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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUIvTURE. 



May 1 



and at the same time save a great amount of 

 labor in spreading it around. 



If you wish to use a water-closet you will 

 have to have some sort of reservoir, either in 

 your attic or up high enough to give a head — 

 that is, if your town or city does not have 

 waterworks. The people who sell water-closet 

 fixtures will give instructions in regard to ven- 

 tilation ; but I think I had better say right 

 here that every system of sewage, such as I 

 have described, should have traps inside of 

 the building so that sewer-gas can never come 

 up through the tiles. Besides this, to make 

 it doubly sure, right where the sewer-pipe 

 comes through the cellar wall to get outdoors 

 under ground, there should be a standpipe 

 running up above the roof of the house. An 

 iron pipe two or three inches in diameter is 

 perhaps the safest thing for this purpose. 

 Old boiler- flues screwed together make a cheap 

 and substantial air - pipe or vent. This, of 

 course, passes into the open air above the 

 building ; and should there ever be fermenta- 

 tion anywhere in the sewage- 

 tiles, the product goes up 

 this pipe, and is scattered to 

 the winds above the roof of 

 the house.* 



Now, do not object to this 

 thing on account of expense. 

 It pays to save the strength 

 of the women-folks. I hard- 

 ly need tell many of you 

 what hired girls cost — not 

 only in money, but in health, 

 comfort, and happiness. 

 Then heavy doctor - bills 

 might be avoided by a little 

 money spent in sanitary ar- 

 rangements. Typhoid fevers 

 are now almost every time 

 traced directly to heedless- 

 ness in the way of sanitary 

 arrangements. Ask your 

 family physician about it. 

 Read the papers, and see 

 what has been done in the 

 cities where yellow fever for- 

 merly raged season after 

 season. Even the bubonic 

 plague is now yielding to 

 energetic and heroic treat- 

 ment by our most intelligent 

 physicians. We are certain- 

 ly making great headway in 

 the line of prevention^ even 

 if we are not accomplishing 

 all we should like, in the 

 way of cure. 



Perhaps this Home Paper has not touched 

 very much on spiritual matters ; and, in fact, 

 many people may think both of my texts were 

 intended for spiritual instruction only. Grant- 

 ing this to be true, I am sure the great Father 

 above delights in teaching us to protect our- 

 selves from disease, and in keeping not only 

 ourselves but our homes clean in every sense 

 of the word. 



NOTES OF TR AYE L 



< BY , . !!^Avl.ROQT . 



MARCHANT'S PLAN OF ARRANGING HIVES, 

 APIARY, ETC. 



On page 197 of Gleanings for March 1st I 

 gave a brief description of the apiary I have 

 pictured here. Friend Marchant has movable 

 stands for his hives, constructed as shown in 

 Nos. 1 and 2. Two rows of stands make a 

 double row of hives with a space between the 

 two rows so the operator can pass back and 

 forth without getting in front of the hives or 

 interfering with the flight of the bees. Now, 

 instead of having these two rows in a long 

 string, he has them arranged in the form of a 

 hollow square, so that half an acre of ground 

 will accommodate, say, 200 hives, and not 

 have them crowded either. 



* Mrs. Root says, since the above was written, that 

 this arrangement is worth more than you can tell as 

 a convenient place to pour down slops, dishwater, 



NO. 1. — A FEW HIVES OK MARCHANT'S APIARY AT MAR- 

 CHANT'S LANDING, ON THE APALACHICOLA RIVER. 



In No. 2 you will notice a number, 190, 

 close by a hive in the center of the picture. 

 These numbers are attached to the stand and 

 not to the hive. If the hive is moved away, 

 and another one put in its place, you do not 

 have to remember to pull off the numbers and 

 change them. Another thing, you will notice 



etc., that you would not want to put into the kitchen 

 sink. In all the years we have used it, no smell of 

 any kind has ever been perceptible, even to the most 

 critical nostril ; and different people have been in- 

 credulous uutil they examined the whole apparatus 

 most thoroughly, and yet it is within only a few 

 yards of the kitchen and kitchen stove. 



