bald bead. [Applause.] That was his ex¬ 
perience in the matter. If liis hearers knew 
what a yellow jacket was, he would put any 
Egyptian bees against it. 
He thought of crossing them with the hor¬ 
net for the purpose of making fighting stock. 
That was all they were lit for. [Continued 
laughter.] 
Mr. Langstrotii had imported the Egyp¬ 
tian bees in considerable numbers, arid his 
experience had been quite similar to Mr. 
The manufactory of the Mnthushek Piano 
Manufacturing Co. is located at 106 to 112 
Park St., in the city of New Haven, Conn. 
It is a large brick building, 104 feet by 50 
feet, and a wing 30 by 36 feet, with live floors. 
It is all heated by steam; there are also 
ample drying rooms, ami also shed room for 
the storage of (lie enormous quantities of 
lumber required to be kept on hand. 
In die building, steam engines, planing 
machines, circular saws, drilling machines, 
glueing presses and a host of other labor-sav¬ 
ing contrivances to insure speed, accuracy 
and strength are arranged. These, with 
great care in selection of wood, anil vigilant 
watch of each step of die manufacture, in¬ 
sure a uniform excellence in the instruments. 
Uuless we are to suppose the large num¬ 
ber of pianists and piano owners who certify 
to the great superiority of these pianos are 
mistaken, it is impossible to escape from the 
conviction that die new principles of the 
Mutlmshek Piano are a veritable discovery, 
and the instruments,in no respect inferior,are 
in many points superior to those made on 
the old plan. We understand that the compa¬ 
ny’s facilities for manufacturing enable them 
now to otter their pianos at very low prices 
considering the perfection of workmanship 
and the quality of the materials used by them, 
and we advise all our renders wlu> are inter¬ 
ested to see the Mathushek Piauos before 
purchasing. If there is no agency near, full 
information and testimonials will be sent in 
ft pamphlet immediately upon application to 
the Mnthushek Plano Manufacturing Co., of 
New Haven, Conn.—c. m. n. 
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TRANSFERRING BEES, 
THE MATHUSHEK PIANO-FORTE. 
In answering the inquiry in reference to 
transferring bees from old hives to new ones, 
I think, all tilings considered, the best time 
is when apple trees are in bloom, as this 
gives the colony time to recuperate before 
the season for multiplying comes. The 
modus opemndi is as follows: — In the first 
place smoke them well; after this, if your 
boxes are the old box hives, turn them bot¬ 
tom upwards, place a box over the hive, 
Lave it so tight tfte bees cannot escape; if 
necessary, place a cloth around it so as to 
make it perfectly secure, then jar or pound 
on the hive with a stick or club until all or 
mostly all of the bees have left the old hive 
and have ascended into the box; then re¬ 
move the box with the bees in it to the 
mouth of the hive you wish to put them in. 
Remove the comb from the old hive, being 
careful to secure all the brood comb, which 
place in frames, with a portion of honey at¬ 
tached ; place these frames in the new hive, 
then elope the hive all but the entrance, 
spread a cloth in front of it, shake the bees 
out of the box on to the cloth, and they will 
readily go in, and your work is done. If 
there is much brood comb and your stock is 
large, you can divide into two colonies, if 
desirable, by adding a frame or two from 
another hive, if you have it; he sure to 
place some fresh eggs in (lie oue that has no 
queen, so that they may raise one. 
Saybrook, III. M. L. Dodson, 
In previous articles on the piano we have 
mentioned the enormous strain of the strings. 
Usually the strings are grouped in the right 
hand corner of the instrument, thus concen¬ 
trating the entire strain at that point, and 
THE MATnUSIIEK ORCHESTRAL PIANO-FORTE 
Mitchell’s. They were very cross, and frequently causing that corner to raise from 
although lie did not know that those he had the level by twisting die entire case out of 
had were perfectly pure, he thought they shape. Sometimes, however, the end of the 
were not a desirable kind to keep. He piano breaks from the bottom on account of 
thought they were a hybrid bee. the Immense strain (10 to 20 tons). The 
In xHtwimrir 
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BEE NOTES. 
