| Show SEVERAL hundred stands of the ita italian I 1 n honey bee have been imported imparted into Int othis this thib territory during the past few months month so and bee keeping promises to become in the future prominent among the home industries of utah besides yielding one of the most pleasant and agreeable of all ali condiments for home use bee keeping beeping with i 1 roper management can be made a source of great profit an exchange the bt st louis illustrated journal of agriculture for last month says that one hundred and twenty delegates assembled at a bee keepers convention ven tion recently held at Cincinnati ana sua and aud that they owned in the aggregate five thousand and fifty one colonies of bees which during the year 1870 produced eighty three thousand and sixty nive five pounds of honey which sold at an average of twenty nine and a half cents per pound a big profit when the very small amount of labor required is taken into consideration there are no doubt many among those in utah who have recently purchased bees who have had but little experience per pern peri leuce lence euce ence in the business and it may be 0 expected that on this account their outlay attention and labor will not for some time receive very large returns books and journals containing instruction st ruction derived from long practice and add experience are however easily attainable tal tai nabie and all who lack information would do well to td avail themselves of that to be derived from these sources A writer in the south souta western pioneer offers some timely remarks on this subject he says that most of the bees in the ilie southwest south west are kept in common box or log hives but before the owners can hope for success or even acquire an interest in bee culture it will be necessary to get their bees in to good movable comb hives to show the value and importance of hives of this construction he adds they enable the bee keeper to know the ex act condition of bacu colony to prevent over swarming and to keep the bees strong to ascertain when a stock is and to supply a fertile queen to unite two or more weak colonies and thus make one ono good colony to take stores from the tha rich and give to the poor to supply empty combs for the reception of stores or the use of the queen to deposit her eggs egesto to secure honey in good shape free from bee bre bread and young bees without breaking the combs and finally all rendered so convenient that the delicate hands of women are made available in the various manipulations it will be seen by the above that great groat hives importance tance is attached to movable comb hives and all ali who can procure them had better do so experience has demonstrated to us that the kidders patent of which see notice in our advertising ver columns ia is just what is required in a branch of industry so peculiarly of a domestic character and which can be made so conducive to home comfort it will be be best beat stand andin in the end far the cheapest to at once procure the best hives and to adopt the methods which experience has demonstrated to be the best for co ducting it THE best beat grafting wax used is said to be composed as follows six pounds of pure rosin and one pint of linseed oil well boiled and applied warm A correspondent of the thip journal of or chemistry recommends the following method of propagating grape cuttings as one almost sure to be successful procure some roots of a wild vine cut them into pieces of about six inches long cut the vine you wish to propagate into into pieces of one or at most two buds insert the lower end by the common commo in cleft grafting method into the piece of wild vine root plant it in the earth leaving the bud of the cutting just level with the ground cover the bud with a mound of earth a foot high for the winter or cover with a small flower pot over which throw straw and earth uncover carefully in the spring and in two years such eat ept cuttings tings will become bearing plants this plan has been successfully tried in pawtucket and can be done at much less lees expense and almost as quickly I 1 aa as buying and trans transplanting ag ch choice olce oice viris vines wild grapes are pie plentiful nt afu I 1 on the hills bills and in the canons in th this thib is territory and the method here recommended can be easily tried tae THE improvement of the breeds of poultry 1 is now receiving considerable atten attell li 41 in in this city and territory and it is well worthy the time that may be given to boitt iti for forin in raising eggs chickens and poultry generally healthy food and large pecuniary profi profit tare are involved and the means to accomplish the same in the most successful manner is a desideratum side ratum A report published in the massachi Mass achu ploughman of the uit furnished by dr fisher ebber ot 01 the worcester north agricultural society contains some useful hints and suggestions on this subject the author says that with judicious management no animals kept upon a farm will yield so sa great a return for the capital employed as poultry he has never found round it less than a hundred per cent and in some caseb cases as high as a hundred and fifty nifty or more dr fisher is not in favor of large numbers of fowls being kept together such colonies have never he affirms been conducted and managed successfully for any length of time not more than from twelve to twenty can be kept to advantage in one house or in one locality he does not believe in leaving hens to run over a farm to provide for themselves with just what they can pick up they should be well fed with a variety of food the former plan may seem the cheaper but it is not so for the increase in eggs and flesh pays for the supply and variety of food furnished them to insure a plentiful supply of eggs be is in favor of using every axne ilent consistent with health to induce hens to consume all they can of the raw materials of which eggs are composed the appetite of the fowls is no reliable guide in this respect for there is nothing says mr fisher which they will eat with greater avidity than hot boiled potatoes and yet if plentifully this food will surely diminish the nu number m ber her of eggs the food which in hla his experience he has found most conducive to the production of eggs is an unlimited supply of good wheat the same of sound corn not injured by heating or in any other way a limited amount of animal food either fresh meat or fish which is better if cooked than when raw also all they will eat of skim mild curd freed from whey and some form of vegetable fiber when at liberty the fowls will greedily consume grass and clover if they can procure it but when in confinement a pretty good substitute for these is dry shorts which they will freely eat lime informs forms an essential ingredient in the food of fowls if a large supply ol 01 eggs is Pe desired desired aired alred to ensure this feed them with egg shell ground oyster shell bones or old mortar when kept con confined fined they should also be occasionally fed with gravel in winter a good substitute for the latter is pounded anthracite coal or the unburned bits of coal left in the ashes dry coal aspesi ashes to the depth of oeun an inch or two is said to be very good spread on the floor of their house keeping ittlean and sweet for a longi time by absorbing and deodor izing their droppings the same material may be used with benefit to dust the fowls with as it will keep them clear of vermin pursue this course in feeding and have the chicks hatched so early in spring that the pullets may commence to lay in september or october and the best beat results may be anticipated they should only be kept for about a ear as the number of eggs 0 will diminish each succeeding year I 1 after the first the whole subject subject of raising poultry and eggs is one well deserving the attention of farmers and all having a taste for it who possesses the facilities necessary to carry on the business almost anything that can be fed to swine awine may be used for feeding poultry and we believe with far more profit and there is no question that the food furnished by poultry is infinitely aubro more wholesome and delicious than hog meat |
