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state, and other lands are cheap, and on 

 easy terms. 



Timber is plentiful, and water is plen- 

 tiful in most counties. Then, just think 

 of the size of Texas ! Take New Hamp- 

 shire, Rhode Island and New Jersey, all 

 of them, and set them down in Texas, 

 and you could scarcely tell that she had 

 grown any. 



CLIMATE OF TEXAS. 



I doubt very much if there is a coun- 

 try on the globe where the temperature 

 is as nearly the same the year around as 

 in south Texas, ranging from 45° in 

 winter to 70° in summer, on an average, 

 and seldom runs down to 30° in the 

 coldest weather, nor above 90° in the 

 hottest of summer. 



HEALTH IN TEXAS. ' 



South and southwest Texas is said to 

 be almost a sure cure for catarrh and 

 lung troubles, as the consumptive here 

 finds rest, and is often cured if not too 

 far gone. Then kidney troubles and 

 like affections disappear by permanent 

 residence here. Lung troubles and dys- 

 peptics are scarce among natives of 

 southwest Texas. Now, while these 

 facts are all flattering, there is a great 

 deal of hilly and poor land in southwest 

 Texas, and out from the ocean drouths 

 occur occasionally, which are likely to 

 discourage some people ; but if you wish 

 to live in one of the most pleasant coun- 

 tries on the globe, come to southwest 

 Texas. 



Oh, I came nearly forgetting the sugar 

 plantations. Here in south Texas we 

 raise large amounts of both sugar and 

 syrup, and the sugar plantations, with 

 their long rows of tenant houses, all 

 nicely painted, and sometimes nearly a 

 mile in length, remind one of a little, 

 narrow city, with here and there a large 

 sugar plant, where the cane is worked 

 up. Jennie Atchley. 



(Concluded next week.) 



Bee-Keeping in Arkansas. 



Bees have not stored a great deal of 

 honey here this year, as there has been 

 too much rain, but I hope we will have 

 a good fall flow of honey. The prospects 

 are good now for it. 



We have a very good location here for 

 bees, but there are uot many kept here. 

 We have a great many wild flowers that 

 furnish much honey. I have always 

 kept bees in old box-hives until two 

 years ago, when I transferred them into 



frame hives, and since I commenced 

 taking the Bee Journal I have gone 

 to keeping bees in the right way. I use 

 what is called the Thompson hive. It 

 has 10 frames in the brood-chamber, 

 and 8 in the super. 



John F. Coffee. 

 Hope, Ark., July 3, 1898. 



[For years, bee-keepers have felt that they 

 owed the Rev. L. L. Langstroth— the Father 

 of American bee-culture— a debt that they 

 can never very well pay, for his invention of 

 the Movable-Frame Hive which so completely 

 revolutionized bee-keeping throughout all the 

 world. . In order that his few remaining years 

 may be made as happy and as comfortable as 

 possible, we feel that we should undertake a 

 plan by which those bee-keepers who consider 

 it a privilege as well as a duty, might have an 

 opportunity to contribute something toward 

 a fund that should be gathered and forwarded 

 to Father Langstroth as a slight token of their 

 appreciation, and regard felt for him by bee- 

 keepers everywhere. No amount above $1.00 

 is expected from any person at one time— but 

 any sum, however large or small, we will of 

 course receive and turn over to Father L. 

 All receipts will be acknowledged here.— Bd.1 



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Error last week 25 



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Alley's Queen-Rearing: book, 

 or "Thirty Years Among the Bees," 

 gives the result of over a quarter-cen- 

 tury's experience in rearing queen-bees, 

 and describing the practical, every-day 

 work. By Henry Alley. It contains an 

 "Appendix," showing the improvements 

 made in queen-rearing the last four 

 years. Very latest work of the kind. 

 Nearly 100 pages, with illustrations. 

 Price, postpaid, 50 cents ; or clubbed 

 with Bee Journal one year, for $1.30. 



Capons and Caponiasing:, by 



Edward Warren Sawyer, M. D., Fanny 

 Field, and others. It shows in clear 

 language and illustrations all about 

 caponizing fowls ; and thus how to 

 make the most money in poultry-raising. 

 Every poultry-keeper should have It. 

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