semi-tropic cmtfornia. 
glprarij department 
QUEEN REARING. 
rilllE apiarist wbfi jirtwliees artificial 
I swarming will fiud that it ta'di ""w 
c.lony is provided wi|h » fertile queen the 
work of the hive will bt much facilitated. 
Tlie following rn»th<Nl i.-; usually practiced: 
Rear freto y.mi most prohlir nml vigorous 
qneons, n» queen* renic 1 from strung' colo- 
nies are UBually the hr-st Inver? Make fi 
new colony us In relofure direct.- 1, into 
which introduce the quer n from Which you 
wish to biceil. (She may lie in In nlueed 
by menus of n small wire cage I Witliin 
twenty-four hours after the queen tins been 
removed the lines will isuDroeiicc buihiine 
oc»s. The scale linos, however, retarned 
again, and wore about, as bad as before. 
.My trees were -mail, and I had only about 
200, and I could easily gn over them, but 
I Raid to myself " What shall I do when 
these tiers are large, like WoIfukilTs imd 
Willson's?" Whilv 1 thought on these 
ui'i urnnlfttiJlg difficulties || new remedy 
appeared un the stage, which him relieved 
the mailer not u little, and I offer it as n 
i i titnb '•> n m\f«r) to our brethren in Los 
Angel. and San Diego counties 1 ob¬ 
served that ii swarm of Very small flies 
Renued wonderfully interested iu ramie 
thing they found in my orange trees. 
Wlnm I shook the tree thousands swarmed 
out- They were particularly numerous in 
tier s where tlm scale bug most lllloilllded. 
I did not notipi the havoc they were mak¬ 
ing with tho slain hug till I observed, 
queen cells, and will build from ten to , «mit weeks after, that the scale bogs were" 
twenty. I n about ten day * tbe Inst queen nearly all deatroyed. One of my neighbors 
will emerge from her royal home. Vlimit 
the eighth day a number of nuclei. con¬ 
sisting of two or three frames, uboulil be 
taken from .strong colonies, with the young 
bees adhering, and placed iu a hive put¬ 
ting in a partition sons to coniine the boat, 
as much as possible. The number of nu¬ 
clei thus formed should correspond -with 
called on me, and .said the sc air bugs had 
left all his trees, and he was convinced 
they had been killed by a Stnail fly, no 
larger than those which arc hatched from 
tho eggs wf often sec on mustard stalks 
He had observed the same swarms 1 had 
'■ecu. ho far as I can b arn, they have 
visited all the orange trees in this part of 
the number of good lb These mm lie Ventura county, ami delivered them from 
transferred to tho nunlei l.v carefully Hit common enemy. I regret that I did 
cutting out and placing in tho comb to 
which they are to la- transferred, by cut¬ 
ting a liolo eorroepiiiidiug with the cell, 
into which the cell must he pressed so as 
to hold without injuring it. Luavn one 
cell in (ho hive, and, if tells enough, two. 
Two in each nucleus arc lie tier, as one 
might not conic out The hers will nl 
once fasten in the n/iuh, anil about the 
tenth day the young queen will emerge. 
The one that first appear?, . hiiins her pri¬ 
ority to reign, and when she meets her 
sisi.-r a deadly combat cunuc*. the victor 
m the conflict remaining niHtiesH of the 
line At the age of three or four days she 
goes out on her bridal tour, and in three 
hi four days thereafter commenct's laying, 
aftor which she may lip removed to « new 
colony by being pined JU a small wire 
cage, one end of which may he tinned up 
with.wax, or a piece of the comb, pressed 
in with the finger, PInow the mge in the 
middle of the hive, between the frames, 
with the waved cud down. Let it remain 
twenty-four hours or more, if il„. hi m ac- 
eeptof her they Will elimtel thickly round 
the cage When they do this the quaou 
may he llbemted by removing t lie Wat if 
the boci do not cut it out. The om’lei 
uiay then be collected into on. colony and 
given a queen. 
ORANGE SCALE BUG. 
A cm MU Or . OMI '/BT. 
nnt so thoroughly examine thin species of 
minute flics an to describe it. But I write 
to console the uUlmtcil. w ith the hope that 
a similar visitation may be in store for 
them, 
One thing more on tlia iiimW question. 
Will the woolly aphis injure materially 
Inr.jr In-e t think not. I have had them 
on frees from mv years old to twenty, and 
tin trees boro fruit, ami grew about n- 
•veil as those Hot infested with them. I 
think the tune when they offset trees 
disastrously is while they arc young. Wo 
ought, to kill them whenever wo find them, 
and for this purpose kerosene is far the 
la st thing. But what 1 moan in, if still 
limy mfobt the routs of good vi/ed trees 
don't lie scared about it, fur the tree will 
defend it-t IT. or ini ml as little about it as 
th. ox did 1.1m tlv ou his horn—did nut 
know it was there. S. Biubtol, 
Sa.n 111 I s ivsVi? K i, VIuntil to, I«W». 
