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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



October 



of stores. Go to hive No. 1 and find 

 the amount of honey it contains. Now 

 if you find this colony has 13 pounds 

 of honey, fill four quart cans with 

 sugar syrup or honey, and tie a thin 

 cloth over the top of them, and turn 

 them upside down on something to 

 catch what may run through the 

 cloths. Put a super or cap on the bees 

 and lay pieces \ inch square on top of 

 brood frames for the cans to rest on. 

 Now set your cans on the :^inch pieces 

 directly over the cluster, spread quilt 

 over cans, and make everything tight. 

 In two or three days you can remove 

 cans and cap and the job is done with- 

 out any daubing or robbing among 

 your bees. One man can feed fifty 

 colonies of bees a day this way and 

 stow them away for future use in 

 another day, making two days' work, 

 and if there is any other way to feed 

 the above number of bees in two days 

 I haven't been able to discover it as 

 yet, unless I should want all bees in 

 the yard to have extra stores. Then I 

 should give them their feed out of 

 doors away from the hives. Let any 

 and all of the bees have free access to 

 the syrup. Bees cannot winter suc- 

 cessfully if the front of the hive is 

 higher than the back of the hive. Al- 

 ways have your hives so they will 

 slope from the rear to the front, and 

 they will always be dry inside. Ar- 

 range some kind of wind break to pro- 

 tect your hives from the cold winds, 

 as bees cannot winter successfully and 

 be allowed to stand where all the cold 

 winds of winter have a fair sweep at 

 thera. 



What shall we do this winter when 

 it is too cold to work out of doors ? 

 Shall we do as our bees are doing, or 

 shall we try and use our time ? If I 

 am able to judge of the future by the 

 past, there is plenty to do for all wide- 

 awake bee keepers. 



Griffin, Ind. 



FASHIONS IN NAMES. 



A young woman whose motlier was com- 

 raonly called Bessie, her grandmother Liz- 

 zie, and her great-grandmother Betsey, will 

 now be apt to look on such playful diminu- 

 tives with scorn, and her visiting cards will 

 probably contain something like Elizabeth 

 Tompkinson vSmith. What method her 

 daughter will adopt there is not much to in- 

 dicate ; but, whatever it may be, it can hard- 

 ly differ more from the Elizabeth Tompkin- 

 son style than that does from the earlier 

 Lucie form or the still earlier Dolly fashion. 

 Even Daisy, after its evolution from Maggie 

 and Peggy and its vast popularity, has given 

 way, to a grcHt extent, to Margaret or the 

 yet more dignified Margaretta. 



The parted-in-the-middle style was once 

 loved by many men for its supposed inher- 

 ent elegance, and of not a few because it al- 

 lowed them to hide an impossible first name 

 by using only its first letter. As the pre- 

 vailing fasliion would now demand of the 

 latter class something like Abimelech Wal- 

 worth Jones, they no longer have such a 

 convenient means of avoiding the difficulty, 

 unless they are willing to be behind the 

 times.-^ William Ward Crane, in October 

 Lippincott's. 



READER. 



A wonderful opportunity to have yonr 

 home made cheerful and fragrant with the 

 perfume of beautiful flowers throughout the 

 coming winter, is offered by Wm. Elliott & 

 Sons, seedsmen, 64 Dey St., N. Y. Estab- 

 lished 1845. This firm, whom we know to 

 be perfectly reliable, offer a collection of 50 

 choice winter-flowering bulbs, in teii varie- 

 ties, including the celebrated Easter Lilly, 

 Hyacinths, Tulips, &c., alone valued at 

 $1.50, in connection with a subscription to 

 American Gardening, standard journal for 

 flower growers. Send the above firm a pos- 

 tal card and they will give you full particu- 

 lars by return of mail. This offer will not 

 be repeated. 



Wm Gerrish, East Nottingham, N 

 H., keeps a complete supply of our 

 goods and Eastern customers will 

 save freight by ordering from him. 



