The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-09-21
FARM AMI FIREsIDE.

was at n time supposed to be almost a
specific for all the disease which "fesh
is heir to-" and while this remedial
agent will probably never go out of use
it has lost some of its popularity. We
notice that correspondent of the South
ern Farmer recommends calomel for dis
ease of swine, and we give his experience:
Last fall 1 had a litter of eight choice
pigs somewhat similarly attacked. They
became shabby about the eyes and bones
of the head, would eat mincingly, purge,
cough, dwindle-and all diedin from one
to three weeksafter the attacks, although
l used various remedies, none of which
seemed to have a good affect. Soon after
these all died, MI pig of another litter
was attacked, and as an experiment l
gave it about fifteen grains of calomel,
and it got well Immediately, and none of
the others became affected. This spring,
the same SOW which lost all her pigs last
fall, had another litter, and when a few
weeks old they began with the bad symp-
toms, and two died before 1 thought of
the calomel. 1 gave it to four others af-
fected, and all got well. From these ex-
periments and their success, Ideem their
publication worth the attention of the
farmers. l notice the same disease pre-
walls among pigs in Ohio and other 10.
c~alities, and l have great faith in Gallo
mel as a remedy, be the disease what it
may.
HONEY, HoNEYcoMB, AND WAX.--1t
is a mystery to many, says the Rural
NeaD Yorker, why h~oneycomb is worth
from two dollars to four dollars per
pound; and yet it is true, when we take
int account that it is made from honey,
of which it requires twenty-five pounds
for a swarm of bees to make a pound and
a quarter of nice honeycomb.
The Cincinnati Gazette explains the
matter as follows: The bee fllsitself with
honey, and when combs are to be made,
the larger part of the swarm will form
or cluster themselves into a festoon or
bunch in the hive, and by SO doing they
get up a proper temperature of heat,
which causes the honey already in the
bees to secrete into wax, and pass through
the little flaps, or pockets, OIL the under
side of the abdomen, in the shape of
small, white scales, which we al often
see quite plentiful on the alighting board.
These scales are taken off of each other
by the bees themselves, and while it is in
a soft, plant consistency, they make their
combs, first forming the very thin sheet
which serves as a partition between the
two sets of cells.
If we would take the proper ~calcula-
ton of the value of honey, and the
amount that a good busy swarm can
gather daily, we will find it takes about
twenty days for bees to fill their hives
with the necessary amount of comb,
which if clean will weigh one and one
quarter pounds. We have found, insome
instances, when the honey harvest was
good, the bees will collect and bring into
their hives five to twenty-five pounds pei
day. Ihave often known a good strong
stock to gather fifty pounds in the long
days of August, when the white and AL
sike clover were in full bloom.
Now, dear readers, let us make a fail
calculation in this matter, and we viii
find that at five pounds per days the bee
will gather and store one hundred pound
in twenty days. This, at twenty-five
cents per pound, would be twenty-five
dollars. Suppose we had plenty of nic'
combs in good movable frames, to hav
exchanged with our bees, as they flle'
up, in place of forcing them to build new
and using up the previous nectar in max
ing combs, which, to say the least of it
would not be less than fifty pounds Q
. honey. AT the price above named i
amounts to twelve dollars and fifty cents
and now reduce this one-half, and we Sc
very clearly that h~oneycombs are ia
more valuable than the wax that nigh
be made from it, which sells at twenty
. five or thirty cents per pound. The bes
yield that can be made from an ordiuar
: class of old comb lisa single pound of wa:
to one and one-fourth pounds of comt
t which makes adherence against the wa:
:, of six dollars and twenty-five cents.
have given you the facts in the case
. will you study the matter over, dea
reader, and forsake the old-time system
= of Bookkeeping, and try to reform in thi
the most pleasant, if understood, Of a
Q kinds of business, that an invali
especially, and ladies with small capita
might engage in with profit?
The TREATMENT OF Young HEDGE
4 Thomas Meehan writes: Of late yea
n a discovery has been made in the trea
ment of hedges of supreme importanc
it was the universal advice, and the ger
eral practice, to cut the plants to tt
ground at planting, and this part is sti
right. But the practice went turtle
3 The following summe the growth W:
! cut back to make the shoots sprout, an
i. perhaps the succeeding winter they we
v cut again, and the next winter and sur
mer, and so on; but this we know is q
wrong. Not only is it wrong SO far as tt
e making of a stout hedge is concernc
as but it took a good deal of money al
is labor to attend to it; and it was vel
natural for the farmer to say that lab
= was his great bugaboo, and if he was
,e be continually bothered in this way
Is would rather pay double or treble for
h lumber fence, and be done with it.
Many who kept to the faith in consta
IS trimming in the hedges youthful peril
Id found to their sorrow that all their lab
i'd there would be holes which would adm
lie dogs, and in time, larger animals, al
lie only those who had knowledge and SIX
lg enough and time enough to boot, to lo'
lie well after their hedges, kept or with tt