The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-03-31
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Disturb the bees rs little as possible
now. Handling them tends to make
them consume their stores.
Water is cheap. As it makes up n
large proportion of milk, see to it that
your COWS have plenty to drink.
The merry chatter of the scratching
contented hens Is pleasant sound
these cold winter days. Do you hear
it in your poultry house?
You have an exceptionally tight
coop if you neei to make q ventilating
attachment. There are usually drafts
enough in the warmcst OF the houses,
IN winter.
With favorable location add a
natural ability and inclination for the
business, there is no question but bee
keeping is one of the most profitable
OF pursuits.
Do not pull up covers that the bees
have so closely sealed down unless
compelled TO 10 So They want their
houses air tight Mt tho top to prevent
ventilation or cold drafts in cold
weather.
II breeding sows be supplied with
cut straw for bedding there is less dan
ger of their everything and crushing
their young. We also find cut straw
the best bedding for general use in the
pig pen.
Make bees pay your taxes. Any
furmer or villager could manage half
dozen colonies and gather S15 to $40
worth of surplus honey during the
season, moro than enough to pay the
taxes on an ordinary farm or village
home.
If your COW is of her feed try taking
away her grain and substituting a
peck of fresh raw cut potatoes for a
couple of days. These act as a cor
receive, and Mt the end of that time
the COW will be eager for her grain
again.
Owners of apiaries have only re-
Gently discovered that tonds are great
bee destroyers. The owner of thou
sand hives at Five Forks, Penn, saw
large, fat toad on alighting board in
one Of the hives swallow twenty bees
in five minutes.
Study pant growth, enemies ard
remedies. The labor of years may be
lost if this is neglected Above all
study yourself for on you most de-
ponds. Rich lands, good markets,
best varieties avail not, if you are o
thoughtlcss, Indifferent grower.
An Ohio farmer says that his 100
stands Of bees pay him more than oil
hn g Ia 50 "a, % s.. 1
not require half so much labor. When
ever alfalfa is grown bees should fol-
low, and even for the sake OF bees it
may pay TO raise alfalfa, if it will grow
IN your latitude.
There is no trait but is hereditary.
nor II single one but every Intelligent
I breeder can note and fortify wherever
there is deficiency. There is pos.
sioility OF adding TO the value of every
strain, uui % higher excellence is now
necessary than when horses could DO
sold ON their breeding, with little re-
gard 10 the individual.
i Why do not hens lay as regularly
and readily in winter rs in summer
asks one Simply because 10 is against
nature. summer is the natural breed
ing time for all birds, and when you
ask them to lay eggs in winter when
the weather is cold, and they must re-.
main indoors, You are simply revers-
ing the order Of things.
In breeding poultry great care and
/ cool judgment need to be exercised,
for the tendency is TO intensity traits
aud chorlctcristics good qualities ore
strengthened in the progeny, and de.
fects and weak points appear in exaQ-
8erated form in the following genera.
ton; hcnce retain only those pullets
whose qualities are desirable.
Many orchards are being starved
while the owner wonders why his trees
are unproductive. A recognition of
tho fact that they cauuot give what
they have not received will soon lead
to the application of the remedy. Pot.
Ush Is q good fertilizer for fruit trees ;
particularly after they como into
bearing Wood ashes and muriate OF
potash also furnish the ingredients
needed