The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-08-27
NOTES BY HOPEFUL HARRY.
A rev of the Things That He Observe
While Out In the Tall Grass.

% "n1le Out IN the Tall Grass. ?.
Some dealers in real estate from
stevens county who recently returned
from trip in North Dakota brought
back some samples of wheat and fax
and they have it on exhibition in their
Office in Morris as an advertisement for
the fertile lands of Dakota. The
wheat is fifty-two inches high and the
max twenty-six inches high. We do
not consider it necessary to advertise
the richness of the soil in Mile Laos
county, but will make few statements
OF What we have seen. A few days
ago as we were passing a field of good
looking wheat, we stopped and meas
ured a number of stalks and they were
from ffty-three to ffty-seven inches
nigh, and the whole field would aver
age about forty-eight inches high. We
also measured oats that we're ffty-eight
and sixty-fve inches high and fax that
was thirty-six inches high, and there
are hundreds of acres in this vicinity
that are as good as those mentioned,
and people living here have become so
accustomed to seeing grain of this
height that it is no surprise to them,
but those living at distance may look
upon these statements as a sort of a
tlsh or Munchauson story. But there
are scores of farmers in the towns of
Milo and Greenbush that will verify my
statement. We don't wish to boast of
the productiveness of this county so
we will only say that we don't see any
necessity of selling out here and going
| to North Dakota in order to raise good
grain.
Glad to see Bogus Brook farmers
show their long heads of timothy. It
is proof that there are two towns in
Mile Laos county that have rich pro-
ductive soil where long heads of
| timothy are raised.
An Iowa man makes the follow
ing statement: "During the white
clover harvest of last June bee
keeper placed a stand of bees on a pair
OF scales to determine accurately just
what a swarm Of bees could do in the
way of gathering honey under the best
of conditions. The test proved that in
just one day they added fourteen and a
half pounds of honey to their store"
[ think that colony of bees ought to
have the blue ribbon. I have read a
large amount of bee literature and
have many statements made by differ
ent apiarists that have kept colony of
bees on pair of scales for several days
and eight pounds is the largest amount
that have ever seen stated that was
gathered in one day. Usually from
three to five pounds is considered a
good days work, but there is no reason
why we should doubt the statement
made of fourteen and half pounds for
there is as much difference in colonies
of bees as there is in COWS. Some COWS
will not make more than three pounds
of butter in week while others in the
same herd and under the same condi-
tions will make ten pounds and the
same is true in regard to honey bees;
but there is one thing that must be
borne in mind when honey or rather
pooto,o ;c co+boro1 fro,,, tho Aox1o,,c o., 4
that is it is very thin, watery, and dur
| ing the night the heat from the bees
causes the water to evaporate, leaving
the pure honey, and this process of
evaporation causes a shrinkage of from
one-third to one-half of each days.
gathering. This evaporation is the
| ripening process in honey, hence the
flavor of honey that is extracted before
it is ripe and allowed to ripen after
wards is not as good as that that is al
lowed to ripen before taken from the
hive. Honey should always be kept in
warm, dry place. Never keep it in a
cool, moist place like cellar. When
honey graduates set it in water on a
stove and let it heat slowly until
melted and it will be as good as when
taken from the hive The best honey
I ever ate was kept in a fruit jar until
it was two years old and had never
granulated.
Harry has taken another trip through
the country to note the condition of
crops and the only change in the hay
crop is noted in the meadows which
are becoming dry and farmers are busy
cutting large quantities of poor
hay. By taking one hundred as nor
NAL condition of crops, wheat is about
seventy-fve per cent, oats eighty-fve,
barley eighty-fve, speltz seventy, flax
eighty, and potatoes sixty. 1t is diff
ficult to make an estimate on corn. If
the frost holds off there will be about