Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-30
AGRICULTURAL.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
BEES.

BEES. t!Glgly
Now commences the honey harvest
| Your success depends much upon the
spring treatment. Let every bee mas
| ter or mistress at once see that every
hive is thoroughly renovated. See that
there is no Judgment for the miller
worms. Puff little tobacco smoke
into the key-hole; invert the hive; re-
| move all bad and mouldy comb. Scrape
| off the bottom, and wash thoroughly
| with salt and water. 1t will sweeten
the bive and keep out ants and other
| insects. Get your HIVES ready for the
young swarns.
PRESERVATION OF GRAIN.
The following is the report of COM
mittee son preserving grain in rarified
| air,'' to the French Academy, and is
worthy the consideration of grain deal
ers. The apparatus made for carrying
out the process consists of one or more
| sheet-iron cylinders, each provided with
| a man-hole ON the top for the introduc-
| ton of the grain, and hopper below
through which it can be discharged. A
partial vacuum having been made within
the cylinder, by means OF an air pump,
it was found that this could be main
tanned during six months or more. All
| the insects which attack grain, and
particularly the weevil, were quickly
| destroye ed by the raritied air of the cyl
inder. The grain was perfectly well
preserved during five months devoted
| to the experiment of the committee.
RUTA BAGAs. "
| may be sown any time after the 18th.
They like a clean, rich, mellow soil, and
will come In useful next fall and winter
| to feed your neat stock. When up, they
should be thinned to abOuta foot apart,
| and all weeds kept down, Do not give
these robbers of the soil a chance TO get
more than q start. and then cut them
off with a hoe or cultivator.
HAVING.
Cut just at the transition state from
flower to seed. This is the best time.
Watch the barometer closely, and you
will find no difficulty in securing your
hay without getting it wet, and have ii
all in good order.
MUsTY GRAIN.
Grain that has been injured and be.
come musty may be restored to nearly
its original sweetness 10y pouring
boiling water over it, and permitting
1t to stand until cool. The scum which
arises to the surface of the liquid dur
ing the process of publication should
be carefully removed. Unless the Glu,
ten of the grain has become chemically
affecetd-which is rarely found to be the
case, except in very old grsin-every
taste of mustiness will be removed and
the grain rendered fit for use.
SUBSTITUTE FOR BUTTER.
The following item for housekeepers
we copy from the Baltimore Clipper,
which is as well adapted to this merid
ian as any other. A lady, who is famous
as house-keeper, recommends an eco
nomioal plan for making cake without
butter, which may be useful TO oul
readers: "Take piece of fat sail
pork, melt it down and strain it through
o piece of coarse, thin muslin. Set il
| aside until cold. 1t is then white and
firm, and may be used like butter in any
kind of cake. In pound cake she as
sures us it is delicious. She says that
| after one trial she never used butter"
| BEST VARIETIES OF FOWLS.
The Scottish Farmer gives the follow.
ing estimates as TO the value of several
varieties of fowls:
| For chickens for the table-nothing
like the Dorkings
For the size of egg-notbing equal
to the Spanish, but they do not lay
very regularly.
For the number of eggs--nothipg
like the Hamburghs, but the size of the
egg is small compared with the Spanish.
The Hamburghs lay about seven months
in the year, and never sit.
For eggs during the very hard frost
ana snOw-there is nothing like Brah-
mas. Hard weather does not seem to
affect them, and they always look well
and 'saucy like" let the cold be ever
SO severe.
FIELDS OF DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF Po-
TAToFs.
The correspondent of the American
Agriculturist gives the following as the
result of his experience last year in
growing different varieties of potatoes: