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Wmâ€" FOR THE FARMER. Swarming, and How to Manage It. In the writer’s apiary two large tin pails filled with water are always kept near the shop door, with a fountain pump hang- ing ovrr them; and if a swarm' shows any disposition to leave, or is slow in clustering when other swarms are r xpected, it receivas such a sprinkling that it soon “ hangs itsr 1f up to dry." With such a pump and plenty of water it is next to impossible fcra swarm to abscond. The implement is also useful to prevent uniting or clustering of swarms issuing at the same time. Near the tin pails stand two splint clothes baskets, lined with cotton cloth, and each basket is furnished with a burlap cover stitched to one side of it. As soon as a. swarm has clustered it is Ihaken into one of these baskets, the cover flopped over, and if another swarm or some- thing else demands immediate attention the basket and its contenls can be set to one side, to be disposed of at leisure. After seeing the ease with which bees mn be managed when allowed to swarm natural- ly, the energy with which they work. and the excellent results obtained, the v riter is decidedly opposed to artificial swarmingâ€" and also to queens with clipped wings. In the first place, when the bees swarm, the queen has to be found and caged. The bees roam around a long time, and sometimes finally cluster. If as other swarm comes out they are certain to unite With it. When the bees do return they often go piling into ihe wrong hive, perhaps hives; and if they do catch on to the proper one, instead of going in they often cluster all over its outside. Sometimes, after the queen has been allow- ed to run in she comes out again then of course the bees will follow her. In my ex- perience a swarm having an unclipped queen can be hived and he at work in that “Whoop ing,” “ zipping,” go-ahead style, in just about the same time that it takes a sWarm with a clip ed queen to make up its mind, sullenly and doggedly, to go back home.â€" American A gricuuurist. Plantain and Other Weeds. As to destroying the weeds after they are once on the farm â€"there are weeds and weeds, and a knowledge of their nature will be a. great aid in the warfare against them. Like other plants, they are annual, biennial, or perennial. Annual weeds come up, and die the first season, and that is the end of them. But before they depart, they make abundant provision for a succession, by pro- ducing a multitude of seeds to carry on the work. The earlier such weeds are destroyv ed, the better, as some perfect their seeds when quite small. The cultivation of crops that must be frequently worked by hand or horse implements, is the most ready way of getting rid of them. Biennial and peren- nial weeds the first year from sowing, pre- pare to produce seeds the next year. and are usually not conspicuous the first season, there being only a tuft of leaves lying close to the ground, looking innocent, but prepar- ing for misc: ief, by laying in provisions for an active growth the next year. The bien- nial, the second year, shoots up a flower stalk. perfects its seeds, and dies. The per- ennial shoots up a flower stalk, perficts its seeds and don’t die, but on the contrary lays up in its roots provisions for a more active campaign the third year, and so on continuâ€" ously. When such weeds are established, their spread should be prevented by cutting off their seed~stalks, or rather flower-stalks before seeds are formed. If the flower-stalks of a biennial weed are cut away, the plant will die sooner or later, and give no further trouble. Not so the perennial weeds, the measures for their extermination must differ with the nature of the plants and their num- bers. In some cases, pulling or digging up the roots will be cheapest ; in others, the constant cutting of the leaves as soon and as often as they appear at the surface of the ground, will answer. Again, it may be best to smother the weeds with a heavy growth of Buckwheat, or the Southern Cow Pea. Thi last makes a remarkably dense mat Lf vines and foliage, under which nothing can live. We have thus indicated the general methods to be followed in the destruction of weeds. Those persons will be most success- ful in applying them who acquaint them- selves with the plants known as weeds, and are able to recognize them at every stage, and who consider their habit of growth in undertaking their destruction. Every farmer should recollect that a sharp hoe properly applied to any weed in its youth, Will avoid much trouble in future.