gusting pustules are formed, which are no 
things of beauty or joys forever. 
A still smaller mite, the face mite, Demodex 
follieulorum, (Owen,) lives in the Dimples, or 
diseased follicles about the chin and nose of 
the human face. 
For all the parasites I have referred to. 
Prof. Verrill recommends a solution of sul- 
phuret of potassium, two to four ounces to 
the gallon of cold water, varied to suit the 
character of the skin of the animal to be 
treated. 
and the nut on top. The other boards are one 
inch thick nailed on; if they break they can be 
easily replaced. Rouud poles for the runners, 
with the upper side hewed flat, answer the 
purpose as well as planks The hitchingTrons 
at the ends 4, 4. can be made of old iron by 
any blacksmith, for25 cents for the pair. They 
are. fastened on with four bolts. In place of 
the irons a two-inch hole may be bored through 
the plank for a chain to pass through. 
The box, (Fig. 2), is two feet wide and live 
and oue-half feet loDg on the bottom, and three 
feet wide and six and one-balf feet long on top- 
It is made of three-quarter-inch soft, or onc- 
half-iuch hard wood, the corner posts, 5, 5. are 
two inches square and of hard wood to hold the 
nails. The pieces outside, 6, 6, to hold the 
corners from drawing apart, may be cut out of 
an old stove-pipe, ami put on with small nails. 
One board is left off from fig. I to show the 
runners. ^ Gulley. 
Mich. Agr’l. College. 
The habits of mites are very vaiied. some, 
like those in question, are parasitic; others, like 
the wee red spider, are very destructive to 
plants on whose juices they subsist. Still 
others, like the cheese and sugar mites, are de¬ 
structive to the articles which give them their 
They are often met singly and as ot- 
• i. A lady of my acquaint¬ 
ing been much annoyed of late by no- 
iads of these minute creatures upon 
Now to make the nine brood frames: Nail 
the top bar (S) to the ends of the side bars (S l ) 
letting the ends of the top bar project one inch 
beyond the side bars, and nail the bottom bar 
to the ends of the side bars, so as to have a 
frame lljxll} inches outside measure. For 
names. 
ten iu great numbers 
ance 1— , 
ticing myr 
her windows. . 
Ixodes (Tick* ) 
The largest of these animals arc the ticks, 
which are often found on cattle that feed in the 
woods. Nor do the “ wood ticks” confme their 
blood-thirsty attacks to our domestic animals, 
as many of us well know by painful exper¬ 
ience. Often, as a hoy, did I have to pay a 
painful penalty for those delightful strolls in 
the grand old forests, laid on by one of these 
same ticks ’‘Ixodes umpunetata, (Pack¬ 
ard.) One feels the darting pain and upon im¬ 
mediate examination finds the cruel tick 
deeply buried, aud so firmly anchored that the 
attempted liberation tears the head from the 
body. As a lad I wondered at this firm hold, 
but as I came to know the structure of the 
mouth organs, I ceased to wonder. Both their 
.L»ir crinssnid or tongue are covered 
FARM HELPS 
comb guides, fasten a strip of comb founda¬ 
tion, $ inch wide and 10$ inches long, in the 
center of the uuder side of each top bar. io 
make the cases (T), nail the top bars to the 
ends of the side bars, allowing the ends of the 
top bars to project beyond the side bars, and 
nail the bottom bars to the ends of the side 
bars, so as to make a case 10$ inches long and 
6 5-16 inches high inside. The bottom bars of 
cases are to be cut out on edges nearly the 
whole length, so as to make them 1$ inch 
wide and give entrance room for the bees. 
The tin separators (X) are to be nailed to one 
CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERI¬ 
MENT STATION. 
Bulletin 26. 
ticks at first have but six legs. They are not 
enough of a pest in the Northern Stales to war¬ 
rant a further consideration at this time. 
Mites. 
The red mite (Fig 6) which attacks our poul¬ 
try in such alarming numbers, is the Demanys- 
eus gall'inae. It is soft-bodied, oval in form, 
aud, though very small, is from its crimson hue 
easily discerned without a microscope. The 
young have only six legs. 1 have found by 
actual experiment that they could inflict quite 
a painful bite even upou our own persons. I 
have reason to believe that they may cause 
horses much annoyance, when the horse sta¬ 
ble and hen roost are one and the same. The 
ointment made of sulphur, lard and kerosene 
works a speedy cure of this evil among the 
poultry. I have no doubt but that this same 
ointment or the kerosene-wash would rid larger 
Fertilizer Analyses. 
258. Stockbridge Onion Fertilizer. Sold by 
Hubbell & Wakemau, Saugutuck. Sampled 
and sent April 19, by T. B. Wakemau, Greens 
Farms, Ct. Weight claimed aud found 200 lbs. 
per bag. 
269. Raw Bone. Manufactured by J. O. <& 
E. Smith, Canterbury, Ct. Sampled from stock 
of Charles Backus. Andover, Ct., April 28, by 
John S. Welles, Hebron, Ct. Weight of bag 
194 lbs., weight claimed 200 lbs. 
258 2G9 
Nitrogen.......... 
Sol. l’lios. Acid....... 20 j. 
Reverted Plios. Acid. 
Ineol. “ ..Qon 
Potash. 
263. Sulphate of potash, containing 75 per 
cent, of sulphate or 41 per cent, of actual pot¬ 
ash, by analyses of Drs. Ulex and Gilbert. 
264. Sulphate of potash, 55 per cent. 
265. Muriate of potash, containing 80 per 
cent, of muriate or 56 per cent, of actual pot¬ 
ash. 
