Litchfield enquirer., 1830-06-17

pondent of the N. England Farmer says, 1 few days since, having occasion for
 some honey, called on a ncighbor who
 went to hive and took out what want
 ed. asked him the reason why he had a
 hive of honey without bees at this time of
 the year; he told me he expected they had
 lost their King Bee, as he knew no other reason. The bees appearing to be in good
 condition and were stored with honey.
 The manner in which he drove his
 bees out of the old hive into new one, to
 rid them of the bee moth, may be worth
 mentioning. In the first place he started
 the top of the hive so that the water would
 run m he then took a half hogshead, deep
 enough to sink the hive in, after which he
 took the hive that had the bees in and nut
 the top dow nwards in the hogshead, with
 the new hive on the top of that; he then
 turned in water gradually, till it was up to
 the top of the old hive, then took the new hive, and sat it in the. bee house, and the bees went to work if one hour and al. ways have had honey sufficient for the win- ter. The month of June is the time to change. them he told me he knew of no evil that attended the process ;; and as Mrs. Griffith says, ' it must be done with care and moderation
 Sea Kalc and IeAu5arb. b.-These deli- cious vegetables are scarcely known to housekeepers, and even to profcssed gard eners they are rare plants ;" and yet, at this season of the year, when asparagus and sprouts are the only green vegetable 1 at command, and when we have absolute y nothing but dried fruit for the dessert, sea kale and rhubarb might be very ad- ] introduced. A few days ago a friend favored us with mess of sea kale, and by a lucky incident the dessert was supplied with rhMbarb tGrts; feast which we will venture to say has fallen to the lot of few this spring. The sea kale is sur- passed in richness and delicacy only by the but, considering the season when 1t comes into use, it is unrivalled.- It is new dish on the table, filling per- feet vacancy, and with which no other comes in competition. Rhubarb occupies the place of the gooseberry, and for tarts t is not inferior to that fruit. This also is enhanced in value by it's early coming into use; nsthis climate it can always be lad by open ground culture, by the goth April. Besides these advantages, both hese vegetables are of very easy culture ar {. afisE ohtaining 2 supply of tha plants. supply, without replanting. or my other trouble than early dressing the beds; and the space of ground occupied ,y them is very small. A dozen plants of .i,nbarb and fifty of sea kale will afford sufficient for family. Market gardeners would undoubtedly find it greatly to their interest to cultivate them, and we hope gre long to see regular supply on their ,talls.-A. Farmer.
 TRe SwalloU.--He Is one of my favor- te birds, and rival of the nightingale for he glads my sense of seeing, as much as the other does my sense of hearing. lie is the joyous prophet of the year, the har- binger of the best season he lives life of enjoyment amongst the loyeliest forms of nature; winter is unknown to him, and he leaves the green meadows of England in autumn, for the myrtle and orange groves of Italy, and for tho palms Of Africa. He has always objects of pursuit, and his success is secure. Even the beings seiec. ted for his prey are poetical, beautiful. and transient. The ephemerG are saved by this means from slow and lingering death in the evening, and killed in moment when they have known nothing of life but pleasure. He is the constant destroyer of insects, the friend of man and, with the stork and the ibis, may be regarded as a sa- cred bird. His instinct, which gives him his appointed season, and which teaches him always when and where to move. may be regarded as flowing from divine. source and he belongs to the Oracles of nature, which speak ihe awful ineligible language ofa presentdeity.--ST H. DGcy.
 The carder.bees select for their nest a shallow excavation about a half tOot m
 diameter; but when they cannot ind one to suit their purpose, they undertake the Her
 culeau task of digging one themselves |.
 They cover this hollow with a dome or
 moss-someiimes, as VIC have ascertained,
 of whatever materials may be within their
 reach for they dc not attempt to bring a.
 ny thing from a distaBce--not even when
 they are deprived of the greater portion
 by an experimental naturalist. Their on-
 ly method of transporting materials to the
 building, is by pushing them along the
 ground-the bee for that purpose, work. os &-