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HILL SIDE APIARY, ITALIAN

Thanks, friend R., for that smoker. It is just "boss." We have had 26 natural swarms this month W. W. YOUNG.

QUEENS! from 12 hives, averaging 5 lbs. each.

Untested queens, $1.00; Tested, $2.00; Selected, $3.00; Pound of Bees, Italian, $1.00; 2 Langstrothframe nuclei, $2.00; 3 Langstroth-frame nuclei, $3.00. For prices of Novice Extractors, Veils, Smokers, Hives, &c.. &c., address

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WM. B. COGGESHALL, SUPT.

Hill Side Apiary, Summit, Union Co., N. J.

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By getting the best Italian stock tested for Good prolific queens 75 cts. each; $7.80 per dozen; biz." Tested, $1.50. USE MOLDED FDN. It pays big; 40 cts. for common; 50 cts. for thin. Improved fdn. mold, "L." size, Plaster. $3.75; Metallic (ready soon) $7.50. Root's rubber, $8.00. Outfit for same, $5.00. See free circular. OLIVER FOSTER,

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Mt. Vernon, Linn Co., Iowa.

Italian (tested) Queens from Root's very best.

Imported or home-bred Queens, $2.00; Italian (untested) Queens, Laying, $1.00; Bees, $1.00 per lb.; 2 (L.) frame Nucleus (no queen) $1.50; 3 (L.) frame Nucleus (no queen), $2.00; 1 colony of Italian Bees (no queen) in 10 (L.) frame hives, $7.00. Add price of queen to price of bees, colony, and nucleus. Discount on larger orders. OTTO KLEINOW,

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Opposite Fort Wayne, Detroit, Mich.

END for my circular and price list of Italian
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Colonies, Queens, and Apiarian Supplies.
5tfd H. H. BROWN, Light Street, Columbia Co., Pa.
C. OLM'S COMB FOUNDATION MACHINE.

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SEND FOR SAMPLE AND CIRCULAR.
C. OLM, Fond du Lac, Wis.

Fort Dodge, Iowa, June 29, 1881.

The bees you sent came all right, and they are working like "little Turks," and from all present appearances, they will do well.

JONATHAN GOBLE. Marion, White Co., Ind., June 29, 1881.

You will find postage stamps, am't 65 cts., for which you may please send me 1 more lb. fdn. The other lb. which you sent me I like very well indeed. I could not get along without it. J. H. CUTSHAWL. 'Greeneville, Greene Co., Tenn., June 23, 1881.

The queen-cages you sent came to hand promp'ly. If others filled orders as you do, there would be less grumbling. Those cages are a marvel of cheapness, with good quality combined. Certainly you give value for the money. G. H. B. HOOPER.

Toronto, Canada, July 13, 1881.

Inclosed you will find 11 stamps to pay postage on the smoker you sent me. ready for the match. The boys had more fun with It came all right, loaded it than to have gone to a circus; and the bees, when they saucily come around, behave in a respectful way on being administered a little whiff of smoke in their faces. WM. B. JONES. Manchester, Del. Co., Iowa, July, 1881.

splendid. Expect to make it hum to-morrow. Some Extractor arrived in good order this P. M. Works hives are crammed full of bees and honey. I have

more honey now than I got all last summer. Charges

on extractor to Chicago, 80c: from Chicago, 50c.
Cheap enough.
J. B. MCCORMICK.

Neoga, Ills., June 13, 1881.

We received the goods ordered from you in due

J. M. BROOKS & BROS'. time, and in the very best condition. They were

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AMERICAN ITALIANS.

PURITY OF STOCK A SPECIALTY.

COLUMBUS,

CIRCULARS FREE.
BARTH. CO.,

Full Colonies,

INDIANA.

Bees by the Pound,

Nuclei, Fdn., &c.

I am prepared to fill orders for bees by the pound,
nuclei (2 and 3 frame), full colonies of pure Italians.
Also Cyprian Queens (Dadant's importation), and,
Italian Queens at A. I. Root's prices.

Given Fan. a Specialty. Try it once, and see if
you do not pronounce it the best you ever used.
E. T. FLANAGAN, Belleville, Box 819,
Rose Hill Apiary, St. Clair Co., Ill.