â€"Amcrican Agricul- turali'st. Kitchen and Market Garden. Success in the garden largely depends upon having good seeds and sowing them in the right time. Do not depend on seeds of doubtful vitality, but test them beforehand. Count out twenty seeds and sow them in a cup or other vessel of soil, and note what share comes up. The seeds of tender vege- tables should not be sown until the proper time to plant corn. In raising vegetables for market sow those kinds that are popu- lar in the locality. Plants in hot-beds should be hardened off gradually to prepare them for the open air. Hot-beds at this season need close attention. If the sashes are left closed a short time, the hot sun will destroy the plants and undo the work of weeks. In sowing seeds suc- cess often depends upon bringing the soil in close contact with them. Some gardeners Eread down the £011 over the seeds with the eet, Asparagus is a crop well suited to farmers. always in demand and the market rarely overstocked. If not sold at once it Will keep several days. Sow seeds to raise plants with which to set out a field next year. Prepare the soil as for a root crop, mark out drills fifteen inches apart and sow the Seeds rather thinly, covering an inch deep. \Vhen well up keep (lean by use of the hoe and thin With the hoe, leaving the plants as far apart as the u idtli of its blade. if they have good and and good cultivation the plants will, in one season, grow large enough to set out next Springâ€"American Agi‘ichf- tura’ist. The Berry Patch. Formu- notes upon the cultivation of the small fruits, have been given from time to time. Perhaps the very persons ft): whom they are especially intendedâ€"the farmers, thinking they have no fruit garden, have passed them by. By fruit garden, we mean essentially a berry patch. AS farmers more than most othrrs deprive themselves of the small fruits, which they might and should have in abundance, we have en- deavored to show that their culture is a l simple mattrr, Let the determination once be made to have an abundance of small fruits and all the rcst is easy. To makca beginning, unless some friendly neighbor will furnish plants, there must he a small outlay at the start. If only a few plants of each kind of fruit are procured to begin With, these on be increased very rapidly, indeed some mul- tiply themselves. No investment Will bring such a large return in health and family comfort, as that (xpended fcr the plants to stock a. berry patch. Send to some reputable dealer for his catalogue, make a selection and send the order early. The express or mail will bring the plants in due time. “hen the plants come, there must be a place ready to receive them. Select the best land that can be found near the house. It is Well to have it in sight, as tresspassers will be less apt to trouble it. It would be better to have prepared the soil for the patch last fall. but do it now, rather than to postpone the garden for a whole year. Pre- pare the soil as well as you know how With the means at hand, This means Well-rot- ted manure, and tlior >u,gli we) king with the plough and barrow. Saving the Road Wash. Every road not on a dead level has more or less del ris which has a. fertilizing value washed off upon its side. The water itself is valuable. and will make grass wherever it spreads. In a hilly country (1” one of gene tle grades, nearly all this water, and the fertilizing matter it carries, may be turned off at frequent intervals upon the adjoining pastures and meadows Tlic dust and debris of the highway consists of finely pulverised soil and stone, which contains more or loss lime, potash, and other valuable material so minutely divided that water makes it im - mediatelv available for plant food. Iron and steel tres, horse and ox shoes, and above all the frost, have been at work upon it all through the Winter. Appreciablr: quantities of manure have been dropped upon it by beasts of burden, and their feet have mixed it with the road dust, and made a nice compost. Its value is seen in the rank growth of grass and briars wherever it lodges. It will pay big wages for all the labor needed to turn this wash off, through culverts or an open ditch, on to the adjoin? ing pastures and mowing landâ€"American Aqricufturist. QUEER ANIMALS. The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge has received a crab from Japan that measures, from claw to claw, nearly twelve feet. In some observed by Pro- fessor Ward the claws were five feet in length. Professor Noury, director of the Museum of Natural History at Ellu-uf, in hunting the grebe, noticed a nesting bird push its floating nest from shore, sitting upon its side and paddling the nursery that con- tained the eggs, thus conducting it out of danger. A frog discovered in Germany has an in- genious method of protecting its eggs from birds. They are