lS9r, 



GLEANIN(;S IN BEE CULTURE. 



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looked neglected. We made another pond last 

 week, and will stock it with carp as soon as 

 spring opens. Geo. M. KKU-oof^. 



Pleasant Hill. Mo. 



fl am glad to be able to tell you that our carp- 

 pond does not look as sad as it did. Just before 

 Christmas, during the fine open weather, vvc 

 cut a ditch alongside of the bank of Champion 

 Brook, 400 feet upstream, to a little dam across 

 said brook. Then we put in three-inch tile, put 

 a little dam across the brook, and the carp- 

 pond was filled up right speedily vvith nice 

 clean rain water that fell on the sround in 

 wintertime. Just as we got the whole thing 

 finished, and working to ray satisfaction, a zero 

 freeze came on. and now we have pure rain- 

 water ice fully eight inches thick. In fact, it is 

 ready now for the ice-hoiise. and the carp have 

 plenty of room. I am glad you pronounced 

 tbem a good table fish. — A. I. R.] 



FENCING POULTRY "OUT;" HOW HIGH MUST 

 THE FENCE BE? 



Mr. Ro<A: — Are you not mistaken about hens 

 not flying over netting one foot high? We have 

 Brown Leghorns, and they fly like hawks — are 

 for ever on the move in daytime, and are the 

 most prying, inquisitive things that I know 

 (that wear feathers). D. W. Dickinson. 



Hickman, Ky., Dec. 24. 



[Friend D.. we have had quite a little experi- 

 ence in the matter, and we find that one foot 

 seems to answer every purpose with our large 

 breeds of fowls, and we have some small ones 

 also. Of course, this is for fencing them out of 

 any particular locality. We once had a straw- 

 berryplot near the poultry-house. It was put 

 out originally for raising Haverland plants: 

 but before we knew it we had a big crop of 

 berries. The hens found them and commenced 

 to work on them before they were even red. 

 We put a strip of poultry-netting around the 

 whole inclosure. only one foot wide. Of course, 

 it was put up as high as we conld put it with- 

 out allowing the hens to crawl under. Not a 

 berry was touched afterward. Some of the 

 Brahmas walked along the fence, and looked 

 over: hut none of them got in. Of course, you 

 can not fence fowls In with any such fence; and 

 I presume the arrangement will answer only 

 where they have unlimited range. Perhaps 

 they reason this way: " Why should we take 

 the trouble to climb over that thing wVien it is 

 such an easy matter to walk around it?" They 

 would accordingly walk around the corner; 

 but, not finding the strawberries, thev got their 

 minds on something else, and walked oft' in 

 another direction. I tried those same strips of 

 one-foot poultry-netting to keep the neighbors' 

 hens away from some peas. I had not enough 

 to go clear around the peas, so I extended the 

 fence two or three rods beyond the patch, in 

 both directions. It served the purpose of ward- 

 ing them off about as in the former case— that 

 is, it stopped them from going straight from 

 the barn to the pea-patch: but occasionally a 

 fowl that was out in the fields, on her way 

 home would get into the peas. It must be re- 

 membered that poultry will seldom meddle 

 with peas any way, where they are properly 

 provided for otherwise. 



Ernest suggests that IS-inch netting is a 

 little better, and two feet still surer. His ex- 

 perience was in putting such a fence around 

 his dooryard. to keep his neighbors' fowls away. 

 Of course, this will be a little different. Where 

 one man keeps a lot of fowls, and is pretty 

 close up to a neighbor who does not keep any, 



a division fence to make the chickens stay at 

 home, especially if said chickens are in a town 

 where they are pretty closely circumscribed any 

 way. would need to be a little higher. Then it 

 is to he rememberi'd thatchickens are like cows 

 and horses in regard to getting out of an inclo- 

 snre. A certain flock may become so educated 

 that they will do very unusual things. Not- 

 withstanding, the narrow strips of poultry-net- 

 ting oftentimes serve very important purposes. 

 We have a lot of iron rods sharpened at one end, 

 and a little coil made at the other, to get hold 

 of easily. These can be quickly thrust into 

 almost any ground so as to make the strip 

 of netting just right when it is hooked on the 

 ring at the top of the iron stake. You can put 

 up such a guard against the fowls almost as 

 easily as you can chase them away, and then 

 the job is done with until your crop is ready to 

 be gathered, then pull up your stakes and roll 

 up your netting until it is wanted next time. 

 A 150-foot strip of netting, one foot wide, costs 

 now only (i? cts.— A. I. R.] 



ROBBING SICK PEOPLE. 



Mr. Root: — I have just read your article 

 on Electropoise. and was much interested, as 

 we have an instrument that just answers the 

 description of it, but it Is of a different name, 

 " Oxydonor Victory," manufactured, patented, 

 and invented by one Dr. H. Sanche, 2(54 West 

 Fort St., Detroit. Mich. The price is $25. It Is 

 exactly the same in appearance as Electro- 

 poise. Whether it is a humbug or not I can 

 not say. My mother had a very estimable and 

 intelligent lady nurse who heard of Oxydonor, 

 and went to Toledo and investigated the same. 

 She personally interviewed some of the most 

 prominent business men of the city who had 

 used it. She became interested, and took an 

 agency for the same. Mother gains some; and 

 father, who has not done much work for some 

 time past, does a good deal now. I myself cur- 

 ed a case of bowel trouble, and it was of con- 

 siderable standing. It may be that we all 

 would have got better had we not used it. If it 

 is a swindle it ought to be exposed, for it is an 

 exorbitant price. I am not a scientist, and 

 could not analyze it should I take it to pieces: 

 hence I write to you. 



I have not written this for publication; but 

 should you find the machine a fraud, and want 

 to, you may use this; but please suppress my 

 name, as it would only make hard feelings, as 

 the agent here investigated it for us. 



If I can help in any way I shall be glad to do 

 so. My mother has paralysis. X. Y. Z. 



[Friend Z., one test will apply to all these 

 things. If the thing you describe has any vir- 

 tue, then a new force or power has been dis- 

 covered; but scientific men, our intelligent doc- 

 tors and teachers, know nothing of any such 

 discovery. What you tell us only illustrates 

 again the ow'/itf fraud and swindle that these 

 men are putting upon the public. The fact 

 that prominent business men indorse it, again 

 illustrates the credulity of the people at large. 

 It must be imagination. It can not be any 

 thing else. The very fact that they charge 

 ¥2.").00 for the trifling bauble is one big evidence 

 that it is a fraud. It is exactly on the same 

 principle as hanging something about your 



