Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-01-09
Facts for Our Farmers.
Bee Keeping for Farmers.


Bee Keeping for Farmers.
We have not been an advocate of
any one going into Bookkeeping on a
large scale until it had first been de-
monstrated that the venture had been
warranted. Better begin with a col
ony or two and grow up with the
business. Success is usually attain
ed in this manner. and if your locality
is good and you are especially adapted
to the business it is an easy matter
to grow, and much better than to of
fer later a large lot of secondhand
appliances for sale cheap. We have
always. been an earnest advocate of
bee keeping as one Of the industries of
the farm. Every farmer should
produce what honey he can for his
own use if not for market. Honey is
recognized as a healthy article OF
food, can be produced cheaply by the
average farmer, and we know of no
class who are better entitled to this
delicious article on the table than the
hard working farmer, and he has only
to secure the. service of the little busy
bee to gather and store it for him
Please do not conclude when you have
secured the colony and placed it in
some convenient position on the farm
your labors are over until the crop is
to be gathered. Not so. Bees need
possibly less care than most any in.
dustTy, but what they need must be
given at the right time and in the
right manner. Carefulness, gentle.
ness and observation are some of the
most essential elements of success in
this branch Of our Industry, and these
put into practice are pretty sure to
bring success.-E. Whitcomb OF
Friend, Neb.
Treatment of Roup.
Dampness, bad air, filth and drafts
are the common causes. The dis
ease will spread through the drinking
water, hence sick fowls should be
shut away from the healthy ones. The
symptoms of roup are bad breath
swollen head, mucous discharges and
canker in the throat. Put a little
bromide of potassium in the drinking
water and gargle the Threats of the
sick fowls with kerosene; hold the
fowl by the lower part of the neck so
it cannot swallow, fill the throat with
kerosene, let it run out of the mouth
after moment, then wash the nostrils
and inject into them a few drops of
the kerosene.
keIp as Fertilizer for Potatoes.
The great value of kelp as a fer
tiliZer for potatoes was shown trans
parently in Prince Edward island the
last season. Almost every farmer
who used kelp has big crop of po-
tatoes. One week the writer visited
locality where every farmer in the
settlement, numbering twelve with
two exceptions, who did not use kelp
at all have had very poor crops.
This locality is Big Pond, township
As, in Kings county. The settlement is
composed OF McPhees, and there are
twelve of them altogether They live
near the seacoast, their farms front
ing on the Gulf of st. Lawrence, and
they have the very best opportunity to
obtain kelp at all seasons. Two of
these McPhees-Mr. Neil and Mr.
Neil P.-had yields of 45O and 400
bushels per acre respectively The
others had yields of an average of
300 bushels of splendid dry potatoes
per acre for the whole crop
| took particular note of their man.
ner of working the land and applying
the fertilizer. 1t was very simple.
An oat stubble was plowed last fall
and narrowed thoroughly, then kelp
was applied at the rate of 80 one.
horse loads per acre and spread on the
ground, and thus left for the winter.
Early last spring the potatoes were
planted without further working. The
potatoes were planted after the pillow
the sets being dropped in every third
furrow. Afterward they received but
ordinary cultivation. The cultivator
was run though the rows about three
times only. Paris green was applied
twice. and this was all that was done
to secure yields of 500 to 400 bushels
of potatoes per acre. No stable
manure or commercial fertilizer was
applied in any case. Two of the
farmers in this particular locality
did not get any kelp a. all. but APP
piled stable manure, and their yields
were no more than 100 bushels per
acre.
This was the greatest object-lesson
| ever saw as to the tremendous value
of kelp for potatoes. In another To-
oality, Clear Spring. in Kings county,
one man. Donald Mcdonald was the
only farmer who obtained kelp for his
potatoes this year. He MANFRED
about two-thirds of his field with kelp
last fall and remaining one-third this
spring. with the same fertilizer.
From four acres Mr.. Mcdonald took
so one-horse carloads of 6 barrels,
is bushels, each. or 1440 bushels, an
average of $50 bushels per acre. His