The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-08-26
A BEES WORKING TOOLS.

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BEES WORKING TOOLS
Naturaists say that the feet Of the common
| working bee exhibit the combination Of basket,
= brush and pair Of pinchers The brush,
the hairs Of which are arranged in symmetrical
rows, are only to be seen with the microscope.
With this brush Of fairy delicacy the bee brushes
| its velvet robe to remove the pollen dust with
which it becomes loaded while sucking up the
| nectar. Another article, followed like = spoon,
receives the gleanings which the insect carries
to the hive. Finally. BY opening them, one up
on another, BY means Of hinge. these two
pieces become pair Of pincers, which render
important service in the construction Of combs.
GREEN PEPPER PICKLES.
Take large green bell peppers, cut circle
around the stem end, take ont piece. and save
to put back. Take out nearly all the seeds
place in jar, slipping each piece hack In it,
right pepper. Fill up the jar with strong salt
| brine. AZ for cucumbers. Let them remain In
the brine two days. Have ready some white,
| crisp cabbage chopped fine, and plenty OF white
mustard seed and bits of cinnamon sticks and
cloves mixed through it; press the lower part OF
the pepper FULL. Then add small cucumbers.
green Chilli peppers, very email onions, nastur-
tiums, radish pods, green tomatoes, or any 9TH
er email fruit; green them, ill up the pepper
and sew on the piece. Place the peppers in Q
Do this three successive days, . small piece Of
horse radish root improves the vinegar.
BEE PREMIUMS.
The several state agricultural societies in the
Northwest aggregate 10 premiums awarded to
| beer, their products and implements for man
agcment, $342. OF this Iowa gives SIT: Ne
braska, 3113; Wisconsin, $50, and Minnesota,
$ls. Dakota offers Is on honey produced In
the Territory.
ICE IoR MILK.
Probably there are thousands and ten thou
sands, yet, who are making butter through the
hot summer days, and getting very much re-
duced yield Of butter per 100 lbs. Of milk, be-
cause Of early souring Of the milk, who impute
the lors to poverty In the milk, and do not know
they could bring the yield right MP the very
| next churning II they had ice or very cold water
with which to cool the milk as soon ae It comes
from the cows. The truth il, the fat IL In the
milk and can't rise after acidity sets In. and ID
lost TO the churn, and IL only beneficial in :
small way, to the pigs Millions are Lost every
year for the want Of c. old water or ice, to keep
the milk sweet till the tat gets out-Hodrds
Udirymdn.
Apples green or ripe. during the year ending
June 30, exported TO the value OF u $40 6O6,
| and the year preceding, Sl,5.2,l26. Dried ap-
pies exported last year, $54s, 44S, and In 1885,
81 .O62, $50. Late advices note the English apple
crop as likely to be very small, and that large
| demand Is expected for American apples THE
| season.
LIBERAL FEEDING.
Feed literally; that IL, feed al that the COW
will eat and thoroughly digest. Raise all the
| feed you can and feed all you raise. That ID,
| do not stint your cows In order that you may
| cell few bushels Of grain or = few tons OF hay,
In feeding your cows they In turn will not only
| feed you, but your land also. That which IL
sold from the farm IL gone forever; that fed on
the farm remains ~ good manure .-Hrsed-
er's gazette.
/ RED WING FAIR.
The Red Wing, MIMI, Industrial Association
il making preparations for grand fair Sept.
go 80 pr0x. The citizens generally are taking
deep interest IN the affair and have subscribed
literally in the way Of special premiums. Some
OF these novel offers are: For the pretticst babies;
the girl not over Is yearr old who makes the
best pies aud dOughnuts; the young lady who
makes the best bread: for equestrianship; best
looking girl; best preserved farmers wife over ~
| years old: to the one who brings the largest
number Of her own children; the best preserved
farmer over SO years Of age, etc. A Farmers
Institute will be held during the fair.
TREE BUYING.
Foreign tree peddlers are said to be numerous
throughout the country, and find no difficulty in
securing customers through the exhibition Of
beautiful specimens preserved In jars which
magnify the apparent size. In most cases the
purchaser who invests in trees upon the prom
Use held out by these snowy fruit exhibits viii
never come any nearer realization OF his fruit
paradise than an inspection of the preserved
specimens. Thousands Of dollars are yearly
squandersd In our state In buying nursery trees
: that are known to every experienced native
fruit grower to be only half hardy or utterly
, unadapted to withstand our climate. The
safest course 10 to buy only Of home nursery.
, men, who expect to continue business here, and
! will not risk their reputation by making state.
ments concerning the hardness Of nursery stock
that experience will not verify .-FdritduN Re.
publican.
SALT ron HOGS.
, Az rule hogs require very little salt, . email
| quantity of which acts upon them ~ IN active
purgative, and more Of It - an acrid poison.
Some persons occasionally have given the brine
from . meat barrel to the pigs supposing II
; would be good for them. and have killed them
| by SO doing, the salt caueing fatal Inflammation
, of the stomach and bowels. 1t 10 quite sufh.
cisnt to throw . very little salt to pigs in theiI
feed trough once . week or In two weeks. but
, not more or oftener. When they do not take
+ it willingly one may be sure they do not want
it. The reason why cows and sheep want salt
frequently lie that there 10 considerable salt In
| milk, and these animals consume large guam.
tity Of coarse food, to digest which some salt il