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THB SMEmicjEM mmm jQ\jmnmi^. 



Xlie l>ooiu ol tlie CoueniaiisrlL. 



Nestled among- the mountains, 



Cozy and snug and warm. 

 Town and village and city lay 



Seeming secure from harm. 

 Never a fear of inlhigc— 



Feasting and ghid and gay- 

 Town and city and village 



A picketless armj' lay. 

 Nestled among the mountains, 



With never a thought of gloom, 

 Peaceful village and city and town 



Felt the stroke of the doom ! 



Age that was wrinkled and hoary ; 



Youth that was golden and jet ; 

 Manhood crowned with the crown of might ; 



Infancy toddling yet ; 

 Motherhood time-worn, tender ; 



Wifehood trusting and true ; 

 Maidenhood in the splendor 



Of the old life ever new ; 

 Father and mother and baby — 



Lover and bride and groom. 

 Just in the heaven of holy love — 



All went down in the doom J 



Out from the east a wailing ; 



Out from the west a cry ; 

 Up from the south and down from the north, 



A moan that will never die ! 

 How shall they wail their terror ? 



How shall they ween their woe ? 

 Christ be the burden-bearer ! 



They loved the dear ones so ! 

 Back to them all a wailing— 



An echo from the tomb — 

 To east and west and south and north, 



Sound the dole of the doom I 



~R. D, Lane, in Chicago News. 



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Keeping Bees for a Share of tlie 

 Surplus Honey. 



Wrttten for the Amei-ican Bee Journal 



Query 637.— Where one starts an out api- 

 ary, and does all the work himself, pays 50 

 cents a swarm for all the swarms that are 

 hiyed, and the second party does nothing but 

 furnish the ground for the apiary, and the 

 board while extracting honey, what share of 

 the surplus honey should be given 1 (The 

 owner of the ground wants honey for pay.)— 

 Iowa. 



About 10 per cent.— not over that. 

 — Will M. Barnum. 



Just the amount that you and the 

 owner of the laud can agree upon. — G. 



M. DOOLITTLE. 



I would think that one-sixth part 

 would be a fair remuneration. — J. M. 

 Hambaugh. 



In such a case, I would not give 

 more than 25 per cent, of the honey. — 



P. L. VlALLON. 



So many things enter into the case, 

 that no specific rule can be laid down. 

 — M. Mahin. 



The best terms tliat you can secure. 

 No rule can be given. Last year " the 

 board " would not have cost anything. 

 — A, J. Cook. 



I should say about one-eighth ; but I 

 have liad no experience on that line. 



C. H. DiBBERN. 



Make an agreement that will sati.sfy 

 tee other party, and then do a little 

 better than you agi-ee. — C. C. Miller. 



You had better agree upon the sum 

 to be paid for ground-rent beforehand, 

 whether it is to be paid in money, 

 honey or wheat. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



We give one-tifth of the extracted 

 honej". We produce no comb honey. 

 The party, however, furnishes board 

 at every visit to the bees, amd room for 

 the utensils. — Dadant «& Son. 



Reduce everything to a dollar-and- 

 cent basis, and settle that waj'. Pay 

 the customary price for board, and 

 charge the regular market price for 

 the honey. — Mahala B. Chaddock. 



Add rent of land to the price of the 

 board, and divide the sum by the price 

 you set upon the honey per pound, and 

 the quotient will be the number of 

 pounds that the owner of the land will 

 get. — J. P. H. Bro\vn. 



1 do not know. Probably an amount 

 of honey at market value equal to the 

 cash rental value of the laud would 

 be right, if agreeil upon by the parties. 

 — J. M. Shuck. 



I do not feel like answering this 

 query ; so very ntuch depends upon 

 local circumstances that my answer 

 might possibly be the means of doing 

 an injustice to some one. — James Hed- 



DON. 



J would not contract to give a share, 

 but to pay a reasonable amount (say 

 iflS.OO) in honej% for the rent of 

 ground, and board at usual rates. — G. 

 L. Tinker. 



This is another of those theoretical 

 questions that must depend upon cir- 

 cumstances. I do not see how any 

 two cases can be so nearly alike, that 

 a guide of value cannot be given to 

 suit general cases. — J. E. Pond. 



Set a fair price on the rental value 

 of the land used for the apiary, and a 

 fair price for the laoard, and when you 

 have agreed on that, paj' the debt in 

 honey at the price j'our honey will 

 command in your home market, eh ? — 

 G. W. Demakee. 



It is difficut to tell, for the amount 

 would vaiy, being dependent upon the 

 number of colonies, and the honey- 

 yield. There might be 100 or more 

 pounds of surplus per colony, and 

 there might be no surplus. It seems 

 to me the better ^\■a.y would be to fix 

 the price in mone}', and pay the 

 amount in honey at its market value. 

 — A. B. Mason. 



As you can agree. Circumstances 

 var}', and you give none which can be 

 made the foundation of a judgment. 

 How much land is to be occupied ? Is 

 it worth $5.00 or $1,000 per acre ? Is 

 the apiary to consist of 5 or 150 colo- 

 nies ? Are the bees gentle or irascible? 

 Is their location where there is danger 

 of their attacking mankind or domes- 

 tic animals ? What is the average 



surplus ? If I borrow $100 of my 

 neighbor, what is the total amount of 

 interest I should pay him when I finally 

 settle ? is like your question. — R. L. 

 Taylor. 



It would be difficult to arrive at an 

 equitable division of the honey on 

 that plan, because jou can neither 

 tell how many meals you would 

 be there, nor the amount of sur- 

 plus you may get. A better waj- would 

 be to pay a stated price for all meals, 

 and for all other assistance or rents, 

 to be paid in honey at a stated price. — • 

 Edgene Secor. 



Too much depends upon conditions 

 and circumstances to give an equitable 

 answer to this query. It would be 

 better to ascertain the rental value of 

 the land, and make an agreement 

 based upon that to be paid in honey at 

 the wholesale market value. — The 

 Editor. 



Proper Malerial and ^Vidlh for 

 Separators. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



Query 638.-1. How much less in width 

 should tin separators be, than the inside 

 height of the sections with which they are to 

 be used ? 2. What kind of tin do you con- 

 sider best for separators ?— New York. 



1. One inch. 2. Common tin. — A. 

 J. Cook. 



1. About J of an inch. 2. I use a 

 cheap grade of roofing-tin. — A. B. 

 Mason. 



1. There ought to be an inch of 

 space above and an inch below. 2. 

 Any tin will do. — Dadant & Son. 



1. One-half to J of an inch. 2. Any 

 kind of cheap tin will do. — Eugene 

 Secor. 



I do not use separators. I did once, 

 but I discarded them. — Mahala B. 

 Chaddock. 



1. There should be about a J -inch 

 space above and below. 2. Give it up. 

 — Will M. Barnum. 



1. One-eighth of an inch. 2. The 

 best of any article is usually the 

 cheapest. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. About an inch. 1. I think that 

 taggers tin is good enough. — R. L. 

 Taylor. 



1. About J of an inch. 2. The 

 cheapest, because the cheapest. — C. C. 

 Miller. 



I do not use separators of any kind, 

 and I am not prepared to answer either 

 question. — M. Mahin. 



1. Those that I have used are about 

 one inch narrower than the sections. 

 I think that wider ones might be just 

 as good, but ample room must be 

 given the bees for passage. — J. E. 

 Pond. 



