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THE RURALi NEW-VORKKR 
November 9, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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MOTHS IN BEE HIVES. 
,/. 0. H., Virginia .—What can I do to 
prevent moths from infesting bee hives? 
I use the Danzenbaker hive. In July I 
took a small quantity of honey from a 
hive that had given off three swarms this 
year, and saw no sign of moths. About the 
first of September I discovered that the 
bees were gone and the hive had no comb 
even in the base. Every nook and corner 
was filled with moths in the various 
stages; there were thousands of them. 
Two swarms have also been killed out by 
moths. 
Ans. —There is one thing, and one 
thing only, to do to prevent the ravages 
of the bee moth, and that is simply 
follow what is called “The Golden Rule 
of bee-keeping”—keep all colonies strong. 
The wax moth will never overpower a 
strong normal colony, but let 2 hive be¬ 
come hopelessly queenless, and in nearly 
every case the moths will completely de¬ 
stroy the combs as described in this 
question. They also destroy empty 
combs left in hives without bees, as most 
bee-keepers have learned to their cost, 
even when precautions have been taken 
to guard against them. Last year I had 
40 sets of combs in hives without bees, 
and about June 1 I fumigated them 
with carbon bisulphide, and stored them 
in their proper hives for later use. Sup¬ 
posing them perfectly safe, I did not 
look at them again until the middle of 
July, when, needing some empty combs, 
I found every comb ruined, nearly all 
completely consumed, and the hives filled 
witli cocoons, exactly as described by 
J. O. H. It often happens, as it evi¬ 
dently did in his case, that a hive casts 
one or more swarms and fails to re¬ 
queen properly, leaving the bees hope¬ 
lessly queenless and few in numbers, 
and the moths clean up the comb be¬ 
fore the owner is even aware of their 
presence. The Danzenbaker hive is one 
of the smallest hives in use, and after 
casting three swarms in one season 
would naturally contain no brood young 
enough for the bees to raise a new 
queen from, after the last swarm issued, 
or they may have done as they some¬ 
times do, swarmed out with the queen 
on her mating flight. In any case, the 
bees were too weak to defend their 
combs. Right here let me speak a word 
for the Italian bee; they are much bet¬ 
ter moth repellers than any other race 
of bees. They simply will not tolerate 
moths in their hives, if where they can 
get at them, while one will almost al¬ 
ways find a few in hives of other races. 
Langstroth says that “at a low estimate 
one female moth will lay 200 eggs in a 
hive, and the second generation will 
count into thousands and the third will 
exceed a million.” The same authority 
says the larvae have been known to spin 
their cocoon and hatch in from 10 to 
II days in warm weather, so we see that 
when once started they make quick 
work. All moth-traps or moth-proof 
hives are simply frauds, as where a bee 
can go a moth can also go. Follow the 
“Golden Rule,” discard the too small 
hives; allow no swarming, or at least 
not more than one swarm per hive; see 
that the old hive raises a queen, and 
that she gets to laying all right. Italian¬ 
ize if possible, and you will have nothing 
to fear from the bee-moth, or, more 
properly, wax-moth. j. a. crane. 
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
Ivy Poisoning. —While I would not ad¬ 
vise any one to take the radical remedy 
of chewing the leaves of the poison ivy, 
there is no doubt that the best remedy is a 
few doses of the little homoeopathic Rhus 
toxicodendron. This is a very weakened 
preparation from the leaves, and really 
seems to have an immediate effect on those 
susceptible to the poison. I have handled 
the plants repeatedly and never suffered 
any bad effects, but people of a florid com¬ 
plexion and blond hair are very apt to be 
poisoned. 
Pecans. —Many years ago, on a place 
of which I had charge in Northern Mary¬ 
land. about 25 miles south of the Penn¬ 
sylvania line, we had an immense pecan 
tree that was perfectly hardy. It seldom 
ripened a crop, however, unless the Autumn 
weather was prolonged late in the season. 
Here in Southeast Maryland the trees 
thrive as well as anywhere in the South, 
and are growing finely. In Delaware they 
are finding the English walnut, so called, 
very profitable, and several large planta¬ 
tions have been made in Southern Dela¬ 
ware. I believe that here and northward 
the English walnut will be more profitable 
than the pecan, and comes into bearing 
earlier. 
