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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 12, 1%1. 



out: she falls heavily at the entrance of the 

 hive. Is it not hard enoush to climb into the 

 upper story without crawling through a nar- 

 row crack in a zinc board ! If you do not 

 think so, try crawlinjr through a fence where 

 one board is off, with a load of stove-wood 

 for your wife, while she is crying to you to 

 hurry up. It is a similar case. 



Who recommends honey-boards ' The suc- 

 cessful bee-keeper ; Not he. Those who 

 have the largest yields in this locality per 

 colony refuse to use them. 



If the queen lays eggs in some of the 

 combs in the upper story, do not extract from 

 them, but as soon as they are ready to hatch 

 use them for strengthening nuclei. Or. if 

 you extract from them, turn the machine 

 Tery gently. Strain your honey, and by all 

 means settle and skim it. It is more impor- 

 tant to let honey settle in a tank for a week, 

 if not more, than everything else. 



A writer in Gleanings in Bee-Culture 

 makes the assertion that the workers of a 

 colony do not kill the drones. He says they 

 commit suicide. I am glad to hear this. 

 Murder is a dreadful thing, even in the insect 

 kingdom. As he is a bee-keeper of very high 

 standing, I hope all the readers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal will have more sympathy 

 with the " lady " bees. At least try to think 

 that instead of stinging their brothers to death 

 they are hugging them, and trying to dissuade 

 them from so rash an act. 



The season has been good here in some 

 localities, in places sheltered and away from 

 the coast winds. But the amount of honey 

 produced will not inflate the market in the 

 East, if it does here. .Most bee-men will hold 

 their crop perhaps for a year. 



T. ARCHIB.iLI>. 



Los Angeles Co.. Calif., Aug. 25. 



Results of the Season. 



I started in last spring with 28 colonies, in- 

 creased to 48, and have taken off 1300 pounds 

 of comb honey. 



I enjoy the American Bee Journal very 

 much, and would not like to get along with- 

 out it. C. E. RocKWEi.i,. 



Otero Co., Colo., Aug. 27. 



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Where the Nectar Comes From. 



Prof. B. Shimek says in Home and Flowers: 

 The nectar-glands are extremely variable in 

 form. size, color, etc. In phlox it is the 

 inner moist surface of the slight swelling at 

 the very base of the tube of the corolla: in 

 the columbine it is the surface of the inner- 

 most base of the spur on each of the five 

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Bee-Keeping as a Sole Business. 



One of the questions likely to occur to 

 every young bee-keeper who has made a sub- 

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