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NEW ENGLAND FARTHER. 



Oct. 



with coarse wool, and will soon do so at fair 

 prices, if they are allowed a fair chance. 



T. L. Hart. 

 West Cornwall, Ct., 1869. 



EEMOVING HONEY-BOXES FROM 

 HIVES. 



Supposing that the reader has Lives of the 

 most approved patterns, and has placed the 

 honey- boxes upon them at the proper time, I 

 propose to give a few directions as to the best 

 way of removing them when filled. It is 

 never good policy to destroy a single bee when 

 it can be avoided, and especially in the honey- 

 harvest, when every bee is required to gather 

 the produce of the flowers. Careless apiari- 

 ans are very apt to destroy bees unnecessarily, 

 while obtaining surplus honey. Where hives 

 are so constructed as to allow of its use, a 

 piece of sheet-iron or tin, to slide under the 

 box to be taken oiF, so as to pi'event the bees 

 from below fvom flying out when the box is 

 removed, is very handy. Smoke of some 

 kind, (either tobacco, rags or wood, will an- 

 swer the purpose,) and should always be used 

 to quiet the bees, and prevent them from 

 stinging the operator. A little blown under 

 the box as it is llfced from the hive will cause 

 the bees to be very peaceable and harmless. 

 As soon as a box is removed, an empty one 

 should be put on, for if it be delayed, the bee 

 keeper will often lose the best of the harvest, 

 for a few days in the height of the honey sea- 

 son, are often of more value than weeks after- 

 wards would be. 



The best method I have ever tried, and the 

 one recommended by Mrs. Tupper of Iowa, 

 for driving the bees from the boxes, is to take 

 them off just before night and place them upon 

 a table after supper. They should be in- 

 verted, and several of them can be placed 

 side by side, and a box of some kind turned 

 over them, which is just large enough to 

 cover the entrances to the caps. In the morn- 

 ing the bees will be found clustered together, 

 when they can be set out of doors and allowed 

 to seek their own hives. Or, if it is preferred, 

 each set of boxes may be numbered, and kept 

 separate from others, and the bees emptied in 

 front of the hive from which they were taken. 

 The chief advantage this plan possesses over 

 others, is that it prevents the jarring of the 

 boxes, which in warm weather, when the 

 comb is tender, often does serious injury to 

 the honey, both in appearance and value. — 

 Rural American. 



TRAINING HORSES TO BE SAFE. 



It is easy to train a horse not to be danger- 

 ous. It is easy, but it requires patience and 

 good sense in the trainer, and good sense in 

 the colt too. Some colts are natural fools and 

 can never have sense trained into them. It is 

 not at all difficult to train a young horse to be 



gentle and quiet under almost any circum- 

 stances ; and if something unusual should ter- 

 rify him, he would run to his master sooner 

 than run away from him. A horse properly 

 trained will always look to the rider or driver 

 in the time of fright, for protection ; and in- 

 stead of kicking and tearing everything to 

 pieces, when scared, he will, when he sees you 

 standing by him, and feels your hand on his 

 head or on the rein, put his trust in you, and 

 regard you as his only hope in time of danger. 



This was often illustrated durin;.? the war. 

 All who served in the cavalry or artillery force 

 have seen how terribly frightened a horse ap- 

 peared the moment his rider tumbled from the 

 saddle. It mattered not how loud the thun- 

 der of the guns roared in battle, nor how 

 great the confusion in the hour of deadly 

 strife — the horse seemed unconscious of dan- 

 ger until left alone, without a rider or atten- 

 dant. The moment the rider's hold was re- 

 leased and the steed found himself separated 

 from the one he was trained to regard as his 

 protector, that moment he became furiout'ly 

 wild, and would begin to neigh and run in 

 every direction, oftentimes pressing into the 

 group in the front rank, seeming to find com- 

 fort by rubbing his sides against the legs of 

 the riders of other horses. 



Every farmer who raises colts, could, with 

 a little care, make them familiar with the sad- 

 dle and harness on their back or under their 

 belly, and also teach them to hold back a car- 

 riage on a down hill grade, by bracing their 

 hips against it. A horse taught in thit way% 

 would not be scared if the rotten breast-strap 

 should give way or the pole break, and let the 

 carriage against him. 



Educated horses will always be saleable and 

 bring a paying price. A really serviceable 

 and valuable horse is seldom seen on the mar- 

 ket, in any of the large cities. Those that 

 are free from blemish are generally unedu- 

 cated, and as dangerous at times as if they 

 had never been hitched to a carriage. Far- 

 mers can raise colts that will pay well, by giv- 

 ing some attention to educating them for the 

 various purposes horses are used for. — Rural 

 World. 



Bag Holder. — A very convenient arrange- 

 ment for holding bass while filling them may 

 be easily made as follows : — Take a piece of 

 plank about twenty inches long and a foot 

 wide, bevel off the sides a li;tle and nail strips 

 of thin boards, that will spring, six or eight 

 inches wide to it, for uprights. The plank 

 base should be beveling enough to make the 

 uprights about fifteen inches apart at the up- 

 per ends. The bag is placed between these, 

 and the upper end folded over the ends of 

 the shoulders two or three inches. It will be 

 held firm and in a convenient position for till- 

 ing. The uprights should be just long enough 

 so that the bag will rest upon the plank when 

 being filled. — Ohio Farmer. 



