the multitude is very slow to learn that royal 
personages are very much like other people, 
and that they arc only human. There was, 
of course, a great deal of ceremonial in the 
way of receptions, address presenting and 
the like, which, repeated at every stopping 
place, one would think must become very 
tiresome to a sensible youth; but the Prince 
manifested no signs of weariness, comforted 
himself with much dignity and affability, 
and won golden opinions from all, especially 
from the young ladies, every one of whom 
would have fallen, desperately in love with 
him but for the well-known fact that there is 
“a great gulf fixed” between royalty and 
commonalty in that particular. 
Tested by tho number of entries the present 
exhibition has been a grand success. They 
summed up a total of 7,588, and exceeded 
last year’s entries by over 1,100. In such a 
communication as may hope to find room in 
your gorged columns, only a bird’s-cyc view 
of the Show can be given. As a whole, most 
of the classes were well tilled. The cl»icf 
short-coming was in tin; Stock Department. 
Some of our leading breeders failed notably 
to toe the mark, Messrs. Christie and Stone, 
it is said, from chagrin at being outdone in 
this field, and Messrs. Georoe M illek and 
M. II. Cochrane through a sudden strin¬ 
gency in the enforcement Of a rule rMfhirltlg 
cattle entries to be made by Aug. 14tb,/w 
teecka before the Show. Mr, Miller, it is 
shicl, overlooked the rule, but Mr. Cochrane 
could not comply with It, owing to the non- 
arrival from England of pedigrees of newly 
imported animals. Ill's entries were for¬ 
warded in less than ten days after the pre¬ 
scribed date, yet they were not accepted. 
Tho exclusive action of the Board is univer¬ 
sally disapproved. Most of our newspapers 
attribute it to pelt)’ jealousy on the part of 
Mr. Christie, the ruling spirit of the clique 
that manages the Exhibition, and even the 
Globe, liis especial friend and advocate, de¬ 
nounces it as red - iapeittn. But for this 
wretched narrowness we should have had a 
collection of Short-Horns, I he like of which 
has never been got together on this Conti¬ 
nent, for Mr. Cochrane, whose ambition to 
have the best stock regardless of expense, 
appears to know no bounds, has added to 
his previous importations several costly ani¬ 
mals the present season, and was anxious to 
show them. 
The Horne* 
Made a fine display, and In this department 
there can be no doubt we are making decided 
progress. We are not “ horsey” enough to 
spoil our exhibition by connecting the race¬ 
course and its gambling concomitants with it, 
but this fact docs not lessen the interest of 
the horse-ring, where day by day there has 
been a most attractive equine show. We arc 
behind our American 
wolds and Leiccsters mixing, and already 
the tensorial process in some cases is well 
nigh all that distinguishes “ which from 
t’other.” Tho Merinos never mustered so 
Largely or so respectably at any previous 
exhibition. Still they would have been 
“ nowhere ” at a Vermont Fair. 
The Pig Show 
was meager as to number, but good in quali¬ 
ty, consisting chiefly of Suffolk, Berkshire, 
and Essex breeds. 
Tho Poultry 
made a very fair display. 
Implements, IHndiinm, Arc. 
In implements, machinery, and farming 
tools, the k!iow t was doubtless an advance. 
It is in this direction that our American 
neighbors have been most ahead of us, but 
we are fast gaining upon them. The con¬ 
tents of what you would call “Mechanics’ 
Hull,” were veiy creditable to the manufac¬ 
turing skill of our people, especially in tho 
lines of carriage, makers’ requisites, iron 
foundry articles, looms and spindles. The 
display of sewing machines, and musical in¬ 
struments equaled anything I have ever 
seen at. fairs on your side. In woolen goods 
and ladies' work, the exhibition was also ex¬ 
cellent. In the fine arts, there w ere speci¬ 
mens enough, such as they were, but many 
were mere daubs and botches. Dairy ar¬ 
ticles ; cheese, both factory and home-made, 
butter, maple sugar, honey, heeswux, and a 
variety of miscellaneous things were in pro¬ 
fusion, and of excellent quality. 
Uraln, Fruit, Ac, 
The show of grain w T as extraordinary, the 
entries numbering six hundred and eight. 
The same may be said of roots and other 
field crops, which numbered seven hundred 
and two, and of garden vegetables, which 
counted tip seven hundred and fitty-sjx. Of 
no department, however, have we greater 
cause to feel proud, than of thefruit, of w hich 
there were five hundred and eighty-three en¬ 
tries. I doubt if. this lias ever been beaten 
in extent or quality on your side of the lines. 
