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present price of bees in this section of coun- 

 try, we believe to be about five dollars for a 

 good hive in the spring; such as will give 

 on an average, two swarms during the sum- 

 mer. This, after deducting fur the trouble 

 of the taking care of them, is a great profit. 

 Each hive of bees that are in good condition 

 in the spring, will make enough honey over 

 their own wants, to pay well for taking care 

 of them, and leaving a profit of two hundred 

 per cent. Now if this can be realized, what 

 better business can a farmer ask for? Surely 

 we have a land "flowing with milk and 

 honey." 



We are informed that the following easy 

 method of taking the honey without destroy- 

 ing the bees, is generally practiced in France 

 with great success. In the dusk of the eve- 

 ning, when the bees are quietly lodged, 

 approach the hive, and turn it gently over. 

 ■Having steadily placed it in a small pit, pre- 

 viously dug to receive it, with its bottom 

 -upwards, cover it with a clean new hive, 

 which has been properly prepared, with a 

 few sticks across the inside of it, and rubbed 

 with aromatic herbs : then having carefully 

 adjusted the mouth of each hive to the other, 

 so that no aperture remain between them, 

 take a small stick, and beat gently round the 

 sides of the lower hive for about ten minutes, 

 in which time the bees will leave their cells 

 in the old hive, ascend and adhere to the 

 new one. Then gently lift the upper hive, 

 with all its little tenants, and place it on the 

 «tand from which the other was taken. This 

 should be done some time in the week pre- 

 ceding mid-summer day, that the bees may 

 have time, before the summer flowers are 

 faded, to lay in a new stock of honey, which 

 they will not fail to do for their subsistence 

 throuffh the winter. 



Yest. — The following methods for making 

 yest for bread, are easy and expeditious. 

 Boil one pound of good flour, a quarter of a 

 pound of brown sugar, and a little salt, in 

 two gallons of water, for an hour ; when 

 milk warm, bottle it and cork it tight ; it will 

 befit for use in twenty-four hours. — One pint 

 of it will make ten pounds of bread. — To a 

 pound of mashed potatoes, (mealy ones are 

 best,) add two ounces of brown sugar, and 

 two spoonsful of common yest, the potatoes 

 ■first to be pulped through a cullender, and 

 mixed with warm water to a proper consist- 

 ence. A pound of potatoes wmII make a quart 

 of good yest. Keep it moderately warm by 

 fermentinsr. 



Tlic HusbaiKt man's Prayer. 



BY H. S. ELLENWOOD. 



O thou! whose wisdom power, and love, 

 This world, and all its creatures, prove; 

 The fertile field and fruitful trees, 

 Thrive, or decay, as thou shalt please ; 

 And human art and toil are vain. 

 If thou withhold thy sun and rain! — 

 Still may ihy bounteous Providence, 

 All wish'd — all needful good dispense. 



When brumal storms have spent their power. 

 And Sprino expandeth many a flower, 

 May ne'er the frosts that fall at night, 

 The seeds of future harvest blight; 

 May ne'er the blushing blossom yield 

 To storms that devastate the field : — 

 From such, and from too piercing air, 

 The new-shorn lamb — and nestling — spare. 



In Summer, when thy solar ray 

 Is felt through all th' enfeebled day, 

 Mild be his genial beams, without 

 Contagion's force, or parching drought. 

 And, frequent, may the full-fraught cloud 

 The azure arch of heaven enshroud, 

 That gentle moisture, teinp'rate heat, 

 A plenteous harvest may complete. 



When Autumn's treasures spread around, 

 And garners teem, and fruits abound. 

 Then shall the Husbandman upraise 

 To thee his Hymn of Praise ; 

 To thee, who gavest, not in vain, 

 The early and the latter rain ; 

 To thee, whose promise doth avail — 

 " Seed time and Harvest ne^er shall fail." 



God of the Seasons ! let thy care 

 Preside o'er each revolving year ! 

 May Health, fair queen of blessings ! crown 

 Each city — and each rural town — 

 While sweet content, and heart-felt joy 

 This Land of Freedom shall employ — 

 Thee, may thy off'spring — man — adore. 

 Till Time — and Seasons — change no more. 



Manure. — The gross annual value of the 

 manure used in Great Britain and Ireland, is 

 estimated at the enormous sum of 20,000,000 

 pounds sterling. 



Agriculture was the first, and should 

 ever be the most esteemed of all pursuits. 

 How happy would it be for hundreds and 

 thousands of our young men, if they could be 

 persuaded that a few acres of ground are a 

 better capital than as many thousands of dol- 

 lars procured by writing their names at the 

 bottom of a negotiable note; and what years 

 nf misery might be saved, if men would be- 

 lieve that a dollar actually earned by honora- 

 ble and Iiealthy labor as farmers and me- 

 chanics, is worth a hundred in prospect to be 

 gained in trade and speculations. 



