full laying capacity, many eggs are lost or un¬ 
developed which to their keeper is practically 
the samo thing. 
Kansas. — Apples: American Summer Pear- 
main, Ben Davis, Falla water, Gilpin, Mangum, 
McAfe’s Nonsuch. Pryor’s Red, Rawle’s Genet, 
Talman’s Sweet, WinterSweetParadise. Pears: 
Bartlett, Belle Lucrative, Beurre d’ Anjou, 
Duchesne d'Angouleme, Seckel, Sheldon. 
California. — Apples: Duchess of Oldonburg, 
Fall Pippin, Newtown Pippin, Yellow Bellefleur. 
Pears: Bartlett, Beurre Clairgeau, Beurre 
Hardy, Doyonne d’ Aiencon, Duchesse d’ An¬ 
gouleme. Easter Beurre, Flemish Beauty, Seckel, 
Sterling, Winter 
Nelis. 
South Caro¬ 
lina. — Apples: ^ 
Buck- 
The same natural 1 .v governs poultry as well as 
the human family, a d the nearer one approaches, 
and follows that law, the healthier bis fowls will 
ADAMS’ PATENT SELF-FEEDING CORN 
SHELLERS. 
Some countries excel others in fine breeds, and 
some breeds are superior to others as egg pro¬ 
ducers aud for table use. The stately Malay 
has no rival in Malacca, Polynesia, or the Asiatic 
Islands. The Bramah, an Americauized name, 
is not originally a native of Birmah, nor of any 
place contigious to the Bramahpoota River, but 
TnKBE is a direct advantage to bo derived from 
the farmer shelling his corn. He sells a product 
on which there is no loss. 
Suppose you have in orib 7,000 pounds of corn 
-jnJL in the ear. If 
hauled off and 
Hit sold in the ear 
m\ at 70 pounds to 
5 j!| a the bushel, you 
|| ft realize for 100 
I la bushels. Sup- 
poso you shell it 
i and soil 100 
/ bushels at 56 
/ pounds to the 
buBhel, 5,60 0 
pounds ; cobs 
produced from 
the shelling of 
100 bushels, 
1,100 pounds; 
total, 7,700 lbs, 
foWSSIfe' leaving you of 
your 7,000 lbs. 
of cars, 3 0 0 
pounds of which 
«ay 250 lbs. aro 
U \>. ■ 1 shelled corn and 
'| ^ 8 . C °^ S ' 
item of t ho cobs, 
i° r they are val- 
oalities where 
*=■— _ their value for 
fuel has come to 
bo understood, 
aro as readily 
marketable as any product of the farm. 
Enlarge this figuring to 70,000 pounds (1,000 
bushels) of ear corn, and you find the discrep¬ 
ancy to amount to, say 500 pounds of cobs and 
2,500 pounds of shelled corn. 
Besides this, in delivering that amount in the 
oar you lose the ooht of hauling about six tons 
of cobs to market, which are there given away, 
and possibly coal bought, and hauled back the 
samo distance to supply their place. 
In the west the economists have appreciated 
these facts and are largely using improved ma¬ 
chinery in corn shelling. We give unusual space, 
this week, to an illustration of a very perfect 
power-shelter, made by the Sandwich Manufac¬ 
turing Co., Sandwich, Ill., who have been inter¬ 
ested in the manufacture for more than seven¬ 
teen years, and it is only recently that oaHtern 
farmers have come to appreciate their value. 
The illustration represents what is called a four- 
hole improved geared sheller, with a capacity 
of 1500 bushels of bhellcd corn per working 
day of ten boms. 
