; FLORIDA FARMER AND FRU1T-GROWKU. 416 . - - ficiently stout to hold up the weightof if it is of the right kind of material- extra care and feeding must be givento the dirt excavated, which, when that is, stiff clay-it will readily do. birds confined in yards if fertile Fattm Chemistry, the dairy is completed, is all put backon Those who prefer so to do, can simply eggs are desired. - the flooring covering the excava cover the floor with eight or ten inches Again, the first eggs from pullets: NITROGEN AND BACTERIA. tion. The flooring should be two of dirt, level it off, and then builda cannot be used for hatching, and of inches thick, matched, or the joints house over it. those laid after we must select the per- broken with some thinner material.A The temperature of these under fect ones; for culling is as necessaryin Tho Occult Sustains Partnership all Lifo. Which stout plank should be nailed perpendicularly ground dairies is comparatively even the egg department as among the to the ends of the sleep. i both summer and winter, ranging dur fowls. New baskets must be provided: Editor: Farmer and Nrult-Grower: ers and another one on the end fur- ing the hot summer months from 60 for shipping; not the five-cent kind, I It i is now generally conceded that nit- ric acid either separately in combination thest from the door, to thoroughly to 68 degrees Fahrenheit; average but good strong cedar ones that will i is the form in which, nitrogen is i exclude all dirt. To make it still bet temperature 65 degrees. The plan protect the eggs en route. Now, when assimilated by plants. A soil destitute ter and more complete when finished, practiced by some of suspending milkin ; we consider that the egg season is only of this i is found to utterly barren. but this is not imperatively ) be months of and that Even were it "rich" in every other elenientof - ( necessary the well can hardly too strongly I three out a year plant food with all that climate, it may be ceiled overhead and the condemned. If a very small portionof advertising costs something, you will 'mechanical condition, texture.drainage, floor and walls covered with cement. the milk is accidentally or through plainly see that really fine eggs from water supply and every other known We have seen several fixed this way, carelessness spilled in the well, the stock selected and mated by an expertare favuntbleagency combined, it could not and must say they are a perfect suc water, for drinking purposes, is irre- worth fully$3. Out of the seventy oo made to proluce the smallest pretense Butter can be in them in ruined. We have five other birds half of a crop. And yet even in the cess. kept trievably seen good or say forty maybe most {productive boils nitric acids i is midsummer as firm as In midwinter, wells ruined just that way. If obliged pullets, twenty-five of which maybe only in tho minutest'! projiorttons.present while the butter of the "flush season"can to use well water as a refrigeratingagent turned into a larger run with two Often less than ten and metimes: as be kept perfectly sweet and nice draw the water out of the well or three males, and their eggs sold for I low as one part in a million can l he detected - for family use during the next winter, and use it elsewhere. Ice is too expensive a less price, but the results will not by tho most delicate chemicaltests and if all other conditions I are *hen butter is apt to be scarce, by even if at one cent a pound, always be satisfactory. We do not favorable, yet plants will grow- and tlorish. wrapping each churning separately ina for those who are not forced to use it. consider such first-class eggs.-C. C. There are anuml>erof, caused which contribute - clean, thin muslin cloth and puttingit We have' used it but little, and the HARPER, in the Poultry Monthly. to this result. Nitric acid while previously salted, as for immediateuse only advantage we could discover --------.._.,--- -- alNolutely essential and that too in con- in large stone jars; which are to from its use was that it hastened the start Htipply i is required 1 by plants onlyin Swarms Deserting their Hives.If homeopathic doses. In nearly all its be kept partially filled with brine sufficiently cream to the surface in a short spaceof combinations it is exceedingly soluble is hived in clean cool a a swarm , strong to readily bear up an time. This hastening of the cream and any excess is i likely to lie aimed ventilated hive and and well egg. Care must be taken that the to the surface can be brought about placedin away at once by drainage. In addition the shade, it will seldom desert it. to this", it is easily assimilated and rat,- butter be kept at all times submergedby just as surely, as speedily, and far * of roundto I once lost a valuable swarm in this idly removed) by growing- plants. having pieces plank cut more economically by diluting the way; it was hived and placed in the to\()U He w;. fit the jar and weighting it down. milk. This plan, which is fast com shade of a cherry tree. The following Now how dues this nitric acid enter DIMENSIONS. into wherever it is known ing use , t the soil ? A small in carried portion We have found that six feet in the and in the absence of ice, spring; house morning was very warm, and the down by rain It was i long ago demontrated center is sufficiently deep; if the sills or dairy, is simple, inexpensive and a hot sun shone directly upon it; when that nitric acid i is directly produced - surface it was hivtd: the sun was near the electrical discharges, and the inches above are twelve saving of both ice and labor. The by this would give seven feet clear of the warm milk from the cow is strained meridian, and the hive was placed every lightning,; flash in a thunderstorm) under the the makes its little contribution to the stockof tree next directly ; mor sleepers. Start the excavation ten into a can till it is half filled; then fill this much needed material. Hut tho it the shone under the feet wide, dig down two feet, then up the can with cold spring or well ning sun upon supply from this source I is infinitesimal, hive and the bees concluded seek leave a shelf (of dirt) all around of water, which aerates the milk' and to and bears) no appreciable proportion| to eight inches in width. This shelf immediately reduces its temperatureto cooler quarters; they left without clus the. amount which growing plants require. tering. I once had a swarm desertits Another hourco is the ammoniaand may be used to hold the cans of fruit about 70 degrees, even in the hive for three days and cluster ) ammoniacal comMjund.