1914. 
THE RXJR-AJb NEW-YORKER 
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BEEKEEPING NOTES. 
Preparing Bees For Winter. —On 
tho proper condition of the bees in the 
Fall and correct care in preparing them 
to Winter well, depends the following 
season’s success. Every care should be 
taken to have the bees in the best possible 
condition. Bees should have sufficient 
honey in the Fall to last the colony until 
honey commences to come in the Spring. 
Colonies which do not have honey iu 
abundance in the Fall curtail the brood 
rearing and colonies go into Winter 
quarters with old bees, which die during 
the Winter, and leavp the colony in a very 
weak condition. These weak colonies are 
subject to “Spring dwindling,” which 
soon kills the colony. Bees deficient in 
store's should be fed early, although it is 
possible to do this in Winter. Hives 
having supers on them should have them 
removed. Colonies are inspected to see if 
they have a young queen and numerous 
young bees. If either are lacking the col¬ 
ony should be united with a good colony. 
Each hive should have 25 to 40 pounds of 
honey, according to the size of the col¬ 
ony. In some cases this will be a hard 
thing to determine without going into the 
hive for an examination. By lifting a 
few hives, then examining them, a close 
guess can be made on the quantity of 
honey in the remaining hives by simply 
lifting them. This should not be taken as 
an inflexible rule, as size of hive and 
strength of the colony will have a bear¬ 
ing on the weight. Hives may be lifted 
and all those that seem sure of having 
enough stores need not be examined, but 
all those that are light and suspiciously 
light should be examined and amount of 
stores necessary marked on the hive. 
Providing Stores. —The most common 
and also the best way to furnish stores is 
to feed sugar syrup. Some bee keepers 
have extra frames, filled with honey dur¬ 
ing the honey flow, and these are put in 
light hives, after removing the empty 
frames from that hive. This is a good 
and easy method, hut combs given should 
be of good grade of honey. No dark Fall 
honey or honey-dew should be given. 
Sugar syrup is a better food for winter¬ 
ing bees than most honey. Nothing but 
the best grade of granulated honey should 
be used. Homemade feeders will answer 
the purpose. These need be nothing 
more than pans put inside of an empty 
super which has been set on top of the 
hive, to be fed. A large pan is advisa¬ 
ble, as the giving of a small amount of 
feed daily until the deficiency of stores is 
made up, induces the bees to rear brood 
and excites them, thus wasting their en¬ 
ergy. Chips, shavings or excelsior are 
put in the pan to prevent bees from 
drowning. If feeding is done in cold 
weather the syrup should be made of five 
pounds of granulated sugar to one quart 
of water. A teaspoonful of tartaric acid 
is added to every 20 pounds of sugar 
which has previously been dissolved. 
Without the acid the syrup is liable to 
granulate in the combs. When feeding 
the shrinkage of the syrup which is 10 to 
25 per cent, should be taken into consid¬ 
eration. Feeding is done at sunset and 
as much is given as the colony will take 
up in 24 hours. Weak colonies take up 
the syrup much slower than strong ones. 
The feeding of the first batch of feed 
warm and much sweeter is advisable, as it 
gets the bees started easier and quicker. 
Feed is more quickly taken up if given 
warm, as the heat of the syrup warming 
up the hive arouses the bees from their 
semi-dormant condition. 
Marketing of Comr Honey. —Comb 
honey at the time it enters the home of 
the consumer is generally vastly differ¬ 
ent in appearance from the neat article 
which le c t the apiary. The soiled dauby 
untidy condition iu which it arrives at 
the consumer’s table does not induce peo¬ 
ple to buy freely and often. The grocer 
dislikes handling it. A better prepared 
article finds favor with the grocer as well 
as the consumer, and produces a lively 
demand at higher prices. There is too 
large a supply of the commonly prepared 
honey on the market. Prepare yours for 
the fancy trade and realize a fancy price 
for it. The expense is small per pound, 
and by so doing you may obtain five cents 
per pound more for your honey. A steady 
demand can be created by putting up a 
good article. 
