No. 7. 



Editorial Notices. 



229 



moval till night; Mr. Knight stands in this 

 class, and says he does not believe that bees 

 ever have any difficulty in finding their way 

 from the fields to their new habitation, pro- 

 vided it be fixed before the next morning, 

 and he considers late removal as securing 

 the congregation of all stragglers. — Bevan 

 on the Bee. 



THE FAKMER§' CABINET, 



AND 



Philadelphia, Second Month, 1845. 



toms bo observed, the queen will probably 



be discovered on the ground, or somewhere 



apart, surrounded by a small cluster of at- 

 tendants, whom nothing but violence can 



separate from her. If she be taken up ei- 

 ther singly or with the cluster, and placed 



near the entrance of the hive containing the 



swarm, all will be harmony. 



Sometimes a swarm divides into two por- 

 tions, which settle apart from each other; 



should this happen with an after swarm, it 



may be presumed that each portion has a 



distinct leader. The conduct of the apia- 

 rian in this case, must be governed by the 



size of the two divisions, and the season at 



which they emerge; unless both be large 



and the swarming early, they had better be 



hived in separate boxes, and joined together 



in the manner recommended in page 61. If 



near enough together, they may be hived in 



the same box. 



The branch on which the swarm settled 



is sometimes rubbed with wormwood, or 



smoked with disagreeable fumes, to drive 



away all remaining loiterers. The readiest 



and simplest mode of procedure, however, 



is to keep up a constant agitation of the 



bough by means of a long hooked pole, till 



the whole or nearly the whole of the bees 



have Ibrsaken it. 



No attempt should ever be made to intro- 

 duce a swarm into a hive or box till the 



cluster is nearly settled, nor should the hiv- 

 ing be long delayed, lest the bees rise and 



fly to a distance. 

 The general practice is not to remove 



bees to their intended station till night, but 



Bonner and Mr. Golding recommend their 



removal as soon as the swarm seems to be 



pretty well settled ; and I am of the opinion 



that this plan is judicious, as the bees of a 



full swarm begin to explore the fields soon 

 after hiving, and it is on that account desira- 

 ble that their earliest proceedings should be 

 associated with the spot upon which all their 

 future operations are to be conducted ; it 

 will prevent that puzzling and impediment 

 to their labours which are apt to be pro- 

 duced, by delaying the removal till night. 

 Let the newly-tenanted hive therefore be 

 placed as soon as possible upon a floor-board, 

 and at once removed to the site which it is 

 intended to occupy. Should any sufficient 

 reason prevent the adoption of this early 

 removal, let it be placed as near the intend- 

 ed site as^convenient, and unless it stand in 

 the shade, be covered with boughs or a 

 cloth. 



Notwithstanding what I have said as to 



the early location of a swarm, there are 



Etlll some intelligent apiarians who prefer days, and yielded in that time 5-2 lbs. 9 ounces of but- 

 thc ancient practice of deferring the re-l|ter. The conimiuee awarded to Henry S. Randall, of 



Some unknown friend has forwarded the Albany 

 Argus of the 22nd ult., containing an account of the 

 Annual Meeting held in that city, of the New York 

 State Agricultural Society, on the 15lh. 



It appears from the statement of the Treasurer, that 

 the receipts for the year 1844, were §4,865,^0, and the 

 expenditures$3,933,91. Benjamin P. Johnson, of Onei- 

 da, was unanimously elected President; Daniel Lee, 

 of Erie, Corresponding Secretary; Luther Tucker, of 

 Albany, Recording Secretary; and Thomas Hillhouse, 

 of the same place, Treasurer. Eight Vice-presidents 

 were also chosen. Utica was proposed as a proper lo- 

 cation for the next State Fair and Cattle Show; a com- 

 mittee of the citizens of that town having offered to 

 prepare the grounds, &c., so as to be ready for the oc- 

 cupancy of the Society, and to furnish such police offi- 

 cers and clerks, as may be requisite for transacting the 

 business of the Fair and Cattle Show, without expense 

 to the State Agricultural Society. The reports of the 

 various committees possessed their usual interest- 

 some account of tliose on crops we give here. 



The first premium for wheat, was awarded to Mat- 

 thew Watson, of Canandaigua, he having raised 215 

 bushels of wheat on four acres and twelve poles of 

 ground, or about fifty-two and a half bushels per acre. 

 No first premium on corn w as awarded, but the second 

 was given to J. F. Osborn, of Cayuga county— his crop 

 being 213| bushels on two acres. Several premiums 

 were awarded for Barley and Oats. The first for bar- 

 ley, to Stephen B. Dudley, of Ontario cnunly, for a 

 crop of sixty-nine and nine-tenlhs bushels, on a lot of 

 two acres. The first premium for oats, was given to 

 Seth Lawton, of Dutchess county, his crop being 120^ 

 bushels per acre— and the second to J. F. Osborn, for 

 104 bushels per acre, on a lot of two acres and nine 

 rods. John G. Smedberg, of Greene co.. raised 1,160 

 bushels of ruta baga on one acre, and 2,173 bui'hels on 

 two acres and five rods. William Risley raised 1,059 

 bushels of carr<.ts, and C. B. Meek, 1,101 bushels of 

 mangel wurtzel, per acre. The first premium for but- 

 ter, was awarded to George Vail, of Troy. His cows 

 are the Durhams. Six of them kept on grass, produced 

 in thiriy days, 2C2 lbs. 9 ounces of butt, r-averaging 

 for each cow better than 1 lb. G ounces per day. The 

 milk nf one of these cows was kept by itself for thirty 



