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In England there is one foreigner
every 170 natives and in France one
every thirty-four natives.
Of the $569,000,000 worth of
exported from the United States
year, $504,000,000 worth were agricul¬
tural produce.
Official statistics show that the
United States has more telephone sta¬
tions than all the European countries
put together. It may be inferred from
this that the Americans are particular¬
ly strong on long-distance conversa-
tions.
Here is an extract from an Iowa
girl’s commencement oration: “I am
a human being, placed in the midst of
a great world. Far and wide it extends
on every side. Majestic in its vast-
ness, bewildering in its ever-changing
forms, it overwhelms by its immensity.
Over it bend the eternal heavens, and
far away in the infinite realms of space
gleam the lights of other worlds. And
I, what am I? A drop in the sea of
life. An atom in the universe of na¬
ture. ”
How many people in the United
States are aware that there is one
United States penitentiary in all of
the United States? Federal prisoners
have almost invariably been taken to
this or that State penitentiary. At
Fort Leavenworth is the only prison
which is a United States penitentiary,
and it is a made-over affair from a
military prison, which was originally
a lot of quartermaster’s warehouses,
with a wall built around them. They
will accommodate about five hundred
and twenty-five prisoners.
“No action of the Legislature,” says
the Chicago Tribune, “will make such
a name as Greater New York tolerable.
It is a monstrosity of three words and
four syllables to apply to a city.
Various suggestions embodying har¬
monious combinations, such as
Yorklyn, Brookyork, Yorlfbgpok, York-
land, etc., have been scorned,
som appellation ething must be devised to simplify
the of the new city.” If
the Tribune would take the trouble to
read the charter of the consolidated
city, it would discover that its , name is .
“the City of New York.”
When you are convinced that a paper
is dishonest and deceitful, stop it, says
the Springfield Republican, When
convinced that it is unclean, stop it.
When it lacks enterprise and fails to
give you the news, stop it. But don’t
stop a paper that you believe to be
honest, courageous, enterprising and
clean simply because its editor has
written his own sincere views instead
of yours or somebody else’s; for if you
do, you are putting a premium on
insincere journalism and serving notice
on an editor that the way to succeed is
to write what he thinks will best please
his readers instead of what he honestly
believes to be the truth.
A large number of prominent
Methodist laymen of Indiana have
issued a call for a mass-meeting in
Indianapolis on September 15 to advo¬
cate larger representation for the laity
in the General Conference. “Two and
a half million laymen,” they say, “have
but one-third of the representatives in
the General Conference, while fifteen
thou sand preachers have two-thirds.
The laymen furnish the millions of
money to carry on the work of the
Church in all her various departments.
The impolicy, to say nothing of the in¬
justice, in denying them an equal voice
in its disbursement and in the general
management of the Church is painfully
apparent.”
Mulhall, the eminent English statis¬
tician, in his recent article in the
North American, groups the figures
representing the progress in manufac¬
turing of Great Britain and New Eng¬
land respectively, between the years
1850 and 1850 and 1890. He finds
that during that period New Eng¬
land’s output increased about five
times and the wages paid about five
and a half times, while in the last year
named her manufactures amounted to
$320*for each inhabitant. During the
same year Great Britain’s manufac-
tures amounted to only $115 for each
inhabitant, AVhile New England’s
manufactures are increasing, those of
Great Britain are almost stationary.
New England has twice as many sav¬
ings banks depositors as Great Britain,
and the average of such deposits in
New England is almost ten times as
great as in Great Britain, being $150
in the first and $18 in the second
country.
PIONEERING.
Hongs for the tameless tamers,
The tamers of tho seas;
Songs for the stout old sailors
Who harnessed every breeze,
Who through the sens of darkness
Trend By unknown winds were whirled;
Brake anil old Magellan,
The girdlers of the world.
And songs for Henry Hudson,
Wherever he may be.
Whose bones havo bleached throo
dred liis years
Beneath northern sea.
Songs for the grim old sailors,
Men of heroic pith.
Yea, songs for brave JohnjCabot,
And songs for stout John Smith.
Bongs for I.a Salle, the dauntless,
And songs for strong Champlain;
For good Marquette and .Toilet,
For CrCokett, Boone, and Kane.
Songs for the pioneer vanguard,
Who ploughed uncharted floods,
And laid the sites of cities
Within the roadless woods.
Songs for all pioneering,
And all are pioneers:
All sailors from an anchorage
That fronts the tide of years.
