The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-31
EARN AND FFRESEDE.

GENERAL hlNIS AbOU1 h1N ES.-
"Granger Kate" write to 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 aud 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, we'll |
painted, will last life time. A great |
manv 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 l Iuse is the best,
but I 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 a knowing
swindler. Common sense will teach any
one that where a bee can enter a moth
can enter. The secret of success in keep
ing out moths is to keep your colonies
| full and strong, in 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 number of his hives.
If one wishes bees to do we'll, by all
means keep the hive full and strong.
BARBERRY HEDGEs.-I wish, says a
correspondent, to call the attention of
the farmers of the Northwest to the sub
ject of trying the barberry as a fencing
material. Having experimental with it
in smaller way for the last fifteen years,
1 am satisfied It'll the very thing we need
to inclose the big prairies, it being per-
fectly hardy, and being shrub, and not
a tree, consequently does not require to
be continually cut back to keep it within
bounds, as is the case with the Usage 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. Its habit OF
continually sending up new sprouts from
the collar of the plant in a few years
produces an almost impenetrable mass OF
branches and foliage that would hardly
admit of the passage of a squirrel.
"Do BEES MAKE HONEY ?"-T. B.
) Miner says in Prairie Farmer: This ques
ton comes up once in three or four years
: from some " Professor" generally, who
$ imagines that he has made a great dis
covery. not by practical bee-culture ant
experience, but out of false teaching
n perhaps in some chronological history
:, But there is nothing like facts to upse
a erroneous theories; and challenge an.
e man to prove that honey bees "make
c honey in any sense, manner or degree
If we feed bees sugar sirup, and the.
p store it in their cells, tits nothing but tn
same sirup that we fed to them. If the
I, gather honey from flowers, each kin
n comes into the hives as found, and wit
l. no change of favor whatever. Whit
f clover, bass wood, buckwheat, etc., eac
1t has its own peculiar honey; and the bee
a are mere gatherers of it. I have hui
d dred times examined the combs of m
f, bees when I fed them and in no cas-
Il could detect any difference in the feee
n after being stored up, from what it ws
" when I mixed it.
IN The HoUsEwIFE's,LU som
as folks everything is luck. 1t is luck tbs
u VI hinders the dough from rising, and NJ
the falling of the temperature below th
&c fermenting point. It is luck that maxi
II 7 the bread burn, and not the hot fire. r
of plenished just as the bread was well-nig
K. done. 1t is luck that makes all tt
he sweetening Of the fruit pies run out {
en- the oven bottom, and not the neglect
re jigger down the edge of the crust, pro
he erly wetted 1t is luck that kills Il
he young turkeys about as fast as they a
ne Matched, and not the coarse, uncook
bly, Indian grits fed to them, instead of 10
ing pered milk, or meal mush cooked to p'
,d a fection. 1t is luck that coaxes the chic
as ems to the garden for food, instead of
ar the coop or barnyard luck and st
'i'' cat" that breaks the dishes, spills
milk, burns the steak, "bitters" t
cream and EN- bitters the life of all W
Vi come in contact with the luckless perst
GIG who lay everything to luck.
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