Some of Our Exchanges. 



The Rural New Yorker has been so many 

 years almost a "household word" in many lo- 

 calities, we hardly deem it necessary to give 

 it an extended notice. More than twenty years 

 ago we recollect it as the brightest and most 

 attractive, — to "us children" — of any of the 

 weekly papers, and since we have kept bees 

 many are the valuable items we have gleaned 

 from its pages. Terms $2.50 ; less in clubs, 

 D. D. T. Moore publisher, 5 Beekman St. N. Y. 



The Ohio Farmer has, in years past, furnish- 

 ed many valuable articles on Bee Culture, and 

 as an agricultural paper it certainly possesses 

 a value to the people of Ohio and adjacent 

 States, over the eastern papers of this class, on 

 account of its value as a home paper. We 

 take pleasure in adding it to our list and rec- 

 ommending it to our friends. The terms, $2, 

 we think may be considered low for an agri- 

 cultural paper of its size published weekly. 



It will be observed that after the Bee Jour- 

 nals, we give the American Agriculturist a 

 place at the head of Agricultural periodicals. 

 We have a two-fold reason for this : First, 

 that their department of Bee Culture, by Mr. 

 Quinby, for many years past has been of 

 much value. Secondly, the general tenor 

 and tone of the paper. For years we have 

 read their opening notes, and "Hints About 

 Work," with a feeling of being benefitted and 

 made better "every time," although "we" are 

 not a farmer. 



Their Humbug and Swindle department has 

 been a great blow at a class of evils that 

 threatened, for a time, to demoralize almost 

 our whole population, and yet Orange Judd & 

 Co. seemed to stand alone almost, in their po- 

 sition in regard to Gift Enterprises, Lotteries, 

 Quack Doctors, etc., until within the last four 

 or five years. 



As a single illustration of how much the 

 Agriculturist has helped us in different depart- 

 ments in life, we will mention that the "Hex- 

 agonal Apiary" given in April No. for 1873, 

 was suggested by reading the very valuable 

 series of articles by Mr. Stoddard in 1871, en- 

 titled, "An Egg Farm." 



The ideas there suggested in regard to econ- 

 omical division of labor in making any branch 

 of agriculture a specialty, is worth enough to 

 pay for the paper a half dozen years. Could 

 those same "Egg Farm" papers be obtained in 



book form, it seems to us they would interest 

 and benefit a great mass of people who may 

 perhaps never "think of Poultry rearing as a 

 business. We should say with all emphasis in 

 regard to the Agriculturist : 



Wide may it spread, and "long may it wave." 



A year or two ago our attention was at- 

 tracted by a piece of paper blowing along the 

 streets, for said paper contained a picture of 

 what proved to be a Bee hive. And after hav- 

 ing captured the piece we found it contained 

 a description of a hive by A. L. Hatch, Rich- 

 land Co., Wis., (we fear we shall never get 

 fully converted to thinking it best to tell only 

 the county "a body lives in ;") this hive, 'twas 

 stated, could be made for a dollar, and the en- 

 graving much resembles our present "dollar 

 hive," but it seemed to us, no adequate pro- 

 vision was made for a cover and bottom board 

 that would be secure from effects of the 

 weather, but we then felt sure, that with 

 proper machinery, such hives could be made as 

 good as need be desired for the sum mentioned ; 

 in fact we had them then in use but had not 

 determined to offer them for sale. We gather- 

 ed from the scrap of paper that it was a frag- 

 ment of the Country Gentleman, published at 

 Albany, N. Y., at $3 per year, weekly ; and we 

 have added it to our list, as may be seen on the 

 cover. 



We mention the Scientific American last 

 on our list, and it may not be readily apparent 

 to all just how it enters into the domain of 

 Bee Culture. Well, in this way: It has been 

 almost our constant friend from boyhood, and 

 from it we have learned to judge of the 

 strength and properties of wood and metals ; 

 of the uses and possibilities of machinery in 

 aiding us in home affairs ; of the chemical 

 properties and values of articles for domestic 

 use, with which we come in daily contact. It 

 has aided us greatly in arranging our Wind- 

 mill and machinery, and in devising the cheap- 

 est, strongest and most effective weather-proof 

 hives ; in a proper understanding of how we 

 may economize labor in extracting hone} r ; the 

 laws which govern centrifugal foice, etc. In 

 constructing extractors it has aided us in de- 

 ciding what metals are most economical, and 

 in what shape we may get the greatest strength 

 with least expense, etc., etc. Need we go far- 

 ther ? It will certainly prove a good invest- 

 ment to all who will take the time to read it, 

 see advertisement. 



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