Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-04-05
Butter Making,


The practice which has become con
firmed among, we might say, majority
of our butter making population is one
that, if long continued, cannot but re-
suit in the ultimate ruin Of the trade
Here is man whose butter has always
commanded the highest prices, not
merely because of its being of the best
quality, because it is new, fresh, and
IN 9 marketable state. He finds no diff
fculty in disposing of all he makes,
and uniformly at highest market rates.
His neignbor. who has never permit
ted his butter to be outdore IN the
qualities Of favor and deliciousness, is
carried away with the idea that if his
neighbours butter Is worth t1irty-tive.
cents per pound his is worth forty, and
by holding on q short time, that price
can be realized. The time requisite to
compete with this neighbor serves to
render his butter rancid and utterly
destitute of the qualities demanded of
marketable butter, while his reputation
as butter maker is seriously impaired.
There is yet another and larger class
who hold their butter because the
market is not high. Despite the num-
suffered severely by being forced to
sell an inferior article at prices far be-
low those ranging when the butter was
fresh, they yet cling to the practice
with tenacity worthy of better
cause.
A good article of butter is always in
demand, and seldom, if ever, fails of
obtaining good price. Let it be put
upon the market at the earliest practi-
cable moment, before the delicious fla
vor has forsaken it and its freshness
has departed -ChautaQua Farmer.
How to Commence Bookkeeping.
There are numbers perhaps who
would be pleased with from one to
three colonies of bees if they knew how
to do it without too much trouble. IF
they could have two or three hives that
would give them an average of 100
pounds, with no trouble of hivine
swarms, and little trouble with their
bees but to put the surplus boxes in
place IN the hive in the spring, and ex-
change them as filed for empty boxes
then remove them all In the fall and fit
their hives for winter, they would be
glad to keep one or two hives or more
Do not imagine that twenty large
hlves can be kept, and each give hun
dred pounds of surplus, in field where
out twenty swarmers In small hives
have been kept, and some of them have
starved to death IN the winter If the
field has give to the swarmers an aver
age OF ten pounds of surplus and their
support, twenty non-swarmine hives
could only get what the field yields.
Begin say with two hives the first
year, or more, according to the number
OF bees in the neighborhood around
you. Build or buy as many large hives.
with boxes OF an aggregate capacity of
I40 pounds or more take them to a
nelghbor who keeps bees; agree with
HIM to transfer one of his best colonies
to each new hive in the following man
ner
When the first swarm issues, hive il
IN the new hive; then set the new hive
III the place of the old one. Take out
all the comb from the old hive. driving
out all the bees; they will all GO into
the new hive. Put all the worker
brood In box, and place it in commu-
nlcation with the new hive, sothat thew
can easily pass from one to the other:
they will hatch ont all the brood. and
make very large colony. The queen
viii 60 into breeding with all the activ-
1ty ev1nced IN new swarm. All the
brood that was left to supply the old
colony, with the force that was left in
the old hive, will gather, if in a good
held, 100 pounds of surplus Fill each
OF your new hives in this manner with
bees, and they will fill your boxes with
honey, If the season is a favorable one
II You prefer 1T, you can have comb
and ali transferred from the old hive to
your new hive. But it Will be safe. and
L think safest, to wait for swarminp.
and then transfer them as above d. |
cected
Ii the boxes are all on at the time of
h1vlng the new swarm, the queen NAV |
linlure one or two of the top boxes of |
money by depositlng brood in them.
II the colony is quite large, there will |
be very little danger of it. If the col
ony IS below medium, it will be best to
remove the top boxes, covering the
breeding apartment with board, Az
ter the first season, the queen HAVING
her nursery in the centre Of
the hive, there viii be little danger of
brood IN the box. In this way a man
can secure a hive and colony of bees
for say, including boxes, about s1S or
$50, that will give him from S25 to $40
worth of surplus honey annually, at 25
rents per pound Country Gentleman.
He purest and sweetest Cod-Liver
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