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that purpose you don't need anything 

 better. 



Mr. S. — The idea of a paper-house 

 for any purpose! It won't last any 

 time. 



Mr. T. — At the other places I have an 

 8x« paper shanty, tarred paper without 

 and resin-sized within (both outside of 

 the frame-work), with a lath roof to 

 hold the jiaper up, but no laths in the 

 walls, nothing^ but the paper and the 

 frame-work, and it has stood 1.^ 

 months, and seems almost as pood as 

 ever. It seems likely to last two or 

 three years without renewal ; and then 

 I would simply add another layer of 

 tarred paper and let it stand another 

 two or tlirce years. The frame-work is 

 permanent, and the cost of the paper 

 is so trilling it hardly matters. I much 

 prefer that kind of a makeshift to a 

 canvas tent over a frame-work. I have 

 had two tents t%vo years, and they are 

 now full of holes. 



Mr. S. — But don't you punch holes 

 in the paper every little while ? 



Mr. T.— Not a hole. Why should I ? 

 A tramp punched a hole in it once to 

 steal some food, and some kind of a 

 bird pecked two holes in the roof. I 

 just put new panels of paper over 

 those places. 



Mr. S. — But it can't last; now, you 

 can't convince me of that ; it is unrea- 

 sonable. Paper I 



Mr. T. — Two small studdings of inch 

 lumber, two inches wide, about a foot 

 apart, between each pair of tvvo-by- 

 fours, make it last long enough to suit 

 me. Confess you are just theorizing. 

 You may think me a crank, but from 

 my actual experience with paper I 

 wouldn't have any other sort of a build- 

 ing for this purpose, unless it were a 

 fire-proof one. It is a real money- 

 saver. Just think of the amount of 

 room — most of it, in fact — that is taken 

 up for storage of empty receptacles of 

 all sorts in a honey-house, for which 

 matched flooring and walls, and a 

 shingled roof, and carpenter's work 

 generall}', are v?holly unnecessary. 

 Mr. Jones, you know, has built a $300 

 honey-house. No doubt it is a good 

 one ; but that money is locked up for 

 good and all. With 5^50 of that I could 

 have built a house, and had money 

 enough left for repairs on it, that 

 would, with the occasional repairs, last 

 me as long as I live, and then I would 

 have had the other $250 to use in other 

 practical and remunerative vrays, or to 

 buy books with. I tell you, this make- 

 shift question has two sides to it. If 

 all makeshifts are not good, some are, 

 and it is worth while to consider what 

 they are. Many things are to be con- 

 sidered in answering the question of 

 what pays. When everything is taken 

 into consideration, any old shanty pays 

 Mr. Coggshall better as an extracting- 

 room than to spend money on a special 

 apartment. Now, I think my paper 

 shanties are still better than his board 

 ones, for they cost less, and are bee- 

 tight besides. 



Mr., S. — Do you mean to say that 

 when you build the rest of this it is 

 going to be of paper, too ? 



Mr. T.— Certainly. When a thing 

 has proved good what more do you 

 ■want ? Of course, there ought to be a 

 floor in the shop part, and where the 

 comb honey is stored, to prevent dust. 

 Mr. S. — But dust ought to be kept 

 out of the supers that are prepared be- 

 fore the season begins. 



Mr. T. Those supers ought to have 

 a newspaper birtwecn each one, any- 

 how, no inatler where they are; and a 

 cover above and below each pile will 

 keep the mice out. 



Mr. S. lUit you want a place to store 

 empty combs. 



Mr. T. -I would have the comb- 

 honey room a little larger than sutlices 

 for the comb honey, and store them in 

 there. Tlic point is, not to have any 

 part of the house too good for what 

 part holds. You don't put on a collar 

 to milk your cow. 



Sweet Clover as a Fertilizer. 



Prof. C. E. Thome, Director of the 

 Ohio Experiment Station, says: 



The appearance of sweet clover is a 

 signal that the soil is out of condition. 

 Its mission seems to be to occupy the 

 waste-places and neglected spots of the 

 earth, and to prepare them for the 

 growth of other plants. 



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