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Year: 1874

one retaining the main part Of the bees and
power 10 rear another queen will very soon
be 10 as good condition as if no bees had
been taken from il.


If You have number Of colonies in hives
all alike, you can, by taking one or two
frames from each, gu up an empty hive Of
the same pattern, and thoD remove one that
you have not disturbed to a new place, set
ting the newly filed one where that Stood
Multitudes Of bees will come TO il, and
though perplexcd for a time, will, after
finding all the necessaries OF life in the new
domicie, cleave to it and form an excellent
colony.


After trying any Of these ways Of swarm
ing, you will never 20 back to the old way
Of allowing bees to do as they please.


A little practice will encourage you to 60
on and attempt still more. Some facts must
be remembered to succeed in the matter.


l. A swarm, when it comes off naturally,
does it "advisedly," and shs 6rst thing, af-
ter taking possession Of their new home,
every bee "marks the location" so as to fly
back after an absence. When bees are driv-
en- out "summarily, they will not do this, but
each bee flies back to the old spot 1t is
necessary, therefore, to set the new hive in
the old spot; enough bees will remember
the looks of the old one to serve all practical
purposes until the young bees hatch.


2. 1t is necessary to have an old queen
or young fertile one with the majority of
bees iu the empty hive for queenless bees
build only drons combs, and the hives would
be filed with them, and thus be fit for little
except storing honey.


3. Always, if possible, have one or more
combs containing brood in the new hive, and
the bees will never leave it. They seem to
have the attachment for the brood that all
animals have for their young, and will not
forsake it.


4. Never attempt to divide bees until the
colony is strong; the earlier in the season
that they arc thus strong, the better, for the
early made colonies are the ones that store
the surplus houey.-Mrs. Ellen S. Topper
in Bee Journal.
Year: 1874

as TO the cause Of white streaks 10 butter.
l supposed everyone who ever made butter
knew that II the salt was not thoroughly and
evenly incorporated in the butter there
would be white streaks. There may be 9th
er causes, but never had any streaked but
ter but what rsworking would cure.


am afraid that our COWS are Of the
"semi-scienti6c" breed--according to Mr..
Douglas opinion--for the cream is certainly
very hard to bring to butter-not at this
season, but as soon as they go out to grass.
And we use the old fashioned dash churn
constructed on the sledge hammer princi-
pie" too, propelled by dog power. But
there may be better way, and hope there
is. A churn like the one Mr.. Douglas de-
scribes, that would churn 100 pounds at q
time, would be an immense saving of work
in our dairy, provided that il could be fitted
to work by the power we now have, and |
see no reason why il could not be so work.
ed rs easily a. by hand, As there is nc
patent on this l suppose any good cooper can
make one.


Wo are to milk 81 COWS this season, and
the cburniug will be no small item Of work
but taking care of the milk will be but
little, as II will not take more than an hour
and half each day, to do all that is nee.
esssry in the care OF the milk, save cleaning
the milk room. LAURA b. BoYoE.


Fayston, MAY /.
Year: 1874

The Neto York Times in an editorial ar
ticle in its agricultural department in setting
forth the objections against inviting English
farm laborors to this country, presents a
few arguments which certainly are novel to
US, enc of which is that MANY laborer
here pays for his cottage as much for rent
as the labOrer in England receives as week
ly wages. -Four dollars week is not un-
commonly paid as rent for small cottage
which would not come up to Mr.. Arch's
standard of what his friends would insist on
upon their arrival here


-Four dollars per week as rent for the
cottage of farm laborsr, is new idea to
Vermonters. Such rents may be and are
paid by those in the cities. ppd large villa
ges, but one-fourth Of that sum would rent
some Of the finest farm houses in New
England. In the same article the statement
of Mr.. Edwin A. Curley, a writer well
known in England, who has recently been in
America to examine the emigrant fields
here that "There is room on this side
of the Atlantic for 780 900 agricultural
laborers," is secuted at in the following
language. This monstrouS error would be
received with the ridicule it deserves il il
were made by any person Of unacknowledged
authority, but when made by the represen-
tative Of so respectable a journal as the
London Field, and when published iu so
Trustworthy journal as that in which it APP
pears, [the Fortnightly ReUietOl it is fraught
with present danger aud ultimate disaster. :"


