* 
Michigan, drifty, so much BO, that it liaa been 
said, that “ a warranty deed will not hold it.” 
There are, however, some men who have culti¬ 
vated the will partially for a living, and a few 
who make grapes, peaches and small ftuits a 
specialty, shipping their products to Chicago and 
other western cities. The latter remark wid ap¬ 
ply to this lake shore for 100 miles north and 
south from here. p. 
and when the business is carried on under a 
careful aud intelligent, system of management. 
Yet it has always seemed to us that the sight of a 
number of hives, neatly arrayed near tho home¬ 
stead, adds to tho snugneas of its appearance, 
and bespeaks on the part of its owner, a desire 
to consult the comfort of bis household aud a 
wise foresight in bailing himself of all the 
rccoures of enjoymout and profit within his i 
reach. To those who intend to commence bee¬ 
keeping, as well a3 to those who have already a ' 
stock on hand, a number of practical questions 1 
with regard to their mauagement, and the com¬ 
parative merits of the different varieties fre¬ 
quently occur, and several of these are pithily 
answered by a correspondent of the American 
Cultivator. 
“How can I keep ants out of my hives? ” 
The use of common salt will keep them out 
some times, and cat mint or catnip, as some call 
it, is rIso very good. 
“ TIow can I get rid of the moth worm ? ” 
The best method is to prevent its appearance 
by keeping your stocks strong, and also through 
a constant watching and warfare; better burn a 
weak stock than to let it become a nursery for 
worms. A caudle or lamp set in a basin of vine¬ 
gar and water, after dark, will catch dozens of 
the millers. 
11 How much do Italian queens cost, and where 
can I get them pure ? " 
Italian queens are very low now; they can be 
bought for from $1 to $3 for home-bred queens, 
aud $10 for the imported ones j the 31 queens 
are those that have just commenced laying, and 
the $3 ones those that have been kept till their 
workers have hatched to test their purity and 
laying qualities. They can be bought of almost 
any of the reliable bee-keepers. 
“ When is the best time to Italianize, and what 
is tho best method? ” 
The best time to Italianize is when yon can 
get the best queens the easiest. I like the honey 
season the best, that is between May and Octo¬ 
ber ; it can be done safely till late in Novem¬ 
ber. 
A favorite method is to take frames of brood 
that are batching from different hives, and make 
a swarm and put the queen In with them; if 
this is done between the hours of eleven and 
four of a good clear day, most of the old bees 
will bo out and the young hoes will accept tho 
queen without trouble. First, by rolling her in 
honey, or smearing her with it; the bees will 
clean her off aud take tuber without any trouble, 
but do not try to put a queen in a hive that has 
been without one for two or three weeks ; better 
give them brood and make them raise one. 
“Is there any hive that gives the advantages 
of the moveable comb-hive, aud made without 
frames ? ” 
I answer both yes and no. There is one that 
has most of the advantages if rightly managed. 
It is a top bar hive. 
“Which is preferable, to put in Italian 
queens, or get a full swarm and raise them 
myself ? ” 
Unless you understand raising queens it is 
poor polioy to buy a stock to Italianize. A good 
stock is worth from twelve to twenty dollars in e 
moveable comb-hive, with express charges of 
two to five dollars more, making in all a total 
sum that would buy five to eight good, tested 
queens or twelve to twenty untested ones, saying 
nothing of your own time in raising them. 
Again, the bees wasted in the operation would 
make them cost double what you could buy 
them for. By making your stocks strong and 
putting drone oomb in the center of the brood 
neat, yon can have drones two or three weeks 
earlier than with the blacks and divide your 
swarms as soon as drones show next Spring. 
Then you can go along all right, or keep your 
hive supplied with box room, raising your 
queens late in the season, always being particu¬ 
lar to deprive your black slocks of all the drone 
comb you can get at. My Italians do not raise 
as many drones under the same circumstances 
as my blacks used to do. I have no black stocks 
now nor do I want them again. 
