SWARMING EXTRAODINARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1320, 14 December 1880, Page 2

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D. N. Kern relates in tho Ohio Fanner the following uxpeiience "with a hvvaim of Italian bee>: — The first swarm oarno out May 5, and was pat in .1 hive filled with comb. Ou M.iy IC tho .->e> ond swarm came out, and vva» hived with weak swum. On 20 the third came out and was lmed with a second aud weak swarm. On May 21 rhu fourth swarm came out. Mr Kern caught the queen and killed it, and put the swarm back to old colony. On May 23 the fifth swarm c ime out. He caught two queens and killed them, aud put the swarm back again. On May 24, at 6 o'clock a.m., the sixth swarm camo out. He caught two queens again and killed them, ami put the swarm back again. The same da.y at 3 o'clock p.m.. the seventh swarm came out again. This time ho hived them in an old straw hive, and set them on the top of the old hive. In the evening of May 25 he shook them down in front of the old hive again, and that settled for thg time the swarming fever of the old. hive But on June 26 the first young .swarm threw out a very large swarm, and on July 3 threw out a second swarm, and about five minutes later a swarm came out of the old hive again. He hived hoth swarms together and sold them for 200 dols cash. All thpse swarms made 235 pounds of comb honey.

On reference to our advertising columns, will bo seen the Abridged Prospectus of the Caswell Sound Marble, Portland Cement, and Mining Company (Limited), the share lh>t of which clo&eb on the 15th proximo. A bashful young man could defer the momentous question no longer s-> he stammered : "Mdi-tha, I— -I— do you— you must haye — are you aware that the Good Book says — er, says that ie is not er-g'-good that man should be alone ?" "Then hadn't you better run home to your mother ?" Martha coolly suggested. Archdeacon Denlson, writing- on the subject of cheese-making-, says: Homemaking and no artificial drying are the two principal elements of good oheese-makinjr. A re.il oheedar should not be eaten under 18 months from date of making, and is best at two years old. In the case of American or factory-made cheese, says the Archdeacon, it doeis not smell awpptly after six months, when it is a race b.tweeu the men and the maggots,