1887 



GJ.KANIJS'GS IN HEK CLILTURI': 



66 



natural honey-seal iujr wa8 complete. It' the jjlass 

 was not roug-hent'd a littlo, Iho wax wag liable to 

 leave it atter a little while, luit the wax oAj^e and 

 the paper tuner icirled stftcr tlu\\- had onec met. 

 It Is possitdc yoiii' concsiKtiideiit, l)i-. Mason. iini>- 

 have read soiue description of tliiR plan, which I 

 fancy was descrihcd in ilic lirilisli IS(i: JimriKil. 



.1. A. AllllDTT. 



Heeton, Ontario, (an . Kce. :i<.i, IHSG. 



A KKW MOKK !•< > 1 N I' K KS ON 1 XTK< )l)l(' I N(J . 



There arc a few points ationt inti-oducinj;' (incens 

 that Ernest did not jiive in coiuiection witli this 

 sub,iect in a late issue of (JI/Kaninos, which T 

 should like to know. I. Is it l)est to introduce a 

 queen, that has had a trip in the mails, iinniediate- 

 \y on her arrival, or wait a f«'w hours, or tintil the 

 next day? 2. Tf you wish to oxohanji'c queens in a 

 hive, do you i)iit in the new one at the time of 

 takitiy the old on(M)ut,or do yon prefer to leave them 

 queen less awhile? If so. how long? 3. Do yon put 

 the attendant bees in with the new queen always? 

 A. A. Fradknkitho. 



Port Washing-ton. O., Dec. 2:1, 18KK. 



1. Put the queen, iininediately after her 

 arrival, directly into the liive. In tact. F 

 think it will he iniich better than to wait 

 aAvhile, as yon sti.<i«icst. 



2. Vej-y treqnentl\ we tal<e out aiidcajie a 

 queen, and introdncc anothtn" one in her 

 place, at one and tlie same tiiae. We once 

 thought it better to allow the hive to re- 

 main (lueenless lad'ore caging another 

 qneen ; hut hy the Feet process of intro- 

 ducing we have lately found no tvont)le in 

 introtlncing a (|iHHqi at once. We keep only 

 Italians, and I am not sure yon could do 

 this with hybrids, yyri;ins. or ('yprians. 



3. If yon tind attendant bees in a Peet 

 cage, as yon i)r.>bably will in a great majori- 

 ty of cases, cage llnqn and the queen to- 

 gether on the comb. I do not know that it 

 will make any diffcrtMicc to us whether the 

 qneen is cagetl on a comli. with or without 

 attendant bees.— Hinht here [ will say to 

 otar readers, if an\ of \oii iiavc a desire to 

 ask questions on sonn^ tonics connected 

 witli our own apiarv . on winch I have not 

 fully enlarged, l>c iVcc [■< write us. and yotn' 

 questions will V»e answered cither in (Jleax- 

 TNGS or by private letter. KiiNEsr. 



THE PKINCIPI.K OF THK AI.LK.V 'IKAI' NOT NKW. 



Alle.v's drone-trap may work very well, but it is 

 not new. T do not know who invented the first 

 drone-trap; but in the year IHUa were different 

 drone-traps in Germany in the market. I bought 

 one of them in 18»)7 from (J. Dathe, Eystrup. Ger- 

 many. This trail was constructed on the same 

 principle as the Alley trap. It had two ditfercnt 

 chambers— the first one, in connection with the 

 alighting-hole, had a series of holes large enough 

 for the worker-bees, but too small for the drones. 

 A prolonged canal opened into the second cham- 

 ber, made of wire screen, through which no drones, 

 hut worker-bees, could pass. This canal is for the 

 same purpose as the wire cones of Alle.v's trap, 

 but it was closed by a small piece of light cotton 

 stuff which easil.y opened into the second chamber, 

 but closed the entrance to th«' Hrst one. 



This wire screen could exclude the drones. l>ut 

 the (jueen could not t)e e.xchided with certainty. 

 The screen was not e.xact enough, and the wires 



did not stay in place all the time. About 1876 was 

 the perforated zinc in use in Germany; and since 

 that time (ironc-tra|>s were nuide out of perforated 

 zinc. 'I'lie idea of catching a queen is not new 

 either. W. Vogcl, /Ji(7;(/u< l'/(i/i(/, ISSd, [i. M), talks 

 about one, but onl.^ in a sliort wa.\ . 

 Selma, Texas, ilec. !$, 188tt. L. Stachki.u AtrsEX. 



A I.KTTKIt KUOM S<;OTI,ANI) ; ukatuku honkv. 



