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largely a consumer, and I consider 

 foundation an undesirable adjunct to 

 my comb honey when it comes to the 

 eating part. 



Since keeping bees I have experi- 

 enced only one season with a continu- 

 ous honey flow from beginning of bass- 

 wood to the end of buckwheat; but 

 ordinarily we have a honey dearth be- 

 tween the two, lasting from 8 to 16 

 days, and I find it pays me well to re- 

 move all sections after basswood is 

 over, sort out all partly finished ones, 

 and have them finished up on a few 

 of the best working colonies during 

 this time. I feed extracted honey in 

 somewhat diluted form. When open 

 cases are used, such course can not be 

 so well pursued; but I believe nearly 

 all comb honey producers use separa- 

 tors now. 



Although ray aim is section honey, 

 still I also raise some extracted honey, 

 for my own use and home trade prin- 

 cipally. I find, however, nice white 

 extracted honey, put up in one-pound 

 glass jars, (screw top preferred), sells 

 as well as comb honey in some large 

 cities ; but it must reach the consumer 

 before it granulates. 



In fitting my comb honey for market 

 I always scrape sections perfectly 

 clean, stamp each with my name and 

 address, put them up in 24-pound 

 crates, glassed and otherwise neatly 

 made, and sell early. In shipping I 

 combine with the grape-growers of mv 

 town, and so I secure very low freight 

 rates to the principal cities, quick 

 transit and safety ; also avoidance of 

 breakage, etc. It would be to the ad- 

 vantage of honey producers in gener- 

 al if they would follow the example. 

 Prof. Cook is right on this subject. 



Naples, N. Y. 



(-.OMPARATIVE STllKNGTH OF THE GKEAT 

 NAVIES. 

 In considering the navies of other coun- 

 tries, that of Great Britain stands of course 

 pre-eminent. It amounts to between four 

 and tive hundred vessels, of wliich one 

 liundred and twenty are armored cruisers, 

 and it employs eighty thousand men. It 

 aims to be equal in offensive and defensive 

 strength to any two other navies combined. 

 For example, in the matter of battle-ships 

 Great Britain has built or is building fifty- 

 four ; France, thirty-seven; Kunsia, eigh- 

 teen ; Germany twenty-two ; Italy, twenty- 

 one ; United States, six, — a total of one 

 hundred and fifty-eight. Thisof itself rep- 

 sents an outlay of fully three hundred mill- 

 ion dollars, and only one class of ships is in- 

 cluded. In the matter of armored cruisers 

 the figures are : Great Britain, one hundred 

 and twenty ; France, seventy ; Russia, six- 

 teen ; Germany, twenty eight ; Italy, six; 

 United States, three; Austria, twelve; Spain, 

 six ; total, two hundred and sixty-one. This 

 represents an outlay of at least two hundred 

 million dollars.— From " Tlie Great Navies 

 of the World," in Demorest's Magazine for 

 March. 



MOI'NT VERNON. 



Whatever those who visited this old home 

 upon the Potomac may have thought of the 

 life there, it was ever the dearest spot on 

 earth to its master and mistress. General 

 Washington wrote in his diary, when he 

 quitted his home in April, 1789, to enter 

 upon his duties as Chief Executive of the 

 new nation, "About ten o'clock I bade adieu 

 to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to 

 domestic felicity, and, with a mind oppress- 

 ed with more anxioas and painful sensations 

 than I have words to express, set out for 

 New York," while Mrs. Washirgton al- 

 ways spoke of the days spent away from 

 home amid the stir and excitement of public 

 life as "lost days." — Anne HoUingsworth 

 Wharton, in April Lippincott's. 



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