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THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



annoys us fearfully, but a tired, half-sick, worn out 

 mother puts a whole household out of sorts, and to 

 the children home ceases to attract when mother is 

 always scrubbing-, scouring, seoldinj; and Krumbliug. 

 Try to be cheeri'ul. If you have so much to do, that 

 you scarcely know where or how to begin, do not talk 

 of it, but do what you think you onght to do, and let 

 the rest go. 



Home Interiors. 



Domestic miseries cannot always be concealed by 

 the victims of them; they lie open to the gaze of all 

 who cross the afllicted threshold. But they do not 

 concern the outer world, and the outer world has no 

 right to look on tliera. Visitors ehould not see them, 

 even when their dismal forms come boldly into view; 

 and visitors should bear ofl' no memory of them to ex- 

 hibit to others. The joys of a household may be pro- 

 claimed far and wide, its weakness, its affections, its 

 sorrows, and its misery, possess a bitter sanctity that 

 every sensitive and honorable soul will religiously 

 respect. _^_^^_^^___________ 



INFORMATION ABOUT BEES. 



The Honey Bee in Farm Economy. 



Agriculture and bee culture bear a very close relation, 

 and the bee plays a very important part on every 

 farm ; for in the springtime they are ever ready and 

 anxious to perform their part, visiting the blooms of 

 the forest field and orchard, gathering the pollen 

 trom petals, and sipping the nectar from the cells of 

 the flowers, and bearing it home to their hives as a 

 treasury for the support of the little colony, turning 

 over the surplus to the farmer for his family, for the 

 trouble of furnishing them with a house and looking 

 after them. The bees, in gathering the pollen from 

 the blooms, carry it from one to another, thus more 

 thoroughly mixing and fertilizing them than could 

 possibly be done by any other plan. Thus it is seen 

 the bees perform their part in the farm economy, 

 and they deserve to be recognized and fully cared for 

 by every farmer. When we consider the honey, it is 

 found to be one of our finest luxuries on the family 

 table, aside from its medical uses. Then let every 

 one give the honey bee a place in the yard or orchard 

 If it be but a single colony, and keep an account of 

 the expenses, and after comparing it with any other 

 product on the farm it will be found to pay better by 

 four-fold than anytliing else invested. 



On the first warm open days the bees will be flying 

 out, and you ought to set some rye meal, unbolted flour, 

 cornmeal or flour, and shorts mixed, in a shallow 

 box or vessel where the sun can shine down in it, and 

 you will see the bees bobbing in it, filling their little 

 baskets and legs and bearing it away to their hives 

 for feeding the young ones." You should open the 

 hives, take out the combs, brush out the dead bees 

 and all trash from the boitom of the hive, and be 

 certain to examine carefully to see if they have a 

 queen; and if none is fdund, take and unite them 

 with a weaker stock that has a queen. Attend to 

 this late in the evening, after sprinkling each hive 

 with sweetened water, perfumed with essence of cin- 

 namon or peppermint, and then brushing each into 

 one hive together, setting in the comb that has the 

 queen in it first. By morning they will be all right 

 and ready for l)usiness. 



These suggestions may be of use to those beginning 

 bee culture, by giving them some idea of managing 

 ■ the "little busy bee." 



Queries Answered. 



The Bee-keepers Magazine gives some valuable 

 information in its answers to the following queries : 



1. "Can I buy a pure queen (Italian), put her in 

 a colony of black bees, Italianize the stock, and 

 rear queens, so as to Italianize all I have, and could 

 such queens be called pure Italians? and can I do 

 thus and change ten or twelve hives of black bees 

 from the one queen I buy, and that by keeping them 

 60 near together?" 



You can Italianize one stock in this manner and 

 rear queens from it, but they would be very liable to 

 mate with black drones from the other stocks, and 

 all thus mating would produce hybrid progeny. 



3. " Can black l)ces be transferred from old hives 

 during winter? If so, how can I move the comb and 

 make it stick? Would beeswax do to cement the 

 comb to what I-wish to fasten it to?" 



Not with safety; wait until fruit trees blossom. 

 Melted beeswax not very hot, mixed with resin, will 

 do, but we use fine wire to wrap around the combs 

 and hold them in until the bees fasten them to the 

 frames, then the wire is removed. 