Thu ear corn is received in the feed hopper, 
and is thence carried, by means of rubber strap 
conveyors, to tho upper end of the slide board, 
the cars being straightened in the ascent by 
means of beveled partitions arranged for that 
purpose, and arriving in good condition to be 
presented endways to the machine. Entering the 
machine, tho forward motion of tho cars is ac¬ 
celerated by means of a sot of clearing shafts 
and wheels placed in its throat, thus effectually 
preventing any hesitation of tho oars and conse¬ 
quent clogging at that point ; passing through 
the shelling wheels, the cars are completely 
shelled; tho cobs, following the courses of the 
fluted under plate, arc deposited oh the Revolv¬ 
ing Wire Gob Rake and carried forward to be 
discharged from the machine. Tho shelled corn 
NATIONAL BEE-KEEPERS’ ASSOCIATION 
This Association met at Cooper’s Institute 
Bonum, _ 
inghum. Garoli- '" r> 1r¥ ‘* 1 ■ 
na Red June, » 
Early Harvest, 
Early Red Mar- 
garet. Foust’s 
Winter. Green 
Cheese, Shock- 
ley, Williams' Fa /A 
vorito- Pears: /t 
Belle Lucrative, // 
Bourre Clair- Jw 
goau, Beurre d’ /» 
Anjou, Beurre /f 
Superfin, Doy- /f 
enne d’ Ete, // 
Duchesse d’ Au- /f 
goulome, Flem- /jr 
ish Beauty, Kirt- /» 
laud, Seckel, /if 
White Doyenne. /f " • v — 
G e o b o I a.— // 
Apples: Aut- ^ _ 
umn Bough,Ben _ - 
on 
Cheese, McAfe’s 
Nonsuch, Pry¬ 
or’s Red, Red Astrachan, Shockley. Pears: 
Bartlett, Bello Lucrative, Beurre Clairgeau, 
Beurre d’Anjou, Beurre Superfin, .Duchesse d’ i 
Augoulomo, Flomish Beauty, Howell. 
Louisiana. — Apples: American Summer Pear- 
main, Autumnal Swaar, Bon Davis, Bovin’s Fa¬ 
vorite, Bruce's Summer, Buckingham, Camack’s 
Sweet, Caroline Rod Juno, Cane Creek Sweet, 
Duohoss of Oldenburg, Early Joe, Early Pen- 
nock, Early Ripe, Early Strawberry, Fall Orange, 
Fall Queen, Garretson’s Early, Golden Sweet, 
Hall, Howes’ Virginia Crab, High-top Sweet, 
Hocket’s Sweet, Holland Pippin, Hoover, Horse, 
Jonathan, Julian, Large Yellow Bough, Lowell, 
Mangum, Monmouth Pippin, Moore's Sweet, 
Munson’s Sweet, Primate, Red Astrachan, Borne 
Beauty, Itoxbury Russet, Saxton, Shockley, 
Stevenson's Winter, Summer Rose, Taunton, 
Tetofsky, White Juneating, Yates, Yellow Jane, 
Yopp's Favorite. Pears : Howell. 
Texa a.—Apples : Ben Davis, Bouoni, Early 
Harvest, Gravenstein, Horse, Nickajack, lied 
Astrachan, Robertson's Superb, Shockley, 
Tweuty Ounce Apple. Pears: Bartlett, Beurre 
Clairgeau, Beurre Diel, Beurre Gaubauit, Do¬ 
yonne d’ Ete, Duchesse d' Angouleme, Duchess 
Preoooe, Flemish Beauty, Howell, St. Michael 
and Tonquiu China fowls, are now found 
throughout China, Birmah, India, and as far 
south as tho islands of Sumatra and Borneo. 
The P.ramah aud Coohiu China fowls are favor¬ 
ites among many English and American breed¬ 
ers, but they aro slowly deteriorating from the 
imported stock. I consider them, after a fair 
trial, to be inforior to the Malay breed. Tho 
Sultan is a very handsome bird, and is supposed 
by some to bo a modern breed of fowl. But 
thcro is no foundation for such belief. Tho Sul¬ 
tan is an old breed dating back anterior to tho 
Christian era, as some finely executed etchings 
of this fowl, on copper medallions, were found 
in Tyre and Sidon, aud are now preserved in the 
Vatican Museum. 
