWO bushels 
Bohemian Amber, paying ten dollars per bushel 
lor it. The wheat, on maturing, proves to be 
exactly tho same; and such a mixture of stulT I 
never saw On the ground! There avo three va¬ 
rieties of smooth wheat and four of bearded 
wheat. I have taken samples of It til Hie pres¬ 
ence of witnesses, for I propose to publish him 
it ho does not settle with me satisfactorily, l 
write this to know your term-; ami conditions of 
exposing a man who will swindle with impure 
seeds. I propose to publish him in your paper 
nod the Ohio Farmer for tho benefit of farmers. 
A u. sver at your earliest convenience, and oblige 
-- J'ihsathak I Ion MX, tSpriugflcUl, Cloth Co., O, 
We publish this private letter because we 
want to aity cAinelhiug about it. We have 
never, that wo now remember, heard any 
complaint ot Mr. frh,prz’s transaction- with 
the public; but it Mr. Oonm-x’s assertions 
arc true it is right our reaOi.; should know 
it, since we admit Mr. Deitz i* 0 i ir adver¬ 
tising columns. If Mr. Deitz maY-,. s 
takes of this character stated, it is pim, C r 
farmers should know that paying fancy 
prices for seed does not secure t hem against, 
blunders. No matter whether Mr, Deitz 
settles with Mr. Donnix satisfactorily or 
not, we want it understood that men who 
use our advertising columns t<> obtain big 
prices for fancy grains, and who distribute 
foul seeds and grain mixtures which no tidy 
farmer would tolerate on his place, arc 
doing what we will not countenance, and 
what we will expose,. no matter what, the 
exposure costs us in the shape of “ lost ad¬ 
vertising.” 
After the foregoing was put in type we 
sent a proof of it to Mr. Deitz, from whom 
we received the reply annexed. At the. time 
the above was written we had not heard 
any other complaints from Mr. Dkitz’h cus¬ 
tomers; since that time, however, a com¬ 
plaint was made at the Farmers’ Club, the 
sti iV-stancc of which w<‘ published in Rural 
Sept. 2.8, page 001. The following is Mr. 
Dietz’s reply to the foregoing: 
Please receive thanks for your kindness in 
Bending mo proof of article received from J. 
Donnke. I will, in the first place, give you the 
Bill of Wheat hoi nr fit by Mr. Donnke of me: 
Sect, it, 
.1. Bonn be hour i, i <; A. tncrrx. 
3 bush, of llolifeininn Atuliei . 1,1 
t “ Km, i vviiio i 'hmrMi ihtemtneao.. , ai 
1 “ Hix 1 . *' 
u ‘ Amount t ‘•"Ik'.et <'■ O, 1> ...#HT SO 
Incliuthu l>,ix uiul crick in!-• 
Now you see what Donnke states to you. 
Don nee w rites to rut Hint his French white 
when they came out. Now it they can be solely 
transferred to a new hive us lato os it will be 
when I got an answer to this inquiry. I would 
like to have you give in the Rukai. I lie modus 
operandi, ami whether it would be necessary to 
feed them during tho fall.—M. A. Beakeseee, 
Glean, JV. J\. 1800. 
I NEVER use chloroform in transferring 
bees. Transferring may be done very nicely 
by stupefying the liees with puff-ball. When 
the puff-ball is dry it will burn, and you can 
put it into a tube and blow the smoke into 
the hive. Have the hive closed, so that no 
bees can escape, and in si few minutes they 
will fall, paralyzed, to the bottom. You can 
then do what you please with both bees and 
honey. 
Or you can take rotten wood, not, so much 
decayed as to fall to pieces, dry it thorough¬ 
ly, and, having set it on fire, blow the smoke 
among the bees. This will not paralyze 
them as the smoke of puff-ball will, but it 
will drive them out of your way, and you 
can cut out combs and put them in a new 
hive if you like. I use this method with 
movable combs almost altogether. 
As to feeding, a hive should have twenty 
or twenty-five pounds of honey for the win¬ 
ter. If it has less than this, tlic bees should 
lie fed. M. Quin by. 
Spanish fowls arc noted as great 
while the opposite is the charaetcnfdVw'of 
the Brahtute. Therefore in that respect, in 
our opinion, It would enhance the value of 
both breeds; Dr while it would impart ac¬ 
tivity and energy to one breed it would 
detract that disposition to roaming from the 
other, which makes it so objectionable to 
many farmers. 
Then, again, it is a notable fact that the 
fecundity of the Spanish fowl compares fa¬ 
vorably with any other breed of fowls we 
have, their eggs being of a very large size 
and rich in flavor. It is said cocks of this 
breed have been known to average seven 
pounds, and hens five and a half pounds. 
So that by crossing them with the Brahmas 
the latter will have no small or interior breed 
to build upon. It is said, also, that the hens 
seldom show any desire to sit, but when 
that does happen they prove excellent moth¬ 
ers. While on the other hand, our experi¬ 
ence has been with the Brahmas, that they 
have proved inveterate sitters. It may have 
been the heating food given them that made 
them so, as we have been informed by an 
eminent breeder that he has had them enti¬ 
tled to the appellation of perpetual layers, 
and lie ascribes the fltt v 
modes of feeding, which may account for the 
many eases for fault-finding with this breed 
of fowls. 
