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combs, thereby giving them a greenish 

 tinge, it will not harm as it does on comb 

 honey. 



In sulphuring honey, too much care 

 cannot be taken in guarding against the 

 possibility of fire ; for a room filled with 

 the fumes of burning sulphur, is a poor 

 place to extinguish what may prove to 

 be a conflagration, unless extinguished 

 in time. For this reason, an iron kettle, 

 partly filled with ashes, with live coals 

 on the ashes, with the combs so hung 

 that none of them can melt and fall 

 in the fire in the kettle, is the best thing 

 to use to pour the sulphur on. 



If you wish the combustion of the sul- 

 phur to be complete, too much must not 

 be poured on too small a surface of 

 coals, otherwise a part of the sulphur 

 will not burn as it should. 



Borodino, N. Y. 



CoMltlonofBees— Reply loir. Kelly. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY BRO. BEN. 



Bees came through the winter without 

 loss, bred up strong, and were on the 

 point of swarming when a heavy frost 

 on May IcSth killed all the bloom, and 

 stopped the honey-flow. Bees at once 

 drove out the drones, and took out 

 drone-brood ; then began on worker- 

 brood, which was stopped by timely 

 feeding. 



Bees are now working lively on honey- 

 dew, so-called. Long-continued drouth 

 makes it hard to foretell what the 

 honey-flow will be later in the season. 



Mr. Kelly, why should you wish to 

 provoke a quarrel with some poor old 

 hayseed? (Seepage 566.) Why not 

 tell some of the old bee-keepers who re- 

 port heavy loss, to keep out of the busi- 

 ness, as you do J. R. S.? I mistrust you 

 dare not do so. Do not mistake me for 

 a tenderfoot until you find out about it. 



Your statement that no farmer ever 

 did, or will, produce what he eats, is 

 made without sufficient thought. Please 

 tell us who had anything to do with the 

 food supply of Adam and Eve after 

 " the unpleasantness ;" also in case of 

 Noah and his family, after they left the 

 ark. To say nothing of the New Eng- 

 land farmers of early date, or the South- 

 ern farmers near the close of the late 

 war, and the ten thousand other places 

 in history to the same point. 



Do I " ever stop to think of the dain- 

 ties that find their way on the table of 

 the good farmer ?" No, really, I do not. 



If it is on my table, they were put there 

 to eat, and I head that way, and go into 

 them under full sail, and when in their 

 midst the thing is reversed, and the 

 dainties do the "going in," and soon 

 there is nothing left to think about. 

 Yet, sometimes, I think how foolish 

 farmers are to buy foreign fruits when 

 they can have a much better article for 

 the raising. 



Having some 60 or more varieties of 

 apples, and many other fruits, and al- 

 most all the berries, of my own raising, 

 I think I shall not suffer in that line. 



"Coffee and tea" are drinks, my 

 friend, and milk is much more whole- 

 some, besides being a perfect food, as 

 well. 



"Salt" is a natural product, as I 

 thought every person knew. 



I am in good shape to have my own 

 honey. I assure you, I do not go much 

 on spirits for anything ; I have a much 

 simpler remedy always at hand for bee- 

 bite, or snake-bite, either, and it costs 

 nothing, and will cure every time, no 

 matter which end they bite with. 



That same common-sense you talk of 

 in connection with cyclone's .$100 bills, 

 ought to give farmers credit for being 

 able to suit their fruits and products to 

 their locality just as you would the dog 

 to your game. You would not take a 

 snipe-dog to tree a bear, would you ? I 

 would not advise Mrs. Atchley to grow 

 whales for the oil to keep oft cold in 

 winter, nor the Laplanders to grow 

 tropical fruits. 



Look at your agricultural reports, and 

 you will find all the cereals are raised 

 by farmers. Sugar, the highest article 

 in commerce to-day, is produced by the 

 farmer (I refer to the maple), and we 

 have the maple here. When you made 

 your modification to J. R. S., you showed 

 good sense, and when you look your 

 article over on page 566, you will find 

 there is no great difference between us. 

 Why quarrel without a cause? Why 

 discuss a question which does not exist, 

 only in your own imagination ? 



Come, Bro. Kelly, let us "shake," 

 and each continue in his own way. 



Grant Centre, Iowa, June 12. 



**Fom1 Brood; Its Natural History 

 and Rational Treatment," is the title of an 

 interesting booklet by Dr. Wm. R. Howard, 

 of Texas. It also contains a review of the 

 work of others on the same subject. It is 

 being sold at the oflace of the Bee Jour- 

 nal. Price, postpaid, 35 cents; or clubbed 

 with the Bee Journal for one year — both 

 together for $1.15. 



