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SUCCESSFUL BEEKEEPING.
A flee Woman of Wlaconnin and
Wlmt Mic Hhn Aceoni|tltidied.
As a sort of inspiration to the dnugli
ters of the farm who may tie interested
in the possibilities of beekeeping Tile
Anterican Bee journal presents a pic
ture of one of the most successful bee
women- of Wisconsin. Miss Ada L.
Ihckard, in her apiary, together with
the following words from the lady her
“Wliou 1 was a small girl, my mother
purchased Mr. S. I. Freeborn's apiary,
numbering 1 GO colonies, which he
placed upon our farm in Richland
county during the summer of 1887.
She, being much interested iu the work,
succeeded in interesting me during
the vacations. I always worked with
her until the spring of 189,S, when we
moved 100 colonies about 12 miles
from liotne, and I took charge of the
apiary, having sole management of it
and securing, as the result of my
labors, 10,000 pounds of fine basswood
honey. The picture represents me in
my apiary last summer. When fall
came, we removed our bees home and
placed them in winter quarters. Hav¬
ing excellent success in wintering, we
moved Ill colonies to the place where
1 now am, and we are awaiting the
results. The prospects are very good
for a crop of honey this year, as the
basswood trees are hanging loaded
with bloom.”
In an institute paper on bee culture
Miss Pickard has said: To he a thor¬
ough boo master requires as much in¬
telligence, forethought and skill as to
bo a good lawyer, physician, or any
other professional, and withal a clear
perception of the relation of cause and
effect. Some people are inclined to
think that beekeeping is a pleasant
pastime which lazy and incompetent
people can take tip with success, think
iug .ail that is required is to put hoes
into a hive in some out of the way
place, ami that they will “work for
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nothing and board themselves.” And
so they may, but if the owner desires
to obtain .any surplus for his own table,
or for the market, he must give them
further care, and unless he has heart
for the work, so that lie finds some
degree of pleasure in caring for them,
he had better not attempt to keep them
at all. ns they will only prove a source
of annoyance without profit.
To make a successful beekeeper re¬
quires a special gift, or a natural apt¬
ness for the business, tin' faculty of
perceiving what needs to he done, and
an inclination to do it promptly. The
old Spanish adage, “Never do anything
today which can he put off until to¬
morrow,” does not apply to beekeeping,
as it savors too much of slothfulness;
but the old Anglo-Saxon maxim,
“Never leave until tomorrow what can
be well done today,” will be found
more applicable, being much more in
harmony with the assiduous activity
of the bees.
liOtlnc Fertility of I.nnd.
Where the farmer is not engaged in
grass farming and allows his land to
lie with nothing growing upon it. he is
losing fertility during any kind of
rainy weather. Fortunately, the rain
starts tlic weeds, and even the weeds
in this sense serve a good purpose.
Farmers who are growing small grain
and have not sown grass seed cat) very
easily arrest this waste by simply disk¬
ing or cultivating their fields so as to
sprout the shutterings or start the
weetls, and this should l>e done as soon
as possible after harvest is over. Apart
from saving fertility, there is great
advantage m adopting this method, la
a dry time they can conserve moisture
by giving enough cultivation to form
the mulch of dry dust. They start the
weeds to growing, which a later plow¬
ing will kill, and thus clean their land.
Where stubble laud is Intended for
corn the next year, it would be an ex¬
cellent practice to disk or cultivate
the stubble fields when it is practica¬
ble. thus starting the weeds, which
can be turned under later, and leave
the soil in fine condition for corn the
next year. This is a point that is not
frequently brought to the farmers’ at¬
tention. and Wallace's Farmer does it
as here reproduced.
n^iil Notes.
In a publication of some 73 years
a farmer advises those who may not
know how to find the Hessian tiv in
tl:e fall to Iook for the wheat
that are the darkest green and stand
most upright.
If sugar beets are not needed at
factory a , fast as harvested, t'.ay
be pittt'd or siloetl in tiie field
sti me potatoes and drawn
shipped to the factory later, when
pressure of farm work is not so great.
In pitting it is essential that the beets
shall be quite mature before harvest¬
ing. and that they be secured before
freezing occurs, as immature or frost
ed beets will not keep well.
j Graduates of colleges receiving aid
from the United States have the op
portunity to enter the agricultural de
partment as “scientific aids’' for a pe
riod of two years, at a salary not to ex
^ ^ monthi on conditions to
, |e , earned by application to the United
States civil service commission, Wasb
ingum, I). C.
A I'otntu of Good Yield and finality.
