. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 206 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Apr. 1. salt will preserve the wood, and make a lasting job, and also a clean floor. Again, I use salt to tell me when the at- mosphere is too damp in the room for the safety of my crop of honey, from July to October. One or two small dishes of salt— a tea-saucer is all right—are filled about two-thirds full of fine table-salt, and are placed on the pile of honey, and all 1 have to do is to keep the salt dry, for as long as dry and crumbly, your room is all right. Whenever you find the salt damp, or little drops of brine
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 206 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Apr. 1. salt will preserve the wood, and make a lasting job, and also a clean floor. Again, I use salt to tell me when the at- mosphere is too damp in the room for the safety of my crop of honey, from July to October. One or two small dishes of salt— a tea-saucer is all right—are filled about two-thirds full of fine table-salt, and are placed on the pile of honey, and all 1 have to do is to keep the salt dry, for as long as dry and crumbly, your room is all right. Whenever you find the salt damp, or little drops of brine above the saucer, where little particles of salt have lodged, you may know that a fire is needed at once to dry out the room. I use salt in front of all my hives to kill out the grass, so that every colony has a clean front yard of their own, with no alighting-board to get out of place, as every hive sets flat on the ground, on a loose bottom-board. Again, I use salt to scrub my kitchen floor when it gets griudy, as a few quarts of coarse salt scattered over the floor when quite wet, and thoroughly workt with a broom, will give the floor a fresh appear- ance, the same as it does on brass or copper when corroded. Bees appear to be in fine condition up to date, but have another month to stay in the cellar yet, unless this spring proves an exception. Ira Bauber. St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., March 11. IPUIWELY t LATEST 1^ AND 4'. When you buy a * ? Thresher be enre to eet the one that will thresh li if cleanest, fastest ;8implest, bei^t built^will last the -^ ^ lonpest, and needs least repairs. The new Rum- 4x ITHRESHER * Thresher be enre to e' • cleanest, fastest ;8imp . lonpest, and needs lea ^ .^ ely Spparator, with Oncle Tom's Wind Stacker i» ' niid New Rumely Engiue, Batiwtiesall users and J ' huH all of these pointa and more that are ex- ^ fT ;iinedin nnw Ciit;iloj,'ue.—Sent, for the * M. RUMELY CO., . LA PORTE,, ^^••••••••••••
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