Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-10-04


This difficulty can now be obviated in an
easy manner.
Mr.. Cotton lately read before the Ashmo-
lean Society at Oxford, some notices on Bees,
and his first position was" Never kill a
Bee" The Bee owner has, in the fungus
naarimus, or common puff ball, a powerful in
strument ready to his hands, by which he is
able to adopt more humane and profitable
mode of treatment. The smoke of this fun
gus, when dried so as to hold fire, has stu
pefying effect on the bees, and renders them
as harmless as birthstone does, without any
of its dreadful effects. BY means of this,
weak swarns, which would not live through
the winter, may be united to strong stocks
Mr.. Cotton stated it as fact, borne out by
experiment, that hive thus doubled will not
consume more honey in the winter than a
stock in its natural state. This was discover
ed by Swiss pastor, DeGelior The addi-
tional heat seems to serve instead of addition
al food, to keep up the vitality of the half
torpid bees. He recommends a cold, drv,
dark room, the colder the better, as the best
winter quarters for bees. They will con.
sumo less honey than if left on their summer
stands, and will not be weakened by the loss
of thousands, which, tempted out by the pre-.
mature warmth of some early spring day, are
caught by the cold winds, fall to the ground,
and never rise again. Dryness, however, is
essential and he described the principle of
ventilation, or proper airing of the hives in
summer, as the most valuable improvement
in bee keeping.
Every farmer should keep bees a few
swarms to furnish honey for his own use. if
no more. They cost little, forage wherever
the wild flower grows, have no idea of dis.
tinction in landed property, and furnish the
individual who has q taste for studying the
habits of insects, or observing the wonders of
that power we call instinct, an ample field of
surprise and gratification.-G enesee Farmer.
Hon. to preserve a Water Melon Patch.-A
celebrated practitioner of Medicine and Sur
gerry, not forty miles from Boston, having
beautiful garden of melons, of the choicest
flavor, which became nightly infested with
differing depredators, resolved on their ex.
termination. The Doctor, who was a face
tious wag, ever ready to pass off good Joke
upon others, and sometimes rather reckless
in the accomplishment of his purpose, made
use Of this precise method. He " cut small
triangular hole in one side Of" not only one
large ripe melon" but of several, and put
in two or three grains of tartar emetic, and
plugged up the hole with the piece taken
out" Ere the next days dawn, the Doctor
was sent for in great haste, to attend profess
sionally, no less than three of his neighbors,
who were violently afflicted with nausea and
vomiting. He fastened to their relief with
promptitude, as all good physicians should
in like emergencies; and whilst prescribing
for their comfort and cure, and gravely des-
canting upon the delicious properties Of wa.
termelons in warm weather, he was startled
by his servant with a message from his wife,
that his favorite son, of sixteen or eighteen
years. was awful sick, and vomiting despe-
rately' Tell his mother, said the doctor, to
give him some good ripe watermelon--it is
an excellent panacea IN such cases made and
provided" The doctor had been told by his
guilty patients what he had before suspected
that his son who inherited no small share
of his fathers roguery, was the pioneer of
the nocturnal expedition. This son is now a
physician and surgeon of eminence in his
native town.-Bost. Cour. -. .... i
An Eaaor.-Anong the various profess
sions and callings in which men are enga-
ged, there are few more intricate and trying,
than that Of an Editor of public periodi-
cal. Before him is a trackless ocean, lighted
up with deceitful beacons, over which wise
pretending pilots offer to guide him, promis-
ing safe conduct to his destined haven, if
he will but submissively trust himself in their
hands-whose services, however, if accept
ed, will assuredly leave him on the shoals a
wreck. m.
An Editor must be man, surely, but diff.
ferent from ordinary men. He should be
calm, immoveable, straight forward. Not
elastic. like an India Rubber doll, yielding
to the pressure of every diversity of wish or
nY1iNinn Hn hns IN Iao1 Nd
two are alike in every respect,-and all, of
course, cannot expect to be pleased in every
little minutia. Much charity, therefore,
should be exercised by patrons of the press
and the more they become acquainted with
the cares and perplexities of an Editors life,
the more forbearing and charitable will
they be. s2a -. 4.1 sen 'H.H
An Editor should not fill up his columns
with articles, that no one would be pleased
with but the authors of them, merely to ''grat-
ify a subscriber" or because subscriber
says in postscript, If you will publish the
above you will please me much, but if not, I
shall stop my paper" An Editor should not be
thus driven from his purpose. He should not
thus fill up his columns, no more than dry
goods merchant should lumber up his shelves
with every article of merchandise that could
be found, in order to crafty some customer
who would prefer to purchase all his articles
at one shop, and thus run but one score, and
have but one creditor.
was pleased with postscript lately
saw, which was rs follows: "Sir,-if you
consider the foregoing worthy of a place in
your paper, it is at your service if not, burn
i'll shall be satisfied with your decision"
Now this author did not wish the Editor to
burden his columns with matter merely for
his own qualification. thus crowding out bet.
ter and more valuable subjects. He was
aware, too, that the Editor knew better than
himself, what would at that time best suit his
columns. This is right. An Editor is ex-
pected to feel deep interest in the paper
over which he has supervision, and will do
all in his power to make it subservient to the
general mod hut If he is c0rnnellad 10 ad.