Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
299 
lets them fly there for exercise and then puts them back again. 
But my philosophy is, that by keeping the faeces cleared away they 
don’t care to fly about much; 50 degrees temperature evaporates 
the faeces. 
Question. What kind of hive is best and cheapest and most easi¬ 
ly made? 
Answer. I use the Langstroth hive. The men who have used 
the Langstroth hive have made the most money out of it. The av¬ 
erage life of a working bee is only fifty days in the working season. 
NATURES’ METHOD OF SOIL FORMATION, AND THE 
PROCESS OF CULTURE WHICH THESE METHODS 
SUGGEST. 
BY PROF. JOHN MURRISH, MAZOMANIE. 
Let the water under the heavens be gathered together unto one 
place, and let the dry land appear; is the language of inspiration 
when calling our attention to one of the great changes that took 
place in the early history of our earth. This translated into scien¬ 
tific language would read as follows: Let the vail that separates the 
inorganic from the organic departments of nature be drawn back, 
that the crystalline and sedimentery material of the mineral king¬ 
dom may be lifted up into the preparatory department of the vege¬ 
table kingdom, and Jet the work of organization begin. 
. If we stood then upon the surface of the rock, as the waters of 
the ocean were receding and could have studied the forces and 
watched the processes by which those beautiful’ forms of matter in 
the mineral kingdom were first taken to pieces and then moulded 
into those forms of matter we call vegetable and animal; or what 
perhaps will aihount to the same thing, if we stand now upon the 
surface of some new made island just raising above the water of 
our modern seas, we may even now, study and watch these things, 
for the forces and powers of nature then and now were the same. 
A more important, or interesting subject for the agriculturalist 
cannot be found: For in these mineral compounds, formed with so 
much care, we find wrapped up the elements, the very material that 
