mand. I judge that about the usual quantity 
was sown, and iu this section the yield is good, 
except on cold or wet land, where the cold, 
wet season has spoiled them. 
Orleans county, N. Y., has led in the bean 
business, and 1 would be glad if 6ome bean 
man would report the state of the crop aud 
prices there for the Rural. 
Beans are healthy, and vastly nutritious. 
The scarcity of “ bean porridge” sadly marks 
and illustrates the degeneracy of the age; it 
is now seldom seen on the tables of rich or 
poor. A well made bean soup is as good a 
thing as royalty can obtain. Beau porridge 
and bread is at once the cheapest aud 
They were a great deal larger the first year 
than the other kinds, and leas liable to rot. 
For a few years they took the lead, but it 
was soon ascertained that they ripened too 
late to ship in the fall, so they were dispensed 
with. After we had raised them together 
for several years, the lion. Henry Holmes, 
now Superintendent of the Poor of the coun¬ 
ty of Saratoga, came and purchased a lot of 
all the kinds mixed together, and then picked 
out and planted by themselves those that, we 
called ‘ Calico Potatoes.’ In the fall he bar¬ 
reled up a few of them and drew them to 
the canal at Coveville to send to New York, 
to introduce them, and while there he wished 
to fix somejiarac by which to call them. A 
man by the name of Verbaxks, (a shoema¬ 
ker,) and Captain Brazure, spoke of their 
looking like a peach blow. So it was agreed 
to call them by that name. Afterward rny 
uncle carried some to Massachusetts, near 
worked, is only a partial hurt, and may not 
be perceived. The difficulty is, we never 
note, carefully, this thing, which we have 
been accustomed to from youth up. Very 
wet spring plowing, however, is too glar¬ 
ing even for our habitual inattentive ob¬ 
servers. 
Then there is lumpy soil made, as in the 
present season, when there is much rain. 
The land becomes compacted, and when 
plowed will break up iu lumps. This, how¬ 
ever, only with the common undrained soil, 
with a hard-pan below and the rain above 
hammering and packing the soil between. 
A soil, porous throughout, will let the rain 
down however heavy and long-continued, 
and come out, it would seem, the better for 
it—certainly the richer, as it retains what 
the rain lias of fertility; and it breathes and 
continues its functions unimpaired and 
healthy. This is the land you least hurt, as 
it passes the water off readily. But our com¬ 
mon hardpan soil is a different tiling. Wet 
and harsh is the rule. The one (wet) nature 
has made; the other man, to a great extent, 
lie has plowed and mellowed; but ho lias 
also compacted and hurt In dairy regions 
this is less the case, as there the land is given 
hack to nature again iu its rest, with the 
grasses, leaving the frost and the elements to 
operate yearly, 
Our first requirement, then, is to give the 
land a chance by not hurting it any further. 
Remove the cause, as wc say of certain dis¬ 
eases. Then work and regain what is lost, 
and improve upon nature. This must be 
tommr) 
SEEDING WITH GRASS, 
FARM WAGONS —IMPROVEMENT. 
Ale farmers using farm, or as generally 
called, lumber wagons, with the form of 
hounds, P. P., (Fig. 1.,) and reach or coupling 
bar A, as shown, are aware that as soon as 
the reach, at the point of Insertion, between 
tbe front axle and sand board, becomes 
worn, or, when tbe front bolster, at the joint 
through which the king-bolt passes, becomes 
worn so that it can be moved laterally, even 
but a quarter of an inch, it allows the part of 
hounds D, to drop from six to eighteen inches 
below the coupling bar, A. The con: e prance 
is, the bolster stakes M, M, are always in¬ 
clined backward, raising the joint where the 
tongue is coupled to the hounds higher than 
where the reach is inserted iu the front axle. 
