between the wire anrl casement large enough 
for a bee to craw] through. The sashes mast 
be removed. The bees will leave the combs, 
alight upou the wire cloth, and crawl out at 
the top. If it is not convenient to arrange a 
room as above, then a small tent made by 
covering a light wooden frame-work with mos¬ 
quito netting can be set over a hive while the 
combs are taken out and the bees brushed off. 
For a surplus receptacle in raising comb 
honey I know of notliing bettor for fanners 
than what is known as the Hcddon case. It, is 
simply a shallow box, without top or bottom. 
It is three-eighths of an inch deeper than the 
section boxes used, nud as large as the top of 
the hive. There are partitions of thin boards 
inside the case. Thqgo partitions are such u 
distance apart that a row of sections just fills 
a space between them. To support the sections 
strips of tin are nailed to the lower edges of 
the partitions, and to the end pieces of the 
case, the edges of the tin projecting sufficient¬ 
ly (one-eighth of an inch) to afford a resting 
place for the sections. The case is filled with 
sections, the sections first being filled with 
comb foundat ions, and placed upon the hive. 
A plain, flat hoard, dented at the ends to pre¬ 
vent warping, is used to cover the case. When 
the sections arc two-thirds finished the case 
can be raised and another placed beneath it. 
When the lower case is partly finished, nnother 
can be placed beneath that. As soon as the 
top case is finished it can be removed. This 
manner of procedure may he continued as long 
as the honey harvest continues. 
Movable comb hives are, of course, advis¬ 
able, and in the production of extracted honey 
are indispensable, but box hives can be used 
in raising honey. If they were more shallow 
than usually made, it would be better. Bore 
the top of the hive full of holes, lay some thiu 
strips ( s j inch) around the efutside edge of the 
top of the hive. On these strips seta Hcddon 
case of sections, aud proceed to “tier up” the 
cases as before described. 
Genessee Co.. Mich. 
^TifiCfUftAtOUS. 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
American Forestry Congress. —Proceed¬ 
ings at its meeting held in Boston, September, 
1885.—This association is doing much good. 
Its efforts are uot fully appreciated by all, 
but the time will come when the value of its 
labor will be understood. As a nation we 
have al ways been wasteful of our trees. The 
early settlers bated trees and stumps. The 
great wood giants fought hard for the possess, 
ion of the farm. Many of us have inherited 
this hatred or look upon the woods as bound¬ 
less as the air, without limit, incapable of 
destruction As it is well put iu this volume, 
years ago America was a forest, but had no 
Congress; now she has a Congress but too little 
forest. People are rapidly increasing, but 
trees are decreasing still more rapidly. The 
Forestry Congress has done much to 
arouse public sentiment in favor of protect¬ 
ing forests, and has accomplished much in the 
way of promoting legislation favorable to 
that cud. The present volume contains the 
addresses delivered at the meeting. They are 
filled with practical and sensible information. 
We hope to make copious extracts from them 
in the future. The facts and figures given to 
show the proportion of woodland, as compared 
with the total land area in this country, are 
startling. The percentage of forest to total 
area is 211.4. To build the existing miles 
of railroads in this country has required 
the available timber on 4,131,520 acres. To 
keep them iu repair requires the product of 
590,217 acres. Allowing 25 yea re as the time 
necessary for trees to attain a size suitable for 
making ties, it would require the annual 
growth of M,755,425 acres to keep good the 
existing roads, aud 8,800.000 to supply the de¬ 
mand for now roads. Thus we must hold in 
reserve 18,000,000 acres, simply to maintain 
the road-bods of our rail-roads. This area 
would be larger than the States of New Hanqv- 
shirc, Vermont, Massachusetts aud Rhode 
Island combined. Americans may w r ell feel 
uneasy over the wholesale destruction of for¬ 
ests. 
The “MudGett” Tedder.— Circular from 
B. & J. W. Belcher, Chicopee Falls, Mass.— 
We spoke last week of t he value of a good hay 
tedder. By the use' of such an implement ono 
horse and a boy can he made do the work of 
20 men. A man or boy may slight work that 
is not closely watched, but a machine cannot 
do so. unless it is broken. The spring fork on 
the “Mudgefct ” tedder enables the machine to 
pass safely over stumpy or rocky ground. 
Farmers are urged to procure the “Mmlgett.” 
because of its strength, its close and uniform 
work and its lightness of draft. The good 
points of the machine are best discovered by a 
personal_examinatiou onthe part of the pur¬ 
chaser, and the manufacturers earnestly re¬ 
quest all intending purchasers to look the 
“Mudgett” carefully over and compare it with 
other makes before deciding which one to buy. 
