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1. Is it possible that Mr. E. K. and 

 another man could close up and nail up 

 57 hives, and carry them " quite a dis- 

 tance around a building under low- 

 spreading apple trees," and then " crawl 

 over a rail fence before depositing them 

 on the wagon," all within an hour and a 

 quarter, and it raining "so furiously 

 that they could hardly see to work, to 

 say nothing of being dripping wet ?" 



2. With wire-cloth over only the en- 

 trance, could full colonies be moved 

 safely, at this time of the year. 



3. Is it probable that E. R. would 

 undertake to haul such a load, over such 

 a road, on such a night, with such a 

 team ? 



4. Could such a team pull such a load, 

 over such a road, on such a night ? 



Upper Alton, Ills., Sept. 25, 1891. 



Yellow Camiolans— Honey-Boarfls. 



D. CHALMERS. 



I do not know just what to think 

 about the purity of Mr. Alley's yellow 

 Carniolans. I know that none other 

 had Italian bees in this district but my- 

 self when black queens, 5 miles distant, 

 were rearing yellow-banded workers. 



I notice that you are annoyed at 

 would-be-inventors taking out patents 

 on useless ideas, and old at that, so you 

 will want something fresh, and perhaps 

 I can give you that. 



Solomon was no doubt the wisest man 

 that ever lived, and he said that "there 

 is nothing new under the sun," so you 

 need not expect anything new, but it 

 strikes me forcibly that I can give you 

 something different in the way of a 

 super from any you have ever illustrated 

 or described in the Bee Journal. 



What are Mr. Heddon and Dr. Tinker 

 quarreling about queen-excluding honey- 

 boards for ? I am not sure but that I 

 could down them both on the first round. 

 Most all who use the disputed board 

 must admit that when it is clogged with 

 wax and propolis, it requires a person 

 with a good Heddon (head on) to be able 

 to clean it off, and then there is a good 

 deal of " Tinker "-ing about it. 



I have introduced a new system this 

 Summer, of using the queen-excluding 

 zinc, and at as early a date as possible I 

 propose sending you a super and queen- 

 excluder, with explanations, but I am 

 thinking seriously about patenting the 

 ideas. It was my intention to show 

 them at the Toronto Industrial Exhibi- 

 tion, but time forbade. 



Poole, Ont. 



Heal anil SenslMe HaMts of Life. 



K. IT. CLARK. 



"We live very simply at our house," 

 said a wealthy woman, somewhat af- 

 fectedly. "We believe in simple living, 

 and I have brought my family up to 

 practice it." 



The lady to whom this remark was ad- 

 dressed was interested to observe the 

 "simple living" which was thus com- 

 placently described. She knew that al- 

 most every one of the ten members of the 

 large family who were said to live thus 

 "simply" had been very ill during the 

 preceding three or four years. They had 

 suffered variously from erysipelas, spinal 

 meningitis, nervous prostration, typhoid 

 and other fevers, and quinsy and diph- 

 theretic sore throats. She did not be- 

 live that such diseases could exist where 

 genuine "simple living" was practiced. 



She found that the food in this family 

 was very generally fried — that fried oys- 

 ters, croquettes, Lyonnaise and Saratoga 

 potatoes, griddle cakes and similar dish- 

 es, with always hot bread in some form 

 and coffee for all members of the fam- 

 ily, from the youngest child, a girl of 

 six, to the father and mother — were the 

 rule for breakfast. She found that 

 cereals were seldom served there. They 

 "hated" them, as was natural for palates 

 accustomed to highly seasoned fried 

 food. Neither was fruit popular there. 



She found that the young men and 

 women of the family, even to the school 

 children of from fourteen to eighteen, 

 were in the habit of sitting up until 

 midnight, often later, and then retiring 

 to sleeping rooms which were furnace 

 heated and into which, with one or two 

 honorable exceptions, no breath of the 

 outside air was allowed to penetrate. 

 These exceptions had learned, the 

 mother declared, "cranky" notions while 

 away at college and boarding school. 

 Most of these young people had' been 

 obliged to leave school early in life, be- 

 cause their "health" would not permit 

 them to study. 



This wealthy and misguided dame is 

 not the only one who imagines that she 

 is "living simply" when she is living 

 after a manner as far as possible re- 

 moved from that ideal standard. Many 

 a comparatively poor family, too, fancy 

 that they are "living simply" when they 



