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THE CULTIVATOR. 
"ST* St at a Agricultural Society. 
The Executive Committee of the N. Y. State Agri¬ 
cultural Society acknowledge the receipt of the follow- 
ing subscriptions, since their last report: 
Life Members— [By payment of $50.] 
Beekman, JohnP., Kiuderhook. I Mcmtyre,J. McDonald, Albany. 
Corning, Erastus, Albany. | Prentice, Ezra P., Albany. 
Rotch, Francis, Butternuts. 
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Avery, B. G. Syracuse, 
Allen, H. W. do 
Allen, Robert, do 
Bleecker, Wm. E., Albany, 
Burnet, M. D., Syracuse, 
Baldwin, H., do 
Bradley, Schuneman & 
Syracuse, 
Benson, F., do 
Bennett, Thomas, do 
Burt, A., do 
Campbell, D, D., Sche'dy 
Colvin, D. S., Syracuse, 
Clury, Lyman, do 
Collins & Bartable, do 
Canfield, Harvey, Jordan, 
Clark, Thos.A.,Chittenango, 
Delavan, E. C., Ballston 
Center, . 
Dunn, Thomas, Albany, 
Dana, Daniel, Syracuse, 
Dana, Major, do 
Davis, Jr., Henry, do 
Dodge, W. J., do 
Forbes, J. G. do 
Fitch, Thomas B., do 
Fitch, George S., do 
Farmer, M., do 
Granger, Amos P., do 
Hawley, Gideon, Albany, 
Hibbard, Russell, Syracuse, 
Hicks, J. P., Liverpool,. 
Jewett, F. G., Skaneateles,- 
Kidd, James, Albany,. 
Knower, Henry, do . 
Annual MemberS- 
Ames, Silas, Syracuse. 
Ashley, Theodore, do 
Allen, Thomas, do 
Adams, E. C., Liverpool. 
Baker, J. M., Canton. 
Bristol, C. E., Syracuse. 
Bromley, P. M., do 
Bradley, J. J., do 
Bennett, D. S., do 
Bronson, H., do 
Barker, William, do 
Bradley, Jr., Wm. do 
Brackett, W, W., do 
Breed, Joseph, De Witt. 
Browne, Wm. F., Butternuts. 
Button, Cyrus S., Newaik. 
Colvin, Benjamin F., Syracuse. 
Cushney, John, do 
Cook, William, do 
Chapman, Waterman, do 
Cole, John B., do 
Cook, N., do 
Corning, Richard J., do 
Church, Hiram, do 
Cook, V., do 
Cheney, Tallmadge, Salina. 
Cotton, George H. Onondaga 
Hollow. 
Coates, Chauncy, Oswego. 
Davis, Harvey, Schenectady. 
Davis, C., Syracuse. 
Dickinson, P., & Co., do 
Earil, Charles, do 
Earll, David S., Liverpool. 
Ely, Adriel, Watertown. 
Gifford, H., Syracuse. 
Gere, Robert, do 
Gillmore, A. R., do 
Gould, E. O., Camillus. 
Grinnell, George F., De Witt. 
Hopper, John, Onondaga Hol¬ 
low. 
Howell, John, Salina. 
Horton, Benj. do 
Hopping, E. D., do 
Hinman, W., Syracuse. 
Hayden, J., & Co., do 
Howlett, Parley, do 
Hicks, Charles P., do 
Huff, James, dr. 
Hale, J. W., do 
Hollis, Thomas, Gilbertsville. 
Hudson, Samuel E., Newark. 
Hudson, H., Syracuse. 
Hecox, Samuel, Lyons, 
Ives, Jesse, Bridgewater. 
Subscription Members 
Kimberly, Geo., Belle Isle, 2 
Livingston, Edward P., Cler¬ 
mont, . 20 
Lawrence, Jas. R., Syracuse, S 
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3 
5 
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5 
2 
10 
10 
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Lawlcul t-, j 
Loomis, H., 
Leavenworth, W., 
Mickles, Philo D., 
Marsh, M. S., 
Noxon, B. 1)., 
Nearing, Mars, Liverpool, 
Pumpelly, James, Owego,-- 
Pumpelly, Geo.J., do 
Putnam, Hiram, Syracuse, 
Redfield, L. H., do 
Rust, P. N., do 
Rhoades, E., do j 
Sherwood, J. M., Auburn, •• 2£ 
Smith, Gerritt, Peterboro’,- 1C 
Smith, Stephen, Syracuse,-- £ 
Strong, Oliver R., Onondaga 
Hill,. s 
Teall, Oliver, Syracuse,... • 3 
Tracy, James G., do - S 
Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 
Albany,. 25 
Van Rensselaer, Wm. P., do 25 
Van Vechten, Teunis, do 25 
Van Benthuysen, Chas., do 10 
Voorhees, Jas. L., Syracuse, 5 
Wood, Bradford R., Albany, 10 
Wilder, John N., do 10 
White, Ham., Syracuse,••• • 5 
White, Horace, do £ 
Wallace, E. F., do - 3 
Williams, M., do •••• 3 
-[By the payment of $1.] 
