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Another good way, and one that 

 almost always proves successful, is to 

 make a cage or basket out of fine wire 

 cloth large enough to hold one brood- 

 comb, being careful not to have any 

 place where the queen can get fast and 

 die, or get disabled in any way. Place a 

 comb of hatching brood in the basket 

 with the queen ; shake every bee from 

 the comb before putting it in the basket; 

 close the basket tight so no bee-i»n get 

 in or out. 



Hang the basket in the hive in which 

 you wish to introduce the queen ; the 

 young bees will be hatching out all the 

 Wme, and the queen will lay in every 

 vacant cell. In a few days liberate the 

 queen and the bees in the basket. 

 Usually there will be no danger of the 

 queen being killed. Always be sure to 

 have the hive queenless before attempt- 

 ing to Introduce a queen. If the bees 

 should from any reason kill the queen, 

 they will have plenty of eggs of her lay- 

 ing to construct queen-cells and rear 

 young queens from. You can make 

 nuclei, and give each one of the queen- 

 cells, and thus renew the stock in your 

 apiary. 



This method has some advantage over 

 the one usually practiced by introducing 

 the queen in the small cage she is 

 shipped in. There are always eggs of 

 her laying in the comb to rear other 

 queens from. There should be some 

 honey in the comb that is put in the 

 basket, for the queen and young bees to 

 subsist on. — E. S. Mead, in Ohio Farmer. 



Objections to Grading Honey, 



There has been brought against the 

 grading of honey the objection that it 

 would produce a sameness, and remove 

 that incentive to excel that ought to 

 accompany all pursuits. If there is a 

 grade requiring perfection, as I think 

 there ought to be, this objection will 

 not hold good. 



Another objection is, that different 

 persons would grade the same honey 

 differently, even when working by the 

 saTne rules. There probably would be 

 minor differences, but the grading would 

 be much- more uniform than when no 

 general rule was followed. 



It has also been said that if there 

 were rules for grading that there must 

 be an inspector in each market ; and 

 that the inspector and the middle man 

 weuld combine to " beat" the producer. 

 I think no inspector would be needed. 

 These rules would be a sort of agree- 

 ment among ourselves, indicating what 



we mean by certain grades. When a 

 dealer quoted honey of a certain grade, 

 at a certain price, every producer and 

 purchaser would know exactly what was 

 meant. 



Where the producer takes a sample 

 of his honey to dealers and sells direct to 

 them, there is not so much need of a 

 set of rules, but they would be a con- 

 venience, even then, while I think it is 

 true that the great bulk of honey is sold 

 without the producer ever seeing the 

 purchaser. 



I still believe that a set of rules can be 

 formulated that will be sufficiently con- 

 cise, yet broad enough to cover the 

 needs of the entire country, and that 

 such rules would be a great convenience. 

 — Bee-Keepers'' Review. 



Mind-Destroying Literature. 



Every great blessing has its attendant 

 evils. The printing press and the im- 

 proved processes of illustration are 

 great aids to the spread of knowledge, 

 but unfortunately they can just as 

 effectually aid in the distribution of lit- 

 erature that is unwholesome and damag- 

 ing to the mind. 



The worst dangerous for of literature 

 is not that which is openly immoral, 

 because that can be reached by law and 

 suppressed. It is the sensational, sloppy 

 stuff that is flooding the land and ruin- 

 ing young minds by giving them false 

 ideas of life. 



As there seems to be no way to pre- 

 vent the publication of this trash, and 

 nothing can be done to restrict its cir- 

 culation, the only thing that parents 

 can do is to keep it out of the hands of 

 the children. 



But in destroying the unwholesome, 

 they should be careful to furnish a 

 plentiful supply of the wholesome. 

 There are plenty of good books and 

 papers, and the prices at which they are 

 furnished places them within the reach 

 of all. You would not give your horses 

 food that would weaken their muscles 

 and render them unserviceable. Be as 

 good to your boys and girls. — Western 

 Plowman. 



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