Year: 1876

Never use an old hive for a new
swarm without first taking off the top
board and planning it also the inside.
The boxes for surplus honey should be
made with four sides of glass, being
very easily made, and making a neat
package. Put in the boxes pieces of
comb about two inches square. The
bees will then have something to start
from. and you will have as many
combs as you put pieces. Put on the
boxes in the spring as soon as they be.
gin to carry honey, if you would Sc
cure much from the old swarms, and
on the new swarms about three days
after they are hived. Boxes that have
been on Il hive once must be taken
apart and thoroughly cleaned before
using, or they will not work in them.
The comb is secured to the boxes by
melting little beeswax and dipping
the comb in it. To remove surplus
boxes I have found nothing so good as
two pieces of heavy sheet-iron, three
inches wide and seven inches long-;a
half inch of one end turned at right
angles with the left; run both ends
under tho box; leave one end on the
hive, the other draw off with the box,
and not bee can escape from either.
Plug the holes up with twisted grass,
as it is next to impossible to get any
thing else out after they have waxed
it over. Put the box with honey and
bees in dark place, letting in just
little light, which will enable them to
find their way out, and not back,
which they will try to do. Do not ex-
anime them often when they are stor-
ing honey, or they will stop. The box
covering the honey boxes should be
we'll made and fitting the hive tight
enough to exclude light; but be sure
to have them we'll shaded in hot
weather, or you will fail to get much
else but swarms, of which there will
be plenty. There should be at least
two thichnesses of boards over the
surplus boxes.


Food for Pigs


A gentleman who has much expert
ence in the swine herd says:


1.-The best food | have found for pigs
4 few months after weaving, is us
much cows milk or whey as they will
drink. Into this, stir more or less, as
required, of finely ground provender
slightly salted, composed of six parts
oats and two Of corn, and one of flax
seed. If the latter is not at hand sub
stitute oil OF cotton.seed meal. If
milk or whey are not to be had, use
pure fresh water. If all could be
cooked, so much the better.


"When more convenient or econ
omical, other food may be substituted
for the above, such as pea. bean or
barley meal, and unbolted wheat, rye,
or buck heat -four. Shorts and bran
I have found are apt to scour them at
this time, especially if uncooked. The
same remark will apply to vegetables,
apples and other fruit, which, if fed
at all should be first steamed or cooked,
and then mixed with meal. Brewers
meals and malt combs are recommended,
but having never tried them for very
young pigs, l cannot speak Of their
suitableness from my own experience.
They are good for older animals.


Other kinds of food assist in produc.
ing rapid growth Of the pig, as otfal
from hotel tables, fisheries, slaughter
houses but as few can avail them
selves of these, speak more partlcu'
larly of such as is produced on the
farm. Being an omnivorous animal,
| it does not matter so much as to the
kind of food given it, except when put