hia address said: “ In 18G3 circulars were sent 
to Apiarians in nearly every State, and returns 
wore received from U80 counties, in two-thirds of 
the States : and tho lowest estimate that could 
bo made from those returns gives two millions 
At' socles ffamilies.'/ Estimating the surplus 
animal. In addition to this there should be 
plenty of good hay. at least for one substantial 
meal each day. A daily allowance of bran, shorts, 
or ground feed of barley and oats, or oats and 
corn, in tho proportion of two parts of oats to 
one of corn is also strongly recommended to 
keep up the flow of milk and to keep tho animal 
in health and condition. 
But this is not all; cows in milk are very sus¬ 
ceptible of cold, and if unprotected from bleak 
storms and frosty nights, fall off rapidly in floah 
and milk. Even in summer, a cold raiu storm 
lessons tho yield of milk; but on the approach of 
wiuter, after tho strain of yielding milk for sev¬ 
eral months, tho general tone of the eystem is 
lowered, and tho animal cannot withstand sud¬ 
den changes of the weather without serious in¬ 
jury. During the cold, stormy nights, that often 
occur late in the fa'l, the cows will do better in 
a stable, even if no food is given them, than if 
n ask the question! “Who will bo tno nrst 
introduce walking matches'’ at fairs. 
At the Centre Co , Fair which was held in this 
ace Oct, 3,4. 5 and ft, a walking match was 
trodneed. There were five entries, the best 
irse making one-third of a mile in 4 minutes, 
e next in 4.05 and the third in 4.07. 
Emv.uu) J. Kenney. 
Rural; when address 
two-thirds off the averago report), me vanm or 
tho honey at that time annually produced, at 25 
cents per pound, would bo 87-500,000.” 
1 quote the above to show that, In 1868, it was 
estimated from authentic sources that the ayei- 
ago product of honey to each hive in the United 
States, was only 22 tbs. I have heretofore esti¬ 
mated it at 25 lb,i. Siuco 1808 no improvements 
have been made In hives to change that result 
materially as regards box honey; and when a 
bee-keeper does obtain a vt ry large quantity o 
such honey per hive, it is generally a case tlial 
and is not a result that all bee- 
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Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 
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Currants, Evergreens and tlrcenhouso Plants, at very 
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EDWARD \. FROST. 
The grape crop, one of the main staples oi 
this county, has been very good, though some 
varieties suffered to some extent—tho Delawares 
from mildew and falliug of the leaves, and the 
Catawba from the rot. Apples, as a general 
thing are a very short crop. Tears are exten¬ 
sively injured by blight, in some eases almost 
entire orchards being destroyed by it. Grain 
crops have been very good, and wheat exoept.ion- 
ally heavy. ® LIN * 
varely ocetu-8. 
keepers may obtain, nor one in a hundred, oven 
if the same kind of hives is used. Some lo¬ 
calities are much better for h. a keeping than 
others. Central New York is the best’locality in 
the United States, outside of California. Mr. 
Doolittle resides ill Onondaga Co., one of tho 
best localities for bees in N. Y. State. I kept 
bees many years in Oneida Co. adjoining Onon¬ 
daga; and I never could obtain such extraor¬ 
dinary results as Mr. Poouwus reports. In¬ 
deed, no other man ever claimed to have obtained 
11 177 lbs. of honey in one season from (<7 fam¬ 
ilies So far ns I liuow ho is a reliable man, hut 
it would not ho wise for anybody to invest much 
money in bees on the strength of liis lopoit, 
which tho editor of tho J ice-Keepers' Magazine 
says, “ will appear fabulous." 
It baa been uiy object, as a writer on bees, to 
undeceive tho rural public as to tho many “fab¬ 
ulous" statements in regard to tho profits on 
beos that »ro being published. These state- I 
meuts are geuerall.v so written that any one not 
experienced iu bee-keeping, is apt to think that 
all he has to do is to buy 25 or 50 hives to make 
a fortune. If Mr. Doourrus is really desirous 
of benefiting the rural i uLlic, as bto-keepora, 
ho will do the people a groat favor by describing 
tho hive that he uses in detail, so that any one 
nan make it. Riving tho size and number of cap 
T, Kit HIT 1M.AVT5. Great Arnert- 
I r,vacant So^Hltn'i. Cinderella, ami oil nest 
•r lesF.arlv I’rollrlc. Reliance. Hrandvwine, 
best Raspberries: Blackberries, •’urmnts, 
AU ;H hard-ponmhms. Hom^ostal fo. 
aiooreatown, N. J. 
■^rv/JU kinds 
Jasper Co., Iowa, Oct. 4. 