Jacqueth, J., Liverpool. 
Kinney, Joel, Syracuse. 
Kimber, F., do 
Krumbhaar, Alex., Cazenovia. 
Kenyon, Daniel, Newark. 
Kirby, Edmund, Watertown. 
Ledyard, Jona. D., Cazenovia. 
Longstreet, C. P., Syracuse. 
Manning, J., do 
Minard, Isaac P., do 
Meech, A. B., do 
McGuire, Peter, do 
Maynard, Samuel, Brooklyn. 
Nolton, R. W., Syracuse. 
Owen, Joel, do 
Orcutt, D. A., do 
Outwater, Peter, do 
Osborne, Noah H., do 
Olds, Henry, do 
Parker, Jared H., do 
Phillips, E. L., do 
Pratt, Daniel, do 
Pope, Charles, do * 
Philips, Elijah, do 
Perkins, H. A., do 
Peters, T. C., Darien. 
Rowley, John, De Witt. 
Rogers, Hamilton, Newark. 
Soverhill, Hiram, do 
Sedgwick, Charles B.,Pompey. 
Sanford, John, Marcellus. 
Sterling, Micah, Watertown. 
Scriber, E. P., Syracuse. 
Stewart, W. D., do 
Spencer, Thomas, do 
Smith, George, do 
Smith, A. L., do 
Smith, S. F., do 
Stanton, Rufus, do 
Spencer, Joseph C., do 
Stafford, Amos, do 
Stafford, D G., do 
Sheldon, Hervey, do 
Tefft,-, do 
Van Patten, A. N., do 
Wicks, E. B., do 
Winton, William, do 
Wright, Josiah, do 
Wellington, F., do 
Walker, L., do 
Walker, James, do 
Ward, William, Geddes. 
Woodward, Jona., Cazenovia. 
Walton, W. B., Schenectady. 
Yates, H. C., do. 
Mr. Allen’s Importations. 
We had the pleasure some days since of seeing the 
first importation of improved stock, by the London 
packet Mediator, which Mr. A. B. Allen, now in Eng¬ 
land, is sending to this country. It consisted of a two 
year old hoar, Windsor Castle, a thorough bred Berk¬ 
shire, with all the characteristics of the same breed in 
this country as to marks and color, but of much greater 
size, standing about three feet high, measuring about 
six feet on a straight line along his side, and weighing 
some 600 to 700 pounds, and every way fine and well 
proportioned ; Earl Craven, a two year old ditto, not 
so large but rather more compact and finer, and a con¬ 
siderable number of pigs of the same breed of very large 
size and promise. These however, from their long and 
close confinement, did not show to so much advantage 
as the older ones ; but as they have all been selected by 
Mr. A. from the choicest stock of the country, afford¬ 
ing every promise through their parentage and their 
own appearance, they will, no doubt, under judicious 
management, come up fully to the models exhibited in 
the larger animals. 
Another shipment of the Berkshires we notice was 
made in the packet ship Wellington, and further impor¬ 
tations of cattle, sheep and swine are to follow. 
Agricultural Fairs in October. 
By the County Societies of this State: 
Cayuga Society, at Auburn, Oct. 13, 14. 
Columbia—at Hudson, Oct. 12. 
Cortland—at-, Oct. 6. 
Delaware—at-, Oct. 12. 
Erie—at Buffalo, Oct. 6. 
| Genesee—at Alexander, Oct. 13, 14. 
j Livingston—at Geneseo, Oct. 22. 
j Monroe—at Rochester, Oct. 15, 16. 
| New-York—American Institute, Oct. 11 to 18. 
I Oneida—at Hampton, Oct. 20. 
Ontario—at Canandaigua, Oct. 12. 
Oswego—at Oswego, Oct. 6. 
Otsego—at Cooperstown, Oct. 6. 
Seneca—at Ovid, Oct. 21, 22. 
St. Lawrence—at Canton, Oct. 7. 
J Tompkins—at Ithaca, Oct. 6. 
j Washington—at Salem, Oct. 12. 
