SEED-TIME km HARVEST. 
13 
as it will not be able to form a sufficient 
muscular growth, and the animal will lack 
yigor and health. For fattening animals 
rapidly, there is no better food than corn, 
but it should never be fed alone. The 
waste wpuld not be so great, but it is well 
enough to avoid it when this can be easily 
done by giving other foods produced upon 
the farm: and the vigor and health of ani¬ 
mals demand a variety of foods. Much of 
the disease among swine is due to the ex¬ 
clusive feeding of corn. Disease results 
not because corn is not a good, wholesome 
food when properly used, but because eat¬ 
ing it largely overtaxes the digestive or¬ 
gans when there are no other foods to re¬ 
lieve the monotony of the diet. 
In feeding horses, fat is the last thing 
desired; that is, while a certain amount of 
fat is necessary, bone and muscle, which 
represent vigor and strength, are what 
gives value to the horse. We feed the 
horse for the. work he will do, not for its 
flesh or the milk of the mare. We feed 
for force, not fat. Hence, com is not a 
good food for a horse, unless the horse is in 
very poor flesh and we desire to fatten 
him. Work horses should have food rich 
in the albuminoids, and for them oats, peas 
and beans are much better than corn. We 
feed too much corn to milch and work ani¬ 
mals, and to all young growing animals. 
Bee-Culture a National Industry. 
Among the recent industries of rapid 
growth in this country, bee-culture stands 
prominent. Of course, as a homely art, 
bee-keeping is no modern industry, being 
as old as history; but in its scientific devel¬ 
opments it is of recent growth. In these 
times, when science is properly taking 
its place at the helm in all departments 
of human industry and activity, it is not 
strange that it is promptly aesuming the 
guidance of bee-culture. This is a utilita 
rian as well as a scientific age; and this is 
why bee-culture is being so rapidly devel¬ 
oped, for its extraordinary growth is only 
in the ratio of its utility. Though known to 
commerce for twenty-five hundred years, 
hitherto it has been followed and known, 
in this country at least, principally as a 
local industry. But bee-culture, from the 
soundest economic considerations, ought 
undoubtedly to become a great national 
industry fostered and protected by the State. 
Apiculture, is naturally a part of, and 
closely allied with, agriculture, inasmuch 
as the nectar gathered by one is immediate¬ 
ly derived from the same fields and forests 
that yield the abundant ingatherings of the 
other. Indeed, the bulk of the honey crop 
of this country(which is, in round numbers, 
about 100,000,000 lbs. annually), comes from 
the bee keeping which is in connection, 
more or less, with farming. — Popular 
Science Monthly for April. 
A Much Abused Woman. 
It is time to look at the other side of a 
vexed question. I have seen several articles 
in the papers against mothers-in-law. Now 
I am a persecuted mother-in-law. My house 
was a little paradise until my daughter-in- 
law was brought home. I think where a 
son takes a wife to his mother’s home, if 
she is the right kind of a woman, it is no 
trouble to get along. There are some their 
own parents can’t live with. They get 
married, and go to live with their husband’s 
people, ahd if they live like cats and dogs, 
it is all laid to the mother-in-law, when 
they are all the evil ones. For my part I 
have a great deal of sympathy for mothers- 
in-law, and I think you would, too, if you 
were in my place. There is some advice I 
would like to give to young men. Don’t 
marry until you have a home of your own 
to take a wife to. Don’t give your poor 
mother, who has nursed you in your infan¬ 
cy—idolized you—any cause for trouble; let 
her go to her grave in peace. How many 
families there are whose homes were a little 
Eden till a daughter-in law was taken in 
the family, to destroy, by her petty jealous¬ 
ies and clamorous demands upon one’s good 
nature, even the semblance of happiness ! 
Love is like a river, if the current be ob¬ 
structed it will seek some other channel. 
It is not unfrequently the case that the 
kisses and attentions bestowed on the child 
of six years, are intended for the sister of 
sixteen. 
