The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-10-09

WHY BEES WORK IN THE DARK
Every one knows that fresh honey is
like-a clear yellow syrup, without any
trace of solid sugar in it. After strain
ing, it gradually assumes a crystal ap-
pearance-it candies, as the saying is,
and ultimately becomes a solid mass OF
sugar, 1t has been suspected that this
change is due TO Photographic action.
The same agent which alters the mole
cular arrangement of the iodine of sill
yer on the excited collodiOn plate and
determines the formation o. camphOr
and iodine crystals in a bottle causes
honey to assume a crystalline form. NJ.
Schelber inclosed honey in well cOrked
TASKS, some of which he kept in per-
feet darkness, while the others were
exposed TO light The result has been
that that portion exposed to the light
soon crystallizes, while that kept in the
dark remains unchanged. Hence we
see why the bees are 50 careful to work
in the dark, and why they are so care
ful to obscure the glass windows which
are sometimes placed in their hives.
| The existence of the young depends on
the liquidity of the sacchArine food pre-
sented to them. and if light were al
lowed access to this in all probability it
would prove fatal to the inmates of the
hive Western Farm Journal.
FARM NOTES.
1t is said that 955 farms in Iowa are
owned by womens and that twenty dairy
farms are managed by women.
Vermont furnishes one-thIrd Of the
maple sugar crop of the country. 1t
produced this year y 600, 900 pounds.
At a recent sale held by the Spring
| field Jersey Cattle club twenty three fe-
males brought 50, 125, or fraction over
/ S135 each.
When cleaning the perches in the
/ poultry houses it IS necessary to apply
the mixture of Kerosene oil and grease
| to the under side as we'll as the top.
A large flock of fowls confined in a
| one-acre yard will manure it to
such a degree that eEough green food
can be grown on it afterward to feed
! them.
Wien cattle begin to bloat after eat
| ing green feed, OF from any other
cause, give them promptly from three
/ to four tablespoonfuls of ordinary bak-
/ ing soda.
/ To make ounce show, take oue-thiTd
/ pound ounce marmalade to whites of
/ two eggs and a quarter pound of sugar.
/ Pile in paramid in a dish and bake
: a pale pellow.
Mr.. B. f. Wheeler, Amherst, n. H,
sold last season 500 worth of small
Trui5 from four acres of land, most OF
which six years ago was oveTgIown
| with bushes and very stony
Celery rust is occasional by any.
| thing that iujures the TOot-eitheT an
| excess of rain or a drought, which
| kills the working roots, and the yellow.
ing up or rusting of the leaves soon fol
lows.
On a farm near Boston the new milk
is subjected at once to the action of q
centrifugal cream separa tor, extracted
in a few minutes, and served IN the
city that same morning at breakfast.
A putrid carcass po luting Il air of a
pasture will spoil not only the milk of
the cows running there, but also the
entire contents of the vat into which
the tainted milk is poured at the fac
tory
a firm of cheesemakers near Buffalo
have just pressed a cheese weighing
200 pounds. Sixteen tons Of mill
were used in its manufacture. Three
other cheeses, weighing from 1000 tC
1900 pounds each, are being made by
the same manufacturers for the Eng
lish market.