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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 20, 1904. 



the gainer. Bee-feed will get an early 

 start, and there should be a strong 

 stand of honey-secreting flowers next 

 year. We can look for big fields of 

 mustard and wild turnips by Christ- 

 mas. Then, alfilaree and other early 

 flowers will give the bees all they can 

 do to gather the early honey. Mind 

 you, I am not predicting a big honey 

 crop for next year. " There is many a 

 slip "twixt the cup and the lip." 



W. A. Pryal. 

 San Francisco Co., Calif., Oct. 8. 



Bee-Stings Help Rheumatism. 



I can give you the proof that bee- 

 stings will help rheumatism. Four 

 years ago, as a result of a fall on the 

 ice, I had rheumatism in my shoulder, 

 and could not raise my arm any higher 

 than my eyes. When I took the bees 

 out of the cellar I got two bees to sting 

 me on the arm. Just before the sting- 

 ing I tried to raise my hand, but could 

 only reach the eyes. One minute after 

 the stinging I could move the arm as 

 high as I wanted to. But the effect 

 was not lasting ; I did not get entirely 

 cured until I began to work steadily 

 with the bees. 



And while I am at it I might just as 

 well give you the proof of another 

 statement I made two or three years 

 ago, viz.: That sometimes, at swarm- 

 ing-time, bees do carry a clipped 

 queen. A friend of mine in Vernon 

 Co. hived a swarm which, on the next 

 day, left the hive and started for the 

 woods ; he being present at the time 

 drove them back by throwing water on 

 them. After awhile they came out 

 again and then he clipped the queen. 

 But the next day they left for the 

 woods ; his folks noted the direction 

 they took, and about a week after he 

 hunted them up, cut the tree down, and 

 there was his clipped queen. At that 

 time there were no bees nearer than 4 

 miles. The tree he cut down was '+ 

 mile from the yard. 



As I clip all my queens, whenever a 

 swarm issues while I am in the yard, I 

 hasten to the hive in order to cage the 

 queen, so as to make sure of her. It 

 has twice happened that I did not see 

 the queen, but afterward found her on 

 my hat. How did she get there ? 



Several times also I have seen the 

 queen come out last of all, one or two 

 bees bringing her out " by the ear", 

 so to say. In such cases I have caught 

 her and put her in a cage. But next 

 time it happens I'll watch to see what 

 the bees do. Gustave Gross. 



Jefferson Co., Wis. 



"King-Birds Again!" 

 Please allow me to thank Mr. Hasty 

 (page 683) for calling attention to the 

 " wild " figures which appear towards 

 the end of my article on king-birds 

 (page 623). These figures are supposed 

 to represent the number of bees that 

 eight king-birds would eat during the 

 entire period they are here, if each 

 bird limited his bee-eating to one hour 

 a day, and are given in my letter as 

 being 378,000! Whereas the number 

 should be 63,000. The number of bees 

 that these birds destroy is sufficiently 

 wonderful without having the total 

 multiplied exactly six times 1 I do not 

 know now how I arrived at this total 

 in my first letter, and can not imagine 

 how so huge an error could have passed 



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