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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



July 



mer, and then neglect to cover them 

 in winter. 



Don't wait to do all your house- 

 cleaning atone time, every fall and 

 every syring, as people usually do, 

 aud thus make the whole family un- 

 comfortable for several days, but clean 

 a room from time to time the whole 

 year round, and thus keep the house 

 clean and sweet. 



Call upou your neighbors whether 

 you think you have time or not, and 

 thus promote a kindly feeling between 

 them and yourself; but be careful of 

 what you say of others; cultivate the 

 habit of saying nothing you would 

 not say to their face. 



" Show me the books and papers the 

 family read, and I will tell you what 

 kind of people the family are," is a 

 true saying ; therefore provide good 

 reading for both old and young. If 

 you are tempted to feel you can't af- 

 ford it, let the family live on two 

 meals a day until you have saved 

 enough, and see if you don't feel, be- 

 fore the year is out, your third meal 

 has been the best of all. 



Each day after sweeping painted or 

 hard wood floors, wi])e them over with 

 a mop wrung out in clean water, and 

 thus keep your working rooms clean 

 and healthy. 



Do not let a tin boiler stand with 

 water in it, as it rusts it very soon, 

 aud will rust 'the clothes and will soon 

 leak ; but as soon as the washing is 

 done, wash out and dry, and rub the 

 inside with a greased rag that is kept 

 for that purpose, aud put the boiler 

 away in a dry room, not in a cellar, 

 and it will last four times as long as if 

 not properly dried and greased. 



Old tin pans that are rusty are unfit 

 for milk or food of any kind, as tin 



rust is poisonous, though it pays to 

 take care of the old pans. They may 

 be used in many ways that will save 

 the new pans. 



White specks in butter are often 

 caused by the cream becoming dried 

 before being churned, the milk being 

 set where the wind blew upon it. 

 When churned it could not be dis- 

 solved. Some would still be seen 

 floating in the buttermilk. 



Roseville, 111. 



(From American Bee Journal.) 



THE OARNIOLAN BiiES-THEIR 

 COLOR, ETC. 



BY EMERSON T. ABBOTT. 



Just before he discontinued the 

 publication of the American Apicul- 

 turist, Mr. Alley, in reply to an arti- 

 cle of mine, made some statements 

 about which I wish to offer a few 

 suggestions. I do not do this for the 

 sake of controversy, as life is too 

 short to spend much of it in argument 

 simply for argument's sake, but to see 

 if we cannot get the facts a little more 

 clearly before us. The matter seems 

 important to me, as I am confident 

 that the time will come when the 

 Carniolan bees will be given more at- 

 tention than they are now receiving 

 in the United States. I might say, 

 in passing, that so far as my informa- 

 tion goes, they are likely to prove of 

 much more value to the bee-keepers 

 of this country than Apis Dorsota, 

 about which a good deal is being said 

 at the present ?ime. 



But to return to the article of Mr. 

 Alley. He asks, addressing himself 

 to me ; "Do you know that the sil- 

 vergray rings of the dark Carniolan 

 bee are merely the result of the j^el- 

 low blood in the Carniolan ?" To 