Thoroughbred .Stock,— Circular from G. 
H, Bell, Rome, N. Y.—Good specimens of 
thoroughbred Short-horn and Ayrshire cattle 
and Poland-China swine, are held for sale. 
Thymo-Cresol. —The Universal Purifier, 
The Cold Water Dip!—Circular from T, W. 
Law ford & Co., Baltimore, Mil.—This mate¬ 
rial is highly praised by such men as Henry 
Stewart, Col. Curtis and Wilmer Atkinson. 
It has given universal satisfaction wherever it 
has been tried. It will mix easily with either 
cold or warm water, and forms a perfect sheep 
<lip. It is not prisonous, and in small propor¬ 
tions it can safely be taken internally by any 
man or beast. As an agent iuthe cure of skin 
diseases iu man and beast it has given good re¬ 
sults, and as a disinfectant it is highly recom¬ 
mended. It will destroy all vermin on ani¬ 
mals, and is frequently used in the poultry 
house. For horticultural purposes, to rid veg¬ 
etation of lice and scale, it will be found 
useful. 
Cultivation of Corn.— We can find no 
good reason for chauging our belief, frequent¬ 
ly expressed heretofore in these columns, that 
it is injurious to the corn crop to disturb the 
soil between the rows, after the plants are 
eight inches high, to a greater depth than three 
inches. Henry Stewart says, in the N. Y. 
Times, that some years ago it was claimed as a 
great discovery by Dr. Sturtevant, of Massa¬ 
chusetts, now Director of the New York State 
Experiment Station, that com should be root- 
pruned by running the plow deeply between 
the rows about the time of tasseling, so as to 
break the roots and compel the plants to throw 
out new ones, by means of which the forma¬ 
tion of eare could be largely aided and the 
crop much increased. This was hailed by 
some inexperienced persons as a most excel¬ 
lent idea, and it was commented upon favor¬ 
ably by them as a valuable hint to corn 
growers. It is quite possible that the Direc¬ 
tor had tried this plan on his own corn-fields 
in a wet season, aud had based his theory and 
advice on this illusive experience. For it was 
not long before the grand mistake was ac¬ 
knowledged in a bulletiu from the Experi¬ 
ment Station. But as truth travels very 
slowly, while error goes by leaps, the mischief 
is still being done ana the deep cultivation of 
corn is still advocated. Now. for one very 
good and sufficient reason, at least, deep culti¬ 
vation in any land of soil is to be held as in¬ 
jurious to the com crop. The excuse for it 
by those who advocate it under any circum¬ 
stances is that in a wet season it is the only 
way to dry and warm the soil in such a man¬ 
ner as to provide for the necessities of this 
crop, which requires warmth. But we submit 
that this is neither the time nor the way to 
dry and warm the soil. This should be done 
previously, either by draining the laud or by 
previous deep and thorough plowing, leaving 
it iu a well fitted condition for the crop. We 
recognize the difficulties met with in working 
the adhesive, stiff, pasty soils in many local¬ 
ities in the corn-growing regions, but the fact 
that, the deep working of such soils, when sat¬ 
urated with water, is exceedingly injurious to 
them, as well as to the crop, cannot tie got rid 
of, and the way out of those difficulties is by 
drainage ami not by breaking the soil deeply 
while the corn is growing. The R. N.-Y. has 
raised several of the largest crops of com on 
record, and our plan of shallow and Hat culti¬ 
vation aud surface manuring or fertilizing is 
everywhere gaining advocates. 
Chemistry of Hay-Making.—M r. Voelck- 
er, speaking of the chemistry of hay-making, 
says that hay made on a line day with the 
heat of the sun, loses practically nothing of 
its value. Hay cut in fine weather contains 70 
per cent, of water—too much to induce fer¬ 
mentation. As the grass lies the cells of the 
plants begin to die and water passes off by the 
combination of the heat of the sun and a dry¬ 
ing wind—so does the bulance of water and 
sugar and fermentable matter in the grass 
alter. A point Is reached which is most fav¬ 
orable to fermentation. At this point the 
grass remains nice aud green, and gets the 
sweet aroma characteristic of well-made hay. 
If the weather still continues tine, the water 
passes away until there is uot enough left to 
induce fermentation. In rainy or damp 
weather we do not get these conditions. 
When the grass reaches that p^iut where fer¬ 
mentation is most favorable; the dampness 
keeps this point up and fermentation goes on. 