We don't have so severe winters or warm sum- 

 mers as you have, neither have we such large 

 yields of hoticy; hut for all that we have managed 

 to raise enough to bring it to one-third the price it 

 was 4 years ago. .Vt that time white-clover honey 

 in 1-lb. sections brought :!0 to 'M cents; now it 

 scarcel.v sells at all. 'I'Ik ri' is some iiKpiirx for 

 heather honey. I d<j not know whether you Inn e 

 any heather in America or not. I never saw It 

 even mentioned in Gt-I'IANi .\(is. It is\ei-.\ dark in 

 color, not so beautiful as clo\er honey; neitlier, to 

 my taste, is it as tine. H. Aiii.ioN. 



<)vertown, Dyce, Aberdeenshire. Scotland. 



REPORT IN RHYMi:. 



I ha 



' -m ill 



11 iirder l» lix 

 Oiil Miv rc'pi.rt for 1X8G. 

 1 hcj;:in in tlic fall i.r '8.5 

 Witli all iii\ i-i.loiiii's iiiih tivi'. 

 I got all tliiii;;^ naily, 1 tiust. 

 And paikrd tlniii awav in (jiiod sawdust 

 All arouiicl, jusl iiji to tlio caves. 

 And tillrd Ihc crates witli forest-leaves. 

 So I tid them ui) viT.v strong:, 

 Kor voii know the winter is quite loutr. 



So 1 Vave them an ahinidani f feed 



To kei'|i them Iroiii eoniiiiK to want or need 



I wailed till llie elm and maple hloomed. 



And other • aiiv Mou.rs, with theii- perfume. 



Were with sweetness lillint.' Ilie land. 



llelore I sel them on their summer stand. 



Whieh. after 1 did it ^v as IruU alaiiniug 



II, o'. soon tlie\f;o( r.ad\ t.ir suarmiiifr. 



Aliout the lime 1 ^^as plant iiit; mv corn 



I wrote to a hee-m.in, Thomas Horn. 



Kor a ptire-hloodeil Italian i£iieen. 



Anil reeeived as line as e\er was sei'ti. 



So I worked e\erv day liki- a man. 



But I at onei- adopted the H.-ddoii plan: 



For on having no after-swarms 1 was bent. 



1 say it will win k all ritrht and prevent: 



Kor eaeh ooloiiv inereased hu( one. 



And to take tlnir honr-> "as only fun. 



Korjust as sure as I'm alive. 



They made surplus ponnds 28'i. 



K\it I had nearly lorgotteii to tell 



I reared several quteiis to sell. 



.\nd T have now fully re:ilized 



What it is to have niy liees Italianized. 



They do not alway- appear to be so cross; 



But iust volt i-onie up and he boss. 



Thev will let you take from them their store 



Witliout stinKim.--, and tro cheerfully after mor«. 



Thus any )ieisun i:in plainly see. 



Kor honev and yenthnes^ thev are the hee 



Th.it evei\\ lover of biis should keep. 



Who wishes to piddiiie jrood honey cheap. 



1 weighed the stores of all my bees with oare. 



.\nd found they had pientv and to spare. 



On such stoles 1 think tin y "ill thrive. 



.\nd all come out in the sprintr alive. 



So, now, to you I must all confess 



To whom 1 owe so nuieh success. 



Doolittle, Heddon, Chaddock; and A. I. Boot. 



Thonich named last, dms not stand toot— 



Of Hutchinson. C. C. Miller, and all the rest, 



I can not sav who is tust. 



Hut I have read Roofs work, his .V B C 



\]\ the way from A to /,. 



.\nd Gi.ii.vxiMis is the thinvc for ine 



To study whih- « orkintr av itii the hon<-y-l>ee. 



So 1 have .all my hees packed ajjain this year. 



-Viid will end my sloiy ri^ht here. 



.So 1 will build a happy goodnight, 



Kntil Sluing- reveals my jtrospects to UkIH. 



Pearson, Ohio. E. B. Hauorkv, ."i 10. 



MOW HIS WORSHIP, THE TOAD, WAS STCNfi. 



'I'wo neighbors (brothers!, formerl.v tieighbors and 

 seholiirs of Di-. Dzierzon. old beekeepers, relate 

 the following, to whieh they were eye-witness: .\ 

 large toad, which the.\ had often seen among their 

 hives, came one afternoon out of his retreat, a 

 snnill marshy place bchiiKl their tipiary. He stop- 

 ped in front of a hive, catching some incoming 

 tiees, when all at oii(;e he got stung on his tongue, 

 which swelled up so ipiii-k I hat he could not with- 



