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largely if net altogether dispensed with if 

 we clipped our queens' wings. Swarms 

 could then be hived in exactly the same 

 manner as A. E. Manum described and il- 

 lustrated a year ago. Still, a great many 

 times a swarm will come out with a virgin 

 queen. It is then that the fountain pump 

 with two or three uses will pay for itself. 

 Were it not for the fact of our tilling orders, 

 and the preferences of our different custom- 

 ers, 1 do not know but I should be in favor 

 of clipping queens' wings here at the Home 

 of the Honey-bees. One colony having a 

 valuable imported queen, swarmed out. We 

 made them come down, secured them in 

 the basket, and hived them on foundation 

 with a frame of unsealed brood to hold 

 them. The next day a number of swarms 

 came out ; and as several came out simul- 

 taneously it was impossible to locate the 

 source of each one. Toward the close of the 

 day, when we examined the recently hived 

 swarm with the imported queen above men- 

 tioned, I found that they had decamped, 

 leaving only a few hundred bees to take 

 care of the frame of brood. That they were 

 somewhere in the apiary, and had been 

 hived. I had no doubt ; but where, was the 

 question If her wings had been clipped, 

 we could have secured the swarm by itself. 



HIVING UPON UNSEALED BROOD. 



Out of some 35 or 40 swarms which we 

 have hived during the last few days, as 

 nearly as we can make out some 7 or 8 of 

 this number have actually left their frames 

 of unsealed larvae. While a frame of brood 

 tends very greatly to hold the swarm, it is 

 by no means infallible. 



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I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to 

 dwell in the tents of wickedness.— Psalm 84: 10. 



BUSINESS UP TO DATE. 



We are still having quite a run of business, and 

 it is approaching the middle of July. Orders usu- 

 ally begin to slacken up about th.e first of this 

 month. We expect, to be entirely caught up in a 

 day or so. 



MORE IMPROVEMENTS AT THE HOME OF THE HON- 

 EY DEES. 



Well, we have not got to tear down our barns 

 and build greater, exactly, but we are obliged to 

 add more boiler capacity. We are now making 

 preparations to tear down our 6'0-foot chimney, and 

 build in its stead another one 80 feet tall, 38 inches 

 in diameter inside, with an 8-ft. base. We expect 

 to add another boiler, alongside of our old one, to 



give us a boiler capacity of 120 horse-power. Our 

 business has been such that our 60 horse boiler has 

 hardly been adequate to keep the machinery mov- 

 ing at full speed. 



THE POULTRY DEPARTMENT OF THE CANADIAN 

 BEE JOURNAL. 



We have for a long time wanted to congratulate 

 the Canadian Bee Journal on securing the services 

 of so competent a person as W. C. G. Peters as 

 poultry editor. He is full of the subject, and his 

 editorials show that he has had a great deal of prac- 

 tical experience. 



THE SEASON IN AUSTRALIA. 



While we bee-keepers of the Northern States 

 are enjoying a good honey-flow, and some hot 

 weather, the bee-keepers of Australia are now fair- 

 ly into winter. The Australian Bee Journal for 

 June 1, 188P, says: "We are now fairly into winter; 

 and if the instructions given previously have been 

 carried out, the colonies should be in good condi- 

 tion to withstand the cold and damp to be expected 

 during the next month or two." This does not 

 sound much like our weather here, does it? Sea- 

 sonable hints for Australia would hardly be sea- 

 sonable for the United States. 



THE HONEY-FLOW AT THIS DATE. 



Here it is July 12, and the honey is still coming 

 in at a good rate, but basswood has not begun to 

 yield to any extent yet. In fact, it is doubtful 

 whether it will yield at all in our locality. In the 

 basswood orchard, some two miles to the north of 

 the Home of the Honey-bees, there is only about 

 one tree that has even buds on, out of the 4000, so 

 our basswood orchard probably will not yield any 

 great amount of nectar this year. As nearly as 

 we can discover along the roads, there are very 

 few basswoods out anywhere. Evidently it is one 

 of the off-years for this favored tree of the bee- 

 keeper. Later.— Honey is coming in some from 

 basswood after all. 



OFF FOR WISCON81N. 



The senior editor started for Wisconsin, Thurs- 

 day, July 11. Blue Eyes accompanies him as far as 

 Chicago, whence she takes the steamer for Manis- 

 tee, Mich., where she will visit relatives. From 

 Chicago, A. 1. Root will go to Dr. C. C. Miller's, in 

 Marengo, 111., and thence he proceeds further to the 

 northwest to that great basswood belt in Richland 

 Co., Wis. Basswood is expected to be at its height 

 about the time he will arrive there, which will be 

 about the 15th or 16th. He has taken along with 

 him a little Kodak camera, to take views of apiaries, 

 gardens, etc. He was given full instructions how 

 to "shoot it off," and it is expected that he will 

 write up this trip, and perhaps illustrate it in the 

 forthcoming issues of Gleanings. 



SOMETHING FOR OUR GERMAN BEE-FRIENDS. 



We have just received from C. J. H. Gravenhorst 

 a little work in the German language, called the 

 " Bee-keeper's Album." It contains 51 pages of 

 matter devoted to biographical sketches of some of 

 the leading lights in apicultural science; namely, 

 Dzierzon, Langstroth, Baron Berlepsch, Pastor 

 Schonfeld, Hruschka, Mehring, Baron Ehrenfels, 

 Kanitz, Louis Huber, Weygandt, Cowan, and Sarto- 

 ri. Elegant portraits of all those men are given in 

 the highest style of the engraver's art. Many fine 

 cuts of hives, apiaries, etc., are also given. As the 

 present work is No. 1, we presume that friend 

 Gravenhorst is going to publish at stated intervals 



