The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-09-05

| broken to the turkeys They Will eat
them greedily, but to give the meat
much favor great quantities must he
devonred.-W. E. Farmer in American
| Cultivator.
Foul Brood in Bees.
| Tt is not advisable that beekeeper be
continually opening brood nests and crit
ically examining the combs for foul
brood. II a colony shows signs of list
lessness or many dead bees are seen in
front of one or more Of the hives, or a
peculiar, unpleasant odor is noticed, it
would be wise to make an examination.
The only plan of treatment that can
be relied on to effect a radical cure is to
shake off the bees during a honey flow
into new or sealed hive having no
combs in which the bees can store, and
thus save up any Of the infected honey
| which they may have brought with
them. If there is much healthy brood
left in the old.hive few bees may be
| left to protect it and the hive allowed to
stand until the brood is all Matched,
when the bees from several hives so
treated may be united in a new hive and
given queen. Where the hives have
loose bottom boards several hives from
which the bees or nearly all of them
have been taken may be placed one above
the other, when in three weeks all of the
healthy brood will have Matched and
will be already united in one colony;
then the bees can be given new hive
and a quee+q leaving the combs free
from healthy brood. When freed from
bees and healthy brood the combs may
be emptied of honey by extracting, then
melted into wax. Thorough boiling of
the honey will kill all the germs of foul
brood, but to make assurance doubly
sure some have added to the honey
small proportion of salicylic acid. Honey
thus treated may be fed to the BEES
Field and Farm.
Kindness to g. Farm Horse Is a Paying
Investment.
Why should the really valuable work
ing horse, SO large helper in bread
winning, not be to his owner source
of greater interest, an object Of greater
care? One-tenth of the care bestowed
on great sporting horse would make a
farm horse feel too proud of itself. But
there is little risk of such horse ever
feeling too proud from any such reason.
A Scotch hired plowman grooms his
team with degree of loving, interest
and pride to which the average Canadian
farmer is almost a stranger, though the
Clydesdale team belongsto another man
and the man who works it is only hire
ling, while the Canadian generally owns
the team and as rule the farm as well.
Why should not themore valuable beast,
because the more useful, have little of
the warmth Of interest bestowed upon
him that is ungrudgingly bestowed on a
c:20 trotter?
The farmer who looks on his farm,
his stock, and his other belongings
merely as means to make money,
which he is reluctantly forced to stick
to, will never find either profit or pleas
urein his work. But the man who feels
pride in his beasts, and has kindly
feeling toward them, is sure to turn the
commonest drudgery into a source Of
pleasure, and make a good deal more
money into the bargain.
The writer went lately into a barn
where lot of farmers horses were sta
bled after delivering their loads Of wheat
at the elevator. One team was in fine
condition, and he complimented the
young man who owned them. The
owner said they were eating nothing but
oat straw and four quarts of oats at a
feed. "Why,a said the next man along,
"my team gets peck of oats and good
hay all the time, and they are very much
thinner than yours. In fact, cannot
put flesh On them"
The other mans secret was soon told.
His horses were carefully blanketed
whenever they went into cold stable
at the end of a trip to market, and when
cooled In that way were thoroughly
groomed. That lad and his two brothers,
who do the same thing, will have those
same teams good to use and good to look
at long after the present generation Of
unskillfully managed and unwisely fed
beasts around them have been killed by
pneumonia or some similar disease and
thrown to the wolves. Kindness even
to a farm horse is paying investment.
'-Nor'west Farmer.
The wool of the last clip in Texas
averaged in value 1873 cents pound.
Millions of sheep scab insects are
buried in the. dust and dropp1ngs IN
ground where sheep with this disease
nave been foaled.