1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



305 



the top packing put ou. This, for 

 convenience, inay be held in a cloth- 

 bottomed tray. It is quite important, 

 as already mentioned, that air be al- 

 lowed to circulate freely above the 

 packing. The outside case must be 

 quite rain proof or else wholly protct- 

 ed from the rain by a roof. 



All other necessary conditions 

 having been complied with shortly 

 after the gathering season closed, the 

 combs may be lifted from the summer 

 hives and placed in these specially 

 arranged winter cases before cold 

 weather wholly stops the bees from 

 flying out. Thus prepared for the 

 winter the colonies will need but 

 slight attention from October until 

 March, or, in the North, even later, 

 and the losses will be limited to the 

 small percentage of cases- due to fail- 

 ure of apparently good queens. 



NOVEL READING NOT IMPROVING — THOSE 



WHO TAKE FICTION SERIOUSLY ARE 



APT TO TAKE LIFE FRIVOLOUSLY. 



It is very easy for one wlio reads a great 

 many amusing books to take the whole mat 

 ter too seriously," writes " Droch " in the 

 November Ladies^ Home Journal. Reading 

 novels is neither , improving your mind' nor 

 'being literary.' No doubt trom the best 

 fiction one mny pick up a great deal of 

 valuable observation of life which tends to 

 general culture, and moreover, there is 

 among them some of the siuflf that is call- 

 ed literature. But knowledge comes high, 

 and the price of it can seldom be paid in 

 coin of iiL.aginaiiuu. Tiie person who takes 

 fiction seriously is apt to take life frivolously, 

 If we can only get out (»f a hook something 

 to put us in a better attitude toward the 

 various kind of people we meet we cannot 

 complain of its nifluence. A novel is not, 

 an.'l cannot be expected to be, a great moral 

 agent; morality is made of sterner stuff. But 

 it does have an iiisidu us infiuence ou one's 

 ideals of manners and conduct. The whole 

 tone of tiie man who writes it is impressed 

 on his work." 



" HOW TO LIVE A HUNDRED YEARS,' 



forms the title of a short but interesting ar- 

 ticle in the December number of What To 

 Eat. 



What Shakes|ieare has to say about kiss- 

 sing for dyspepsia is told by Ira Gale Tomp- 

 kins in a capital way, while James Court- 

 ney Challis supplements the article by a 

 very funny poem entitled " The Bridger 

 Cure," all fittingly illustrated. 



The cover is beautiful, and the centerpage 

 is a patriotic gem that all old soldiers and 

 their friends should see and preserve. 

 What To Eat offers |10 to the person filling 

 out the following blank lines so as to make 

 the best four lines of poetry, and $1 each to 

 the next ten best. The only conditions are 

 that you fill out the lines and send ten cents 

 for sample c^py of magazine. 



1 saw a man come down the street, 



And he was full of 



The day was bright, the air was sweet. 



And 



Other words may be used in the second 

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 10 cents a copy. 

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Prices of sections for the season of 

 1898 will remain as follows: 



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The above prices are the same as 

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 of and dealers in first class sections. 

 Further changes of prices of supplies 

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 which will be ready Feb. 1st, and wall 

 be mailed free to anyone asking for it. 



Clubbing List. 



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American Bee Journal, (SI UO) 81 35 



Bee-Keeper's Review, (1 UU) 1 35 



Canadian Bee Journal, (1 00) 1 35 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, (1 00) 1 35 