And each man sails an ocean
No other sailed before,
And each man flndoth for himself
An undiscovered shore.
Sail on across the morning.
Sail forth beyond the night,
Sail forth and trust the eternal winds
To blow your bark aright;
And every day shall greet you.
New phase of wave or breeze,
Tho moonlight on new headlands,
The sunlight on new seas.
Still sail the tameless tamers,
The tamers of the seas;
Still sail the stout old sailors
Who harness every breeze;
Still through the seas of darkness
By unknown winds are whirled
Proud Drakes and old Magellans,
The girdlers of the world.
—Sam Walter Foss, in New York Sun.
^5fe^eie(eiefeKseieiefef^eiefefeK^$teietei©i^ | THE MOUNTAIN DAISY, $
T was in a corner of the
VJ conservatory behind the
1 0 ’ palms during of the
c one
^ ° most fashionable func¬
e'e tions of the season. This
seems a favorite situa¬
tion with fate while
weaving the web of hu¬
man destiny. Fred Trevor, tall, dark,
self-contained, with power apparent in
every look, movement and feature,
stood with hands crossed behind him
before the magnificent woman he has
just seated.
“You know, Miss Alden,” as he
leaned toward her, “that my knowl¬
edge of the social tenets is not pro¬
found.”
“You have only to follow your in¬
stincts, Mr. Trevor.”
“And you are the gentle mentor
who warned me against the sin of flat¬
tery. ”
“If I have paid an undeserved com-
nliment, it is to society in assuming
thjr i fj ba3 attained to your standard.”
“You’re incorrigible, b»t I’ll accept
the
bh<2 lAftdS ^ - save to.’with- , ...
draw her eyes from his and gather in
the folds of her dress to make room
for him to sit clown.
“I want to tell you something of nay-
life and then ask your advice. I am
not assuming that the story has any
special interest for you, but I have a
selfish desire for your opinion after I
have told it.”
“But don’t you know it as a general
truth that, with the average woman,
the man who is rich, famous and
honored, glorifies his antecedents, no
matter what they may be?”
“If you were the average woman I
would never have sought this oppor¬
tunity. When I first faced the world
alone I was a little, ill-fed, sallow,
ragged and half-dressecl boy in the
Cumberland mountains. I did not
know that there was such a thing as a
railroad, a steamboat, a book, a here¬
after, music, culture or anything dif¬
ferent from the detestable surround-
ings from which I longed to escape.
My father had been killed in defend¬
ing an illicit still, and mother just
seemed to go with the mountain flow¬
ers which I had gathered for her till
they ceased to bloom that fall. Dur¬
ing the winter I was kept alive despite
kicks and bruises, by a family that had
me as their sole reliance in ‘toting’
water and gathering wood.
“In the spring I went away, Made
up a little bundle and stole off in the
night. Till the evening of the next
day I hurried over the red clay roads
and paths, terror of being caught and
taken Iwiek crowding out every other
thought and feeling. But hunger and
exhaustion are not to be denied and at
last I went stealthily to a little cabin
where a girl of my own age was ‘keep-
in’ house in a hollow stump, just out¬
side. She put her frowsled head over
the wall of her primitive abode to con¬
duct an examination. ‘Who is youuns,
boy?’ ‘Where’s you’ par?’ ‘Whar’s
you’ mar?’ ‘Whar mout you be a
goin’?’ were questions that I answered
as well as I could. Then she said
wisely: ‘I ’lows thet you is runned
away. ’
“This would have put me to flight,
but she sprang out, told me to take
her place, and while I sat in the
cramped quarters she brought me all
that I could eat and a paper of food to
carry away with me. After assuring
me that she would have her ‘par’ shoot
any one who might be trying to recap¬
ture me, she pointed the nearest way
to a town, walked a way with me, and
said as we parted: ‘I reckon youuns
’ill hev ter kim back some time an’
marry me fur all them wittles an’ fur
fellin’ folks weuns heven’t sawen you
when they comes sarchin’. ’ I promised
her, of course.”
“But you never told ns that yon
were engaged,” laughed his brilliant
listener, “Where can we find your
mountain daisy?” tell The
“I wish I could you. in¬
cident was one- of the events of my
life. For the first time I knew the
sweetness of sympathy. people I have grown which
to almost detest the from
I sprang, because of their ignorance
and lack of ambition, but tho little
girl of the hollow stump has always
had a warm place in my memory. You
know most of my experience in the far
West. Before I had been there six
months I found the old man known as
Hermit Ben lying unconscious and ap¬
parently dying in one of the mountain
gorges, and brought the aid that, car¬
ried him to his shanty, procured a doc¬
tor and was his nurse till he recovered.
