| Show agricultural BEE CULTURE AND WOMANS WORX WORK adam grim of jemmerson jefferson wis who is a most successful apiarist commenced the season last spring with two hundred and eighty nive five swarms of bees and increased the number by swarming to six hundred and forty six these swarms produced within a fraction of twenty one thousand pounds of honey which sold strained for four thousand one hundred dollars the tho jefferson county anve we often aften hear bear women say that there is no remunerative employment for them As an answer to this we would woul d state that mr grim has two daughters who have each taken separate charge of an important part of the apiary miss kate rate grim has by her ber heiskill skill attention and the past summer earned one thousand two hundred dollars net and miss margaret a ret grim has earned one thousand four four hundred dollars net 11 experiments IN FERTILITY OF SOILS tir mr lawes of england made experiments with soil owned in one family a thousand years he ha joweda piece continuously to wheat for twenty seven years with an average crop of fifteen and nive five t bushels per acre A piece in barley een years gave gava twenty bushels per acre and ts piece in rass gave two thousand and six hun ed red pounds a year this yield represented the condition of the soil with the ordinary cultivation and rotation as practiced practised ct se but b t similar sl liar ilar land of the t e same farm ar si to which le fourteen tons of manure wei wel were applied p lied produced thirty six bushels of wheat eat and thirty t six bushels of barley and wit with two hundred pounds of phosphate it produced forty eight bushels of barley this again shows the value of land jn in england and the increased fertility of af it t through rough the application of manure land and an any farmer knowing the coltof manure mampre in his lo 10 call cali amay bashy estimate esti milte whether it will pay him to lo I 1 nse use aitor it or not biot bearing in mind always that it is much cheaper che aper and easier to keaup the fertility of the soil than thin to td bridgit bring bri ngit it back baek when once it is impoverished irrigation there has a very mistaken impression gone abroad in reference to Irrig irrigation atton in our state the idea being prevalent that in order orden to secure crops of grain or fruit we must irrigate our fields this is not true in any respect as to the greater and better portion of our state our grain crops wheat barley oats and corn grow entirely from the winters rains and require no arg irrigation atlon the same is true of potatoes and ind vegetables generally our fruit growers generally are beginning to learn th atwater that water injures their trees and the quality bality of the fruit after the first year tze tte the vine needs no irrigation and the best wine is produced on 04 barren hillsides hill sides without water oranges and lemons 1 are suppose supposed 4 to require water and it is general in the southern counties to give abbl abbi abundant idan f water to the orange and lemon grove but we have no doubt that time will demonstrate the fact that those trees will flourish without artificial irrigation and produce fruit of superior flavor san franeisco francisco czi Cli ronicle VALUE OP OF MILK MILIC A chemist ebenal at of providence E R I 1 states that th at milk is more nutritious than meat the nutritive value of milk as compared with other kinds of animal food nood ia not generally appreciated there is less dif ference between the economical value of milk and beefsteak or eggs or nish fish than is commonly supposed the quantity of water in a good quality of milk Is elgh ty six bix per cen bentin tin round steak devent seventy y nive five e percent per cent in fatter beef sixty six per cent in eggs about sixty eight per cent from several analyses made last winter I 1 estimated sirloin steak reckoning I 1 loss oss from trombone bone at thirty five cents a pou pound ildy lids as dear as milk at twenty four cents a quart round steak at twenty cents a pound a as milk at fourteen cents a quart eggs at thirty cents a dozen as dear as milk at twenty cents a quart many laborers a who pay seventeen cents for corned cornea beef beel would consider themselves hardly able to pay ten cents for milk m ilk lik when in fact they could as well afford to pay fifteen milk is a most wholesome and economical food for either the rich or poor it ought to be more moro largely used if the money expended for veal and pork were were expended for milk I 1 doubt not it would be an advantage both to the stomach and pocket especially during the warm season relatively speak speaking ing then milk at ten cents or even twelve cents a quart is the cheapest animal food that can be used whether farmers can stord to produce I 1 it t cheaper is a matter for them to decide |
