394 -^ Modern Bee-Farm 



Jerseys for Profit. Just note the two typical Jerseys- 

 shewn as " Mother and Daughter." The mother, four 

 years of age ; the daughter just turned two, and one other 

 Jersey cow aged seven, grazing on a meadow of four acres, 

 for a period of seven months averaged thirty-five pounds of 

 butter weekly. This with the skim-milk would amount to 

 a profit of over ;^2' weekly for the seven months. 



Other stock was also grazing on the same field during 

 that period. Why then do we hear so many complaints 

 of farming not paying ? The above shows a produce of 

 £i/\. per acre for the seven months ; but the field was at 

 one time very poor, and a judicious treatment with arti- 

 ficial manures, and the penning of fowls over it, finally 

 brought the land into a good condition of fruitfulness. 



A banking account at twenty per cent, interest is not to- 

 be compared to the proceeds from good land, and from high- 

 class cows fed upon it. Poor land — allowed to remaia 

 poor — and inferior stock, will on the other hand ruin any 

 cultivator (?) of the soil. 



Syrup ^VITH0UT Cooking. — A self-acting principle 

 was introduced by me some twenty years since, was illus- 

 trated in my Xon-Svvarming Pamphlet, and described 

 under three forms : (i) The "Amateur," all metal and cir- 

 cular, holding gibs., for top of the hive ; (2) The " Frame " 

 feeder, all wood, except the perforated sugar holder inside, 

 holding about the same quantity ; and (3) The " Com- 

 mercial," a double compartment feeder of full size, to go 

 on top of the hive, and holding anything from 20 to 40 Ibs^ 

 of syrup ; all arranged for the simple process of putting 

 in the usual proportions of sugar and water, when with no 

 further attention the whole is shortly reduced to syrup. 



The sugar must be suspended in the water by means of 

 the perforated compartments as shown in Figs. 31, 32, 50,^ 



