Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-06-19
The Farm, Garden, Kitchen & Shop.

BUTTER OR CHEESE.-ln central
New York there appears to have been
for the last ten years such mania in
behalf of converting milk into cheese
instead of butter that the latter has
become quite ignored and high in
price. The papers in that section
have been filled with accounts of the
different cheese factories and the pre-
vaillng prices from week to week.
We have for sometime been well as
sured in our own minds that the bust
ness was being run into the ground
that is, overdone-and so it proves to
be. Cheese manufacturers and dai-
rymen who supply the milk are both
complaining that the ruling prices Of
cheese are getting to be too low, at.
fording so little profit to the business
as not to make it an object Of sufi-
clent Importance to many of them en-
gagged in it.
Thus, while butter is yearly COM
handing higher prices and milk and
cream have advanced, affording good
profits, cheese is falling, and we may
add will continue to do so until but
ter making and cheese making occupy
a compromising attitude toward each
other. 1t is so whenever farmers or
persons in any other line of business
throw their capital and energies into
specialties.
If farmers will all rush into butter
making, butter will fall from an over
supply. So with cheese and potatoes
or grain of any kind. 1t has been so
with wool raising. When the REBEL
ion broke out there was a great de-
mand for wooden goods, prices for raw
material rose enormously, and the
farmers East and West rushed into
wool growing, and the result is just
the same. 1t will be so with grape
and wine business after a while. Ifa
large number Of city merchants, owing
to the high price of coffee, tea or any
particular fabric, should make large
importations and overstock the mar.
ket, there would be but one result
effect following causes.
This being so, we think that the
suggestions which we have often made
to the general farmer to follow a Sys
TEN of mixed husbandry is the best il
the long run, the profits being fal
more certain and the risk great dea
less.-Germantoaon Telegraph.
GIRDLNG APPLE TREEs.-In tn,
spring of 1867, l noticed an article il
the Waterman and Reflector upon grid
ling limbs Of apple trees to make tn
fruit cleave to the tree until ripened
experimental with three trees
and the following are the results:
In all three cases, the only perfec
fruit was upon the girdled limbs, ant
much more of it in proportion thai
upon other parts of the tree, while il
one case, the only fruit was upon th,
girdled limb, and this had to be tee
up TO support the weight of the fruit
and what is more curious, this limb
at this time presents the singular phe
nomenon OF great show of blossoms
while there is none upon any othe
mart of the trne
Process-When the tree is JUS
passing out of bloom, cut through tn
entire bark and remove a band one
fourth of an inch wide entirely aroun
the limb near the trunk or supportin
limb. The limb grows just as wei
yet if parties should be fearful, the
can satisfy themselves by experiment
ing with such limbs as they would u
timately prune of.
GEO. P. HAYES.
Windsor, May 23d, 1868.
HAY TEA FOR CoLIC.-In reply
ga subscriber" of Dundee, ILL.,, wi
regard to hay tea as a remedy fl
bilious collie, | will say that the rel
edy is to be taken internally. l.
the patient drink of the warm t,
quite freely; put hot fermentation
upon the bowels, cover very warm
in bed, and relief and sweet sleep W
surely and speedily follow.
Mrs. j. WESTON.
ARTIFICIAL SwARMING.-This i
portant part of bee keeping has be-
many times brought into discussiC
as to whether it is right or wror
profitable or not. 1t has its admire
and its assailants. Among its me
ardent advocates are the most pro
inent apiarians Of the United Stat
They urge it as being most advisal
as well as profitable, for several re-
ons, viz: That we are sure of dol
ling the number of swarms, and the
by realizing more honey and not ri
ming any risk Of losing any swarms
natural swarming; also, for det
mining the age of queens, on VIII
depend the prosperity of the whC
colony and then again, if it is wol
ing man who cannot attend to his bt
only after his day work, artificial sw
ming is done after or before his VIC
making little or no-noise or runni
around in the neighbours garden, the
by afording the poor man the pr
lege of having his delicious nee
without paying the extraordin'
price asked for it in market. I
way to proceed to make an artifC
swarming, where there is but one
two swarms, is to take out one-h
the frames containing brood honey 6
bees and place them in an empty h
and then shut them in it, (care hav
hpnn fol yan NOT RI mt tho OunnO