“-As* the Italians better than the Blacks ? ” 
This question has been answered many times 
in the affirmative. I have known the blacks to 
do as well as the Italians in extra good seasons, 
but I never have had my blacks do as well as my 
Italians, taking one season with another. I 
never have been troubled with worms in my 
Italians. I have kept the Italians for the past 
five years aud shall keep them till I find better, 
but I am certain it will not be among the 
blacks. 
“How long does it take for bees to hatch 
out ? ” 
Three days after the egg is laid a grub is 
hatched out (remaining a grub from five to eight 
days.) Worker bees are twenty-one days from 
the time the egg is laid, drones twenty-four days, 
queens sixteen days. Queens are often raised 
from worker-brood, which may be less than 
eight days from the laying of the egg. 
SOUTHWEST MISSOURI 
PRESCRIPTIONS FOR RHEUMATISM 
Billinos, Christian Co., Mo., July 23,1877. 
Mn. Editor :—Are there any persons who de¬ 
sire a home in a place where there are fine 
farms to bo had for small sums of money, and 
on easy terms ? If so, I would tell them to 
come to Southwest Missouri. Here one may find 
all a reasonable person can expect, aud more 
than can be found iu most places. 
Billings is situated on the line of the St. Louis 
and San Francisco Railway, two hundred and 
sixty miles west from St. Louis, upon an elevated 
plateau fourteen hundred feet above the sea 
level, thus ensuring a rare, healthful and pure 
atmosphere. Many people como here for the 
purpose of regaining lost health, and in nine 
cases out of teu succeed. Farmers can get un¬ 
improved lands at low prices, and without very 
hard labor get. them ready to raise good crops. 
Many farmers have oomo here since March last, 
and broken up new land aud planted corn, pota¬ 
toes, etc., and can show better crops than other 
farmers in the East and North can after laying 
out. a great deal of money for fertilizers. The 
soil is so strong bore that year after year the 
same ground on ono farm I can mention, has 
been plowed and planted for thirty years in 
succession, and uo fertilizer applied, and all the 
time has produced annually splendid crops. 
What land in the East can do so well ? I know 
of none. 
Whoever may write to know more of this 
country, can, by sending their address to the 
writer, receive a printed circular, giving a de¬ 
tailed description and truthful account of 
Southwest Missouri. Mas. E. L. St. Clair. 
Anxious at all times to increase the joys and 
lessen the woes of our readers, we place before 
thorn herewith jusi a few of the specifics for the 
cure of rheumatism, which were lately enumera¬ 
ted in Hall’s Journal of Health. Tho phraseol¬ 
ogy alone is slightly modified for the purpose of 
condensation. By trying all the remedies men¬ 
tioned, either successively or oontemperaneously, 
as far as circumstances will admit, a certain re¬ 
sult will inevitably ensne! 
Sleep with your head toward the north. 
Wear a cheBt protector. Take nitrate of potash; 
nitrate of Bodium; nux vomica. Sleep with a big 
dog. Use magnetism ; galvanism ; bromide of 
ammonium ; iodide of ammonium. Put on mus¬ 
tard plasters; Spanish fly plasters; bromide of 
potassium ; iodide of potassium ; lemon juice; 
sage tea. Wear sulphur in your shoes. Carry a 
piece of sulphur in your vest pocket.. Try hard 
rubbing ; oloato of mercury; oomruon soda ; 
capsicum; lUdway’a Ready Relief. Wear silk; 
white flannel; red flannol; buckskin. Take gin 
aud hemlock; Reynold’s Specific. Make a neck¬ 
lace of the knots produced by the stiug of an in¬ 
sect on Golden Rod, and wear it next the skin. 
Exercise and keep it off. Keep as quiet, as pos¬ 
sible. Take colchium; morphine; Angel’s rheu¬ 
matic gum; carbolic acid; soft soap bandaged 
with flannel will do. Do not eat meat; do not 
cat eggs or potatoes. Eat any tiling you please. 
Do not smoko at all; smoke as much as you like. 
