Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-04-09
Bee Keeping with Farming

resources of profit on the farm as that
OF grain growing wanes, bees come in
for their share of attention. Prof.
! Cook, of Michigan, relates how bee
keeping may be profitably associated
with farming.
1--WE often hear that only special
lists should keep bees, that bee keeping
is no business for a farmer or for a
person with other business. The
professor relates the experience Of his
brother, e. j. Cook, of OWosso, who
is one of the best farmers in the state,
and whose crops are always among
! the best IN the county where he lives.
| "A few years ago he purchased few
colonies of bees more to interest his
boys than With the expectation of
making money. He winters them in
good cellar and has never lost any.
In 1888 his colonies reached ffty. aud
last year sixty In 1888 his profits
from his bees exceeded by a consider
able sum those from his farm. Last
year the excess was even greater
Either of his boys. one 16, and the
other IA, is capable of entirely manag-
| Ing the bees. The apiary has been
| oOAA0 W VI Na4GAOAC buOUEilb anu okUuY
to all, and the constant profits have
brought no small satisfaction. Mr..
Cook and his boys have spared no
/ pains to secure instruction and never
refuse needed attention to the bees.
They say they had better neglect the
farm" Prof. Cook further says of
the profits of bee keeping, that GOOD
thoroughly prepared bee-keeper can
easily care for 100 colonies withodt
any help Except from the middle of
May to July l, he could care for 200
colonies, which, to do well, shoUld be
separated into two apiaries which
should be at Least four or five miles
apart.
"Thus, by hiring an assistant for
two or three months during the sea-
son for storing, a good apiarist could
care well for 200 colonies. In a good
bee region which abounds in such
honey plants as white clover, bass
wood, raspberries and abundant fall
plants, it is not too much to expect as
the years average fifty pounds of comb
honey per colony and increase TO
double the number of colonies. This
estimate is below rather than above
what has been secured by our best bee
keepers"
THERE is a widespread and serious
prevalence of disorders of the kidneys;
and of various diseases caused by the
imperfect operation of the kidneys and
| liver According to Roberts, Thompson,
and other recognized authorities, kidney
disorders are very common, but the OBJ
security of their positive symptoms is so
marked that many people, i'll and out Of
| sorts generally, are really victims of kid
ney complaint, and they and their ply
stefan do not realize it, Rheumatic pains,
| irregular appetite, frequent headache,
chills and fever "blues,' hot and dry
skin, sour stomach, dyspepsia, irregular
action of the bowels, nervous irritability,
muscular soreness, cramps, languor, inn
| pairment of memory, loss of virility, are
among the preliminary evidences of
! coming kidney and liver arrangements.
As the disease develops then follow lame
| back, swelling ankles, pale face, scalding
sensations. the water sometimes being
very light and abundant, at others scarce,
dark colored and frothy, and Astounding
! in sediment, and, under the microscope,
| in albumen and tube casts. If the de-
ranged kidneys are not promptly attend
| ed to there is danger of the terrible
| Brights Disease - hitherto considered
lncurable, which is q consumption or
| destruction of the kidneys - the near
| approach of which alarming disorder
| should awaken the iveliest concern for
| it soon hurries one into the grave unless
promptly checked.
DisOrdered kidneys have the unfortu-
nate effect also of weakening the yigor
of the liver as indicated if one has, be-
sides the above symptoms, yellow spotted
skin, fat covered eye-balls frontal head
ache after eating, burning and itching
| skin, cold eXtremities hot head, bad cir
| culatiOn of blood sick headache, nausea,
light colored excavations, constipation,
| piles, variable appetite and feelings, dir
illness, blurred eyesight, liver-cough,
ague, chills, fevers, wakefulness at night,
drowsiness by day, etc.
| These are some Of the commoner symp-
| toms as laid down by leading medical
authorities, and with them in view one
ought not to have much trouble i'm ascer-
tanning if he is suffering from disorders
of these great organs.
These observations have been called
forth by a double-column article which
appears in another place i'm this paper.
! Skeptical of some Of the statements
made therein, and at other times by the
same persons we have been led to make
a little study of the matter ourselves
with the above result. These diseases
! prevail amongst young and old every
where, resulting in terrible and untimely
deaths; they take off more people than
epidemics; physicians report death as
occurring from such diseases as apo
| pleXy paralysis, commissions, heart dis
ease, pneumonia, fevers, etc, when in
reality these disorders are often second
airy TO Bright's disease and would seldom
occur were the kidneys in healthy work
ing condition. Hence, from personal
knowledge, or from the trustworthy ex-
/ perience of other competent Judges, we
believe there is no preparation equal to
/ the remedy that is SO prominently mem
toned elsewhere In this issue, for pre-
venting and curing the dangerous
! disorders of which we have written. 1t