The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-06-09
FARM AND FIREsrDE.

GENERAL HINTS ABOUT HIVES
"Granger Kate write 10 the Southern
Farmer: No one should attempt to keep
bees in any but movable frame hive.
The time to make bee keeping profitable
in the old log and box gums is gone.
They afford too many hiding places for the
moth and its progeny of worms, and
make it too difficult, indeed next to
an impossibility, to extricate them. A
good, plain, movable frame hive, well
painted, will last lifeti.ne. A great
many different kinds Of hives are in use
at the present time, and almost every one
thinks that he or she has got the best.
Idonot claim that the one use is the best,
but / do think it IS as good as any, and
far better than many, some of which the
agents are putting" as " moth-proof,"
when in reality there is no such thing
as a moth-proof hive, and he who sells
one is either an ignoramus or knowing
swindler. Common sense will teach any
one that where bee can enter moth
can enter. The secret of success in keep
ing out moths is to keep your colonies
full and strong, in a close well made hive,
and they will attend to that part of the
business themselves. The bee keeper is
rich In proportion TO the strength of his
colonies, and not. the numb rof his hives.
II one wishes bees to do well, by all
means keep the hive full and strong.
BARBEPRY HEDGEs.-I wish, says a
correspondent, to call the attention of
the farmers of the Northwest to the sub
ject of trying the barberry az fencing
material. Having experimental with it
in a smaller way for the last fifteen wears,
lam satisfied tits the very thing we need
to inclose the big prairies, it being per-
fectly hardy, and being a shrub, and not
tree, consequently does not require to
be continually cut back to keep it within
bounds, as is the case with the esage or
ange and the honey locust. By an an.
nual pruning of the side branches to
produce more stocky growth, in four
or five years from the seed if properly
cultivated, it will make fence that will
stop any kind of stock that ought to be
permitted to run at large. It's habit of
continually sending up new sprouts from
the collar of the plant in few years
produces an almost impenetrable mass of
branches and foliage that would hardly
admit of the passage of squirrel.
"Do BEES MAKE HONEY PIT. B.
Miner says in Prairie Farmer This ques-
ton comes up once in three or four wears
from some Professor" generally, who
imagines that be has made a great dis
covery, not by practical bee-culture and
experience, but out of false teachings
perhaps in some entomoloeical history.
But there is nothing like facts to upset
erroneous theories; and challenge any
man to prove that honey bees "make y
money In any sense, manner or degree.
LIT we feed bees sugar strip, and they
store it in their cells, tits nothing but the
same sirup that we fed to them. II they
gather honey from flowers each kind
comes into the hives as found, and with
no change of flavor whatever. White
clover, bass wood, buckwheat, etc. each
has its own peculiar honey; and the bees
are mere gatherers of it. | have hun
dred times examined the combs of nv
bees when l fed them; and in no case
could detect any difference in the feed,
after being stored up, from what it was
when | mixed it.
The HOUSEWIVES LUCK.-With some
folks everything is luck. 1t is luck that
hinders the dough from rising, and not
the falling of the temperature below the
fermentiDg point. 1t is luck that makes
the bread burn, and not the hot fire. re-
plenished just as the bread was well-nigh
done. 1t is luck that makes all the
sweetening of the fruit pies run out on
the oven bottom, and not the neglect to
jigger down the edge of the crust, prom
erly wetted. 1t is luck that kills the
young turkeys about as fast as they are
Matched, and not the coarse, uncooked
Indian grits fed to them, instead of lon
pered milk, or meal mush cooked to per
lection. 1t is luck that coaxes the chick
ems to the garden for food, instead of to
the coop or barnyard; luck and g the
cat" that breaks the dishes, spills the
milk, burns the steak, bitlers" the
cream and em-bitters the life of all who
come in contact with the luckless persons
who Lay everything to luck.
Household Helps.
To MAKE THE COMPLEXION WHITE
AND SOFT.-Use tepid water conta;n;no .