Take camphor. Diink nothing but beer. Do 
not drink anything but whiskey. Drink no ar¬ 
dent spirits. Keep in the house. Take a ride 
out whenever yon can. Cany a piece of alum iu 
your pocket. Take Turkish baths. Avoid the 
Tutkish bath. Do Sota spring water is great. 
So are acetate of potash and burdock seed. Bathe 
in hot water with pearlash in it. Bathe in cold 
water frequently. Do not bathe at. all until yon 
are nearly well. Dose catnip tea. Sleep next to 
fltnnel. Go to Arkansas Hot Springs. Go to 
Doolittle Springs, Richfield Springs, Sharon 
SpriugB, Hot Sulphur Springs—to Saratoga, to 
Florida, to Bermuda, to tho Sandwich Islands, 
to California, to the South of France, to Mexico, 
to the Azores, to South America. Wear a horse- 
chestnut in your left-hand breeches pocket. 
Wear a potato in the other. Take Constitution 
Water. Wrap joints with cotton, and cover with 
oiled silk. Get out on the prairies. High laud 
is best for rheumatism. So are Balm of Life and 
magnetic Balve. Rub with kerosene, mnstang 
liniment. Pat on hop poultice. Apply hop 
mushes. Pat mustard poultice over the heart. 
Drink Friedrichshall bitter water. Put on slip- 
pery-elm poultice. Eleotrio oil. If all these 
don't cure, try something else." 
Washington Co., J iffy 2nd. 
This la tho wealthiest country In tlie -State, 
and by far the most extensively and best, cul¬ 
tivated. Cotton Is the Chief crop, but during 
tho past year a groat deal of corn baa also 
been planted, and both arc now In excellent 
condition. The plantations here look so irlm, 
well fenced, and cared for, that one might 
readily fancy, In passing through the eotiniry, 
that, ho beheld a farm In one of the old-settled 
Northern States rather 1.1mn i plantation In re¬ 
mote Texas. The people in this seel Ion are thor¬ 
oughly law-abiding, and there is little or no bit¬ 
terness now remaining from our late unpleasant¬ 
ness. c. t. c. 
Humboldt, Tenn., July 24,1STT. 
We have bad unusual rains in June aud thus 
far in July: cannot say Clop prospects nro favor¬ 
able, impossible to cultivate well. The wheat 
crop is larger than usual, and now selling at 31.00 
per bus. We have about, douo threshing, and 
are nearly through with corn and cotton. 
Pastures fine, clover and all grass. Hay 
will be plentiful. Tolerablo apple and plum 
crop, some few peaches on favorable localities. 
B. F. Tuan son. 
Burr Oak, Iowa. 
We have had a very wet season here. Crops 
are looking well, although corn is rather back¬ 
ward. Wheat, and oats promise a good yield, 
and potatoes a large crop. Some Pototo beetles 
and plenty of Chinch bugs. But they are not 
doing damage on account of the wet weather. 
Land is worth from 325 to 3100 per acre. 
University of n. c.. July 26t,h 1877. 
Dear Rural : The season is so far advanced, 
that nearly all the crops in tliiB State are de¬ 
cided, and it. is my pleasant privilege to say that 
at last, there is a bountiful crop of almost every 
product. Oats, though damaged somewhat this 
winter, are better than usual. The grain of tho 
wheat is very lino, and the quantity above that 
of any year, probably, since tho war. All kinds 
of fruits and vegetables abound. There are, i 
presume, mere peaches in N. C., to day, than in 
any year of the past. Great quantities are sent 
to the northern cities. Potatoes havo yielded 
well. Corn, in garden and field, has already 
contributed its share, or is promising a rich 
harvest in duo time. The great exports, ootton 
and tobacco, have so far escaped any groat in¬ 
jury, and afford a cheering prospect to the plant¬ 
ers. Rains havo fallen, in nearly all the fttate, 
with sufficient frequency to make the year a 
glorious exception. The interest in improved 
farming increases. The chemist, of the Agri¬ 
cultural department has sent out. his first lint of 
the analyses of fertilizers. I think his opinion 
is that all the fertilizers are sold to tho farmers 
at too high a price. He l’onnd that Poplein’s 
contained 20 per cent., of water and sand ; but. 
his compound has not disappointed all the pur¬ 
chasers. Through the revival of general inter¬ 
est in tho subject of farming, there Is a prospect 
of a grand Fair at Raleigh this year. It is held 
in October. There is no appreciable change iu 
tho supply or character of labor. 