If rain comes we not only lose from fermenta¬ 
tion, but also in consequence of washing by 
excessive water. It is found that the class of 
manures used has a great effect upon the leaves 
and stems of grasses. Nitrogenous manures 
tend to produce an increase of leaf, and miner¬ 
al manures an increase of stem. 
Plank Stable Floors.— A writer in the 
same excellent journal says that hemlock and 
spruce are among the best materials for stable 
floors. But a plank floor is an absorbent of 
the urine, and soon becomes rank with ara- 
moniacal odors. Then some process is re¬ 
quired to make the planks waterproof. This 
may be done by saturating them with hot gas 
tar, when the floor becomes a most desirable 
one for such stables as cannot have a ground 
floor. For a plank floor of the best kind the 
writer would lay the timber double; that is. 
first a floor of three-inch plank of some soft 
kind, and thoroughly soak this with boiling 
hot gas tar, filling the joints well. Then, 
while the tar is still hot and soft, a two-inch 
plank floor is laid, breaking joints, aud press¬ 
ing the planks close, so that the tar fills the 
joints of the upper floor, and overflows upon 
the tipper surface, which is finally well coated 
with the tax. This floor is made to slope to 
the rear one inch in the yard, or 2'A inches in 
the 7V< feet of the standing floor, which is all 
that is double. This short double floor gives a 
dry bed for the horses, and the drainage all 
flows off from if. to the lower floor, where it 
may be collected by a liberal coating of dry 
absorbents. The tar coating is apt to make a 
slippery surface, but this may be avoided by 
dusting dry sand upon the tar until no more 
will be taken up. 
The Cause of Ropy Milk.— There is 
something wrong in the feed. Just what it is 
cannot be told without a full inquiry into the 
case, says L. B. Arnold in the N. E. Homestead. 
There are several things that produce ropy' milk 
and cream. The most common cause is the 
use of some medicinal weeds, especially bitter 
weeds, as rag weed, tansy, wormwood and 
some species of yellow daisy. Poisonous weeds, 
such as cicuta, and lobelia, which cows some¬ 
times seem disposed to take, have the same ef¬ 
fect. He Las, iu several instances, known it to 
occur from an excessive use of good food. A 
too free use of corn meal and of sugar beets 
has every now and then been the occasion of 
ropy milk, hut oftener iu hot weather than in 
cold. It is also often the result of weakness 
from any cause, but especially from scouring. 
As the cow in question is apparently well and 
giving milk, the cause undoubtedly lies some¬ 
where in her feed, and if the owner will take 
the trouble to change one condition of her 
feed at a time he will be able to find the cause, 
and will gain for himself a bit of valuable in¬ 
formation. 
Clover and Hogs. —.John Tucker says, in 
the Farm Journal, that it does him good to 
hear people talk about clover aud hogs. There 
is no way a farmer can improve a field faster 
than by reeding it down and pasturing hogs 
in it—unless it is to sow peas in a lot and then 
let the hogs eat them on the ground. A pint 
of corn fed to a hog every day in a clover 
pasture trill make it flt for killing before cold 
weather. Two quarts of middlings a day wet 
up and fed to a hog, wintered over, iu connec¬ 
tion with good pasture, will make it ready for 
the market in Autumn. In this cheap way the 
hogs may be fitted for market early, and the 
land fitted for a good crop of corn the next 
year. The shut-up system of making pork is 
mighty poor economy. The hogs will do a 
great deal for us if we only give them a 
chance. 
TRUE INWARDNESS. 
Cut the clover before the blossoms begin to 
fade... 
The Farm Journal says that the animals 
must drink in hot. weather and mast take what 
they can get But they hate nasty water as 
much as we do... 
The Striped Melon Bug, according to Fred. 
Grundy iu the Weekly Press, may he driven 
away aud kept away by sprinkling the plants 
with water with which a liberal quantity of 
fresh cow manure has been stirred. Use a 
whisk broom or something of the kind and 
don’t be afraid of applying too much. Re¬ 
peat after every shower. 
Yes, we should suppose that the green foliage 
and stems of cow peas would be among the best 
plants for the silo. Iu oar tests with the dif¬ 
ferent kiuds of cow peas eight years ago, some 
varieties spread as far as 12 feet, growing in 
hight from one to two two feet. Wo also 
found, as others have siuce found, that some 
kinds of cow peas ripen, their seeds and have 
time to spare... 
