1885 



GLEAKIKGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



637 



I took a jug, and filled it about half full of water, 

 and set it by the side of the hive, took a long- stick, 

 punched under the hive, and in fifteen minutes 

 they were safely jug-ged. I think the happiest sight 

 to nie that I ever saw was those bumlile-bees going- 

 "thud" into that jug. H. Hobinron. 



liaclede, Fayette Co., III. 



Friend II., I have heard before of setting 

 a black jug near to a bumble-bees' nest, in 

 the wayyon have described. I never had 

 much faitli in it, Ijecause it seemed so un- 

 reasonable. If it is really true, however, 

 that the bumble-bees will, the whole of 

 them, one after the other, duck down into 

 that black hole, it may be, perliaps, the easi- 

 est way of getting rid of such intruders. 



THE WAVE OF SKEPTICISM. 



BY HAHTIK ME.\CHAM. 



A gallant ship «as ridlug.— 



A shiij lonK tried and ti ue,— 

 Upon the heaving bosom 



Of the ocean broad and blue. 

 And as it glided onward, 



A song rose loud and clear. 

 Whose every note %vas brimful 



Of kindly love and clieei-. 

 At peace were all its w orkers, 



Am was the briny deep. 

 When in the hazy distance 



A wave was seen to leap. 

 At fli-st a tiny wavelet 



Was all that could be seen; 

 But as it rolled onward. 



Fast grew its silv'ry sheen. 



And as the captain viewed it 

 With trusty glass Jn hand, 



He said, " Ot^all the wonders 

 I've seen on sea or land, 



This wave so lone, so frightn 



In Its march across the sei 



Is strangest of all wonders 



Then as onward still It came. 

 He cried in tones of might ; 



" Let eveiv man unto the ship 

 Lash himself so fast and 

 tight, 



That the wildly raging wave 

 Do not wash him overboard. " 



Faster came the rising swell. 

 And louder still it roared. 



|Thy word is true f roni the be- 

 ginning; and eveiy one of 

 thy ligliteous judgments en- 

 dureth for ever.l-Ps. 119:160. 



[Thy statutes have been my 

 songs in the hou.se of un pil- 

 gi-iniage.]-Ps. U»: 51. 



love thy law.l-fs. 119: 165 

 I -My peace f leave with you.|- 

 ' )HN 14:17. 



[.\nd then appeared another 

 wundei' in heaven, and be- 

 hold u great red dragon hav- 

 ing seven heads and ten 

 horns, and seven crowns ui>- 

 on his heads. I Kkv. lira. 



i.\iul nil the worl.l wundeied 

 uftci- the beast, and tliev 

 worshiiicd the dragon whlcli 



ga> 



rust ; 



him a iii<i\itli. speakiiiggicut 

 things and blasphemies, and 

 jjower was given unto him to 

 continue forty and two 

 months.l Rkv. 1^:4,5. 

 That we be no more . . car- 

 ried about by every wind of 

 doctrine, liy the sleight of 

 men, and oiiinlng craftiness, 

 whereby they lie in 



:] -K.l-H. 



U. 



Therefore, my bielhren dear- 

 ly beloved and longed for, 

 liiy jov and clown, so stand 

 last ill the Lord, my dearly 

 beloved. I I'HIl.. 4: 1. 



hastened to obey his [Take lued, brethren. 



word; 



But some of the goodly crew 

 Said: " Who's afraid of wave- 

 lets, 



Uii this ship so stiong and 

 tiiic" 



th 



evil heai-t id uiibclul, in dc 

 parting from the living (iod. 

 But<".xhoi-t one unothci-dai 

 Iv, while it Is called To-day. I 

 -Hebkkws a: 12. 



A shout of thanks profound, ry, and power, be unto him 

 From those who, by the or- that sitteth upon the throne. J 

 ders, —Rev. 5; 13. 

 Were so securel.y bound. 

