Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-07-18
Farming
Notes.
About After-Swarms.

About After-Swarms.
The best way 1 know to prevent
after is to- have all the bees
that can fly go with the first swarm,
and this is the way I manage it: Have
all the colonies strong, even if it
should be necessary to double them
up in the spring so that they will
swarm at the beginning of the honey
flow. Then hive the prime swarm On
the old stand, removing the super, il
any, from the present hive to the
swarm; then set the parent hive on
top of the swarm's hive and allow it
to remain there two or three days.
All the young bees that have been out
of the hive, when they come out, will
go in below with the swarm. About
the afternoon of the. second day, if
the weather has been favorable, the
parent colony will have become so
depleted of bees that they will give
up swarming a second time and will
begin to carry out drone-brOod. It Is
then safe to- carry them to a new To-
cation; they will not swarm again,
but will build UP a strong colony, and
will store some fall honey and be
a good colony to winter. In this way
we get extra strong colonies that will
store more honey than the two to-
gether would if the queen-cells had
been cut out. Crowd the brood
chamber with bees instead of con-
tracing it.-George W. Stephens, in
Nebraska Queen.
Pumpkins as a Stock Food.
Most all kinds of live stock do we'll
on pumpkins mixed with their daily
ration, and relish them as we'll. We
are inclined to think that the feed
ing value of pumpkins is generally
underestimated. When fed to COWS
they stimulate large milk flow, and
with light grain ration the quality
of butter is very fine Pork is al
ways better when some pumpkins are
fed along with the grain. The pump
kin crop is very cheap one when
grown in corn, and several tons of
this food could be produced an
ing but corn per farmer. -Crabtree's
Farmer.
How to Keep Swine Healthy.
A Country Gentleman correspondent
says: According to our experience,
both Poland-C hinas and Berkshires
have proved healthy and thrifty; both
take wide range if permitted and
are busy foragers. We have had no
trouble with our hogs since adopting
the plan of keeping them altogether
within our own lines. It seemed a
pity that they could not get the
benefit of the mast in our own I'M
fenced woodland, but our neighbors'
half-wild and woefully neglected
swine also ran there, and would now
and then share with ours some dan
gerous disease.
Loss in Clover Ensilage.
One thing which causes the loss
with clover ensilage is that clover is
a rather heterogeneous plant, and often
heats in the silo to high degree,
which causes the passing off of
large amount of moisture, and so
produces the process of fire-fanging,
much the same as occurs in a pile of
horse manure; at least, that has been
my experience in ensiloing it. If
sufficient water be used upon it, the
heat is reduced and the ensilage is
preserved It will be necessary for
the person filling the silo to watch
pretty carefully, and if the tempera
ture rises above 1876 degrees, to keep
water we'll poured on the surface. I
do not think that any injurious re-
suits will arise from the application
Of water. We have added water very
freely to our corn ensilage here, and
have received no results other than
beneficial ones.-Indiana Experiment
Station.
To Destroy Lice on Horses.
Last winter it was noted that a
of horses were troubled with
vermin-in plain English, lice. They
might be fed twice as much as
ordinary horses, and yet they re-
NAMED poor and wretched looking.
MIR. D. w. Hayes, a well-known trainer
of western New York, gives the fol-
lowing recipe for getting rid of the
pests: Half pint of kerosene to
two gallons of water. Wash the
horses with this twice, with an
interval of two or three days between
applications, "and any lice you find
after that I will give you a premium
for" says Mr.. Hayes.
Agricultural Items.
Food that is calculated to fatten an
animal rapidly should be used spar
ingly.
Much care should be observed in
always keeping seed-corn perfectly
dry during storage.
Mouldy grain should not be fed to
fowls. If dried in the oven and
scorched just little it makes whole
some food.
In teaching young horses to back
give him the advantage of a down
grade until he has learned what is
required of him