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GLiiAi^rNGs IN ]n<:E oai/niuE. 



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a dozen swarms of bofs. I tliiiik tlioy luust liavo 

 been a swarm tliut liail run away and settled there, 

 and increased. Tliere are a goml man.V bce-( rees on 

 the nioiintain. Almost all of tlicso bees are Italians. 

 A largo insect like a buniblc-l.ee is the only enemy 

 the bees have hero. I s:iw one catching- a bee. 1 

 caught it and put it under a glass with several bees, 

 and it eauglit one, and then, seeing' another trying 

 to g-ot out, it caught and held It whiles it was eating 

 the other one. It nuikes a sniiill hole in the bee's 

 body, iind sucks the inside out, leaving only the 

 empty shell. (iK()i;(ii'; Lawson, age I!!. 



Lookout Mountain, Tenn. 



Why, CJeofge, why diui't yoii so and iii- 

 vesti,!f"iite tliaf bee-roc-k, and Iind out what 

 tliprt? is in ilV— Tiio insect yon mention, I 

 siionid siijipose from y( tir descrii)tion, is tlie 

 Asilus j//,s,vi(»rj(')(.s/.s', whicli lias beon fre- 

 quently described in onr text -books and 

 journals. 



WHAT TO DO WITH A !■ E KT I I.K-WOItKK R COIiONV. 



My bees are all doing well now, except one colo- 

 ny wliieh had two fertile workers but no queen. I 

 killed the fertile w(n-kers, iind am going to give 

 them a i]ueen-cell. Tlu'>' ha<l (juecn cells started. 



In one of the hives where t he drones were, the 

 rjueen had qui; l:i,\ii;g-. and looked slim, as if for 

 flight. 1 think they will swarm soon. On the ITth 

 of Feb., 1^8T, we had a hard windstorm that upset 

 part of the hives. Some of the bees hiy on the 

 ground till the third day. and then the sun shone 

 and warmed them up and they enme to life and 

 crawled into ii hive. The thermometer registered 

 10 degrees above zero at So'clock on the morning of 

 the second day after the blow, and had lieen lower 

 in the tiight, so you see bees are not always dead 

 when you know they are. 



T received the book you sent me for my lettei-, 

 and was \ cry much iile:ised with it. T am one year 

 and one month over tiflcen to-da.y, so I send five 

 cents to p-.iy f(n- it. T don't believe In begging, any- 

 how. CHAKI.IE STEWAltT. 



Altona, Col., May, 1.S87. 



Xevy sooil. friend rharlie; but I do not 

 believe I am (luile jnepared to acce})t your 

 statement, that bees ai(> not always dead 

 when you know they are. If the bees you 

 mention lay on tb.e ground three days while 

 the thermometer regiptered as low as 10 

 above zero, it is certainly ahead of anything 

 in all my experience in this matter ; in fact, 

 I do-iidt think I ever knew bees to come to 

 life after they liad lain dormant from cold 

 for as long a jjeriod as :> days. If you caught 

 and killed the fertile workers, you have 

 done sotnelhing more than most veteran 

 bee-keetiers can do. Are you 'sure that yon 

 killed tlie identical fertile workers? Asa 

 general thing, we can not distinguisli them 

 from any oilier l)ees. unless we can see 

 them in' the act of la} ing eggs in the cell, 

 rutting a queen-cell into a fertile-worker 

 colony might or miglit not cause the bees to 

 raise a good laying queen. Abotit the only 

 sure \\ay is to scatter th(^ brood into several 

 good colonies. I would give the fertile 

 workeis several fraint s of good brood and 

 young hatching bees. You can then give 

 them a queen-cell, or iirtroduce a queen, and 

 yet b(^ tolerably sure that every thing will be 

 well. 



^peij^cc© C^ii^MN- 



TOIIACCO, AND ITS EVIF. EFFECTS. OOOU ADVICE 



FOR TilE BOYS, FROM ONE OF THE MED- 



I(\Vr, PROFESSION. 



fltllONI) KOO'l':-] k'liow there is mor(( rejoicing 

 o\or one sinner that rcpcnteth, etc., but I'm 

 wenk in mental lore, and have much faith in 

 an ounce of prevention. You will mistrust, 

 liy the (Uil)ious atmosphere al)out my person, 

 that I am a '• pill-peddler" by i)rofession; but what 

 bus that to do with tobacco'/ Well, 1 want it to fur- 

 nish a little weight to my testimony, and I want you 

 to listen to mo just the same as if I had been your old 

 and respected family doctor for the last forty years, 

 and Imd twice saved your great-grandmother from 

 having the smallpo.v. But, to the point: I have 

 seen many of the cauI effects of tobacco, but never 

 have seen any uood to come of it. I will give some 

 of its bad effects, as I have witnessed them: Palpi- 

 tation (d' the heart is one of the most common; diz- 

 ziness, weakness, trembling, and nervousness. I 

 have seen some very severe cases of dj spepsia 

 brought on tiy the use of tobacco, Avhieh were in- 

 curable until tobacco was discontinued. Hut the 

 most deplorable eli'ects which have been lately in- 

 \( stigated by some of the ablest minds of the pres- 

 ent age is over the mental faculties of the young. 

 I am sure theie is not a boj' or young man, no mat- 

 ter how much he maj' boast of his superior qualifi- 

 cat 'ons of worlhtessness or of evil doings, but that 

 wants to be eonsidercd bright and intelligent. Here 

 is just where the greatest evil of tobacco lies; and, 

 what is more deplorable, that evil is latent. If it 

 were ri.pid in its effects— if, I say, it knocked all 

 the understanding out of a full-grown Loy in just 

 thirteen minutes, and made him speechless until 

 after he had taken a cold shower bath, it would lie 

 a very sucei s^ful persuader; but, unfortunately, its 

 action is slow. Its poison gradually steals a perma- 

 nent position in the economj . It slowiy but surely 

 produces u sense of dullness, a languor, an indis- 

 Iiosition in the menial faculties of a growing brain, 

 a eertaiti iib-;eiit-mindedness, inability to remember 

 l)roper names, dates, and time. The reason for this 

 is because it retards nutrition by interfering with 

 digestion, and its direct sedative action on the brain 

 l)re\ cnts normal action. 



Of the different modes of using tobacco, chewing 

 is the most obji etionable, because more enters the 

 system. Cigar smoking comes next; ai.d the least 

 objectionable is a clean clay pipe. But it makes me 

 nervous to think of a compromise. I would by all 

 means insist upon an "unconditional surrender." 



Young man, if your mind is not fully matured; 

 if you ore not 35 or 30 years old, or if you have not 

 yet taken possession of all the knowledge .vou care 

 to possess, or if you don't want to forget all you 

 have Iciirned; if you want to be consideied brighr, 

 active, quick wittid, and the equal or suiu'iior of 

 your associates in mental discipline; if jou wantlo 

 bo in good health, and have a sweet V)reath and a 

 clean heart, stop the use of tobacco; foi-, 1 repeat, 

 it can do you no possible good, and may prove to 

 make your life most wretched. 



I am sorry to say I was once a tobacco-user my- 

 self; but after seeing so much of the evil effects of 

 it, T have wisely concluded to stop— the smartest 

 thing- 1 was ever known to do in my life. 



M. K. NicHor.s, M. D. 