Pabsnips. —Of course where it would be 
hard to get these out of the soil hard 
frozen it may do to pit them, but here 
there are always frostless periods during 
the Winter when it is not difficult to lift 
the roots, and I leave them, with the 
salsify and carrots, in the rows where they 
grew.' Carrots, especially, here seem to get 
sweeter after freezing weather comes, and 
I have never known them hurt by cold, 
though the tops are about destroyed. 
Maryland. w. f. massey. 
Advice to Health Seeker. 
I am a city man, and wish to get into 
the country. I am taking this step for 
business' reasons and on account of my 
health. My trouble is with the kidneys. 
For health reasons would you advise a lo¬ 
cation in the South or in the North? I 
have an opportunity to go to a Southern 
State and another offer to go to the Adir- 
ondacks. Would you say that the North is 
the place for a man with kidney trouble? 
What would you say about a permanent 
location in a health resort, or at some 
springs or water cure? I am an office 
man with considerable successful experience 
in a small way with the growing of things. 
I would not expect to make a living on a 
farm. Should I go on a small place I would 
pay to employ a man and wife to do the 
housework and the work on the place. 
J. E. w. 
He would be rash, indeed, who, without 
intimate personal acquaintance with you 
and your conditions, would attempt to give 
you definite advice about the serious ques¬ 
tions which you are considering. Only a 
physician,, acquainted with the nature and 
extent of your kidney trouble, is competent 
to advise as to the climate best suited 
to you, though, in a general way, it may be 
said that serious kidney disorders do better 
in a mild equable climate, such as you will 
hardly find in the Adirondacks. 
As to renting a small place and hiring 
the work done under your supervision, this, 
if you can afford it, would be an agreeable 
occupation and diversion, if your tastes run 
that way. Few men, however, could make 
such a proposition a paying one from a 
financial standpoint, and you would prob¬ 
ably have to depend largely upon satisfac¬ 
tion. and perhaps health, for your remun¬ 
eration. Physicians are becoming more cau¬ 
tious than formerly about advising patients 
with a serious disorder to leave their homes 
and seek health in some distant country. 
It is recognized that nostalgia, or home¬ 
sickness, is a very real trouble, and fre¬ 
quently undoes all the good that superior 
climatic conditions might otherwise accom¬ 
plish. M. B. D. 
“ HUNTERS” AND THEIR WORK. 
Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 20.—Nino brood 
mares by the noted sire Axtcll, together 
with three mules, all the property of W. 
P. I. James, president of the American 
Trotting Association, were killed by a pas¬ 
senger train. The gate of the stock farm 
where they were kept had been left open 
by hunters, and the animals, valued at 
.$9,000, wandered out on the track, where 
they huddled when bewildered by the loco¬ 
motive’s headlight. 
Farmers Say Hunters Are Careless. 
Canandaigua, Oct. 10. — Damage by 
pheasant hunters is causing many farmers 
to post their farms as provided by the 
State game laws. They complain that the 
hunters have no regard for the safety of 
men or animals, but seem so determined 
to shoot at everything that looks like a 
pheasant that they do not hesitate to di¬ 
rect their shots toward sheep, cattle and 
even horses and men. The farmers also 
complain that the huntsmen are not care¬ 
ful in the bagging of the birds, but that 
some of them shoot the hen pheasants as 
well as the male birds. 
Hunter’s Shot Causes Runaway. 
Canandaigua, Oct. 10.—A shot fired by a 
hunter at a pheasant frightened a horse 
driven by Mrs. Malloney, on the Sandhill 
road this morning, caused the horse to 
run away. The buggy was wrecked, and 
Mrs. Malloney, although thrown out, was 
not seriously injured. The horse was cap¬ 
tured after running some distance. The 
hunter, it is said, stood directly in front 
of the horse when he fired the shot. 
