fft/FtAi. 
best colonies will pay an enormous profit. 
Bees will often begin work in empty combs 
sooner than in sections. By giving each col¬ 
ony a case of empty combs at the beginning 
of the season the bees are quickly and surely 
started at work in the supers. After all are 
well at work, the extracting combs nmy be 
removed from as many colonies as it is desir¬ 
able to work for comb honey, putting sections 
into their places and piling up the partly 
filled extracting combs over the rest of the 
colonies. Toward the close of the season, in¬ 
stead of putting on new sections, partly fin¬ 
ished sections are taken from some of the col¬ 
onies and used on the colonies that need them, 
while extracting combs are given to the col¬ 
onies from which they are taken. The advan¬ 
tages of this system are: First, getting the bees 
started without delay; second, the honey se¬ 
cured is first-class; third, no unfinished sec¬ 
tions are left over, aud honey stored in combs 
built the year before is never quite equal in 
appearance to honey in Dewly built combs. 
Mr. F. Wilcox, Wisconsin, asked how much 
more extracted honey than comb honey could 
be secured. Mr. Green thought, about twice 
as much if the honey was first-class; of such ex¬ 
tracted honey as is usually raised, three times 
as much. C. F. Hopkins, Ohio, tailed to com¬ 
prehend how honey stored in old eornfis should 
be inferior. Were this true, why, he asked, 
was not extracted honey taken from old combs 
of poor quality? Mr. Green explained that 
if the sections were left upon the hives long 
enough, the honey would become sufficiently 
ripened, but the trouble is that it is removed 
as soon as sealed, and it is more inclined to 
“sweat” when stored in old combs. H. W. 
rangements for getting my living by raising 
honey; now, I want some protection against 
the man who wishes to settle down by the side 
cf me, dividing the pastures with me and, 
perhaps, bringing foul brood into my vicinity. 
I may be wrong, but from the bottom of my 
heart I believe legislation desirable, although 
it may not be feasible. 
(To be continued.) 
town, Pa., writes us that the Safe Fountain 
Pen Co., of Chicago, is a swindling affair. 
He sent the concern $1 for three of its pens, 
and when they arrived they were not worth 
three cents apiece. This concern was men¬ 
tioned in the Rural last week, together with 
three other aliases, all of which are as big 
swindles as the S F. P. Co. The aliases are 
G. E. Loweuthal, Liberty M’f’g Co., and 
Jerome Novelty Co., all of Chicago. 
Concerns Censured —Under this caption 
the Eye-Opener will, from time to time, give 
the names of various concerns he has seen 
denouaced in other papers; but which have 
not been investigated from the Rural Office. 
Among these are Borden, Edwards & Co ; 
the International Watch Co., and Edwards & 
Co., all of this city...The Earth Fuel Co. 
together with A. N. Snell, Ward A. Hepburn, 
Edward Fowler and R. ‘A. Johnson, also of 
New York...W. Stoffel & Bro., Baltimore, 
Md...The American Importing Co., West 
arson an 
YORKSHIRE BAY COACH-HOHSE 
PRINCE OF WALES. 
A PRETTY full history of the Cleveland 
Bay breed of horses appeared in the Ru¬ 
ral of October 1st The Yorkshire Bay breed 
is substantially the same. The Cleveland Bay 
originated in the mining district of Cleveland 
in the North Riding of Yorkshire, from a 
cross of Thoroughbred or high-blood stallions 
on the heavy draft horses of the district, the 
result beiug a lighter, livelier, more spirited 
animal, suited for coaching purposes. When 
the railroad superseded the coaches at the be¬ 
ginning of the century, the Cleveland Bays 
were allowed to die out wholly, or almost so. 