While all the classes wore good, the pears 
and grapes were especially fine. It may he 
worth while mentioning that the Concord, 
Hartford Prolific, Rogers’ Hybrids, Delaware 
and their congeners do well here us cut-door 
grapes. The Delaware took the prize as the 
best out-door variety. 
Boo Keeper** Hoclety Formed. 
During the exhibition the apiarians held 
several meetings for the discussion of ques¬ 
tions of interest to bee keepers, and an asso¬ 
ciation was organized under the name of the 
“ Ontario Bee Keepers’ Association,” of 
which “your humble me,” aforesaid, has the 
honor of being President. 
At tho meeting of delegates for fixing the 
place of tho next exhibition, a strong push 
was made in favor of Ottawa, but Toronto 
carried it- by a majority of ten. w. f. c. 
They all fly. How can he know which 
meets his queens ? 
If he doe$ know of any practical method 
of controlling this matter, is it not his duty 
to make it known ? If he wants a remuner¬ 
ation, and will name his price, I will con¬ 
tribute a little more to it than almost any 
other man. M. Quinuy. 
involved heavy, back-ache w*ork to stow 
away under tho rafter. 
Now, wherein did I fail? I had a nice, 
cozy sheep-shed, and also cow stalls. The 
failure was that 1 did not make each an ad¬ 
dition in full to the length of the barn; that 
I did not make my posts sixteen feet, the 
same as the barn. The expense of the roof¬ 
ing would he exactly the same in either case, 
and the additional expense of framing would 
not exceed three dollars; and the additional 
length of six feel to these posts at each end 
would be not to exceed tw r o dollars; and 
then the additional length of boards and nails 
to nail them would not have exceeded twen¬ 
ty dollars—in all, say twenty-five dollars, 
I would then have had a barn forty-four by 
eighty feet, and added at least sixteen tons to 
the capacity. 
My advice to the Rural readers is, never 
add a lean-to to the end of a barn. It is a 
common tailure with men of small means to 
build too small and especially too low build¬ 
ings. Iu the end it is bad economy. Thou¬ 
sands with myself have had occasion to re¬ 
pent of it for many years afterwards. Land 
costs nothing aboveground; the roofing and 
flooring is the same in either case, and the 
addition of two to six teet upwards is not 
worth naming whether it be barn, shop, or 
hay-house. 
Put all your buildings on mortar walls; 
do not trust a dry wall. To young men of 
small means I say, do not mortgage your 
farms for paint to cover your buildings; 
there is no economy in paint, but it is ex¬ 
ceedingly ornamental; and when your means 
will allow of it then use paint to your heart’s 
James II. Hotchkiss. 
amfrittn §fpa:rtnwttt 
GuF.i.rn, Bcpt. 24,1869. 
I am glad to inaugurate a Canadian de¬ 
partment in a journal so extensively read 
and so influential as the Rural New- 
Yorker. 
THE PROFITS OF BEE KEEPING. 
My inaugural, for obvious rea¬ 
sons, must needs bo brief, and shall consist 
Ji ratty, of “a bow profound, down to the 
ground, from your humble me, W. C.,* 
which I hereby make to the “large and in¬ 
telligent audience” before which 1 now ap¬ 
pear for the first tirao; and sirondiy, of a 
somewhat eulogistic reference to the country 
1 represent, and which, though a few years 
younger and a few provinces smaller than 
the land over which the Star Spangled Ban¬ 
ner floats, is nevertheless a by no means 
despicable portion of the American conti¬ 
nent. Since Confederation, “Canada” has 
conic to signify all that portion of British 
North America which stretches from New 
Foundhind at the east to the Red River 
country at the west; and will doubtless, ere 
long, l»e still more comprehensive in its 
meaning, and take in the Sascatchcwau re¬ 
gion, British Columbia, and the island of 
Vancouver. 
Of all the provinces thus far confederated, 
or likely soon to be, Ontario, (formerly Can¬ 
ada West., and more anciently Upper Cana 
da,) is the most considerable as it respects 
population, wealth, resources and advan¬ 
tages. It. is a region very similar to Middle 
and Western New York. United Slates 
people who have never been here usually 
give way to an involuntary shiver when Can¬ 
ada is named, and whisper through chatter¬ 
ing teeth, “ That cold country!” thinking of 
Northern Vermont in the superlative degree. 
