The National tribune., 1883-05-24
PARIS GREEN.
NOTES AND EXTRACTS.
Digest OF Information Collected From Various
Sources.
VALUE OF BEES IN ORCHARDS

VALUE OF BEES IN ORCHARDS.
As bees carry on their bodies the pollen or
fertilizing substance, they aid most powerfully
in the impregnation of plants, while prying
into the blossoms in search of honey or bee
bread. In genial seasons, fruit will often set
abundantly, even if no bees are kept in its vi
cinity; but many springs are so unpropitous,
that often during the critical period of blossom
ing, the sun shines for only few hours, so that
those only can expect remunerating crop
whose trees are all murmuring with the pleas
ant hum of bees
A large fruit grower told me that his cherries
were a very uncertain crop, cold northeast
storm frequently prevailing when they were in
blossom. He had noticed that if the sun shone
only for a couple Of hours the bees secured
him a crop.
If the horticulturists who regard the bee as
an enemy could exterminate the race they
would act with as little wisdom as those who
attempt TO Danish from their inhospitable prem
ises every insectiverous bird, which helps itself
to small part of the abundance it has aided in
producing By making judiciOus efforts early
In the spring TO entrap the mother-wasps and
hornets, which alone survive the winter, an eff
fectual blow may be struck at some of the worst
pests of the orchard and garden.
TOP DRESSING GRASS.
A very Slight dressing of manure, ashes, or
even rich soil on grass lands will thicken the
sod wonderfully. year later the whole may
be turned under with much better assurance of
profitable result than if the manure was APP
piled just before the blowing. There is scarcely
any chance for loss in applying manures on
grass lands at any season of the year. The
leaves and grass roots retain the fertiliZing par
ticles, and they will not be washed away on
side-hills as they viii if spread on a plOwed
surface. In the experiment made by DR.. Stur-
- d.
age is much less from plot covered with grass
than from one left bare and cultivated.
AYRSHIRE COWS.
The Ayrshire is a great little cow-low set
big bodied, light in front and strong behind
practically beautiful, all for business and moth
! ing for show, healthy, hardy and prolific The
milk IS better adapted for cheese-making than
that of any other of the common breeds of
COWS, on account Of the smallness of the butter
globules, which causes the fat in the milk to be
very evenly distributed through the curd and
extremely little to be lost in The whey. Still
the Ayrshires produce most excellent butter
! also, and may well dispute the palm with the
most fayOritc breeds as the best farmers cow
for all sorts OF feed, for rough or smooth lands
for milk, for cheese and for butter, and not less
| for veal and beef-AmeriedR Dairymdn.
A QUICK WAY TO TELL GOOD SEED CORN.
n corresponding contributes The IOll0Wlng 10
J the Indiana Farmer as good way to test seed
corn: l will contribute my plan of selecting
seed corn that will be sure to grow without
testing by planting. / examine grains from
every ear selected by opening the heart with a
| sharp knife and looking at the sprout or germ
If the sprout is white, plump and brittle, it will
! grow; but if it is shrunken, of yellow color,
and bears the appearance of having been soaked
/ in I've, it will not grow. The germs of last
| years crop show for themselves and will not
| grow, and by placing side by side the germs of
corn of the crops of 1881 and 1882 the differ
ence can be plainly seen.