deposited in a swampy place, and immediately become luminous in the dark, predatory animals avoiding it, thinking it fire. The light of fire~flies has been proved a means of communication be- tween male and female. A vessel off Para reports falling in with a mass of spiders floating in the air. The rigging and soils Were covered with Ihe web, the long threads of which formed the bal- loon for the tiny wronauts. For several miles this spider swarm continued, the cap- tain estimating that there were millions, which had undoubtedly been blown from land. A gigantic jelly-fish stranded at Ceylon Weighed over two tons, and at night gave out a light sufficient to read by. In ten days it had eva orated so that it weighed only a few poun s. In specimens of the genus aurela aurita there is 9‘2 82 per cent. of water, the solid matter forming a. small of l per cent. In large forms of Rhigostoms there is 5 per cent. of solid matter. Professor Elliot of New York City, is con- ducting sune interesting experiments to test the sensibility or insensinility of in- sects to pain. A dragon-fly was fastened to a boarl and its abdomen severed from the rest of its body. The latter was then fed to the insect by piecemeal, which it ate with evident relish, the parts eaten of course dropping out of the severed end. Having eaten its own abdoman, it was served with six spiders and sixty flies, swallowing them all and losing them immediately, evidently suflering no pain. The forthcoming report of the “Challeng- er” on deep-sea fishes will contain some re- markable forms new to science. Mmy are luminous, showing fiery spots upon the head, like the headlight of a locomotive, or along the fins. It is supposed that these are their means of communication. Some of the localities from which they were taken were two or three miles from the surface, where, if a man stood, the pressure would equal that of two obelisks like the one in Central Park piled upon his back. The temperature of the watxr is just below freezing. W The. Population of Russia. On Jan. 1, 1892, the inhabitants of Russia numbered 91,118,514 living in sixty-three provinces and eleven distvicts. Dar ii; the year 1881 there were 4 848,863 births and ‘2 826,438 deaths registered. the growth of the populiiiou being 1 217,425 inhabitants. At this rate the population would rise to a hundred million in 1890, and in sixty to seventy yeuis it would double. At prutsunt the popuialiau of the empire. is lilnGCV'lu‘ll‘ millions. The growth of {705ml then i.) larg- est ill the southern parts and small “I. in the northern, where also ‘rl.c iiiOi‘L;llt;,‘ is great- est. It is difficult to say whether thia is to be. attributed to the climate or the icononic conditions cf the country. The aurig-J of life in Russia. is twenty-4x years in Europe and tliirfy‘one in Asia. This fact is explain- ed by the enormous iiiorlaliry of young children. It has been ascertained tba’ sixty per cent. of the children die under the age of five years, which means one and a. half million of deaths per annum among young children. It has also been provel that more than half of the male population die before attaining the age of military ser- vice. On an average, a person is born in the Russian empire every eight seconds, and a. death occurs every cleven seconds. In St. Petersburgh a. human being passes away every fifteen minutes. A LIFE 05' THE OCEAN WAVE. Terrible Suffix-lugs of a Shipwrecked Crewâ€"Only One Left to Tell the Tale. On Feb. 19 the brig A. G. Jeewett, load- (d with coal and machinery, left Philadel- pl‘ia bound to Matarms, Cuba. She was a trim vessel of 371 tons, was under the com- mand of Capt. Joseph Reed,and hailed from Belfast. Me. She had picked up her crew in Philadelphia. a few days before sailing. These were the Captain, two mates, six sail. ore. and a cook. 0n the day after setting sail the brig passed the I):laware Breakwater. On Feb. 21 and 22 the weather was foreboding, but the winds favored the vessel's course. Dur- ing the night of the 22nd the brig struck the Gulf Stream. A strong wind, which had been blowing from the south east, turned into a violent gale. The sea rose high and the waves broke over the vessel, which labored terribly. The storm increased in violence, and the gale shifted and came from the south-west. The buffeting bf the waves shifted the biig's cargo, and she rprang a. leak. The storm was so fierce that the pumps could not be worked with any effect. At 5% o’clock on the morning of the 23rd a heavy sea struck the brig rthrowing her on her beam (ride. She laundered shortly after- ward. Capt. Reed and the cook nana with her. The two mates and the four seamen swam toward a boat which the waves had torn loose