We have bred the Spanish fowls for a 
number of years, and our only objection to 
them was their desire to roam “ all over the 
country,” the minute they were let out of the 
coop, though we fed them plenty, and more 
than they desired. 
Our advice to “ Jackson ” U to try the 
cross, and we have every reason to believe it 
will prove satisfactory to him. It maybe 
he will not. get as good looking fowls to look 
upon as he would by either breed distinctly 
bred— hut, in other respects, with the quali¬ 
ties of both combined, he will not be disap¬ 
pointed. J* Brace. 
POTATOES FROM SEED 
I take the liberty to give you my first ex¬ 
perience in raising potatoes from the seed or 
ball. Last spring 1 sowed some seed taken 
from the Early Goodrich. When they were 
large enough to take from the hot-house 1 
transplanted one dozen sets in the open 
ground. From these plants I have dug nine 
distinct kinds of potatoes, yielding from one 
pint to four quarts to the plant. The great¬ 
est, yield from one set was ninety-two pota¬ 
toes weighing four and one-half pounds. Is 
this a big yield ? and is the first yield a true 
indication of what they will do hereafter? 
Does it indicate t hat those ripening first will 
be the earliest potatoes?—O. Bowen, Mym t 
Ohio. 
Remarks —The first yield is not always a 
true indication of what the varieties may tie 
hereafter, either as to yield, earliness or 
quality. They must be tested different sea¬ 
sons, on different soils, and under different 
circumstances. We have known quite as 
BEES —SOUTHERN ENEMIES, 
lie Shiiitf 
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PARAGRAPHS FOR THE PIG-STY 
A Large Pig.— Jambs Buears, Pleasant Grove, 
Dos Moines Co., Iowa, is raising sonic pigs from 
sows, said to be Poland China. The hoar is Ches¬ 
ter White. Tim pigs exhibit strikingly the char¬ 
acteristics of tho latte-. Mr. Mm hem, has one 
of these pigs which beats that mentioned ju tho 
Rural of August 7th. When taken from the 
mother at the age of thirty-five days its weight 
was thirty-four pounds. Since that its food has 
been skim milk and dry corn, without extra 
care. The day it was four months old it weighed 
one hundred and sixty and a half pounds, which 
is a gain of one hundred and twenty-six and a 
half pounds in eighty-seven days.—w. s. s. 
Varieties of Wheal.— A correspondent of the 
Canada Farmer, who, by way of experiment, 
sowed the past season Hie White Chinn, Sonic, 
Treadwell, Kentucky White Midgo-Froof, Med¬ 
iterranean Midge-Proof, club-shaped ear, (name 
unknown,) and the common Bed Midge-Proof, 
makes the following report: 
The Tread well does not seem any earlier than 
either theAVhitof’hluaorSoiile. The Kentucky 
White was almost all winter killed ; having sown 
it now three years, I would not advise anyone 
to do so hereafter. The Soule, of course, is as 
usual excellent; Hie club •shaped ear is also 
good; the White China also; but Hie Treadwell 
is best of all, The other sorts, allhough very 
rank and tall, have badly tilled heads. No midge 
Do they Change iheir Sex by 
porratiou t 
A neighbor of mine some time since 
bought of a poultry dealer, residing in the 
vicinity of New York City, a pair of Houdan 
fowls, or what was represented as such. He 
wrote he wished a pullet and cock, the 
former a laying lien. The price was stated, 
the money paid without any cavil, and the 
fowls sent, the breeder stating that the hen 
laid. In due time the fowls arrived tit. their 
destination. They were in miserable con¬ 
dition for fancy fowls, one of them lame and 
the other serawuey-lookihg, but the pur¬ 
chaser was blessed with tin patience ot Job, 
and waited, aud waited fol days, aye, weeks, 
patiently for his pullet t > commence her 
maternal duties, but lo ! b waited in vain, 
and on a close examiuatiu \ found that the 
fowls were both of the mat ' gender. Now, 
as the dealer asserted that 0 >e of them laid 
before he forwarded it by ex; vette, can it b" 
possible that fowls thus scntck'mgc tllfffr* 
by transportation ? Have any cf y, ^^ 
ers any k — e —/ -» 
future ? 
I am informed that tfcts same bi ■ del lias 
sent out puw <•) ©figs of fancy/mds, an^ 
after being 5ftnspoi£ed iron* Nif kork to 
Michigan° Jjfc y have hatched oct common 
fowls if these tilings ft re refill' a frC’flfc of 
damoN/We, I forint should Ike to tnow 
Bow wc are to prevent it ? H these aot a 
remedy®* it? Of course the '.arc no dis¬ 
honest breeders, or rather defers in fancy 
poidty in your Stale! Wluttt er they senrt 
tmt't ust of necessity be as rep 'sented. Will 
vcb explain to us Western vicuna the cause 
an. a cure for this matter lliotgh the cul- 
uans of the Rural ? J. p. 