3. "What hive did the N. A. B. Society adopt as 

 a standard, or did they not adopt any at their meeting 

 in Pittsburg?" 



They did not adopt any hive, but most speakers 

 favored a hive with frames about 13x12. 



Hereafter we propose to devote some attention 

 to the interesting and profitable subjectof the Apiary; 

 and we invite facts and suggestions from practical 

 bee-keepers. 



The Cotemporary Press. 



The Aghicultukal .\nd Floral Guide. An 

 illustrated demi-quarto of 20 pages. Mexico, Mo. 

 Monthly, at SI a year, with extra premium induce- 

 ments to clubs, paid in nursery stock. 



The Bee-Keeper's Magazine, an octavo monthly 

 (illu.strated) of 30 pages. An ably conducted prac- 

 tical journal on the subject indicated by its title. W. 

 B. Cobb, publisher, 76 Barclay street. New York. 

 $1.50 a year. 



The Weekly Fancier's Journal and Poultry 

 Exchange. A royal octavo magazine of 30 pages, 

 finely illustrated and printed, and devoted almost ex- 

 clusively to the chicken and pigeon trade. Philadel- 

 phia. S3.50 per annum. Joseph M. Wade, editor 

 and proprietor, No. 39 North Ninth street. An ex- 

 cellent journal for those interested in this specialty. 



The Pioneer. We have received the February 

 number of this journal, published at Omaha, Neb., 

 apparently in the interest of the "Union Pacific Rail- 

 road Land Company." It is a large folio, illustrated, 

 with a very significant " head " and maps, and con- 

 tains much useful information for the instruction of 

 emigrants. 



The Colorado Agricultural and Stock Jour- 

 nal: devoted to "rural and home all'airs, arts, sci- 

 ence, literature, and the material interestsof the great 

 west." A double folio, illustrated, and in fair type. 

 Denver, Colorado. Weekly, at S3 a year, by James 

 B. Hill. Emanating from almost the outer verge of 

 civilization, it would be a credit to the centre of the 

 nation. 



The Pacific Rural Press comes to us from San 

 Francisco in the form of alarge imperials vo. weekly, 

 published by Dewey & Co. It is in its ninth year, and 

 bears all the marks of prosperity which are apparent 

 in the business enterprises of the Golden State. The 

 publishers get S4 a year for the paper, and 3.5 

 cents a line for their advertising, of which there are 

 over twenty columns in the number before us. 



The Canada Farmer, published monthly, at 

 Toronto, Canada, is the leading agricultural journal 

 over the line. It is an imperial 8 vo., of 30 pages, 

 with cover, somewhat larger than The Lancaster 

 Farmer, and furnished at $1 a year. It is ably con- 

 ducted and is standard authority on the topics it dis- 

 cusses. Three numbers came to us under a three cent 

 postage stamp, only one half what Uncle Sam charges 

 to carry The Farmer to Mountville ! For many 

 years the Government of Canada permitted all agri- 

 cultural journals published in the province to pass 

 through the post-office free of postage. 



The Colorado Horticulturist : How rapidly 

 the New West is being developed is shown by the 

 establishment, in that far Western Territory of Colo- 

 rado, (on the Western verge of the so-called Great 

 American Desert,) of a quarterly journal devoted to 

 Fruits, Flowers and Gardening, a specimen copy of 

 which has been received. It is a handsomely illustrated 

 quarterly. From it the people of the East can learn 

 how garden. crops are grown where rain^ll is not 

 depended on. The July number is to contain an 

 illustrated article on the subject of Garden Irrigation. 

 The home of the enterprise is at Greeley, a town but 

 five years old containing 1,.500 inhabitants. This is 

 the town founded by Union Colony, to which 

 Horace Greeley stood as god-father ; the temperance 

 town of Colorado, wherein no man looketh upon the 

 wine when it is red. The paper is furnished at the 

 low price of fifty cents per annum, with a premium 

 of a plant of the Rocky MontUain Jlcd liaxpbur ry , 

 (price 35c.), and a packet of seed of an ornamental 

 climber, the ^ylhl Vucainher Vine, (price 10c.) . 

 Foster & Co., Greeley, Colo. 



Catalogues of Seeds, Plants, &c. 



