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FUCK CsUlilt°<^ ■• *• rLUMis, BaUaiOh. a» 



into, now out fif. now gorging the entrance. I 

 discovered that the rich man was becoming 

 richer, and the poor man poorer. As a neigh- 

 bor sometimes keeps his own by knowing 

 what a neighbor hath, so I have since done. 

 Knowing that my neighbor's bees ^vere al 

 blacks, and a good share of mine Italians, m 

 curiosity was aroused until it stood on tiptoe. 

 Peering from a window I beheld their black 

 craft as they sped on their course to their 

 place of mooring. Ne'er was merchant-man 

 so freighted, tho loaded to the water's edge, 

 and well-nigh unto drinking. To and fro they 

 plied twixt rich and poor. Not a sail from 

 Italy's sunny strand e'er hove in sight ! My 

 neighbor's blacks had found the treasure, 

 staked their claim, and asserted " priority of 

 occupation." 



Again, last autumn's glow, I piled a score 

 of hives up in three tiers. Italy's fair colors 

 now fanned the breezes as they bore down 

 upon the discovery, and sped to tell the news 

 to ready listening ears that waited word to 

 spread all sail, but three or four of ray colo- 

 nies were thus engaged in the carrying trade, 

 while my neighbor's and .SO of my own were 

 not plying an oar. Thus, it seems, that given 

 but a bee-space the discoverers had planted 

 their standard on the new-found shore, and 

 taken possession in the name of their queen. 



E. C. HUGENTIIBI-ER. 



Hamilton Co.. Ohio, Jan. T. 



Bees Did FaiFly Well— 12-Pound 

 Cases. 



I have 8'2 colonies of bees. 30 in .s-frame 

 dovetailed hives, and 53 in -ho ue-made hives. 

 I intend transferring them all to standard 

 hives. They are in tine condition, and have 

 about 100 pounds each of honey to build up 

 on this spring. 



I have had some experience with bee-paraly- 

 sis. I simply kill the old queen, and rear a 

 new one from my best stock. But it I let 

 them alone they will die within three years. 



I sold honey in one-pound sections in 12- 

 pound shipping-cases — the first ever sold here 

 — and it went like hot-cakes; I could not sup- 

 ply the demand. 



My bees have not done very well the past 

 three years, tho I have secured from 1.000 to 

 1.500 pounds of honey each year, while my 

 neighbors got none. Why? I5ecausc I take 

 the American Bee Journal, 'ft'hen I first be- 

 gan taking it people laught at me. but they 

 have stopt it, as they tee that I get the money, 

 and I still take the Bee Journal I can't get 

 one of them to take it, tho. But let it still 

 continue to come to help me out of my 

 troubles, as it always has done. 



A. R. Yandell. 



Scott Co., Ark., Jan. 30. 



Requeening— Red Clover Honey. 



In ret|ueening some of my colonies last sea- 

 son I took two frames with the queen from 

 one of my strongest colonies, giving the re- 

 maining brood one of my imported queens 

 from Italy. Thus I had good eggs and larvae 

 from my first colony to rear queens from, and 

 got a fine lot of queen-cells drawn out. On 

 the eleventh day I took the queens from the 

 colonies that I wanted to requeen, and by the 

 next day the bees had learned that they had 

 no i|ueen. On the morning of the twelfth, 

 after the brood had been exchanged, I cut out 

 the queen-cells that suited me, putting one in 

 each hive between two frames and at the top, 

 taking care that the sides of . thg cells were 

 protected, as I never knew the bees to cut a 

 queen-cell at the end. Within three days the 

 young queens had hatcht, and the bees had 

 received them, and in from five to eight days I 

 had young laying queens. I requeened eight 

 colonies by this method, and did not lose one. 

 I tried a few on the nucleus plan after the 

 queen had been laying, and lost two out of 

 five, so I like the new way better if it con- 

 tinues to work as well as on the start. But if 

 it should work as some of our experiments 

 with the bees do. I may change my mind, for 

 sometimes when we think we have attained 

 perfection in some of our work with the bees, 

 they let us know that wc are not yet master 

 of all their ways, and upset all of our plans. 

 So I have learned that other creatures have 

 some rights iu the way of following the plans 



