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Another point is this I have learned : 

 You see it is election year, and the as- 

 pirants to office in those districts are in 

 the habit of inducing the plows or slaves 

 from Mexico to come over about a year 

 before election time, and vote them, and 

 then call on our people to feed them. 

 Now I wish to inform you that I cannot 

 find any white people going hungry, 

 and those statements are very much 

 magnified. While it is dry here, and 

 rain is needed, we have fine looking 

 crops — corn and cotton — and people that 

 are up and doing are happy. 



You know there are nearly always re- 

 ports going the rounds that somebody is 

 starving in our United States. It is be- 

 coming a common thing, and while a 

 part of it is no doubt tf ue, there are 

 some exaggerations, and I do not see 

 any excuse for anybody starving in this 

 land of plenty. 



I have a family now working for me 

 that have come all the way from the 

 State of Colorado in a wagon, and they 

 say people are starving in Colorado, and 

 that this is a paradise compared with 

 Colorado. They say that those miners 

 in Colorado used to get from three to 

 four dollars per day, and each Saturday 

 night would "blow in " all their money, 

 and when the mines shut down they 

 were penniless and starving ; and it was 

 their own fault, as they might have 

 saved up a neat sum. The newspapers 

 make good use of such reports, and it 

 reflects upon the whole country, or State 

 in which it occurs. Do you see the 

 point? 



I am ever ready and willing to help 

 and assist the real needy, and we are to 

 have the poor with us always, but this 

 thing of people wasting all their money, 

 then calling upon good, honest, saving 

 and hard-working people, ought to be 

 remedied in some way, don't you think 

 so? 



I believe the honest truth ought to pre- 

 vail in all such reports ; the details 

 ought to be given, how such people be- 

 come destitute in such numbers, and 

 what kind of people they are, and all 

 the particulars. I tell you, that I be- 

 lieve that our real American people are 

 too proud and too energetic, and can see 

 into the future far enough, to not get 

 into a starving condition, with but 

 few exceptions ; and that the outcasts 

 of other nations are imposing upon us. 

 I may be wrong. 



In conclusion I will say there is no 

 one suffering here, that I know of. 



Jennie Atchley. 



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Top-Bar for Extracting Frame, Etc. 



Query 918.— What is the best width and 

 thickness for top-bar of extracting frames six 

 inches deep? 



2. How far from center to center should 

 they be spaced ?— Ohio. 



1. 1 l/16x% inch. 2. l%.—3. H. 

 Lakbabee. 



% of an inch, and spaced 1% from 

 center to center. — G. L. Tinkeb. 



We follow Langstroth in all that per- 

 tains to hives. — Mbs. L. Haeeison. 



We make them % deep by % wide, 

 and 1% from center to Center. — Dadant 

 & Son. 



1. One inch wide by M thick. 2. From 

 IK to 1% inches, as you prefer. — G. M. 



DoOIjITTLE. 



1. I don't know, as I produce only 

 comb honey. 2. 1% inches to 13^. — C. 

 H. Dibbeen. 



1. See No. 917. 2. About lli inches. 

 I have used a little less with no bad re- 

 sults. — A. J. Cook. 



1. We use %■&.% stufif for frames all 

 around — tops, ends and bottoms. 2. 

 l}i inches. — E. Fbance. 



1. %x%. 2. If to be used only for 

 extracting, IM inches would be a good 

 distance. — R. L. Tatloe. 



I use self-spacing frames with top-bar 

 % thick, and spaced 1 7/16 from cen- 

 ter to center. — J. P. H. Beown. 



1. I don't know what is the best width. 

 but I would use %x%. 2. 1}4 from 

 center to center. — H. D. Cutting. 



1. % thick, and wide enough so they 

 shall be K inch apart. 2. I don't know. 

 Perhaps IJ^ or 1%.—C. C. Milleb. 



1 and 2. 1% inch wide, and at least 

 3-2 inch thick at the edges, spaced 1}^ 

 inches from center to center. — Mbs. J. 

 N. Heatee.J 



1. I have never used frames so shal- 

 low, but for Gallup frames % inch 

 square would do. 2. Ij^ inches. — S. I. 

 Feeeboen. 



