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ml IS Orniiili.
g. 1 ihows a hire Id quite common
tino. and one that has really rruch to
roinrnr nd it. It i dovetailed at the cor
aers. and this fact fives it It name.
The beveling of the roof boards, to give
the nccrssnry slant, makes the outer
de so thin that it is liable to warp
and form a crack, no that wind and
torm can blow into the top of the hive.
To remedy this I nailed on strips, as
shown in Fiff. 2. The end strips are
at raiifht-edg-ed pieces of the same
u: t'h and thickness as the original
REMODELING A BEEHIVE.
ses; the side pieces are cither rab
beted out or niiide of two piece of
Wards, as shown in Kip;. 3.
This gives a cover with some space
above the hive, but not enough or in
the right shape to put in any covering
over the brood chamber. To obviate
this I lay the quilting in and hold it in
place with two cleats, as shown in Fig.
2. This covering, held up from the
brood frames by cross strips, I consider
quite essential. The bees themselves
would make provision for a way to
eross from one brood frame to the oth
er, but their plans are thwarted by
the changes incident to the removal of
the honey boxes.
1 know I lost the first two swarms 1
tried to winter in the lines in their
original shape, nnri succeeded In carry
ing two through the following winter
in these hives altered as 1 hav-? indi
cated. It is very little trouble to
make the change, and the bivei are
much more satisfactory, anyhow.
Richard H. Mitchell, in Country lien-
tleman.
THE KENTUCKY QUEEU.
Editor of a Ulae Grass State Papei
Kind New Noma (or the
Bosy Hen.
We have read of Maud on a sum
mer day, who raked, barefooted, the
new-mown hay; we have read of the
maid In the early morn, who milked
the cow with the crumpled horn: and
we've read the lays that the poets
sing of the rustling eoru and the flow
ers of spring; but of all the lays of
tongue or pen, there's naught like the
lay of the Trimble hen. Long, long
before Maud rake the hny, the Trim
ble hen has begun to lay; an l ere
the milkmaid stirs a peg, the hen is
up and has dropped her egg; the
corn must rustle and (lowers spring
if they hold their own with the ban -yard
ring. If Maud is needing a hat
and gown, she doesn't hustle her hay
to town; she goes to the store and
obtains her suit with a bnsket full of
her fresh hen-fruit; if the milkmaid's
beau makes a Sunday's call, sr
doesn't feed him milk at a but
works up eggs in a custard pie and
stuffs h im full of chicken frv; and
when the old man wants a horn, does
he take the druggist a load of corn?
Not much! He simply robs a nest
and to town he goes you know the
rest. He lingers there and he talks,
perchance, of true reform and correct
feenance, while his poor wife stays
at home and scowls, but is snvi i
from want by those self-same fowls;
for while her husband lingers then
she watches the cackling hens with
rare, and gathers eggs, and the eggs
she'll hide till she saves enough to
item the tide. Then hail, ail hail! to
the Trimble hen, the greatest blessing
ef all men! throw up your hats and
make Koine howl for the preserving
barnyard fowl; Corn may be king,
but it's plain to be seen the Trimble
hen is the Kentucky queen. Miltou
(Ky.) News.
Ilnnkln's Rnllon for Docks.
The well-known pioneer New Eng
land duck farmer, dames Rankin,
feeds his breeding birds In fall and
early winter as follows: Three quarts
wheat bran, one part ont feed, one
part COmmeal, five per cent, beef
wraps, (he per cent, grit, and all the
green feed they will eat, in the shape
uf corn fodder (cut fine), clover or oat
fodder, Feed this mixture twice a
day, all they will cut. When the lay
ing season begins, about February 1,
they get equal parts of wheat bran
and cornmea!, 20 per cent, oat feed,
ID percent, boiled turnips or potatoes,
IS per cent, clover rowen, green rve
or refuse cabbage, chopped fine, five
per cent, of grit. Feed twice n day
sll they will cat with a lunch of corn
at noon. Keep grit and oysjter shells
constantly by them.
Goose Market at Wareaw.
At Warsaw, Poland, they hold a
goose market every year in October.
The geese, about 3,000,000 in number,
are driven to Warsaw from all parts
of the country. Many of them come
from distant provinces and as a con
sequence have to travel many miles
over roads that would wear out their
fact unless soma meant were taken
to protect them. Thia ia dons by
driving them through tar poured upon
the ground and then through sand.
