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How to drive away Grassoppers. 



The "Grasshopper Plague," as it is 

 termed, is very properly eliciting much 

 disussion in the West, and many remedies 

 and preventives are proposed. Among 

 the latest suggestions we have seen is that 

 of a Nebraskian who proposes the follow- 

 ing method of driving the hoppers :— Let 

 the raw prairie be plowed in strips or 

 rows, two rods wide, leaving strips of half 

 a rod for every rod plowed thus : 



Grass. 



Breaking. 



Grass. 



Breakins 



Grass. 



Breaking 

 Grass. 



.Breaking 



South. 



These grassy bars will be capable of a 

 slow, smouldering combustion at any 

 time. When the grasshoppers alight, the 

 first bar of grass to the windward is to be 

 burned, and others in succession, until 

 the enemy is vanquished. The object of 

 this plan is to drive them oft", not to stifle 



them, as then they will revive and go to 

 work again. It cannot be executed to ad- 

 vantage except upon unbroken prairie 

 soil. Some may consider the plan a 

 selfish one, but as self-preservation is the 

 first law of nature, we suppose those 

 afllicted arc justified in resorting to any 

 remedy that will insure protection. 



The Postmaster General has issued an 

 order modifying the postal regulations by 

 striking out that part which provides that 

 no subscription to newspapers for less 

 than three mouths shall be considered a 

 regular subscription within the meaning 

 of the law. The eflect of this new de- 

 parture is to allow newspaper offices to 

 send papers to subscribers at regular 

 rates, whether for one week or three 

 months. Heretofore subscribers for less 

 than three mouths have had to pay 

 transient rates. — Ex. 



For tlie American Bee Journal, 



Death of Moses Quinby. 



SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND LABORS. 

 BY J. H. NELLIS. 



With this issue of the Jouenal many will 

 become aware of the fact that the noble, 

 kind-hearted, generous, active and reliable 

 M. Quinby, has passed over the Jordan of 

 this life. , , , n 



lie died May 37, 187.5, very suddenly, of 

 apoplexy, having previously enjoyed better 

 health than had been usual with him for 

 some time. He leaves a'wife and two cliild- 

 ren. a son and daughter, to mourn his loss. 



His father, William Quinby, lived in 

 Westchester county, N. Y., where the sub- 

 ject of this sketch was born, April IB, 1810. 

 He was reared a Quaker, and probably 

 much of the stability of character evinced in 

 after life, is due to the strict training of his 

 childhood. ,. .^ , 



His educational advantages were hmited, 

 but he was from early youth a close observer 

 of everything,— hence, he acquired a practic- 

 al education superior to that of many who 

 had much better opi)ertunitie6 . 



Early in life he snowed a love for the study 

 of Nature, and he took especial fancy to 

 bees. When about 20 years old. lie luirclias- 

 ed his first stock of bees, with the first mon- 

 ey he could call his own— earned by work- 

 ing nights in a saw mill. From the very 

 first, the method of increasing bees during 

 summer to be killed in fall, in order to secure 

 their sweets, seemed revolting to his nature, 

 and about this time he became aware that 

 bees would pass through the top of the hive 

 and deposit their nectar in boxes which 

 could be removed as surplus. He immedi- 

 ately adopted the new method, and com- 