Tin* Joseph potato lias received fa¬
vorable mention from some of the New
England potato growers. American
Cultivator illustrates it from an ex
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cellent photograph of the potato as
raised by a Vermont farmer and says:
It is well to notice the size, shape
i an<] geueral appearance of the potato,
i Th(? colm . of (!l0 skln is a H ght pink,
i and the flesh is white, The tuber is
invariably free from core, It never
hits shown an incPnation to grow
bubbly or unshapely. It yields well, is
of wonderful vigor and is of excellent
quality for a table potato.
llni-veai In;; ami Thrashing; Itiee.
Itice matures iu August or Sep tern
her. When ripe, cut as you would ot h¬
er grain and put up in stacks or heaps
until the thrashing can be done. There
are machines that do this just as well
as thev separate wheat and oats-that
,s ; they take out the straw and outer
: the regular rice mill duing the work
most rapidly and cheaply. As these
a re rather costly every small farmer
cannot afford liis own. This is the
greatest difficulty in rice growing. A
traveling rice cleaner or a cheap one
would be a blessing to agriculture,
says an exchange.
Tlie Season For Turnip So'ivlnjr.
; Advising an Alabama correspondent
in regard to sowing turnips. The
| Southern Cultivator says: From July
20 to Sept. 3 will do. Rutabagas
should lie sown front July 20 to Aug.
10; Globes and Flat Dutch from Aug.
8 to 23. Red Tops aud other early va¬
rieties may be sown at different times
from Aug. 3 to Sept. 3.
Cottonseed Meal.
The south produces about 4,300,000
tons of cotton seed. A good percentage
is returned to the soils as raw seed
fertilizer. A large part of the remain¬
der has the oil extracted aud is then
applied in the form of meal to the
land whence it came or to the land of
some other farmer more thrifty and
wise. A great deal is exported, and a
comparatively small quantity is fed ei¬
ther as seed or meal on the farms
where it is raised.
Science lias done great service in re¬
vealing the value of this enormous
product, hut the south yet lacks one
important step in following the teach¬
ing of science. This material should
| be fed to stock, and the fertilizer
should be saved and applied in the
form of barnyard manure instead of
applying it as raw material, provided
its use can be supplemented by other
things that can be grown to ad¬
vantage.—Professor \V. R. Dodson of
Louisiana.
Nearly every farmer now has his
hog pasture and giviLs some attention
to hog raising, many raising their sup
ply of meat, especially in the western
and nar.iiern portion of the parish,
says u St. Landry (La.) man.
A Profitable Host*
The Columbia (Mo.) Statesman tells
©f a neighbor who has a I’olarul-Cliina
sow 4L* years old which in January
found IS living pigs and raised them
all. On June 13 she found another lit¬
ter of 13 an,! is raising them.
Oregon Mobair.
The Oregon Agriculturist estimates
.he output of Mohair in Oregon this
year at 20,000 to 40,000 pounds in ex
cess of last .year's product and the
quality good.
Only Tliree Deaths 8 > l*"ar,
Wasuixcton, S-'j*t. 6 .—A
from Surgeon Carter of the marine
pital service to Surgeon General
man reports that to date there have
so far 2 S cases of yellow fever at
West, turee of which have proved
PREPARING FOR GRAIN.
Plowing, Harrowing, Manuring nml
Sowing Seed.
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The season is upon us or w^
and pushing along the preparation of
laud for small grains, and The Soutb
c -ru Cultivator, with its usual tore
sigllt> gives a very pertinent talk upon
this matter, as follows:
There are many who think it in
jures land to turn it up to the sun¬
shine in August and September. 1 his
is a mistake, Sunshine does not in¬
jure soil. But if we turn up the sub¬
soil when it is wet then the sun bakes
the lumps into hard clods, lu this
way the plant food is locked up ot
made insoluble. But if the clay is dtj
and we follow the turn plow with
roller aud harrow then the sunshine
helps the land, It aids the circulation
of air and water and helps to form the
acids needed to dissolve the plant food.
How deep shall we plow t Just as
deep as your teams can pull the plow s.
What plowsV A turned and a subsoil
following, And you may have as
many horses or mules or oxen to each
plow as you please, We know a sue
cessful farmer in Georgia who uses six
strong oxen to each plow, There is
absolutely no danger in this direction.
The only risk is in plowing when the
soil or subsoil, one or both, is too wet.