Michigan, 1809. 
Remedy for Ilog CholeraW. FULTON, M. D., 
writes'the Chicago Republican that the follow¬ 
ing is a specific remedy for this disease, discov¬ 
ered by Mr. T. McKee of McLean Co., IU., and 
that, there has not been a single instance known 
of its failing to euro: —“Take the Polygonum 
punctatuin, or common Smart weed — of which 
there m e two varieties, the huge and small—use 
bot h combined,or the small variety alone; make 
a strong decoction by boiling; add to this slot?, 
aud get the hogs to drink all you can. The etleet 
is almost magical; your hog improves, sheds off 
and fattens beyond expectation. It is a fine 
thing to give hogs that have uo cholera, to make 
them improve raster.” 
JOSEPH WRIGHT’S FARMING, 
Ramie Product*. — Mr. .1. M. Gregory lias 
shown us a ramie handkerchief said to lnivo 
been manufactured in Louisiana; also, ramie 
dress fabrics from English mills. Ho informs 
ns, in answer lo our inquiries, that there is a 
market, tor i ho fiber of the plant now. Ho has 
an order for a ton of it from the North of Ire¬ 
land. ftiys lie could, ecll twenty tons of it at 
once. We shall watch the development of the 
growingmul utilizing this new fiber wir.h in terest; 
lmt we expect many who have undertaken its 
culture will bo disappointed in the demand for 
it at present. 
I was mistaken in saying that Joseph 
Wright got forty-five bushels of wheat to 
the acre on corn ground this season ; it was 
last season that his wheat after corn yielded 
so much. This season the best wheal he had 
was front a cornfield fitted imJ sown on the 
10th of October, after the corn crop w.n. re¬ 
moved ; but the heavy snow killed the wheat 
in low places, and he did not get so large a 
yield as the year before; yet his average 
yield from corn ground and summer fallow 
was about twenty-five bushels to the acre 
this season. 
I will now give the amount of this sea¬ 
son’s crops from one hundred and seventy- 
two acres of cleared land, aud also the 
number of horses, bovines, sheep and liogs 
that now compose Ins farm stock. From 
fifty-two acres he harvested 1,150 bushels of 
white winter wheat. From thirty-two and 
one-half acres of meadow he cut over one 
hundred tons of clover and timothy bay, 
some of it was from the second cutting. 
Ten acres of sixteen rowed Illinois dent 
corn made nearly one hundred bushels 
shelled corn to the acre, as large a crop as 
he had ever grown. Five acres of sweet 
corn in drills for fodder, cut up and put in 
FRAME HIVES vs. BOX HIVES. 
I am using tho box hive. In the fall it is my 
practice to brimstone my bees and take awa\ 
the honey. I destroy each fall about ten good 
hives of bees in this way and take from them 
about two hundred and fifty pounds of honey. 
The combs having honey and bee-broad are 
carefully separated from tho rest, and are then 
put through the straining process. The empty 
comb and refuse are made into wax. I pay uo 
attention to my bees further than to hive the 
swarms, if I happen to see them, and if they go 
to the woods, as they often do, I make no effort 
to stop them. You will see by the above that I 
do not deserve the name of hue keeper, because 
tho bees keep themselves; and besides you will 
uot offend me if you class me among those who 
are a disgrace to the profession. 
My main object in giving you the facts in my 
case is to elicit information. It is not my wish 
to pay henceforth any more attention *-• *‘ , - v 
bees than simply to hive the secure 
the honey in the fall tniling them w tth s il- 
English Fashion iu Pigs.—The Canada Farmer 
says the fashion iu Upglaud runs more to black 
than white pigs, and that, a touch of black iu 
Suffolk hogs is not objected to. It gives the 
following description of the modern FutfoJits. 
produced from a cross of the Chinese oh the old 
Suffolk breedThey are medium in size, with 
round bodies, short limbs, small heads and prom¬ 
inent chocks, are mostly white, with fine thick 
hair, and have uu aptitude to mature early, fat¬ 
ten easily, and keep in good condition on a small 
amount of food. 
Planting Corn Deep.— 1 disagree With Mr. 
Bhpen as to planting corn deep. I plow deep, 
but do not plant over four incites below the sur¬ 
face. I cover tlic seed with about an inch of 
earth. Four years ago one of my neighbors 
failed to raise half a crop on good land, w'cll 
prepared and well tended: and there was uo 
possible reason except that ot deep planting. It 
was planted about two-thirds as deep as tho 
ground was plowed.—P. £. GORMAN, Goshen, Ind. 
Surprise Oats.—J. W, McDowell, Dickson- 
burg, Pa., writes that from one grain of Surprise 
Oats he raised this season, by actual count. 
11,088 grains. The tallest stalk was six loot five 
inches high. Over ninety-five of them were 
five and one-half feet high. The largest, number 
of grain.- in one head was two hundred and 
forty-nine; Hie smallest number forty. Tile 
general crop averaged forty-four pounds to the 
bushel. 
