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white rascals ; jus' hoi' on. Ouch ! 

 Lawd-a-massa ! I kin stan' putty an' 

 blue clay ; but — gosh all hemlock, how 

 many is dar ob you ? Wen you gits to 

 frowin' carpet tacks, an' shingle nails, 

 an' grabble stones, I'se got to do 

 sumpin." 



Reaching down, he secured a handful 

 of stones, and began to throw them into 

 the rose bushes, exclaiming, " Git outen 

 dat, you rascals !" 



This so enraged the bees, that they 

 ceased their labors, and turned their 

 attention to Uncle Mose. The old fel- 

 low soon discovered his mistake, and 

 jumped over the fence into the yard 

 where we kept the goat. This aroused 

 Billy's anger, and he resented the in- 

 trusion by butting Mose over the fence 

 into the road. 



" Golly, dat mus' a bin a drone," said 

 Unce Mose, as he landed on all-fours ; 

 "hopede queen won't git er whack at 

 me ; if she do dar won't be any hope* fur 

 me in de nex' wurl, fur cussin' am wus 

 dan stealin' mellins an' chickens. Guess 

 I'll go home, an' let dem bees alone, fur 

 dey is wus dan de boys ; 'sides, I doan 

 feel like hoein' in er gyarden, to-day." 



Greenfield, Pa. 



Foreign Metloil of TransfurriDi, 



ADKIAX GETAZ. 



In answer to the inquiry regarding the 

 best method of transferring bees, I offer 

 the following, which has been known in 

 France and Germany about 20 years, 

 but not in America nor England : 



Fill the new hive with frames full of 

 foundation, and place it on the stand 

 where you wish it, after having removed 

 the old hive. Drum the bees out of the old 

 hive into a box — at least enough of them 

 to be sure that you have the queen. Put 

 the bees and queen (either the old queen 

 or a new one, if you want a change of 

 queen) into the new hive. Put on the 

 new hive a queen-excluder, and on top 

 of the queen-excluder the old hive. 



In 2 1 days the brood in the old hive will 

 be hatched out, and the bees can then 

 be drummed into the new hive, and the 

 old hive and its combs disposed of as you 

 like. 



One difficulty is, that both hives may 

 not be of the same size ; the old hive 

 is, we will say, smaller than the new 

 one. In that case, get a board larger 

 than the new hive, make a hole in it as 

 large as possible, but smaller than the 

 old hive ; tack your queen-excluder on 

 t-hat hole, and put the board between 



your hives, then stop all the openings 

 except the entrance of the new hive, and 

 you will have it. This is better than 

 the Heddon method, in that it keeps the 

 bees together, practically, in one hive ; 

 while by the Heddon method you make 

 (for the 21 days necessary to the hatch- 

 ing of the brood) two very weak colonies 

 out of one, probably not very strong. In 

 quite warm weather, and with plenty of 

 honey coming in, the difference would 

 not amount to much ; but in time of 

 scarcity or cold weather the whole col- 

 ony might be lost when using the Hed- 

 don method, either by robbing or by 

 inability of the bees to keep up warmth 

 and work up, while by the above plan 

 there would ho no danger. 



I would not advise cutting the combs 

 of the old hive and fastening them in the 

 new frames. It is too much work, too 

 much honey spilled, too much brood 

 killed by cutting the combs, or trying to 

 straighten them when they are crooked. 

 Besides, you will often start robbing 

 during the proceedings, and have a " big 

 time " with it ; and, finally, your combs 

 will not be as good as those built on 

 foundation, no matter how careful you 

 may be. 



Knoxville, Tenn. 



Greatest Value and Least Cost. 



F. D. LACY. 



The methods we adopt in the different 

 vocations we follow, are apt to be the 

 easier way to ourselves, although, per- 

 haps, a hard way to others. It is easy 

 to do as we are accustomed to doing, 

 though handier methods might be devised. 



It is not always prudent to throw aside 

 the old plan to adopt the new, and the 

 good qualities of the new should be well 

 established before anyone should ven- 

 ture to make the change. 



Mechanisms to facilitate labor, if 

 simple, arc easy to manipulate, and 

 cheaper to buy, and usually prove most 

 satisfactory. Beware of complicated 

 machinery, as there are many pieces to 

 handle, and much to get out of order, 

 and when one piece is broken, the re- 

 mainder is liable to become scattered 

 and lost. 



A good hive is as necessary to the bee- 

 keeper as a good barn is to the farmer ; 

 for the bee may gather honey, and the 

 soil may produce good crops, but unless 

 the products can be properly secured, 

 neither are made available. 



A farmer may have a barn economic- 

 ally built, yet answering every purpose, 