The operation is repeated aeveral
times, and by the time they are ready
Jo start their feet are completely cov
red with a hard crust which effec
tually protects them from all Inlurv.
m
IMPROVING A HIVE. ,
THE HENS IH WINTER.
To PrOToat Dlseoaea Taey Moot Bo
Kept Dry aaa Waras aaa Pro
teetoa frosa Kiooooro.
While roup may not exist la the
flock, yet hoarseness, rattling la the
throat, blindness, etc., art common
ailments. They are mostly due to
colds, and are usually caused by ex
posure to draufts of air at night,
either from a crack or crevice In the
wall, from top ventilation, or from
exposure during the day to high
wind. It is very annoying, and af
fects the fowls that are very fat more
thsn others. As the nostrils are usual
ly closed, also, the giving of liquid
medicines sometimes results in stran
gulation. Keep the birds dry and
warm, away from draftsf any kind.
Inject one or two dro, of camphor
ated oil into each nostril, let the bird
be quiet (as exercise seems to increase
the difficulty), and give a pill the sixe
of a three-cent silver piece in diam
eter three times a day, composed of
equal parts by weight of quinine,
promide of potash 0 red pepper.
After so doing swab ilie throat with
a solution made by dissolving a
piece of blue vitriol ns large as a bean
In a gill of warm water, using a soft
rag on a stick. Feed on nourishing
food, such as chopped lean meat. The 1
main point is to keep the bird dry
and warm. If the breathing is very
severe give two drops of spirits of
'urpentine on n bread-crumb once a
lay. A teaspoonful of beaten raw
egg is also excellent. Farm end Fire
side. TWO-STORY HEN HOUSE.
Simple Contrivance by Which
Balldlnar Ton Often Be Mode to
Hold Two Flocks.
Hens could often be kept In the
second floor of n building, if access
to the ground could be secured. The
cut shows an easy grude up to an
RUNWAY TO SECOND BTORT.
elevated door. The top and bottom
boards are shown in place, but the
entire front should be covered with
slats. These can extend from the top
board down to the bottom board. The
grade is so easy that fowls will read
ily pass up or down, liy this plan a
building can often be made to hold
two flocks instead of one. Orange
Judd Farmer.
AMONG THE POULTRY.
One way to warm a vessel of drink
ing water is to drop a clean, hot stone
into it.
It Is better not to let the fowls out at
all ou days when the wind is cold and
the snow blows.
Cut cornstalks make the very clean
est of litter for the scratching shed.
The fowls will eat much of it, too.
An excellent addition to the winter
food is very sweet milk, and the fowls
may be giveu all they will drink of it
once a day.
Condition powders cannot be made
a substitute fur good, wholesome food.
That they are sometimes needed is a
confession of lack of care in feeding.
I'se them sparingly.
Frost has out off the natural meat
upply, and its place should be supplied
in the daily ration. The insect food
will be most missed by the birds that
are growing and have not completed
their framework of bone and muscle.
"Table scraps" may or may not be
good poultry food. We have seen such
craps that might at least be marked
"doubtful." Moldy bread, cake and
pie. spoiled canned fruits, tainted meat,
chunks of salt meat, masses of fat meat,
bits of greasy paper, basting strings
from roast fowls, cherry pits and many
other like articles that are commonly
dumped in the chicken bucket had bet
ter be thrown on the compost heap or
buried. Farm Journal.
The Range and the Yard.
On the range the hand get a little at a
time, but they are ever moving from
place to place and are busy as pos
sible. It is a different matter when
they are fed by the owner. He throws
down the food and they fill their crops
it once. Having done so they are satis
fied und "wax and grow fat." There is
ti lesson to leant from the natural mode
of feeding by the hens. Give them this
food in small quantities. When fh
crop is overloaded too much food is
passed into the gizzard to be triturated,
and the dig-cut ive organs are overtaxed;
but when the food is eaten gradually
and slowly digestion is natural and the
system is better nourished. Farm and
Fireside.
Scalded a.d Dry Ploked.
The New York Produce Review
says: Many shippers, sselng dry
picked spring chickens quoted higher
than scalded, have been inclined to
dry pick all their chickens, whioh is
a serious mistake. Large dry picked
chicken do demand a premium of
one to two cents over scalded, aa they
can be used in place of Philadelphia
or near-by chickens, bat small dry
picked are not wanted by any elass
of trade except at a cheap price, aad
where the birds run small they are
son attractive aad sell bettor when
waMxl
The mystery of the tsiepctoae ta yet
bat imperfectly understood by many,
yet two women.
