No. 15. 



Borrowinsi; — Bees. 



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natural roads and clay floors, to towns and 

 cities, where he is driven over turnpikes 

 I and stone pavements and lodged on plank or 

 perhaps stone floors. The consequence of 

 such a transition, is that he becomes lame 

 from swelled limbs, splints, windfalls, quit- 

 tor, &c., &c. i^'orthwith the poor beast is 

 subjected to rowelling, firing, blistering, 

 caustics, aqua-tbrtis &c., for the purpose of 

 curing which, in most cases, a removal of the 

 causes alone is necessary — as nature will do 

 the rest. These are but examples of the tis- 

 sue of errors extended throughout the whole 

 treatment of unsound horses. The whole 

 system is a bad one. — It is cruel and unprofi- 

 table quackery. I would therefore advise 

 those who keep horses to seek the advice of 

 an intelligent and skillful veterinary physi- 

 cian, when such a one can be found, in all 

 obscure and complicated diseases ; and in the 

 ordinary complaints and casualties, to beware 

 of resorting to harsh and tormenting, as well 

 as disfiguring remedies ; to learn how ade- 

 quate nature is to remove diseases, and to re 

 pair injuries, provided she is not in her ope 

 rations impeded, resisted, baffled, nay! as she 

 often is, really subdued by meddlesome man. 

 There is that certain, though inexplicable 

 power, in the animal economy by which dis- 

 eases may be cast oft', and injuries repaired — 

 a principle inherent in and inseperable from 

 life, and on this we should mainly rely. We 

 may render ourselves auxiliary to the euro, 

 but cannot force it contrary to nature's de- 

 sign. 



Medicu.s. 



For the Farmers Cabinet. 



Borrowing. 



The lender is sei vant to the borrower. 



Will you permit an old fellow who has 

 seen some service in farming, and who has 

 been a subscriber to your very useful paper 

 since its first publication, to occupy a few 

 lines in the Cabinet, for a purpose that per- 

 haps some may consider of little importance. 



The purpose indicated by the heading, to 

 wit: — Borrowing, in many neighborjioods, 

 and amongst considerate thoughtful farmers 

 is not much practised; yet there are individu- 

 als who through downright carelessness and 

 neglect of duty to themselves and their more 

 provident neighbors, are much given to this 

 species of imposition. A proper spirit of ac- 

 commodation, and a disposition to oblige and 

 reasonably to promote the interests of neigh- 

 bors, should always be encouraged and pro- 

 moted, but it should never be carried to the 

 point where it would assume the character of 

 a regular systematic plan of operations. — 

 Those who borrow, should resort to it as sel- 

 dom as possible, and always return the arti- 



cle borrowed as early as practicable, and be 

 sure that it is returned to its owner in <rood 

 order. This is but a very plain principle of 

 common sense and justice, and yet there are 

 very frequent instances of its infringement, 

 and that among well meaning, yet inconside- 

 rate people. On the farm that I was reared, 

 care was taken to keep the implements of 

 agriculture in good order, and to have a pro- 

 per supply of them, but we had neighbors in 

 good circumstances who instead of de- 

 pending on their own resources, were con- 

 stantly borrowing, first one article and then 

 another, the year round, and it was somewhat 

 of a rarity tor them to send any thing home 

 again; for they seemed to think it trouble 

 enough to come for it in the first instance. — 

 During my boy-hood, it fell to my lot when a 

 I loaned article was wanted to trudge off to the 

 neighbor who had borrowed it and bring it 

 home, and it was not unfrequent that it was 

 unfit for use when brought home, and some- 

 times there was demur at the surrender of a 

 borrowed article. Now I hope there has been 

 improvement in these matters since I was 

 errand-boy, yet I fear there is still room for 

 admonition on the subject of borrowing, and 

 I concluded to drop you these i'ew lines, that 

 the boys of the present day, may know what 

 has been the experience of tliose who were 

 boys fifty years ago but are now 



Ou) Men. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Bees. 

 I have had some experience in the man- 

 agement of Bees for upwards of tliirty years. 

 The first knovv'ledge I had of the miller 

 worm was about seventeen years ago, since 

 which period they have been very" destruc- 

 tive to my bees, particularly in wet seasons. 

 I have read with attention several treatises 

 on the history and management of bees, the 

 proper construction of hives, &c., in order to 

 prevent the ravages of the worm ; but my 

 success has not been equal to tiiat of the 

 [authors. I therefore adopted a plan of my 

 'own — simple it is true — but it has so far 

 proved successful. It is as follows : — I have 

 several hives ready made, of sizes suitable 

 for the swarms; I then nail two uprights to 

 the hive; through, these uprights I bore with 

 1 1-4 inch augur a hole; through these holea 

 a strong wooden pin is inserted, by which the 

 hives are hung upon a pole, made flat on the 

 top to prevent them from swinging. I 

 have the bottom of the hive elevaled'' four 

 feet from the ground. Ry tiiis means, the 

 worms, when tliey begin to crawl, usually 

 fall to the earth, and not being able to re-as- 

 cend, perish — whereas, when the hives are 

 placed on a bench, as is usually the case, the 

 worms, losing their foothold, fall, but are en- 