1t goes on to say that because the major
ity of our farmers own their farms, while
nearly ali the English farm labOrers work
for wages, the latter could not succeed here.
IF the editor of the Times will take trip
through New England at this season Of the
year, and inquire for work Of the best farm
ers, think he will not need to 60 far before
he will find it, and if he proves as jealous
in the cause of physical agriculture as he is
in making out that this "blarsted country
is no place for those who now toll late and
early for subsistence to emigrate to, think
he will be able to secure steady employment
at rate Of compensation that will enable
him and his family to enjoy many Of the
comforts and even some Of the luxuries
which the English labOrer must needs do
without. ZoLLIKoFFER.
Year: 1874

The subject Of pure breeding at the pres.
ent time is of more than ordinary interest.
Some Of the NEST eminent breeders of Short
horns have combined to prevent, henceiorth,
delusive names and false pedigrees being
palmed of upon judges and buyers Of stock.
There may be something like a plea for
those who have been considered as next door
to delinquents. 1t cannot be expected that
we can alter cOlOrs, make roam COW q red,
or a red bull white, as some owners can do
in catalogues in the course Of seasonal
round. But pamphlet we have taken the
trouble to fish up may account to some eK-
tent for the alteration in the color Of AMI
mails, whereinO impure blood has been per-
mittsd to mix. In early Jewish history We
have the statament that Jacob, BY the peel
ing Of WAnds, secured the AOok it was his in-
Year: 1874

By MATTE LAWRENCE
For the farmers Of our nation,
Who love to till the soil
And reap the golden harvests,
And do not shrink from toll,
An order has been founded,
With platform broad and wide
1t aims to make them noble,
And in the right to guide.
CHonUs.-WolcOms the order welcome the order
The order Of Patrons, the farmers' joy and pride.
Tho harmer's task is ancient,
Twas given hum by God.
No calling is more blessed
Than working on the sod.
And now this order gives thon
hope Of wealth and fame,
A right TO every honor
That natures talents claim.
CHoRUs.-Welcome, DC.
We long have been in bondage,
Nor dared assert our right,
But now we feel our duty
To show our mind and might
We will not play the tyrAnt,
For that is not our plan,
But show to every nation
The farmer Is a
CHoRUs.-Welcome, &c.
We give the order welcome,
Wen shout II loud and long,
Till every honest farmer
will Join 70 chant the song.
or welcome to the order,
welcome TO our land
We give 1t hearty welcome
And Join it, heart and hand.
CHoRus.-Weleoms the order welcome the order
The grand, noble order We welcome to our land.
Year: 1874

have noticed that the sediment in maple
sirup commonly known rs inter, though in
very small supply the first part of the season.
has been very plenty in the last run. Is it
because the roots were frozen in the first
part of the season, the ground being frozen
uncommonly hard this year, but after they
had become thawed out they absorbed silica
from the ground which constitutes this sap
sand " rs it is sometimes called?


ZOIIJKOPFER
Year: 1874

tn EGrange Executive Committee
for the ClarksTiile District have wisely
resolved that, with the present low
prices of farmers produce, economy
shcald be adopted as their watchword,
and that they should endeavor to get
through the season without spending
for machines and implements more
money than absolutely REQUIRED.
Year: 1874

MEMPHIS, May 14.-The location OF the
site for the Custom-hOuse is regarded by all
except few who had pecuniary reasons for
other locations, as the best that could have
been made, commanding as it does, fine
view of the river and convenient to the
center Of the business portion of the city.
The site was selected bY MIR. Muliett, Su-
pervising Architect, and accepted by the
Commissioners as a compromise between
the different locations in view.
Year: 1874

