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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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with bees be made calmly ; for a quick motion 
or a small j arring of the hive can be misappre¬ 
hended as a menace by the bees, who would 
have remained quiet but for this unhappy ac- 
dent. An irritated bee, unless very angry, an¬ 
nounces its anger by quick flight around the 
head of the intruder. This anger is easily dis¬ 
cernible by the strident sounds that the bee 
emits, being altogether different from the gen¬ 
tle humming of a bee going into the fields after 
honey. As soon as he hears this menacing 
language a skillful bee-keeper lowers his head, 
sends some more smoke inside the hive, and 
waits till the anger of the bee has subsided be¬ 
fore resuming his operations. C. Dadant. 
Jiiinistrial implements. 
A SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENT FOE CULTI¬ 
VATING COEN. 
The accompanying illustration shows a 
riding corn cultivator at work. This machine 
is made by Edmiston <fc Waddell, 281 Green¬ 
wich St., New York City. The advantages of 
this riding cultivator, or, as it is more com¬ 
monly called, sulky cultivator, have been 
demonstrated to the entire satisfaction of thou¬ 
sands of pract'cal farmers all over the land. 
The construction of the machine secures 
strength and lightuess both of the working 
parts and draft. The drag bars, or beams, to 
which the shovels or teeth are attached, 
are connected with the main frame by 
wrought-iron hangers and a substantial self- 
adjusting device which admits both of a 
lateral and vertical movement of the beams. 
These always move In a horizontal plane when 
moved from right to left or vice versa while 
the machine is at work. They are under the 
easy control of the driver, enabling him to 
dodge hills that are out of line and avoid plow¬ 
ing them up. The beams are so well balanced 
that they are easily managed by the feet with¬ 
out weariness to the legs. They are raised and 
lowered by long, easy-working levers which 
are within a few inches of the operator’s hands. 
Each 6 lde can be raised or lowered or held in 
any desired position without in the least affect¬ 
ing the working of the other side, a feature 
that all corn raisers understand, where there 
are dead furrows or uneven surfaces to cul¬ 
tivate. 
The shape and pitch of the shovels, the length 
of the beams and their connection with the main 
frame at a sufficient distance from the shovels, 
all tend to make the plowing deep. Its depth, 
however, is under the control of the driver by 
means of the raising levers. 
and be fresh and able to do the chores at 
night, thus doing in one day what a man 
would take two days to do under the old 
method. 
The machine is also specially adapted for 
preparing ground for seeding, or for culti¬ 
vating in seed sown broadcast. For this pur¬ 
pose an additional shovel is furnished, and 
when the cultivator is used with five shovels in 
seeding, the ground is left almost, if not quite, 
as smooth as when harrowed. It is also excel¬ 
lently adapted for marking out corn rows. 
For this work the cultivator is used with four 
shovels; one row is marked at a time, and the 
furrow receives the same outside plow on re¬ 
turning, the rows are kept of uniform width, 
and with the four plows the ground under and 
next to the seed is still better pulverized. For 
the cultivation of cotton a pair of sweeps are 
furnished with each machine,all ready for work, 
and which can be attached to the machine very 
easily, each sweep having a standard of the 
same size as the shovel standard, and which 
fits into the casting on the beam. The sweeps 
take the place of the rear shovels. The ma¬ 
chine has also been used with considerable 
success in the cultivation of tobacco and pota¬ 
toes. K. 
tsdlaiicous 
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BOOKS, CATALOGUES, ETC. 
Landketh’s Rural Register and Almanac 
for 188L—0? pages, illustrated. Sent gratui¬ 
tously to all who apply to D. Landreth & Sons, 
Philadelphia, Pa. The frontispiece presents a 
bird'g-eye view of their home seed-farm, 500 
acres in extent. This is but one of four farms 
worked by this firm, aDd not, in area, the 
largest. The Register is full of practical and 
valuable information. 
Sorgo Hand Book. A treatise on Chinese 
and African Sugar Canes, varieties, culture 
and manufacture. Bv the Blymer Manufactur¬ 
ing Co., Cincinnati, O. Sent without charge 
to our subscribers who apply to the above 
firm. 
