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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 8, 1904. 



balled. This was repeated with another hive. She was 

 rescued from the workers, and confined in the hive in an 

 introducing-cage containing' candy, but in a short time 

 died, probably of starvation, for I am sure she was not 

 stung by the bees in the ball, for she was taken out at once 

 and I never lost sight of her. Although there was candy 

 in her cage, she evidently did not recognize it as food, since 

 she was not attracted to it by smell, and on account of the 

 loss of her antenna: she was not fed through the meshes of 

 the wire-cloth." 



Baby Nuclei in Queen-Rearing. 



Editor Root says that " these little lots of bees will not 

 prove to be satisfactory unless they have brood, a little feed- 

 ing, and they must be handled without smoke the greater 

 part of the time ". 



But Dr. Miller reports success with neither brood nor 

 feeding, in which he follows the example of W. H. Laws. 

 Very likely better success may be secured with brood, and 

 feeding may be important if honey is not coming in. It 

 can hardly be necessary to use smoke at any time in hand- 

 ling such miniature colonies ; and Editor Root says it is 

 likely to beget robbing. 



, Let it be very distinctly understood, however, that no 

 one advocates these small nuclei for anything more than 

 fertilizing. A strong force of bees should be used for start- 

 ing cells, and up to the time the virgins are about ready to 

 emerge from their cells. 





Miscellaneous Items 





Hon. Eugene Secor, well-known as the " Poet Lau- 

 reate of Bee-Keeping," is still "at it " — writing poetry, we 

 mean. The following from his rhythmic pen was read at 

 the Sixth Annual Farmers' Institute of Winnebago Co., 

 Iowa, in 1902, but it is just as good to-day as when it was 

 written : 



BETWEEN THE PLOW-HANDLES. 



What man in all the Universe of God 



Has better right to look aloft and say, 

 " I'm partner with the Lord. I turn this sod 



To feed His hungry children day by day?" 



With all His plentitude of sun and rain, 

 And whispering winds from out the ardent South, 



He needs the whistling plowman's cheerful strain 

 And sinewy arm, to fill each waiting mouth. 



Who plows a field says to despairing souls, 

 " Hope is not dead ; look up and see the sun." 



Who plants, lielieves that He who suns controls 

 Shall bless the labor thus in faith begun. 



Kings of the Earth are they who plow and sow, 



If in that work they do their very best. 

 No need to envy poor rich men who go 



About their greedy quest but crafe for rest. 



Sweet sleep is given to him who tills ihe soil, 

 And sweeter peace of mind, because he knows 



That no man's poorer for his fruits of toil, 

 Ingathered from the bounty Heaven bestows. 



An Innocent Make-Belleve.— Lady Henry Somerset, 

 so well known for her temperance work, relates that her 

 sympathies were first enlisted in philanthropic service for 

 poor children by the following incident : 



" It was in this way," she said. " I was moved in that 

 direction by the rare patience and imagination of one little 

 boy. His example convinced me that patience was one of 

 the qualities I needed most, and in seeking it I grew into 



that work. I was in a hospital on visiting-day, while the 

 doctors were changing a plaster-cast which held a crippled 

 boy's limb. The operation was exceedingly painful, I was 

 told ; yet, to my surprise, the little sufi^erer neither stirred 

 nor winced, but made a curious buzzing sound with his 

 mouth. After the doctors left I said to him : 



" How could you possibly stand it ?" 



" That's nuthin'," he answered ; " why, I just made be- 

 lieve that a bee was stingin' me. Bees don't hurry very 

 much, you know. And I kept buzzin' because I was afraid 

 I'd forget about it's being a bee if I 'didn't." — Christian 

 Endeavor World. 



Second Mating of Queens.— Prof. Cook has this to 

 say on the question of queens mating a second time : 



I have been an interested reader of what has been pub- 

 lished of late by several writers of the several bee-papers, 

 on the matter of second mating of queens. I do not believe 

 that queens, efi'ectively mated, mate again. They may 

 mate and not be impregnated, when, of course, we should 

 expect them to mate again, and on till real copulation or 

 impregnation has occurred. We know how promptly 

 queens, unless old, commence to lay in spring, and the 

 drones do not come for some time. This (and observation 

 for years) makes me skeptical in this matter. The reasons 

 given are not conclusive to my mind. A. J. Cook. 



In Love with One's Worlt. — "A man can do best that 

 which he loves best. If he has started in a business which 

 he can not learn to love, then he should go into some other 

 business. He will never succeed in this age of competition 

 unless he can find real pleasure in his work. The making 

 of money is not a sufficient incentive. He must find his 

 highest enjoyment in the task itself. No man who works 

 along that line can fail. That is my judgment, based on 

 my own experience and my observation. The one straight 

 road to success is to learn to love your business. A man 

 must love his business better than he loves anything else, 

 if he would make success sure. It is the true, the only way." 

 — James Bdchanan Duke. 





Contributed Articles 





The National Bee-Keepers' Convention at 

 St. Louis. 



BY C. P. DADANT. 



A NUMBER of friends have been inquiring of me in 

 regard to the arrangements for the next meeting of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association. A brief statement 

 is now being published by Mr. France, but for the benefit 

 of those who feel interested, I will detail what was done in 

 the matter. 



The officers of the Association all live away from St. 

 Louis— the president in Colorado, the vice-president in Illi- 

 nois, the secretary in California, and the general manager 

 in Wisconsin. I, therefore, felt compelled to take upon 

 myself, as vice-president, the responsibility of making defi- 

 nite arrangements for the meeting. 



As you remember, Mr. Editor, you sent me early in the 

 season a letter from the Chief of Agriculture at the Louisi- 

 ana Purchase Exposition, offering to furnish us a suitable 

 hall for our meeting. To this I replied, thanking him for 

 the offer, and promising to call upon him in July to perfect 

 the arrangements. This I did, but the Chief was away. 

 His clerks and managers very kindly showed me around. I 

 found that their agricultural hall was engaged for the time 

 of our meeting to another organization. Besides, this hall 

 was in the main agricultural building, and in a very noisy 

 spot. It would have been an inconvenient place for us. 

 The managers of the Agricultural Building being unwilling 