| which are and vegetables, jars of preserves, warmest weather. All the cream will when hived. This thrown otT into the atmosphere! by tieecay - pickles, etc. This leaves the excav- separate and rise to the surface in less they again grewto hi g organic; matter, and which by ation eight feet eight inches wide; dig than four hours. This being the case, be monotonous, and the third timeI the rinsing of the atmosphere\ is again put them into another hive where carried hack into the soil.NATUIIK'S . then down eighteen inches further, the cream may be skimmed off from remained. I then the leave another wider shelf two and one the top, or the combined milk and they came to TYPK DISTKIHUTOUS. conclusion that there be half feet wide, also of dirt, all around water drawn ofl by a faucet from the must some But the great- source of this nitric acid except at the entrance. This is to set bottom of the can till the cream appears thing wrong with the first hive, and is yet: to !he mentioned. All decay of organic - on examining it I found that my con matter i is effected through tho the milk vessels on. The jars of butter which is then drawn off into a . elusion The hive of those micro-organisms termed was correct. was agency may be set on the floor at the end separate vessel; the can or cans used bacteria. They are microscopic plants. and clean but the a new one fly entrance farthest from the door. This leaves for the morning's milk are ready to Homewhat! similar in their habits and feet was just the height of a bee, methods of to what termed three the excavation in the center be used for the night's milk. growth are eight inches wide, which, for all prac- and rather than smother the bees the "mould" 1 It seem' to I lit their especial -- -- --- - abandoned it. work to take down and take apart tical purposes, is sufficient, to be dug The doubt intended the all organic) material which has nerved I J:1oul Creator down until it is six feet deep. For : :ttY.l no its turn and Ix-como dead matter and the steps, measure back from where honey bee to be the servant of man, prepare, it to again take place in tho the entrance is to be six feet, and Edited by E.W. AMSDEN, Ormond, Fla. and Its instinct is to cluster near the new and succeeding eyrie ore life. Theo three feet eight inches wide, dig down, '-""- _ ...,...".... ...r- -.. ............. old home. It is seldom that bees humble organisms! are like the tyj'o distributor - from the like Can Effffs bo Sold for a Dollar ? swarm and leave without clustering, in a printing ollico. After doorway leaving , steps printing tt |wiper>> tyjui art not thrown but have been known do it. the shelves in the interior, also of dirt, We are often asked this question. they to away, they are hi in ply) taken apart, to eight inches wide and eight inches in From ordinary bred stock they may I think that such instances occurred be set up) again; for tho next I issue. So depth till the bottom is reached, whenit be; from really high grade, scientifi when the bees issued the day previous in the wi o economy of nature, there is mated birds they cannot be and returned to the hive unnoticed no waste of precious material, It is all will be found that there will be nine tally Tho bacteria the When bees have used over and over again. and fastened without much loss.Ve consider $3a by owner. " steps. Over these steps, arc na,ure's type distributors, and securely to the sleeper, must be builta sitting reasonable, yet to those not been hanging out, waiting to swarm wonderful indeed are tho processor) by tight little frame building six immediately in the business it seems for days, they are more apt to decamp which tho old and dead "forms" of snug feet high sufficiently wide and long to exorbitant. But let us consider the without clustering, probably havingsent matter are "unlocked" and prepared to before and in I 15 "reset in the ever new and over varying breeding out scouts days , of A high grade - completely cover the steps, with small matter. pen editions of growing life. but good sills lying flat on the groundas birds may be bought for $25 to some instances having cleaned out a As:early as 1 1NC2 Pasteur had published a foundation; a good roof sloping $35-to be reasonable, say$25. From hive or a tree to go into. The swarms the suggestion that tho production of off on each side and tight door. this pen one hundred birds may be that leave without clustering will not nitric acid in the toll was I probably tho .than in hundredif work of micro-organisms. It wan reserved - raised from the hundred twenty-five average more one a WHEN THIS SUBTERRANEAN DAIRY ; , French chemists, Soholessing for two - Is dug in stiff clay there is but little if really fine birds may selected, hardly i they do that. and )Muntz fifteen yearn later to any danger of water rising in them, more. I care not how the original pen demonstrate what the genius! of the I'arisian especially i if cemented on the inside. may be, the other seventy five will investigator had K early t published l After the excavation is completed and have more or less defect; but of the SPRAYPU f as"guesswork., a happy and.' brilliant bit of scientific the woodwork all finished, then the twenty-five selected, perhaps sixteen Even yet the chemistry of ttlUL dirt must be thrown back on top of( will be pullets which, with the best M PS very erfectly understood Th* geld the flooring, making a long conical two males out of the whole flock, will MADE BY I is no wide and the proc**.,. BO intricate THE DEWING CO SALEM Now these 0. that long of jtttumt investigation reaching the full length of the ex make two good yards. yean pile cavation, making it steep enough on eighteen birds must be yarded in two WtiUrm HENION A,.."&. &HURRELL CH10AQO.. "will required to map out even the which and fancier knows what Writ t of Ctuiofu*tad< TJUUTUX o*BnutUK, I [Continued on page 4&J.1THE each side to shed all rainwater, pens, every .