1846. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



200 



and dropped in the furrows 2i to 3 feet apart; 

 12 bushels of seed planted on the acre. Before 

 the potatoes were covered, a handful of a com- 

 pound was thrown upon the seed. The com- 



Bees and Bee-Hives. 



Mr. Editor : — The Bee Culture, which has 

 been so long neglected in this as well as mosi 

 other counties in our State, appears to have re- 



pound or mixture was as follows : Leached ashes, .ceived a new impetus from recent discoveries 



25 bushels; plaster, o bushels; quick lime, 5 

 bushels — well mixed together. The after cul- 

 ture was only ordinary. They were dug about 

 the 15th of September, carried into the cellar, 

 and put in bins as usual, except what were sold 

 in the field. About the first inst.. he told me 



judging from the attention that the subject is now 

 attracting. Certain it is that if farmers and bee 

 men could be successful in the management of 

 bees for any considerable length of time, there 

 cannot be found any more profitable branch of 

 rural occupation. But bee men have learned 



that not a single diseased potatoe had at any time | from sad experience that the old fiishioned box 

 been found. hives are better than the " bee houses," expen 



sive "bee palaces," and all the patent hives 

 hitherto in general use (which, by the bye, are 



In looking over some 30 or 40 articles on this 

 subject, in the various agricultural papers before 



me, I have not found that any have used tlieToi'e- no improvements in reality,) put together — pro- 

 going remedy. Tobesure some have used lime — i vided that the old comb be broken out of them 

 others have used plaster — and others still have j every year or two. This process, 1 am aware, 

 used ashes, or at least planted potatoes where ajis a dangerous one, not only to the bees, but to 

 log heap had been burned. The evil referred to j the operator ; but I am satisfied from long obser- 

 is a serious one ; and if the aforementioned com- 1 vation, and the experience of bee culturists gen- 

 position, thrown upoi the potatoes before being; erally confirms the remark, that bees cannot live 

 covered, will prevent the evil on a dry, sandy | and hatch young swarms in the same set of cells 

 loam soil, then /shall escape It hereafter. The | for more than one season without each subsequent 

 crop alluded to above, took the first premium — j swarm becoming more feeble or smaller than the 

 though I do not recollect exactly the number of! previous one, owing to their not having been 

 bushels. Yours trulv, \ fnlly developed in the cells, or part of them not 



JjOcJqiorl, Feb., l^iQ. Niagara. hatching out at all. 



NoTE.-Wc regret that the above article,!, '^}^^^ ^'^"^t^"'^^ are made because! discover 

 which we intended to publish in our April num- 1 ^^ the papers here that a new hive, called Kel- 

 ber, was mislaid. It is interesting and important, I ^^y '^ Alternatmg Bee-PIive,' patented recently, 

 even at this time. If " Niagara^^ has also tried i '^ T"" ""^^''^'^ ^" ^H^ P"^^""' ''""'^"',;^ '\ c\^m^eA, 

 the same experiment, we should be pleased to i f ^^^'^^f §»"^,f. advantag-es over a 1 others now 

 learn the result-and promise that his favor shall I ^^°^'^ ^he public, and to be founded upon entire- 

 not be delayed in like manner asabove.-[ED 1^^ "^^^' P^^^c.ples, by means of wnich swarms 



Informatioil Respectfully Desired. 



can be preserved and increased ad infinitum. 



Now I am one of those who wish to be satis- 



, ^, . ,, ^, . • 1 , fied before I praise or condemn anything, and I 



As Chairman of a Committee, appomted at the I j.^^^ .^-jgh that some of your subscribers or cor- 



rosponaents v/ho may be acquainted with these 



t ion rtfrv!/-^..7-v^-». u ;-,-.<i^4^u^-.. irtrt*- tt*,-^^r^ii^^4-i I .'. i 



inf ' 



quests the Secretaries of all Agricultural Socio- j advertisement says,) will inform the farmers of 

 ties and Farmers' Clabs m the Lnite<l btates, to j ^j,-^ ^osinty, througii your columns, of the prac- 

 address to him a note, stating the locahty of the | ^j^^j ^.^^.J^g and management of bees in them, 



and wherein their principles arc entirely new or 



lion, at New York, in October last, "to collect i ,^;;,^g^ ^^. ^^^ ^,^^^^^^ ^j^^t has attended their use 

 mformation" the undersigned respectfully re- ! ,vi,erever it maybe, (in Yates co. I think the 



Society, and the names of the President and 

 Secretary. 



The list, when completed, will be printed, and 

 a copy sent to each Secretary. The object is to 

 establish the means of correspondence, and in^ 



worthy •^\' attention. 



There are so many humbugs and failures in 

 bee-hives now in use, that these hives, if any bet- 

 ter, should be adopted, and if not the farmers 



terchange of information and views, for the bet- 1 3,^^^^^ ^^^^ ,^g .-heated and induced to buy them, 

 ter protection of the rights, and more efficient 1 p^j..^jgj.3 ^^.^.^^ no fancy hives;— they want good 

 improvement of the practice, of agriculture. ^-^-^^ ^^,^^j ^^eap stock hives, such as will be easy 



Agricultural and other editors are respectfully ! ^^ management and control, and will be in some 



requested to give this one insertion. There are 

 nearly 600 such societies and Clubs in Great 

 Britain, all well known to, and in correspond- 

 ence with each other. 



J. S. Skinner, New York. 



The finer the seed to be sown, the finer should 

 be the soil in which it is placed. The earth 

 must come in contact with the seed. 



way a preventive to the ravages of the boe-moth. 

 Let us imderstand what we buy from practical 

 men who know something in regard to the sub- 

 ject. Respectfully yours, 



An Apiarian. 

 Salitia, Onondaga Co., July, 1846. 



He tiiat rewards the deserving makes himself 

 one of the number. 



