124 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 

 'We'll 



May, 



kins now,' said the grocer. 'We'll one year from thirteen dollars to six- 

 test him.' ty dollars each. Such results came 



"And he took a scoopful of sugar from a system of working everything 



and extended it to the old man. for profit. That is the spirit that con- 



" 'Feel this, Henry,' he said, 'and tell trols in successful agriculture. — Se- 



us what it is.' attle Post-Intelligencer, 



"The blind man put his hand in the The foregoing weeding out process 



scoop, passed its contents through his 

 fingers, and said in a firm, confident 

 tone: 



"'Sand.'" 



can be also applied in apiculture and 

 some of the progressive independent 

 bee-keepers have already done so. 



(M). 



HOME OF APIARIST GEO. H. JOHNSON, E. WOODETOCK, CONN. 



SCIENCE IN DAIRY METHODS. 



In Denmark the dairymen have suc- 

 ceeded in making every animal pay 

 profits. This was done by thirty or 

 more owners of dairies employing an 

 official tester to report upon the re- 

 sults from individual cows. After 

 carefully watching and weighing the 

 milk for a given time the inspector re- 

 ported on the individuals in each herd. 

 The result was that poor cows went 

 to the meat market and the produc- 

 ing value of dairy cows increased in 



HOW SHE DOTH. 



How doth the little busy bee 

 Improve each shining hour. 

 Gathering honey from clover and 

 Apple blossoms and dandelions and 

 Buckwheat and aphides and molasses 



barrels and 

 Cidar mills and candy shops and so 



forth, and 

 Mixing it with propolis and beeswax 



and 

 Bee-bread and bug-juice and 

 Swarming out and leaving it to sour. 