Dr. Fenner 6ays tbat it is easy to show by 
facts and figures that as much imitation butter 
greeD. He has fed many crops cut when the 
grain was nearly full, a period indicated to the 
eye by the gray appearance of the field. At 
this stage there is almost completed growth, 
but the ripening process has not begun, the 
sap is iu the stalks and the heads almost 
formed. After wilting in the swath a few 
hours iu good weather—a longer time in poor 
weather for curing—the oats are bound in 
sheaves of moderate size and at once set up, 
two-by-two, in shocks where they are left until 
dry enough to draw in, the degree of curing 
being dependent somewhat on the conditions 
of storage. If the sheaves are to be put on 
scaffolds and not packed to a great depth, lit¬ 
tle care need be taken to secure thorough cur. 
ing iu the field. Now, aB to value, oats so 
gathered, he thinks, are worth more for feed¬ 
ing milch cows than the best hay, if made a 
part of the daily Bupply. He has never fed 
exclusively on oats. Cows in milk, and doing 
well on good bay, will at once show increased 
yields, when given a suitable allowance of oats 
eut green and cured in the way here described, 
and they will ear all the straw as cleanly as 
they consume the best hay. The fodder is 
good also for horses, better than ripe oats for 
horses not steadily employed, for they keep 
the coat good, and digestion unimpaired. 
Landreth’s Rural Register says that the 
Public School law passed in Austria in 1869* 
provides that “in every school a gymnastic 
ground, a garden for the teacher, according to 
the circumstances of the community, and a 
place for the purposes of agricultural experi¬ 
ment, do created.” The school inspectors of 
each district are instructed “to see to it that 
in the country schools school-gardens shall be 
provided for agricultural instruction in all 
that relates to the soil, and that the teacher 
shall make himself skillful in such instruc¬ 
tion.” The general law declares, “Instruction 
in natural history is indispensable to suitably- 
established school-garden s. The teachers must 
therefore be in a condition to conduct them. 1 ' 
Contrast this thoughtful care with the system, 
or rather want of system, for the finer instruc¬ 
tion of the mind pursued it the public schools 
of our rural districts ! 
The Farmer, of England, speaking of a pat¬ 
ent egg box, 6 »ys that the idea is to fit boxes, 
trays, and such like articles, with spring hold¬ 
ers which will hold the eggs securely, notwith¬ 
standing variations in size, at the same time 
preventing injury from ordiuary shaking and 
concussion. Several forms of the holder in 
question are claimed, some being for retaining 
the egg in an upright position, and others with 
the ends parallel to the bottom of the box. For 
abundance and in great variety—every advan¬ 
tage, in fact, that the management of such en¬ 
terprises could desire. 
Mr. Reynolds says about two-thirds of all 
our sugars imported from abroad is beet su¬ 
gar, but to manufacture this successfully there 
have to be from five to ten thousand acres of 
beets raised to furnish a Bingle factory and a 
capital stock of over a million dollars, and as 
yet the beet sugar industry has not been a suc¬ 
cess in this country, but the Amber Cane and 
corn-stalk sugar manufactory baB been a grand 
success. 
The World’s Fair project is apparently on 
its death-bed. We quote from the N. Y. Times. 
Half a dozen estimable gentlemen still insist 
that the fair ought to be held, but they cannot 
get other people to sympathize with them. 
The Centennial Exhibition was all very well, 
for the public understood that it was in some 
sense a patriotic celebration, and that it would 
not be repeated for another hundred years. It 
was endured with great fortitude and resigna¬ 
tion by the people of the United States with¬ 
out distinction of party. The newspapers 
wrote of it daily for at least a year, and in 
spite of the awful weariness with which so 
chronic a topic was necessarily approached, 
no candid man can deny that the press habitu¬ 
ally spoke of it with a noble assumption of 
cheerfulness. Even Philadelphia itself was 
uniformly patted on the back, and character¬ 
ized as a deserving town which displayed a de¬ 
gree of enterprise that only large and import¬ 
ant cities had hitherto shown. People came 
from all parts of the couutry to Philadelphia, 
and carried home with thsm the germs of ma- 
lailal fever and a profound admiration for the 
abilities and wealth of Philadelphia hackmen. 
Many of them went so far as to say that they 
enjoyed the Exhibition, and were quite willing 
that their creditors and personal enemies 
should attend the next one. After snch a dis¬ 
play of magnanimity and unselfishness it is a 
little too much to ask people to undergo an¬ 
other exhibition, even if it is to be held iu New 
York. A sense of duty to one’s country may 
loduce a man to join a suffocating crowd in 
order to gaze on the Corliss engine and the 
latest patent churn, or to buy preposterous 
boxes from alleged Japanese, and to eat atro¬ 
ciously bad dinners in a Polynesian pavilion ; 
but having done these things once in his life¬ 
time, the good citizen should be formally de¬ 
clared to be exempt from all further World’s 
Fairs. 