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packed nicely. I put up and painted the hives, and
with the assistance of my wife we transferred 12
colonies, which work, I think, was done very well,
not having had any experience in that line. The
bees are doing well now.
J. H. RODERICK.

Dodd's City, Fannin Co., Tex., April 23, 1881.

I beg to acknowledge, with many thanks, the receipt of your excellent book on bee-culture; it was a most agreeable surprise to me, as I understood it was but a meré paper-bound pamphlet, containing place of the handsome and really interesting volthe most necessary elements of bee-farming, in ume you sent me. LOUIS M. HAYES.

Toronto, Can., July 11, 1881.

You sent me Christian's Secret a second time, and said, "No charge:" but I will pay it. Corinth, Miss., June 22, 1881.

N. F. STEELE.

[Well, I declare, friend S., it would be a "pretty tough job," if anybody should try to get up a quarrel between you and me. Do you not think so? It makes one feel as if it was not so very risky to "sufer long and be kind,' 'after all.]

Imagine my pleasure and surprise the other day on going into the postoffice, to find GLEANINGS there to my address. "Well, now,' says I, "that is some of Mary's work' (my wife, you know), a birthday present, and I tell you I appreciate it, especially that part called Our Homes. Three-fourths of the bees in this vicinity are dead. I saved six out of ten, packed in chaff on summer stands. They are now doing nicely. White clover is just commencing to bloom. D. MCLAFFERTY.

Great Valley, Catt. Co., N. Y., May 30, 1881.

The nucleus sent me came to hand yesterday at 4 P.M. in good condition. That same evening I put them in the hive I had prepared for them. To say that they are satisfactory, is not enough; they were more than satisfactory. Will you be so kind as to send another just like it, for inclosed? I was truly surprised to get the nucleus in such nice condition; and had I known they could be had so satisfactorily at an earlier date, I should have ordered 2 or 3 times the number. L. O. SHULTZ.

Brazil, Ind., July 1, 1881.

I thought I did not need bee things enough this year to pay for sending away for them, so I bargained for some nearer home, and my husband, according to agreement, went eight miles after them today, and came home disgusted, not having found any hives, nor the maker at home, and he said," Now you will have to send to Root and have all the things sent by express." Until this year I have always sent to you with neighbor Guild for articles, and have been delighted with them, because they were so nice. MRS. C. A. GREELEY.

Chester, Windsor Co., Vt., June 22, 1881.

After another hard day's labor I am spending a little time reading GLEANINGS, and studying my Sunday-school lesson. They both open up a little world of pleasure to me. It seems that I never had so much to do- busy from 4 A.M. until 9 P.M., Sundays included. I have been appointed teacher in two Sabbath-schools. I walk nearly 12 miles every Sabbath, and enjoy it very much. We have organized a Sabbath-school about three miles distant, in a schoolhouse. We are having a very interesting school; have over fifty scholars- some who have not been to Sabbath-school for twenty years. F. J. WARDELL.

Uhrichsville, Tusc. Co., O., June 3, 1881.

OUR HOUSEHOLD CONVENIENCES IN ITALY. The cry in the house is, "We want more of them." More of them mean more of the same kind of needles you sent me in January. Please send me twenty papers, and three glass-cutters. I send you a post-office order for 66 cents; if it does not cover expense, I will remit balance when advised. There is a question that has arisen since I received the 5cent nippers; that is, what are they good for? They are too soft to cut with, and too hard to draw with. Are they like Pindar's razors, made only to sell? M. S. WICKERSHAM.

Ferrara, Italy, June 3, 1881.

[I am very glad to know you like the needles, friend W., and beg to assure you that we try to have all our goods just like them; viz., to use, rather than to sell. There seems to be much trouble with the friends all around in deciding what the 5-cent nippers are for; they look so much as if they would cut, almost everybody tries them on some thing hard, and snap go the jaws, for five cents is not enough to pay for making a pair of cutting-pliers. They are to "nip" hold of things you could not reach and hold with the fingers alone, always remembering they are a five-cent tool. Thanks for reporting from so far away, friend W.]

Inclosed please find $1.75, for which please send me a smoker, the best in the market-a large one, and one that I will not have to light every half-hour. I am standing in the door waiting for it, standing first on one leg and then on the other. One year ago I got Benny Judson, of Salt Lake City, to send to you for the A B C book. I confess I like the book. and am taking GLEANINGS. There is one thing I learned there in the A B C book worth more to me

than many times the price of the book: that is, I read on page 275 how you learned chaff packing of J. H. Townley.