The Sultan has been the subject of many a 
wild and exaggerated story among the Moham 
medans of the East. Tradition says, that dur¬ 
ing the caliphate this fowl was held sacred Mo- 
hamrnet averred that he saw in the highest heav¬ 
ens an angel in the form of a oock (the veritable 
Sultan,) and that when the Almighty sang his 
morning hymn, the angel cock crowed so loud 
that he was heard throughout the whole uni- 
This breed of fowl is found 
Andrews, lie spoke of tho fraternal feeling 
that exists generally among bee-keepers—of the 
good that has resulted from the national and 
local apiarian organizations, also alluding to 
the fact, that not mauy years ago, all bees 
wore kept in the common box hives; that 
LaWostboth introduced the moveable-frame 
system ; that another advance was tho iutroduo- 
tiou of Italian bees, which be said were much su¬ 
perior to the black bee; but there remained a great 
desideratum yet to accomplish, safe wintering. 
Mr. G. M- Doolittle sent in au essay on 
“ Increase and Prevention of Increase.’’ He 
spoil.-, ot the advantage or experimenting with 
bees, not reckless experiments, Jeopardizing 
whole apiaries, as some bee-keepers had mado 
to their serious cost, on the strength of Borne 
recommendation seen in a bee-paper. 
In regard to controlling tho issue of swarms, 
he said that to try to prevent the issue of first 
swarms would only result in vexation and loss, 
when box honey Is the object of the apiarist; 
aud it was his opinion that natural swarming 
paid best, especially first swarms; hut he would 
prevent all after swarms as far as practicable. 
Artificial swarms could be made by dividing 
the bees, when such swarms aro desired. 
Natural swarmiug could generally be controlled 
by extracting the honey from the brood combs. 
Professor COOK read an essay on “ Marketing 
Honey.” He said that over production of honey 
is "the evil that now confronts us, and the 
breakers on which our business is to be ship¬ 
wrecked." He said, if the production of honey 
continues to increase, as it has of late, there 
must be a rapid decline in prices ; that but a 
very small portion of honey is consumed in the 
Unitud States, in comparison with what might 
be consumed, by educating the people iu its use 
—that honey is healthy, and to take meas¬ 
ures to introduce it to a greater extent “ would 
directly conserve the public health." He had 
never seeu honey on a hotel table in the United 
States, from the Atlantic to tho Pacific; that it 
is to he found only with a small fraction of gro¬ 
cers, and generally not in sight, where it is kept. 
In a city of 6.000 inhabitants, and a score of 
grocers, he had found but one grocer who had 
honey, and that, a very inferior lot. He had 
found when proper means aro taken to intro¬ 
duce houey to families, that every 300 per¬ 
sons will take the product of ten colonies of 
bees, lie recommended that bee-keepers should 
see that every grocer has constantly on hand a 
supply of both comb and extracted honey in an 
inviting form, tho box honey to be iu frames 
about six inches square, and to be packed in 
tight boxes, so that no dripping will appear. 
lie thought that extracted honey should be 
sold as exlracled, and not to be mixed with 
pieces of comb to make it more attractive. Let 
it be sold on its own merits, in glass receptacles, 
verse of heaven, 
in Egypt, Persia, Arabia and the Ottoman em 
pire, and is supposed to be a native of Khor 
assan. 
Janesville, Wls. 
WARM BUILDINGS FOR LAYING HENS 
IN WINTER. 
THE PROFITS AND LOSSES OF RAISING 
POULTRY.—No. 2. 
BY HENRY HALES, 
Poultry, to pay in winter, require warm win¬ 
ter-houses, to keep them from that extreme 
cold that is so biting and pinching to all domes¬ 
tic animals which have to sleep in out-buiklings 
that do not receive any artificial beat- Fowls 
will endure some very severe weather without 
showing auy ill effects, especially Asiatics. These 
will Btarid about on a cold day scarcely caring to 
get in the sunshine, so long as they have had 
plenty to eat. Hens, even in a neglected condi¬ 
tion, will lay some eggs but their yield then 
is a long way behind the number of eggs that 
fowls will lay when well fed and warmly housed. 
A hen to lay must be in good condition—not 
fat but fleshy. This requires a certain amount 
of food and warmth: but to produce eggB she 
requires more than a sufficiency for her own 
comfort. She must eat enough nourishing 
food, first for her own bodily sustenance, 
and then enough additionally for the formation 
of eggs. Where fowls are kept too cold, it takas 
all that the bird cau digest merely to keep 
up heat enough to sustain them. Often the 
same quantity of food would, with warmer 
quarters, keep them not only in tine con¬ 
dition, but enable them to produce eggs which 
are so much more valuable amid the rigors of 
winter than in spring. 