All the. exhibitors who received certificates 
that their particular articles were the best in the 
HIDING CORN CULTIVATOR.—FIG. 348. 
may be made from the offal fats of the beef 
alone, in the Uuited States, as will exceed all 
the present dairy product, by three or four 
times Besides, it may he, and is. made from 
the fat of the swine, or lard, which places its 
possibilities almost beyond computation. It 
can be produced at a profit for nine cents per 
pound and ought to be retailed on the market 
for ten to fifteen cents per pound to those, if 
any, who wish to eat it. 
Green Oats for Fodder.— Mr. W. A. 
Armstrong offers his testimony to the excel¬ 
lence of the fodder made from oats ent when 
cheapness and simplicity, however, nothing 
will heat the card-board trays now comiDg into 
general use. 
The Germantown Telegraph says that the 
French preserve eggs by greasing the surface 
with a mixture composed of four ounces of 
beeswax and eight ounces of warm olive oil. 
It is somewhat, surprising, remarks Cole¬ 
man’s Rural World, that up to this time there 
have been no fruit or vegetable canning estab¬ 
lishments in the West or South. The West 
affords such a good field for the consumption 
of such goods, and also offers the supplies in 
A further adjust¬ 
ment to regulate the 
depth of plowing is 
afforded by the stand¬ 
ards to which the 
shovels are attached, 
which can be in¬ 
stantly raised or low¬ 
ered on the beams. 
The shovels can also 
be veered to throw 
the dirt to or from 
the corn, or moved 
nearer or further a- 
part. 
Farmers who have 
used 6 u)ky cultiva¬ 
tors testify that they 
are most economical 
and profitable ma¬ 
chines to have on the 
farm. By their use 
the farmer can raise 
better corn, because 
his fields are better 
aud more thoroughly 
cultivated; be can 
raise more of it, be¬ 
cause his ground is 
euUivft’ed deeper and 
hills out of line are 
not plowed up, aud 
because shiftless or 
careless field hands 
cannot prevent this 
machine from doing 
good and thorough 
work, and by cul¬ 
tivating more rap¬ 
idly he can give 
hia corn more attention and go over it oft- 
ener than without the machine. A pair of 
shields are furnished with this machine, each 
of which works independently of the other 
and with the dmg bar to which it is attached^ 
They are held to the drag bar by a neat pat¬ 
ented device, which allows them to be adjust - 
ed to suit the work to be done and to bo in¬ 
stantly detached or put into position. This 
device effectually prevents the covering up of 
the small and young plants when cultivating. 
Moreover, ihc owner of such a machine can 
raise com cheaper because it is so simple and 
so easily handled that a boy old enough to 
drive a team can plow corn all day with it 
exhibition have since 
occupied themselves 
in quarreling with 
one another, while 
three exhibitors who 
failed to receive first- 
c 1 a 8 s certificates 
were naturally very 
angry. 
To hold a World's 
Fair to enable for¬ 
eigners who do not 
want to buy our 
manufactures to ex¬ 
hibit goods that our 
tariff will not per¬ 
mit them to sell here, 
is to spend time and 
money to no good 
purpose. Such an ex¬ 
hibition may be an 
eutertaining “show.'' 
but it would be much 
more honest to bor¬ 
row a name from 
Barnum, and call it 
“ the Greatest Show 
on Earth,” than it is 
to call it a World’s 
Fair. 
But let ns not 
trouble ourselves. 
We may have the 
cholera, and there is 
no doubt that we are 
in danger of an ep¬ 
idemic of typhus fe¬ 
ver, but thedanger of 
a World's Fair has 
very nearly passed away. Our people—accord¬ 
ing to the disappointed advocates of the scheme 
—are so disgustingly prosperous that they do 
not see any reason for dropping their present 
dollars in order to clutch at the possible pros¬ 
perity that a World’s Fair might bring them. 
The Executive Committee will probably hold a 
few more meetings to bewail the apathy of the 
people, and will then officially declare that the 
World’s Fair is dead and buried. 
Eight out of every ten hotels and restaur¬ 
ants in London supply their guests w th ar¬ 
tificial butters, 80 says the London Farmer. 
.Col Column says that some 
