New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-08-24
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS.
MATTERS OF GENERALINTERES
TO THE ACRICULTURIST.
One OF the Minor Industries Why
Eggs Spoil--A MangeI-Wurzel
Pest Sheep and Wool
Keeping Butter Fresh
Minor Topics
one OF the Minor Industries

Minor Topics.
One OF the Minor Industries.
There are several small industries
which, without large increase of la
Dor, may be proftably carried on by
the farmer or his family. One Of these
j is bee keeping.
i It's true that, when carried on on a
large scale, and after the most APP
proved fashion, bee keeping does in
volye a good deal of labor and ex-
/ pense. When SO managed it requires
the knowledge and skill of an expert,
4 just as a large poultry ranch does.
But hens and bees can both be kept,
in q small way, by a farmer who is
not an expert, though a certain
amount of knowledge and experience
], is requisite in order to get the best re-
suits out Of either.
Farmers should not be deferred
/ from keeping bees, however, by read
ing of the tolls and anxieties and fancy
"ccntraptions, :" Of expert apiarists.
A dozen or twenty hives, with ordi-
nary care will yield enough honey for
/ domestic use and considerable
amount besides for sale. "A supply OF
! nice white honey is handy to have in
the house, especially in the country"
! as Mr.. Sparrow grass would say, and
no farmers table need be Without.lt.
The beginner in bee keeping, asProf
/ A. j. Cook has wisely suggested, will
do well not to go into the business
600 largely at first. Commence with
/ two or three swarms and learn how
to manage them and enlarge the num-
Der as knowledge OF their habits and
needs increases. Weonce knew a busy
1 city merchant who had small place
on the outskirts of the town, and
who managed twenty-five or thirty
hives with great success, doing nearly
all the work OF caring for them him
self. He obtained every year a large
quantity OF as fine honey as we ever
saw. The hives, made by his hired
man, were very simple in construction,
such as any one hardly with tools
could make.
Ii a man so situated could succeed
SO well, there certainly are not many
farmers who. with the help OF their
families, could not manage few hives.
Why Eggs Spoil.
Whenever a fertilized egg is raised
to temperature OF 90 degrees, the
/ Farm, Stock and home says, the
Matching process begins, and when the
temperature fallss much below this
point the process ceases. These con.
ditions are found in the warm days
and cool nights of summer. During
] the long hot day the Matching process
is at work; during the cool night it
ceases. After three or four altera-
tions OF this kind the embryo chick
dies and the rotting process begins.
Now, it is evident that if the eggs
were not fer5ilized the Matching would
not begin, neither would the rotting
and hence there would be an absence
ofrotten eggs. The remedy, there
fore is to prevent the fertilization Of
the eggs, and this can be secured by
the destruction OF the rooster. Every
rooster not intended especially for
breeding should be killed or sold to
/ the huckster as soon as big enough to
eat. Not more than one
rooster should be kept on any
farm, and that one cooped and
mated with not more than 10 hens.
and the eggs from these hens should
be kept or sold expressly for hatch
ing. The other hens should be kept
especially for eggs for market or table
use, and no rooster should ever be
allowed among them. On the ordi-
nary farms about one-tenth Of the
| fowls are roosters which is about nine
times as many as there can be any
possible use for.
| Unfertilized eggs are much sweeter
and better for table use and will keep
from two to four times as long as
fortified ones. Hens not kept with
/ roosters will lay longer and sit less
than others. It's safe to say that in
the United States alone there are
| 2O,OOO,OOO BOOSTERS and 10, 100000
! OF them are q positive and expensive
nuisance, except for the table at the
right time. 1t these roosters are
killed and their places supplied with
! hens, and each laid 200 eggs per year
the aggregate would be 3, SOO,OOO,OOO
worth one cent each, $38, 100000
every cent of which would clear net
1 profit to the farmer.
/ A Mangel- Wurzel Pest.
| The mangel- wurzelis in some seasons
attacked by the larvae ofa fly which
| work havoc with the crop, unless
! promptly checked. The presence Of
, the pest is easily detected. AS the
plant begins to.show avigo growth
with broad leaves, they suddenly
droop and assume a withered appear.
] ance. Examination will reveal the
presence OF white blotches, and here
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