1 with no seisntifte
Tol.a.oaa, knowiedfe waats
aver, ware made to fool how great a
boon to humanity it Is. Only a few
days ago a man in Chicago decided
to give hia wife a novel surprise oa
Mar birthday anniversary. He ar
ranged that at a certain moment her
mother, whom she had not eeen for
years, should be at the long-distance
telephone office in Philadelphia and
should call up the daughter ia Chi
cago. There was a telephone ia the
Chicago house, says the Chronicle, of
that city, and the husband answered
the prearranged call. Turning from
the instrument, he said to his wife:
"Helen here's your mother on the
wire in Philadelphia." The wife seat
ed herself at the instrument and
heard the familiar voice of her moth
er. It uttered one word: "Daugh
ter!" Suddenly the young matron in
Chicago gripped the instrument and
poured out her heart in the response:
"Oh, mother, mother!" Then, as she
heard the sob that came over the wire
from her aged mother, she answered
in kind, still keeping the receiver at
her ear. Speaking literally, these two
women cried to each other until the
telle amounted to $15. Later they
both said that it was the sweetest
experience they had known since their
long separation began 1 Nothing could
more effectually demonstrate the sym
pathetic possibilities of the telephone
or better illustrate the vital point of
realizing the personality behind the
voice.
A farmer driving a dump cart
backed down on the wharf at Cape
Porpoise, Me., the other day and
asked the men on the big dredge to
drop a bucketful in his wagon. They
laughed at him, says a local exchnnge,
and said his cart couldn't carry
enough. He didn't believe them, and
said he was willing to risk it. Final
ly the men said if he would unhitch
his horse they would accommodate
him. This he did, and up came a big
scoopful. The arm swung it over the
wharf and the loud was dumped. If
the farmer never before had a realiz
ing sense of how much 12 cubic yards
were he certainly has now, for it
burled his cart completely from view,
und it took him two hours to dig it
out.
The new belts gloves and neckties
of rattlesnake skin have elicited this
comment from the Klploy Bee: We
knew the poor rattlesnake would have
to come to it sooner or later. It was
about the only varmint left that wom
en didn't wear. Think of a woman's
being arrayed in a silkworm waist, a
sheep's wool skirt, a sealskin sacque,
ostrich feather hat, goatskin shoes,
whalebone stays, kidskin gloves,
horsehide belt, tortoise shell comb,
fish scale trimming, stuffed canary
birds, clamshell buttons, Spitz dog
muff, mink tail collarette, alligator
hide purse.
A woman of Danbury, Conn., died
recently, leaving quite a little prop
erty to various persons. To him who
was supposed to be her favorite
nephew she bequeathed "my false
teeth, which will be found in the up
per right hand drawer of my bureau."
The young man at once concluded
that his aunt must have concealed
some diamonds or other precious
stones in the set of teeth. According
ly he smashed up his bequest, but
found no jewels. He will now con
test the will.
The city of Birmingham, Ala., has
already begun to make preparations for
a "metallic exposition," to be opened
there November 15, 1904, and continue
until May 15, 1905. Its charter name is
to be the International Metallic and In
dustrial exposition. The state is ex
pected to contribute $100,000 toward
the expenses, and congress is to be
asked to give $500,000. '
A New York millionaire's son is serv
ing an apprenticeship in the city as a
bellboy. He has not been disowned nor
disinherited. In fact, the young man's
father is extremely proud of him.
When he was graduated from college
in 18B8 bis father said to him: "I want
you to get into the world and hustle for
yourself for three years. I want to see
what you can do."
Arndt K. Housekeeper, of Narberth,
Pa has failed for $3,000,000, as the re
sult of going on the bond of some
friends in connection with a gigantic
real sstate operation. He signed the
necesssry pspers without, it is ssid.
thoroughly understanding what he was
doing.
The lake regions seem to be attrac
tive to people. In Ohio during the last
ten years the largest rate of increase
in population was in the lake cities and
counties. The same conditions are true
of the states of Michigan and Wiscon
sin. Bishop Potter's denunciation of the
New York society woman who appeared
at a public function dressed in a robe
made of the skine of unborn lambs,
appears justifiable. The story haa an
extraordinary flavor of barbarism.