It is evident (and is found true m practice,) 
that when hacking, the whole power is ap¬ 
plied as a breaking strain on the coupling bar 
A, at tbe point of insertion, breaking, or 
otherwise rendering it unfit for use. 
own minds. On the 15th of March hist I 
divided two Early Rose potatoes into nine¬ 
teen parts and planted them. The season 
was almost a deluge of water, and only fif¬ 
teen hills ever came up. In about sixty days 
tho potatoes seemed to mature, and in thirty 
days more I dug them; they yielded only 
one gallon. In an hour from the tune they 
were out of the ground I planted them 
again, reserving only the two finest potatoes, 
which I placed in a dry, dark closet. On 
tiie first of September we found the pota¬ 
toes planted on July the 15th begining to 
come up, and on examining those in tho 
closet I found them beginning to sprout. I 
immediately planted those from the closet, 
which in a very few days showed themselves 
above ground, and are now doing well, look¬ 
ing as well as any potatoes of their age that 
I ever saw. Those planted in July are not 
yet all up, but. are still coming up. Though 
as I had given up all hope of their germin- 
BEES IN THE NORTH. 
lx the Rural for October 2d a writer on 
“Bees iu the South” says:—“When these 
worms (moth - worms) attack a gum and 
break tbe cells that, are filled with honey, so 
that it runs down, the bees from neighboring 
colonies gather in,” &c. He adds:—“A 
remedy, or rather a preventive of the worm, 
is the blowing of tobacco smoke into the 
bottom of the hive occasionally, when it is 
discovered that there is danger from the 
pests.” 
Whatever may be true of Southern bees, 
the worms which trouble Northern bees 
never break the cells so that the honey runs 
down, but rather avoid 6uch cells altogether. 
Sometimes, when the comb is thick enough 
so that they work between the bases of 
honey cells in the middle of the comb, 
worms may be found there, but never touch¬ 
ing the honey itself. The food of the worm 
is the wax. It will often cut into cells con¬ 
taining young bees, and spinning its cocoon 
will so fasten them *hat they cannot escape. 
Nothing is mere common, in a hive infested 
with worms, than to see full grown bees, 
having eaten off the sealing of their cells, 
vainly endeavoring to emerge from their 
living tomb. 
As to the remedy he proposes, I 
IK* 5 1 
A panecea foi all this trouble is found in 
securing by both to tho hounds P. P M a 
piece of iron, B, passing over the coupling 
bar A, as shown in Figure 1. For wagons 
that require to be turned short, the iron B 
should be arranged as is delineated in Fig. 
2, for a purpose which is obvious. This is a 
simple arrangement, which a blacksmith 
will attach for fifty cents, and one which re¬ 
tains the part D, in contact with the part 
A, as it should bG iu all desirable farm 
wagons. B, 
piTimemeci runner, i nope to know more, 
and to tell you what I know.—C. Frank¬ 
lin, Memphis, Term ., Oct. 3,1860. 
I had a bed of potatoes that was planted 
last autumn—Early Goodrich. I dug them 
quite early, put them in a cool, dry place, 
cut those that were large enough to divide, 
sprinkled plaster upon them, and let them 
lie thinly spread for almost two weeks. I 
gravel dry and planted them early enough, for a fall potato 
p of wheat. If to have done well. After a sufficient period 
have big vines had elapsed to decide the matter, I found no 
tli only two or sign of sprouting from the eye. Those that 
there should Ire were entirely sound showed no sign of 
e to rust, which sprouts. I waited long enough to fully con- 
e beans. It is vince me, aud then plowed up the ground 
I be of uniform aud put in turnips. The truth is that the 
are green and chemical changes In the potato which result 
time of harvest, in germination are not only gradual, but bo 
1 next year is very gradual that they require a whole sea- 
low it immedi- son for their natural development. Those 
sat many per- changes can be delayed indefinitely, but they 
rould advise to cannot bo so hastened as to effect'the aim of 
or some other two crops a season, any more than the fixed 
cans to fight its period ol gestation in different animals can 
' be hoed at a be changed. So says experiment.—w. a. 
?t when early j F our correspondent had read the testi¬ 
fy aie neglect- mony on this subject previously published 
le very weedy, fo the Rural he would speak less confi- 
n clean, and I dently of the possibility of producing a 
em clean. Y oil second crop of potatoes. 