Apple crop bad. This is the latest season 1 
can remember. Wo have had one light frost, 
but not to harm anything. Fine crops of wheat 
and oats. Everything iu tho business way is im¬ 
proving. w ’ L ' c ‘ 
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Kalamazoo, Mich. 
We avo all looking confidently to better times, 
as a result of fine crops. Apples nearly a fail¬ 
ure. Potatoes, 25 to 30c. per bushel—a good 
crop. Barley and oats are excellent. Coin a 
fair cron. liut tho wheat crop is one of the best 
HOW TO GROW CABBAGE PLANTS 
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our new manual op Vegeta 
RURAL for Sept. 15, or semi foi 
Address T „ ,V, 
Charlton, Saratoga Co., N. Y 
No frost yet—lovely weather. 
NEW ANI> BARE 
Plants and Fruit Trees, 
DUTCH BULBS, Slc. 
W..T New Peaches; New ('berries, &c.. with 
New l eara, a, ov ' , lt VniHTroe*. climbs, &c. 
i 2 rbr( ii 11u| ijft_ Iaiiticp i ixjV * 4 rt;itloni», direct trom 
UmV, Hi IT-uVowt« in Molh.i>Vi. Find quality Bulbs, 
inn Vi. lie timi Wrceubouse Ilsm-i, a rich collec- 
llo^. well Vown All at reasonable prices. Cata¬ 
logues mailed to applicants. 
JOHN SAUL, Washington, D. C. 
FALL TREATMENT OF COWS 
derful thing to show people bow to obtain 11,17/ 
lbs. of honey in one season from 07 families! 
Perhaps at no part of tho ycir do cows need 
more care and attention than late in tho fall, and 
yet, at no nother season are they so generally 
neglected. Early frosts materially injure the 
nutritive value of the grasses that still often ic- 
maiu abundant in the meadows and pastures, and 
milch cows urgently require additional food to 
keep up their strength and condition. The 
errors made by farmers in their treatment of 
stock at this season, are often tho result of igno¬ 
rance or nils judgment rather than of culpable 
'they ovtT- 
Buppose that wo put price as low as twenty cents 
per pound, it tomes to the snug sum of $2,236! 
The Rural is open, I doubt not, to receive thiB 
important information, and undoubtedly Mr. 
Doolittle will soon describe tho hive in which 
his boos net him $1,200 a year, with 50 colo¬ 
nies only! 
Linden, N. J. 
W •.-jJZ iF 
I'cFALL planting 
GREAT YIELDS OF HONEY 
HV T. 11. MINER. 
Mr. Doolittle says. in the Rural oLOctober 
Ctii, that in five years he has made $6,000 on hid 
bees, with an average of only 50 Lives to begin 
with in the spring of each year; and that this 
season Ills bees have produced, iu box and ex¬ 
tracted honey, 11,177 lbs! That is, certainly, 
an immense product of honey for G7 colonies, 
tho number he says that ho had this season. I 
notice that Mr. Doolittle sent the same state¬ 
ment that was published in the Rural to tho 
Bee-keeper's Magazine, with nu addition in re¬ 
gard to “ the luce we used,” that is, ha and his 
'• better half," as it appears that his wife is a 
co-laborer iu hia aptary. 
Now, I have watched tho papers for 30 years 
very closely for accounts of great products of 
linin'?V: and iu many cases I have found that the 
mii*judgment rather than 
carelessness or mismanagement, 
estimate the nutritive value of the forage in the 
fields, and by compelling their cattle to live on 
the frost-bitten grasses, tho animals fall off in 
conditiou uud enter upon winter lean and weak. 
It Is very poor economy to allow milch cows to 
go into winter quarters in such *u unfavorable 
Gate, for the cost of carrying them through tho 
season is much heavier than for stock that is 
vigorous and in good condition at tho commence¬ 
ment of cold weather. It is much more difficult 
to put on ileoh in winter than in fall, and the 
larger amount of food required for loan stock 
during that inclement season, far more than 
counter-balances the expense ol keeping the 
animals coulinuuiisly it• good conditiou ; for 
stock that is reduced iu fieri) at the commence¬ 
ment of winter requires at least a quarter more 
food to bring it through, to grass than it would, 
did it start strong and healthy. Thi* fact is for¬ 
gotten or ignored by many w ho Buffet’ their cat¬ 
tle to run down in the fall, milking them late, 
and allowing them to be exposed to all kinds of 
weather. 
