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('(1 that tlu' influcnro of tlio lualo pa 

 rent is fully as .urcat. perhaps j^rcatcr. 

 than tliat of tho r'.-inah'. It will be seen 

 that .Ml-, ("hapman i^rts ahout as much 

 hcnelit as it is i)()ssil)lr to ,!j;et froui 

 the iutrodiu'tion of ucw blood, and 

 that, too, with very little hibor. 



HOW BEES FEED ONE .\NOTHER. 



While talkini;- with Mr. A. I>. I>. 

 Wood ri'eently he ealled attention to 

 Mr. Arthur ('. Miller's assertion that 

 bees never olTer food to a queen, nor 

 to one another; tliat it always has to 

 lu> asked for. and sometimes almost 

 taken Ity foree. Mr. Wood then asked 

 how I supposed a ((ueen caged in a 

 hive, with no food in the cage, man- 

 ;i,u<'d to survive for days and weeks'.' 

 She would have no opportunity to fake 

 food from the bees by foi'ce— it must 

 be offered to her. He then mentioned 

 the case of a colony of bees, nearly all 

 the nu'mbers of which were apparent- 

 ly lifeless from starvation. If a I't w 

 of the bees are still able to crawl, they 

 will take food and distribute it to Luose 

 who are too far gone to ask for food, 

 nuicli less take It by force. Ev(>ntual- 

 iy. nearly every bee will l)e revived, 

 it they have not been starved too long, 

 and th.'it because the few that are 

 able to move feed the others. 



OVERSTOCKING— CAN IT BE ACCOMPLISH- 

 ED WITH LESS COLONIES WHEN 

 WORKING FOR EXTRACTED 

 HONEY. 



Can more bees lie kejit in one locali- 

 ty when worked for comb honey than 

 when worked for extracted? Perhaps 

 this ([uestion has been discussed be- 

 fore, but I do not remend)er having 

 sei'ii anything on the subject. In pro- 

 ducing comb honey there must b(> 

 some work done in drawing out foun- 



dation, or coml)S built if foundation 

 is not used, and the combs must be 

 more completely sealed than is usual- 

 ly the case when extracted honey is 

 [irodnced. In other words, comb hon- 

 ey is more of a finished product, while 

 e.\rracted honey is more like the raw 

 material. It recpiires the work of 

 some bees to work this raw material 

 into the finished product, hence, some 

 bees th;it nught go to the fields are 

 kept at home doing h(»use work. In 

 othei- words, a comb honey colonj' can 

 not send so m;niy workers into the 

 field, hence more colonies may be kept 

 when comb honey is l)eing produced. 

 This is one vi(nv of the subject; anoth- 

 er view is that the inside work of the 

 hive is done by workers that are too 

 young for field work, workers that 

 would be idle if there were no comb 

 to l)uild or honey to cap, that is, idle 

 except for the feeding of the brood. 

 Which line of reasoning is correct? 



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GET INTO A GOOD LOCALITY. 



A good bee-keeper can make some- 

 thing of a success in even a poor lo- 

 cality. He can start out-apiaries, and, 

 by keeping a lot of bees in this way, 

 make something of a success, but how 

 much greater would Ite his success if 

 he were only in a good locality. Per- 

 haps an old man, or even one of mid- 

 dle age, one who has settled down, 

 and has his old-time friends and 

 neighbors about him, one who has al- 

 most become a part of that locality, 

 ought not to 1)e expected to wrench 

 himself away from friends and as- 

 sociations, and pitch his tent in the 

 wilderness, figuratively speaking, but 

 the young man who expects to follow 

 bee-keeping for a livelihood, certainly 

 ought to take time and pains to find 

 and locate in an excelleait locality for 

 his business. There are localities in 

 which it is almost impossible to make 

 a living at keeping bees, and there are 



