The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-06-02
FARM, FIELD AND GARDEN.
INTERESTING INFORMATION RE-
GARDINGs FARM WORK.
1t Pays to Kesp Bees--Sure Cure
Tor Scab--Teachlng Horses
70 Stand--A New Point
In Feeding.
1T Paws to Keep Bees.

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years OF experience, says aWriter'in the
Ohio Farmer. / find that each year,
as = get to understand them better,
the profit increases. / first. started
with plain boxes and let them take
care OF themselves except to set small
boxes on top for surplus. ! attended
to them when I got ready whether
the honey season was passed or not,
any day that happened that way.
Other people did the same and surely
it must be all right. But experience
taught me soon, that this plan was
good as far as honey and profit were
concerned. Thus / lost about three
years in the old rut OF planting with
out cultivation. The balance OF the
time since have used the Simplicity
hive, with movable frames, and find
that to get profit one must have things
in proper shape, and give the little
occupants a chance,
The first thing to have is rousing
colony the first OF May boiling over
with bees, in nice, clean hive, with
new combs all in first class shape, and
If the season is only an average one
you are sure Of SO fb. honey, which
at zoe. per tb. would be $40 besides
winter supplies. So it is plain to be
seen that it pays if properly managed.
| should add, further, that such a
colony will likely cast off g. good
swarm. The amount of honey to be
expected must be based on the
strength of the colony in the spring.
A hive Of bees, full to overfowing,
will give 20 Tbs. surplus easier than a
weak colony can build up strong and
gather sufficient food for winter during
the summer months. -S
My average for five years has been
about 251bs. to the colony, good and
bad together. The largest amount I
have ever taken was 67tbs. net, but
50 lbs. often. I have the best strains
OF Italian the country can furnish,
and find that they are superior to the
blacks in the ratio OF 2 to 3.
A sure receipt for profit is to see
that weak swarms are built up early
in the fall, before cold weather, by
feeding granulated sugar, as it is cheap
er than honey; but don't feed any
thing but the best; as poor feed is like
~ to give them the dysentery or make
them unhealthy, and before cold
weather sets in pack chaf we'll
around the frames and lay chaff
cushion on top, and you will be in
good shape, in ordinary seasons, in
this locality, to show up a handsome
profit next season.
Ten Acres Enough"
That was the taking title OF a book
published some years ago, in which
tthesauthor underworld to show how,
under high cultivation, ten acres could
be made to yield comfortable living
for an average family. A good deal
OF ridicule has been cast at this and
similar attempts to demonstrate the
feasibility Of making much OF little in
the cultivation OF the soil. But the
experiment has been tried, and, under
favorable conditions, not found want
ing. Men who, like the late Peter
Henderson, have made a thorough
study Of the utilization of small areas
know by practical experience that a
great deal OF money may be got out
often or twelve acres OF properly cul-
tivated land.
1t is said, however, that the condi-
lions OF market gard ening have. great
Ily changed since the Southern truck
farmers began to flood our markets
with early vegetables and fruits. This
is true; but where our Northern mar
ket gardeners have had the wisdom
to adopt their product to these
changed conditions they have continu-
ed to make money, although perhaps
not in so large amount. 5s-,..
The time will never come when vege-
tables and the more perishable fruits
can be sent from a long distance,
even in refrigerator cars or steamers,
and arrive in as fresh and appetizing
condition as those grown close at
hand. Hence there will always be a
demand for early fresh vegetables and
small fruits from neighborhood gar
dens if they are invitingly presented
to the customer. Every large town
and city is a good mine for the market
gardener who is cup betimes," and
offers his fresh, wholesome-looking
goods in neat and tasteful. packages.
Untidy packages repel the finest class
otcustomers, but good taste willinev-
itably attract them.
AgoOd illustration of this is afford
ed by the experience of the owner of a
ten-acre tract of land at Andover,
Mass. who found, very naturally,
that general farming did not pay on
so small an acre. He therefore deter
mined to adapt himself to the situa-
ton by following q higher method.
He planted one-half of his little farm
to great variety Of small fruits, and
devoted the remainder to thegrowtho Of
vegetables. These he arranges SO
that for some seven months he OBJ
tains crops which can be either dis
posed Of at good prices in the mar
kets OF Boston or the nearer city of
Lawrence, or put up in various forms
for sale to Boston customers during
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