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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 



that he smokes it to the glory of God; and 

 although he at first opposed its use, his 

 brother and a physician advised him to use 

 it, and he says he has since derived great 

 benefit. 



President Mason then took the floor, and 

 remarked that a good many tobacco-users 

 are riding their tobacco hobby-horses right 

 in the very faces of the people who do not 

 use it ; that is, the tobacco-users compel oth- 

 er people to breathe in their offensive smoke, 

 and to inhale tobacco odor. This was, he 

 thought, a clear case of riding hobbies over 

 other people. As to the matter of life or 

 death, tobacco or no tobacco, the doctor 

 thought that, if lie had got to choose be- 

 tween a prolonged life with tobacco, and 

 death and no tobacco, he would get ready to 

 die just as soon as he could. He did not 

 exactlj approve of giving out smokers as a 

 pledge. 



Continued in next issm. 



QOLDENEOD. 



H(i\V TO GET THE WHITE HONEY. AND GIVE THE 

 BEES THE INFE1UOK ARTICLE. 



fRIEND ROOT:— On page 815 I mentioned ex- 

 tracting: the crop of late summer boney, most- 

 ly peach and bitterweed, about Sept. 6th. It 

 was to test what the goldenrod and aster yield 

 would be, with the view, next season, of tak- 

 ing off that crop of second-rate honey in sealed 

 combs, and substituting empty combs for the choice 

 fall crop, then returning the sealed bitterweed 

 combs for the bees to winter on. 



On going through, and getting things in shape for 

 winter, I find about as much choice honey in the 

 hives as I extracted of second-rate in September. 

 So it looks us if this late fall crop were worth trying 

 for. If I should extract much of it now, however. 

 I should have to feed back a considerable amount 

 of extracted bitterweed, which is now very thick, 

 and candying. Robbers would be troublesome, and 

 any day may bring a cold snap; so I think they may 

 keep most of what they have. But another season, 

 will it not pay to have the extra eomhc ready, and 

 try the plan outlined? Keeping the sealed combs of 

 bitterweed honey free from moth depredations will 

 be the chief drawback. I should be glad of some 

 light on this late fall-crop business i I any of your 

 Southern readers have tried it. 



GETTING BID OF STUBBORN FERTILE WORKERS. 



An experience with a colony having a fertile 

 worker may be of some interest. 1 recently pur- 

 chased two Italian queens to introduce into two 

 black-hybrid colonies. One was accepted, the other 

 was killed; both were in Peet cages, aud escort bees 

 had been taken out before fixing the cadres on the 

 combs. Going away to assist a friend in introduc- 

 ing a lot of queens, I left my two to take their 

 ch;mces; and returning I found one dead before the 

 entrance, the other laying. Both hives had had 

 queens up to the time of introducing the new ones. 

 Taking out all brood, unsealed from the hive now 

 queenless, I gave them Italian brood, hoping in this 

 way to get a purely mated queen, as I found the on- 

 ly drones flying were from a choice Italian colony. 

 The bees would not even care for this brood, but 

 carried it out. I then gave another comb, thinking 

 the first might have been chilled. This brood they 



raised " a la worker," but no queen-cells were start- 

 ed. By this time the few eggs scattered about, 

 sometimes two in a cell, told " what was up." So, 

 to demoralize the whole thing, they were all shaken 

 out in front, and allowed to crawl back, two frames 

 of brood and bees having been inserted. Again no 

 go, when I hit upon this plan: There was a strong 

 colony, not far off, in a two-story hive, both stories 

 full of bees. Making sure their queen was below, I 

 took the upper story and "swapped" it for my 

 fertile-worker colony (one storyi, which left the 

 bogus queen in the second story of a colony having 

 a queen. Of course, most of the old bees of both 

 hives went back to their respective homes. The 

 stores were about equal. 1 then gave more Italian 

 brood to my queenless colony, and queen-cells ap- 

 peared in due time. There was no fighting in either 

 hive. c. P. Coffin. 



Pontotoc, Miss., Oct. 21, 1889. 



McNAY'S TABULATED REPORT 



IN REGARD TO THAT LARGE YIELD. 



Mr. Boot;— In compliance with your request I 

 herewith inclose a tabulated record of our season's 

 extracting, from six apiaries. I trust the table will 

 lie understood by referring to my report on page 

 806, Gleanings, Oct. 15, without further explana- 

 tion. 



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Frank McNay. 



