Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-02-08
AGRICULTURAL.

! ny buAs 1hNg 0h@NaA ~ f'~f
issuing when there is newly fallen snow
on the ground. But if the snow is some
what hard, having settled or thawed lit
tie, there is no harm in letting them fly.
A few may fall and perish, but these will
mostly be feeble ones, that would very
likely be lost even If the ground were en-
tirely bare. Keep the air passages open.
Sweep out dead bees and filth during the
turns of moderate weather.
If any change IS 10 be made in the bee
yard, let it be attended to this month,
that each hive may occupy its summer
stand before the bees fly out in Spring.
AS each bee marks its locality when
first leaving, the hive cannot be moved
afterward without loss of bees, unless TAX
en- mile or more. Arrange the stands
four or six feet apart, if there be room,
Bees enough will be saved by it to pay
even if it be done at some Inconvenience.
If you intend purchasing bees this sea-
son, there will not be better time for it
than now, except where they are housed
in which case it is better not to disturb
them until suitable day TO put them
out. Stocks that have been out through
the Winter so far, and are now in good
condition, may be considered safe. Fer
moving them use a wagon with springs,
unless you can take them or sleighs. 1t
any that are out doors, must be fed, 1t
will not do to risk their finding food on
the top of the hive; the weather may
not be warm enough at all times for them
to go there for it when they need it. 1t
is quite necessary to take them to darE
acarm room. Be sure that they find the
honey; it may be necessary sometimes
to inyert the hive, and pour small guam
tity of liquid honey directly among tue
bees to save them. When they are to
be fed many times, good way Is, to in
vert the hive, and cut out a little place
in the combs for saucer, into which
the honey may be given as they need 1t.
Honey in the combs may be given by
simply introducing it instead of the sau-
Ger. The bees will be very likely to wax
the saucer or comb fast when laid on
their combs in this way but no harm
is done BY breaking it loose when the
feeding is finished.-1griculturist.
Coon STocK ARE CUEAPEsT-A
bullock of improved breed, at three years
old, will be superior both in size and
weight to one of the coarse, common
kind at FIVE years. Two years feed
and trouble are thus wasted upon those
animals which by their nature are fitted
TO transmute hay and grain into hide and
horn and hone rather than into meat
In quality Of flesh, the well bred steer as
far exceeds the coarser brute, as the rich
melting flesh of a Bartlett or Yirgalieu
,ear is superior to the astrngent, gritty
substance Of a wilding.
When choice cattle were rare, when
. we'll bred Short Horn, or Hereford, or
Ayrshire, could only be weighed down
~ a purse of $1,000 to 2000, it was too
much to expect that men Of moderate
means, the great middle class of farm
,rs. should become enthusiastic in i'm
proving their stock. But now, the bet
er breeds are so widely disseminated
,ver the country, that they are easily
md cheaply obtained. Young bulls,
borough bred of their several kinds,
.bound Numbers of them are every
rear made into steers for working pur-
,oses, but the use of these, at proper
.ge, even upon the meanest common
,ows. and a few consecutive crosses upon
heir progeny, in few years, give the
breeder a herd, for all practical uses,
,qual in beef aud dairy value to the
,est, and which will return in their pro-
lucts, double the profit to be derived
rom the inferior animals. The season
or breeding neat cattle will soon be here.
let every owner of stock take time by
he forelock, aud secure, at least, the use
4 the best animal that can be obtained
within days travel, or more if need be.
Two years feed will be cheaply bought
" a weeks labor thus given at the first
n improving the breed.
MrLcurNG WHEAT WITH Buck
c. Harlan of Wilmington
)el. advocates sowing buekwheat with
,heat in the fail. He says the buck
heat will often grow 2 feet high before
le frost kills it. 1t will prevent the
inds from sweeping the earth away from
lie tender roots, and will assist in pre-
enting the frost from throwing out the
-op and when spring returns, it will
1t down and assist TO nourish the young
liant when it most needs it. Something
iethis idea. Has it been tried by other
eaders Of the american AgrieSft,friS'