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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAi.. 



Beeville^ Texas. 



Remedies for Skunks and Ants. 



A little strychnine mixed with a couple 

 of eggs, placed in an egg-shell, and put 

 where skunks meander around, is the 

 neatest, quickest and most effectual 

 way to get rid of these "pets" of the 

 farmer and horticulturist. No expense, 

 and no offensive smells. 



Corrosive sublimate in twice its bulk 

 of lard ; run a tape or cord through it, 

 and tie around table legs, will keep ants 

 down. This is valuable for house- 

 keepers. No more ants. 



This is the experience of — 

 The Migkatoky " Bach " of Florida. 



Dr. Miller's Bee-Sting Remedy. 



I like Dr. Miller's bee-sting remedy — 

 " go on and get more stings " — as it 

 seems that it takes poison to kill poison. 

 But, really, I love ttie effects of a few 

 bee-stings. I know some will laugh at 

 such statements, but they are true, 

 nevertheless. You take a real, old-time 

 bee-keeper, or one that works constantly 

 with bees, and you will find that bee- 

 stings are only a tonic to him. I have 

 often been stung, and took no thought 

 of it until I accidentally found the sting 

 in my flesh. This is another funny say- 

 ing to some, I know, but I am satisfied 

 Dr. Miller will not laugh at me. 



Jennie Atchley. 



Bee-Wagons, Skunks, Mice, Etc. 



Mrs. Atchi.ey : — Don't tell me that 

 ladies have no inventive talent. I have 

 just finished reading your article on 

 page 589, in regard to moving bees. 

 Now I thought I knew a little about 

 moving bees, as I have kept from 50 to 

 400 colonies a year for the last 25 



years, but your " bee-wagon " is a reve- 

 lation to the writer. I read somewhere 

 of your using such a method, but I sup- 

 posed the bees would cluster all over 

 the netting. 



In regard to your s?Mnk trouble, per- 

 haps you could fence them out. If it is 

 the large striped skunk (size of a large 

 domestic cat), a low, tight board-fence 

 will exclude them, or poultry netting ; 

 either of these methods protects our 

 poultry here in Iowa, as the " varmints" 

 are poor climbers. The small pole-cat, 

 about the size of a mink, will climb 

 anywhere after food. 



We rid our buildings and bee-cellars 

 here of rats and mice by setting shallow 

 pans filled with concentrated lye in their 

 runways, with a bait in the center of 

 each pan. The lye burns their feet, 

 they transfer the afflicted member to 

 their mouths, and a bad matter is made 

 worse. Perhaps you could modify this 

 treatment, and make it fit the skunk ; 

 it is certain death to small vermin. 



Excuse my familiar way of addressing 

 you. I have read your excellent, prac- 

 tical, every-day "talks" until I seem to 

 be well acquainted with you. My health 

 is not of the best, and so I may come to 

 Texas in the near future. 



Monroe, Iowa. J. A. Nash. 



Friend Nash, please accept my thanks 

 for the information you impart regard- 

 ing how to rid an apiary of skunks. 



The method employed in hauling bees, 

 that you refer to, is the wagon we de- 

 scribed a few weeks ago in these col- 

 umns. It is best to puff some smoke in 

 at the entrance before loading the bees, 

 to drive them up among the combs, and 

 then place the hives in the wagon bot- 

 tom up, and if they seem to want to fly 

 out any, give them a little smoke ; as 

 soon as loaded start out, and the bees 

 soon all fill themselves with honey, and 

 quietly stay in their hives all day. We 

 haul one load a week, and we do not 

 close the hives, or put anything over 

 them, and they all come in good condi- 

 tion. But in case some honey should 

 break down in hauling, with the hives 

 standing on their heads, the honey runs 

 down, and the bees go up out of it, and 

 no bees are lost. Have you got the 

 idea ? Jennie Atchley. 



'Review's" World's Fair Pictures. 



Those photographs in the Review don't 

 look like smuggled material. Then Dr. 

 Mason had a hand in smuggling Bro. 

 Hutchinson into the forbidden spot. But 



