Show r ii ix si A ayi fyi r r FARM I 1 M M AND BEES E S USE KELP AS A fertilizer many farmers farmers along maine coast gather seaweed in large ties and statter on land the main jn the picture is one of the many farmers on the maine coast who gather kelp to put on their lands as fertilizer kelp Is a seaweed which Is washed up on the shore and at low tide farmers along the atlantic coast gather it in large quantities and spread it upon their land this makes a very good fertilizer barly as so few animals are raised in new england that stable manure Is scarce however as kelp Is now be A at gathering kelp ing used quite in the man mail of drugs and alid ather things tt it Is becoming more valuable tor for those purposes than for fertilizer and the wonder Is what these seashore tar far mers will do next to obtain something to enrich their soil beekeeping BEE KEEPING FOR A FARMER no agricultural PIo property perty will make equal returns for trouble caused by honey insects A great many farmers seem to think that honey bees aren are not worth any thing but still they value what they make inake very highly every one of them would be gl A 1 to have honey on his table all the time it if they would lust just ako lake a little extra time and labor they i rould have all they wanted just have a few hives in the back rard and you will have all the honey rou want tor for your own use it if you kave ave not any time at all to spend with bees why not let your wife or he children have a few colonies 9 beekeeping bee keeping Is a light pleasant out joor goor work considering the time re quiren and money spent there Is nothing that will net pie he owner any more than the keeping of bees As high as ten dollars worth of boney lioney has been gathered by a single of bees but generally they gather about two dollars worth in one pason teason many people would keep bees it if it were not for their stings A bee keeper does not get stung often he would not any more think of getting stung in picking up a handful of bees than you would in picking up a downy little chick honey Is a good food for the sick and find well old and young it can be used ased a great many ways in the kitchen in preparing things for the table TO HITCH A CORNSTALK POLE with fastening of chain near end of each doubletree double tree considerable trouble Is obviated hooking a stalk pole by fastening a long chain from notches to cleavers in the center of the double tree often causes a lot of trouble by the ends i hoking a stalk pole perking jerking baell and forth caused by light and heavy places in the stalks wit with h the fastening of chain near the end of each double tree the trouble is obviated locating the apiary in starting an apiary the first thing to be considered is the tion of a suitable location for the hives this should be in some open or nearly open place where there will be no overhanging branches from trees to interfere with the operation of the apiarist convenient to some building to be used as a shop for preparing and storing hives and ap and near enough to the house to be easily watched in swarming time and above all in a place SUM dently level to make it easy to get around the hives and keep the grass mowed about and around them buying bees bees dees may be bought at this season very cheaply and it if you are a good judge of colonies they may be bought and moved a few miles in a spring wagon it if handled very carefully but it Is next to impossible to ship hives full of bees and honey by railroad at this time of year anyone con tem plating buying had better con tract now and ship in early spring after the most of tha the honey has been consumed and the combs toughened hv s ga KILLING SURPLUS OF DRONES california bee keeper gives description of sieve he has used and found to be satisfactory W A of monterey cal gives in gleanings the following quick way of killing a surplus of drones I 1 have read in the bee journals a description of a queen sieve and its uses but never saw a drone sieve de scribed although the occasion tor for ita its use may arise in every apiary some times here is one that I 1 have been using with mith good results I 1 nail a queen excluder to the bottom of an empty hive body and set it on top of another hive body close to the hive to be operated on and shake shake into this sieve bees and drones from every comb except the queen and cover it as quickly as possible after replacing the combs I 1 put a porter bee escape on top and on this the sieve with the drones after having brushed off the bees that have clus aclus on the under side of the sieve next morning you find sll 1 the bees that remained with the drones have passed down the escape and the drones on their backs kicking the bucket to shorten the agony of death I 1 put the sieve over a teaspoon fill ful of burning sulphur and in a minute it s all over repository FOR SEED CORN details of rack that Is mouse proof and as each ear Is separate they dry out quickly here rare la is a very useful rack tor for sav ing and drying seed corn to make it take tw tm 0 pieces of 26 4 feet long for the bed pieces and two pieces ol 01 34 6 feet long tor for the upright posts gain the posts on to the bed pieces and bolt and nail them securely says the farm and home ionic then take two six quart milk pans and place the end of the post in the center of the pan par and mark it cut two slits cornerwise across the place marked on the pan turn up the points and slide the pan down over the post to a point 20 inches from the bottom and nail it to the posts now nov take inch hardwood boards ol 01 whatever length you wish to make male the rack and nail them to the posts inches apart with a pair of dividers set to 2 inches commence i at one end 34 inch from the lower edgis of the bottom ol 01 fill 11 1 11 11 A Corn compartment nt for each ear the board and space up to the top ol 01 the boarding space up the same on the other end and with a chalk line uwe strike lines from end to end then set the dividers at inches and commencing 12 inch from the in side of the post space lengthwise OB on top and bottom of boarding with a straightedge or chalk line make per cular lines with a 1164 11 64 bit or drill bore a hole at each intersection and drive spikes from both way waya as illustrated this will give a 3 inch circle for each ear of corn if you cannot get a inch hard wood boards for this purpose get 2 23 12 plank and use sod spikes A space 2 feet square using both sides of the rack will hold a bushel of corn the rows at the bottom ol 01 the cut show the heads of the spikes this rack is mouse proof and as each ear is kept from coming in contact with the others the corn will quickly dry out IV bees ees and form notes cut the silage into one half in h b pieces D bute thoroughly in silo kilo and pack well cora cat cut too early makes sour ma a tery silage cut corn tor for silage when kernel kernels begin to glaze good farming is impossible with out good teams A little w wet et straw with oats sown on it seals the silo effectively the improvement and utilization ol 01 muck land is increasing rapidly when plowing in the fall is one ol 01 the best times tor for deepening the soil it if corn is to dry when put into the silo wet it by running water into tha the blower watch your machinery tor for loose bolts and nuts and dont forget the oil can barbed wire fences are not worth while if you can cant t keep them well stretched and stapled there Is a tendency on the part of some seeds men to introduce old va under new names muck is an abnormal soil consisting largely of the remaina remains of plants in ml of |