from the vessel, together With a spar to which it had been spliced. The boat was full of water, and would have sunk but for the spar. The men climbed into her, and clung to the gunwalcs. The waves brake ovtr them again and again. They had no food, water, oars, or sails. At day- light the. gale had decreased in violence, but the water was still terribly rough. It be- came {rightfully cold. The men to keep the upper part of their bodies out of the water stood on the boat’s seats, still clutching the gunwales, which were the only part of the boat not submerged. In the afternoon Mr. Clarke, the first mate, said that his strength was leaving him. He could not stand on the seat any longer, and sank down into the water, his body resting (n the boat's bottom. For a time he managed to keep his head and shoulders above the gunwale. A succes- sion of chop seas S‘thb over his head, and a little while after he died. His companions, to lighten the boat, threw his body into the sea. Not long after the death of the first mate one of the sailors died from exhaus- tion. His body had hardly been let over the side of the boat when another sailor loosen- ed his grip on the gunwale and fell back dead. He also was dropped into the water. Only three remained when night came. l‘herc was no moon or stars. The flooded boat was tossed high one moment and sub- merged the next. The night was terrible, and it seemed like a lifetime to the two men who lived to see dawn. The other had died in the darkness. At noon on Feb. ‘24, Second Mate James Pratt was the sole survivor of the crew of the brig A. G. Jewett. For nearly two hours longer he was tossed around. He had been in the boat fifty-four hours when he saw the bark Elward Cashing bearing down upon him. He n as too Weak and numb to make even a signal of distress. The bark was out from Boston and bound for As- pinwall, where Pratt was landed on March 14 He was anxious to return to the United States, but was entirely destitute, all his efle3ts having been lost with the A. G. Jewett He told his story to the United States Consul at Aspinwall, who sent him home on the Pacific Mailafoamship Aca- pulco, which arrived in New York re- cenily. The California “Big Trees.” A correspondent of the Advance says :â€" “The largest tree is the fallen ‘Father of the Forest,’ with a traceable height of 452 feet, and meawuriug 112 feet in diameter at its baseâ€"a stupendous ruin truly l The in- terior, a hollow cavity, probably burned out centuries ago, is sufficiently spaCious to afi'ord ample room for a couple of mounted horse- man to ride abreast for 200 feet, then dis- mounting, if so disposed, our cavaliers could ascend a ladder,and through a very respectâ€" able-sized knot-hole emerge into the outer world againâ€"by no means a formidable un- dertaking, as we can cheerfully testify. The noble ‘Mother of the Forest,’ 3'27 feet in height, denuded of her bark,and, of course, d. a. 1, white and ghost-like, is still standing, though her top limbs are beginning to fall. The bai k removed from the poor defrauded Mother’ was exhibited at the Sydenham Usystal Palace, where it was burned with the partial destruction by fire of that boild- ing some years since. In 1853 one of the most imposing of the family group was cut down, occupying five men twenty-five days in performing the herculean work, which was accomplished by using angers, the bor- ings being made toward the centre of the tree. Upon the top of the stump, smooth- cd and polished, a pavilion had been erected, and the sizeable room enclosed upon festive Occasions serves for a dancing hall, and is large enough to accommodate thirty-two ‘sets' upon the floor, it is said, at one time. “ The Mariposa Groyc, in Mariposa County, is. a. public domain, having been given by an act of Congress in 1864 to the state ol‘Cilifornia. ID is two miles square, and from its greater area, larger number of trees and the wildness cf the locality, was even more impressive to us than the Cilaver- as (hove. Many of the big trees have been scathcd by fires, particularly in this forest. where, as Professor \V‘nitncy says,tliey have evidentlyswept through again and again. Lgioatly running its beauty. but amid all these fierce conficts, though scarred and ', ii any of these brave old veterans y maintained ll eir hold upon v. Lilo others have bowed their lofty lira-.15 iii the dust. There are not a. few of tth'u z'n‘oltrare monarchs here in the Mari- poac. Grove, in the debris of whose moulder- ing trunks, shrubs, loveliest wildflowers and sclt, velvety mosses spring up, gracefully beautifying all that remains of their former stately majority and. grandeur. Through onc of the standing treesâ€"the monster ‘\\'awoni’â€"the stage road h’ls been made to pass an aperture not quite equal to a simi lar one cut through the stump of the ‘Dead Hiantf, in the Tuoluiiinc Grove, through which wooden tunnel our loaded six- horse horse stage-coach was driven in easiest transit.” oâ€"4.