In lamenting the undue haste In
which the River and Harbor Appro-
priatiOn bill was rushed through the
House, the NelV York Tribune remarks:
'The good management of those in
charge of the bill seems to have been a
Judicious distribution of the appropria-
ton 50 as TO effectually silence all
shrieks of locality" But where was
Harrison all this time? As the Cum
berland river is not down for a dollar,
he must nave been silenced with some
thing else than "a judicious distribu-
ton" We looked for few "shrieks, -
an any rate.
Year: 1874

THE HERALD OF OCTOBER Is sAYS.-MACCABE's
i entertainment "Begone Dull Care, y has made q
great nit The large auditorium q seinway Hall well
mcnt is remarkable tor the amount of quiet humor II
and the complete absence OF anything approac
to
Year: 1874

Tho resignation In body Of tho Board Of In
dian Commissioners provoked some little sur-
prlso, and The reason for their action not having
bsen made public by tho Interior Department,
Year: 1874

As general rule, the best place for
young man to begin life is right where
ne Is. He need not go a hundred, or
three hundred, or q thousand miles
away from home to try the world; that
particular spot where he lives Is q part
OF the world, and just as good place to
.ry as some other particular spot three
hundred miles of. In the Eastern
states, where society is settled, and
Things change but little, where business
y held IN fixed channels, and certain
families have 3 prescriptive right TO do
everything that is done, there is not
much indueement for young man to
remain ut home unless he possesses the
genius and enterprise to break through
tue traditions and regulations that
hamper him, but no such condition of
things exist out West, there everything
is nv, fresh and plastic; and q young
man may do his part in moulding
thing 10 his purpose.


1t = very common mistake for
yOun. ters, who have not butted their
tender reads against the hard angles of
of the world, to imagine they possess
Superior talent, ii they only had an op-
portun y to exhibit il. IL they live on
farm, here is no chance there to show
their genius. If they live in q country
town, it is entirely too small to spread
their wings in. They yearn for great
city, where talents are appreciated, and
imagine that there is the field for them
to rise to eminence and wealth, and yet
they had better stay right where they
are, and make their beginning in the
locality where they were raised. II
they really possess genius or special
aptitudes they may first develop them
and test the metal they are made of in
the limited sphere Of their native place,
and, if the experiment proves salts
factory, afterwards transfer them to q
wider sphere of action. Thousands Of
young men who go to great cities to try
the world, find the world in such cities
too much for them, and they learn too
late that it would have been better for
them to make their trial In humber
and safer sphere.
Year: 1874

presented it ready-made TO the Federal
Union which you helped TO found, thus
linking the Atlantic to the Pacific by an
indissoIuble chain, and fairly forcing
into the grasp of the United States Gov
ernment all the territory lying between.
Nor was this all. While these men
were laboring to extend the empire of
freedom, they were at the same time
working to secure the trade Of the
Orient, and importuning Congress for q
Pacific Railroad that they might keep
Boston "a pih The finest quail
ties Of t.


Thus 1t IL, Dear Athenians, that you
see us doubly bound to you while cele-
brating, centennially, your masquerade
tea-party. The tea and the principles
you planted in Boston Harbor, have
taken root and grown, until from one
seaboard to the other every freeman's
family may partake Of the refreshing
draught you once denied yourselves; the
tax upon it going to support q govern
ment that governs you only by your own
consent. Somebody suggests here, that
one half of each freeman's famIly-and
that half the greatest tea-drinkers, are
governed without their consent being
asked-upOn the principle probably that
"what is sauce for the gander i sauce
for the goose.")