When you have thus broken your land
below the hard pan. then follow first
with the roller. This will pulverize
many clods and fasten the others so
that they cannot easily dodge the har
row teeth, which should follow the
roller. It is better to go over with
these several times. The Cutaway or
Acme either will do. The use of first
one and then the other is better. This
should he done some weeks before
sowing the grain if you can. When
this is the plan, then run over with
the harrow once every two weeks.
Manuring should he done differently
with different manures. Stable ma
nures and other rotting vegetation
should be spread on before the break
ing. if commercial fertilizers or eot
tonseed. then it is best to wait until
you are ready to sow the grain. Then
get acid phosphate, 14 per cent goods;
cottonseed meal. 7 to 8 per cent; muri
| ate of potash. (50 to 7.') per cent, or
German kair.it. 12 to 14 per cent. Mix
these as follows:
Cottonseed meal, 400 pounds; acid
; phosphate. 1 2(.0 pounds; muriate. 300
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; l»ounds. or kamit. 1)00 Pounds.
per"“Tanw
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you
e(l variety vo„ ..refer, l’lmv Ud, iu
with small plows so as to cover the
j seed about 1 ! T> to 2 inches. Ail wheat
grain or oats covered three inches or
deeper are lost.
Then go over with roller to make
seed bed firm and insure a good even
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A Tsefat Implement.
The illustration from The Farm
Journal shows a plank clod crusher
that has a smoothing harrow accom¬
paniment, short
pieces of round
iron being driv¬
en into the low
ArLANKCi.ODCRUSHEH. er edges of the
stout planking. These pieces of iron
need not be stout nor long. In their
slanting position they will not clog
[ and will break up many clods that the
crusher has not entirely mastered,
leaving the soil loosened and line.
Strips of board can be laid on top and
a weight added if needed.
Cuttiim and Curing: Cowiions.
Cut the vines when the pods are
about full and leave iu windrows or
small cocks for two or three days, ac
i cording to weather. Then rick up
loosely, and two or three days later
they may he put under shelter loosely
| or placed in rail pens with crossrails
every three or four feet for ventilation,
We have placed them tints for 20 feet
in height, advises Texas Farm and
Ranch. The vines may be stacked tin
dor shelter iu alternate layers of straw
or hav a foot thick, vines three feet.
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Pea vines be saved in good eondi- •
can
tion with more sun than any forage
plant we know. They should not be
cured outdoors until dry, for then the
leaves shatter off. but there should be
no dew or rain on them when stored.
Take a \ghp of vines and twist them
tightly. If no water can be squeezed
out of them, they are ready to put un¬
der shelter. They may heat somewhat,
but it will not injure the hay.
Ansiralnsian Itcef.
The Queenslaiider contends that, fed¬
eration or no federation, Queensland*is
destined to be tiiw great beef raising
section of the Australasian group. In
18P7 she possessed G,0Si*.(KX) cattle, or
about half the number in the whole of
Australasia, It is and true the that. tick Jn conse- the
qcence of drought pest,
ing losses have occurred In other colo
uies. iVat that federation would ini
nu usoly stimulate cattle breeding in
Queensland there is no doubt, as it
would sweep away duties on cattle
varying in the different colonies from
.>0 shillings tc iOYhilVuss a kecd.
X Eastman
Real Estate Agency .
L. M. CURRY^ Manager. E. T. GENTRY, Sec. andTreas.
If you want a tenant, your property with us.
II you want to rent, come to see us.
If you want to sell, place your property in our hands.
If you want to buy, see us first.
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Will Buy and Sell Options.
Special Attention to Immigrants.
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GEO. ELBERT, Agt., Proprietor.
-MANUFACTURERS OF
High Grade Soda Water, Ginger Ale, Carbonated Drinks, and
THE CELEBRATED COCA COLA.
Cold Drinks a specialty.—Something stimulating, healing ana
drawing. A Fine Line of Fancy Candies, Nuts, Cigars, Tobacco.etc.
Out of Town Orders Solicited.
WE MANUFACTURE AND SELL
Engines.
Boilers
Cotton Gins
Cotton
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Elevators,
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We£peratc Machine 3hO P S Hlld FOUndty.
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Everything in Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Gent’s Cloth
ing and Notions is going at a sacrifice.
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Straw Hats at cost.
Shoes, 75 cents up.
Mackintoshes, $1.50.
Hats at and below cost.
Gents’ Pants, 50 cents up. '
Good Standard Tobacco, 3 Ib= A 1
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Good smoking Tobacco, 25c a
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Have on hand a few New Heme Sewing
beth new and second-hand, which can be bought at
Great Bargain.
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