>â€".o_~___ The truest wisdom is resolute determina- tion. AMONG OCR EXCHANGES. The most appropriate pastry fir afree lunch counterâ€"sponge cake. Every fresh trick the professional roller skater adds to his or her repertoire is called a new rinkle. Registers in the horse cars do not warm the vehicle, but they make it hot for the dishonest conductor. IIeâ€"“You made a focl of me when I married you, ma’am.” Sheâ€"“Lor l you al- ways told me you were a self~made man 1" \Vhen a bachelor says he is single from choice it makes him made to ask him why the girls made choice of some other fellow. It ain’ allus de silent man dat's de Imartes’. Do sheep doan make ez much fuss e7. do dog, but he ain' got nigh ez much sense. “No,” said the grocrr, “Brown’s trade doesn’t amount to much. A pretty large family; but then, you know, they don’t keep a servant.” A New York alderman, being told recent- ly that he was ambiguous, declared that the charge was false, as he had not drank any- thing for a year. "Does your baby kick when you try to put it to sleep '2" asked one young married man of another. "No," was the reply, “but 1 do when I am asked to put it to sleep.” To say that a mm with a bad cold in his head is like a musician, because he blows his nasal organ and sounds the loud catarrh, may be a bass joke, but its tenor is certainly funny. It was so cold in Nevada afewdays 3.20 that saloon frequenters had to thaw their whis- key before they could imbibe it, and the operation required so much time that they nearly died of thirst between drinks. A fashion magazine] asks: “What will the coming woman wear ?" Mr. Boxford, who is an old bachelor, says that observation teaches him that if she is a fashionable woman she will Wear outlier husband's patience. It is declared on good authority that only twenty-four white elephants have been se- cured in Siam in 1,352 years. Of this num- . ‘ 'Twasn’t me, mammy. her it will be safe to wager that at least hfty will be travelling with American czr- cuses in less than two years. . Scientists who have made minute exal’ ination asSert that the point of a bee’s sting is so fine as to be nearly un‘listinguisliable under the microscope. Under some circum- stances the stinger seemn in big as a redhot crowbar. 'A young Hungarian woman recently ar- rived at New 3 ork, has been trying,to marry three men. Some wicked American has evi- dently been giving the poor girl some exag- gerated pointers on the leap year of her adopted country. When a young woman trips daintily into the parlor and explains her delayed appear- ance by remarking that she had been "help- ing mamma to wipe the dishes,” it is pretty hard to refrain from proposing on the spot ; but go slow. She may be fooling thee. An article is going the rounds of the press entitled "The Umbrella in France." That settles it, then. For a While we cherished the hope that we might regain possession or that umbrella, but as it has crossed the ocean to evade us we might as well give it u A nicely diesseel woman on the street al- ways looks like an angel until she catches her skirt in the hoop of an ash barrel on the sidewalk and tears it, and thenâ€"well, the man of Well-balanced mind doesn’t remain near enough to see just (X\Clly what she does look like. Mamma (a widow of considerable person- al attractionsx: "I want to tell you some- thing, Tommy. You saw that gentleman talking to grandmamma in the other room. Well, he is going to be your new papa. Mimma’s gozng to marry him.” Tommy (who recollected something of the life his old papa used to lead) : "D-d-do’es he know it yet, mamma i" There was a large boiler of scalding water over a fire in the yard and several black imps playing near it. Suddenly a shrill VOlCe was heard from inside the shanty :â€" "Y ou, George Washington, keep away from dat ar biler. Directly you is gwine ter up- set dat ar biler and scald yourself ter deaf, an’ when you is,|you’ll be de fast one to say, 7)! PETLEYS’ â€"â€"'.I'.'HIIâ€"â€"-â€"- LEADING CARPET our. OursisformanyrenheangGaipetHousB FIRSTâ€"Our prices are lower than those of any other house in the city. SECONDâ€"Gar stock is entirely new and consists of this season’s goods only. THIRDâ€"Our stock is purchased direct from the manufacturers. FOURTHâ€"We carry more best quality Brussels Carpets than any house in Canada. FIFTHâ€"Our stock of Tapestry Carpets is superior to any on this continent. 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