Having shown you, dear Athenians,
the bond of kinship which exists be-
tween Portland and Boston, we herewith
tender our congratulations upon a
marked event in your history, and close
with the expression of Il hope that a
hundred years from now, you may join
US in National jubilee upon these Pa
cific shores, at which the finest Pekoe
teas shall be furnished al adfRitum by
US to every delegate from your glorious
commonwealth; and the tOdsts by the
finests classicists of old Harvard of tue
"Hub," whose health we are about to
drink in aromatic Oolong.
Year: 1874

THE FIRST ELEMENT OF A HOME
I never saw a garment too fine for man
or mai there never was chair too
good for a cobbler or cooper to sit in;
never house too fine to shelter the hui
man head. These elements about US,
the gorgeous sky, the imperial sun, are
not too ;Ood for the human race. Ele-
gance fits man. But do we not value
these tools of housekeeping little more
than they are worth, and sometimes
mortgage home for the mahogany we
can bring into it? 1 would rather eat
nv dinner off the head Of barrel, or
dress after the fashion of John the Bap-
tist in the wilderness, or sit on a block
all nv life, than consume all myself be-
fore 1 get home, and take so much pains
with lie outside that the inside was as
hollow as an empty nut. Beauty is q
great thing, but beauty of garments,
house and furniture is q very tawdry
ornament with domestic love. All the
elegance in the world will not make a
homc, and L would give more for a
spoonful of hearty love than for whole
shiploads of furniture, and all the up
holsterers Of the world could gather to-
getheT.-TheOdOre Parker.
Year: 1874

How Soil WAS MADE.-The late Prof
Agassiz claimed that all the materials
on which agricultural progress depends
are decomposed rocks, and not so much
those that underlie the soil, but those
on the surface, and ground to powder by
the glaciers. Ice all over the continent
is the agent that has ground out more
soil than all other agencies put together
The penetration of water into the rocks,
forests, running water and baking suns
have done something, but the glaciers
more. In a former age the whole
United States was covered with ice sew
eral thousand feet thick, and the ice
moving from north to south by the at
traction of the tropical warmth OF press
ing weight of the snow and ice behind,
ground the rocks over which was called
soil. These masses of ice can be tracked
bv the hunter. Professor Agassiz made
n study in this country as far south as
AIabama, and had observed the same
phenomenon in Europe, particularly in
italy. where, among the Alps, glaciers
are now in progress. The stones and
rocks ground and polished by the gla-
ciers can easily be distinguished from
those scratched by running water. The
angular boul 1ers found in meadows and
the terraces of rivers not reached by
waters can be accounted for only In this
way.
Year: 1874

THE Noise or CHILDREN.-There is
too much fusSing about the noise of
consequent upon too little
knowledge Of the requirements of youth
in its eflervescing state. If growth and
health are considered in their true bear
ings, children cOnnot make too much
noise. The schoOl-mistress who ell
forces silence on her pupils is commit
ing, unintentiOnally, OF course, an Of
Tense against reason, worthy only of
convent. Every burst Of laughter,
every shout, nay, every moderate fit OF
crying cOndUces to health, by rapidly
filling and emptying the lungs and
changing the blood rapidly from black
to red-that is, from death to life. An
drew COmbe is q great authority on
such matters, and he tells story of a
great charity school, where the pupils
were forced to be so silent that large
portion fell i'll. WithOt doubt this
is one good reason why children of
delicate constitutions cannot 90 through
our public schools without breaking
down. They are kept too still. Often
too teachers are disposed to insist on
posture so erect as to be absolutely in
furious; for the body has more parts
than one, and while to sit so upright is
good for the chest, it is, if long con-
tinued, an intense strain on the spine.
The truth is, children should not be
subjected to monotony of any kind.
They should speak and be silent, sit
erect and loll, very much as nature in.
elines grown people to do. 1t Is time
that more attention is paid to the Kin
dergarten system in schools, and less to
the States prison. one so generally in
vogue.
Year: 1874