He felt toward me as I did toward the
ignorant little girl back in Tennessee.
I had been good to him without any
selfish motive, and he no sooner was"
well tlinu lie announced that I was his
boy Jim. This was my protection,
despite the fact that he was a recluse,
Ben was known as a bad man when in¬
terfered with and commanded a re¬
spect that was heightened by the mys¬
tery with which lie surrounded him¬
self. Something had made him at
enmity with the world. For years he
told me nothing, though from the first
he showed me the affection of a mother
and care of a father.
“Ft was soon a matter of common
report that Ben’s new boy was to be a
gentleman. The hermit himself took
charge of my primary education. He
was delighted with my lack of knowl¬
edge and my endless list of simple
questions, for it showed him he was
working on virgin soil. He molded me
in accordance with his own conception
of manhood, forever impressing upon
me that ingratitude was the cardinal
sin. When I could comprehend he
told me that I would bo rich, that I
must spend money generously, and
that some time he would let me into a
secret which would plaSe at my com¬
mand all that immeasurable power of
“When it came time for me to go
East to college I suggested that I
should go back to the old place in the
mountains and see if I could do any¬
thing for the girl who had been kind
to me. No act of mine ever pleased
him more, and when I left him it was
with unlimited credit authorized by
one of the greatest banking institu¬
tions of the West. I did not find the
girl, but learned that she had first been
employed and then adopted by a’widow
whose husband had fallen in the war.
I left money with a lawyer, telling him
to find the girl and have her educated.
A year later this money was returned
to me with notice that he could do
nothing for me. I wrote for further
information, but could get no reply.
“Before my benefactor died he told
me of the rich gold find he had worked
without sharing his secret with any
one. You know how it proved a ver-
itable mine of wealth, built up a thriving
city and won me the title of a bonanza
king. He also told me how a heartless
woman had wrecked his life and asked
me to never abandon the search for the
little mountain girl until I knew what
had become of her and whether it was
y-tyhin mv nower to help her. You
no idea how man and boy t thrown
together as we were, eolU^ build a
romance upon a foundation so slender.”
“I think I understand. And you
have found no trace?”
“None that I could follow. After
that fight when the strikers tried to
destroy the machinery at the mine, my
wounds threw me into a feyer, and
through ail the delirium I talked in
one dialect of my boyhood with the lit-
tie maid I had never seen but once.
That shows you the hold she had upon
me, and even yet I have an idea that
must either be shattered or confirmed
before I can be content. Now for your
advice. Should I marry before I have
seen this girl?”
“Not with my approval, Mr.
Trevor. Go ta the end of your foolish
dream, or it might haunt you and some
woman might suffer.”
“I had hoped for a different answer
from you.” And his eyes told the old,
old story.
“But I’m your friend and can give
no other. This is our waltz. ”
Within a month Trevor received a
letter in a yellow, blotted envelope.
The scrawl only said; “I reckon
youuns heve furgetted me. I’m back
here agin an’ I heve hearn youuns was
rich.”
Trevor shuddered. His romance
had died a cruel death. Reluctantly
he went. When at length he rode to
the front of the old cabin thdre was a
woman in a linsey dress that could not
conceal the beauty of her form, her
back to him, while she threw food to
the noisy chickens. Just as he reached
her side she turned with: “Well,
youuns did kim back, hey?”
“Miss TAlden,” gasped Trevor, as
he crushed the “Mountain Daisy”
against his breast. And the promise
of the babyhood was made good.—De-
roit Free Press.
A Fortune Made Out of Sharks.
Old Mme. Oliveros, who has just
died in Paris, used to dress like a beg¬
gar, and at the same time drive in a
very sumptuous carriage. Her hus¬
band had for many years almost the
monopoly of the shark trade, and used
to be fond of expatiating, at his famous
dinner-parties, on the usefulness of
this fish. The liver of the shark con¬
tains an oil possessing medicinal quali¬
ties equal to those of the cod. The
skin, after being dried, takes thepolish
and hardness of mother-of-pearl, and,
being marbled and resembling fossil
coral, is largely used by jewelers for
the manufacture of fancy objects, by
binders for making shagreen, and by
cabinet-makers for polishing woods.