The staple food for chicks, Henry Stewart 
says, is cracked wheat and corn. A coffee 
mill will serve to craek them. Earth-worms 
are,a great treat to chickens. In place of the 
worms some lean meat may be chopped fine; 
give a tablespoonful to a brood of 10 or 12 
each day. Give them pure water. The gapes 
which destroys so many chickens may be 
avoided by keeping the chicks on clean ground 
and in clean bouses. 
A little food scattered under a plum tree 
which is jarred immediately after 'in the early 
morning) will attract the chicks, which will 
devour every curculio that drops. 
A wtrter in the London Ag. Gazette speaks 
highly of pure Laugshans. He says it is well 
known that Langshans lay more eggs than 
either Cochins or Dorkings. He gives the 
number of eggs for each hen as 173 per year. 
The hens should be fed only sound whole grain. 
He says they lay all through the Winter. 
The same Journal says that even butter- 
makers must admit that butterine is a legiti¬ 
mate article of manufacture, and only re¬ 
quires to be sold under its proper name to 
prove a great boon to the poorer classes, who 
may not be able to purchase real butter. It is 
the universal experience that good butterine is 
infinitely superior to manv samples of fresh 
butter to be found in the English markets.... 
Hon. T. C. Jones, writing to the London 
Live Stock Journal, says that there is no doubt 
that British as well as American breeders of 
Short-horn cattle have been making too much 
of pedigree—that by combination among own¬ 
ers of fancy sorts, values have been advanced 
to such prices that breeders have been obliged 
to reserve every animal of the approved lines 
of breeding, however inferior, for use in the 
breeding herd. The consequence has been in 
too many instances a marked and obvious de¬ 
cline in useful qualities.. 
The horn* show to be held in Chicago, Sept. 
6. is to be a great affair. 
Mr. Sharpe says, in Nature, that it is not 
merely a sentimental grievance that is uttered 
by the bird defenders—although it would be 
greatly to be regretted if all our bright plum- 
aged birds were destroyed—hut one that 
affects the welfare of the nation at large. A 
very considerable proportion of the hirds kill¬ 
ed are essentially beneficial to man. and should, 
from mere economical considerations, be pro¬ 
tected.. .. 
It is an axiom in political economy that the 
demand creates the supply. As long as women 
will ask for feathers and birds, so long will 
they be destroyed, for the collector would will¬ 
ingly kill the last of its race if be could get 15 
cents by selling the skin. In sexual morality 
we regard the tempter and the receiver as 
worse than the thief. In our criminal courts 
of justice he is always, when convicted, pun¬ 
ished more severely than the culprit, whose 
ill-gotten goods he buys. It is useless for a 
lady purchasing the corpse of a Bird of Para¬ 
dise to endeavor to ease her conscience by say¬ 
ing. “I did not kill it; and if I did not buy it 
some one els*' would.” It was slain with ten 
thousand others to gratify her desire to wear 
dead birds, and she is more guilty than the 
man who shot it. for he killed it to gain a sub¬ 
sistence aud she instigated the killing for mere 
caprice. 
The better the workman the better the 
work, and the better treatment he should 
have, says the N. Y. Times. To some degree 
the entrance of a hired man into a farmer’s 
family is to be viewed with suspicion if not 
alarm, as a threatened danger, and on the 
other hand the workman is sometimes degrad¬ 
ed by the treatment received. 
Foreign immigrants and tramps now take 
the place of young men who could be intro¬ 
duced to the family without objection . 
A writer in the Albany Cultivator says 
that he has fed for three seasons his entire 
herd in milk on green rye. and the improve¬ 
ment in quality of milk, cream and butter is 
marked. Green rye makes butter gilt-edged. 
He uses no coloring for butter. 
“ 'I am going to the seaside,' said the milkman bllth* 
and pay; 
‘For l love the oeean breezes, and love the dashing 
spray. 
Yes, I love the glorious sunset, love the calm and love 
the squall— 
But I think I love the water, In my business, best 
of aU -‘ ” -Tid-BUs. 
A writer in the Cultivator (Albany) says 
that he has owned a creamery and bought 
milk in various quantities for the last eight 
years. In that time, he has used successively 
the Cooley system, Swartz system of deep 
open cans in ice water, the Marquis system of 
1,200-quart vats (milk being cooled by a cur¬ 
rent of ice water flowing through four inch 
pipes, running through the vats), and lastly, 
for the past two years, the Laval separator. 
The last he believes the best. It is simple 
easy to run, does uot get out of order, separ¬ 
ates the milk as soon as brought to the cream¬ 
ery. makes more butter per hundred weight 
of milk, aud by the market standard of price, 
gives as good a return, if not better than any 
other system..... 
Prof. Tuson, in a [lecture on disinfection, 
