Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-17
AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.

HATCHING.-Do not imagine that handling
eggs during incubation will prevent Matching.
With care the eggs may be handled every
day, and not the slightest harm result there
from. Should any of the eggs get broken in
the nest, wash the remaining eggs in warm
water and clean out the nest, for an egg that
is daubed with the contents of another egg
will not hatch. During the last week of in
cubation the eggs should be sprinkled every
other day with warm water.
BEE CULTURE to the weak condi-
ton of bees, natural swarming will not COM
meuce this season as early as usual Arti-
fetal swarming is now general among nearly
all practical apiarists. 1t is urged by some,
however, that bees know best when to swarm,
and that natural swarms are stronger, and
consequently more reliable. But when per-
mitted to swarm ad ibitum, bees require
constant watching, else swarms will abscond,
and leave the apiarist to sigh over his loss az
they go glimmering. Artificial swarming,
when properly done, is as reliable and much
safer than natural swarming, as it prevents
the loss of swarms by absconding. We have
not adopted the method usually practiced in
this country of making two colonies out of
one. This leaves both colonies quite weak,
and il any calamity should befall the forage
and supplies be cut short, the bees will be
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would advise the making of one swarm
from five, or, if you have not that
many, from what you have. If five,
take two or three frames containing broo,
and eggs, with the bees adheripg, from eacd
of four hives, and place them in your new,
being careful that you do not get the queens,
or more than one. Then remove the fifth
hive (which should be the strong one) fifteen
or twenty feet away. Do this about the mid
die OF the day, when the bees are at work,
and place the new colony where it stood.
When the bees return they will be somewhat
disconnected by the change of domicile, but
after flying around and in and out a few times
they accept the situation and go to work
In making the swarm, from two to four of
the combs should contain honey, and be
placed at each end of the hive, with those
that contain brood in the middle. If the
queen is got given them they viii rear one
from the egg. Now you have a colony that
for any emergency Is as good as an old one
less the queen. As fast as the empty frames
that replaced the full ones taken out are
filled, swarming may be repeated.
CREAM OF TARTAR-The manufacture of
cream of tartar has at last been entered
upon in California The name of the gen.
tleman who has inaugurated the enterprise
is D. Cardaire, and he proposes to purchase
the crude cream tartar, or argols, from vine
yardists, paying them reasonable price
therefor. OF course, the sum to be realized
by each individual wine maker from this
source is small, but in the course of years it
will aggregate a considerable amount. Had
argols been saleable all the years in which
wine has been made in Anaheim, and had
strict account of sales been kept, it would
have shown that the revenue from that source
was not to be despised. A ton OF grapes
yields, according to the nature of the fruit,
quantities varying between one and two
pounds of argol, of which, in good samples,
an average of about 81 per cent. is cream of
tartar Anaheim Gazette.
LIVE STOCK PROFITS. The following fig
ures from the New York Tribune will have
an interest for those who own and those who
deal in live stock: "a cent per pound in the
gross of hogs means gain of $50, GOO, GOO on
the 9, 900, 600, 900 pounds which will represent
the organized pork packing supply; and there
will be saved for farmers and villagers home
use about two-thirds as much more. The in
crease IN the value of beef is equivalent to at
least S25, 000 600 on the years return, if prices
should be sustained. An improvement Of 3
cents per pound in cheese, on a years make,
would represent fully SO, 900, 600. and cents
on butter gain of more than $50, 600, 000"
MILLET.-Hungarian grass or Hungarian
millet (Panicum Germanicum) gives the best
results on a sandy loan, and is thus suited to
the soil mentioned, but will grow well
on almost any ordinary SOIL It does well
on those that are light and dry if they are
well MANFRED. 1t withstands drought well,
and will doubtless do well in this latitude
under favorable conditions. German millet
(Setaria Germanlca), is a variety of Bengal
grass tSetaria ItaLica), much resembling Hun