The glue from the fins is used by brew¬
ers, English silk manufacturers, etc.
Mme. Oliveros left two millions of dol¬
lars—all made out of shark.—Argon¬
aut.
New Central African Railway.
A project is on foot for constructing
a railway in British Central Africa,
from Chivomo, near the Rue River, to
Blantye, the Church of Scotland Sta¬
tion, on Lake Nyassa. The estimated
cost is $925,000, and the line would
take about three years to construct.
CURIOUS FACTS.
A million dollars *n silver weigh*
56,931 pounds.
The annual value of tho human hair
exported from China is said to be about
$500,000.
Sponges, slates and slate pencils are
no longer allowed in the publio schools
of Cambridge, mass.
One sixty-four-year-old resident of
Pettis, Mo., says that he has never
worn a pair of overshoes, a watch, or a
paper collar.
In the Russian village of Vjalova
there is a peasant named Satov who
claims to be 133 years old and that his
father lived 150 years.
”1>” hearing hi, .m A r tan. °*v « t
which was preached just a few days
before he died, aged 118 years.
In some parts of Africa a vegetablo
butter is made from the fruit of the
shea tree. It is said to be richer in
fiavor than the butter made from
cream.
A remarkable tree grows in Brazil.
It is about six feet high and is so
luminous that it can be seen on the
darkest night for a distance of a mile
or more. ,
A cherry tree in Dayton, Oregon,
wliich was recently blown down by a ,
storm, bore a ton of fruit in one sea-
son. It was set out over forty-five
years ago.
Public protest being . made the
is in
province of Quebec, Canada, against
the mode of punishment m the schools,
where refractory pupils are made to
kiss the floor.
Emeralds seem to be coming into
favor again in Europe. Good speci-
mens are rising in value; a single stone
of seven carats having recently sold in
LoAdon for $40,000.
Among the many new devices to
assist the blind, one of the best is a
typewriter in which the keys have
raised letters or the dots contained in
one of the blind alphabets.
During the bullfighting season from
April 5 to October 20, 1896, there
were 478 fights in Spain and 1218
bulls, valued at $300,000, and 5730
horses, valued at $200,000, were
killed.
The fastest daily run in Great Britain
is from Perth to Forfar, on the Cale-
donian Railway, the distance—thirty-
two and a half miles-being performed
rn about thirty-two sixty-one mrnues, miles or hour. at the rate of
an
It is proposed to hold during the
year 1898 a Russian conference upon
balueology and climatology. It will
be 100 years next year since the min¬
eral springs of the Caucasus, still the
best known and most frequented of
Russian spas, were discovered, or, to
speak more accurately, sineg they came
to be used therapeutically.
TO PROMOTE sucar-beet culture.
Work of tlie Agricultural Department De-
scribed by Secretary Wilson.
The Agricultural Department is
sending out to farmers and to experi-
ment stations a large amount of sugar-
beet seed, with a view to determining
the feasibility of growing the seed in
certain sections of the country. Iji
an interview with regard* to the gr ow-
ing of the seed Secretary Wilson
said:
“We have just about finished send-
ing out sugar-beet seed to most of the
States of the Union. They ave ex-
perimenting South as far as Texas.
Every effort has been made to procure
first-class seed. Most of the work is
being done through the experiment
stations, that get seed from the De-
partment and send it out with instruc-
tions regarding the cultivation of the
plants and provision for the return of
samples to the stations in the fall for
analysis. The Department is also
taking in hand the growing of high
hereditary sugar-beet seed. The
seed being sent, out by the Depart-
ment is the result of careful improve-
ment, extending over many years—in
some cases forty years of time—where
every mother beetis tested by the
polariscope to ascertain its percentage
of sugar.
“This high hereditary , ,
seed is worth perhaps its weight m
gold. It is the result of the best work
done along these lines during ^
these years. Such seed is exceedingly
rare and difficult to get. The Agn-
cultural Department is believed to
compass the ownership of only about
five pounds of it. This is being dis-
tnbuted to our most careful experi-
“enters at different stations in dif-
ferent localities, notably at G eneva,
A. I ■; Wisconsin on a, c c. u e ins
are being issued from the Department,
prepared by experts, giving the people
information regarding the sugar beet
in all its relations. Such bulletins
i. ill be prepat ed bom time to time,
and the results will be copied .from
the several stations, and full infer-
mation given to the people regarding
this important matter.