But such impressions are correct only in ref¬ 
erence to Quebec and the Maritime Prov¬ 
inces, while even iu Quebec there are sections 
of country better than the best portions of 
Vermont or Maine. Neither of these States 
can equal, still less surpass, the beauty and 
fertility, of the Eastern Townships. My 
Canadian notes will chiefly relate to the 
Province of Ontario, though I shall faithfully 
chrouiclc items of interest from the provinces 
further east. Let the readers of the Rural 
think of Ontario as the twin sister of New 
York, and if they can bring themselves to it, 
as, in some rospiai^jjHj lustier and likelier 
of the two.’ ThcT"’ill be constrained to ad- 1 
i. find In the Rural of Aug. 21st an arti¬ 
cle entitled “ The Honey Product," by Jas¬ 
per Ha zen. There are two points in Mr. 
I Iazkn’s article about which he and I differ 
materially: 
1. In regard to overstocking, I do not be¬ 
lieve that forty stocks of bees will overstock 
any territory where it. is profitable to keep 
bees at all. BeeB will fly in search of honey 
from two to three miles if it cannot he found 
in an abundance nearer their hives. Hence 
if forty stocks overstock an area of five or 
six miles in diameter, then bee keeping in 
tins country will always be an insignificant 
pursuit. If a stock is healthy and strong in 
numbers at the commencement of tho honey 
season, it will store up honey enough for its 
own use and a fair surplus to its owner be¬ 
sides in an ordinary season, even if there are 
hundreds equally strong in its immediate 
vicinity; while if it is weak and feeble, at. 
that time, it will be of but very little profit 
to its owner, even if it stood in a land flow¬ 
ing with milk and honey and not another 
stock within twenty miles of it. 
I presume 
thero are many bee keepers who will ask 
how are we to keep our stocks strong. My 
time will not allow me to give explicit direc¬ 
tions how it is to be done at present. Suffice 
to say here that the experienced bee keeper 
with movable combs will get a larger sur¬ 
plus and keep nothing but strong stocks 
without sacrificing a single bee over a brim¬ 
stone pit. 
2. The profits of bee keeping. Mr. IIazen 
says he can manage forty stocks of bees so 
as to secure from two to throe tons surplus 
honey the first season—say 5,000 pounds. 
Now, let us make a little estimate of the 
profits of bee keeping. Forty stocks of bees 
cun be bought here, in one half day’s ride, 
for two hundred dollars; forty <>f Mr. 11a- 
zen’s hives for eighty dollars.—Total cost, of 
stocking apiary, two hundred and eighty 
dollars. Contra, credit,—By 5,000 pounds 
surplus, twenty-live cents per pound, twelve 
hundred and fifty dollars; deduct the two 
hundred and eighty dollars, and we have a 
balance of eight, hundred mul seventy dol¬ 
lars clear gain, and forty stocks of bees and 
their increase, iu a single season—as no 
amount of surplus storage room above these 
brood combs will effectually prevent them 
from swarming. This is an average of one 
hundred and twenty-five pounds per swarm, 
or about thirty-one dollars. I think this is 
rather steep. If tills is a fair estimate of the 
profits, 1 think there would he more bees 
kept, titan there are, I do not. know anything ‘ 
about the honey resources of Mr. Hazen’s 
vicinity; but I believe that, bee keepers are 
usually well satisfied if they can get from 
three to five dollars worth of surplus per 
swarm. The increase I offset against the 
cost of hives, superintendence, &c. 
1 hope Mr. IIazen will publish his system 
of management in the Rural, from time to 
time, for the benefit of the inexperienced. 
And I hope every apiarian will contribute 
his experience, and exchange notes of ob¬ 
servation, and in this way we can make the 
apiarian department of the Rural as enter¬ 
taining and instructive as any other—at least 
to us, T. S. Roys. 
Hampden, Sept. 16, 1860. 
content. 
Carpenter*!* Tool Cheat.—Will some of your 
contributors givo designs for tho best inside 
arrangement of u carpenter’s tool chest?— 
W. A. E. 
vxxmvt 
BREEDING BEES 
Anonymous, iu the Rural of Sept. 18, 
doubts the assertion that a pure Italian 
queen that has mated a black drone will 
produce pure Italian drones. His reasons 
are: 
1. “ I am of the opinion that the eggs of 
the queen, at the tune they are deposited in 
the various cells, are all alike.” Now opin¬ 
ion is poor proof. 1 once thought as this 
man does,—that the eggs laid by a queen are 
alike, and trial by experiment to prove it, 
but always failed. I could raise a queen 
from an egg laid for a worker; why not from 
one laid fur a drone? The bees did their 
best. They built a queen’s cell around the 
drone egg, I expected a complete triumph, 
but. it proved a drone, — often a dead one,— 
and not a queen. An unimpregnated queen 
will produce drones, but never workers. 