VINEYARD NOTES, 
THE 27TH EDITION OF THE 
Nomenclature for Apiiiriiiu*.. 
A CORRESPONDENT writes:—“ Which is 
proper or nearest right to say a hive of bees, 
a stand, a skip, or a colony of bees? A 
few days ago 1 saw it stated in a vendue 
notice that there would he offered for sale 
about thirty skips of bees.” In our Judg¬ 
ment “ hive” or “ colony ” are better terms. 
To say a stand of bees, is proper enough, 
but not so literal an expression of what it is 
designed to say. “Skip” is a provincial 
term which ought to be abandoned. We do 
not know its origin. 
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Frosorvluir Orjipws. 
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siderable portions of the adjacent woody part 
of the vine, and are then suspended over u 
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llow Many Qiuh-iih Leave the Hive with 
a Swann '( 
In answer to thin question J. II. Bennet 
writes the Rural New- Yorker :—“If it is a 
first swarm,but one, unless the old queen who 
leaves with the first swarm before the young 
ones are hatched 1ms recently died. After 
swarms, especially third and fourth, are 
generally accompanied by u Dumber of 
them. I have obtained five from one small 
swarm. These would all be destroyed but 
one in their combats with each other, and 1 
believe this is frequently the cause of the 
apparent dissatisfaction manifested to the 
place assigned them.” 
Do old Queens tint! Decs leave the Hives? 
During the swarming season, if bees are 
left to natural swarming, which is it that 
comes out with the new swarm, the old 
queen or the young one? If the old queen, 
is it the old swarm also ? I think most if not 
till of your bee correspondents claim that it 
is the old queen and the old swarm that leave 
the old hive in possession of the young 
swarm. Now this seems to many of us to 
he contrary to ail the rules of nature both 
with birds, beasts and man. Will your bee 
men of experience please be a little explicit 
and tell us how we may know these things 
for ourselves and give a little proof for the 
faith that is in them ? If a queen makes an 
attempt to come out with the swarm aud falls 
to the ground unable to rise is it because she 
Is too old and weak, or is she too young.— 
0. W. Woolley. 
quence, some distance above the point of 
support, giving a considerable leverage, 
which soon loosens the pins. To remedy 
this, the hole in the iron plate is now hushed 
with wood, reducing the leverage, without 
allowing the pins to touch iron, which would 
impair Lhc tone, lly this arrangement the 
strain is entirely upon the iron frame, which 
is not affected by moisture or dryness; the 
tuning pin is much more firmly held, and 
the piano will remain in tune three or four 
times as long as those made in the old way. 
iiy the use of the Linear Bridge it was 
found that smaller cases admitted of long 
strings and gave powerful and rich tones. 
This led to the construction of the 
“ Colibri (humming bird) piano, less than 
live feet long and three feet wide, au instru¬ 
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same volume of tone can be produced from 
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Egypt in ii Rees. 
Mr. Mitchell, some time since in a pub¬ 
lic meeting, gave his experience with these 
bees in the following graphic manner:—He 
thought they were the prettiest bee lie bad 
ever seen. Last spring he was as proud of 
them as any one could lie, and he went so 
tar as to give them a puff, aud extolled them 
as no other bee ever was before praised. He 
moved out on Grand Prairie last summer to 
give his four colonies of Egyptian bees a 
broad field to labor in. He first prepared 
himself for a tight with them, for lie had 
heard they were cross, hut when ho lifted 
U P the slide to his hives they came out in a 
fearful manner. 
They were lively in the extreme. They 
came out in multiplied millions, slinging 
everything—himself, his assistant, liis horses, 
dogs, children, the trees on liis place, and in 
fact, everything. [Laughter.] Ho wanted 
to do the Egyptiau bees credit. They gath¬ 
ered honey well—there were no better honey 
gatherers than the Egyptians. But when 
their honey was once gathered they kept it, 
[Laughter. | They commenced slinging on 
il n,!lu ’a fingers nnd stung all the way up liis 
arms, up hi 8 neck, and even to the top of Ids 
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