The revival of coaching for pleasure of Jate 
years, and the great demand for fine, large 
carriage horses, as well as sprightly animals 
for heavy express work, having created a good 
market for horses of the old Cleveland Bay 
type, the breed has been either resuscitated 
from some of the old stock still here and there 
in existence, or created as was the old breed 
by the mingling of Thoroughbred blood with 
that of the large bay mares of Yorkshire, 
The new Cleveland Bay Society in Eugland 
got up a Stud Book some time ago, and the 
American Cleveland Bay Society is getting 
up one now; but the new Yorkshire Bay 
Coach-Horse Society has lately come into the 
field as a rival of the older body. It, too, has 
just got out a “Stud Book of Great Britain 
and Ireland, containing pediernes prior to 
1882;” but a careful reading of the 
constitution of the society fails to 
indicate what rules were adopted 
for registration, and wbat, there- Jj 
fore, differences exist between the 
Cleveland and Yorkshire Bays,but JK 
the impression strongly conveyed 
is that the difference is about the 
same as that, a short time ago, 
supposed to exist between the Hoi- 
stein and Friesian or the Aberdeen 
and Angus breeds of cattle: or 
supposed still to exist between the 
“Percberon” and “Norman”breeds 
of horses. The cut, Fig. 477, re¬ 
engraved from the (London) Live 
Stock Journal, represents what is 
said to be a fine specimen of the 
new breed. He is known as Prince 
of Wales, “aud comes of a good 
liue of Coach-horses as well as 
Thoroughbreds.” He is 13 years 
old, stands HI bands high, a trifle 
less than the bight of the average 
Coach-horse: “otherwise he poses- 
ses all the style, color aud various 
desirable points." He is most 
famous as being the sire of several 
valuable prize winners, and in a 
breed in process of creation, like 
the Yorkshire Coach-horse breed at 
present, power of begetting super¬ 
ior progeny attaches gn at \alue 
aud distinction to a bull or stal¬ 
lion. It is this characteristic that 
has distinguished Hubback aud 
Favorite among the Short horns, 
as we'l as the Darley aud Godolphin Arabians 
and other famous early sires among Thorough¬ 
breds. 
U MhKUUb marriage insurance compa- 
.Lt nies” have from time to time been de¬ 
nounced bv the E.-O., as no better than the 
“grave-yard insurance” companies which 
flourished so numerously and pestiferously a 
few years ago. The law in almost all the 
States has suppressed the latter, or at any 
rate, the worst features of them; but some 
of the former still drag out a miserable exis¬ 
tence which would hardly be known to the 
general public were it not for the occasional 
announcement of their disgraceful end. “The 
Equitable Beneficial Association for Unmar¬ 
ried Persons,” with headquarters at Reading, 
Pa , was one of th'-se pests which burst up the 
other day after having taken in over $60,000 
from its dupes without having paid out any¬ 
thing to its policy holders. Every failure of 
this kind should be a warning to the credulous 
public. 
Woman s TUork 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY LOUISE TAPLIN, 
CHAT BY THE WAY. 
ATHERINE OWEN says that experienc- 
W ed housekeepers do not always know the 
best method of doing things, and she illus¬ 
trates her point by telling us how 
to grate a lemon, and how to chop 
parsley. Though we imagine a 
good many housewives would feel 
a little indignant if they were told 
that they were ignorant of such 
trifling details as these, still un¬ 
doubtedly there is a right and a 
wrong way of doing everything 
about the house, and we must 
choose the method that is both 
easiest and best. In other words, 
we must make housekeeping one 
of the exact sciences. 
But unfortunately, though we 
can do our work according to ex¬ 
act methods, we can never make 
the household wheels run like 
clockwork, especially where there 
are children. The unexpected is 
always happening, and our cher¬ 
ished rules and regulations are 
thrown out in consequence. Still, 
every prudent housewife must lay 
out a plan of her campaign, and 
adhere to it as nearlv as possible. 
There should always be regular 
rules about cleaning and sweeping, 
which should prevent too much of 
this work from falling on one day. 
Instead of sweeping all the bed¬ 
rooms on one day they should be 
taken singly on separate days; this 
plan adds somewhat to the ordi¬ 
nary chamber work, but it saves 
one from spending awhole morning 
in sweeping, to the exclusion of every thing else. 
YORKSHIRE COACHING STALLION, PRINCE OF WALES. 
Stock Journal. Fig. 477, 
Re-engraved from the London Live 
Funk, Illinois, thought the reason was that in 
drawn combs, the cells are so deep that the 
honey is not so quickly and t horoughly ripened 
as when comb-building aud honey-storing go 
on simultaneously. H. R. Boardmau bad 
raised tons of honey, and in so doing had used 
old combs; not old, black combs, and soiled 
sections, but nice, white combs built the pre¬ 
ceding season, and cleaned up by the bees be¬ 
fore being stored away for the winter. The 
honey is as fine as any; in fact, more delicate; 
the only trouble is that the honey does not 
bear shipment so well as that built on founda¬ 
tions. 
“Legislation for Bee-keepers.’ At the last 
meeting of the society, Dr. G. C. Miller, of 
Illinois, had urged the desirability of legisla¬ 
tion that would give a bee-keeper the exclu¬ 
sive right to keep bees iu a certain territory. 
It roused the opposition of nearly the whole 
convention. A spirited discussion followed, 
and tiually a committee was appointed to con¬ 
sider the desirability and feasibilit y of legisla¬ 
tion and report at the next meeting. As 
chairman of the committee, Dr. Miller now 
reported as follows: “I have not corresponded 
with the other members of the committee, but 
I suppose the report would be an adverse one. 