Nor is this the only evil result of such careless 
or niggardly treatment. It is not at all improba¬ 
ble that tho want of proper care and an iusutli- 
HR}ft THE « OU.jSlS * 
The Autumn No. of Vlok’n Floral Guide, 
ontaininer deserii-tlona of Hyacinths. Tulips, Lilies 
n,l nil H illis ami Rf flu for Fall Hunt-W m tho Gar- 
en. arul tor Winter Flowers In tho House—Just pub- 
uhecl uud sent free hi all. Address 
JAMES VICK, Rochester, N.Y. 
TRIAL OF STEAM-ENGINE3 
The New York State Agricultural Society will 
hold a trial of steam-eugines suitable for agri¬ 
cultural purposes, at Syracuse, N. Y., beginning 
ou Monday, November 12, 1877, at 9 A. M., and 
open to all builders, home or foreign. 
Tho scope of tho trial will be such as to de¬ 
termine tho efficiency and economy of each en- 
fflnfi . . - 
There will be two classes, viz: engines of six- 
hnrae power and under, and engines or over six- 
1, orso power, as rated by tho makers. No dls- 
tiactiou will lie mftdu betwcuti mounted find un~ 
ai 'l,’oi' t the"Sost eugiiie in eucli class, will be 
^implement# mul Pacliinety 
ALYJAYS BUY THE BEST 
view; nut it iuokb .— 
euob was his object, because it is not natural for 
a man who can make $6,000 iu five years on 50 
hives of bees, to inform all the people around 
him that a fortune is before them in bee-keeping, 
when it is a well-known fact, that not over 100 
families of bees can be sustained in the Barno 
locality, as a general rule. 
But what becomes of his increase? Ife says 
that in each spring, during tho last fire years, 
he has averaged only 50 colonies. Ibis year, 
from 67 colonies, ho now has “ 152 in guod con¬ 
dition," and it is singular that Buoh a successful 
apiarist in tho product of honey, should have 
failed to increase his families of bees during the 
j said five years. 
| Much condemnation has appeared in the bee 
within & few years, of unreliable Btate- 
THAT 
4 Weight and dimensions, iu their relation to 
convenience of transportation, and spice re- 
' iTm'relative importance to be agaigned to the 
above subjects will be left to tho judges, who 
will be provided with ail tho apparatus neces¬ 
sary for obtaining exact results. 
The entry fee, for each engine, will ho fifty 
dollars, payable on or before November -id, at 
the Society's office in Albany, or to James 
tlcddes, at tho office of the Bradley Manufac¬ 
turing Co., Syracuse, N. Y. For all entries re¬ 
ceive'l alter November 3d, double entry foes will 
b °Tho!cnv!e"r 0 f trial will bo determined by lot, 
and competitors will bo notified, iu advance, on 
what day each engine will be tested, so that they 
may. if they prefer, attend only on the days of 
test lug their own engines. Competitors not ha\ - 
iug their engines in place and ready at the time 
appointed will be liable to exclusion, and no 
entry fee will be refunded. 
At the Centennial Exhibition 
Guaranteed to be th« S’dmabb 
5?&>uwp co „ Batata, n 
very naturally grow more or less exhausted ana 
lose vitality, and as cold weather comes on, re¬ 
quire a generous abundance of nourishing food. 
If kept exclusively on t.hu grasses injured by the 
frosts of October and November, the lack of 
sufficient nutrition Boon reduces the animals in 
health and strength and consequently predis¬ 
poses them to thid disaster. It will therefore be 
a matter of economy, even more than of hu¬ 
manity, for cattle-owners to commence feuding 
cabbages, the tops of roots, small quantities of 
trmlinfl trniill lit IV. d&ilV, jllrit && 8QOI1 
EUREKA SAFETY 
papers, 
merits in regard to extraordinary prouucis oi 
honey, without stating all the circumstances of 
the eases, even when such statements weru re¬ 
liable. Sometimes one gives the amount of 
honey stored in non-swarming hives, but fails to 
state that fact; and various other important 
matters are omitted which, if fairly stated, would 
change the cases materially. Iu February last, 
at tho meeting of the N. E. Bee-Keepers Asso¬ 
ciation. at Svracuse, N. Y. President Bacon, in 
JrOWCl I poMiihlc »o ex* 
i pi ode. Tested to W Jbs. nrewi- 
[ uro per sqnare inch. I jV J AVl'T." 
[ l’nwei'.ll ‘10i DdlD' (; 
Also, Stationary Ertalne# and 
J Holler* und s»pqrk Arrewllua 
1 Portable Kuxineafurplnotn.- 
L tlo'i use. send lor our Circular, 
•ser Discount to the trade. 
PATKE&50MS,Corning, N.Y. 
this tn RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
