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Trorfe witTiout a qneen, and haa even stored 

 ample provisions for winter, Bhould be broken 

 upi as, in such cases, tbey always make too mach 

 drotie comb for profit. In all localities where . 

 diseased or foul brood prevails , every old stock 

 should be thoroughly examined, and if diseased, 

 it should be condemned without hesitation. If 

 the bees are much reduced, remove them, and 

 by no means allow healthy stocks to appropriate 

 the honey, and thus induce disease. 



As long as the weather continues warm, any 

 combs taken from the bees, whether filled with 

 honey or not, will need watching to keep the 

 moth worms out — should any appear, subject 

 them to the fumes of burning sulphur.— fM. 

 QuiwBT, in Am. Agriculturist. 



YALUABLE HECIPES. 



Blacking for Harness. — Melt foar 

 ounces of mutton suit with twelve ounces 

 of beeswax; acid twelve ounces of sugar 

 candy, four ounces of soft soap dissolved in 

 water, and two ounces of indigo finely 

 powdered. When melted and well mixed, 

 add half a pint of turpentine. Lay it on 

 the harness with a sponge, and polish off 

 with a brush. 



Here is another receipe: Take three 

 sticks of the best black sealing-wax, dis- 

 solved in half a pint of spirits of wine; to be 

 kept in a glass bottle, and well shaken pre- 

 vious to use. Applied with a soft sponge. 



Another recipe for black varnish is the 

 following — Best sealing-wax, half an ounce; 

 rectified spirits of wiue, two ounces; powder 

 the sealing-wax, and put it in with the 

 spirits of wiue, into a four ounce phial; 

 digest them in a sand heat or near the fire, 

 till dissolved. Lay it on warm with a fine 

 hair brush. Spirits of turpentine may be 

 used instead of wine. 



S©"The wife of an American agricultur- 

 ist has been experimenting in soaps, and 

 finds that the addition of three quarters of 

 a pound of borax to a pound of soap melted 

 without boiling, makes a saving of one half 

 in the cost of soap, and of three-fourths the 

 labor of washing, improvhig the whiteness 

 of the fabrics; besides the usual caustic effect 

 is thus removed and the hands are left with 

 a peculiar soft and silky feeling, leaving 

 nothing more to be desired by the most 

 ambitious washerwoman. — [Exchange. 



cooking, 



lU^When molasses is used in 

 it is a very great improvement to boil and 

 skim it before you use it. It takes out the 

 raw taste, and makes it almost as good as 

 Bugar. When the molasses is much used 

 for cooking, it is well to prepare one or 

 two gallons in this way at a time. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Praise lour Wife. ^,:.d&: ;^--^.: 

 Praise your wife, man, for pity's sake 

 give her a little encouragement ; it won't 

 hurt her. She has made your home com- 

 fortable, your hearth bright and shining, 

 your food agreeable — for pity's sake tell 

 her you thank her, if nothing more. She 

 don't expect it; it w^lll make her eyes open 

 wider than they have for these ten years, 

 but it will do her good, for all that, and 

 you too. 



There are many women to-day thirsting 

 for the words of praise, the language of en- 

 couragement- Through summer's heat, 

 through winter's toil, they have drudged 

 uncomplainingly, and so accustomed have 

 their fethers, brothers, and husbands be- 

 come to their monotonous labors, that they 

 look for and upon them as they do the daily 

 rising of the sun and its daily going down. 

 Homely, every day life, may be made beau- 

 tiful by an appreciation of its very holiness. 

 You know that if the floor is clean, manual 

 labor has been performed to make it so. — 

 You know if you take from your drawer a 

 clean shirt whenever you want it, that some- 

 body's fingers liave ached in the toil of 

 making it so fresh and agreeable, so smooth 

 and lustrous Everything that pleases the 

 eye and the sense has been produced by 

 constant work, ' much thought, great care, 

 and untiring efforts, bodily and men- 

 tally. 



Jt is not that many men do not appre- 

 ciate these things and a glow of gratitude 

 for the numberlesss attentions bestowed 

 upon them in sickness and in health, but 

 they are so selfish in that feeling .- They 

 don't come out with a hearty — "Why how 

 pleasant you make things look, wife I" or 

 "I am obliged to you, dear, for taking so 

 much pains !" 



They thank the tailor, for giving them 

 "good fits:" they thank ihe man in a full 

 omnibus who gives them a seat; they thank 

 the young lady who moves along in the 

 concert room — in s?aort they thank every- 

 thing out of doors, because it is the custom 

 and come home, tip their chairs back and 

 their heels up, pull oat the newspaper, grum- 

 ble if wife asks them to take the baby, 

 scold if the fire has got down; or, if every- 

 thing is just right, -shut their mouths with a 

 smack of satisfaction, but never say, "I 

 thank you." 



I teil you what, men, young and old, if 

 you did but show -an ordinary civility to- 

 ward those commo:n articles of housekeep. 

 ing, your wives; if you gave them the hun 



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