“A bee removed against his will, 
Is of the same opinion still.” 
This matter of “opinion” in the minds of bees 
has much to do in accounting for the strange 
phenomena that two colonies that appear to be 
equal, prove to be very different in the honey - 
producing capacity. Natural swarms (first and 
second) have a radical impulse about them, that 
pays many fold for all the trouble connected 
with that system of increase. He who has not 
learned to make fully as much profit from his 
second as from his first swarms according to 
size, yea, even more, has much to learn in this 
regard. Properly managed our second swarms 
yield us more surplus pro rata than any other 
stock. They do the most perfect work, and 
make the best colonies for the next year. Let 
us make no advance on the systems of our fore¬ 
fathers, except such as are real progress. We 
want no changes merely for variety’s sake. We 
want the host and most profitable methods all 
the time so far as we know them.—[Jamee Hed- 
don, in the Kansas Bee Keeper. 
FKOM OUR EXCHANGES. 
To Keep Eggs.— 1. Eggs may be kept for 
an indefinite time if packed when quite fresh 
in boxes with rock alum in shape like rock salt. 
Put in a thick layer of alum, then the eggs, 
small end down, cover with alum around and 
over them, and keep in a cool, dry place. 
2. Slack fresh lime with boiling water; when 
cold, thin with cold water to the thickness of 
cream. Pack the eggs small end down, in a 
barrel or in stone jars, then pour on the cold 
whitewash covering the eggs. Care must be 
used in taking them out, as they are easily 
cracked. This has been used with success for 
forty years. 3. Three gallons of water, one 
pint fresh slacked lime, one half pint salt. Use 
perfectly fresh eggs with sound shells. If more 
lime is put in it eats the shell; if more salt it 
hardens the yolks. Put them in carefully, they 
will keep perfectly good for a year or more. 
4. Hold perfectly fresh eggs in boiling water 
while counting six. A wire basket can be used 
for this purpose. Be sure to have water enough 
to entirely cover the eggs. Let them dry and 
cool, then pack in oats. Put a layer of oats on 
the bottom of the keg or barrel sufficient to 
support the eggs. Pack them closely, small end 
down, and proceed till the barrel is filled. Shake 
it gently to settle oats and eggs firmly. This 
method has given eggs a year after packing, in 
as good a state of preservation as when first 
packed, in answer to several inquiries.—[Col- 
man’s Rural World. 
Cross Fertilization. —Dr. E. L. Sturte- 
vant has made some interesting trials at the Ex¬ 
periment Station, under glass, on the effects of 
cross and self-fertilization on several garden 
vegetables. Beans which were grown in pots, 
where they could not receive pollen from other 
plants or flowera, formed pods but no seeds. In 
one instance a plant of the cranberry bean blos¬ 
somed before there was another flower open in 
the green-house, formed a pod with one seed, but 
eight other pods were seedless. Other bean 
plants, which could not receive cross-fertiliza¬ 
tion, bore in all with the proceeding, twenty-six 
pods, but only the one seed. The inference is 
therefore that cross-fertilization is extremely 
advantageous to the bean, and is always effected 
out doors in various ways. A similar result 
took place with the cabbage. Among the plants 
which were denied cross-fertilization, but which 
bore seeds abudantly, were the tomato, the pea, 
and the nasturtiums. These experiments, so far 
as limited experiments can give rules, indicate 
that in raising beaus for seed, different sorts 
must be kept away from each other, to prevent 
crossing and mixing. But many varieties of 
the tomato and pea may be grown in the same 
plot without mixing. The greatest care, how¬ 
ever, must be used to prevent the mixing of 
different varieties of cabbages.—[The Country 
Gentleman. 
Female Endurance.—A student in a Mich¬ 
igan school having stated, in an essay, that men 
had more endurance than women, a lady took 
him to task for his statement, and remarked 
that she should like to see the thirteen young 
men in the University laced up in steel-ribbed 
corsets, with hoops, heavy skirt®, trails, high- 
heels, panniers, chignons, and dozens of hair¬ 
pins sticking into their scalps, cooped up in the 
house year after year, with no exhilarating ex¬ 
ercise, and see if they could stand it as well as 
the girls. Nothing, said she, but the fact that 
woman, like cats, have nine lives, enables them 
to survive the present regime to which cus-- 
tom -dooms the sex. We think the lady has, 
much the best of the argument, and, if the sex. 
as a whole were only possesed of as much good 
practical sense as of endurance, w r e would see 
them lop off some of these absurd customs and 
articles of “clothing,” and thereby reduce the 
pains and disorders and general breaking down 
which leaves woman a mere wreck while man is, 
in his greatest vigor. 