The American Booksellers' Guide, published 

 montldy, 119 and 131 Nassau street, New York. 



" How to make S3.50 a Year by Bees," J. W. Pag- 

 dcn, Sussex, England. A 24 mo. volume of 45 pages, 

 in paper covers. Lorinu, publisher, Boston. 



Centennial Address to the people of New York, 

 by prominent citizens, and the " United States Cen- 

 tennial Almanac " for 1875. King & Baird, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



D. L. Resh's Susquehanna Green-Houses and Plant 

 Nurseries, Columbia, Pa. This handsome 12 mo. 

 " Catalogue and Annual Report " came to hand too 

 late to be noticed in our last number. 



Webster's Lanthcapeand Oniamental Gardener, 

 containing hints and plans for laying out and orna- 

 niciitinLT grounds in accordance with the principles of 

 an and taste. An octavo panijjhlet of ;i4 pages. Roches- 

 ter, N. Y. See advertisement. 



International Exhibition 1870, Fairmount 

 Park, Philadelphia, Pa. A beautifully executed 

 royal octavo j)aiuphletof 53 pages, with several band- 

 some maps, and finely executed architectural illus- 

 trations relating to the " Centennial." 



BtHLDiNG As.^oiiATiox JOURNAL. The Organ of 

 the Building and Loiin Associations. As its name 

 implies, it is an 8 paire quarto, devoted to an interest 

 of no ordinary importance. Philadelphia. H. A. 

 Mullen, 730 Chestnut street. 50 cents a year, 



THE PROGRESS OF INVENTION. 



Official List of Patents, 



Relating to the Farm, the Dairy, Apiary, &c., 

 For the month, ending April 1st, 1875.* 



Apparatus for Pisciculture; A. Bond, Vernon, Conn. 

 Horse Blankets and Pantaloons Combined; C. Franke, 



New York, N. Y. 

 Grain Separator; J. H. Locke, San Francisco, Cal. 

 Hay Loaders; Frank Marion, Tremont, III. 

 Rein Holders; Carmi Osgood, East Hardwick, Vt. 

 Jump Seats for Carriages; N. Starkey, Amesbury, 



Massachusetts. 

 Machines for Packing Tobacco; H. Winterweber, 



Offenbach, Germany. 

 Check-Rowers for Corn-Planters; Geo. D. Haworth, 



Deeatiir, III. 

 Windmills; A. & G. Raymond, Wampun, Wis. 

 Harvester Reels; G. G. Read, Russellville, Ky. 

 Sulkies; Peter Soule, Colesville, N. Y. 

 Pump Suckers; I. M. Springer, Indianapolis, Ind. 

 Plows; C. R. Dugdale, Dixon, Pa. 

 Transplanting Boxes; P. Eby, Lancaster countv. Pa. 

 Butter-Workers; J. L. Englehart, New York, N. Y. 

 Automatic Clock operated Horse-Cribs; W. R.Grib- 



bin & Augustus McMillan, Portland, Maine. 

 Plows; A. Hampe, Staunton, 111. 

 Horse Powers; E. J. & J. W. Hovle, Martins Ferry, O. 

 Gang Plows; J. B. Hunter, Ashley, III. 

 Pruning Shears; W. H. Johnson, Springfield, 111. 

 Pruning Implements; W.H.Johnson, Springfield, 111. 

 Grain Separators; W. M. Koppers, Seville, Ohio. 

 Cotton Scrapers and Choppers; Wm. A. McClaug- 



hertz, Seguim, Texas. 

 Animal Traps; I. V. Newsom, Eatonton, Ga. 

 Green-Corn Cutters; W^m. J. Potter, Mount Lebanon, 



New York. 

 Land Pulverisers; A. Underwood, Carrollton, HI. 

 Animal Hopples; J. D. Wilson, Round Grove, Kan. 

 Chums; D. C. Bailey, South Salem, Ohio. 

 Cultivators; Jacob Behel, Rockford, 111. 

 Horizontal Hay and Cotton Presses; T. P. Bennett & 



E. J. Riincier, Belton, Texas. 

 Land Rollers; P. Bilzen, Moveagua, III. 

 Horse Shoes; S. B. Henry, Farmwell, Va. 