Five of ten prisoners in the county
Jail at Mexico, Mo., escaped by mean of
toob concealed la the cravats of two of
Bfo only baa taa paa-aassntaa e
position, whoso gates will be thrown
open to expectant
Tko Pas-Asifr- J
millions at Buf
loaaV.po.ltl... fB,0 May 1,1901,
attracted world-wide attention aad
comment, but ia being indorsed and
earnestly encouraged by one of the
largest and most notable array of
able, skillful and distinguished men
and women ever identified with any
public enterprise. They come, says
the official bulletin, from every sec
tion of the western hemisphere, and
every state of our great union. They
represent not only the most brilliant
social circle and the higher walks
of diplomatic and political life, but
every profession, science, art, indus
try and commercial enterprise; fa
mous savants, eminent architects and
sculptors, great inventors, profound
ethnologists, leading manufacturers,
railroad magnates, the Napoleons of
trade, commerce and useful and orna
mental production, specialist and
exhibitors in every field of human re
search and progress, and business
men of exceptional and administrative
ability, many of whom have gathered
wide and valuable experience from
previous expositions. It is also a fact
worthy of mention and commenda
tion that a number of Huffalo's rep
resentative and most influential oiti
rens to whom time is literally money
and a lot of It have, without com
pensation, accepted onerous and la
borious official positions in the va
rious departments and upon the com
mittees of the exposition, in addition
to enriching its treasury with sub
stantial cash donations. Thai the
only enterprise of its kind in Ameri
can history, thu6 backed and vouched
for, will be a memorable success is ii
foregone conclusion, and that it will
richly repay a visit may be accepted
as equally certain.
Three men in a boat on the Alle
gheny river, near Pittsburgh, fell into
the wuter the other night, and, not
being able to swim, were in danger
of drowning. But a companion on the
shore begun lustily to sing "The
Moonlight on the Luke," says an ex
change of that city, in order to en
courage them. And, although there
waa no moonlight and no lake in
Bight, they were so anxious to join in
the chorus that they forgot they
couldn't swim, and kept up until they
were rescued. The probability is the
men were so anxious to live and get
at the singer that they could not
sink.
While workmen were drilling nn oil
well in Washington county, Pa a
chain broke and fell into the hole.
All sorts of plans were vainly tried to
get the chain out, and finally W. G.
Phillips, a slender youth, had a rope
tied to his ankles and was lowered
head foremost. He managed to attach
another rope to the chain and it was
hauled up, but the rope around his
own ankles almost slipped off while
he was being hauled up. Imagine the
horrible position of that youth if the
rope had slipped off.
The adjutant general's department
haa on file many applications for re
tirement of officers who have served
30 years. Under existing law the
president csn, at his discretion, re
tire such officers, but unless there is
a most excellent reason why an offi
cer should not be required to remain
in active service sll such applications
ara being refused. It is said to be
surprising how many officers of 30
years' service are anxious to leave the
active list.
A grower in Maine claims to have
gathered 17 quarts of currants from
single bushes In his plantation. For
the currant worm he uses London
purple or Paris green before the fruit
sets. If necessary to apply poison
later In the season he uses white
hellebore, one quarter pound to 16
gallons of water, applying with a
spray pump. After the berriea are
picked he sprays again to save the
foliage.
In ordinary apple years the waste
of skin und cores amounts to 500 to
600 car loads, and during years of
abundant yield it runs as high as 1,200
and 1,500 car loads. All this waste
now goes to the factories, which make
cheap jellies. There are upward of
140 of these factories in this country,
and they have an annual capacity of
some 200,000,000 pounds.
Eastern cspitalists with unlimited
capital at their command are planning
to develop northern Georgia on a huge
scale. They hare purchased 30,000
acres oi land in fire counties which are
said to be rich in mineral resources..
As yet there is no railroad in that sec
tion, but negotiations are under wsy
for a line which will aid the enterprise
mentioned.
A Philadelphia man with liabilities
of over $2,000,000 and assets of only
$25 baa just gone through the bank
ruptcy court. And still some people
say Philadelphia Is a slow town.
A business man of Fort Worth, Tex.,
haa brought suit for $5,000 damages
against the publisher of a oity directory
for having described bias aa colored.
It Is aaid that the city of Dean
tames more honev oer oaoita tbaa
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