I had experience previous to this in bee-keeping, but would have given it up if I had not got some such idea from some source. I thank you again for your works on bees; and those metal-corners and metal rabbets! how nicely they work!

WM. C. BILLS.

South Jordan, Utab, June 4, 1881. [Many thanks for kind words, friend B.; but really, if I were you I would stand squarely on both feet and go out and work with the bees, or do some thing else useful until the smoker comes. I know how it is myself; for when I want a thing I want it; but I have always found it most profitable to get right to work and do some thing meanwhile.]

THE FARIS PLATES, ETC.

I received your wrapper on GLEANINGS, notifying me that my subscription was run out, and that if I thought it a good investment, to renew. Well, I think it is a good investment, and on looking over the past year I think there is not any thing in reading matter, that has paid me so well as GLEANINGS. In the first place, it was worth all the price to find out how to make those plaster plates of friend Faris'. I made a pair, and have made all the foundation I

shall need this season, besides selling quite a lot. Then there were Doolittle's articles, well worth the subscription, especially those two on page 320, July No., 188), about the care of empty combs, and the other, on page 232, May, 1881, on side and top storing, is a splendid article. which I know from this season's experience; and I could name a lot of other good articles from different writers, which are fine. Then there is the pleasure of having not only a smile, but a good hearty laugh every month at Merrybanks, "old Zac," and such like. Then there is the Home reading, which is worth double the price of GLEANINGS; and may God bless you in trying to do good in this way. Well, I think GLEANINGS is a good investment, and inclosed you will find the money for another year's subscription, and also one year's subscription for a friend. My bees are doing very well so far this season. I had three colonies to start with two very weak, and one very strong. One has swarmed, and the other two are about to. We have had a steady yield of honey from white clover for the last two weeks; but it has been too cold nights to be a heavy yield, but we can't complain so JOHN MYERS. Stratford, Ont., Can., June 27, 1881.

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KIND WORDS TO OUR CUSTOMERS.

Of late there seem to be a good many complaints that goods are not in the packages, even when they were put in all right, and overlooked by the person who unpacks them. Now, about opening goods: Do not trust to anybo ly else; but, bill in hand, open and take out the goods yourself. Do not unpack them among a lot of other stuff, or where any thing might get out of sight and be lost. Also be sure you have the full number of packages from the R. R. or express company that your bill calls for. The following illustrates the point:

I wrote you a few days ago, stating the bottoms and ends of the broad section frames were wanting. I now find that my man misplaced them, and forgot all about it. It seems they were put in a small box by themselves, and he set them in an outof-the-way place. I regret very much the mistake, and will do whatever is right in the matter. If you have shipped the parts, please send me your bill, and I will remit; and if you have been to any trouble put that in. W. W. REYNOLDS.

Penn, Cass Co., Mich., June 16, 1881.

Our friend apologizes and offers to recompense us in a manly way, and we can not think of taking any thing for trouble; but it took quite a search among the clerks before we could write him that the goods were all sent him correctly. Of course, we sent them on again, which makes him trouble and expense. Another friend wrote us his spring balance was missing, for he had looked the goods all over. but next mail he said he found it safely tied in his extractor. So many cases of this kind are turning up, I have thought best to tell you to look very carefully, before asking us to replace what is missing, for I assure you our clerks are more careful here than you, the average of humanity, who have not had the drill and discipline they have.

OUR $175.00 STEAM-ENGINE. One of our customers asks a number of questions which may interest many of our readers in regard to the small engines we sell. As Mr. Washburn runs his machine shop with one of them, we have asked him to answer the questions.

How much water to fill boiler when empty?-Can start on five pails to fill.

Has it a glass water gange? Yes.

Has it three gauge-cocks! -Only two.

Has it a steam-whistle!-None.

Is its cylinder convenient to get at for packing!-Yes: cylin der is easily got at.

How thick is the plate in boiler?--Do not know; it is cast-iron, tested to 300 lbs.

How many pipes in boiler?-None

How many pounds of steam to run scroll saw!-Not many, perhaps 20 lbs.

Is it simple, and easy to operate?-Yes.

