Show bees and I 1 have lately had my attention to the tact fact that there calleg call was a ference in grent du tho the yield ot of he honey ney brool frou colonies located only from one to miles apart writes mrs two tw L Ha carilton Harr rural world lon 1 lii judging from this athla chartists chardis chard lats ts or farmers an and d gardeners gari lenera not get tile the full benefit of 0 their win will truit fruit vines vine vineland sand and clovers it crops a oi they flo do nol keep bees upon their own fields especially ally Is this true if 1 the should be 1 foggy and damp during ih be blooml blooming ng season specialists in lee bee culture know that a good place to locate an apiary la Is near largo orchards harda seed fields farms alfalfa or alala love i anc abc raise cucumbers under glass find the must have bees in their green house houe or their cucumbers will not sp set tsarist who are engaged in those these pursuits unless 11 there are large apiaries n near ear tha th a should cultivate bees as well wel I 1 as fields he who would live at ease she should uld cul sivate both fruit and bees it would be better for the welfare of 0 our country it II bees were more equally distributed very large ap apiaries laries are not as aa desirable as that every orchard and farm should have sufficient workers to gather the th nectar and fertilize the bloom it 11 I 1 not necessary that every farmer sho should old be a skillful skill tul apiarist and secure large larga crops of honey but he should keep ace bees in large hives well protected from froin the intrusion of stock where horses horaeio and other animals have been injured by being stung it was usually the result ot of carelessness hives should in be well protected and not lot placed bit hitching ching posts nor drinking places plant for bees becs bee BA keepers who ha havo experimented along this jill anc claim that it does not pay to plant tori for honey alone but there are many crop and trees that can bo be 9 grown OWL that have a dual value such as the cloberg clo verg al slice sike and white what Is more tul ful upon a lawn than the linden or basswood sweet clover a alba and Mell totua are yearly gaining in favor as food for or stock and bees and are fast rooting out put dog tea fen i nel and other noxious weeds from roadsides and waste places they thrive on gravelly knolls railroad embankments and rocky hillsides hill sides cull CD out cloea we would advise swine breeders bleeders bre eders to cull more mora closely than has been the practice says A L mazon in a contemporary we think that at least one third should be culled and it halt could be culled it would be better we have known breeders bleeders bre eders who have sold every niale male in the herd for breeding purposes even where they got as low as aa 4 or 5 a head tor for them this thia la Is a mistake it la Is lot cot only a detriment to the business but necessarily lowers the standard the quality of pigs sold tor for breeding purposes should be up to a good standard and they should be sold bold at a profit above what the pig would be worth tor for the pork barrel all pigs sold tor for breeding purposes should have excellent bone reasonably well marked free from swirls and have a good breedy appearance they should not only possess good action but should be gentle and of kind da disposition prospects for li mutton rutton production C F curtis superintendent of the iowa agricultural experiment station says it has been shown by experiments at the loina iowa station that ahle well bred cattle coming 2 years old being fattened under favorable conditions will make pounds of 0 increase in weight from 1 1000 0 pounds ot of a given kind of teed feed good lambs under 1 year old will make pounds of increase in live weight from 1000 pounds ot of a similar ration and the mutton in this thia case sold for more than the beet beef in this comparison no allowance Is 15 made tor for the value ot of droppings of 0 cattle or the fleece of the lambs this showing does not argue against the economy ol of beet beef making it only reveals more clearly tile the tact fact that mutton production ought to become a permanent welles well es feature of western agriculture and that farmers and feeders ought more generally to avail themselves of this outlet for the surplus ol of grain and hay crops IS milk link n to alkali ll killa milk Is an opaque whitish fluid tar bar ing an opalescent bluish tint in thil layers and a specific gravity avera gilli between 1028 and 1034 it is a natural emulsion consisting of little globules glo bules bulej of fut fit invested with boatin coatings gs and casein and suspended in a solution of albumen milk milic sugar and salts the reaction 0 of f milk is variable comans womans milk and that of the vegetable eting animals being norn normally ally alkaline but that of the meat eating Is acid however it is often with the tha former possible to obtain a doub double le reaction both acid and alkaline owing to tho and presence of an ail acid c phosphate milk of an alkaline phosphate to becomes acid on stan standing dial owing the conversion ot of part of J its sugar into tin the lactic add acid and at the same time tatty fatty glo globules bules rise to the surface fone these ot of ing a layer of 0 cream some t beir globules glo bules also being treed freed from upon it a milk protein em envelopes eloPes for a fel te standing in a warm place hours is alkaline look upon it as suspicious for tuberculosis etc with all the fat hens preferred fit abuse that may be heaped upon the brida lien i because she does docs not lay jay she he hill do in market than any other more re W fillies and at poultry ilary except tile the turkey turkey Is the difference in dav favor or or of the 1 are very y little As the cons consumers amers tat fat hens bens it Is tor for ing to pay good prices they cease asa best to sell them as soon as as 35 tb tm condition laying it if in a very fat to tn th hens time irae required co to get such again may for laying condition roper proper the IKI best be weeks or even months month theer the bicle have to sell la is w N hen 1101 you lima the pre fth land and a at t I 1 tile the consumer r requires demand ti ex ent ant time the tat fat I 1 lien hen Is in chicago goffio butter holders deal of are the butter ing to export exeor t a good now in the their hands |