 Let us all prepare ourselves [But the fearful and unbeliev- 

 For this wave of unbelief ing shall have their part in 

 That o'er our land is sweeping. the lake that burneth with 

 Bringing inaiiv hearts to fire and brimstone, which Is 

 grief. the second death.]— Rev. «1:8. 

 For 'twill pass upon its way. 

 And leave our ship unharm- 

 ed; [Blessed are they that do his 

 But hards the fate of those coniinandiiients.]-KEV. « U. 

 who'll not 

 By this sad tale be warned. 



]Nroe-adoie, O., June, 18&J. 



c clung unto the rigging. 



d thought by their o«n |0 God the I..ord,the strength 

 of my salvation, thou hast 

 covered iiiy heart In the dav 

 of battle. J~Ps. 140:7. 



High 



To resist its wild fury 

 And be victoi- in the tight 



And dragged the unsecured 



Down to a wateiy grave: 

 Then those poor deluded ones 

 Who clung by their own 

 strength— 

 Methiiiks I hear their shriek- 

 ing 

 As thev each gave out at 

 length, 



Km- strength and coui-age 

 lirajlng 

 When 'twas too late, alas! 



And as the wave proceeded 



Upon Its cruel way. 

 And left the ship uninjured 



By its great watery tray, 



Let him that thinkcth 

 stundetll lake heed lesl 

 fall!- I. CoK. 10 ly. 



(They that were ready went In 

 with him to the inarriiige, 

 and the door was shut.- M.*T 

 TllliW ib: 10. 



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A JUVENILE'S EXPERIENCE IN RAIS- 

 ING QUEENS. 



SOMK yl'F.RlES ABOUT IT. 



AM trying- to raise queens. I got four nuclei of 

 you at two different times, and have them all 

 in working order now. About a month and a 

 half ago T gave my nuclei some eggs from an 

 Italian queen that produces good three-banded 

 workers. The nucleus drew out some cells; and 

 when they hatched, some of the queens were light 

 and some were dark. About twelve or fifteen days 

 ago I gave them some more eggs from the same, 

 and I now have one virgin (jueeii one or two days 

 old, and she Is as black as any black queen could be. 

 There was a swarm came from her mother's hive, 

 and the ciueen in it is a bright yellow. Now, Mr. 

 Knot, can you tell me the reason that the mother is 

 yellow, and her eggs produce yelhiw workers but 

 lilaek queens'/ 



One of jiapas Italian hives sent out two swarms, 

 and after thai we thought it was queenless; so we 

 gave theiii brood to lest them, and so, sure enough, 

 they went righi to work making cells. After they 

 had scaled them all over, papa cut them all out ex- 

 cept one which he left for the (|iieen lo tear down. 

 He then caged a virgin <iueen and put her in the 

 hive and left her there. The cage had some candy 

 in one end, and they ate her out. When T went 

 there the ne.xt day they were balling her a little, 

 but I gave them a smoking and left her. The next 

 time 1 went there I could not find the queen, but 

 found, instead, a cell sealed, which 1 think was a 

 fertile worker. When papa came home he tore 

 down the cell and hung a laying queen down in 

 their combs, and left her there from Saturday till 

 Monday morning. Then he took the plug out and 

 was going to tie a paper over the cage, when the 

 (jUeeii got out and tlew away, but soon came back, 

 but tlew away the second time, and then we caught 

 her and put paper over the cage. The next day the 

 paper was gone; the queen was gone, but they had 

 a cell instead, which 1 tore down. Now, Mr. Root, 

 would you please tell me what you would have done 

 with that hive/ Irvino O. IJanks. 



Princeton, N. .1., August lli. 1885. 

 Friend Irving, it is quite a common thing 

 to lind Ititlian queens producing full-blood 

 Italians, but whose diiughters are very dark. 

 It is common for the same queen to produce 

 dark queens early in the season, or when 

 the cells are reared in small nuclei, while 

 duiing the summer time her queens will be 

 large ami yellow— that is, providing they 

 are reared in good strong colonies.— There 

 is nothing else to do with the hive you men- 

 tion, but to give them some more brood, to 

 be sure they are queenless ; and when_ you 