Methods of Packing. —Take your 
nice comb honey and put it up in fancy 
packages. Wrap your plain or no bee¬ 
way sections in a parchment paper that 
will show off its contents. In the wrap¬ 
ping fold ends of paper to top and bot¬ 
tom of the section and fasten with a 
label to keep paper in place. This method 
does not work well with scalloped or bee¬ 
way sections. These may be put up in 
cartons. Cheap or very elaborate cartons 
may be obtained at bee-supply firms. 
Some of these cartons have a circular 
hole in the front to show the honey. 
Others have a celluloid covering for this 
hole to keep insects and soil from coming 
in contact with comb, and still allow the 
comb to show. These are good, but a 
neat plain carton is very satisfactory. 
Your name and address on the carton will 
help your future sales. Labels used 
should contain your name and address. 
The Shipping Case. —To deliver to 
the purchaser use a shipping case. No 
glass front case is needed. The grocer 
can put this honey on his counter or 
showcase without fear that flies, insects 
or soil will spoil the ready sale of it or 
that counter or case will be smeary with 
honey when display is removed. It will 
make a pretty article to display, and so 
will not be kept in a case in some out-of¬ 
sight place back of the counter. Grocers 
do not have to wrap it up in selling it. 
There are no leaky combs or smearing of 
cases. Honey will present an appetizing 
appearance and will promote other sales. 
Most grocers are also pleased with pre¬ 
pared cases in which the combs weigh 
exactly alike. This can be easily done by 
weighing each comb on a small scale and 
packing all 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17-ounce 
combs in separate cases. Grocers can 
then quote sections at a definite price, 
knowing that they all weigh alike. Bee¬ 
keepers can sell such cases to grocers as 
24-section case of 14 ounce-sections for 
such a price as he sets on it. No weigh¬ 
ing for the grocer, either at the time of 
buying or that of selling. Honey reaches 
the consumer in a neat, pleasing package. 
Michigan. koeman f. gute. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Balky Horse. 
W ILL you give some suggestions as to 
the best management of horse in¬ 
clined to be balky? w. e. p. 
Pennsylvania. 
There is no specific cure for a balky 
horse, and yet there are numbers of popu¬ 
lar remedies. If your horse is not a con¬ 
firmed balker the best treatment would 
be to work him every day with a quiet 
well-broken mare or horse. If balking 
continues better sell t- horse to some 
dealer or breaker who makes a specialty 
of training such animals. Time on the 
farm is too precious to waste on such a 
horse. One good plan when a horse balks 
is to throw him with side lines, “hog tie” 
him and let him lie there for a while. A 
few experiences of that sort may sicken 
him of balking. Another plan is to pull 
the head around to the side and the tail 
around to meet it, then tie the halter 
rope in a bow knot to the tail. Then 
drive the horse in a Y-circle until he is 
ready to drop. Many other plans might 
be mentioned, but they no doubt are well 
known to you or your neighbors. 
A. S. A. 
Summer Sore on Colt. 
C OLT has raw fleshy growth on the in¬ 
side of the leg. Will you prescribe? 
Ohio. w. l. J. 
This probably is a “Summer sore,” and 
if so will be found very difficult to reme¬ 
dy. The tendency is for such sores to 
dry up iu Winter, but. return the follow¬ 
ing Summer. A qualified veterinarian 
would treat it with strong, sloughing ! 
caustics, the actual cautery (firing iron) | 
or would cut it out and treat as a com- j 
moil wound. You might try the effects 
of an application once daily of a solution 
of half an ounce of picric acid in eight 
ounces of alcohol. After each application 
dust the sore with iodoform and cover 
with absorbent cotton and a bandage. 
A. S. A. 
Fistulous Sore. 
I BOUGHT a horse five weeks ago. j 
shipped here from Kansas. He had a ; 
lump about six inches above his nose 
right in front on his face with a small 
opening at the side of the lump, which 
no doubt he got from shipping. When 
I first had him the opening was running 
freely. At the present time it is still 
running, but not quite as freely as at 
first. 1 am of the opinion that there is 
a splinter in it. or else the bone is bruised, 
as the swelling is larger than it had been. 