Anonymous admits it. But. why so, if the 
eggs uro all alike? Again, he says: 
2. “ If an Italian queen that has mated 
a black drone produces pure Italian drones, 
then a black queen t hat has mated an Italian 
drone ought to produce pure black drones, 
which is not. the case, because I have pure 
black queens in my yard that produce hand¬ 
some, well-marked, Italian drones almost 
without exception.” It may bo so, but how 
can this Mr. A. be sure? He has Italian 
bees in his own yard, and has had for some 
time, to judge from the extent of his obser¬ 
vations. Is he sure these black queens pro¬ 
ducing Italian drones have no mixture of 
Italian blood? I have known queens as 
black as he ever saw from an Italian mother 
Color is no decisive 
cousins in carnage 
horses and roadsters, but we are in advance 
of them as to heavy draft and strictly agri¬ 
cultural horses. The tendency hero is to 
increase the hulk and weight of our farm 
horses, and surely this is a necessity among 
agriculturists generally, if we are to have, as 
we ought to do, deeper plowing. A light 
team cannot “ speed the plow" 
orsrimui 
MEMORANDA FOR HORSEMEN, 
beam-deep. 
The Cattle Depart meat, 
though not as a whole up to the mark, com¬ 
prised some fine specimens, particularly in 
the Short-Horn classes of three-year-old 
hulls, aged cows and calves, both bull and 
heifer. Mr. Snell’s bull “London Duke” 
was doubtless the best on the ground, and 
took the sweepstakes as well as the first 
prize in his class. John Miller’s “ Gola,” 
imported last year, headed the cows, and his 
“ Rubc-rta,’’ a roan heifer, imported this year, 
the one - year - olds. Only two herds ap¬ 
peared to contest the Prince of Wales’ prize 
of $(i0. They were owned by L Mit-leh 
and J. Snell, the latter of whom won. The 
Herel'ords were excellent, all, or nearly all, 
being owned by F. W. Stone. Some fine 
Devons were shown. The Ayrshire^ were 
about as good as usual, which is not saying 
much in their praise, for Canadian breeders 
have never distinguished themselves greatly 
in this direction. Tho Galloways put in a 
highly respectable appearanco, which would 
have been enhanced if Mr. Thomas McCrae, 
a prominent breeder of those “ black repub¬ 
licans," had not allowed four of his best ani¬ 
mals, destined for the Fair grounds, to be 
spirited away to Massachusetts, just before 
the exhibition, by our mutual friend, John 
Giles of Alderney and poultry celebrity. 
It’s a queer freak of his to jump from the 
sleek, piebald Jerseys to these muley ne¬ 
groes. They are no favorites of mine, but 
there is no denying that they have some 
cattle virtues encased in their sable hides, 
and Giles has undoubtedly got four first- 
rutc specimens of this ugly breed. The show 
of fat cattle was excellent, some high Short- 
Horn grades giving proof of the value of this 
cross lor meat-making purposes. The turn¬ 
out of working oxen, would have been 
hooted at at a New Eugland fair, and even 
here must be acknowledged very indifferent. 
Tlic Sheep 
were less numerous than usual iu the Cots- 
wold, Leicester and Down classes; never¬ 
theless, a number of really fine animals were 
shown. There are symptoms of the Cots- 
Advlce tv Horsemen.—A correspondent of the 
Scientific American gives this advice to drivers: 
“Whenever they notice their horse directing his 
ears to any point. Whatever, or Indicating the 
slightest disposition to become afraid. Jet them, 
Instead of pulling the rein to bring tho horse to¬ 
ward the objeot causing its nervousness, pull it 
on tho opposite side. Tills will instantly divert 
the attention of the horse from tho object which 
Is exciting his suspicion, and in utnety-nine cases 
out of a hundred the horse will pay no more at¬ 
tention to the objeot from which he will fly away 
it forcibly driven to it by pulling the wrong 
rein." 
Maize for Horsr*.—The English Murk Lane 
Express says:—"It appears from the report of 
the half-yearly meeting of the London General 
Omnibus Company that maize has been used by 
the -company during tho last half year exclu¬ 
sively instead of oats. The report states‘ Tho 
very encouraging results which attended the 
use of maize as provender in the previous half 
year Induced tho directors to adopt It still more 
extensively during the past half year, nnd at 
length substitute it entirely for oats. During 
the summer no other corn hud been used for the 
working studs. The substitution of maize for 
oats effected a saving of £14,172 in the half 
year.’" 