We have at this University, in connection with 
the Agricultural College (which is embraced in 
the University,) a depot of Agricultural Imple¬ 
ments, kept on exhibition. Contributions have 
been made by a number of manufacturers in 
different parts of the country, and we hope 
that others will avail themselves of the oppor¬ 
tunity to encourage the great cause, and, at the 
same time, to advertise themselves in a perman¬ 
ent and prominent way. 
In this part of tho State the hog cholera has 
prevailed to a fearful extent during the year. 
There is no known remedy here. The summer 
has been, and is, very warm, but not so severe 
as last. There ia one gratifying peculiarity : the 
cotton planters, in some cases, are abandoning 
the policy of raising cotton only, and giving at¬ 
tention to the cereals. This will be a great help 
to the State. I am pleased to see improved 
threshers in use. Hoping to write you again 
before very long, I close with the assurance of 
my regard and admiration. s. e. 
Inhstrial ^oridiis 
SUPPLEMENTAL FAIR LIST 
(Continued from Page 53, July 28.) 
Corrections.- The State Fair will he held nt Aus¬ 
tin. Tsxus, Oct. 10-20, mid not Oct. 0-13. ns previously 
publish ml. 
Thn Wurrnn Co. (.V. Y.) Fair will bo hold »t Glen's 
Fulls. Instead of at Wunensburgb: date us an¬ 
nounced. 
STATE AND PROVINCIAL FAIRS. 
Nova Sootla Provincial. Kentuille.Ort. 1, 5 
Ontario Provincial, Ii union.Sept. 21.23 
Olichee Provincial, Quebec.Slept. 17.21 
West Virginia, Clarksburg.Sept. 1.’, H 
COUNTV AND LOCAL-NEW YORK. 
Jefferson. Watertown.3ppt. 11. 12. 
I .carls. Low villa ..... ...Bept. II, M 
Manlius und Pompcy, Manlius.Sept. 2'! H 
Nliigiirii. I.ncltport....Sept. 20,22 
Oneida. Rome. ....Sept. 17.21 
Orange. Montgomery........ Sept. 2(1. 28 
ISeliiilnirlo. 3' lpdiaiig. Sept. 25. "7 
Schuyler Witt.lcln* .Sept. 20. 22 
Sherburne. Oh on tn«o Co.Sept. I i. 15 
Trei.tou Union, Trenton.Sept, 25. 27 
Warren, Glen’* Fulls ....Sept. II, 14 
Washington Sandy 11 til.Seat. 4, 7 
Wayne, Lyons.Sept. 20,28 
A PREVENTIVE OF HYDROPHOBIA 
It is certainly a fact that in a multitude of in¬ 
stances man suffers more by the anticipation of 
evils than from their actual endurance. Hydro¬ 
phobia, however, is not one of tbes6 misfortunes, 
for how keen soever the preceding anxiety, the 
in co m- 
suffering from this cause is insignificant 
parison with the torments of the wretch writh¬ 
ing under the malady. Yet there is little doubt 
that the aggregate of misery from the former 
canae is greater than that from the latter, 
since for one who has perished from the bite 
of a dog or other animal hundreds have suffered 
from fears of such a oalamity. It is to alleviate 
the disquietude of those who have been dog- 
bitten, aud to prevent any fatal consequences 
from the mishap, that w© here insert a prescrip¬ 
tion which is credibly reported as an infallible 
safeguard against the disease in every instance 
where it has been used : 
“Immediately after being bitten take one and 
& half ounces of the root of the common plant, 
Elecampane—the green root is perhaps prefera¬ 
ble, but the dried will answer, and may be found 
at any drug store—alio© or bruise it into a pint of 
fresh milk, boil down to a half pint, strain, and 
when cold drink, fasting for at least six hours 
afterwards. The next morning, fasting, repeat 
the dose, using two ounces of the root. On th© 
third morning sake another doge, prepared as the 
laet, and this will be sufficient. Nothing should 
be eaten after each dose for at least 6ix hours. 