I feel, however, that this topic has been mis¬ 
understood. Almost everybody seems to think 
I would give the exclusive right to keep bees 
to the one who first began keeping bees in bis 
locality, I have urged nothing of the kind. I 
don't kuow what I would do. I don’t know as 
anything can be done, but l look at it iu this 
light: I have beeu to the expeuse of fitting up 
an apiary, putting up buildings, planting 
honey plants aud making all the necessary ar¬ 
The American Literary Supply Co., of Chi¬ 
cago, through its agents and otherwise, has 
for some time been canvassing for subscrib¬ 
ers at $10 a membership fee. for which a book 
is delivered and a promise is made of the priv¬ 
ilege of buying books and other merchandise 
of the association for five years at manufac¬ 
turers' prices. It is claimed that a saving of 
37 per cent on purchased goods can in this 
way be made. It is charged by several pa¬ 
pers that the concern is merely engaged in the 
subscription book business; that its plan is to 
sell the first book at about two prices, and as 
an inducement throw iu privileges which 
might be valuable if they were genuine. The 
main object, however, is to sell the book, and 
the concern makes p good profit also on all or¬ 
ders subsequently filled for any of its subscrib¬ 
ers. 
A plausible man has visited the farmers of 
Maine, this fall, aud after setting forth the 
value of birds as insect destroyers, aud the 
wickedness of those who kill them, has pre¬ 
sented a well-worded document, apparently a 
pledge not to kill a bit d for a year, for the 
farmer to sign. If he did sign, the paper 
came back to him in a short time in the shape 
of a promissory note. Not a few agricultur¬ 
ists weve thus swindled. 
The latest swindling enterprise reported 
from Michigan, in which the farmers are in¬ 
vited to rake a hand, is presented by a tree 
agent selling peach trees at a high price war¬ 
ranted to stand auy degree of cold, aud do 
well and bear abundantly in any soil or loca¬ 
tion. One man is reported as paying $75 for 
100 trees. 
Memoranda. —A subscriber from Stewarts- 
Wasbing and ironing days there should be 
no special cleaning,and the meals should be as 
easily prepared as possible. We do not be¬ 
lieve in the traditional washing-day dinners, 
“picked up” and unappetizing; for the washer¬ 
woman aud those assisting her need a com¬ 
fortable and satisfying meal, as well as the 
fastidious “men folks.” Our own choice for 
a washing-day dinner is a good soup, which is 
prepared the day before, ready for the final 
herbs and vegetables: cold meat with mashed 
potatoes and pickles, and either a pie made 
the day before, or an easily-baked pudding. 
In this case, as in many others, we see the ad¬ 
vantage of meals planned out beforehand, 
though this is not always possible. 
.nan an 
NORTH AMERICAN BEE KEEPERS’ SO 
C1ETY. 
(RURAL SPECIAL REPORT.) 
Comb and extracted honey ; management of 
bees for both - , yield of extracted as com¬ 
pared with that of comb ; honey in old 
combs ; shall bee-keepers have exclusive 
legal right to certain ranges? 
HIS society held its 18tli annual 
conveu- 
X tion, November 16, 17 aud 18, at the Com¬ 
mercial Hotel,Chicago, 111., with 80 beekeepers 
present. 
J. A. Green, Illinois, read a paper upon: 
“The Production of Couib aud Extracted Hon¬ 
ey in the same Apiary.” Dark honey does not 
appear well in iho comb, hence it is well to se¬ 
cure this in the extracted form. The comb 
honey stored by some colonies is not of flue 
appearauce, hence a change of queens should 
be made, but, In the meantime, these colonies 
may be set to producing extracted honey. 
Every pound of comb honey she uld be tirst- 
class,poor extracted honey can be sold for man¬ 
ufacturing purposes. It sometimes happens 
that honey comes in faster thau ihe bees can 
build combs to store it. At such times a few 
cases of empty combs distributed among the 
The lot of a district school teacher is not 
always a happy ou& Apart from oft-unruly 
children and crabbed trustees, there is often a 
clashing of authority between the teacher and 
the parents. We heard recently of a trus¬ 
tee who told the children to go in and out of 
school when they felt like it, without minding 
what the teacher might say. Yet this very 
same trustee would be the first to complain if 
the poor, harrassed teacher failed to preserve 
order. It is most certainly the duty of parents 
to uphold the authority of the teacher; make 
the children understand that during school- 
hours she stands iu loco parentis , and the 
teacher in a district school has a good many 
difficulties in any ease, when there is a large 
school of varied ages. 
Dr. Titus Munson, Coan says Jhatj people 