“Capitalists are turning their atten¬
tion toward investments along this
line. There will be no difficulty about
getting money enough to erect fac-
tories, which cost from $300,000 to
8500,000. The business men of the
cities have learned thoroughly that
they cannot thrive unless the farmers
thrive; and, besides, the success of
the Oxnards assures capitalists that
where all the conditions of success
are carefully secured to begin with
there is no question of the ultimate re-
>>
Where They Differ.
The eminent electricians, Edison and
Tesla, are not agreed as to sleep. Ed¬
ison said recently that “sleep is a bad
habit, anyway,” in connection with
his statement that some nights he did
not sleep a wink. Tesla says that
sleep is a vitalizer, and that if a man
could sleep eighteen hours a day, he
might live to be 200 years old.
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Tlie Best Watermelon*.
1 The best watermelons are grown
when the undevdmuage , , is . good. , ,
«»e hills now and fill in with manure,
ftrst smaU pits, using
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Sulplnir Smoke for Lambs.
1 Where lambs show signs of disease
at weaning time it is the practice of
many to give them strong doses of sul-
phur smoke. To do this it is necessary
to corffine the lambs in a tight place
wjiere they can be made to inhale the
fumes. “We lastyear,” says John G.
Ickis, in Country Gentleman, “used a
garner which had a door at the open-
ing, and as it held twenty-five lambs it
did ” ot lo!1 » to fumi 6 ate the en '
lambs were driven int . 0 the
. ed - . , bu ket , ,
S“™ er ° He ma “ carr ‘ lu a ?
with a few small coals, on which a
small handful of sulphur had been
thrown. The door was closed, and as
^ b e a ; r became blue the lambs would
begin to cough, showing that they were
finia g their lungg with the smo ke. The
0 p era t 0r should stay in the room, so
that he may know when the lambs have
enough. For a few minutes you may
experience no inconvenience, but soon
the tears will begin to start and a lump
come in your tbroat that impedes
breathing— then you may know the
lambs have about all they can stand,
However, the smoke will generally be
strongest at five or six feet from the
floor than at the level of the lamb’s nos-
trils,’ and the lambs may be left in one
or two minutes after the man has been
obliged to come out.
It appears to me this is the common-
sense way of getting at the worms on
the lungs rather than to put drugs in
* be stomach to vaporize through the
luu S 3 and tracbea -
A Very Attractivo variety,
The Sultan bre ed was introduced in-
to Europe byway of Constantinople
some forty year8 ag0 . Ia nlftlly re .
spe cts the Sultans resemble the White
Polish, but they have shorter legs and
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more abundant plumage. The latter
is very white and flowing; on the head
they have a compact Polish tuft; the
comb is only two little points, and the
wattles are very small. They have five
toes on each foot. The fowls are nou-
sitters, small caters and layers of large,
white eggs. They are said to be hardy
when mature, but are difficult to raise,
They are very small and are kept
chiefly as pets, being generally re-
garded as the most beautiful of all do-
mestie fowls. They are, however,
good layers,
Remedies for Cutworms.
H E Weed of tlle Mississippi Ex-
iment station> w , ites . Every year
cutworms (lo more 01 . legs damage to
nearly all crops, especially to tomatoes,
cab bages and com. Whenever sod or
grassy i au d is left until spring before
bei plowed; any cr0 which may be
planted on such land will be consider-
ably damaged by f cutworms, The
reason ig that th( worms are nearl
fuU n in the before ; t theynee d
one d meal turning into
^ a ahort time after „ h ich tbe y
{orth ftg m „ ht . fl ^ i moths .
The Hfe hist / of cutworms is
aW aK followg xhe moths lay their
e ^ g gs b i grass b throughout b the summer
nths aud a{tei . after a few day3 J
^ ° hatch into Bmall worn ls
which feed upon the grass, The
worms cast off their skin from time to
t; nle p, accommodate their increase in
size , aud during the cooler weather of
^ter go deeper in the ground, being
dormant for a time if the weather is
very cold. Upon the approach of
spring the worms come forth for a fin¬
ishing touch of growth and soon form
. the ground . just . , below , , the .,
Pup* in sur-
face ' Some Line after this the moths
are P’’ odaoed . aad > a «<* “ atln e> tbe
females lay the eggs for .another brood.
Wltb moat 8 P ecie8 there 18 but thls
one brood a year.
