Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-02
AGRICULTURAL.
FARH, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
STORING TOO MUCH HONEY.

shows it may be caused by storing too
much honey.
In long continued seasons of pleasant
weather, when honey is abundant, and
bees store too much of ii in their cells
where brOOds should be, and the queen
is driven to the outside combs for room
to deposit her eggs, not enough young
bees are raised TO keep the number
good or to consume the honey from the
center combs and so the colony goes in
to winter too weak in numbers, and with
no place free from sealed honey where
they can cluster.
Often, too, they perish with honey
In the hive because they cannot get at
it in prolonged frosty weather. In the
LangstrOth hive, winter passages, or
small holes through each comb half way
down should always be made in the
fall.
Bees often suffer from too much air
as well as for want OF it. / have seen
large colonies frozen to death IN the
Langstroth hive 10y injudiciOus ventila-
ton. The entrances were left open and
also the holes In the honey board, caus-
ing a draught of cold air which made it
impossible for high temperature to be
maintained in a cold day. When bees
are wintered out of doors in the hive
the entrances should be closed so that
only one bee can pass at time, and only
one slit In the top left open. Even then
should fill the cap with straw, which
though it absorbs all the moisture, al
lows the passage of air.
IfyOur honey board and the entrances
to the hive are sOiled with the excre-
ments of the bees you may be sure they
have suffered from cold.
POTATOES FOR SUMMER USE.
As the majority of farmers do not get
''new" potatoes very early in the sea-
son, it is a matter of some Importance
to them to have the old crop so kept as
to be IN good condition through the
spring and summer months. About the
poorest vegetable that can be placed
upon the table is poor potato. \ cor
respondent in Clinton county, Indiana,
who don't think it much of ''trick" to
raise good crop, bat thinks it is one
to keep them well, gives the Prairie
Farmer the following, which We trust
will be tested by others. He says:
''Take good, sound potatoes aud place
them IN a tub or barrel, and pour boil
ing water over them, letting them re-
main In the water until the eyes are
scalded so they will not spTOut; dry tine
potatoes thoroughly In the sun, and put
them away IN box or barrel IN a cool,
dry place. This will give good, 'mealy'
potatoes all the time" Now is the pro-
per time to attend to it.
CELERY.
The seed of celery should be but bare
" pressed In the mold, and then board
laid upon 1T, say about two inches, and
keep the celery shaded until ii has
grown an inch, when the shade should
be removed, except in the middle of
the day. 1t is not necessary to have a
hOt-bed in which to grow celery plants
for next winters use; but if you have a
gentle bottom heat from spent hot
bed, all the better. Many burn their
seed and young plants by using too
strong bottom heat.
When tTansplanting to the rows for
permanent growth, trenches may or
may not be made. We have grown
just as good celery plants, when planted
on level grOund-sOil having first been
made deep and lOOse-as we have in
trenches.
STRAWBERRY.
Vines planted at this season of the
year and mulched, will often give
partial crop of fruit-are very sure to
live and grow, and increase during the
summer; so that vines now planted three
feet apart each way, will by fall nearly
cover the entire ground. Spade or
,,1.,r~ Al, -ruorrro1 &c "a nc rangcfiln
nine to twelve inches, rake level, and
plant Moderately rich ground is bet
ter than either very rich soil, or that
which is poor. Too rich a soil causes
the plants TO make too many runners
and new plants, at loss of fruit, while
too poor ground gives a feeble growth
of vine, and small fruit. If manure
is used to enrich, it should be old and
well rOtted.
CULTURE OF OKRA.
The Germantown Telegraph, is an
swer to a correspondent, gives the fol-
lowing directions for the cultivation of
this plant: e.
''Okra should be planted at the be-
ginning of May, In drills, the rows be-
ing about thirty inches apart. When
they should be thinned out to eight or
ten inches space between them. The
pods are ready for use when they are
from an inch and half to two aud a
half inches in length, and before the
skin becomes in the least degree rough.
A plot twenty feet square would suffice
fer an ordinary family, aflording a daily
supply throughout the season. Any
good, rich, friable soil, required by the
usual garden crops, will answer. The
seed should be sOwn thiekly, and cover
ed rather lightly and pressed, or it is
very liable to rot. The crop requires
no more trouble after thinning ont than
Indian corn.
Okra keeps admirably for winter,
possessing I,early all the virtues of sum
mer, by plucking them IN aprOper state
whenever there Is more than aisupply
for family or market purposes, string
ing them up, and hanging them ava,
where they will not freeze.
We regard Okra as one of the most de
sirable crops 1t makes the best sOul
in the world, and is delicious stewed. !"
THE APPLE MAGGoT.
The larva of the Codling moth, o
what is generally known throughout th
states rs the apple worm, is quite dit
ferent insect from the apple maggOt.-
Here In Connecticut, and we presum
Throughout the New England States, bot
of these insects are very numerous, an
seriously damage tine apple crop ever
year, by rendering One-half of the frui