In short, is it an engine to be depended on for scroll saw and wood lathe?-Yes: I can run 6 feet iron planer, 2 iron lathes, upright drill, and grindstone, all at once. I carry steam from 40 to 100 lbs. Use 80 to 90 lbs. coal, and 60 to 70 gallons of water per day: it has automatic cut-off, and is a good little machine. Medina, O., July 1, 1881. A. WASHBURN.

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A. I. ROOT,

Publisher and Proprietor,

Medina, O.

Devoted to Bees and Honey, and Home Interests.

AUG. 1, 1881. Published Monthly.

Established in 1873.

NOTES FROM THE BANNER APIARY.

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No. 21.

1. I have never seen the basswood-trees so loaded with buds as they are now. July 6.-Basswood is in blossom, and the trees are just one mass of yellow bloom. When I pass that large basswood in going to the "spring" after a pail of water, I notice that the air is fairly laden with sweetness. I presume an orange grove would smell no sweeter. It is very easy to see that the bees are gathering honey very rapidly, because they go into their hives with that "swish" and "wiggle" that always shows that they are "scooping" in the honey. What a humming the bees do make! Several times to day I have gone to the door to see if they were not swarming. They are so eager to gather their harvest, that they are loth to stop, even after dark; and at the first dawn of the morning those that stayed in the tree-tops all night come home with their loads. (I guess that is the way it is.) July 16.-And the basswood harvest is almost over. I have extracted about 300 lbs. from my 18 colonies, and their upper stories are full again, ready to extract when I get around to it. Yes, and four of them are three stories high. Oh, yes! and then there are the 70 nuclei, and a good many of them are "chock" full. There are about 50 acres of buckwheat sown within two miles of here. Some of it is already beginning to blossom; so you see I shall have a good time rearing queens the remainder of the season.

To-day is the day when friend Root and other beekeeping friends are having such a good time in De

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troit. How I did wish that I could go; but I have no clerks nor boys to leave in charge of my queenrearing business, and it would suffer if I left it; besides, I might better take the money that it would cost me to go, and use it to help pay my debts. Never mind, friend Root; when the time comes right, I am coming to see you. I dreamed, the other night, that you came to see me.

AN HONEST BEE-KEEPER.

Last May I sent $75.00 to friend Townsend, of Hubbardston, Ionia Co., Mich., for 7 colonies of pure Italians. I thought the price pretty high; but when the bees came I was satisfied. They came the first week in June, and the hives were full of bees, cach hive containing 12 combs with brood in 8 combs. If friend T. does as well by every one as he did by me, he deserves to be patronized.

THIEVES CAUGHT.

A year ago last August I had two hives of bees stolen, and last spring one of the thieves was brought to justice. He was fined $10.00 and costs; all of which amounted to about $60.00. At the time the bees were stolen he could have bought 600 lbs. of honey for $60.00. Rather expensive honey, considering that, as the thief remarked, they "didn't get more than a teacupful of honey." They were hives containing queen-rearing nuclei.

BEE-KEEPERS, WRITE FOR YOUR PAPER.

An old gentleman living near here, one who doesn't believe in " book farming," says: "The ones that know the least about farming are the ones that write the most for the agricultural papers." Now, while I do not entirely agree with this old gentleman.

I do think that there are many bee-keepers who not the least disposition to be cross, that it might do much good by writing for the bee-papers, was an act of sheer cruelty. Sometimes a and yet they seldom or never write. There is a bee- very little smoke will answer all purposes. keeper living a few miles from here, of whom I al- where honey is not coming enough to keep ways obtain valuable hints and suggestions each them peaceable. ! Another thing: Where time I meet him, and yet he seldom writes for the robbers are bad, smoke is the very worst bee-papers. Seems to me I hear some one say, "1 thing; for where bees would promptly repel don't have the time." Let me tell my experience. robbers, and keep them entirely out of the I presume some of you remember the "Scraps and hive, if let alone, I have seen the boys smoke Sketches" that I wrote a year or two ago for down the inmates so they could not prevent GLEANINGS; but I don't believe any of you can tell the robbers from pushing right down and why the articles were called "Scraps and Sketches." getting their fill, almost before they could The first winter after our little twins came to get back to defend their rightful stores. I brighten our pathway, they were certainly "trouble have, too, seen smoke used at the entrance to drive robbers away. If you want your some comforts;" many and many a night we would bees to defend their hive, and take care of not get more than an hour's sleep, while during the thieves, by no means think of smoking them. day we could just manage to do the "housework' I believe, however, friend D., I should like and the "chores." I could not leave home to work, a lighted smoker near, to use if needed. neither could we afford to keep a "girl," and my Sometimes it greatly facilitates getting the time was so occupied, and I felt so "tired out," that bees out of the way in opening or closing the it did seem as though I should be obliged to give up hive, and thereby enables us to work faster. writing or GLEANINGS; but finally I placed a paper It is no strange thing to find bees you can and pencil upon my desk, and whenever I had-yes, handle at certain times without smoke, when just one minute, I stepped to the desk and wrote. you could not with. Many and many a paragraph have I composed with a baby on each knee; and as soon as an opportunity presented itself I would step to the desk and writeit down in phonography. What else could my writings be but "Scraps and Sketches"? When an article was finished, it was written out in long hand in scraps.