Most farmers are beginning tc^eal-
. ‘ ba advan of fall plow-
lze many ages
nig, and whcre Hod land especuuty is
P lowed “ the falld wlU PJeatly lessen
tne number ot ( cutworms unci otnei in-
sects on such land the following
spring. A good remedy for killing out
the cutworms in the garden is to make
up a mixture consisting of a quantity
of bran or corn meal, to which is
added a little paris green and a little
molasses or sugar to give a sweetish
taste. It is the paris green that kills
the worms, and this should be
very thoroughly mixed with the bran
so as to have a uniform mixture. A
spoonful of this mixture should be
placed near the plants just before night
on the day the plants are set out. The
cut worms work at night and will be
killed by eating of the poisoned mix¬
ture. It is much better, however, to
place the mixture about in various
parts a field a few days before plant¬
ing, as it will then kill off the worms
before any damage is done.
A Raddev an<l Wheel for Picking Apples.
The cut given here is intended to
represent a ladder mounted on two
wheels for the purpose of being easily
moved about the tree, or from one tree
to another in the orchard, in gathering
apples or other fruit. It can be made
quite light, and will be found a useful
means of gathering fruit; any ingenious
fruit grower can make this step-ladder.
There are always old buggy wheels
around the farm, or if not there, around
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blacksmith shops, which are good
enough for this purpose, and if there
is any old cast off axle-tree use it, but
if not one of fvoodcan be Baade to serve
the purpose.
The base of the ladder resting upon
the earth holds the ladder in position
when weighted down by the man who
is picking. It will bo noticed there
are handles with which to raise the
base of the ladder, and push the ladder
along like a wheel-barrow from one
place to another.
Different Characteristics in Dees.
Ordinarily one would think that
bees are bees the year over, and that
their characteristics and qualifies,
good and bad, were about one and the
same thing. While there is very dis¬
tinct difference in the different races
of bees, there is yet a greater differ¬
ence in the colonies of the same race.
There are almost as many different
characteristics, as there are colonies in
the apiary. This very nearly amounts
to saying, that no two colonies are
alike.
The whole make-np of the colony in
whatever particular in altogether in
the queen, and whatever point is the
specialty in that colony, the whole
colony inherits the same thing. So,
well acquainted with the different
characteristics of the bees, the apiarist
selects his breeding stock, and breeds
for any points he deems most profit¬
able or wishes to attain.
Some colonies far exceed others in
gathering honey, some breed up more
rapidly, and some colonies are more
inclined to swarm than others, some
are good comb builders, while others
are better at filling the extractor.
Some colonies consume less honey dur¬
ing the winter than others and come
out in better condition in the spring;
some breed up so rapidly in early
spring as to far exceed their superior
in strength. Some colonies are in¬
clined to rob and give more trouble
than they are worth Some strains
have greater endurance of wing, will
carry larger loads and go further for
it; some are inclined to build drone
combs exclusively for surplus, while
others build worker comb. Some will
enter the surplus boxes at once and
store hundreds of pounds of honey,
while others positively refuse and per¬
sist in swarming. Some strains have
longer tongues than others and can
reach clear down into the tubes of the
red clover blossonffand make a success
of gathering honey, while others would
starve right beside it. Some colonies
have such in irascible temper that it
is almost impossible to handle them,
while others are perfectly gentle and
can be handled with ns much satisfac¬
tion as little downy chickens.
Some breeders, not content with the
beautiful color of the three-banded
Italian bee, went to work to breed for
color, and have perfected their object
by producing full colonies of Italian
bees showing five distinct bands of
yellow. scarcely I have
There is a point that
mentioned above that cannot be im¬
proved upon and brought out to some
extent by careful breeding; and this is
being done by every careful breeder.
It is but little trouble to note the
best colonies in an apiary, and to breed
both drones and queens from them;
enough queens can be raised from one
queen, or one colony, to re-queen the
largest apiary in one season.
It is true that the breeding of bees
must be done to some extent on the
“hit” and “miss” plan, as it is impos¬
sible to control the matings of some
queens to any degree of certainty, but
rapid progress can be made by select¬
ing stocks to produce the requisite
number of drones and queens, and
barring out all others in the breeding
line.—A. H. Duff, in Farm, Field and
Fireside.
Maine is about as large as Ireland
and nearly three times as large as Bel-
gium, yet, instead of having from
5,000,000 to 7,000,000 inhabitants, ii
had, in 1890, only 661,000, marvels tlie
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