No. 8. 



Profifable Farming. 



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will nevet be infested with worms, for the 

 bee moth will not deposit her cir;js where 

 the earth will come in contact. iSiie natu- 

 rally resorts to a dry board as her element. 

 The remedy has been employed by a number 

 of persons in t!i is vicinity for several years, 

 with the most complete success." 



PRESERVING BEES. 



These industrious insects have been suc- 

 cessfully preserved from the miller by having 

 tdbes projecting some ten or tifteen inches 

 from tlie hives, instead of holes cut in the 

 sides for their passage way into the hives. 

 The miller will not light on the end of the 

 tube, and is unable to tind an entrance. 



A correspondent of the Genesee Farmer 

 buries his bees under the ground in winter 

 — digs a trench in light elevated ground, the 

 bottom having a gentle slope to guard against 

 standing water ; places the hives on small 

 stones, and then covers them with straw and 

 earth. Of thirty to forty hives thus buried, 

 he lost none. I'hey consumed less honey 

 than when kept in the usual way. 



CHINESE MODE OF PROPAGATING TREES. 



A small rope of twisted hay or straw filled 

 with cow dung is repeatedly wound round a 

 suitable branch of a tree. Above this a 

 gourd or other vessel is suspended, having a 

 small hole that will keep the hay rope con- 

 tinually moist. Three-fourths of the circum- 

 ference of a narrow strip of the bark is re- 

 moved. In about a month half of the re- 

 mainder of the bark is removed. In another 

 month, or less, the mass of straw rope will 

 be filled with roots. The branch is now 

 very carefully separated and placed in the 

 situation desired. 



TO DAIRY WOMEN. 



To prevent that rancid nauseous flavour 

 which is too often prevalent in cheeses, even 

 when made of the richest milk, and which, 

 otherwise would be delicious, salt the milk 

 as soon as it is taken from the cows: I mean 

 the evening's milk, which is kept in pans 

 during the night, in order to be mixed with 

 the new morning's milk. The quantity of 

 salt to be used on the occasion, is about a ta- 

 ble spoonful to each gallon of milk, and is 

 generally sprinkled on the bottom of the pan, 

 and the milk poured upon the salt, and they 

 soon become incorporated. This early salt- 



■ ing has enabled many dairy women, whose 

 cheese was before always hoven and de- 

 testably rank, now to produce excellent and 

 well-flavoured cheese, and on farms that had 



|. been pronounced totally untit lor the dairy 



' system. 



! CEMENT. 



To make cement for glaas and earthen 

 ■'ware, take unslacked lime, the fresher and 



finer the better, pulverize it in a mortar, and 

 sifl it through a fine sieve or coarse muslin. 

 Mix this thoroughly and rapidly with the 

 white of eggs, so as to form a thick paste, and 

 use it immediately. Broken dishes may be 

 mended with this cement, and if neatfully 

 and skilfully done, adhere very strongly. 

 Isinglass dissolved in alcohol is also strongly 

 reconmiended as a good cement for this pur- 

 pose. 



SODA. 



A few ounces of soda will soften a hogs- 

 head of the hardest water. It is greatly su- 

 perior to either pot or pearl ash, giving f, deli- 

 cate whiteness to the Imen, without tlie 

 slightest injury, and it never, unless excess 

 is used, in the least atfects the hands. 



Profitable Farming* 



The following facts are stated in the last 

 number of Governor Hill's Monthly Visitor: 



James Hill, of West Cambridge, has taken, 

 in ninety successive days, five thousand dol- 

 lars in cash, in Boston market, for articles 

 raised on his farm. 



- Isaac Locke, of the same town, has raised 

 the present year, thirty barrels of quinces, 

 which sold on the ground for seven dollars a 

 barrel; he has also sold in the present au- 

 tumn, several barrels of Baldwin apples at 

 three dollars per barrel. 



The value of the strawberries raised in 

 West Cambridge, and sold in the Boston mar- 

 ket, is more than was taken thirty years ago 

 for all the agricultural products of the town 

 put together. 



The apple orchards of this town are exten- 

 sive. Two hundred, three hundred, five 

 hundred, and sometimes a thousand barrels 

 of carefully picked apples are produced in a 

 single year by one farmer. 



George Pierce of the same town, culti- 

 vates only seven acres, and yet he has taken 

 in the market for produce, the present sea- 

 son, as by memorandum kept, nearly or quite 

 four thousand dollars. 



This season, very early, among his articles 

 for market, was about one-third of an acre of 

 the dandelion, which grows spontaneously in 

 many mowing fields — these he with some 

 difficulty obt;iins from the seed ; bu't the crops 

 turn out very profitable. He had about an 

 acre of strawberries, from which upwards of 

 two thousand boxes of that fruit were picked 

 last summer; these at 37^ to 50 cents a box, 

 for which they readily sold in the market, 

 produced not a small profit on a single acre. 



G. Pierce also cultivated the raspberry, 

 which thrives with great luxuriance. He 

 thinks he could make of the blackberry, which 

 grows in the hedges and amongst piles of de- 

 cayed wood or rocks in neglected fields, a pro- 

 fitable article. 



