SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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/^SANSFERRING BEES FROM ONE HIVE TO 
Another. 
WiiSN bees have existed several years in the same 
hives (says the Rural American) it is frequently advisable 
to transfer them to new ones, which operation may be 
performed as follows : 
If the old hive is a common one, any besides our cross- 
bar hive, it must be turned bottom upwards on a pleasant 
day, about a week after the issue of the first swarm, (in 
June in this latitude) an empty hive placed upon it, and a 
sheet tied around the junction of the two hives, in order 
to close the passages, and darken them. Then take a rod 
in each hand, and rap smartly upon the sides of the lower 
or full hive, for 15 or 20 minutes, and at the end of that 
time the most of the bees will have ascended, with their 
queen, into the empty hive, and clustered at the top. The 
new hive is now to be placed in the position where the 
old one stood, while you remove the latter a few feet, and 
proceed to cut out the combs, and with a soft wisp of grass 
brush off the bees that adhere to the combs directly in 
front of the new hive, as many young bees, unable to fly, 
will be fouud upon them, and for the accommodation of 
such, a board should be placed against the new hive, one 
end at the entrance, and the other resting on the ground, 
and the bees should be brushed off upon this board and 
they will enter the new hive immediately. 
We recommend allowing one swarm to issue before 
driving, because you are sure of one prosperous family in 
the swarm and probably two, if the old stock does well; 
whereas, if you drive before any swarm issues you will 
get no swarms, and the old stock or family may desert 
their new tenem.ent, in which case you lose all. 
In no case should a family of bees be transferred into a 
new hive, when the honey harvest is not abundant, as the 
bees will be liable to desert their new home, and especi- 
ally if near old woods in v/hich hollow trees exist. But 
when the fields are covered with white clover in blossom, 
there is very little risk of desertion. ' 
TOOE HOUSE. 
In traveling through the country we find there are more 
farmers who leave their farm implements and machines 
exposed to the weather, after the season of their use has 
passed, than there are of those who have a house and “a 
place for everything and everything in its place.” 
The number of farm implements and machinery have 
greatly increased within the last ten or fifteen years; many 
of these are indispensable, at the present day, to success- 
ful farming. These require a considerable outlay in their 
purchase, and true economy should dictate that suitable 
shelter should be provided for them until the operations of 
another season require their use. A plow, horse-rake, or 
mowing machine, will be injured by exposure to the 
weather during one winter more than by all the wear and 
tear from careful usage, during the working season. Many 
farmers who have ample room for the storage of their 
tools, through neglect, leave them exposed to the weather 
from the time they were used one season, until they are 
wanted for the next. Where this is the case, a rule should 
at once be established and every workman be required 
to follow it — that as soon as an implement is done with. 
It is to be immediately housed. Such a rule once estab- 
lished will afterwards be easily maintained. 
Where suitable buildings do not already exist, it will be 
but a small matter to erect them. They do not necessari- 
ly require to be costly, but temporary sheds are better 
than no protection. — Volley Farmer. 
Not to know what has been transacted in former 
times, is to continue always a child. If no use is made 
of the labors of past ages, the world would always remain 
in the infancy of knowledge. — Cicero. 
.SOUND DOCTRINE. 
The following arguments, in favor of advance payment 
for newspapers, v/ere advanced by the Ohio Editorial 
Convention : 
“What would you think of a farmer who had raised a 
thousand bushels of wheat, and who should sell it to a 
thousand different persons scattered all over the State, and 
agree to wait a year for his pay from each of them, and 
if one-half of them did not pay at the end of the year, he 
should give them another bushel of wheat, and agree to 
wait another year for his pay, and thus go on year after 
year I How long would such a farmer escape bank- 
ruptcy! probably not very much longer than publishers 
of newspapers who followed such a practice. It costs 
an editor of a v/eekly newspaper as much, to supply a 
thousand subscribers with it for one year as it costs a 
farmer to raise a thousand bushels of wheat. The farmer 
sells his grain in bulk, and either takes the cash or a note 
(just as good as cash) upon delivery. The editor cannot 
sell his thousand papers in bulk. They are sold to a 
thousand different persons living in different towns in the 
county, and different counties in the State, and he must 
wait until the end of the year before he can get his pay- 
ments, and then he depends wholly upon the honesty and 
responsibility of the subscribers, for it is impossible that 
he should know the character of all his subscribers. It 
would not pay him to go around or send around the coun- 
ty or State to collect his dues. It would cost more than 
the collection would come to.” 
HOGS— SLOPS — CATTLE — PEAS, &c. 
Editors Southern Cultivator— I send some valuable 
information to those who will follow it in practice. 
Hogs salted and given copperas, ashes (hickory) and 
sulphur are almost certain to be healthy ; but not without a, 
lilile corn. If allowed to lie around quarters in old beds 
j in the dust, they will certainly have lice, coughs and 
everything else. 
They must not be fed on the same place until the dust 
is two inches thick. It will get up their noses and into 
their throat and cause coughing. 
Sulphur sprinkled on the back will drive away lice, and 
tar and grease with sulphur in it, will do the'setme. 
A teaspoonful of arsenic given to each hog will cura 
cholera and many other diseases. 
How many of your readers have a barrel at the kitchens 
of house and quarter to save the “slops”— an invaluable 
drink for hogs and cows ! 
Cattle salted well— not once a week— if attacked with the 
disease that has killed so many, will seldom, if ever, die; 
and this is known to those who have lived in districts af- 
fected. 
Will Peas Kill Cattle, &c.!— Yes and No. Yes, if 
turned on a full pea field without being fed and watered 
before turning in, and then if allowed to stay too long at 
a time. No, if fed and driven out for the first two days 
after being in fields an hour or so in the morning and 
afternoon. 
Peas will kill young hogs — after running in a pea field 
during the winter— in the spring ; but will not kill old 
hogs ; at least theshoats die faster after running in a pea- 
field. Why, unless the peas cause it, I do not know. 
Yours, &c., John 0. Guiok. 
Benton, Yazoo Co., Miss., Nov.-, 1858. 
A very good sealing wax is made by melting and 
stirring together one ounce of Venice turpentine, four 
ounces rosin, and six ounces gum shellac. A beautiful 
red color may be given by adding one quarter of an oz. 
or less of Vermillion. 
