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rest of that hive I made in five nuclei 
and three days later 1 supplied those five 
nuclei with five ripe queen cells from the 
queen nursery. This is one of the nu¬ 
merous ways to make increase. This 
kind of manipulation gave me five strong 
with all the brood and bee queen 
them and placed them in the 8- 
liives, closed the hives with a screen 
so they would not smother, loaded 
on the auto and off he went, leav- 
ne .$75. Taking the three hives, 
Notes on Louisiana Pecans 
After several years of sickness, spent 
in cities and large hospitals, I am once 
more b? k on the old plantation, where 
the quiet seems peaceful iu comparison 
to the noise and bustle of the cities. After 
all, there is no life like that of the coun¬ 
try to us folk who were born there. It 
was here that I was born just 63 years 
ago. It was here that I used to read 
Thk It. N.-Y. 51 years ago. when I was 
a lad just 12 years old. It. was then 
called Moore's Mural New-Yorler, and 
was printed on large-sized sheets of paper. 
T wonder how many subscribers you have 
left who were reading The R. N.-Y 51 
years ago? It was here that I started 
45 years ago what has subsequently be¬ 
come the oldest and finest pecan grove in 
the world. The trees I planted 43 years 
ago have become perfect giants, for they 
were planted on the richest land in the 
world, the Louisiana lowlands. 
My pecan groves look in fine shape. 
The budded trees have grown wonder¬ 
fully during my absence, and have now 
reached full maturity. I have nearly 
every known variety growing here. 
Moneymaker is far ahead of all the others 
when it comes to profit. It is not quite 
perfect, but if pleases the most fastidious 
people, and it is the heaviest of all bear¬ 
ers and the healthiest of all trees. Tf 
is now propagated by the thousand all 
over the land. The best pecan from the 
standpoint of the consumer is the Schley. 
But the Schley is subject to many dis¬ 
eases. it is not an abundant bearer, and 
will not staud the slightest neglect. Tf 
you neglect it in any way the trees will 
die from rosette. Stuart is a good pecan j 
when grown on sandy land, but on heavy 
land if is scarcely worth eating. Success 
is an all-round fine pecan, and I find no 
fault with it at all. Carman is another 
your table with sweets, and sell your 
honey-bees, queens, right at your door at 
top prices. There are hundreds of col¬ 
onies of bees in the city and suburbs. 
Seeking Information. —One of these 
bee-keepers came to me the latter part of 
May and asked: “Have you got stingless 
honey-bees?” I said I had no stingless 
honey-bees. He said: “I have a neigh¬ 
bor who bought a colony of bees from 
you last year and that colony stored 125 
ibs. boxed honey, and he sold that honey 
to his neighbors for 50c per lb., or $62.50; 
besides, he increased one colony. I live 
out in the suburbs and bees do fine in 
that section. I have come quite a dis¬ 
tance to get some of your bees, or queens. 
I have two colonies in old hives, and am 
ignorant about them. My neighbor told 
me to come to you for information and 
bees.” I took him in the backward and 
A Pile of “Moneymaker Pecans 
which were 10-frame hives, and placing 
them in 8-frame hives, leaves the same 
hives on their old stand with two frames 
of brood and l>cos in each one making a 
nucleus of each one of them. 
Tiie Qttkens. —Now I go to my queen 
nursery again and select three ripe queen 
cells, put them in cell protectors and 
place one in each hive. I shove them to 
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The City Beeman Tells His Story 
Some weeks ago we had an article by 
Mr. Wesley Dibble, of Brooklyn, N. Y.. 
lolling of bis experience in keeping bees in 
a city backyard. This idea of keeping 
bees where there are few flowers, and 
where the neighbors are crowded, was 
new to most of our people. Mr. Dibble 
tells in the following article of how he 
does it. 
A Personae Hobby. —My experience 
with the honey-bees reaches through a 
period of 55 years. T continue as en¬ 
thusiastic over them as ever. Rees are 
my hobby. It is said that if you have no 
hobby you are not living, only staying. t 
Bees can be kept: in the city on the roofs. j 
in your backyard, in your living or sloop- I 
ing rooms, on your back porches or at¬ 
tics with profit and pleasure. Many iti- 1 
quiries reach me from business men— 
clerks, professional men and women, 
teachers—whose duties keep them pretty 
close to business, yet have some time to 
devote and a desire to go into bee-keep¬ 
ing. I can think of no bobby more re¬ 
spectable, more fascinating, more profit¬ 
able than keeping bees. It requires but 
a little time and small capital to start 
bee-keeping in the city and is different 
from in the country. The disadvantages 
in the city are that you have but a small 
plot of ground or place to locate them. 
Then there are your neighbors to con¬ 
tend with. The stinging and spotting of 
clothes must be prevented. The advan¬ 
tages are you can be employed at ativ 
kind of business and still have plenty of 
time to care for a few colonies of bees, 
holidays, mornings and nights; supply; 
Back in 1898 we made the first Moncrief Furnace. It set a new standard in 
furnace making and furnace heating. Previous to that time a furnace was 
hardly more than an exaggerated stove transferred to the cellar. Moncrief 
design brought out many improvements, among them the straight side firepot, 
one-piece feed section and radiator with long fire travel. In one improvement 
in particular, Moncrief set and has maintained the lead, namely, in providing 
for circulating and distributing an extra volume of warm air, not “burned’* air, 
among all the rooms of the house. 
MONCRIEF PIPELESS FURNACE 
The casings or air chambers of the Moncrief 
Pipeless Furnace are made unusually large to 
afford a superabundance of air circulation. The 
big outer casing draws the cold air gently from 
your floor without creating drafts. In the large 
inner casing the cold air is warmed to a comfort¬ 
able temperature, charged with healthful hu¬ 
midity, and returned for distribution to every 
nook and corner of the house. 
Every point of superiority that has made the 
original Moncrief Furnaces famous is included 
in the Moncrief Pipeless Furnace. It is made 
entirely in our own foundries by skilled work¬ 
men, under expert supervision. The finest gray 
iron castings are secured by combining the raw 
materials in our own cupolas. 
If you want to get every cent’s worth of value 
from your fuel — and ample, healthful heat into 
the corners that need heating most — if you want 
to free yourself from stove dirt and stove work 
—put in a Moncrief Pipeless Furnace. 
There’s a Moncrief dealer near you who will 
do a first-class job of installing. Ask us for his 
name if you do not know who he is. 
Manufactured by 
THE HENRY FURNACE & FOUNDRY CO., Cleveland, Ohio 
Eastern Distributors 
F. H. HANLON, Batavia, N. Y. E. L. GARNER, 619 E. 14th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
DEALERS: Maay desirable territories are still open. Write for the details of the Moncrief Proposition. 
