The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-10-19
FIELD AND HOME.


was at one time supposed to be almost q
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 had 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 died in from one
to three weeksafter the attacks, although
/ used various remedies, none of which
seemed to have good affect. Soon after
these all died, one pig of another litter
was attacked, and as an experiment /
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 l thought of
the calomel. / gave it to four others af.
fected, and all got we'll. From these ex-
periments and their success, deem their
publication worth the attention of the
farmers. / notice the same disease pre-.
walls among pigs in Ohio and other To-.
calities, and l have great faith in Gallo
mel as remedy, be the disease what it
may.
HONEY, HoNEYCoMB, AND WAx.-It
is mystery to many, says the Rural
Ntw Yorker, why honeycomb 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 swarm of bees to make pound and
a quarter of nice honeycOmb.
The Cincinnati Gazette explains the
matter as follows: The bee fillsitself with
honey, and when combs are to be made,
the larger part of the swarm will form
or cluster themselves into festoon or
bunch in the hive, and by so doing they
get up proper temperature OF heat,
which causes the honey already in the
bees to secrete into wax, and pass through
the little flaps, or pockets, on the under
side of the abdomen, in the shape of
small, white scales, which we can often
see quite plentiful on the alighting board.
These scales S-s 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 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, in some
instances, when the honey harvest was
good, the bees will collect and bring into
their hives five to twenty-five pounds per
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 fair
calculation in this matter, and we will
find that at five pounds per days the bees
will gather and store one hundred pounds
in twenty days. This, at twenty-five
cents per pound, would be twenty-five
dollars. Suppose we had plenty of nice
combs in good movable frames, to have
exchanged with our bees, as they filled
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 of
honey. At the price above named it
amounts to twelve dollars and fifty cents;
and now reduce this one-half, and we see
very clearly that honeycombs are far
more valuable than the wax that might
be made from it, which sells at twenty
five or thirty cents per pound. The best
yield that can be made from an ordinary
class of old comb is single pound of wax
to one and one-fourth pounds of comb,
which makes adherence against the wax
of six dollars and twenty-five cents.
have given you the facts in the case
will you study the matter over, dear
reader, and forsake the old-time system
of bee-keeping, and try to reform in this,
the most pleasant, If understood, of all
kinds of business, that an invalid
especially, and ladies with small capital,
might engage in with profit
The TREATMENT OF YOUNG HEDGES.
Thomas Meehan writes: OF late years
a discovery has been made in the treat
ment of hedges of supreme Importance.
it was the universal advice, and the gen.
eral practice, to cut the plants to the
ground at planting, and this part is still
right. But the practice went further.
The following summer the growth was
cut back to make the shoots sprout, and
perhaps the succeeding winter they were
cut again, and the next winter and sum-
mer, and so on; but this we know is all
wrong. Not only is it wrong so far as the
making Of a stout hedge is concerned,
but it took a good deal of money and
labor to attend to it; and it was very
natural for the farmer to say that labor
was his great bugaboo, and If he was to
be continually bothered in this way he
would rather pay double or treble for a
lumber fence, and be done with it.
Many who kept to the faith in constant
trimming in the hedges youthful period
found to their sorrow that all their labor |
there would be holes which would admit
dogs, and in time, larger animals, and |
only those who had knowledge and skill |
enough and time enough to boot, to look
we'll after their hedges, kept on with this
way of making them.
Inc plashlng system followed this. In
his way the plants were allowed to grow
traight up for three or four years after
planting, and then each one cut half
trough near the ground and bent over.
This presented series of horizontal
TENS along the hedge line, and made
uccessful barrier against intruders. Only
lalf cut they live, although making, Of
curse, weakened growth and from be-
DIV the cut lot of sprouts came up,
1hich helps to thicken the whole mass.
tut although this way is much superior
D the old fashioned plan than this, that
, involves no labor for the first two or
hree years, the FLASHING itself is la
orious process, and moreover the result
oes not always prove perfect hedge.
The new plan was foreshadowed in a
beech at Harrisburg some six years ago,
nd of which an abstract is given in the j
Fruit Growers Society re-
ort. 1t was there shown that the idea |
lat pruning strengthened tree was !
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