Don't say that you haven't time, because you can find time if you only try hard enough. Don't write theory, but give fa ́ts, and useful in‘ormation.

W. Z. HUTCHINSON.

Rogersville, Genesee Co., Mich. Friend H., I have just this minute returned from almost a week's absence in your State, and the pleasant visits I have had have determined me to visit more of you. I can think of no place I would rather visit just now than your little home.

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TOO MUCH SMOKE.

HY not caution the ABC class often about using too much smoke in handling their bees? I know you have done it heretofore, but I believe it ought to be repeated often. When we throw away fear entirely, I think smoke is of little or no use. I believe we can handle bees the year round, and do it with more satisfaction and better results by leaving smoke entirely out of the apiary. If instead of going to a hive, jerking the cap off, tearing off the quilt, and blowing in smoke to arouse the colony to a fighting pitch, we would be cautious, raising the cap easily (a cap that will not come off without jarring the hive has no business in the apiary), raise the quilt slowly, without jarring, avoiding all quick motions, laying the quilt to one side, and then pick up the frame, or, rather, commence picking it up, draw it out slowly, I tell you, sir, you will have no trouble, even with black bees running over their combs scared to death. If they fly in your face and alight on your hands, not one in twenty will sting you if you just pay no attention to them. I have discarded smoke almost entirely.

A. H. DUFF.

Flat Ridge, Ohio, June 10, 1881. There is much truth in your remarks, friend D., and I have often thought, as I saw somebody dose with smoke a colony that had

ARTIFICIAL

AND NATURAL SWARMING QUEENS, ETC.

N page 277 of the June No., I notice an article on queen-rearing, by E. Gallup. I wish to briefly notice a few points in said article. In the first place, he says that no one will deny that some queens are far ahead of others in prolificness. Among what class of queens do we find such? My artificial queens, as a rule, generally outstrip the natural ones. As good queens as I have in my apiary were reared from brood received from A. I. Root. As to size and appearance, no one can tell the difference. I would not go to much extra trouble to save natural cells. Colonies that are not disturbed, frequently have queens that are just the same as those reared artificially, and a colony that swarms naturally frequently starts cells after the swarm has left. Now, if we save all these cells, we get some that are not natural. It is very easy to get natural cells at any season of the year by putting an old queen in a small nuclei, and feed liberally, supplying cells from time to time as they are found in colonies just before the egg is deposited in them. Such cells can easily be found in new swarms. I never succeeded in getting the bees of the nuclei to build many such cells; but if a dozen were inserted, an egg would be found in each shortly after. Such queens are as good, but no better, than those reared artificially. I agree with Mr. G., that we should change our stock often, but we should be careful from whom we obtain our stock, as some breeders of queens are getting careless. A great many are rearing queens from those that "winter well," or are "good honey-gatherers," without regard to purity. W. Z. Hutchinson said that if he were not rearing queens for sale, he would breed from a black queen, just because her colony happened to winter well! I sold a queen for 50 cents a few days ago (the mother of as good a colony as I have), just because she was not quite pure. I would be afraid to breed from such, as the "bad blood" might crop out in future generations, as it does in breeding other stock. Any one ought to be satisfied with the Italian bee; and while we breed for desirable qualities, we should not lose sight of purity. I am satisfied

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brids are also found in the Italians.

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HOW AN ABC SCHOLAR MANAGES.

