The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-05

white honey stored in the sections, and
extracting all the dark fall honey, as the
latter brings about as much in the market
when extracted as II would in the comb.
If farming, carried on as II is today,
in the slipshod way, with the little in
terest we take in it, and the little time
that is devoted to 1t, II 1t will take care
does do, day after day, year after year,
IT is not for us to state that the farm
business Is failure.
There Is a vast difference in the manner
OF placing anything on the market A
bee-keeper says: L have seen choice
honey put UP In such a slovenly manner
as TO sell for cents less than the market
price. Again have seen honey no better
put up in neat and tasty way so as to
bring cent more than the going price.
Those who keep young stock alive
through the winter on rough fodder for
the sake Of the growth they will make
next summer should be able TO see that
the summer growth could be added just
as well and much cheaper if the animals
had been kept growing all winter. You
cannot starve young animal and make
IL up afterward.
What a state Of excitement the daily
papers have worked themselves into Of
late over tuberculosis. If this fad about
microbes and bacilH keeps on we will
soon have TO wear disinfecting cotton
over our noses and live on canned food
heated to PIP degrees Fahrenheit, while
the poor COW will have to go into the
can.-Jersey Bulletin.
1t is said that in Virginia there are
1000 900 acres of waste land or land that
is not under cultivation more than there
is under cultivation. while in North Caro-
lima there is double the land not culti-
waited that is cultivated. Illinois has
100000 Of its SO,O0O.OOO that are idle.
Less than half of the land of Maine and
New Hampshire is under cultivation.
If you are supplying fresh eggs" to
customers and happen to find new
nest in the straw pile or elsewhere, do
not put the contents with the eggs you
sell. Keep them for home use and you
can try them when breaking. People
that buy fresh eggs of private parties do
not expect TO have to try" them before
using-that is why they pay the extra
price.
A large quantity of American hay
found its way into Switzerland last sea-
son. the municipalities Of each town or
village being the purchasers. They
bought large quantities and distributed
IL among the people at cost, thus pre-
venting INSCRIPTIONS dealers from TAX
ing undue advantage Of the crisis by
raising the price of hay beyond the reach
of the poorer classes.
The government crop report suggests
a corn yield of about LBS 600, 600 bushels,
against estimate of 2,050.00O 600
bushels in July This loss of 472. 100000
bushels, as the result Of drought and
parching winds. reduces the probable
yield 141. 0oO. 900 bushels below the actual.
crop Of last year, and takes into no con-
sideratiOn the damage by heat since the
beginning OF the present month.
Mark those hives that are weak in
numbers, and substitute their queens at
the earliest opportunity. None but good
layers should be kept over. Honey has
not escaped the tariff refOrmers. Surely,
beekeepers ought to be alive to their
own interests. and not succumo to a
policy that will put the beekeepers of
Cuba and South America on an equal
footing with those of the United States.