-- 
Wart* on Horse*.—Take nine cow peas and 
rub them on the wart until they arc covered 
with blood, and bury them so doop that they 
cannot possibly come up. This will effect a cure 
when everything eiso fails. Below I give you 
the uames of several gentlemen who will testify 
to its being a cure for that pest:—Capt. J. H. 
Fox; Col. n. It. Kimbell; Major W. ft. Crook, 
and Asa Parker, Esq., all of Monroeville, Ala.— 
Wade A. Parker. 
Experience with Kalian*.— Dr. S. J. PARKER, 
Ithaca, N. Y., writes the New York Times“ It 
is ft strange fact that I do not know of a really 
prosperous Italian hive of bees in this vicinity, 
although niimi hives and queens have been 
brought in here. If there is any way to keep 
the breath of life iu tham, I hope some one will 
tell us how it is done. They soon desert the 
combs In a groat measure, cluster eloso in a 
small bunch about their queen, and before the 
next season arrives are all dead. Such has been 
the case in the moss of hives for years. I mn 
out in cash over one hundred dollars on Italian 
bees, nnd more than that In time. My cash re¬ 
turns have been, in lioney sold from them, not 
to exceed eight dollars. Tills I regret to say; so 
beautiful a bee, so admirable evory way, I had 
hoped would be a success,” 
that I believed 
test. 
Ought, wo not to have something more 
conclusive than this before wo set aside a 
principle so well established us that which 
this man attacks? How is it proved that 
these black queens were mated with Italian 
drones, or how is it shown, even, that they 
produced Italian drones at all? It can 
easily be shown, I think, that Italian drones, 
and even workers, will visit hives near them, 
and remain sometimes for weeks. 
“ But when I come to mate Italian queens 
with these drones, or with drones bred from 
Italian queens that have mated black drones, 
they do not produce a pure worker progeny. 
No, sir. A queen, in order to produce a 
pure, handsome, working, or queen progeny, 
has got to be a pure Italian queen that has 
mated a pure Italian drone, without any 
black cross either way.” 
I have become exceedingly interested in 
this matter, because I think I discover the 
4 germ of a great result. Will this Anony- 
* J mous be good enough to go a little further, 
i^i and give ns his method of mating? Were 
^ _r - 
Driving v». Hilling Be**.—In answer to H. D. 
C., in the Rural of September IStli, he had bet¬ 
tor not put, the two swarms together, since there 
are probably bees enough In the chamber hive 
without. What we wanfcthis fall is not bees, but 
honey. If thero is not eomb enough to hold 
twenty or twenty-five pounds of honey, It will 
not pay to try to keep either; but if there is, 
begin to feed as soon ns the brood is hatched, 
and give as fast as it is takeu and stored.—M. 
Quinuy. 
Lomene** in Hornes—Juutrs Turner, Butler, 
Ga., gives the Southern Cultivator a remedy for 
a lame mare belonging to a correspondent. Ho 
says:—Tell him to get one ounce camphor gum, 
one ounce corrosive sublimate, and dissolve in 
half pint spirits turpentine. Bathe the affected 
part every day for a week—discontinue a few 
days, and if a euro is not affected, try it again. 
It cures permanently big-head, splint and spavin. 
A Bee Keeper Abandons Bell Ringing. — A 
correspondent of the Rural World says:—“ I 
always believed in ringing a hell to make bees 
settle when they swarmed, and should still be¬ 
lieve so, if some one had not stolen my bell last 
yv inter. This yearevery swarm settled near the 
ground, and I did not lose a single one. The rea¬ 
son—no bell to ring. Lust year I lost six swarms, 
and every swarm that did settle solcotcd the top 
of a tree for their resting place. The reason—I 
had a bell lo ring, and rung it.” 
it almost auy other animal, I could compre¬ 
hend it. “ But when 1 come to mate Italian 
queens, &c.” I am at a loss to understand. 
For we all know that this mating of queens 
and drones takes place out of sight, high in 
the air. According to Ilia account, lie has 
pure Italian, black, and hybrid drones. 
Founder In Horse*.—Send us, somebody, a cure 
for a foundered horse where the founder has 
settled in bis feet—F. 8 . Brown. 
We noticed recently a remedy given by ft Mis¬ 
sissippi correspondent of the Southern Cultiva¬ 
tor. It Is:—“Give one tablespoonful of pow¬ 
dered alum.” He adds, ”Try it before anything 
else and you’ll find it something great.” 
Mi ' «. YW 
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