THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



transferrin^,' on the third or fourth day. 

 The transferring ladle should be made 

 of No, 12, steel wire, flattened at the end 

 and shaped similar to an ear spoon, but 

 not so large, and bent so it can be inserted 

 in the cell at one side and slid across 

 under the lar%'te, and not scrape up the 

 old cocoons. It should be about 5-64 or 

 3-32 of an inch in diameter. 



With the management described in the 

 forepart of this article I can persuade 

 bees to build cells over any queen that 

 has once developed her full egg-laying 

 capacity, but with a young prolific queen 

 I can get better results by putting the 

 whole brood-nest into the second story, 

 and driving the queen below on empty 

 combs. 



I have said nothing as to whether arti- 

 ficial or natural cell-cups should be used; 

 I use both; but, until some one perfects a 

 revolution in the modern plans of getting 

 the larvie in the queen-cups, I would ad- 

 vise using artificial cups. They are 

 stronger and you can have them when 

 you like, and as many as you like, and 

 where you like. 



But I have a hankering for something 

 better than transferring larvae. I can get 

 plenty of cell-cups by using a few arti- 

 ficial ones, but the queen won't lay in 

 them unless she is old and is willing to 

 he su])erseded. I can't wait for that. 

 Ves, I can get plenty of natural cell-cups 

 built, and the queen will lay in them, too, 

 but the next thing I've got a swarming 

 scrape on my hands, and I don't stick 

 nmch on that. Where is the queen- 

 breeder who will overcome these dificul- 

 ties and perfect a practical plan whereby 

 I can, by certain manipulations, say to 

 the colony having my best breeder, "I 

 want some queens now and you must 

 prepare the cells;" and to the queen "you 

 must lay in these cell cups as soon as 

 they are ready," and it cometh to pass. 

 This queen breeder's (mis) representative 

 has been in my hat for two or three 

 vears, but I am not fully satisfied with 

 any plan that he has presented to me yet. 



MiLANO, Texas, April 24, 1900. 



>v ELGI.AN HARES. SOME OF 



p-^ THE PROFITS THAT MAY 



|__JJ BE EXPECTED IN THE 

 BUSINESS. BY DR. BELA 

 COGSHALI,. 



Editor Bee-Keeper's Review:— I 

 cheerfully respond to your request for a 

 short article on this new and important 

 American industry that is now sweeping 

 over the country, and has assumed such 

 gigantic proportions on the Pacific coast. 

 After spending over four months in Cali- 

 fornia during the winter and spring, 

 visiting the most important rabbitries in 

 Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose 

 and Oakland, studying the business as it 

 is carried on there, I made up my mind 

 that it was a safe and profitable industry 

 for anyone to embark in. It does not 

 need a large bank account; but one can 

 engage in the business with a modest 

 sum, and by improving and adding to his 

 stock from time to time can soon find he 

 has a good bank account if he is careful 

 and judicious in this business. 



We should advise all who desire to 

 start in the business to get the best foun- 

 dation stock money will buy; for there 

 is much more money to be made in high 

 grade stock than poor or medium. 



It may and does seem to some that it is 

 folly to pay from $200 to fcoo for a choice 

 specimen of the Belgian hare, and yet 

 fortunes are madfe in this way. Several 

 such animals have proven veritable Klon- 

 dikes for the owners. Take, for instance, 

 "Lord Britain," one of the best ever im- 

 ported, the owners assured me that he 

 paid 15 per cent interest on $30,000; or 

 about |5,ooo a year. Were they foolish 

 to pav 5500 for him? They were charg- 

 ing from $50 to 5ioo for his services when 

 I was there. He has since been poisoned 

 and died. 



Thousands of people, including men, 

 women and children, are engaged in the 

 business in California, and yet it is not 

 overdone, or losing in interest or profit. 

 They have not, as yet, reached a meat 

 basis, and when they do there is a good 



