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will do the most good. The old queen never 

 stops la.ving, and goes right on and builds up 

 a g-ood colony in her new location. 



This is no idle dream, and I ask that you 

 have it tried in your apiaries this season. to be 

 written up later after trial. I have for years 

 been studying- the plan, and, to some e.\teut, 

 experimenting. I think I am the pioneer in 

 it, tho another man. and a good apiarist in 

 this State, has also used the principle, coming 

 at ii inili-pcndently of me. If I have the suc- 

 i.i-.'-s I iiiiii.ipate for it, it will be W/e system 

 with divisiljle-brood-ehamber hives. — JR. C. 

 AiKix. Larimer Co., Colo. 



[Our readers will remember that about two 

 years ago I advocated a plan very similar ta 

 this — that is, I practiced running two eight- 

 frame brood-chambers for the purpose of get- 

 ting powerful colonies for the production of 

 comb honey ; then when the honey-flow was 

 fairly upon us I crowded this colony all into 

 one Ijrood-chamber and one or two supers 

 containing sections and foundation. Some- 

 times I gave such colonies a shallow extract- 

 ing-super, and after the Ijees had them well 

 started I took them off and substituted the 

 coml>honey supers. There were a few of our 

 readers who condemned the plan as impracti- 

 cable and unorthodox ; but I know that for 

 some localities, and for some seasons at least, 

 it is all right. Mr. Aikin's plan is. perhaps, 

 an improvement on mine, and I wish a good 

 many of our readers might try it and report 

 at the end of the season.] — E. R. EooT, in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



Long Tongues and Red Clover. 



J. I). Evans, in tlie Canadian Bee Journal, 

 thinks that instead of working for long 

 tongues the effort should be to obtain a new 

 clover by crossing red and white, or red and 

 alsike. In the same journal, Ila Miehener, 

 referring to the strange circumstance that 

 during a certain season one kind of bees 

 would excel, and show no superiority at other 

 times, says : 



I have Ijecome thoroly converted to the 

 ••long-tongue'' idea, and believe that ex- 

 jilains it all; there is no mystery about it. 

 There will be more difference during clover 

 honey because the long-tongued bees can 

 work on red clover, especially mammoth or 

 large red clover, " and when the buckwheat 

 and goldenrod honey come we will not see 

 half of that difference." Why i Because 

 hybrids, or even black bees, can work as well 

 on buckwheat and goldenrod, and it is the 

 same early in the season on the wild red-rasp- 

 berry. 



My son, E. L. Miehener, living further from 

 the lake, and nearer the marsh than I do, got 

 al>oiit as much wild red-raspberry honey a& 

 clover, while I got very little, but when clover 

 came our yields were about the same. He 

 got twice as much honey from buckwheat 

 and fall flowers, for my bees had to go too far 

 lor it. 



A part of our bees are Italian and Carnio- 

 lancrost; while they look like any hyljrids, 

 they are gentle and very good bees. We do 

 not want all of the long-tongued Italians, for 

 thcv will keep on working on red clover after 

 it icuscs to l)e protitalile. while the dark bees 

 will l>c tilling up tlieir coml.is with dark 

 iioiiey I'l-om different sources. Yet, if all our 

 lit'cs had been like our Ijest red-clover workers 

 we would have gotten twice the amount of 

 honey we did get; so I think we will do a lot 

 of requeening another summer. 



Spraying Trees in Bioom. 



I have already rejiorted that the Experi- 

 ment Station at Geneva, N. Y., counseled 

 agaitist spraying trees while in bloom ; that it 

 not only killed the bees, but also affected the 

 delicate organs of the flowers; that in some 

 ruses those who had been most active in urg- 

 ing ^lll-aying during l>looming-time had found 

 to ilicir sorrow that such spi-aying had seri- 

 ously cut down their fruit crops. While these 

 exjieriments were l:>eing conducted at Geneva 

 and in that vicinity, the same kind of exjieri- 

 ments were being carried on at Cornell Uni- 