The domestic duck IS one of The most 7alu-
able fowls of the farmer, bat it has one great
objection, which is, that it lis an unmerciful
gormandizer, aud it is difficult to raise. Where
there are ponds OF streams, j. Is as profitable
as any other fowl it is very prolific, and its
eggs are preferred by many to those Of the
hen. When they have free access to ponds
they fed on various reptiles, and several
species Of aquatic grass, which they find be-
neath The surf &c. aud which is very excel
lent substitute for animal food. When insects
are abundant, they require no supply Of meat,
as they obtain a suGicIency Of animal fcod
themselves bnt when this is not the case, they
must he furnished literally, or they will
speedily die. Potatoes boiled, mashed and
mixed with meal, make au excellent article Of
food for duck It becomes very fst when fed
on it, and when in preparation for the market,
it is perhaps the best food that can be given
except meat Young ducks require gfea, at
teution Their voracious habits often induce
them to eat to TeFetion, and many lie while
quite young from 10 other cause.
Year: 1874

The power Of a wife for good or evil, is ir-
resistible Without one home must be forever
unknown. a good wife is to a man wisdom,
power and strength; bad one is confusion,
weakness aud despair. No condition is hope
less 20 a man where the wife possesses firm
ness, decision aud economy There is no out
ward property which can counteract iudoI-
ence, extravaganza and folly u, home. No
spirit can long endore bad influence lie de-
lights 10 enterprise and action, but 70 sustain
him he needs a tranquil mind, and especially
If be is an intellectual man, aith a whole head,
he needs bis moral force in the conflicts Of life.
To recover his composure, home must be a
place Of peace, Of comfort. There his soul re-
news its strength and goes forth with fresh
yigor TO encounter tie labor and troubles Of life.
But if At home he finds re t, and is there met
with bad temper sailenness, jealousy and
gloom, or is assailed by complaint aud censure,
hope yanisbes and sinks into despair Such
is the case with too many who. it might seem,
have 10 conflicts or trials Of life; FOR such is
the wife's power
Year: 1874

Before the winter sets 10 for good, il will
be best 10 get on, all the manure tha. can bo
spared Tor this purpose aud spread 1t freely
on the moving lots as a top dressing. II tho
land is not too hlly aud uneven there is no
danger Of waste while good covering pro-
tects the roots Of grass, mollows tbe surface
aud promotes tie growth Of the crop next
year.


\ top dressing may be applied to advantage
late in the fall, OF Immediately after the crop
is taken of or in the spring just after the grass
starts. In the latter case the rapid growth
Of the grass covers and protects it from The sun.
But there is little or no loss by evaporation
through the winter Massachusetts, Plough.
man
Year: 1874

Some people are always TOO late, and there
fore accomplish through life nothing worth
naming. II they promise to meet you at such
an hour, they are never present until thirty
minutes after No matter how important the
business is to either yourself OF to him, he is
Just as tardy. Il he takes q passage in u
s,eamboa he arrives Just as the boat has left
the wharf aud the train has started few
minutes before he arrives lis dinner has
been waiting for him 50 long that the cook is
out Of patience. This course the character We
have described always pursues Ho is never
in season at a church. at a place Of business,
at his meals, OF in his bed Persons Of such
habits we cannot but despise. Always start
in season, aud be ready AZ tie appointed hour
We would not give is for man who is not
puuctual to bis engagements, aud who never
makes Up biz mind to a certain course al the
time is lost Those who hang back, hesitate
and tfcmble-who are never at hand for a
Journey trading, sweetheart, or anything
ese-and poor slotbs, aud are ill-cacuaicd t.
get living in this stirring world.
Year: 1874

l. OVER TIE SEED.-Selectiug and as
sorting seed required for next seasons crop is
good work for long winter evenings and sior-
my days When the spring comes there will
be no time 70 select the best ears Of corn oF as
sort beans aud potatoes, or clean the 'oul seed
from the wheat, rye oats, and similar grain
that is to be used for sowing. Vegetable seeds
should also be looked over, and if there is any
old stock on hand, throw it away or test small
quantity, and learn whether it will vegetaie,
before tits too late in the season to obtain a
fresh supply. Many losses occur annually
among our farmers and gardeners in conse-
quence cf their neglect to get ready in time for
spring work -ErcbaHgs