The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-09-06
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Honey improves with age.
The orchard is good place for the
bee-hives.
Every farmer should have few col
onies of bees.
Chaff makes excellent bedding for
either box or narrow stalls. .......
The dam should never suckle when
heated. This is one thing to guard
against. .. /. st.. ...
To make bees pay, choose place
where there is plenty Of shade, water
and honey.
When colts are six weeks old, give
them bran ahd ground oats, and at the
same time give them lessons in drink
ing. - W
Use large hives, with plenty of sup
ers and provide shade. This will lessen
the liability to swarm, although only
some. 49,.
Be sure when you thresh your wheat
to stack the straw 80 that it will turn
water; then you will have one COW
comfort in plenty next winter.
After the honey season is over, take
away most of the honey from the bees,
80 that they will not rear great num-
ber Of bees that will be consumers
only.
1t has been demonstrated beyond
doubt that the male animal always i'm
presses the external characteristics,
while the internal organization follows
the female.
If q colony becomes queenless, and
it is not desired to unite it with an
other, give it frame of brood from
another colony containing brood in its
first stage.
1t is always a good plan to have one
or more extra hives on hand, accord
ing to the number kept, 30 that a
swarm may be hived as soon as posi-
BILE after settling.
When swarm issues keep out of its
way and let it settle without any cere-
mony. More hives are lost by inter
ferine at this time than would be If
they were let alone. -a..
The best time to introduce queen
is in the middle of the day, when the
greater portion of the bees are busy at
work, full of honey, and consequently
in the best of humor.
Be on the alert for blackleg in the
yearlings and calves, and if it does ap-
pear be ready to treat it on first symp-
toms. Have a supply of saltpeter
within reach and lookout for overfeed-
ing.
If you have manure cutters behind
the COWS wheat chaf makes fine ab'
sorbent. If you have no better use
for the chaf, and can store it where 1t
will keep dry, do so, and use it next
winter.
A box stall is the most comfortable
way in which COW can be fastened in
the stable; it is only question OF
first cost can you afford it? Next to
the box stall comes the chain or rope
fastening.
All improvements have to be by slow
degrees and in full accord with the
natural surroundings. The farm stock
is always equal to but never better
than the pasturage and care given by
the farm and farmer.
A Texas farmer destroyed the lice
on his cattle by rubbing them with
raw onion. Ittook two or three onions
to each animal, but not one louse
escaped death. Here is pointer
worth pasting in your scrapbook.
Don't forget it next winter.
The science which has ever kept the
lead of practice in bee culture has dis
covered thai the laws Of breeding hold
inst as truly among bees as among our
higher animals, that there is quality
among bees, and that by selection we
may greatly improve our honey bees.
Although there may be much work
to do on the farm the orchard should
not be neglected. Spraying should be
continued to keep off the fruit scab,
and in the pear orchard to keep the
pears from cracking. If the trees are
heavily loaded, much Of the smaller
fruit can be thinned out with great
profit.