. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. Mat: THE COTTAGE GARDENER. other animal. I kept three female^ and one male for about two years, ami t'ouuil ihem "more phigiie tliaii ; wei-e placed in An oruJnu-d, but would not eut the grass lliat was soni", but only sueli as the i-ows would feed from ; nibbled the hedges, and in spite of nil opposition would force tliem- selves througli. Tlie milk is \ery rich, but not so ple'utiful as I was led to expect. Tlie Hfsh of the lUd is ilelicious. I had one female that produeeil three live and two dead ones at a birth. The
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. Mat: THE COTTAGE GARDENER. other animal. I kept three female^ and one male for about two years, ami t'ouuil ihem "more phigiie tliaii ; wei-e placed in An oruJnu-d, but would not eut the grass lliat was soni", but only sueli as the i-ows would feed from ; nibbled the hedges, and in spite of nil opposition would force tliem- selves througli. Tlie milk is \ery rich, but not so ple'utiful as I was led to expect. Tlie Hfsh of the lUd is ilelicious. I had one female that produeeil three live and two dead ones at a birth. The maU' only barked the trees, and was not particular wlietht-r lhe\ were young or old, 1 have had much pleasiu'e in recommending yom' work to several friends, wlio agrci- with me that it is the cheapest and best work of the kind ever pubUshed.—\V. H. Whiie, Tfmnits Dittou. Bees.—Von state (vol. iii.,page "^id) that raw sugar given to bees is useless; bees can only take it in the liquid state. I ha\e two common straw hives, mid have found from expe rience that bees uill feed upou sugiu', and iiiiike short work of two uuiices at a time, in fact, they devour it in a similar manner tiiat a parcel of llies would in a sugar basin. On tbe contrary, my bee>. tliough tried repeatedly ^ritll ale and sugar, prepared as recommended in yoviv periodical, would never touch it; but that sugar (and honey in a small quan- tity) lUssolved iu water was quickly consumed. — Thos. Brook, Ha,wrer street, Halifax. ^You will observe iu our last nimiber that Mr. Payne and others ha\e found that barley sugar, which becomes moist when exposed to a warm, damp atmosphere, like that of the inside of a hive, is consumable by bees. Sugar also be- comes moist in the same situation. We were, therefore, not wroug iu saying that bees cannot partake of sohd food.— Ed. C. a.] TO CORRESPONDENTS. ?,* We request that no une \\ ill write to the departmental writers of Thk Cottage GARDENEa. It gives them un
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