It is asserted by some that, under auy circum¬ 
stances, hens will lay only a certain number of 
eggs in a year, but even in this case they may 
as well lay them when they are worth most, 
yet, as fowls will generally lay in proportion 
to the care they receive, there is but little 
doubt that when hens are not kept up to their 
BY JOSEPH WALLACE 
discharged from the machine, 
iu passing through the under plato is exposed to 
the blast from the Fan, and falling on tho shak¬ 
ing Shoe, is thoroughly purged of all dirt, tips 
of cobs, or other impurit ies, and is then dis¬ 
charged from the buck end of the shoe into the 
spout, which conducts it to the end of tho eleva¬ 
tor, by which it is taken up and discharged into 
a tight wagon, box, bin or car. 
The cobs pass out upon the cob stacker, whioh 
can be manipulated to deposit them where re¬ 
quired, 
Wind, steam or horse power is applicable to 
theBG shellers, and the company furnish both 
mounted and down powers to accompany the 
sheller. 
This implement is to be used where large 
amounts of grain are to be handled, and farm¬ 
ers have found it profitable and convenient to 
club, and own a machine in common, whioh 
could be made to do tho shelling for a commu¬ 
nity. Handler machines covered by the same 
patents are made to meet the wants of small 
farmers. 
In fact the Sandwich Company have facilities 
for doing a largo business, and as they use only 
tho best material, and handle that in bulk, they 
have come to manufacture almost over.vthiugthat 
is required in handling corn. Their descriptive 
pamphlet i* intelligently illustrated and goes in¬ 
to the details of explanation, aud wo take a real 
pleasure in recommending its perusal to our 
eastern subscribers. Those who live west know 
I the Adams’ Sheller ** like a book.” Information 
i ou application. 
With the exception of some nomadic tribes, 
probably one-fourth of the civilzed and semi-civil¬ 
ized house-keepers of the world keep poultry. 
As there is nothing new under the sun, I infer 
that raising poultry is not one of the "lost arts" 
as there seems to be no geographical limit to 
their universal production. Different breeds, 
also varieties of each breed ui color, hardiness 
and productiveness, are found in countries 
where one would least expect skillful and exper¬ 
imental breeding, and each breed is adapted to 
the climate where it is found, as well as to 
the condition and habit? of its inhabitants. 
The Arab herdsman experiences less difficult¬ 
ies iu hatching chickens by the " Egyptian oven 
system” than the Connecticut breeder does by 
his ’• patent incubator.” Tho Tartar, who 
roams along the mountain slopes of Thibet, and 
who feeds his feathered flock on millet and 
mare’s milk, can Bhow birds with plumage as 
beautiful as those of the fancier who stuffs his 
exhibition fowls with dried, ground-cocoanut 
meat. The sable Nubian by the Nile, who gath¬ 
ers wild rice, and sun-flower seeds for his hens, 
gets as many eggs as the poultry-keeper who 
uses “ imperial egg food ” and granulated bone. 
All is not gold that glitters, nor is every “ puff¬ 
ed-up,” artificial preparation good for fowls. 
not retailing at over twenty-live cents each. 
Ha though that glass jelly cups would he very 
suitable for such honey. The Professor said 
that but “ little labor" is necessary to make bee¬ 
keeping a success. At the close of his remarks, 
Mr. L. C. Root, ono of the most experienced 
bee-keepers of the State of New York, said that 
was a mistake, that he had been engaged in 
many kiudH of business, but bee-keeping Was tho 
most laborious or all. He Spoke also of the false 
statement that had appearea in the Utica Herald, 
in regard to the profits on bees—that this " little 
labor aud largo profits idea, had ruined many" 
who had gone into the business. He spoke of 
the frequent statements made in the papers, 
that bee-keeping was “ just the thing” for old, 
broken-down people, but his experience proved 
that nine in ten of such peesons " failed" in the 
business.—To he continued. 
