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GLEASI>'<-^S IN BEE CULTURE. 



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euBBStantV!?. liwd very stmply. A? wv \n?ni lo 

 supper I notkvd a >ai&".I wrad of lint cotton tied 

 around each of the leg^ of their safe. I wa^s in- 

 quisitive enough to a^sk what was the purpose 

 of that, and wa> told that it wa;? done to keep 

 the ants out of the safe. 1 thus learned that 

 ant$ can not or will not tr»v«l OT«r loosa^ lint 

 cotton. 



KEKPI:^f6 OFF CHICKKS-UCK. 



Prom an old .\frican stave, who used to be- 

 long to a very intelli^^na planter. I learned that 

 poultry can be kept free from vermin by the 

 very s:aiple device of prvwiding sassafras poles 

 for ^lervhes. I have tried this scheme for two 

 years: and. while my neighbors* chickens and 

 premises have been overrun with chicken-miteis. 

 mine have been entirely free fro^m this pest. I 

 suppose that the strong aromatic odor of the 

 sassafras is disagreeable to the iasecis. 



Columbia. Miss.. Dev". 13. XovicK. 



THK FLAXSErRSH SCK.VPrX6-TABIJK. AGAIX. 



The specific use of the box G. on page ys^l. 

 l>?c. l.'ith number, on legs^ is to hold the scrap- 

 ings, and also to hold the shelf .\. on which to 

 set the screen bridge B. to scrape sections on. 

 The bridge is a separate fixture, and the shelf 

 is a solid board with no hole, as your artist 

 slio'iv& I have a hole cut thn>ugh mine, how- 

 ever, at my right, near the end. to set a gUie-pot 

 OTW. and a lamp underneath, to keep the glue 

 wmrm when glassing sections of honey for the 

 Kew York market. 



You inquire in jrour footnote to my article 

 whether the fine particles do not leak through 

 the screen on the lap^. No. not on the lap. 

 The fine particles, aud the coarse ones too. for 

 that matter, go through the screens on the 

 shelf: and when the scrapings accumulate too 

 much I lift it up and brush them off into the 

 box C. The shelf should have no 'nqnarr cut 

 throogh it and the screen laid over it, as the art- 

 ist has made it appear in the engraving, else. 

 of course, the particles w\->uld gv^ thn>ugh on 

 the lap, G. J. Fi-vxsBrR^H. 



So. Bethlehem. N. Y.. Jan. 10. 



CARP — PKOSPKCTS TTP TO I»ATK. 



We have had a great haul of carp this week — 

 or. rather, on Christmas day and night— when, 

 on two ash vng-grv>u Lids, there was taken five 

 tonsof nsh — n - It is only a few years 



since Don Ho" "r";sh Commissioner for 



the State, stookev. : . M.^umee with carp, and 

 this is the result. The irr^vd of the irreat fish- 



houses hii- 

 geon. wh 

 the river 

 on their > 

 now. aftor :-.i 

 they have no 

 The carp, wh 

 not want anv 

 take the pi act 



ed our pickerel, stur- 



^tng up the mouth of 



^ :he fish frv>m getting 



s. The result is that 



yed up-river fishing. 



e bay for themselves. 



.i tisb that Howellsdid 



~ :s all there is left to 



pickerel: aud the reason 



they survive is because they ar^ essentially a 

 graring fish, and love to burrow ia the mud. 

 grass of the river, and so are olirttj^' at home, 

 and do not have to run the gauntlet of the 

 pound fisherman's nets. The fish caught on 

 Christmas were fat. and ready to breed. One 

 large one. of which I had a taste, had aKT.t 

 three pounds of roe in her. The fish at this 

 season of the year are very good eating, and it 

 seems to be the only fish that is Ukeiy to esoa;v 

 the destructive i^>ound fisherman, and give us 

 up the river a taste occasionally of fr*sh fish. 

 Perrysburg. O.. Dec 3i>. G. A. -\i>ams. 



ST. JOSEPH. AO.Jk.nr. 



Just as I expected. Dr. Miller. Did you ever 

 know any thing or anybody who was so perfect 

 that some chronic pessimist would not be air- 

 ing the bad if you ventiirevl to sjvak of any 

 gv>od qualities? You pn>bably rememN»r that 

 they called Jesus a "glutton and a winebibber:" 

 but notwithstanding this, some saw in that 

 same Jesus the highest exemplification of per- 

 fect manhood the world has ever known. 



It is reported of Carlyle. that, while listening^ 

 to the praise which an American was bestow- 

 ing on the river Rhine, he remarked. " Yes; bat 

 it is full of dead di^s!" The .\merican. who 

 was a jovial and happy genius, replied. "Yes: 

 and you can see nothing but the dead dogs." 



That is the way with some people, and I pre- 

 sume they are more deserving of pity than 

 blame However, if you have read the -.-l»M«"ri- 

 f*tM Rtf Joumai carefully you know that I 

 long since condemned gambling on the fair- 

 grounds, and I further stated that my name 

 would not again appear in connection with the 

 fair while this gambling was permitted. 



To be frank with you. it was a matter of cu- 

 riosity to me to know wrheie this institution of 

 gambling secured all its patronage. I felt sure 

 that the yo».itl people of this city would not 

 countenance any thing of the kind. It is all 

 clear to me now. The patrons came down from 

 Iowa, where they run race-tracks the year 

 rv>und. and build up towns arvnind them. Per- 

 haps our Iowa friend was a little ashamed of 

 this, and this accounts for his name being kept 

 in the background. Where did that dramatic 

 pessimist get all of his information, any way ? 



Now, Dr. M.. do you think it just the thing 

 to rush into print with such a sweeping char- 

 against the morals of this fair city without ev 

 making an effort to learn whether or not : 

 statements were overdrawn "? How^ever. we c- 

 stand it. as our shoulders are bn>ad: but I atu 

 greatly cv»ncerued lest the fellow up in Iowa, 

 with no name, who can see only the "dead 

 dogs" should feel so bad about it. But you and 

 the readers of Gleaxix^s should not lose sight 

 of the fact that the great World's Fair had 'ts 

 "Midway " with its reputed half-nude w^on: 

 and other vices aud immoralities, but it w .. 

 none the less an illustration of the zrandes*. 



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