Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-10-19

eighty head of hogs which were just
finished. These hogs were nearer OF
the same age and size, and ranged
from the long, big boned bacon hog to
the short, ne-boned chunk, accord
ing to the care or carelessness of the
farmer who raised them.
First, as to point of gain: The COM
parisons are between hogs fed the
same in every respect. The best and
poorest five out of twenty have the
following showing:
Best five, weight at beginning OF
test 500 pounds, gain 416 pounds
per cent.
Poorest five, weight at beginning OF
test 579 pounds, gain 235 pounds-4c
per cent.
This was for period of forty.twc
days, and from observations made
from week to week, this difference of
gain from little over one pound tc
practically two pounds day was
largely due to the breeding. A short
small chunk will make good
gains for few weeks and then stop.
1t will be fat and ready for market,
while well bred, rangy hog will fat
ten and continue to grow and make
gains for much longer period. Then
as to the demand of the market: The
three crib shoulder is now one of the
most profitable cuts that is made for
export trade. HoIs from which these
cuts a"e made must he large and mus
cular, long and rangy. The short,
small-bonel chunk will not answer the
purpose. The bacon hog is also Of the
latter description and brings the best
price on the markets. Well-bred,
ra1gy hogs make the most profitable
gains, are the most ready sale and
bring the best price on the market.
Management of Bees at Swarming Season.
One of the most important steps
toward securing a good crop of bees
and honey, is that Of getting the
brood combs we'll filed at the begin
ming of the harvest. Some varieties
of bees, particularly the yellow Italians,
are inclined to crowd the brood nest
with honey. That is, they are disin-
clined to put any honey i'll the supers,
so long as empty cells can be found i'll
the brood nest-even to put honey
into cells from which young bees
have hatched. If supers containing
ginning of the flow, the bees will
readily store honey i'll the drawn
combs when they would hesitate to
begin work in sections filled only with
starters or comb foundations. This
relieves the pressure upon the brood
nest, and induces the bees to begin
storing their honey in the sections,
AMI where they begin they are likely
to continue. The removal of the
pressure upon the brood nest allows
of the rearing of more brood, and is
likely to delay swarming until good
start is made ii the supers, and
enough young bees are hatched to
make good swarm.
Shading the hives, giving a good.
generous entrance and plenty OF room
in the supers, all tend to retard swarm
ing. AS soon as the first super given
is one half or two thirds full, it is
raised up, and another placed uude,
it, next the hive. When the super
placed between it and the hive. BY
the time it is reces sary to add another
super, it is likely that the upper super
of honey will be filed ana ready tc
como of Sometimes supers are
TERED up three high.
When colony swarms the swarm is
hived upon the old stand in a hive
having its brood chamber contracted
to only five frames, the frames being
furnished with starters of comb foun'
dation. The supers are transferred
from the old to the new hive and the
old hive set down near the new one.
By this method al! Of the field bees
that may be out when the swarm is
sued, return to the old stand and join
the newly hived swarm that has the
sections The small brood next
crowds the bees into the sections, and
the lack of combs in the brood nest
compels the bees to store their honey
in the supers until combs can be built
in the brood nest, aud as fast as the
combs are built, the queen fills them
with eggs, aud the result is that all OF
the white honey goes into the sec
tions, while the brood nest becomes q
brood nest indeed With this man.
agement a gueen-e excluding honey
board is needed, or the queen will go
into the sections where the swarm is
first hived, and make trouble by lay
ing in the sections.
The old hive is allowed to stand by
the side OF the new one until the
eighth day after swarming, when it is
picked up and moved away to new
location. All of the bees that have
flown from the old hive in the eight
days mentioned, have marked that
location as their home and will return
to it, and join the new swarm. This
accomplishes two things: 1t throws a
lot of bees into the hive where the
sections are, aud robs the old hive at
Just the time when the young queens