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to view the country with a telescope. 

 There are many other mountains that I 

 might mention whore it is a grand place 

 to seek a week or two of rest and recrea- 

 tion, and a real lover of nature is filled 

 with admiration and astonishment from 

 day to day, while exploring these won- 

 ders of nature ; and, in fact, the country 

 abounds with attractive resorts from sea 

 shore to the pine-clad forests of the 

 eastern portion of the State. At most 

 places comfortable hotels are built, and 

 well filled most of the year with health 

 and pleasure seekers from all parts of 

 the country. 



Schools, colleges, and churches of all 

 varieties are numerous, and the societies 

 In Texas are Urst-class. Rates of living 

 here are as cheap as anywhere in the 

 world that I know of, as we can raise 

 nearly everything we want to eat. We 

 have the most generous and free-hearted 

 people here of anywhere, I reckon. Let 

 a paper be circulated stating that some- 

 body is in need and suffering, and just 

 see how quickly a sufficient amount is 

 raised to relieve the sufferers. Then the 

 privileges that young people have here 

 to attend respectable societies — one I 

 will name is the Young Men's Christian 

 Association. 



Improved farming lands can be bought 

 at from $3 to $10 per acre, and in most 

 counties school lands can be had at 

 $2.50 per«acre, on 30 years time. Then 

 the prosperous people here all work 

 unanimously together. You can often 

 see, by traveling over the country, hus- 

 band and wife together in the fields, and 

 wife will leave the field in time to go 

 and prepare the meal ; then the hus- 

 band will help to clean the house, wash 

 dishes, etc. ; and often the women may 

 be seen chopping wood, and relieving 

 the husband of part of the hardships. 

 Then they hitch up their fine steeds in 

 fine family hacks and carriages, and 

 ride out together to church on Sundays. 

 No longer ago than yesterday I met a 

 lady that lives 12 miles from Greenville, 

 that had taken her horses and hack, and 

 a little boy too small to work on the 

 farm, and came in with a load of fruit, 

 and peddled it out around town taking 

 in $12 to $15, and purchasing neces- 

 saries, such as sugar and coffee, and 

 clothing, while the husband pushed the 

 farm work right on. Visit these people 

 when you may, and they are well fixed. 



Now, dear friends, if you have read 

 all this hasty "write up," and see any 

 place where you would like to ask a 

 question, just come ahead, and I will 

 answer through the American Bee 



Journal, as our busiest season will now 

 soon be over, and I will have more time. 

 With this brief history, very hastily 

 prepared, I will bid you good-bye for the 

 present. Jennie Atchley. 



Too Dry for Bees — No Honey. 



Mrs. Atchley : — Our bees have done 

 no good in this section this season. It 

 has been rather too dry. Bees are very 

 light, and the prospects are very poor 

 for a honey crop at this time. Unless 

 we get plenty of rain soon, we will not 

 only have no honey, but we will have no 

 bees. J. L. Bowdish. 



Oxford, Kans., July 22, 1893. 



Keepings Bees on Top of a City 

 House or Store. 



Query 882.— 1. What do you think of 

 keeping bees on the top of a house or store in 

 a city where land space is limited ? 2. How 

 would It be in a cold winter and a hot sum- 

 mer ? — Reverend. 



1. I never tried it. Ask Chas. F. 

 Muth, of Cincinnati, O. He has so kept 

 them for years. — G. M. Doollitle. 



1. Ask C. F. Muth, of Cincinnati, 0. 

 He has done this for 30 or 40 years with 

 excellent success. — Dadant & Son. 



1. I think it would be a fairly good 

 place with a little extra care. Many 

 succceed that way. — R. L. Taylor. 



1. I have no experience, and would 

 not favor the idea. 2. Pretty hard lives 

 from personal experience. ~R. F. Hol- 



TERMANN. 



1. I don't think I would like the loca- 

 tion on top of a store. I would rather 

 go two or three miles out in the country. 

 — E. France. 



1. It works well. 2. In winter, give 

 some protection, and in summer you can 

 screen from the hot rays of the sun. — 

 J. P. H. Brown. 



