REMARKABLE YIELD OF HONEY. (From the Californian Farmer.)

Otago Witness, Issue 522, 30 November 1861, Page 9

REMARKABLE YIELD OF HONEY. (From the Californian Farmer.)

The following report, by the Rev. Ilirain Hamilton, of Stockton, shows the results of . bee-keeping in this State. He si*ys :—: — " Thirty-five swarms of bees did produce, during the past season, over 20,000 Ib. of . honey. I am not surprised that the truth of this should be questioned, for I doubt if the ■ world can furnish a parallel. Uot that a hive producing 571 lb. in one season cannot be ' found, hut that thirty-five swarms should average that amount is a great yield. But it i:i of no great good to the public to be told . that a great thing is done, unless they are informed how it was done. This I will do in as. i'cw words as possible. About the Ist of February, 1860, I left the vicinity of Stockton with thirty-five swarms of bees— twenty-five, swarms in Langstroth hives, containing about 1400 cubic inches, and ten swarms in another., rnoveable comb hive, containing about 2000' cubic inches each. I took these bees to the town of Santa Clara, Santa Clara county, arid kept them there until the Ist of July, six" months. I managed them on the system taught by the llev. L. L. Langstroth in his work on the honey bee. I fed them on nothing, except the honey that I took from them. . By"' the Ist of July, tha swarms had increased to 270. I removed them at that time to the vicinity of Stockton, whence the}' started, and by the Ist of October the swarms had increased to 500. The large hives, ten in number, have' increased to seventy-five, containing about 60 lb. of honey each, or 4500 lbs.; the, small hives, twenty-five in number, have amounted to 425, containing about JJ-5 lb. each, or 14,875 • lb. ; from the small hives, in September, about 700 lb. was taken, and they afterwards filled.,, 709 lb., making for the whole the grand totalof 20,775 lb. From the above it will be seen that the small hives have been much the most profitable. Bees do but very little in Santa-.. Clara after the Ist of July, but in San Jeaquin and Sacramento valleys they do the most after the Ist of July — July, August, September, and October being the best months of the year. I am introducing into my apiary Italian been, imported by A. J. Bigelow, of Sacramento. I think they will prove a great acquisition to our apiaries in California." Supposed Murder at the Campaspe.— On Thursday night information was received in Sandhurst of the finding of the remains of a human body, under circumstances which would strongly favour the belief that a murder had been committed. Towards sundown, two young men named Aiming were in the bush after cattle, and about four miles from Tobin's public-bouse, near the Goulburn road, they came upon the burnt remains of a bod}'. Is'tarly the ,v»hole of the trunk was consumed, only a portion of the legs remaining. There were the remains of what had evidently been three large fires close to where the bodj T was found, and' near these the men found a pistol, which appeared as if it had not long been discharged. The only portions of clothing left, by which any clue or identification may be obtained, was a pair of lar^e digger's boots. The District Coroner will hold an inquest on the body, the enquiry being. preliminarily commenced, and adjourned until. the police shall have had time to mnkfe enquiries into this mysterious afurir. The Ad- , o-n-tiasr of Saturday {.-ives the following additio:>ul particulars : — Yesterday morning, Detective O\Neill, who had left Sandhurst the previous night, proceeded to the place where the remains of the body were first seen,- and collected the few bones tiiat were left uncorisumed by the fire. They consisted of .the thigh bones, a portion of the lower bones of the leg, and part of the skull. There was also si portion of the abdomen, which wa» completely charred by the lire. Close to where the bones were found, the" two men~Anntnct""" | who first discovered the remains, picked up j portions of a swag, a 'billy,' and other (n- T lliag articles. They also 'found a pistol; but whether it had been discharged by the fire or not, they could not tell, as the stock was burnt, showing that it had been in contact with the fire. They also found, near the fire a piece of bark, apparently not long stripped from the tree, and written on it the following disjointed sentences, in blood, as if the finger ' had been used for the writing :— ' \V HI ' now see your kindness ; had you only warned me. * also advertisements; letters intercepted, lent robbed: drugged my very food. God help inc. I see it all too late.' The deceased's bones and the articles found, were taken to the Clare Inn where an inquest will be held on Monday. It appears that when the body was first seen by the two young men Aiinlne . it was lying across the burning lo<,', and only- ' partially consumed ; but that instead of taking r it ofr at once, they ran home to tell what they had seen, and by the time they returned there ' was little of the body left. The place where it was found h near an unfrequented track in, the bush, and some distance from the main ' road. The supposition is that the man 'was some one of unsound mind, who has com- „ mit ted suicide, but whether he had used the pistol after igniting the fire which cousumed him, or adopted the horrible method of burning him?elf to death, there will not, we fear, be much chance of ascertaining. Ingi/ewood. — The prospects of the reef at Inglewood have of late rather improved than otherwise. A magnificent yield has been obtained by the proprietors of Xo 1 claim north on the Morning Star. They have just com-- ■ pleted their second crushing of 39 tons, and upon clearing up they obtained 1190 oz of amal^ani, which when retorted gave 359 oz of geld, making, together with their former crushing, a total yield of GOO oz from fifty- • three tons quartz. The thirty-nine tons have been raised by three men in a fortnight, and tha whole lot is the produce of a month's labour. The reef is now about eight feet thick, and is easily worked. It continues to look as rich as ever, gold being plainly visible in every stone raised, and the lucky proprietors expect to send from seventy to eighty tons more to the mill in another fortnight. The Garibaldi Company obtained 72 oz from their last crushing or' ninety tons. Several new claims have recently struck the lode, the most prominent of these being No 4 south on the Leicester, in which sonic splendid stone has been struck at a depth of only three feet. ' . • Our neighbours still appear determined to write down Otajjo. The following is from a lute number of the Sydney Herald: — The Spray left Otago on the 23rd ultimo, but brhijjfi no Liter papers than already received. The accounts respsctinjj the distress among the largo inf.ux of diggers at Dunedin are very bad, huge numbers being almost in a state of starvation, and unable to leave the place for want of means. Tho last escort of 1-3,000 ounces gold had arrived, but no "fresh fiold had been discovered. The following paragraph has been going the round of the Victoria newspapers: — "A credible eyo-witnesa informs us (the Geelong Ac - oertiser") that upon one occasion he saw a female placed upon the weighbridge at Dunedin, and the weight of the lady in pounds and ounces, avoirdupois, having been ascertained, one shilling j.er pound was charged for her conve3-ar.ee to Tuapoka by bullock dray. Ho low ay's Ointment and Pills.— Release from rlu'um.iuNni. — Rhcir.U'UUm U nearly related to goui, to buih of which many arc born with. an horevlitury predisposition. To such, cold and damp weather usually livings an attack ; but iis severity uriy bo mitigated, .»ml iis dui.i.iou shortened by it'.Uowuy'.* southing Ointment and purif)in« P>> ls « The p.iinful. swollen, .v.-d iisll.isued join', U w°". rc * lifvvli by thy i-ropvr application of Una o«oh» g Ohu-.neuc, wli',l.- tlu> l'ills reduce the .iciive fevsi, -mil re«lo:c UHiiquiiiij in cirvul.uion und uarve*. l'!i".-.e restrnMthe leni.-dU.-* have subdued the mow .•uui.ivour.iV.e c.is.»> X-" IUl * '" !li clirtmic r^umawm 'it' or <*o»'v other d' K &et un- ,\\< h-».l fauVd. tiulUW *..ii<ft"T li.'-5 in il>-j>.»ic .ib.!/. kuv.il all hope