A n.r-i mi‘t-' i may sr-loct IliU acres of 
public larul, whirl Ini held at *1 .'25 nr f 2 60 
P* • ltr ‘'- 1 (“M'taiu cluMHi s of hind are ,. s - 
copted from pi-, emotion by the law), and 
enter it ui the Inud-otllce of the district 
ll> iniist.'■ inhabit ami iinprovt* tbe same " 
ami emit, a dwelling-hoiiwf.. thereon Then 
witlon twelve mouths he muni, pay td.25 
I’ er a ' , i V 1°* riie lam! uml receive his pat 
• nl l ud.r the Hlllnr.Btcutl Act Un imh- 
lidmil outers HKt ucrcH of land ntfri.lili 
per acre, or 80 acres at $2,50 per acre, 
on and cul- 
. bo is entitled 
patent, for tho HimiD. Holders and 
srtfca* K£zr? r . .. 
ot min.. m the If.,an. ,, wldch tirM 1“"'' "T V* tw " ,w , “‘ v " k| ioir l 
di. w attention toil,.. «... of T™" 6 from I Ida five ye 
v.ule bug .1. stroyvr, detailing s.m,, , ill " ' V,‘“* u nJUU w *' a served ioi 
permiBntn i hud inode with apparent sue? J bia^atunrufter^Uviayettre’ residence. C ^ llU1 
line 
ar.s' 
for 
CALIFORNIA'S NATURAL WEALTH, 
1 M1E A’em York' llwnUl, in an article on 
California, snva: An exportation which 
pr.imisea some day to lm extensive, was 
recently begun with sending a ship-load of 
native wines to Germany, and thiiB the 
hunks of the Necluu; ore to bp rivaled in 
their choicest production* by tho -Uimy 
slopew of the I’aeillo shore. The attention 
paid •>' live utnek and wool hns also been 
stimulalod by a tivui and iimi'easing de- 
I mnud, with the natural accompaniment, of 
good prices. Tliese facta, at a time when 
the artificial indualries of California aro 
! under a grievous cloud, afford a gleam of 
hope for tin. future, It is ire a pasture! 
and agricultural Slnln that «be is finally to 
itnml us one of the first ot the Union, and 
the growth of tliesu solid interests implies 
a lessening of the relat ive impoi tauce of tho 
shifting, agitating and -.pemilaliug musses, 
which have contributed much to her ac¬ 
tivity, hut arc now bar bane. It ia uot 
probable that tin- crops in all other ports 
of the country will in 1SH0 he *<, plenteous 
ii- they wore in lK?'.». if the prognostica¬ 
tion* regarding California, therefore, lipid 
good, and they seem to be well founded, 
sbi will reap the chief advantage of a more 
eager demand fur her principal produc¬ 
tion*, and will speedily at.treet. to herself, 
through this circumstance alone, an in¬ 
creased immigration of the kind that can 
benefit her most. Her agricultural and 
pastoral reHources me capable of much fur¬ 
ther development. 
Tin. Ore r.vMiioM.o CJiul.—S he flourished 
thirty or forty years ago, Slio was n little 
girl until she was fifteen. She used to 
help her mother wash the dishes nml beep 
•ho kitchen tidy, ami she bad an ambition 
to make pies so nicely that papa could 
not. tell the difforoute between them and 
mamma's, and yet she could frv griddle- 
cuki'H at ten years of ago, nnfl darn her 
oivu stockings before she was twelve, to 
hay nothing of knitting them herself 
She imv-. r said “ 1 can't," ami " I don’t 
want to," to her mother when asked to 
leave hei play and run up stain or down 
mi an errand, because oho had nut been 
brought, up iu that way. Obedience was 
a cardinal virtue in the ohWnsliinnnd little 
girl. 
Sin- rose in tho morning when she was 
nailed, and went out into tho garden and 
saw the dew mi the grass, and if she lived 
in rim country win foil the chickens and 
hunted up the oggH for breakfast. 
Mho did not think she know as inuali iih 
muthev, and that her judgment was as 
go..d aw her gniutlmothcr's. 
\ml if there lm nil oiil-fmihiotU'd little 
girl in the World to-day, may lieu veil bless 
her and keep her, and raiso up others like 
her. 
"Oil the Uuw Win., tho I1I-W wine, 
II tMUtll like thl. .ill) ; 
The heart i« all nthir-t aunia, 
The drop* art all lik. K „|i|. 
V\ • tbaiight Dio cnii Wim brukou, 
W e Ihuuijllt the UIu Wiih toldi 
ll|it the now win.., tin. new wine, 
It tastoth like the nld." 