 Fertilizing (Compounds; C. H. Hoffman, San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal. 

 Stacker Attachments for Threshing Machines; Levi 



Kittinger & J. K. Koutz, Massillon, Ohio. 

 Wagon Brakes; R. I. Knapp, Half Moon Bay, Cal. 

 Cultivators; L. L. Lawrence, Dublin, Ind. 

 Wind-Wheels; Newell P. Mix, Avenue & William C. 



Jacobs, Columbia, Ohio. 

 Milk Safes; J. F. Pool, Monroe, Wis. 

 Vehicle Springs; J. M. Pressey, Salineville, Ohio. 

 Plow Carriages; D. W. Ralston, Rockford, 111. 

 Wind-Mills; G. F. Rounds, Benton Harbor, Mich. 

 Interfering Boots for Horses; A. Westbrook, Astoria, 



New York. 

 Dough kneading boards ; L. L. Black, Lowell, Mass. 

 Sheaf Droppers" for Harvesters ; S. G. King, Round 



Grove, III. 

 Milk Coolers; E. McEwan & Chas. 0. Gibson, Derby 



Line, Vt. 

 Sulky Plows ; Wm. B. Quick, St. Louis, Mo. 

 Churns ; J. W. Simmons, East Monroe, O. 

 Butter Workers- F. B. Aldrich, Chicago, 111. 

 Hog Trajis ; J, F. Cooper, Frankton, Ind. 

 Colters ; A, M. Davis, Jerseyville, 111. 

 Horse Collars; L. W. Harbaugh, Muscatine, Iowa. 

 Thrashing Machines ; T. Harri.sou, Belleville, III. 

 Sod Cutters; R. Hinkson, Buft'alo, N. Y. 

 SadiUe Horse Apparatus; A. Hitt, Flora, III. 

 Feed Cutting Machines ; W. J. Jones, Hamilton, Ohio. 

 Sulky-Harrows ; J. Kimbell, Pleasant Home, Neb. 

 Fruit (iatherers: M. McDevitt, Hampton, Va. 

 Corn Shellers; S. H. Moore, Chicago, 111. 

 Cultivators ; P. D. Rogulmore, Panola county, Texas. 

 Draft Equalizers; L. J. Seely, Waldrou, Ind. 

 Grupe and Flower Pickers ; L. B. Snow, Cleveland, O. 

 Fruit Driers; T. C. Walter, San Francisco, Cal. 

 Fruit Driers; H. J Allen, Sturyis, Mich. 

 Plows; Wm. Bradford, Valdosta, Ga. 

 Horse Hay Rakes; S. H. Bushnell, Fairport, N. Y. 

 Pruning Shears ; J. Chase, Orange, Mass. 

 Bag Holders ; Leonard Crolbot, Pavilion, N. Y. 

 Cider Mills; Enos Curtis, Traverse City, Mich. 

 Grain Samplers; F. A. Furst, Baltimore, Md. 

 Straw Cutters ; Warren Gale, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 

 Churns; D. W. George, Pulaski, Iowa. 

 Lawn Settees ; H. H. Gratz, Lexington, Ky. 

 Grass Cultivator Teeth ; E. Leonard, Akron, Ohio. 

 Bag Fasteners ; A. M. Miller, Sturgis, .Mich, 

 Pruning Implements ; C. .Miller, Boonville, .Mo. 

 .Motors for Churns, &c. ; H. Odell, Peekskill, N. Y. 

 Cheese Safes ;W. P. Quackeiibush, HoUey, N. Y. 

 Preserving Apparatus; J. P. Schmidt, San Francisco, C. 

 Grain Conveyers; Wm. Stanton, Erie, Pa. 

 Machines for Subsoiliiig and Digging Vegetables ; T. 



L. Webster, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 Housemaid Pails ; EnimaC. Wooster, New York, N.Y. 

 Garden Sprinklers ; Frank M. Gray, Norwood, 111. 

 Road Scrapers ; A. MeCall, Saratoga, Cal. 



• Prepared expressly for The Lanoasteu Faumeb by 

 Louis B.igger & Co., Solicitors of P.iteutB, Wasbii)gton, D. 

 C, frciiii whom complete copies of the Pateuta uud Druwiugs 

 may be obtaiued. 