This valuable plant will grow very rapidly and 
can be easily cultivated in almost any garden or 
patch. 
RHODE ISLAND. 
Woonsocket, Woonsocket.Pnpt. "4 
Washington, West Kingston.Sept. 13, £0 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
Doylestown. Buck* Co.Oct. 2. 5 
MICHIGAN COUNTY FAIRS. 
Armada (Macomb Co.), Armada. Oct. 2, 5 
Buy. Bay i 1 y.St pt. 18,21 
Durrleu, Niles.Oct. 2, •-> 
Hiun> h. Ooldwater.Sept. 2ft. 2 R 
Central Fnlr A I'Ociat'On, liubb'irclMon.. Fept.£.>, 28 
Central Michigan Ag'l Society, Lansing.. Oct. 2, 5 
i UiMon, St. Johns.Sept. 17, It 
Eaton. Cha i lotte.,.. 8 Pt. 26, A 
llenoses, Flint ... . Oct- 2, 5 
Grand Traverse tTnlou Agricultural sod• 
etv, Antrim...In October 
Hillsdale. Hillsdale.Oct. 2. 5 
Ingbain. .Vasun. .gept. 28 21 
Ionia. Ionia.sept. it. 21 
Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo.S**pt 
Keut, Graua Huiddis...After state I air 
Lon*' ne, Adrian.*. Sept. 2tb 28 
iitVUWMOn. liOWcll. . 8 Pt 25 28 
Macomb, Mu Clemen*.AfterStaieFair 
Monroe, M" ato© .O t. 2, 3 
Oak'arid. Potl'lao.... Sept. s. 28 
Sa,'<iriavv,3asnDawCtty.Sept 1.4 
Hmillao, LuiOng on.pet P. 0 
Slpawtwsw, Owuiw....pe> t. 2 1 , 2H 
Van But on. Paw Patv.. . O t. 2, a 
The ftb vs ire all the notices of County or District 
Fairs received. 
KENTUCKY. 
Anderson, Lawrenceburg:, commences.A eg. 14 
Boone. Florence... ..Aug. 28 
Bourbon. Paris.V‘ ,jt - * 
Boyle. Danville.Aug. 8 
Fayette, Lexington.£cpt H 
Franklin, i ruiikluvi. .♦.b' pi. 4 
HairlBioi, Cynthiana.....-.Aug. .u 
Henry, Eminence.Aug. 22 
Madison, lUclilUQitd.... Aug II 
Mtrcer,Salvisi— ...July .si 
Montgomery, Mt. sterling.t-ep . 8 
N.daon. BardHown.Sept. 4 
Owen, ...Oct i 
Shelby, Slunbvvilie. a ug. i 
Tin i;e /-.re pairs' eld ut Bowlin-' Green, Glasgow, 
Hopkinsville aud BUaseUvUIe, but the dales are not 
yet announced. 
MUSKESON, MlOH., July 22, 1877. 
This ia a young and aspiring city of some 
9,000 inhabitants, with its center on the South 
side of Muskegon Lake, an expansion of tho 
mouth of the river of that name, and about 
four and one-half miles from Lake Michigan. 
Around this inland lake are some thirty-five 
steam saw-mills supplied with logs, floated down 
the river and its branches for some 100 miles. 
There is not svbat would be called, at the east, a 
farmer within ten to fifteen miles. 
Tho soil is not generally well adapted to farm¬ 
ing, it being a rather light and thirsty sand, and 
in some places, especially on the shore of Lake 
BEE-KEEPING NOTES 
Readers of this paper know that we are not 
among those who think there is much profit in 
keeping bees with a view to the sale of their 
honey,except in exceptionally favorable localities, 