I hope that you will keep at these game 
laws until the farmers who live back away 
from the cities will sit up and think strong 
enough to unite with all others in rebellion 
against such tyranny. Hunters are led to 
believe when possessed of a license that 
they are at liberty to go anywhere and 
commit almost any deed. They break down 
our fences, leave open the gates and tramp 
over the growing crops, steal grapes and 
fruit of all kinds, until it has become in¬ 
tolerable. I do not believe that you can 
be forced to post your farm to protect 
from trespassers. The trespass laws are 
as old as the hills and would not be en¬ 
forced in court. In our vicinity last year 
a valuable young horse was shot down in 
the open field, simply the act of a licensed 
fiend. Not a fruit grower but what has 
suffered from the rabbit pest, and soon the 
State will suffer from such an absurd law. 
Yates Co., N. Y. j. 
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Peach and Apple Trees 
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APPLE BARRELS—Gar Lots or Less 
ROUT. GILLIES MEDINA, N. Y. 
$15 to $18 a Day 
Digging Ditches 
That’s what hundreds of other 
men are making and you can do the 
same with a 
BUCKEYE 
TRACTION 
DITCHER 
There’s a big field open for the 
men who own a Buckeye and it’s 
growing bigger every day because 
farmers are rapidly learning that 
machine made ditches are the best. 
You can sign up enough con¬ 
tracts among the farmers in your 
neighborhood to keep you busy 9 to 
10 months in the year. With a 
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a day at a profit of from $15 to $18. 
The Buckeye cuts every ditch 
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along the ditch which makes the 
back-filling much easier. 
Can be had with either gasoline 
or steam power. One man can operate 
the gasoline, two the steamer. 
Write for catalog 3 today , now. 
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Findlay, Ohio 
“BLACK’S QUALITY” 
FRUIT TREES 
NONE BETTER 
None Give Better Returns when They Fruit 
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PEACH and APPLE TREES 
a specialty. CATALOGUE FREE 
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HIGHTSTOWN. N. J. 
Double-Glass 
Double Profits 
The old single layer hot-bed sash are better than 
none, but they must be covered; and boards, mats or 
shutters are pure waste. 
The new Sunlight Double Glass Sash with two 
layers of glass enclosing an air space, are 
Complete in Themselves 
They eliminate covers and half the labor; they admit 
all the light to store warmth in the bed and then save 
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It is good business for you 
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Write your address plainly 
and send it today. The hot¬ 
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Prof. Massey’s booklet on 
Hot-beds sent for 4c. 
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924 East Broadway, Louisville, Ky, 
V 
The double layer of glass does tU 
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An Engine Your Wife 
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■jV/TUCH of the drudgery of the farm falls on 
■W-L your wife and children. You can and 
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Use it to grind feed, grind tools, shell corn. 
Chop hay or fodder, spray. 
The Jack Junior is a simple, 1 H. P'., four 
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LOUISIANA. MO. Established 1816 
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health of cows there is no better feed. Price, F.O.B. 
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TO KILL 
San Jose Scale 
USE 
Bergenport Brand Sulphur 
The best sulphur for Lime Sulphur Solution. 
Combines easily and quickly with lime. Write to 
T. & S. C. WHITE & GO. 
BERGENPORT SULPHUR WORKS 
100 William Street, New York 
SURE CURE FOR SAN JOSE SCALE 
CHEAPEST AND BEST 
Jarvis Spraying Compound has no superior. Buy 
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Sold in bbl. lots (50 gallons), 30 cents per gallon. 
References—J. H. Hale, the "Peach King," or Prof. 
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T We Make 
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FIELD FORCE PUMP CO., . 
2 11th St., Elmira, N. Y. 
i->on t grow cider apples. Kid your trees of scale and fungous pests and grow 
number one appies by using “Scalecide”—the one absolutely sure scale spray. 
bcalecide is easy to handle, it will not clog or corrode the nozzle or injure the 
skin, it will build up a poorly paying, run down orchard and make it return 
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is the bestspray for San Jose. It kills every scale it reaches. “Scalecide” goes 
turtner, is cheaper and inora effective than lime sulphur. Endorsed by Experi¬ 
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are free. B. G. Pratt Co., Dept. “N” 50 Church Street, New York City. 