It does not seem to pain him as I can 
press out the matter and he does not 
seem to mind it. Would you let me know 
how to treat it? J. A. w. 
Pennsylvania. 
We suspect that a tooth has been re¬ 
moved by trephining and that the hole 
therefore was made by the trephining in¬ 
strument. In that event it will probably 
be necessary to trephine again for re¬ 
moval of diseased bone and trephining 
may be necessary if it was not done be¬ 
fore but an accident shattered tho bones, 
or a sliver penetrated them caused dis¬ 
ease. All foreign bodies, including the 
sliver or snag, must come away before 
healing will take place. Meanwhile syr¬ 
inge out the opening night and morning 
with a pint or more of solution of one 
ounce of bicarbonate of soda to the gal¬ 
lon of warm water. a. s. a. 
Tumor 
I HAVE a mare 14 years old. Last 
Winter there came a lump on the cord 
on tho side of the neck, close to the 
shoulder, so that the collar wears against 
it. It never seemed to bother her until 
lately the lump has got as big as a tea¬ 
cup, is very hard, but can move it by 
hand. I thought the cause was due to 
the stable blanket binding around her 
neck last Winter. Do you think I can 
do anything to remove it or stop its 
growth? I have painted it with iodine. 
New Jersey. a. ii. 
You should have the tumor removed by 
dissection, and then i eat the wound with 
antiseptics until healed. A skilled sur¬ 
geon should be employed, as the growth 
is close to the jugular vein and other im¬ 
portant vessels. We do not believe that 
treatment other than this will do any 
good- A. s. A. 
Sweeny. 
I HAVE a horse that has sweeny; have 
tried different remedies without any 
good results. Can you give any rem¬ 
edy? Horse is 12 years old and valuable. 
Lewis, N. Y. l. r. 
Sweeny is an accidental condition and 
not hereditary. Clip olf the hair and 
massage the wasted parts three times a 
day, pulling the skin away from tho bones 
each time, so far as that is possible. At 
night, or in the morning rub the wasted 
parts with a liniment composed of one 
ounce each of turpentine and aqua am¬ 
monia and six ounces of raw linseed oil. 
Discontinue the liniment for a few days 
each time the skin becomes severely ir¬ 
ritated. a. s. A. 
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LIVE STOCK NOTES. 
One main thing that stands in the way 
of profitable sheep raising in New York, 
New England and other States is the 
sheep killing dog. In Virginia a recent 
enactment makes it a misdemeanor pun¬ 
ishable with a maximum fine of $50 for 
an owner to allow dogs to run at large 
in the country. 
Two hundred horses daily were pur¬ 
chased in Kansas City for the allied 
armies in Europe, according to the Drov¬ 
er’s Telegram of that city. They were 
from 14.3 to 15.3 hands high and weigh 
from 900 to 1,100 pounds. They must 
be between five and eight years of age 
and all colors are accepted except light 
grays, spotted and dun-colored animals. 
Better prices were paid than for this 
class animal last year. 
Texas corn should not contain over 
10% of moisture, and if it contains as 
much as 14% it will surely spoil during 
the Winter. Much of the imported corn 
has higher moisture content and it spoils 
unless immediately fed or dried. The 
station advises careful drying of corn 
in that State. 
“The silo and the smoke house will 
make Texas prosper,” is the suggestion 
going the rounds in the Lone Star State. 
The destruction of the cotton market 
shows the Texas farmer it doesn’t pay 
to put his eggs in one basket. Under 
the Smith-Lever bill, the Texas College 
work will be much broader. Visitation, 
bulletins and correspondence are the 
avenues through which dairying, live 
stock _ raising, cooperation, road con¬ 
struction and home economics will be 
taught. 
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the water by the aid of heat. Dissolve 
the napthalin in tho crude oil, then mix 
the two solutions thoroughly, agitating 
them for fifteen minutes. The mixture 
should be used once or twice a week, 
stirred well before using, and applied 
with a brush. 
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