ABOUT BEANS, 
TREATMENT OF HARSH SOIL. 
never 
could discover that tobacco smoko blown 
among the combs produced the slightest ef¬ 
fect on the moth-worm. Would it not be 
better to keep every hive so strong in bees 
that no worm could get the slightest hold ? 
Speaking of feeding bees the same writer 
says:—“The bee-bread is tbeir special feed, 
and that is decidedly better for them than 
the pure, liquid honey. * * * They do not 
feed upon the honey till the bee-bread is 
consumed.” 
Now this is very remarkable. It must, I 
think, be peculiar to “ Southern bees.” I 
have a dozen hives at this moment kept from 
starvation by daily feeding, that have bee- 
bread enough according to this statement to 
last them all winter 1 Cat) it be that “ W. 
A,," has ever personally investigated this 
matter, or has he gained time, if not wisdom, 
by taking some rumor for truth ? We have, 
here, to depend on feeding honey, or sirup of 
sugar 
THE PEACH BLOW POTATO. 
A Duchess county correspondent sends 
us a slip cut from the Baratogian, written by 
Asa A. Shepherd, who says the Peacli 
Blow' potato originated in Saratoga Co., N. 
Y., and gives the following history of its 
origin; 
“ I cannot fix the exact date, but about 
twenty-seven or eight years ago the Hon. 
Samuel J. Mott owned a farm opposite the 
Dean’s Corners store and post-office. Gil¬ 
bert IVright traded there, and a young 
doctor boarded with, him by the name of 
Colby. Not being crowded with business, 
the doctor and Mr. Wrioht planted one- 
half of a lot belonging to Mr. Mott, and 
ray father and bis boys the other half. ’ We 
planted a row of Merino potatoes in the 
middle of the lot, to turn on, so as not to 
break down the corn, and they planted a 
l ow of Western Reds by tbe side of ours. 
Iu t he fall my brother John aud I were com¬ 
ing across the lot and 
A good sirup for tire purpose may be 
made of four pounds of good coffee crushed 
sugar to a quart of water. Will “ W. A.” 
please to explain a little more at length ? As 
it is, I fail to see how that “ experience may 
be of advantage to apiarians.” “ In the loft 
of the kitchen there was a quantity of the 
honey locust. Bees were dying and falling 
to the floor beneath, very weak and poor, 
appearing unusually small.” 
Now I do not quite understand whether 
lie means by “honey locust” the tree of the 
Northern States or some kind of insect. If 
a tree, how came it in tlic loft of the kitchen ? 
If an insect, I for one would be glad to know 
more about it. It may be that we have some 
such substitute for honey among us. If so, 
we certainly need to know it. Our bees, this 
season, can only be saved by feeding. Good 
sugar is the only thing that I have yet been 
abie to use instead of honey. As to molasses, 
I have known Bees to starve with it in reach. 
Whether it would do better if reduced with 
water and flavored wit h dried fruit, “stewed,” 
I cannot tell. Something might depend on 
the kind of fruit—something of the expense 
at least. We want more light. The re¬ 
marks about hiving bees, the swarming, the 
barrel, &c., will probably do but little mis¬ 
chief, as but few will be so situated as to at¬ 
tempt to apply them. M. Quinby. 
saw some fine-looking 
balls on the Western Reds, and picked them 
and mashed them on a piece of paper, and 
dried them. My wife thinks she tied some 
of them together and hung them iu tho cel¬ 
lar. As to that I do not remember. John 
lived at home with father, and I lived near 
by, but all were working together at that 
time. 
“The next 
spring we planted the seed, 
John planting on father’s place, and I where 
I lived. He beat me the first year, my place 
being too much shaded by a butternut tree. 
Five or six different kinds came from the 
seed; one was called the ‘ Shepherd Red.’ 
Mooving Dees.— “A Learner," West Camden' 
N. Y., asks if beeswilldo betterif removed, once 
in three years, from one place to another several 
miles distant. 