1 Wayne—at Newark, Oct. 16. 
In addition to the above, Fairs are to he held in seve¬ 
ral other counties, but of the time and place, we are 
not informed. In several counties where societies have 
been, or are about being organized, no fairs will be held 
this season, owing to the late period at which the soci¬ 
eties were formed. This we believe is the case in Al¬ 
bany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Greene, &c. 
Agricultural Papers. 
We have received the past month, two handsomely 
executed and ably conducted Agricultural Journals from 
the British Provinces— The Colonial Farmer, Titus 
Smith, editor, published monthly at Halifax, N. S., by R. 
Nugent, at 5s. currency per year; and The Canadian Far¬ 
mer, published monthly at Kingston, at $1 per annum. 
A. B. E. F. Garfield, editor- They both richly merit 
a liberal patronage, which, if the farmers of those 
Provinces understand their true interests, will be award¬ 
ed to them. 
The Western Farmer and Gardener, published at Cin¬ 
cinnati, by C. Foster, and edited by Mr. Affleck, has 
just completed its second volume, and a new one com¬ 
mences with the present month, affording a favorable 
opportunity for those who wish to obtain the work to 
send in their names. It is published monthly, 32 pages 
octavo, at $1 a year. 
“ The Plough Boy,” is the title of a semi-monthly, 
recently commenced at Edgefield C. H., S. C. by Wm’ 
E. Durisoe, at $1.50 a year—16 p. octavo. 
The Missouri Farmer hails from St. Louis—16 pages 
octavo, monthly, at $1.00 a year—P. Gould, editor. 
A new volume (the 6th,) of The Farmer’s Cabinet, 
Philadelphia, was commenced in August. The charac¬ 
ter of this paper is well sustained by Mr. Pedder, the 
present editor. Terms, $1.00 a year. 
Mr. Buckminster having retired from the Boston 
Cultivator , Mr. H. C. Merriam has assumed the editor- i 
ship of that paper ; and we should infer from his open¬ 
ing address, that its character as a useful and interest¬ 
ing agricultural and miscellaneous sheet, will be well 
sustained. Mr. B. we perceive, has issued proposals 
for a new paper; to be called the Massachusetts Plow¬ 
man, the first number of which is to appear about the 
first of this month. 
The Yankee Farmer, Boston, is now edited by C. P. 
Bosson, its former publisher; and Mr. Cole, its late 
editor, has commenced The Farmer’s Journal , a month¬ 
ly, at, we believe, 50 cents a year,—making the fifth 
agricultural paper at Boston. 
‘‘Review of the Market.” 
Believing it would be acceptable to most of the 
readers of the Cultivator, we have made arrangements 
with a gentleman in New-York, every way competent 
to the undertaking and familiar with the subject, to fur¬ 
nish us monthly, a report on the state of the markets 
in that city at the latest possible date previous to our 
going to press. In the examination of such a report 
of facts, the intelligent farmer and others will find 
much to assist them in forming a more correct view of 
the probable range of prices, and the propriety of sales 
than they could obtain without it. The influence which 
foreign markets exercise over our own, render such 
reviews now much more necessary and acceptable than 
formerly. 
Taking Honey without Killing the Bees. 
Various methods have been suggested and adopted, 
by which the lives of the bees might he spared, while 
their unnecessary or surplus honey might be appropri¬ 
ated to the comfort of those who had the care of them. 
It has always seemed but little short of murder to de¬ 
stroy such multitudes of these little laborers if any me¬ 
thod of sparing them could he introduced ; and various 
improved hives, which have been introduced to effect 
this object, have at different times been brought before 
the public. All these have been more or less useful, some 
by giving more room for labor, and some by placing 
their stores more at the command of the apiarian ; still 
all seem liable to some objections, and the multiplying 
the methods, or bringing a notice of new ones before the 
public, may be of service. 
The treatment of bees seems to be based on a few 
facts, or which are usually considered as such, viz : 
that a large number of bees, or two swarms in the 
same hive, will consume but a little more honey, if any, 
than a small number, or each of the two swarms in se¬ 
parate hives ; and that as bees are a short lived insect, 
performing their labors and the various functions of 
their lives, mostly, if not altogether, in a single year, 
the necessity of saving those bees in the fall, that are to 
perform the labor of the coming year, becomes more 
strikingly apparent. The fact, that bees may be stupe¬ 
fied so as to be rendered harmless, and yet not perma¬ 
nently injured, has long been known ; but this know¬ 
ledge has not been turned to practical use except in very 
few instances until very lately. The following, which 
we copy in substance from a foreign periodical, exhibits 
a method of turning this power to use, both easy and 
profitable. 