The above potash suits arc imported and sold 
by the New Haven Chemical Co., and were 
sampled by J. J. Webb, April 26. 
283 264 265 
Potash.......37.21 27 $ 48 -° 
Sulph'c acid. 9-' 7 
kTuesia::::::::::::’.'".-.-.-. 
luso'ble in water. 
Water,by difference...... 
— . rtL 
To Make the Section-Boxes (U), nail the 
sides to the ends of the top and bottom bars, 
so that the sides will project $ of an inch on 
each side of the top aud bottom bars. Two 
sections are pushed inside of each case, 
To Put the Boxes, etc., in Place, now 
that the hive is all made, proceed as follows: 
Hang the nine brood frames in place in the 
middle space, or brood nest, and lay the strips 
(Q) on top. one at each side of the hive so as 
to cover the ends of the top bars. Hang two 
cases at each side, on the rabbets—I forgot to 
say that these cases all have two nails, driven 
through the top bar into the side bars of each; 
they should be driven close to the side 
the tin separator is nailed to, and should pro¬ 
ject above the top bar $ of an inch, so as to 
avoid crushing bees when the upper tier of 
cases is placed upou the lower—set two, at 
each side, on top, turning the side of the cases 
having the tin separators on away from the 
partition. Place seven cases on the top of 
hive, resting on the strips; they will just fit 
The cattle and pigs were in two or three differ¬ 
ent buildings, and one hundred feet or more 
from the cutting-box and swill-cooking room. 
A stone boat like the one represented in the 
sketch, was made and loaded with barrels of 
the cooked food which were thus drawn along 
in front of the pens and dipped out into the 
troughs. For the cattle a box. like fig. 2. was 
made to set on tbe stone boat drawn up to the 
pile of cut stalks, hay, etc., shoveled full, then 
drawn along in front of the cattle and shoveled 
Deduct ox. equivalent to 
chlorine. 
100.00 
Cost per ton...$35-00 $29-00 $36.00 
Cost per lb. potash. * 7-10c 6 3-10O 3 6 -tOo 
The above figures express the percentages of 
potash, sulphuric acid. etc., as found in the 
analyses. In case of 264 the analysis was made 
complete, and thus exhibits the quantities of 
all the iugredients preseut. Siuce, however, 
potassium, sodium, and magnesium are partly 
in combination with chlorine instead of oxy- 
1 potash (potassium oxide), 
ide), and magnesia (mague- 
of tins resting on top of sides of hive, 60 as to 
prevent the bees from bridging the combs 
across. Put the followers in place at sides-- 
they should have been previously fitted aud 
cleated as in Fig. 5, so as to come within J of 
an inch of bottom board. Push down the keys 
(P) at sides, and these will wedge up the cases 
snugly in place. Place the little boards (R,) in 
place at the opening caused by the top cases 
extending above tbe side cases. Now the hive 
is complete. This is the hive used by Mr. G. 
M. Doolittle (the inventor, iu part) with such 
great success, aud the one that is regarded 
favorably by many of our best bee-keepers. 
gen, statiDg them as 
soda (sodium oxi' _ _ 
sium oxide), makes tbe footing exceed 100 by 
an amount of oxygen chemically equivalent to 
the chlorine present (8.39 per cent.), which is 
therefore deducted. 
In the following statements are given the 
percentages of the several compounds that do 
or may actually exist in the samples so far as 
the analyses enable us to calculate them. Only 
in case of 264 is the analysis sufficient to make 
the statement complete. 
263 264 265 
Sulphate of Potash.21-27 inff 76.35 
Muriate o t Potash.4U.1.9 30-Ul 
Common Salt. : . ,L 
Chloride of Magnesium .... 1 j’jS 
Chloride Calcium, etc. 
Water. 
100.00 
Reckoning all the potash in 265 and 264 as 
sulphate, we would have 68.80 per eeut. an 
47.80 per cent, of sulphate, respectively, in¬ 
stead of 75 per cent, aud 55 per cent. 
Of the 37 2 per cent, of actual potash iu 263, 
only 11.5 per cent, can exist as sulphate, while 
25.7 must exist in the form of muriate. Of the 
27.44 per cent, of actual potash in 204, but j 
per cent, can be preseut as sulphate aud the 
18.95 tier cent, is in the state of rnu- 
PARASITES ON DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
No. 4. 
J. COOK. 
ISpider-tleka and Mites. 
Some of you will remember au old-time 
disease, happily very rare in our times, which, 
as surely as the traditional peck of dirt, would 
come to make its seven years’ sojourn, not 
only in the best of families, but as the guest 
of the fairest. This disease, very appropri¬ 
ately christened tbe itch, of those—ought we 
say ’‘goodold times?”—was caused by the ir¬ 
ritating presence of a wee animal, the itch 
mite. A near relative causes the mange, or 
any hard wood 4x4 or 4x5 inches, and seven 
feet long, chamfer off the ends, on the lower 
ride, and across each end on top, nail a piece 
two’ feet long, nine inches wide, and lj or 
two inches thick. (Fig. 1, 2, 2), of ^“rd wood. 
Through each end of the cross pieces and ol 
tbe runners put a } bolt, sbowu by tbe dotte 
and sulphur would certainly be a good remedy. 
The Itch mite, Sarcoptes scabei, (Latr,) is so 
small as to be almost microscopic. It lives, 
feeds and reproduces its kind in small, sub¬ 
cutaneous galleries which its own feasting 
produces. As a consequence of the intolera¬ 
ble itching and the incessant irritation, dis- 
