The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-06-03

TO save the money, the most valuable part OF
his fruit crop.pj
In the Rural World we find these hints for
the spring treatment Of bees. AS soon as
bees ny freely in the spring, 1t Is important
to examine every hive and know their exact
condition. If the bees arc in movable comb
hives, 1t is easy, by lifting out the frames, to
see the amount of the stores, and also to dis
cover, by the presence or absence of brood, If
the colony has queen, 1t is also easy, with
bees IN these hives, to supply their wants.
la colony has too little honey, 1t may have
frame or two of comb, containing honey.
given to II from one that can spare it. II
neither eggs nor brood, In any stage, are
found in a hive the LIST of March. you may be
sure the colony is queenless. At that early
period it is not usually best to attempt to
supply the loss. The frames, bees and all,
may be put with some other that can make
room for them. They will not quarrel, but
unite peaeeabiy.. Queenless bees are not
disposed to quarrel, and other bees will not
trouble them ifin this condition. Any colony,
where the bees do not carry in pollen brskly
in the first warm spring mornings. should be
marked 40 suspicious, ard watched. Queen
less hives, and those that contain little honey
are not apt to display energy In gathering
pollen. Every worm should be dispatched.
Under even tbs best colonies, some may be
found ifyou take thetrouble to look. When
my bees were in box-hives, never omitted
looking on the bottom board of each one
every morning, and destroying the worms.
Every one left soon becomes miller, capable
OF laying many eggs, that become worms
very soon--every one destroyed puts an end
to four possible generations in single season.
Destroy every acorns in spring, and you can
have no millers Matched in Your hive that
season. In localities where willow, hazel,
elm and soft maple abound, bees find natural
pollen almost as soon as they can fly In the
spring. In other places 1t Is of great advan-
tagc to place rye meal in shallow vessels
near the bees every pleasant day, as a substi.
tute for pollen. If no stream or brook is
near your bees, provide them with water in
some way they need 1t specially in spring,
and many are lost II they go far to obtain it,"
qITI cRANBERRIEs. 5fyy
We know no more profitable investment
than has been made by the prudent purchase
of the waste swamp lands. which, until within
a few years, were regarded as not worth the
taxes. The returns, realized by preparing
them for the cultivation of ecranberries, arc
almost fabulous, and there are now no lands
in jersey which are worth more in the market,
acre for acre, than the rejected swamp lands
which the proprietor. twenty years ago, wss
ready to abandon as q nuisance, The high
price of the berries has been maintained, but
many years must pass before there can be q
supply equal to the demand, and we doubt
IL there can be such thing as a glut in the
cranberry market. In fact, the price is grow.
Ing every year. The more berries are
furnished, the more are needed. As an arti
Gle of export, there must be an increasing de,
mand. The man who has ten acres In Gran.
berries, well ditched and watered. and in
good order, has u fortune which would re
quire very round sum to represent as his
capital, for his annual income under ordinary
circumstances, would require the capital OF
10 small bank in order to yield such an
amount Of interest. There are still such
lands to be had. The expense of preparing
them will be moro than met by the first
years crop, md after that the yield is usually
more than one hundred per csnt, on the in.
vestment.--Ncso England Homestead.
collie IN HORSES,
P.S. Garman, of Elkhart county, Indiana
gives his experience in treating cases of collie
In horses: "A few days ago horse of mine