Year: 1876

aud the transfer is complete. Now
set the new hive upon the stand oil


the old one, and take some of the


combs in the old hive containing


honey, which place in the new hive


on the bottom board, raised so as to


allow bees to pass under them, then


contract the entrance Of the hive


somewhat to keep out robber bees,


and all will be right.


/ COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS.


As general rule farmers should


try to produce all the manure they


use from their own live stock, be-


cause guano, poudrette, bone dust,
superphosphate, &C., are not always
to be relied on, and beside this fact,


lands fertilized by them for series
of years lose their producing power
to great degree. 1t does very we'll
to apply them one or two years to
the most of crops, and then to change
to barnyard manure. But the ques-
tion comes up, "whose commercial
fertilizers are reliable and worth the
prices asked?' There is, undoubt-
edly, good deal of deception prac-
ticed by the manufacturers of these
fertilizers, and the only safe way is
to make trials of them in small quan.
titles before purchasing largely. The
analysis made of them may be made
from fair samples; but the probability
is, that when pound or two are sent
to chemist for an analysis, these
samples generally are Of better
quality than what is sold by the ton,
bag or barrel. "Superphosphate" is
or ought to be, ground bones dis
solved with oil of vitriol (sulphuric
acid), but some other ingredients are
often mixed with it to increase the
bulk and weight. Bone "hour," as
well as supcrphosphate, is an excel
lent fertilizer for almost every crop
when it is obtained pure, the bones
being ground very fine or dissolved,
and are available for plant food i'm.
mediately whereas the coarsely
ground bones have to remain in the
soil much longer to bc beneficial.
Five hundred pounds of bone -four,
or dust, as it IS often called; and so
lbs of nitrate OF potash are an excel
lent application, per acre, to lands
sowed to wheat, to be applied to the
surface, and thoroughly narrowed in
before the wheat is sovn. These
fertilizers are also very good for
other crops, or for lands to be seeded
down to grass. When applied to
crops in the hill, they should be
mixed with about four times their
bulk Of fine soil, and SO left few
weeks if convenient, before being
used. A pin. of this mixture to the
hid, will show good results.


AROfrr FOWLS


Always use china eggs for nest
eggs, and never put eggs under a
hen till she has set one night on
china egg, and is found upon her nest
the second night, then at evening put
the eggs under her, eleven to large
hen, and nine to small one. Let
the nest boxes be of ample size, Is
to Is inches square,; and first put
layer of dry earth at the bottom, then
make the nests Of fine hay or straw,
and sprinkle little -four of sulphur
among it to drive away lice. Keep
your hen house we'll whtewashed,
perches and all, and remove the ma
nure often. Put it into barrel and
when filled or partly filled take it into
your garden, and mix it with about
four times its bulk Of soil. Make a
heap broad enough to contain the
entire droppings of the season, and
here compost your manure from time
to time, always leaving the top of
the heap fat so as to retain rains,
and cover with litter Of any kind, SO
that none Of the heap will be exposed
to the rays Of the sun. These com
post heaps should be shoveled over
two or three times during the season,
to mix their contents thoroughly; and
the next season apply from half pint
to pint OF this mixture to hills of
garden vegetables, or to field crops
or com, and youwill find every pound
Of the compost equal in value to a
snovelrul os barnyard manure.


TREE swINDLEES.


Farmers and others are cautioned
against buying trees and other Dur-
se:y stock from unknown men, who |
profess to be agents for various
nuts cry firms, as many of them are
swim dlees who take orders for choice
tree 3, &c, and deliver trash that they
buy at very low price. They are
plausible liars, and all they care about
IS 20 get your money, he yer expect
ing 10 sell you second bill. Then
there are other scamps who sell
patent rghts' on things that they
own no g! ghc" in; and some fellows
are travelling about selling recipe
for maEng butter, 10 cost only four
cents per pound, equal to the best
in ma: ket worth 35 cents" 1t is to
be hoped that no sensible farmer will