WAS just thinking, friend R., I would like to "toot my horn," as I see many of the A B C class are doing. On the 20th of March, 1880, I purchased a colony, brought them home, drove 4

stakes in the ground, leaving them about 2 feet high; set up the hive, thinking I might shortly be a bee-keeper. They never swarmed last summer; at least, I never saw them. I watched them closelythe bees hanging in clusters outside of the hive nearly all summer. The entrance was % of an inch by 3 inches long. To make things better, a colt got in in early winter, and over went the hive, loosening many of the combs. I left them there all winter without protection, and they came out all right. Receiving from a friend one of your circulars of January, I purchased A B C, made a couple of Simplicities, and a smoker, as per directions. On the 22d of April I transferred, using little smoke; got along well. Care assures success. The fun was, I could not find the queen, and was afraid I had a fertile worker inside. So I sent to one of your advertising patrons on the 30th, and on the 12th of May she came safely to hand. I went to take the last look for the black queen, when, right before my eyes, there she was. I did not like to kill her, so I took out two frames of sealed brood, and what bees were on, and started a nuclei. They have a nice lot of sealed brood now, which will hatch out in three or four days. In introducing I took the Italian, and drew open the door. She passed out on the comb, which I was holding in my hand, and my smoker in the other. They were soon in the act of taking her to parts unknown, when I gave them a little smoke, when they let go. I did so a couple of times, when they let her pass as an old friend. WILL ELLIS.

St. David's, Ont., Can., June 3, 1881.

FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PEET CAGE.

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VEN a very little improvement is quite an item, in an article used in the apiary as much as queen-cages are now and although the cage below differs but little from the one we pictured recently, it has features that make it worth while to be illustrated again. The first of these is the groove for holding the tin slide.

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same time, for both cages came in the same mail. One cage was from our old friend Oliver Foster, and the other I have had the misfortune to mislay. The other feature is the little tin water-bottle which you see. description of this will also be found on page 397. These little bottles are made by rolling tagger's tin on a steel rod, say about the size of a round lead-pencil, and putting a cap on each end. The size should be just as large as it can be and still let a bee pass over it freely without getting fast between it and is needed only for long distances, queens are the wire cloth. Although this water-bottle much safer with it, and they seem to stand the trip looking much better. The bottle is long enough to just squeeze in across the cage. an awl. To be sure your bottles do not leak, The orifice is made with the point of just put one to your mouth, and, after sucking the air out, see if it will stick to your tongue. We can not have any leaky bottles when shipping queens. We can not, at present, make these bottles for less than $2.00 per hundred. I wish some one else would make them cheaper. Where are our amateur tinners? The bottles are filled with an oil-can, as I have before explained.

WINDING THE WATERBURY WATCH.

ERE is the way I make a "windlass" for winding the Waterbury watch: Take a small piece of wire, and bend it as I have marked. The end at the point catches in one of the grooves on the stem, and keeps the wire from slipping. A. T. MCILWAIN.

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Abbeville C. H., S. C., July 6, '81.

Many thanks, friend M.; as soon as I saw your idea, I went down into the counter store, and taking a blanket pin from the 5-cent counter, with a pair of the round-nose plyers I soon bent it into the shape of the accompanying cut, and the girls who wind the watches every morning were very much delighted with them. We have sent a sample to the factory, and perhaps they will improve on it still more. They might easily be made for a penny each.

GRAPE SUGAR.

I HAVE Washed a piece of the crystal grape sugar, exactly as Mrs. Harrison has requested me to do, in another column, and I find no residue whatever. The sugar dissolves as perfectly as a piece of rock candy. I presume I am perfectly acquainted with what she alludes to. In feeding grape sugar from the Davenport factory, in a glass jar on a grooved board, as I have so many times described to you, wo invariably find a green scum on the surface of the water. This scum has an offensive look, but I have always supposed it was a vegetable scum, like that Instead of making the groove near the from sorghum. The Buffalo A sugar shows a very corner, and slanting outward, we now make little of this scum, but the crystal sugar that I comthem as you see, right on the corner, slant-mended so strongly has no residue, and no taste but ing in toward the center of the block. The tin slide is simply folded over to an acute instead of obtuse angle. This improvement

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LATEST IMPROVED PEET CAGE.

that of pure sugar, so far as I can discover. As I can not think that Mrs. H. has ever seen any of the genuine, I have sent her a lump.

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