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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Aug. 



A SMALL THIRD SWARM. 



REPRESENTATIONS OP THINGS TRUE TO NATURE. 



If there is one thing above another with 

 which we liave taken particular pains, it is 

 that all our engravings supposed to repre- 



ject which they so poorly try to show;! Yet 

 it is nevertheless a fact that there is not a 

 real good engraving of a queen-bee, al- 

 though we think we have one in the ABC 

 book that is fairly lifelike. In the accom- 

 panying engraving our artist has succeeded 



A LITTLE SWAKM OF BEES, JUST AS '1 HEY LOOK AND ACT. 



sent nature in any of its phases shall be true admirably in showing a small third swarm, 



to life. How provoking it is that there are Most of our readers will instinctively rec- 



so many engravings of queen-bees that look ognize something familiar in the pretty 



as much like a beetle as they do the real ob- little scene. While the individual bees 