The writer says :—In autumn I gather three or four 
of the large mushrooms or puff-balls growing in mea¬ 
dow lands, before they are fully ripe, compress them a 
little, and dry them thoroughly in an oven after bread 
has been taken out. and keep them dry for use. A tin 
box two inches square, with a pointed top, pierced full 
of holes, with small holes in the sides, made without 
solder, is to be provided to contain the puff-ball while 
burning. It must be supported on a stick some six or 
eight inches in length when used. As the object is to 
unite the swarm, from which the honey is to be taken, 
with another to live over the winter, a hive of the same 
size as the one to be operated upon is placed in a tub 
with the open end upwards, with a hole made in the 
lower part, in which the stick that supports the tin box 
is set. In this box is now put a piece of fungus or the 
dried ball of the size of a hen’s egg, to which fire has 
been communicated, and it is placed in the lower hive. 
The hive with the bees is now removed from its stand, 
and placed on the other, a wet cloth being closely se¬ 
cured around the line of meeting to prevent the escape 
of the smoke. The narcotic fumes are soon felt by the 
bees, which fall rapidly into the lower hive, the upper 
one being frequently tapped with a stick or the fingers, 
to jar down such bees as may not fall of themselves, or 
to disengage them from the combs. The dropping of 
the bees will he distinctly heard, and when it ceases 
the hive may he taken off. The torpid bees are now 
poured upon a table, and the Queen separated and 
placed under a glass. The bees are then sprinkled with 
a thick syrup made of a little ale and sugar boiled a 
minute or two, and applied freely with a feather. They 
are then returned to the empty hive, and on this is now- 
placed the hive with which it is intended the swarm 
shall unite, and the cloth is replaced, so that no bee can 
escape. In this position they remain for twenty-four 
hours, or the following night, when the cloth is removes 
and the hive placed on its former stand. The bees m 
the hive descend to feed on the honey or sugar on the 
sprinkled bees, and in the operation of clearing them, 
are so thoroughly mixed, that no distinction is ever af¬ 
terwards apparent. The few bees that remain in the 
comb may be killed before they recover from their stu¬ 
pefaction, and after the amalgamation of the swarms is 
complete, the reserved Queen may also he destroyed. 
She is reserved thus far to guard against contingencies. 
Other narcotics, such as tobacco leaves folded in pa¬ 
per, previously dipped in nitre and dried, have been 
used, but the puff-ball will he found preferable to any 
other, both for ease of preparation, and certainty of 
execution. The writer states that of a great number of 
cases in which he had taken the honey and united the 
swarm with another, not one had failed of success. He 
considers September the best month for taking honey in 
this way ; and if the bees are secured in the hive at 
night, the application of the smoke may as well be done 
by day as by night. 
An Excellent Regulation-Preservation of Birds. 
A friend has forwarded us a law passed at the last 
session of the Pennsylvania Legislature, providing for 
the safety of certain kinds of birds during the early part 
of the season, or while they are most serviceable to the 
farmer, to take effect in the county of Chester, and parts 
of the counties of York, Lehigh, Delaware and Mont¬ 
gomery. The act declares it to be unlawful for “ any 
person to shoot, kill or destroy, during the months of 
April, May, June, July, and the first ten days of Au¬ 
gust inclusive, in each and every year, any robin, flick¬ 
er, bluebird, woodpecker, thrush or other insectivorous 
bird, other than blackbirds, under a penalty of two dollars 
for each and every offence.” The act does not prevent 
any person from killing such birds as are found attack¬ 
ing newly planted grain crops ; and it is to be hoped it 
will prevent that indiscriminate and wicked slaughter 
of these useful little birds, that are our most effectual 
aids in destroying the multitude of insects that destroy 
the fruit and the crops of the farmer. 
The Murrain. 
This disease has in many places the present season 
proved fatal to cattle, and although we have much more 
faith in prevention than in the cure of this disease, still 
the following from Mr. Forsyth in Canada, is given in the 
hope that it may prove as effectual as it is said to be : 
“Give 1 1-2 oz. pearlash dissolved in two quarts of iron 
water, (from blacksmith’s trough.) If not better in 6 hours 
give 1-2 an oz more in a quart of water. The iron water should 
be warm. Give no drink but warm water for two days. Give 
warm mash to eat. This treatment in nine cases out of ten 
will be successful.” 
Spring Wheat—Great Yield. —Mr. Erastus Skinner, of the 
town of Prattsburg, Steuben Co., N. Y., harvested last season 
fifty-six bushels rf Italian spring wheat from an acre. Mr. 
Skinner prepares his land for yielding 56 bushels of wheat to the 
acre, by growing ruta baga, at a nett profit of $70-42 an acre. 
Such are the practical effects of skill and science directing the 
toil of human hands.— Buff. Com. Adv. 
