Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-09
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Pasturing Meadows.

In the management of meadows
there are too many who seem to think
that they can eat their cake and still
have it, and a great deal Of pasturlng
is done that should never be permitted.
| Many think that as soon as the hay
crop is removed it is good economy TO
/ turn on the cattle and thus make a
continues use of the field on the the
DRY that nothing should be allowed to
go to waste. Many others pasture the
meadow in the fall to consume the
growth of grass after recovery from
cutting Economy is a good thing,
and, other things being equal, he will
prosper best who permits the least
waste. But there is such thing as
making a saving at too great expense,
and much of the pasturing Of the
meadows is of this class, for it is done
at the expense of the future hay crop.
A newly cut meadow, for instance, is
not a stubble field from which penny
saved is necessarily earned. 1t is the
place where the next years hay crop
| is to be grown and should be managed
with that idea in view. To pasture
the meadow in the fall may save some
feed that is worth saving, but it may
also leave the ground so bare that
when winter comes great injury is
done to the grass roots and it may not
recover. When one sees himself short
Of pasture, either in midsummer or
later in the fall, and the meadow
shows UP we'll with considerable feed
| on it, there is a great temptation 10
turn the stock on, and there may be
times when it is really the best thing
| to do under the circumstances as they
actually exist. It is better, for in
stance, than to let the stock suffer
when it is that or nothing. But such
circumstances should not be permitted
to occur. To provide fodder crop in
a corn country is so easy that there is
no necessity for it to occur, and the
management of the meadows should be
carried on for the meadows own good
and with an eye single to the largest
possible hay crop.
Cheese for Home Use.
It is surprising that farmers do not
use more cheese 1t is healthy and
nutritious article of food, and can be
made far more cheaply than nitrogen
GUS nutrition can be supplied in amy
other form Another reason why
farmers should use more cheese is that
it will prevent the glut in prices Of
milk which every year causes so many
farmers to sell milk at a loss. Such
farmers do, we think get in the habit
Of making more or less cheese, and
their tables are we'll supplied. 1t is
the farmers with only one or two COWS
who use least cheese. We used to make
cheese on farm when we had only
two COWS, putting night and morn
ing's milk together in a single cheese.
American Cultivator.
Anatomy of a Bee. :.
A bee is divided into three sections
head, thorax and abdomen. 1t has
| five eyes-three in the form Of trI-
angle in the center of the forehead,
and one on each side of the mead.
These, looked at under a microscope,
are very beautiful. The antennae are
the two flexible black horns on the
head; with these bees recognize each
other, and in them are supposed to be
located the extremely sensitive organs
of smelling and hearing. They are to
the bee very much what the brain is 10
man. A bee deprived of her antennae
loses her power of movement.
In the head and thorax of the work
er bee are the nursing glands, which
secrete a milky food fed to the larval.
These glands are very large in the
young worker while acting as nurses,
but reduced in the old bees of a
broodless colony. In the old bees they
wither more and more till they be-
come shrunken and seemingly with
cred up. The queen, when egg-laying
is also fed from these gland. When
honey is coming freely, and the queen
| is we'll fed, she has a very wonderful
power of producing eggs, laying over
5000 per day, or more than three times
her own weight.
In bees, as in all insects, the ske1e-
ton that supports the body is not in
ternal as in animals, but mostly exter
nal. and is formed Of horny sub
stance called chitine, which is flexible
and is capable of being nodded into
every conceivable shape and appear
ance. 1t forms the hard back of the
repulsive cockroach, the beautiful
scale-like feathers of the gaudy butter
| fly, the delicate membrane which sup
ports the lace-wing in mid-air and the
black and yellow wings of our native
and imported bees, besides internal
braces, tendons and ducts innumerable.
The internal skeleton, hard for the
most part, and varied in thickness in
beautiful adaptation to the strain to
which it may be exposed, gives con-
sistency of form to the little wearer;
but it needs, wherever movement is
necessary, to have delicate extension
joining the edges of the unyielding
plates. Here the thick coat is reduced
| IN q thin eaSi1v-creaSed membrane