Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-02-09
Farm and Garden.

The Agriculture Of 1o-day.-What we
realize to- day in the home life of the
industrial men of America IN their
methods and in their relations to each
other; in their independence, thrift,
culture and intelligence, is SO different
from that of twenty years ago that to
close our eyes and strive to recall the
past and then open them upon the
present, is like waking from Rip Van
Wrinkle slumber. The then and now
are connected with a chain of industrial
events, too long to be catalogued, that
have brought to the working people
of this country elements of power and
prosperity which they have not been
slow to mould for their own use. Then
it was common to talk of the dignity of
labor-to preach that it was honorable,
as if it were doubted and it was doubt
ed then. But now the politician does
not use that palate-tickler. The dignity
Of labor depends upon the accomplish
ments of the laborer. Labor does not
necessarily dignity any one; but it is
always honorable if honorably performed
with an honest purpose. Upon the
man depends the dignity and honor OF
the work he does. And to-day agri-
culture is more honored because agrl-
culturists are more intelligent, cult
waited, and better business men than
they were twenty years ago.
Life to day in rural homes and on
American farms means and is more to
our people than ever before. Culture
| and refinement are rapidly taking the
place of ignorance and boorishness.
Our school system and the cosmopolitan
character of our life innovate upon the
old-time traditions and habits and
break up the trammels which within
our memory, bound men down to a
plodding, dreary, and almost hopeless
life of toll. There are brighter homes
and happier faces in the country to-day.
Social life has assumed new phases and
we begin to see the dawn of what is to
be in the future-a higher and better
type for the American farmer.
There are too few thinkers, too few
calculators, too few disciplined minds
among agriculturists, although the ne
cessities of modern business are fast
begetting them. We cannot help con-
graduating the young men upon the
farms and in the gardens of to-day,
upon their better opportunities, and
the young women upon the rapid de-
crease of the social chasm which sepa-
rates them from those who occupy the
highest positions in American homes.
-Rmal New Yorker. ....
Treatment Of Bees.-As it is impossible
to obtain queens early enough in spring
to save queenless stocks, it is advisable
to unite such stocks with other stocks
that are weak, or rather with stocks
that have become greatly depopulated
during winter. This will often prove OF
great benefit to stock weak in point
Of numbers. The addition of more bees
increases the heat in the hive and causes
the queen to lay greater number OF
eggs, and the stock increases in numbers
far more rapidly than it otherwise
would have done. The hive and combs
which contained the queenless stock
should be we'll cleaned after the bees
are removed, and carefully saved for
another swarm. A hive well filed with
combs is of great value, as swarm put
into such hive is at once prepared to
gather honey and store it away. The
old combs are cleaned very rapidly, and
as there is no comb to build, nearly all
the bees can go to the field for honey,
bee bread, etc.
Hog Chozera.-The RmaL World says
"The following cure for hog cholera has
| been well tested in Illinois during the
| post summer, and we are assured has
never failed to effect a rapid cure
Make a strong tea from the May-apple
root; for each hundred hogs add one
pound of assafptida, and make a stiff
slop with bran. For cure, feed once a
day for a preventive, once week."
Weak Foa0A.-Fowls that show Iassi-
tude or weakness may be strengthened
by giving decoction Of citrate of iron
mixed with water in such proportion as
to give it very perceptible taste of
iron.